"When you come to a house, you have to spit out some food. Please sit down. I will cook it in a moment." Chen Tan pushed him to sit on the bench and said to Liu Xu, "Sister-in-law, please sit down for a moment too. I will be ready soon."

"Aunt, let me light the fire for you."

Chen Suosuo followed him into the kitchen obediently.

Chen Tan smiled and asked her to heat the iron pot inside. There was hot water on the coal stove. She poured it into the iron pot and it boiled in a while.

She cooked three big bowls of meat dumplings. They had just had lunch and eaten a lot of dried meat, so they were not hungry.

All three bowls were given to Shen Jinquan. He looked at the plump white dumplings and his mouth was watering.

After he finished eating the dumplings, he drank all the cooking water in the pot.

Liu Xu looked at him with both heartache and embarrassment.

After finishing the meal, Shen Jinquan asked, "Is my brother-in-law not at home?"

Chen Tan told him that Qin Li had gone to the county for something and would be back in the evening.

After listening to this, Shen Jinquan quietly went to the shed, took out his bucket and went to the river at the foot of the hill to fetch water.

Chen Tan and Qin Qiuniang were both surprised by his behavior and did not let him choose. They asked him to take his wife and child back quickly.

He insisted on fetching water, so Chen Tan had to take him to the mountain stream behind the house, where there was a deep pool with a shed built on it. It was built by Qin Li and used as a well for his family.

Shen Jinquan made three trips to fill the kitchen water tank before leaving with Liu Xu and his daughter.

Qin Qiuniang smiled and said to Shen Tan: "Your cousin is quite good at the big gift. If Liu Xu puts more thought into it, your life will get better and better."