"Yaojie, do you want to eat meat?" On the way home, Jiang Ling looked at Jiang Yaojie and asked softly.

Jiang Yaojie remained silent and shook his head. Jiang Ling looked at Jiang Yaojie's actions with some difficulty.

Since arriving in Lujia Village, Jiang Ling only remembered eating meat once before, which was almost entirely made of starchy meatballs, a real ordeal for Jiang Ling who couldn't live without meat.

"Oh dear, Yaojie found this rabbit. What if he wants to keep it as a pet? How am I supposed to bring it up? Right now, I can only pray that little foodie Wenxi will be alright!" Jiang Ling thought to herself as she pictured Jiang Wenxi swallowing her saliva.

Soon, Jiang Ling and Jiang Yaojie arrived at the front of the old house.

As soon as the door was opened, Jiang Suihe and Jiang Wenxi ran out from the inner room and quickly took the baskets from Jiang Ling and Jiang Yaojie.

"Mom, why is there a rabbit in your basket?" Jiang Wenxi asked curiously, rummaging through the basket to look at the trembling little rabbit inside.

Yaojie, this child, has always been living under Lu Youren's roof. She is sensitive and fragile. Now that things have finally gotten a little better, it would be a real shame if a rabbit caused a rift between her and Jiang Yaojie.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ling said, "Your older brother was lucky today; he ran into him while digging potatoes!"

"Big brother...big brother, what do you want to do with this rabbit?" Jiang Wenxi asked Jiang Yaojie curiously.

Jiang Yaojie looked at the rabbit, then at his two thin, pale-faced sisters beside him. He really wanted to keep the rabbit, but then he thought of the days when he was living under someone else's roof and barely had enough to eat. Finally, he gritted his teeth and looked at Jiang Ling, saying, "Let's kill the rabbit and eat it!"

Jiang Ling was taken aback when she heard this.

Jiang Suihe frowned upon hearing this.

Jiang Wenxi's eyes reddened, and she tried her best to suppress her tears. Why did they have to kill and eat such a cute rabbit? She didn't understand, but in this family, besides her mother, her eldest brother was the most important person, and she couldn't say anything. She could only pout and squat sadly under the eaves.

After hearing Jiang Yaojie's words, Jiang Ling struggled with her thoughts for a long time, but in the end, her cravings won out. She looked at the potatoes in the basket and said to Jiang Yaojie, "We just dug up some potatoes today, so let's make some stewed rabbit with potatoes. You take your sister and play outside for a while. Mom will call you when the food is ready."

As she spoke, Jiang Ling took a rabbit out of the basket and went to the kitchen, closing the door behind her.

The main reason Jiang Ling did this was because the rabbit was too thin. Not to mention sharing it among the four of them, there wasn't even enough for her to have as a snack!

Jiang Ling glanced out the window. Jiang Yaojie was chopping firewood, and Jiang Suihe and Jiang Wenxi were also quickly packing up the potatoes that the mother and son had carried back. Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, Jiang Ling carefully opened the mall system, sold the rabbit, and then bought a large, fat rabbit that had just been processed from the mall. After that, she bought some star anise, cinnamon, and other spices to remove the fishy smell and enhance the aroma.

"Glug glug..." The stewing rabbit in the pot kept emitting a fragrant aroma.

Jiang Wenxi, who was practically lying on the stove, was drooling all over her clothes. Jiang Ling, seeing Jiang Wenxi's somewhat disheveled appearance, intended to wipe her drool.

But she found that she didn't have any fabric. After glancing at her patched clothes, she finally decided that it might not be so bad for Jiang Wenxi to just drool like that.

"Mom! What did you stew? It smells so good!" Jiang Wenxi asked, turning her head to look at Jiang Ling.

Bathed in the firelight, Jiang Wenxi's little face was flushed red and looked very cute.

Jiang Ling did not answer Jiang Wenxi's question. Instead, she lifted the pot lid, picked up a piece of rabbit meat from the boiling soup, carefully blew on it, and put it in Jiang Wenxi's mouth.

"Is it delicious?" Jiang Ling asked with a smile.

"Delicious! Delicious! Mom, how did you make this? It's so delicious!" Jiang Wenxi said with shining eyes.

"Rabbit meat always tastes delicious!" Jiang Ling said softly.

Unexpectedly, when Jiang Wenxi heard that it was "rabbit meat," her eyes immediately reddened. With a drooping mouth and tears in her eyes, she walked out of the kitchen with her head down.

As she walked, she kept thinking, "Little rabbit, I'm sorry, you're really too delicious. I swear, if I eat two more pieces, I won't eat anymore. We'll still be good friends, right?"

Dinner was prepared quickly. Although it consisted of only two dishes—one meat and one vegetable—mixed with a little brown rice, it was already a very substantial meal for Jiang Ling's three children.

Jiang Ling served three bowls of rabbit meat to Jiang Yaojie and said, "Yaojie, give one bowl to the village chief, one to Zhao Dabao's family, and one to Lu Shandian's family. We're waiting for you to come back for dinner! If they don't accept it, just say..."

“I was just saying…” Jiang Ling hesitated for a moment, unable to say the words that were on the tip of her tongue.

“Everyone who sees it gets a share…” Jiang Suihe, who had been silent all along, suddenly said in a low voice.

Jiang Ling was somewhat surprised after hearing this. She turned to look at Jiang Suihe and asked, "Suihe, who taught you to say that?"

Upon hearing Jiang Ling's question, Jiang Suihe thought she had said something wrong. She quickly lowered her head, rubbing her hands together and whispering, "I...I...I heard Lu Gousheng say that this means good things should be shared. Mother...I...did I say something wrong?"

Jiang Ling was secretly surprised after hearing this. She never expected that Jiang Suihe had such a good memory, and that she seemed to have some talent in studying.

She glanced at the rabbit meat on the table and said to Jiang Yaojie, "Yaojie, you go first. If you refuse, just say that the rabbit was found by everyone, and everyone who finds it gets a share!"

Jiang Yaojie nodded, picked up a bowl of rabbit meat, and walked towards the door.

Soon, Jiang Ling heard Aunt Er Leng's loud voice in the old house: "Oh dear, Yao Jie, why did you bring us meat? Quickly... take it back, your family has had a hard time during this famine year!"

"Everyone who sees it gets a share... Aunt Erleng, you should just accept it!" Jiang Yaojie's voice reached Jiang Ling's ears.

"Oh dear, child, wait a minute..."

When Jiang Yaojie pushed the door open again, he had some unidentified wild vegetables in his hand. He put the vegetables on the table and said to Jiang Ling, "These were given to me by Aunt Erleng. She said she felt bad eating our food for no reason!"

Jiang Ling nodded without saying anything, but through this incident she could see that Er Leng's wife was indeed someone she could get to know well.

Dinner was a great meal, with all three little ones eating heartily and without a care in the world. Jiang Wenxi, in particular, didn't even leave the last bit of stewed rabbit broth behind, and after finishing it, she stuck out her tongue and licked the bowl clean.

Looking at the satisfied expressions on her three children's faces, Jiang Ling felt a great sense of joy. She didn't even realize that she had completely accepted the role of "being a mother" at some point.

"Suihe, come here for a moment!" Jiang Ling called softly to Jiang Suihe, who was about to clear the dishes.

Jiang Suihe quickly put down her chopsticks and followed behind Jiang Ling.

The mother and daughter went inside. Jiang Ling gently closed the door and asked Jiang Suihe, "Suihe, do you want to study?"