Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman (1-200)

Chapter 66: The First Step

Grandpa Xiao had already started eating, but because he couldn’t eat anything too heavy, there wasn’t a lot of oil added to the dishes. He started with a small bowl of beef stew and started reaching his chopsticks towards the sweet and sour pork before he was stopped by Xiao Sheng.

Upon seeing a glance from the young master, the butler quickly used chopsticks to place a chestnut into Grandpa Xiao’s bowl, making the latter smile bitterly as he looked at the chestnut.

“Grandpa Xiao, eat some of this.” Gu Xiqiao used her chopsticks to take some cucumbers for him and pushed his bowl with the chestnut in it to one side. “Grandpa butler, you know about traditional Chinese medicine, right? Judging from how you knew the quality of the ginseng root I brought here last time.”

The butler nodded and replied, “That would be correct, Miss Gu, I learned some from a traditional Chinese doctor because Master Xiao wasn’t healthy in the past.”

Gu Xiqiao looked at Xiao Yun that was reaching for the cucumber with boiled eggs after she had eaten a goose wing, and reached over and held her arm in place, her expression frigid. “If that’s the case, why didn’t you know about foods that have properties that combat each other?”

The combination of goose with egg would damage their digestive system, while the other combination of foods on the table like peanuts and cucumbers as well as beef and chestnut would be detrimental to health too if eaten together. They must have already had many of these sorts of meals in the past, had he not realized that something was amiss?

“This…” The butler’s expression changed as he looked at the dishes on the table, and he couldn’t respond for quite a while.

After she said this, the table was plunged into silence. Xiao Yun and Wu Hongwen that trusted Gu Xiqiao the most immediately put down their chopsticks, while Xiao Sheng took out his phone, his expression becoming serious.

“It still taste quite good, let’s eat.” Grandpa Xiao was silent for a bit before he spoke again.

If the foods couldn’t be eaten together, they could just eat one or the other.

Everyone there was smart, and they immediately knew that Grandpa Xiao didn’t want to have the person behind this to be alerted, and they all took their chopsticks and started eating again. Thankfully, Wu Hongwen started joking and lightening the mood, or else a bystander would be able to see that something was wrong.

Xiao Yun was in a bad mood, feeling quite guilty that she had let this happen under her supervision when she was the one that invited the two to her house.

“I take it you guys are still plagued with those problems from before?” Gu Xiqiao patted her shoulder comfortingly.

“It’s almost been dealt with, but I owe you one.” Xiao Yun quickly calmed down and turned over to look at Wu Hongwen. “You too.”

“Don’t mention it, we’re friends after all!” Wu Hongwen smiled, and continued, “If you have anything you need help with you can just ask! Even though I haven’t inherited the Wu family, I can still use some people without any problems. If there’s anything you guys don’t want to do because of your family name, our family can do it for you!”

The Xiao family was purely business-oriented, while the Wu family had their fingers in all sorts of different pies, and they had connections to all sides of society, so they could do things that the Xiao family couldn’t do.

Gu Xiqiao wanted to say something too, but her phone rang at just that moment, and she accepted the call and listened for a bit, before nodding and hanging up on the call.