At exactly seven o'clock in the afternoon, the scorching heat of the day was dropping little by little, by six or seven degrees at most, and would return to its original temperature the next day.

Even so, the temperature at night is much more bearable than the big steamer during the day, and it is also a perfect time to eat steaming skewers.

Cheng Wei would come to our house for a meal almost every day, but of course she didn’t eat for free. Every time she came, she would bring the same amount of food.

When seven o'clock came, the door was about to be knocked, Si Nan went to open the door, and Cheng Wei appeared in front of Si Nan in a pure white dress. She gave her a big hug, rubbed her in her arms, and acted coquettishly: "Dear sister-in-law, I'm here to eat again."

Behind Cheng Wei stood a burly man wearing a black short-sleeved shirt and long pants, revealing his muscular body and two big tattooed arms.

The sturdy man was holding a bag of noodles. Seeing Cheng Wei hanging on him and refusing to get down, the thick centipede scar on his left face trembled. Then he stretched out a strong arm, lifted the woman back into his arms and hung her up. He handed the noodles to Si Nan at the door and said politely, "Sister-in-law, we are disturbing you again."

This man is Cheng Wei’s boyfriend, Yang Wentao, who is already 31 years old.

One of these two is as soft and cute as a little white rabbit, and the other is as ferocious as a tiger. The little white rabbit is like a boneless person every day. Whenever it sees people, it wants to lean on them as a pendant. The big tiger is very jealous and always tries to get the little white rabbit to hang back on itself. Every time Si Nan sees these two people, he finds it very interesting.

Si Nan smiled and let the two of them in: "Xiao Wei, I told you, if you want to eat, just come over. Why bring noodles? Your brother's family has enough food for you. You can eat whatever we eat at home."

"I know you're good to me, sister-in-law, but my brother is different. He always says that I'm like water spilled out after I get married. Now that I have a boyfriend, I have to take care of my own food and clothing. Otherwise, I can just go back to the Cheng family's old house and eat for free. I can't afford to go there empty-handed every day. Fortunately, Wentao knows a lot of people. When the weather turned bad, he believed what I told him and rented a warehouse in the suburbs, stockpiled a lot of supplies, and moved them all over. Otherwise, I would be the same as those people outside, and I don't know how hungry I would be."

Cheng Wei kept complaining to Sinan while sitting there as a decoration with a clear conscience. She was half-carried by Yang Wentao as she entered the door.

The moment she entered the door, she saw Cheng Su Ming sitting next to the boiling electric stove, looking at her with a dark face. She was frightened and quickly jumped off Yang Wentao's body. She smiled awkwardly at Cheng Su Ming: "Brother, you didn't go out to work today? You're at home on time for dinner."

Due to the hot weather and frequent power and water outages, people in Building 14 where Cheng Suming lives and Building 15 next door always suffer from headaches, fevers, heatstroke and so on. Whenever this happens, people always think of the existence of doctor Cheng Suming, and almost every day someone comes to Cheng Suming for emergency treatment.

Cheng Suming didn't want to go out to see patients at first, mainly because he was afraid that something might happen to Si Nan when he was away.

Later, a few small incidents happened. Seeing that Si Nan was very aggressive and that she was the only one who messed with others but no one else messed with her, he felt relieved. The first three times he treated the neighbors in Building 14/15, they were all free, as a way of thanking them for taking care of him when he was a child. After that, no matter what illness he treated, he would charge some money or food and water before he was willing to treat them.

When they first started charging, they were inevitably complained and gossiped about. Later, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the elderly and children were more likely to get sick, and there was no time to go to the hospital for treatment. In addition, hospital beds were hard to find, and except for medical expenses and hospitalization fees, which remained at normal prices, the rest were all high prices. Ordinary families could not afford it at all. No matter how unwilling they were, they could only ask for help from Cheng Suming, who charged a low price.

Cheng Suming is now a famous figure in Shenxianyuan. In addition to the neighbors in Building 14/15 who often ask him to visit them, residents in other buildings also often ask him to visit them. Some even cannot wait and carry their patients on their backs to see them.

Cheng Su Ming is extremely busy now. He is nowhere to be seen from morning to night. He has made a lot of money and supplies. Two rooms are filled with all kinds of supplies. This is a good opportunity to explain to Cheng Wei why he has no shortage of supplies and why he can eat different foods every day.

