The zoo in the provincial capital is very large. We spent the whole morning there and only saw half of it. We just had lunch somewhere near the zoo.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Li thought everything tasted delicious, mainly because they were in a good mood, which made everything seem tasty.

DouDou and GuoGuo's little mouths are so used to delicious food that they have no taste for it.

"Dou Dou, Guo Guo, eat more. We're going to the zoo this afternoon, or you won't have the energy to walk. Don't you want to see the animals?" Ye Mei felt sorry for her two grandsons and quickly picked out some meat for them.

DouDou: Grandma, please don't be picky anymore, okay? I don't like eating meat.

Guoguo: Grandma, don't pick and choose for me anymore. This meat is so awful, it doesn't taste as good as Mom's.

"You brats, don't be picky eaters!" Su Xiaonuan shook her fist in feigned anger. "You should learn from Brother Xiaotian and Sister Xiaoli. They don't pick at their food and eat everything. If you keep being picky, Mommy won't cook anything for you anymore."

The two children looked disgusted and simply didn't want to eat.

I was so upset I almost cried, but I didn't want to eat.

"If you don't eat, then you'll go hungry. Don't even think about having any snacks this afternoon." She saw two beggars, one big and one small, coming to the shop entrance. "Look at those two kids. If they had such good food, they would be kneeling to heaven and earth. They are truly blessed but don't know how good they are. I think you two are just not hungry. If you starved for a few days, you would eat anything."

The shop assistant tried to shoo away the two beggars, but the older one actually knelt down and held out his dirty bowl. "Pretty sister, please have mercy and give me some food. My brother hasn't eaten for days."

The waiter, with an air of worldliness, remained completely unmoved and condescendingly berated them. "Get out of here! Don't interfere with our business. We get several groups of people like you every day. This is a business, not a charity."

As she spoke, she was about to kick them away, but she was afraid of getting her hands dirty.

"Stop!" Su Xiaonuan shouted.

She stepped forward and helped the two brothers up, then turned to the snobbish waiter and said, "Give them a plate of braised pork belly, a plate of twice-cooked pork, some greens, and a tomato and egg soup. I'll pay for it."

After saying that, she helped them to sit down at a square table. There was no room left at their table; otherwise, she would have let the two beggars eat at the same table with them.

Two beggars tried to kneel before Su Xiaonuan, but she stopped them, asking, "Little friends, where are you from? Don't you have any relatives?"

“My parents are dead, and the villagers bully us. My uncle and aunt even took our house away. I had no choice but to come out and beg for food with my younger brother,” the boy said, wiping away his tears.

Su Xiaonuan went to the cashier and asked for paper and a pen. She wrote down the address of Jiuya Restaurant and handed it to the young man. "Go to this place after you finish eating. Someone there will arrange your food and lodging."

"Thank you, Goddess! Thank you, Goddess!" The two brothers bowed and kowtowed to Su Xiaonuan.

The restaurant's braised pork belly is steamed in advance, so it can be served as soon as customers order it. Twice-cooked pork is also pre-cooked, so all you have to do is stir-fry it with the seasonings. Therefore, their dishes are served very quickly.

"Bring them a bowl of rice." Su Xiaonuan looked at the waiter coldly as she saw him serving rice in a bowl. "Your restaurant advertises that if you order one dish, you get all-you-can-eat rice, and the rice won't cost extra. You won't charge extra for a bowl of rice, will you?"

The waitress took two steps back, frightened by the coldness in Su Xiaonuan's eyes.

"The food is free! The food is free!" The shop owner rushed over and yelled at the waiter. "Hurry up and bring a bowl of rice over here!"

Seeing the two beggars wolfing down their food, DouDou and GuoGuo stopped being picky eaters and started eating right away. They didn't need the adults to pick out the vegetables for them; they used their chopsticks to pick out the vegetables to eat with their rice.

Many people thought the two brothers couldn't finish a bowl of rice, but Su Xiaonuan knew they definitely could. In her past life, she had rescued countless abducted children and was so hungry that she would even bite into raw meat to eat.

People who have never been hungry simply cannot understand that state.

Three dishes, a soup, and a bowl of rice were devoured in no time.

The children even shared their snacks with the two beggars.

"These two beggars are lucky; they met kind people," one diner said.

Su Xiaonuan turned and glanced at the man. "They are not beggars, they are just two orphans."

He turned around and asked, "What are your names?"

"My name is Tiezhu, and my younger brother's name is Tiesuo." The big boy wiped his greasy mouth and looked at Su Xiaonuan with endless gratitude.

"Tiezhu, take your brother to the address I just gave you. I'll be there later. From now on, you don't need to beg anymore. I'll have you work at a restaurant. Are you willing?"

"I'm willing! I'm willing!" Tie Zhu nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice. "As long as I can have a full meal, I'm willing to do anything."

"Very good. I'm making you work so I can pay you. You're the older brother, so you not only have to support your younger brother, but also earn money to send him to school and help him succeed. Do you understand?"

"Mmm." Tie Zhu almost knelt down to Su Xiaonuan again. He and his younger brother had been wandering for two years, constantly being beaten and driven away. Only the woman in front of him treated them kindly.

Tiezhu is already fifteen years old. He went to school for a few years when his parents were alive. His younger brother is only six years old now. When his parents died, his younger brother was only four years old. Before his parents' bodies were even cold, his uncle's family took over their house and kicked them out.

Before leaving, he kept turning back to look at Su Xiaonuan.

"Sister Ye, you've raised such a wonderful daughter, with such a kind heart." Aunt Chen was so moved that she kept wiping away tears.

Ye Mei and Su Ming also felt quite proud. They were both upright people and strongly supported their daughter's actions.

At the same time, this scene taught the pampered children a lesson: when they left the restaurant and encountered beggars on the street, they would share their snacks with them.

After eating and drinking their fill, the children were full of energy again when they went to visit the zoo. They ran and played all the way, and Guoguo, their guide, would carefully explain the animals to them at each enclosure.

Of course, Guoguo's knowledge is limited.

Finally, Su Xiaonuan had to provide further explanation.

This is not just an ordinary thing to do to see animals and make children happy. She wants to make full use of this opportunity to teach children some simple and easy-to-understand principles and cultivate their love from an early age. It is not only about treating humans kindly, but also about treating animals kindly.

When they encounter herbivorous animals, Xiao Nuan will pluck some grass for the children to feed them.

The children were all very clever; when they saw other children throwing stones at the captive animals, they would immediately step forward to stop them.

Finally, they arrived at the pigeon farm.

Thousands of pigeons roamed freely there, on the ground and in the trees.

These pigeons are fed by tourists who bought feed for them.

Su Xiaonuan bought a large bag of feed for the children. When they were at the monkey mountain, she didn't dare to buy food for the children because she was afraid that the monkeys would hurt them. Only here could she feel at ease letting the children have close contact with the pigeons.