Fang Qiao: "Don't compare yourself to me. I've practiced this skill since I was a child."
Learning to cook properly is tough and tiring, but she really enjoys it, so she doesn't mind the hardship or the fatigue. However, when her grandfather saw her hands deformed by the ice water, he regretted teaching her.
Before he died, he specifically told her not to become a cook, because cooks spend their whole lives working around the stove and never amount to anything.
He told her to study hard and become an office worker in the future.
Unfortunately, she didn't become a chef, nor did she get a good education.
Li Dan exclaimed in surprise, "You started cooking when you were little, no wonder you're so good at it, you're really amazing!"
Fang Qiao smiled but didn't say anything.
After finishing one pancake, Li Dan picked up the plate and took the rest away, saying, "I'll bring you the plate later."
Not long after she left, Chen Guizhi came again, sat on the small stool in front of the stove where Li Dan had just sat, lowered her voice, and asked with a gossipy look, "I just saw Li Dan stay at your house for almost half an hour? What was she doing?"
"She'd never tried fennel pancakes before, so I gave her a few after I finished," Fang Qiao explained, then asked, "Sister-in-law Guizhi, would you like some?"
Chen Guizhi glanced at the thickness of the pancakes on the plate, waved her hand, and said, "I'm not eating them. I'll pick some fennel sprouts and make them myself at home later."
She takes advantage of what she should, but not what she shouldn't.
The pancakes that other people make are barely enough for their own family, so she's not going to join them and try to eat them.
Chen Guizhi said, "Xiao Qiao, let me remind you, Li Dan is very arrogant. She only gets along well with the families of the leaders over in Xiaolou. In our row of family compounds, there are few leaders, and they are mostly from poor backgrounds. She looks down on us because we are peasants, and she rarely interacts with people from here. I always feel that she has been sticking too close to you lately, which is not right."
Something's not right.
Fang Qiao also noticed.
Although Li Dan liked An An when they first met, she was still polite despite her enthusiasm.
Fang Qiao understood the burning gaze she gave An An. People who had been married for many years without children would look at other people's children with that kind of intensity.
But recently he's been clearly overly enthusiastic, not only praising her but also praising Tian Tian.
His words and actions also carried a hint of flattery.
But what could a housewife with no job possibly have to offer her?
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