Fox Has No Malicious Intent

Chapter 1004: Chapter 1001: Homecoming

"All my favorite dishes..."

After scheduling the installation with the technician through the dishwasher’s phone slot, Ah Qing headed into the kitchen and helped her mom bring out the dishes and cutlery.

The first dish was the one Ah Qing specifically requested: a three-way marinated goose platter with head and neck, foie gras, and crispy goose intestines dipped in garlic vinegar.

There was also the essential autumn and winter dish, ginger duck, salted rice, lychee meat, and crab prepared two ways: stir-fried crab body, cracked open claws and legs which were directly steamed, and half-pan-fried yellow croaker with soy bean paste, making the table full of delicious food.

Ah Qing’s most anticipated dish, shrimp and crab porridge with a hint of preserved vegetable aroma, was served in a clay pot on the table.

"Ooo..."

Ah Qing glanced over and began to drool, looking pitifully at the altar by the door.

"Old Deng, am I giving you enough respect?" said Ansheng, placed on the altar, with the corner of her mouth twitching slightly, looking at the incense stick almost poking her nose.

Previously, Yu Zhenghong would use standard incense sticks for Master Fuli.

But this time, perhaps due to not returning for so long, the usual incense sticks were gone, replaced by half-meter long ones as thick as a child’s pinky finger, a particularly large stick.

"Just a moment..."

Yu Zhenghong, seeing Master Fuli’s displeasure, quickly arranged the offering and called over Chen Peipei and Ah Qing to pray to various Immortals and Huhu.

"... May you live a long life, free of pain and disaster, and preferably unexpectedly become rich next year, so you can take your family on a lavish vacation."

Yu Zhenghong, with a serious face, pressed her palms together, lifted a specially made sincere incense stick, bowed three times, and placed it into the spiritual incense holder.

"Alright, let’s eat!"

After praying to the Immortals and blessing Fuli, Yu Zhenghong immediately invited Master Fuli and Ah Qing to dig in.

From picking up Ah Qing from home to the hospital, detouring to the ancestral hall for incense ash, and serving food on the table, it was nearly one o’clock, well past the usual mealtime.

"Xiaolan, this is for you..."

Ah Qing, sitting at the table, selected boneless pig trotters for Xiaolan’s bowl, and similarly placed a boneless chicken butt piece for Arctic Fox.

The white mouse hopped up, stood up on two legs, picked up a bowl of shrimp and crab porridge, and scurried to the side to slurp up.

"Awu..."

Ah Qing took big sips of porridge, picking up marinated foie gras without dipping it in garlic vinegar, feeling a sense of bliss.

"Did you skimp on our daughter’s food expenses?" Chen Peipei looked stunned, instinctively glancing at Yu Zhenghong with a hint of suspicion.

"?"

Yu Zhenghong, gnawing on a crab claw, slowly raised a questioning look at his wife.

"... It has already been increased, from the original fifteen hundred, it’s now two thousand." Yu Zhenghong said, full of disbelief.

I look like those people? You actually doubt I’m embezzling our daughter’s living expenses.

If you doubt I’m spending five thousand on foot massages, I would quietly eat without a word.

"Then why does our daughter seem so starved like she’s just out of prison?" Chen Peipei rolled her eyes at Yu Zhenghong.

"The campus food is quite good, I just feel a bit different..."

Ah Qing, while drinking porridge, thought it over but couldn’t figure it out, saying, "Maybe mom’s cooking is exceptionally good? I’m just longing for this taste."

The Agricultural Research Institute’s cafeteria isn’t bad; the ingredients even outperform many major restaurants.

But Ah Qing just deeply missed the home’s shrimp and crab porridge and marinated platter.

Even if there’s no shrimp and crab, just a bowl of sweet potato porridge, Ah Qing would feel especially satisfied eating it.

Eating Xia Dong’s water, Ah Qing felt an added sense of peace inside.

"Uh..."

Chen Peipei, while drinking porridge, choked a bit, feeling a little guilty, "Such sweet talk, as long as you like it."

Aside from the shrimp and crab porridge and pig trotters, the other dishes Chen Peipei bought ready-made from the market, having the shop help handle them before paying a fee for cooking.

"Don’t just focus on eating, give me some..." Ansheng stood on the chair with her hind legs, paws reaching the table, nudged Ah Qing’s waist with her foot, nodded toward the table:

"Some shredded chicken, stir-fried crabs too, and foie gras and goose head for me..."

"Hold on..." Ah Qing swallowed the food in her mouth seriously, "Because I’m also in a hurry right now..."

"Wow! Do you have no shame?" Ansheng stared at Ah Qing.

"Hehe..." Ah Qing chuckled, mischievously filling up the little fox’s plate.

...

"Burp..."

Comfortably full and sitting in the living room’s fabric sofa, Ah Qing placed the little fox on her belly, letting him rest on her chest, contentedly burping.

"Smile, Xiaolan!"

Ah Qing picked up her phone, raised it high, indicating for Xiaolan to look at the lens, preparing to snap a picture to post on social media to greet her friends. freewёbnoνel.com

Returning to Xia Dong, despite still having filming tasks on Qingao Island and Homeless House,

Ah Qing wasn’t particularly inclined to move and planned to rest at home for two days, visit some friends, and then head to Qingao Island to shoot the completion promotional video.

"Can you post on social media now?" Ansheng looked puzzledly at Ah Qing.

"Hm? What’s the issue?" Ah Qing edited a post after sharing it, puzzledly looking at the little fox.

"You’re in your senior year, graduating next year, right?" Ansheng cooed:

"Your school has a fifth-year internship period; most of your classmates’ schools probably don’t have a fifth year, right?"

"Based on the rumors I heard while roaming campus, graduation usually means breaking up or getting married."

"N... it can’t be?" Ah Qing paused, reflexively looking at her phone and skeptically saying:

"It’s not graduation season now, besides, who gets married right after graduating? Wouldn’t they have to look for a job?"

Ah Qing waved her hands, indicating to Xiaolan not to worry; even if a wedding invitation does arrive, she’d just grab the little fox and head there, guaranteed to eat the worth back.

"Ding—"

Just as Ah Qing was finishing her sentence, her phone’s screen lit up with a notification.

[Mianxin invited Ah Qing to join the ’Huang Mianxin and Zhang Tianle New Year’s Wedding Group’]

Huang Mianxin: [Ah Qing, you’re back? Perfect, be my bridesmaid! We haven’t sat down and caught up since high school graduation...]

[Electronic Invitation]

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Seeing the social media group with 67 members, Ah Qing was shocked; our high school graduating class combined doesn’t even exceed 53 people, right?

Huh? How is even the gym teacher in this group?

Ansheng: "..."

Damn, did my words have magical effects?

Though, indeed during New Year’s, it’s peak season for weddings everywhere.

Never mind if the date is auspicious or not; it all depends on whether the boss is willing to grant several days off and offer a year-end holiday.

"Speaking of which, who is Huang Mianxin? Why doesn’t she stand out in my memory?"

Ah Qing scratched her head, the name felt familiar, but she couldn’t pinpoint anything distinctive.

Yet anyone who adds her on social media surely must be someone known in real life.

"Xiaolan, we have another banquet to attend." Ah Qing looked at the little fox with a mix of laughter and tears:

"Your fox predictions are scarily accurate!"

"Accurate about what?" Yu Zhenghong peeked towards Ah Qing.

"The wedding invitation prediction by the little fox was spot on."