Jiang Can was a little stunned and didn't react for a moment.
The girl introduced herself naturally: "Sister-in-law, you haven't met me yet. I'm Fu Qingyan, and my father's name is Fu Chengwei. Sister-in-law, you should have met my father before!"
"Oh," Jiang Can suddenly realized, "So you're Qingyan's cousin."
“Exactly!” Fu Qingyan smiled sweetly.
Jiang Can had met Huo Zhixing's uncle, Fu Chengwei, at the last family dinner.
He was a somewhat eccentric man, as fat as a ball, and when he smiled he looked like a smiling tiger, always giving people an uncomfortable feeling.
It is said that Fu Chengwei was the most opposed to Fu Xiuyu and Huo Zhixing in the entire Fu family.
One phrase he often said in private was, "Why should an outsider be in charge of the Fu family's affairs?"
But when he met Fu Xiuyu and Huo Zhixing, he showed a completely different face, serving them hand and foot.
As for Fu Qingyan, she wasn't Fu Chengwei's daughter. She came to the Fu family at a young age with her mother who had remarried. Despite her young age, she was quite adept at pleasing adults, and Fu Chengwei doted on her, letting her live like a princess.
No one in the Fu family dared to call her a burden.
It is said that when Fu Qingyan was in her teens, she took the initiative to ask to change her surname. At first, the old man of the Fu family did not agree. She and her mother pleaded for several years and finally changed her surname to "Fu" before she came of age.
The Fu family didn't say anything to the outside, but they often mocked him behind his back.
"Why would someone change their surname for no reason? Isn't it all for profit and inheritance, so they can get a bigger share in the future?"
"Whether the division will happen or not is uncertain! Ha, don't think that just because our Fu family is currently ruled by the eldest princess, it will be ruled by a prince from another family in the future!"
"Would the Crown Prince make things difficult for his own maternal uncle?"
"I don't know! We'll see."
...
Jiang Can snapped out of her daze and gave Fu Qingyan a polite smile.
"Sister-in-law, this is my first time visiting, and I didn't know what to bring you, so I just prepared these few Chinese dishes. It's really not much!"
“Oh,” Jiang Can shook her head, “No…”
"Sister-in-law, are you hungry?" Fu Qingyan handed her chopsticks. "Hurry up and eat some, try it and see how it is!"
Jiang Can's heart was pounding.
She couldn't eat this meal without knowing whether Fu Qingyan was friend or foe.
Someone even put mercury in Huo Zhixing's birthday cake when he was only nine years old... It seems the Fu family's situation isn't much better than the Huo family's, so it's best to be careful in everything.
"Sister-in-law..." Fu Qingyan looked at her with innocent big eyes, "Why aren't you eating?"
"Heh, it's not that I don't want to eat, it's just... I suddenly don't have much of an appetite anymore."
"Huh?" Fu Qingyan looked surprised. "Are pregnant women's appetites all so changeable?"
Jiang Can smiled awkwardly and didn't respond.
“Sister-in-law,” Fu Qingyan said in a low voice, as if she had noticed something, “you wouldn’t… suspect that I put something unclean in there, would you?”
"No, no!" Jiang Can didn't want to make things worse. "Don't misunderstand, I really just suddenly don't want to eat..."
"If you doubt it, I'll eat it for you!"
As she spoke, Fu Qingyan sat down at the dining table, picked up her chopsticks, took a bite of a fried dough stick, and then began to drink soy milk.
She ate a bite of each of the remaining fermented bean curd, minced meat pancakes, layered cakes, and fried spring rolls.
After finishing his meal, he stared longingly at Jiang Can.
The servants nearby exchanged glances and whispered among themselves.
This made Jiang Can feel a little guilty. Fu Qingyan didn't seem like a scheming girl at first glance, but she just wanted to make herself safer.
After all, she's not alone now.
If she really gets poisoned, even if she can handle it, the baby can't.
"Sister-in-law..." Fu Qingyan's voice trembled slightly, "Now you should believe me, right?"
"Cousin Qingyan, this..."
“I know my father doesn’t have a good reputation in this family, and my cousin may have said something to you that made you wary of me… But I’m here to see you today with one hundred percent sincerity! My father may have a thousand faults, but he really is just a soft-hearted person with a sharp tongue. Sister-in-law, you’ve been in the Fu family for a long time, so you’ll naturally be able to judge for yourself!”
Jiang Can bit her lip, unsure how to respond.
At that moment, a cold, deep voice came from outside the door: "I don't see any sincerity, but you're quite hostile. You made such a mess of my house while I wasn't home!"
Fu Qingyan's heart tightened.
Huo Zhixing slowly stepped in from the doorway.
He exudes an aura of oppression, and his eyes seem capable of freezing people into ice.
The moment he saw Jiang Can, his eyes overflowed with tenderness. All the light in the world seemed to be focused on his wife.
"Honey?" Jiang Can was taken aback for a moment, then smiled sweetly, "Why are you back? I thought you went to the company!"
"I know you're tired of Western food, so I just went to a Chinese restaurant and ordered one of your favorite dishes."
Huo Zhixing placed the lunchbox on the table and glanced at the things Fu Qingyan had brought.
When he looked up again, his deep and stern gaze sent chills down one's spine.
"Cousin..." Fu Qingyan called out to him softly.
"Oh, cousin, don't be angry!" she quickly explained, "These things are actually for my sister-in-law to eat... Heh, cousin, you see, we're on the same page, we both think that my sister-in-law doesn't like our food!"
"We?" Huo Zhixing raised an eyebrow at the end of his sentence. "Who's talking to you as 'we'?"
Fu Qingyan's expression changed instantly.
“I’m from Yangcheng, and I grew up eating Chinese food. If you think that people who eat Western food can be considered ‘us,’ then please leave my house. There’s no one here who’s like you!”
"cousin……"
"And these things too." Huo Zhixing looked at her coldly. "Take a bite of each one. Did you do this on purpose?"
"No, no!" Fu Qingyan hurriedly clarified, "Just now... my sister-in-law refused to eat it, thinking I had poisoned it, so I ate a bite of each to prove my innocence!"
"Really?" Huo Zhixing looked at Jiang Can.
Fu Qingyan's eyes were red, but the next second she heard Huo Zhixing say a few words with a smile:
"My wife is so good!"
"Wh...what?"
"I told your sister-in-law that she shouldn't eat anything brought to her by anyone other than the food I cook for her!"
Huo Zhixing turned to look at Jiang Can and gently rubbed her cheek. "It seems she always keeps my words in mind! She's truly my good wife!"
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