Xia Anying stood up reluctantly. The young playboy was a great talker, and she hadn't had enough chatting with him.
However, Fu Moning could be regarded as half the mistress of the Fu family. When the mistress returned home, as a guest, she had no reason not to go and greet her.
She gritted her teeth. If she, rather than Xia Sanghuan, were the real flesh and blood of the Fu family, she wouldn't have ended up in such a situation.
But all this was just wishful thinking on her part. The Fu family had treated her well, and the monthly living allowance they gave her was quite generous.
It was just that she was overambitious, greedy, and snobbish.
Xia Laosi had nagged her about this personality trait more than once, but she never listened.
Just because she didn't listen didn't mean Xia Sanghuan didn't.
Once, Xia Laosi had held her hand and said to her,
"Yingying has a rather bad temper and no real skills, but she doesn't know her own limitations. She's going to suffer a great deal in the future."
"If she really stumbles badly somewhere, I hope you, as her younger sister, will help her for the sake of all these years of affection."
At that time, she didn't understand why her father was saying these things to her. Was it that her father couldn't help her elder sister?
She was so young. If even her father couldn't help her sister, how could she?
Now she knew that Xia Laosi probably knew at that time that he had lung cancer and didn't have much time left.
She was the child of the Fu family. Once the Fu family found her, both she and Xia Anying would have a place to go.
Perhaps the greatest consolation now was that the Fu family had found her before he died.
Even though so much time had passed, when she thought of her father, her heart still ached.
She opened the door and led Xia Anying downstairs.
As soon as they reached the bottom of the stairs, Fu Moning had already entered.
Behind her was Fu Youqing, who was drenched rather miserably in the rain.
Xia Sanghuan quickly grabbed a towel and rushed up.
"Third sister, how did you get soaked like this in the rain?"
Fu Moning took the towel from her hand and turned to wipe Fu Youqing's hair.
"She was shooting an outdoor scene when it started to rain," she said.
"The venue was so open that there was nowhere to take shelter. She got completely soaked."
She frowned as she wiped her silly younger sister's hair, muttering all the while.
Fu Youqing gave a "heh heh" laugh and comforted her,
"It's okay. I'll be fine. I rarely catch a cold since I was a kid."
But despite saying so, she was still forced by her second elder sister and younger sister to drink a glass of cold medicine.
Xia Anying just stood there. No one came to greet her, and she didn't know what to do.
She stood there awkwardly until Fu Zeming and Fu Lingshi came back.
By the time everyone was seated at the table, she was still standing there.
Fu Lingshi felt it was a bit embarrassing to leave her out.
Although he didn't like this elder sister that Huanhuan had brought back at all, he still politely greeted her.
As soon as Xia Anying heard Fu Lingshi call her, her face, plastered with a thick layer of foundation, instantly broke into a smile.
She sat down sweetly in the empty seat next to Fu Lingshi and called him "Brother Lingshi," which made him regret his decision for a moment.
But in the face of this rare family dinner, he tried hard to ignore the discomfort.
Just when the dinner was halfway through, there suddenly came a noisy commotion from the door.
Xia Sanghuan put down her chopsticks and looked curiously towards the door.
However, the faces of Fu Zeming and the others instantly darkened.
It was Fu Kai who had returned.
"What a bunch of useless doctors! My leg still hasn't healed!" he roared angrily from his wheelchair.
"They said as long as I kept doing rehabilitation training, there would be no problem. But there's not even a sign of improvement!"
He sat in the wheelchair, throwing a tantrum.
The two elders of the Fu family were standing beside him. The grandfather was pushing the wheelchair, and the grandmother was trying to console him.
To put it bluntly, Fu Kai was like a giant baby now.
"Xiaokai, how could you let grandfather push your wheelchair? Where's the assistant in charge of taking care of you?"
Fu Zeming didn't dare to say much in front of the two elders, and Fu Lingshi wasn't recognized as the eldest brother of the Fu family by the two elders.
So it was Fu Moning's turn to step in.
Her delicately drawn eyebrows knitted together as she looked at her younger brother.
"Girl Ning, don't scold him. It was I who insisted on pushing the wheelchair," the old master of the Fu family said before Fu Kai could retort.
"What if those assistants accidentally tip him over?"
"For Xiaokai's sake, since his leg is still injured, be gentle with him," the grandmother chimed in.
Although the two elders were very strict with their own son, they were extremely lenient towards their grandchildren.
"Grandma, no matter how his leg is, you and grandfather are the elders. It should be him taking care of you, not the other way around," Fu Youqing stood up and said to the two elders of the Fu family with a hint of dissatisfaction.
Looking at the people in front of her, Xia Sanghuan felt that this stalemate couldn't go on.
Just as she was about to stand up and go to push Fu Kai's wheelchair over, Fu Lingshi suddenly stood up.
He said respectfully to the grandfather, "Sir, let me push Xiaokai to the table. It must be tiring for you to push a grown man like him."
He thought the old master of the Fu family would step aside, but unexpectedly, the old man glared at him and said,
"I'll let anyone push him but you. Among all of you, you're the most likely to tip Xiaokai over!"
No one could accept such words.
Fu Lingshi was instantly frozen in place, his outstretched hand still hanging in mid - air.
The atmosphere became even more awkward.
"Grandfather, let me push Fourth Brother," Xia Sanghuan stepped forward in time to ease the awkwardness.
Coincidentally, the old master of the Fu family was also tired from pushing. Although he wasn't familiar with this newly - found granddaughter, she was after all a child of the family, better than the adopted one.
But Fu Kai, sitting in the wheelchair, wasn't happy. He turned around and shouted,
"I don't want this woman to push me! Who knows what she's up to!"
But it was too late. He had already been pushed a few steps by her.
At an angle where no one could see, she suddenly sank her face and mouthed to her dim - witted fourth brother,
"If you keep making noise, I'll make sure your leg never heals."
Then the next second, she changed back to her obedient - girl face.
Fu Kai was so frightened by her expression that he shivered and couldn't say a word for a moment.
The servants brought three more sets of tableware, and Fu Moning and Fu Youqing also returned to their seats.
The dinner continued in a depressing atmosphere. The originally happy scene seemed to have never existed.
The two elders of the Fu family sat far away from Fu Lingshi and kept picking up food for Fu Kai from time to time, for fear that their beloved grandson would go hungry.
As for Fu Kai, he was so spoiled that he might as well have let his grandparents feed him.