Jiang Mingyue closed the door, took the plate back to the dining room, and said, "Honey, our neighbors are really kind; they gave us so many dishes back."

We've started taking turns eating these dishes. Now, tonight we'll have four dishes for dinner!

Jiang Mingyue made steamed crabs and braised prawns for dinner, and also made a cucumber salad.

Look, the neighbor's gift is half grilled fish and half sea cucumber, both seafood.

Guan Xiaojiang's father, Guan Tiecheng, used his chopsticks to stir the food on his plate.

"Wow! Our neighbors across the hall have a pretty high standard of living! This sea cucumber is huge. The braised sea cucumber with scallions in restaurants has more scallions than sea cucumber."

Our neighbor's braised sea cucumber with scallions is all sea cucumber, with hardly any scallions or ginger. And look at this grilled fish, so fresh and tender, with hardly any bones—it looks more like a grouper to me!

My goodness, look at the shape of that fish's mouth, it's definitely a grouper.

In Jinan, grouper is considered a high-end seafood. I ate it at the Longgong Hotel last month when I was helping my boss avoid drinking too much.

The flavor was so delicious, it was almost overwhelming. However, the hotel served it steamed, and that one dish alone cost over a thousand yuan.

Mingyue, let me tell you, our new neighbors are no ordinary people; they're quite wealthy.

We must cultivate a good relationship with her family from now on, and absolutely avoid offending anyone!

Jiang Mingyue picked up a piece of sea cucumber with her chopsticks and placed it in Guan Tiecheng's bowl.

"I know that a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative. As long as my neighbors are reasonable, I will definitely get along well with them."

Who wants to create trouble for no reason? I don't care how wealthy they are, as long as they are easy to get along with.

I'm going to live in this house for the rest of my life, and I don't want to have a weird or nasty neighbor, that would be a nightmare!

"Come on, since you've already collected them, hurry up and try them out. They look pretty good though."

As he spoke, he picked up a piece of sea cucumber with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth. Oh my god!

Jiang Mingyue chewed slowly and savored the taste. The sea cucumber was fresh, soft, smooth, salty and slightly sweet, and the scallions were fragrant. The taste was simply amazing!

This dish truly deserves its reputation as a classic representative of Shandong cuisine!

When Jiang Mingyue gave birth, her family gave her sea cucumbers, but she found them fishy and chewy, and not tasty at all.

In order to recover her health as quickly as possible, she forced herself to swallow a sea cucumber every day while enduring nausea.

Now she realized that it wasn't that the sea cucumbers her family bought were bad, but rather that her family's cooking skills were lacking; they ruined a perfectly good, high-end ingredient.

Jiang Mingyue swallowed the sea cucumber with great enjoyment, only to find that half of the food on the plate had disappeared when she went to pick up more food.

My husband's cheeks were bulging as he ate with gusto. He still had two trembling sea cucumbers on his chopsticks, and he was about to stuff them into his mouth!

"Why is your mouth so big? Can't you chew your food first and swallow it before eating?"

What are you fighting over? You show your true colors as soon as there's something delicious to eat. All that talk about how you love your wife is just bullshit!

Leave me some, are you a starving ghost reincarnated?

Jiang Mingyue was furious. This person usually acts all high and mighty, but he's actually a very selfish person!

Since you don't know how to be considerate, then I won't be polite either! Jiang Mingyue also started eating quickly, grabbing food from Guan Tiecheng.

The two of them quickly devoured the sea cucumbers and then set their sights on the grilled fish.

There was only one dish, and even though Chen Hongsheng's portion was full, the couple still only served that one dish.

In no time at all, the plate was empty. Guan Tiecheng even took the plate away, poured the rice into it, and soaked up all the broth.

Jiang Mingyue had no choice but to pick up a crab and eat it. After finishing the crab, she picked up a shrimp and started eating, but didn't touch the cucumber at all.

She's come to terms with it; her son isn't home, so she can't keep the best food.

It's better to benefit herself than Guan Tiecheng! She's not going to be stingy anymore; from now on, no one except her son will be able to take food from her mouth.

In the end, Jiang Mingyue didn't eat a single bite of rice; she was full just from eating crabs and shrimp.

Guan Tiecheng was equally impressive, finishing even the entire cucumber salad.

Chen Hong was unaware that her well-intentioned act of delivering vegetables to her neighbor, fostering good neighborly relations, had triggered a hidden conflict between the neighboring couple.

Guan Xiaojiang ate so much at Chen Hong's house that his mouth was greasy and his belly was bulging like a toad.

After finishing his meal, the kid didn't want to leave and stayed with Yu Yang, watching him practice guitar for an hour.

It wasn't until Zhou Yi was about to take Yu Yang out for exercise and asked Guan Xiaojiang if he wanted to come along that he obediently went home.

Jiang Mingyue opened the door and saw her son had returned. Full of curiosity, she asked:

"Why are you back? Is Yu Yang's family resting so early?"

"No, my brother Yu Yang and his father went for a run. They asked me to join them, but I couldn't run, so I didn't go."

Mom, let me tell you, Aunt Chen Hong's cooking is so delicious! I ate until I was stuffed tonight.

Finally, Aunt Chen Hong even made us hawthorn syrup. I drank a big bowl of it, and that made me feel a bit better.

Guan Tiecheng came out of the study, also very curious, "What did you eat at Yu Yang's house?"

Guan Xiaojiang lay sprawled on the sofa, rubbing his stomach.

"There are so many dishes! I think there are six dishes! Dad, Mom, and Aunt Chen Hong made grilled fish, spicy chicken, sea cucumber, spare ribs, stewed beef, and eggplant for dinner."

I also made seafood and mushroom soup and cooked hand-pulled noodles. Aunt Chen Hong's noodles were delicious, and Brother Yu Yang even squeezed some fresh orange juice for me.

His fruit is delicious too. There's a kind called rambutan that I'd never tried before, but I got to try it at Yu Yang's house this time. I heard it's an imported tropical fruit.

"Mom, Aunt Chen Hong's cooking is delicious! You should learn from her sometime. Aunt Chen Hong is a really nice person; she'll definitely be willing to teach you."

Jiang Mingyue: ...

Guan Tiecheng: "We need to find an opportunity to learn from them. If your mother learns their skills, we'll be in for a treat!"

Jiang Mingyue refused, “I’m exhausted from work every day, and I also have to do housework and take care of the children. How can I have the time to learn cooking skills from someone else?”

If I had that much time, I'd rather improve my professional skills and become a team leader at work, so I could get a higher salary and better benefits!

Tiecheng, now that your workplace is so close to home, you should pay more attention to things at home and share more of the housework.

They all depend on me. I get off work far from home, and I simply don't have enough time.

Especially dinner, Tiecheng, you can cook from now on. I'll cook dinner when I get home from work; the kids are starving.

Guan Tiecheng frowned, very dissatisfied. "I bought the groceries this morning, and now I have to cook dinner? Do I even have any time for myself?"

"I'm a grown man, and I've moved once. I can't just become a stay-at-home dad from now on, can I?"

Jiang Mingyue couldn't help but sneer, "What do you mean by your own time? We've been married for almost ten years, and I've always done the same thing, haven't I?"

"You used to work far from home, leaving early and coming home late every day, and you didn't do anything around the house. Didn't I never say a word then?"