Zhao Daishan was chopping firewood in the yard.
Smelling the fragrant aroma of rabbit meat, his mouth immediately watered.
When no one was paying attention, he quickly wiped it away, then turned his head and saw Fourth Brother sticking out his tongue, licking the aroma in the air like a dog driven mad by hunger.
“It smells so good…”
Zhao Sidan kept swallowing his saliva, but it was endless.
He had only had two bowls of porridge this morning, and theoretically, he shouldn't be hungry, so why was his stomach rumbling incessantly?
His footsteps uncontrollably led him towards the kitchen. He saw the pot boiling vigorously, a large pot of rabbit meat with radishes, and the sauce kept leaking out through a hole in the pot.
Cheng Loanloan also had a headache. This pot wasn't big to begin with, and now it had a hole. When she had the chance, she definitely had to buy a new pot from the market.
She put the lid back on the pot, then cracked eggs into a bowl and stirred them well, preparing to make a wild mushroom egg drop soup.
There was also a pile of long green beans that could be stir-fried directly; the taste should be quite good.
Seeing her like this, Wu Huiniang was alarmed. Since yesterday, her mother-in-law had been acting strangely, eating everything in the house as if there was no tomorrow…
Oh well, if there's food in the house, just eat it. Once it's eaten, it'll be a relief, preventing her mother-in-law from giving it away to the Cheng family again…
Wu Huiniang quickly and deftly helped out.
The moment Cheng Loanloan turned her head, she saw Zhao Sidan standing at the kitchen door, with saliva already dripping onto his clothes.
She chuckled as she opened the pot lid; immediately, the aroma wafted into their noses. She picked up a piece of rabbit meat and said with a smile, “Sidan, open your mouth.”
Zhao Sidan dazedly opened his mouth.
Cheng Loanloan blew on it, then put the rabbit meat into his mouth.
“Mmm!”
Zhao Sidan's eyes widened. Oh my god, it tasted so good! He had never eaten anything so delicious; he wished he could swallow his own tongue.
Cheng Loanloan asked him, “Is the rabbit meat good?”
Zhao Sidan was dumbfounded again. Was this rabbit meat? Should he spit it out…?
While he was thinking, Cheng Loanloan put another piece of rabbit meat into his mouth. “Go call your second and third brothers back for dinner.”
Zhao Sidan swallowed it all. So delicious… He could only silently apologize to the rabbit in his heart…
He ran like the wind to find his second and third brothers to come back for dinner.
Wu Huiniang quickly scooped out a large pot of rabbit meat, then, under her mother-in-law's guidance, made a pot of mushroom egg drop soup, stir-fried a plate of green beans, and finally put millet into the steamer.
On the small wooden table, three dishes were laid out, along with six bowls of millet rice.
Zhao Daishan no longer wanted to chop firewood; his mouth kept watering, and his eyes kept darting towards the dining table.
Wu Huiniang went out to wipe the sweat from his brow and whispered, “Daishan, is it really okay to eat like this…?”
Last night they ate so much plain rice, and today they finished all the millet they had, and all the rabbit meat was stewed. They would eat their fill today, but what about tomorrow? What would they eat? Would they really have to drink the northwest wind?
Zhao Daishan chopped firewood with force. “Mother’s arrangements definitely have a reason,” he said. “You just need to listen to Mother.”
Wu Huiniang didn't think much of it. She bent down to pick up the chopped wood and neatly stacked it in the kitchen.
Cheng Loanloan sat on a chair in the main hall, holding a large leaf to fan herself. The weather was really too hot; after being busy in the kitchen for a while, her whole body was covered in sweat. Tonight, no matter what, she had to take a bath.
She had just sat down for a moment when Zhao Sidan came pattering back. “Mother, Tie Zhu said he saw Second Brother and Third Brother go to Cheng Family Village.”
Cheng Village was the original body's maternal home. It wasn't considered far from Dahe Village, about an hour's round trip.
What were these two brats doing at Cheng Village!
Cheng Loanloan dropped the leaf and stood up: "Da Shan, you and I are going to Cheng Village!"