After Transmigrating, The Fat Wife Made A Comeback!

Chapter 2381: The Zhou Family Is Displeased

“I understand…” Sun Yuan said.

The next day, Qiao Mei and Xia He went to Xu Lan’s house. They had nothing much to do lately and Qiao Mei was very curious about Xu Li’s identity. She wanted to understand Xu Li better.

Unexpectedly, Xu Lan’s house was packed with people today. There were screenwriters, directors and actors who were familiar with Xu Lan. Xia He also knew many of the actors there.

“Oh, everyone is here,” Xia He said in surprise.

“The cast list has finally been decided. Since it’s a joyous occasion, they’ve come over for a meal. Sit down, I’ll go and cook.” After saying that, Xu Lan got up and went to the kitchen.

Qiao Mei immediately put down her bag and said, “I’ll go. I’ll cook today.”

“How can that do! You’re pregnant! You can’t tire yourself out! We can do it ourselves! When we travel around for the filming, we will cook for ourselves! I’ll let you have a taste of our culinary skills!” the director said.

Sun Yuan quickly stood up and said, “I know how to cook! Let me do it!”

With that, she walked towards the kitchen. A few other people who were good cooks also followed closely behind her.

All of a sudden, the living room emptied out. Only then did Qiao Mei realize that Xia Wen was sitting among the crowd just now. She did not notice him as there were too many people.

“Why are you here? I thought you’ve been very busy recently?” Qiao Mei asked in surprise.

“I took leave today. I just finished work and it’s getting too tiring to work overtime. I have come home to let my mother comfort me and cook nice food for me,” Xia Wen said as he pretended to be pitiful.

“Stop putting on an act! Why aren’t you going home to look for Sister-in-law! You must be here to look for our mother because of some issues!” Xia He said as she raised her eyebrows.

“Indeed. I just came from the Zhou family’s house,” Xia Wen said.

Xia He asked confusedly, “Zhou family? Which Zhou family?”

“The family of Xia Yuan’s fiancee. Second Uncle and Second Aunt-in-law don’t know how to deal with such a matter, so they ask me to go to the Zhou family’s house to talk to them. My presence can be considered to be the Xia family expressing our stance, but in the end… Sigh… I guess you can say it went quite smoothly,” Xia Wen said helplessly.

“Did you run into some difficulties? Did the Zhou family make some excessive demands?” Qiao Mei asked.

“You can say that. They want a betrothal gift of 10,000 dollars,” Xia Wen said.

Before Qiao Mei and Xia He could react, Xu Li stood up from the sofa and said, “How much? 10,000! Why doesn’t the Zhou family just go and rob the bank! Some people can get married with just 100 dollars.”

“I still have to discuss this matter with Second Uncle and Second Aunt-in-law. After all, it’s not our eldest branch’s issue and I can’t make the decision for them,” Xia Wen said.

Xia Wen had taken on this task quite unwillingly. If not for the fact that the second branch of the family had always been nice to the eldest branch, he would not have been willing to get involved in this mess. It seemed that the Zhou family were troublemakers!

Inside the kitchen, Sun Yuan could hear everything that was said in the living room just now. She had always wanted to marry into the Xia family. Earlier today, when she heard that all the men in the Xia family were already married, she felt very down. She had thought that she had missed out already, but she did not expect that there was still a son of the Xia family’s second branch who was not married yet!

So what if he had a fiancee! They were facing some issues now, were they not? As long as they were not married yet, she still had a chance! She did not believe that Xia Yuan’s fiancee could be prettier than her!

Qiao Mei wanted to help out, but Xia Wen said no. Although her three children were not in school yet, the Xia family was already nurturing them quietly. The children were so busy every day that Qiao Mei did not even have a chance to see them. They had physical fitness lessons from Monday to Wednesday and cultural lessons on Thursday and Friday. During the weekends, they would occasionally meet Qian’e at her house to learn how to play the piano.

In the eyes of outsiders, it was a tiring schedule, but the children were all very happy and even took the initiative to ask for more lessons. Qiao Mei was relieved to know that. After all, children from rich families must pick up more skills.

“If there’s any interesting news, you must come back and tell me!” Qiao Mei looked at Xia Wen and reminded him.

“With Yao Nian helping you, do you still need to be afraid of missing out on anything?” Xia Wen asked.

“That’s different. Yao Nian can only find out the gist, but he won’t know the exact details,” Qiao Mei said.

“Fine, fine, fine. Whatever you say. I’ll definitely come back and tell you!” Xia Wen said dotingly.

The director had a clear understanding of the current power status in the Xia family. Currently, the person in charge of the Xia family was still Xia Wen, but the person the family doted on the most was Qiao Mei, an “outsider”! He did not expect the rumors outside to be true, that the entire Xia family doted on the eldest branch’s third daughter-in-law. He had heard that this third daughter-in-law had even saved Xia Mao’s life at some point in time. It made sense for the Xia family to treasure her like this.

It looked like it would be better to go to Qiao Mei when he needed help from the Xia family in the future. The director decided to build a good relationship with Qiao Mei!

“Mei Mei, come here. I have a first-meeting gift for you.” Xu Li gestured for Qiao Mei to sit down. Qiao Mei sat down obediently beside Xu Li, looking like an elegant ragdoll cat.