Before, Cheng Wei thought that Si Nan cooked all the meals for the Cheng family. After all, based on her understanding of Cheng Su Ming, this guy couldn’t cook at all. When he was abroad, he always ate in restaurants or hired a nanny or maid to cook.

Later, she learned from Sinan that when it was time for dinner, her brother would come back to cook for Sinan, no matter whether the patient was dead or alive, and then he would just eat a few bites and continue to see patients. She was so shocked that her jaw dropped. She said her brother was obsessed and truly loved Sinan. She envied him for a long time and asked Yang Wentao to follow his example and cook for her.

Yang Wentao, who had never cooked and only knew how to speak with his fists, unconsciously put on an apron to please the little white rabbit. He used his muscular arms to learn how to stir-fry and flip the wok. In less than two days, he conquered the little white rabbit's stomach with his cooking skills.

But it is obvious that Little White Rabbit likes the food cooked by her brother. The reason is that her sister-in-law likes the food cooked by her brother, and she also likes the food that her sister-in-law likes. No matter how Yang Wentao changes the dishes, she goes to her brother's house for dinner every day.

Cheng Suming sneered: "Why, if I'm not at home, are you going to instigate your sister-in-law to come up with some fancy menu for me tomorrow to torment me?"

Of course, Cheng Wei didn't really like the food her brother cooked. She simply felt that her brother was such a cold and selfish person, but he would do so many things for a woman that she couldn't even imagine. So she decided to come over for meals every day and kept acting coquettishly in front of Si Nan, trying to get Si Nan to say what dishes he wanted to eat, the more complicated the better.

Who told Cheng Su Ming to always like to control her since she was a child, always forcing her to study, exercise, do physical fitness, and practice Taekwondo? He didn't allow her to go out to play without permission. She had to report to her family where she was going and had to be accompanied by someone when she went out. He was stricter than her parents. She had lived in fear of being controlled and dominated by him since she was a child. Now that she had the opportunity to retaliate and play a trick on him, she would of course seize the opportunity.

Cheng Wei was so embarrassed that she couldn't even raise her head after Cheng Suming exposed her thoughts. She kept saying, "Who said I instigated my sister-in-law? She obviously wanted to eat it too. If you don't want to cook, you don't have to."

This is using his only weakness as an excuse. Cheng Suming laughed in anger. Seeing Cheng Wei was about to put the beef skewers on the table into the pot, he raised his hand to hit the pig's paw, but hit a hard arm instead. He raised his head and glanced at Yang Wentao with a sharp look: "I'm teaching my sister a lesson, you'd better know your place."

"She is my girlfriend. Even if you are my future brother-in-law, I will not let you hurt her in the slightest." Yang Wentao had a cold face and did not give in at all.

The air was filled with the delicious aroma of boiling hot pot base and the smell of gunpowder ready to explode.

Seeing the two tough men quarreling again, Si Nan quickly tried to smooth things over, pulled Cheng Su Ming's hand and said, "Okay, it's all my fault. You're very busy every day, and you still have to take time out to make these complicated meals for me. I've been too lazy recently. I'll cook from now on. Tell me what you and Cheng Wei want to eat. As long as I can cook it, I'll try my best to satisfy you."

"No need. I will still cook whatever you want to eat in the future. But -" He turned to look at Cheng Wei and said with gritted teeth: "You are not allowed to come to my house for free meals in the future. If you want to eat something, go find your man. If you dare to instigate your sister-in-law to torment me again, I will skin you alive!"

He had always disliked Yang Wentao, not only because the cabbages he raised were eaten by pigs, which made him extremely sad as a brother, but also because Yang Wentao came from a gangster family, was too old, and was nearly ten years younger than Cheng Wei. He was an old cow eating young grass, and had little education. He was a rough man who spoke with his fists, and was not worthy of Cheng Wei, a spoiled and delicate young lady.

But what is undeniable is that, both in the previous life and this life, Cheng Wei has been well protected by Yang Wentao. Yang Wentao does have some ability and courage. In the face of any natural disaster or predicament, he can always find a way to get supplies to ensure that Cheng Wei has enough food and clothing, and he keeps Cheng Wei alive.

