Everyone got up and went back to their rooms, leaving Li Laosi chuckling as he approached his wife. She pinched his waist; it didn't hurt, but it was incredibly itchy…

Nothing happened that night, and the next day, everyone in the family got up early.

Last night, the villagers helped with the meals for the more than one hundred soldiers, so we can't trouble them with breakfast again.

Fortunately, the makeshift stove was set up yesterday.

Tao Hongying, Zhao Yuru, Jia Huan, Dongmei, and Sister-in-law Qiong all came to help. Soon, they cooked a large pot of rice porridge, boiled the salted duck eggs and goose eggs, and made golden-brown leavened pancakes.

Most of it was sent to the soldiers in the valley, and the remaining half was used as breakfast for the family.

Because the Cui family still had Madam Liu and her two children, Tao Hongying specially steamed egg custard and stir-fried two side dishes, which she had Sister-in-law Qiong take back.

Taking advantage of the lull after dinner and before the guests arrived, everyone in the family gave Jiayin their birthday gifts.

The old lady, Zhao Yuru, Tao Hongying, and others were all dressed in clothes and shoes.