Chapter 474 Qiao Xi, are you pregnant?

Li Nianqi's cheeks flushed red, and she fumbled to pick up the broken pieces of the teacup on the ground. Her fingers were cut and bleeding instantly.

"hiss!"

Li Nianqi took a breath in pain.

Old Madam Li shouted quickly, "Don't pick it up anymore. Let the servants clean it up. How can you get burned even when drinking tea when you're so old? Why don't you go and deal with it?"

"Don't worry, I'll just apply some ointment."

Li Nianqi pulled out the small drawer of the living room coffee table and applied some ointment. Then she turned around and secretly glanced at Huo Xingzhou. What did he mean just now?

Qiao Xi twisted a piece of snack in her hand, and glanced at Li Nianqi suspiciously, noticing her little movement, and then looked at Huo Xingzhou.

There was a hint of smile in Huo Xingzhou's eyes. He looked at her calmly and even blinked.

Something is wrong!

How did Li Nianqi get her hands permed for no reason?

Moreover, she was dressed exquisitely today, wearing a string of extremely valuable imperial green beads around her neck.

I seemed to be wearing this at the birthday party last night.

Qiao Xi took a bite of the snack absentmindedly.

She frowned slightly and felt nauseous.

Qiao Xi subconsciously covered her lips: "Tsk."

Old Mrs. Li looked at her with a look of surprise and uncertainty on her face: "Are you... pregnant? This is a very good thing."

pregnant?

Li Nianqi didn't even bandage the wound and stared at Qiao Xi with anger in her eyes.

How could she still be pregnant with Huo Xingzhou's child!

Huo Xingzhou stood up, took out a tissue and wiped the corners of Qiao Xi's lips, saying, "She is not pregnant, the date is not right."

Li Nianqi was so jealous that she couldn't help talking. She muttered, "Maybe it belongs to someone else."

Madam Li's face turned pale: "Nianqi, what nonsense are you talking about! Why don't you apologize to Mr. Huo and Qiao Xi as soon as possible."

Old Madam Li boasted that the Li family had a good upbringing and was well-behaved.

But Li Nianqi spoke rudely to Qiao Xi again and again, and seemed to be targeting her.

Li Nianqi pouted, feeling guilty and short of breath: "I...I didn't mean it, I just said it casually. I'm sorry..."

Her apology was not sincere at all.

Qiao Xi said indifferently, "I'm sick of this snack. I found out it's made of goat's milk and mixed with cheese. I can't get used to the sour and salty taste."

Madam Li quickly explained, "This is goat's milk cheese, a novelty. I wanted to let you try it, but I didn't expect you to be unaccustomed to the taste."

Li Nianqi curled her lips as if she didn't believe it.

Qiao Xi's face turned even colder, and just as she was about to speak, Huo Xingzhou grabbed her hand.

The man shook his head slightly to signal her not to speak. Qiao Xi closed her mouth but heard Huo Xingzhou speak.

His eyes were filled with darkness, and he looked gloomy and unresolvable: "The first time I said it was just a passing remark, but what about the second time?"

His questioning was full of pressure.

Li Nianqi bit her lip and said in a mosquito-like voice: "How can it be twice..."

Huo Xingzhou sneered: "It just so happened that I heard some rumors at the Guan family birthday banquet last night.

I heard that after we left, Miss Li said that my wife did not deserve the first place in the primary election of the needle test conference. She was not even half a finger better than Lu Yingxue...Did you say that? "

"I……"

"You still say that she is lacking in virtue. Where is her lack of virtue?"

Huo Xingzhou was aggressive and looked cold.

Li Nianqi's face turned red like a monkey's butt due to embarrassment, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Old Madam Li raised her hand and slapped her in the face: "You bastard! How dare you slander Qiao Xi behind her back? Her grandmother saved my life and asked us to take good care of her. How could I raise an ungrateful person like you!"

"grandmother……"

Li Nianqi covered her cheek and felt even more embarrassed.

Grandma beat her in front of Qiao Xi, trampling her self-esteem underfoot. The evil thoughts in her heart were about to break through the shackles, and she hated Qiao Xi even more.

"Don't call me grandma!"

Madam Li was furious. "Why don't you hurry up and apologize to Qiao Xi and ask for her forgiveness? I've taught you that if you know you've made a mistake, you must correct it!"

Li Nianqi looked at Qiao Xi with tears in her eyes and blurry vision.

She was even more reluctant in her heart!

But her grandmother’s teachings were strict, and she was frightened and afraid, so she could only grit her teeth and say, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said those words.”

She remembered this lesson!

From now on, she will no longer curse and insult, but will just keep it in her heart and bear the grudge silently.

Huo Xingzhou spoke slowly: "Ms. Li doesn't seem to be convinced."

"I...I'm not dissatisfied."

Li Nianqi retorted weakly.

She also didn't expect that Huo Xingzhou was so sensitive to her dissatisfaction.

Huo Xingzhou sneered contemptuously: "Back then, the Liu family was kind to the Li family, and now they have given you a jewelry store in the imperial capital, hoping that the Li family can help Qiao Xi. But I didn't expect that the Li family would slander Qiao Xi behind his back and spread the news everywhere. Rumors…”

His sharp eyes swept over Li Nianqi, pressuring her so much that she could hardly raise her head.

With a cold expression, he said, "If I'm not mistaken, the imperial green necklace on your neck is the treasure of the Liu Family Jewelry Branch. You really eat... ugly."

Li Nianqi's face turned alternately blue and white. She subconsciously covered the imperial green necklace with her hands, wishing she could dig a hole in the ground and crawl into it.

She went to the jewelry store to get it in order to save face for the birthday party last night.

After she came back, she begged her grandmother in every possible way, and finally Mrs. Li gave the things to her, saying that they would be her dowry in the future.

Huo Xingzhou smiled faintly, clasped Qiao Xi's hand with his fingers, and said in an aggressive tone: "Madam Li, do you think I am right?"

Huo Xingzhou is not a good man.

Old Madam Li's face turned red with embarrassment.

Huo Xingzhou's words were very impolite, like a heavy slap in her face.

She has always been particular about family education and etiquette, and the thing that made her feel most guilty in her life was taking over the Liu family's jewelry branch.

She felt that the safe key in her hand was really hot.

"Asshole! Take off the necklace quickly!" Old Mrs. Li shouted angrily, and Li Nianqi was frightened.

She almost cried as she took off the imperial green necklace.

Mrs. Li took the necklace and the safe key, handed them to Qiao Xi with both hands and said, "I am too embarrassed to accept these things. This jewelry store and this imperial green necklace should be returned to their original owner."

Qiao Xi raised her eyes and looked at her, and said softly: "You can go to the Liu family yourself. We won't stay for long, so we'll leave first."

I will never come to the Li family again.

Qiao Xi held Huo Xingzhou's hand tightly and walked out.

Huo Xingzhou paused, turned around and looked at Mrs. Li, who had a complicated expression, and said, "I'll give you a reminder before you leave. Since I walked in, Miss Li has been serving me tea and water and cutting fruit. She has been sitting next to me and peeking at me... When I found out, she burned her hand out of guilt."

A hint of coldness appeared on his lips. "I hope Madam Li can discipline the younger generation. I will only have Qiao Xi as my wife in this life. I hope those people will not be so delusional."

As soon as these words came out.

Old Mrs. Li was stunned, and Li Nianqi was so scared that her face turned pale as paper.

Even Qiao Xi was dumbfounded.

What Huo Xingzhou meant was that Li Nianqi liked him? And she had just done something to seduce him?