But he watched Si Nan die in front of him.

Really, the more I think about it, the angrier I get!

"No... Brother, I was wrong." Cheng Wei wailed, "I just like being with my sister-in-law and you. I will never dare to instigate my sister-in-law to torment you again. Brother, please forgive me."

Cheng Suming had a wooden face as he boiled Si Nan's favorite dishes, such as tripe, lasagna, duck intestines, tenderloin slices, beef slices, pig intestines knots, fatty beef rolls, cauliflower, water spinach, etc. in the boiling red soup pot. He controlled the heat well and put handfuls of them into a dipping bowl made of chopped garlic, chili peppers, coriander, sesame oil, and red oil soup, filling it up for her. He then made her a dry dish filled with a mixture of chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, and cooked sesame seeds, which he also filled into a small mountain and placed in front of her. He took a bottle of iced orange soda, opened the cap and put it aside for her to drink. Then he boiled the skewers he wanted to eat without even looking at Cheng Wei from beginning to end.

Cheng Wei knew that her brother was very angry and the consequences would be serious, so she didn't dare to pick up her chopsticks and could only watch the two of them eat.

No matter how cold, hard and strong Yang Wentao is, Cheng Suming is his future brother-in-law, so he has to give him some face.

The elder brother-in-law didn't give his girlfriend food, and his girlfriend didn't dare to pick up the chopsticks, but he wouldn't challenge the elder brother-in-law's bottom line. He thought to himself, if his girlfriend couldn't eat, he could just go home and cook for her. He didn't believe that his cooking skills were not as good as Cheng Suming's!

Staring at Cheng Wei with pitiful eyes, Si Nan felt a little amused. She looked at Cheng Suming who was eating with a wooden face, and thought that these two siblings were quite interesting. Their friendship could be overturned at any time. If she, as the nominal sister-in-law, didn't give them a way out at this time, who knows how long these two would be awkward.

She picked up a slightly curled pink duck intestine and put it in her mouth, praising it as she ate it: "My husband's cooking is really good. The duck intestine is cooked to the perfect temperature, coated with sesame oil and seasonings. It tastes fragrant and crispy in my mouth, and has a strong flavor of hot pot sesame oil and mashed garlic. It's so delicious that I almost shed tears. This is all my husband's love!"

Cheng Su Ming's hand that was picking up the food paused. He knew that her exaggerated and pretentious statement was just her usual way of helping them out of trouble, but he still couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth. He lowered his eyes and continued to eat without saying a word.

Cheng Wei couldn't help swallowing her saliva, watching pitifully as Si Nan picked up a large piece of beef and put it into his mouth, exclaiming that the beef was so tender, spicy and delicious. Then she picked up a pig intestine and bit it hard, saying that the intestine was cooked very well, and it was juicy when you bite it, soft and sticky, and there was no smell at all. Then she picked up a few red water spinach and said that the water spinach was full of butter and tasted especially good with rice...

Just as her saliva was constantly secreting and the dishes were gradually becoming less, she finally heard her sister-in-law's heavenly voice: "I remember that Xiaowei likes to eat beef and thousand-layer tripe the most. Xiaowei, why don't you eat them? Are you embarrassed? Then sister-in-law will serve you some."

Cheng Wei put handfuls of beef slices and lasagna into her bowl. She was so moved that tears almost flowed down her cheeks. Of course, she did not forget to share the delicious food with her dear. While eating, she mumbled, "Sister-in-law, you are really the best sister-in-law in the world! In the future, I will definitely find a way to repay your kindness and let you eat all the food you want."

"Okay, I'll wait for that day."

Si Nan dealt with Cheng Wei with a smile in his eyes, but he did not forget to coax Cheng Suming. He then scalded a lot of Cheng Suming's favorite dishes and filled his bowl. Finally, he cooked a pot of spicy skewers with the noodles brought by Yang Wentao and gave each of them a large bowl.

The four of them ate until their stomachs were full and they kept burping. When only soup was left in the pot, Cheng Wei and Yang Wentao were responsible for washing the dishes and the pot, while Cheng Suming and Sinan went to the balcony to watch the fish digest their food.