CHAPTER 200: CHAPTER 159: A BALANCED MIX OF MEAT AND VEGETABLES (PART 2)

"If you don’t make trouble for me, I won’t make trouble for you. I’ll head to the State-owned Restaurant in a bit, order a few dishes, and we’ll go home to have a good meal together. Let’s consider it reconciliation."

After hearing these words from Jiang Xin, Mr. Fu and Mrs. Fu did indeed lower their heads in guilt.

Especially Mrs. Fu, she immediately started reflecting on whether her previous actions were a bit too excessive.

After all, in Jiang Xin’s eyes, she wasn’t as bad as Mrs. Fu had imagined.

It was entirely Mrs. Fu nitpicking and finding fault, simply because she didn’t like Jiang Xin.

Mr. Fu was even more directly embarrassed, since just now, in order to pressure Jiang Xin not to pursue Mrs. Fu’s mistakes, he said some truly hurtful things, even though Jiang Xin had done nothing wrong.

What had he done?

Mr. Fu thought to himself that he had indeed gone too far, putting on an elder’s airs to threaten a young girl and make her back down.

He felt ashamed inside.

Mr. Fu and Mrs. Fu exchanged a glance and saw the embarrassment in each other’s eyes.

But no matter what, things had already happened, and it’s too late to regret. Words once spoken are like water spilled, irretrievable.

They felt awkward as they interacted.

Especially Mr. Fu, a grown man, very proud, now feeling quite at a loss in front of his daughter-in-law.

Jiang Xin wasn’t blind, she naturally noticed the elderly couple’s uneasy demeanor.

However, she wasn’t the type to be good at explaining, especially after already giving them an out. Forcing her to say more would have been demanding too much.

So Jiang Xin told the old couple she was going to the State-owned Restaurant to buy food, and then she left, telling them to wait for her there, as she’d be back soon.

After Jiang Xin left, Mr. Fu and Mrs. Fu realized they had forgotten to stop Jiang Xin from going to the State-owned Restaurant, as it was somewhat costly.

After all, since Jiang Xin married into their family, they hadn’t given her any money at all.

At this moment, expecting her to buy them food was something they couldn’t quite stomach.

They had been so immersed in their own awkwardness that when they finally reacted and wanted to call Jiang Xin back, it was too late.

They saw Jiang Xin already swiftly heading towards the State-owned Restaurant.

They could only stand there and wait for Jiang Xin to return.

Seeing Jiang Xin like this, Mrs. Fu’s guilt deepened, especially recalling how she initially withheld parts of Jiang Xin’s betrothal gift; it pained her heart.

She now truly wanted to make it up to Jiang Xin, but unfortunately, her pockets were genuinely empty.

Mrs. Fu bowed her head, lost in her thoughts.

Mr. Fu looked over and sighed silently, then said:

"Jiang Xin is a good kid. Let’s live peacefully together from now on. You should stop making things difficult for her."

"After all, both her parents are out of the province. If she were to really get divorced, there’d be no one to take care of her."

"It would be better to wait for our son to return and have everyone sit down and talk things through. If we can talk it out, how nice it would be to live together as a happy family."

Mrs. Fu nodded in guilt and then lapsed into a long silence.

When Jiang Xin returned from the State-owned Restaurant with the food, nearly twenty minutes had passed.

Since it was around mealtime, the State-owned Restaurant was quite busy.

However, Jiang Xin, being a regular, got a slight favor from the server, who helped her skip the line a bit and had the chef prepare her dishes first.

And since she was ordering takeout, it was indeed proper for her to be served first.

Of course, Jiang Xin was unaware of all this. When the server handed her the food, she was a bit puzzled.