Chapter 9: Entering the City

Qin Huiyin stood in front of the stove, watching six pheasant eggs being fried into a golden color. The aroma filled her nose, making her drool.

Seeing her like this, Li Taohua picked up a piece of scrambled egg and handed it to her mouth.

Qin Huiyin blew on it, took a bite, and said happily, "It's delicious."

"You're so silly." Li Taohua said angrily.

The staple food is still wild vegetable corn porridge, but the corn porridge is made after frying the eggs. The porridge has the taste of oil and salt, and it is much more delicious than the previous meals.

After the wild vegetable corn porridge was ready, Tang Luwu helped to serve the rice. She took out the wooden basin filled with corn porridge, and Tang Yixiao followed her to the dining table with the bowl and chopsticks.

Qin Huiyin came out with scrambled eggs.

Li Taohua moved the large bowl of corn porridge that Tang Luwu had prepared in front of her, put a few large pieces of scrambled eggs on top, and carried the bowl of food into the inner room.

When Li Taohua came out, Tang Lvwu had already divided the corn paste. She took a look and snatched the corn paste in front of Tang Lvwu.

Tang Yixiao had just sat down when he saw this and glared at Li Taohua with an extremely ugly expression.

Tang Luwu felt uneasy.

Is there nothing to eat today?

She had fallen into the water before because she suddenly felt dizzy. If she wasn't given food, I didn't know where she would fall next time.

Tears rolled in Tang Luwu's eyes.

She doesn't want to eat eggs, she only wants to eat wild vegetables. Is that not okay?

She only took a spoonful and didn't dare to eat more. Most of it was bitter wild vegetables, and the corn paste was almost in Li Taohua and Qin Huiyin's bowls. She saw before that Qin Huiyin didn't like wild vegetables and would rather pick them out and throw them away. She thought they didn't like to eat them, and it would be a waste to throw them away. She would not be angry if she gave herself a few more.

While Tang Lvwu was daydreaming and complaining about herself, Li Taohua poured two more spoonfuls of food into Tang Lvwu's bowl, then put the bowl back in front of her and said, "Eat, what are you standing there for?"

Tang Luwu was stunned and asked in disbelief, "Is it for me?"

"What else?" Li Taohua asked back.

Tang Yi smiled and let out a breath.

If Li Taohua and her daughter didn't give food to his sister, he would leave the food in his bowl for his sister.

Last time he wanted to keep it, but his sister insisted that he was not in good health and refused to eat it. If something like that happened again this time, he would force his sister to eat it even if she was unwilling. Fortunately, the mother and daughter did not make things difficult for his sister today. Maybe they were also scared by the incident of his sister falling into the water, and they did not dare to make things difficult for them with food.

Li Taohua moved Tang Yixiao's bowl over again.

This time, Tang Yixiao didn't have any special reaction.

Li Taohua also gave him two more spoonfuls.

After adding the ingredients, he served the last bit of corn paste to Qin Huiyin, then took the wooden basin back to the kitchen and came back.

The Tang siblings were busy eating wild vegetables and drinking corn porridge. In the middle of the wooden table was a golden scrambled egg, but they didn't even look at it, and they were busy eating the food in their bowls.

"Come and eat!" Qin Huiyin called them.

The brother and sister did not move.

Tang Yixiao didn't even look at her, Tang Luwu said in a voice as soft as a mosquito: "I don't like eggs, you guys eat them!"

Qin Huiyin put the eggs in their bowls and said, "You have to eat it even if you don't like it. You have to eat the eggs while they are hot. They are not delicious when they are cold. My mother fried so many that two people can't finish them."

Tang Yi smiled and looked up at her, his eyes full of suspicion.

So kind?

Usually, if there is something delicious, she will eat it first. She will eat it until she feels like vomiting. Today, she is so generous. Is there something wrong with these eggs?

Although Tang Yixiao is young, he is not so easy to deceive. His brother told him not to trust others easily since he was a child. There is no such thing as showing kindness without reason in this world.

Qin Huiyin just followed her heart and didn't care what they thought. She put more eggs on Li Taohua and said sweetly, "Mom, eat more."

Tang Yixiao waited for a while, and when he saw that Li Taohua and Qin Huiyin had finished eating, he ate the egg in the bowl.

tasty.

How long has it been since he had eaten something so delicious?

Tang Yi smiled with mixed feelings.

No matter what Li Taohua and Qin Huiyin's purpose was, it would be a waste not to eat the eggs that were delivered to the door. Thinking of this, he picked up another piece of egg for Tang Luwu with his chopsticks.

Tang Luwu was extremely anxious, and looked at Li Taohua and Qin Huiyin anxiously. Qin Huiyin was busy eating and didn't look at them. Li Taohua pouted, obviously a little unhappy.

After dinner, Tang Luwu took the initiative to wash the dishes.

I ate a lot today.

When Tang Luwu came back after washing the dishes, she saw Qin Huiyin lying down and asleep.

Tang Luwu sat beside her, watching Qin Huiyin sleeping soundly, and felt that everything she experienced today was just a dream. If she could live like this every day in the future, she would think that it was not a terrible thing for her father to marry a stepmother.

Qin Huiyin was going to town, so she had to get up early in the morning to travel. After she woke up, she heard some noises coming from the kitchen, and walked to the kitchen in a daze. In the dim moonlight, she saw Tang Lvwu making pancakes in front of the stove. When she heard the footsteps, she looked over and said timidly, "Yesterday you said you were going to town, so I wanted to make some pancakes for you and Aunt Li to eat on the way."

"Let's go together later!" Qin Huiyin said, "We are going to buy medicine for Tang Yixiao today. You know his condition better than us, so it's better for you to come with us."

"May I?"

"Of course." Qin Huiyin rubbed her eyes. "I'll go wash my face. I'll leave this to you."

Tang Luwu originally wanted to do more things and maintain the same way of getting along as yesterday. As long as she was diligent enough and Aunt Li felt that she was a useful burden, there would be fewer quarrels at home. She didn't expect Qin Huiyin to let her go to the city and bring up the matter of buying medicine for her brother again. She didn't have to go to the city to play, but it was about her brother's health, and she was always thinking about it.

Judging from what happened yesterday, Aunt Li really dotes on Sister Yin. If Sister Yin continues to be so easy to get along with, the relationship in their family will definitely get better.

Tang Luwu suddenly had some expectations for the future.

Tang Luwu baked a few pancakes, leaving one for Tang Yixiao, one for Tang Dafu, and one each for Li Taohua and Qin Huiyin. She only ate half of it and wrapped up the rest.

When Li Taohua saw Qin Huiyin bringing Tang Luwu along, she complained, "Why did you bring her along? Riding in an ox cart costs money, two cents per person, and with her, we can buy an extra pound of cornmeal."

"I'll walk, not take the ox cart." Tang Luwu said quickly.

"No, we have to walk together and sit together." Qin Huiyin said, "We have to buy some things later, someone has to carry them! The two of us can't carry them."

Li Taohua thought that after she pawned her clothes and silver hairpin and had money in hand, she would definitely buy some rice and flour. She would really need someone to carry things at that time, so she didn't say anything else.