Xiao Moxi cooked noodles. There were leftovers from yesterday, so she used them as a topping. She put the noodles in a large bowl, then added the heated chicken and duck to the bowl, along with some greens, cilantro, and scallions. It looked pretty good.

"Dinner's ready!"

"Not bad, your cooking skills have improved!" Su Xiaonuan praised.

"I learned all this from you, sister-in-law. You make all the dishes so exquisitely, so I tried to be more refined too. I sprinkled some chopped green onions and cilantro on top as a garnish, and it turned out really well. Usually, we eat too roughly, just throwing everything into the pot and that's it, a pure hodgepodge. This pot is also a hodgepodge, but it's a hodgepodge that looks and tastes great. Sister-in-law, don't you think?"

“That’s right.” Su Xiaonuan clapped for her. “You learn things so quickly.”

DouDou and GuoGuo clapped along. "Oh, Auntie is going to study with us!"

"You brat, why is your aunt still studying at this age?"

"Mom said that Auntie is going to study."

"Sister-in-law, what happened?"

Su Xiaonuan placed two bowls in front of her, picked up a mouthful of noodles from each bowl, added a piece of boneless duck meat to each, ladled some broth into both bowls, and then pushed them in front of the two children before looking up at Xiao Moxi. "We've been discussing getting you tutoring so you can take the college entrance exam next year. If you're willing, your sister-in-law will go to town tomorrow to find the best tutor for you."

“No,” Mersey waved his hand. “I don’t want to go to school.”

“It’s fine if you don’t study, but you have to choose between getting married and studying.” Zhang Yulan glared at her, annoyed. “You really don’t know how lucky you are. Other people’s brothers and sisters-in-law are afraid of this kind of thing, but you have this opportunity, and your brothers and sisters-in-law support you to study, but you don’t go. I really don’t know what you’re thinking.”

"Mom, it's not that I don't want to go, it's just that I've neglected my studies for so many years, and I'm afraid I won't pass the exam and will be ashamed."

"Eat your noodles, eat your noodles, or they'll get soggy." Xiao Moran served Zhang Yulan a bowl of noodles, then served Su Xiaonuan a bowl of noodles, and finally served himself a bowl of noodles before starting to eat. "Let's talk about this later, let Moxi think about it carefully."

"Mommy, feed me." Guoguo wasn't very good at using chopsticks.

"Come on, let Daddy feed you."

"No, I want Mommy to feed me." Guoguo looked at Su Xiaonuan with a coquettish expression.

Su Xiaonuan could never bring herself to be harsh with such an adorable little guy. Originally, she wanted him to learn to use chopsticks on his own, but the little guy's coquettishness melted her heart, so she had no choice but to put down her chopsticks and feed Guoguo.

"Mommy, I want to be fed too." Dou Dou was eating well, but when he saw his younger brother being fed by his mother, he got jealous. He quickly put down his chopsticks and opened his little mouth, waiting for his mother to feed him.

"Dou Dou, shall I feed you?" Zhang Yulan picked up some noodles and fed them to Dou Dou's mouth.

"I want Mommy to feed me," DouDou tilted her head.

"Okay, okay, Mommy will feed you." Su Xiaonuan gave in. In front of the two adorable little ones, she, the fake mother, was completely unyielding. She felt that spoiling them like this was wrong, but she just couldn't bring herself to stop feeding them.

The scene is like two little bird-like mouths that take turns opening. Su Xiaonuan feeds one side a bite and the other side a bite. If she accidentally feeds one side too much, the other side will immediately protest.

Xiao Moran couldn't bear to watch any longer. Seeing that the noodle soup in her bowl had dried up, he simply picked up Su Xiaonuan's bowl, picked up a mouthful of noodles, and fed it to her.

At first, Su Xiaonuan refused, but she couldn't resist Xiao Moran's coaxing and had no choice but to eat it bite by bite.

She fed the two children from both sides, and Xiao Moran fed her from both sides.

DouDou and GuoGuo thought eating noodles this way was so much fun that they clapped their hands and cheered.

Moxi was stunned; she never expected there would be such a way to eat noodles.

Zhang Yulan gently put down her chopsticks and quietly tugged at her stunned daughter, signaling her to come back to the room with her.

Moxi then realized what was happening and quickly went back inside with his mother, not wanting to be a third wheel for the family of four.

Su Xiaonuan was busy feeding the two children noodles and didn't notice Xiao Moran's focused expression. It was only when she looked up and realized that her mother-in-law and sister-in-law were gone that she realized something was wrong. She looked up sharply and met his deep and focused gaze. She hurriedly pushed away the noodles he was feeding her.

"What's wrong?" he asked her cautiously.

"It's nothing, I'm full." She shook her hand nervously. "Don't feed me, hurry up and eat by yourself, look at your noodles, they're all clumped together."

"It's alright." Xiao Moran added some hot water to the bowl. "Xiao Nuan, eat some more. If you don't eat enough, you'll be hungry tonight."

"Really, it's not necessary."

"Eat some more."

"Don't force me."

“How could it be forced?” He reached out to take the bowl from her hand. “Then let me feed them, and you can eat some more.”

"I don't want Daddy to feed me!"

They really are twins. They're perfectly in sync, not only saying the same things but also reaching out to shoo their dad away.

She glanced at him sideways and blinked. "You'd better go somewhere cool and stay there. They don't like you. Oh, right, hurry up and get Mom and Moxi out to eat their noodles. The noodles in the bowl are all lumped together."

"We're here." Xiao Moxi realized her brother had no chance, so she pulled her mother out and picked up her bowl to continue eating noodles.

After dinner, Murthy washed the dishes and prepared bathwater for the whole family.

"Dou Dou, Guo Guo, come here, Grandma will give you a bath first." Zhang Yulan came out carrying a bucket of hot water.

"No, we want Mom to wash us."

Xiao Moran, who was making the bamboo bed, shouted, "Mom is very tired. Go, let Grandma wash you."

"Come on!" Zhang Yulan waved to them. "You can only play on the bamboo bed after you've washed up. Grandma will wash you, and Mom will wash up first. After we're done, we'll lie on the bamboo bed together and look at the stars and the moon."

Hearing that they would be able to lie on the cool bed and watch the stars and the moon, the two children ran to their grandmother.

Xiao Moran laid out the cool bed.

This is a cool bed woven from thin bamboo. First, lay a few benches in the yard, then put the cool bed on top, and the whole family can lie on it to cool off.

It was so hot that several palm-leaf fans were placed on the cool bed.

After taking turns showering, the family members all lay down on the bamboo bed.

When DouDou and GuoGuo get really wild, they almost break the cool bed apart.

Zhang Yulan doted on her grandsons, fanning them while protecting them. "My little darlings, be gentle! Be gentle! If you jump on the bamboo bed, we'll all fall to the ground! Stop jumping!"

Su Xiaonuan washed her hair and sat on the edge of the bamboo bed with her hair down. To be honest, she really felt bored. There was no TV to watch and no internet. Every household in the village was cooling off like this.

After dinner, they would spend their time relaxing in the cool air. The family would lie on the cool bed, fanning themselves and chatting about what had happened during the day. They would only go inside to sleep when the night breeze was thoroughly cool.

"Mommy, lie down!" DouDou and GuoGuo stood up, insisting that their mother lie down with them.