Before being discharged, Yao Chun went to see the hospitalized Ge Xiaoshu and her child, just when Xiaoshu's mother and aunts from her family were present. When the topic of the baby's one-month celebration came up, they brazenly asked her—the child's aunt and also Mrs. Zhong, Yao Chun—if she was going to buy a golden baby for the child.
"A golden baby? They have the nerve to ask for that!" Shen Chaoxi laughed, apparently underestimating the thickness of their skins.
In the past few years, there has been an unwritten tradition in the Shangjing Circle's wealthy families: when a daughter-in-law gives birth to a child, the husband's family gives gifts of real gold and silver, including money, villas, and funds—everything you could imagine.
Presenting a golden baby means making a toy out of pure gold, and this toy isn't just a small pendant, it has to weigh at least a few jin (a unit of weight equal to 500 grams).