The twins were one year and eight months old. With the help of the strengthening pills, they developed stronger than two- or three-year-old children. Even so, they could only eat clear broth hot pot. They had to chew the thinly sliced meat and tender green vegetables a few more times before swallowing them.
Duoxi, who is only ten months old, cannot eat hot pot like them. Even if his physical condition is no worse than that of a one-year-old child, it is still not possible.
The little guy, who had been eating porridge obediently, now understood some things. When he saw that he was eating differently from the others, he became unhappy and refused the fragrant porridge that Gao Shujing was feeding him. He pointed his little hand directly at the pot and said, "Eat, eat, eat."
The twins used to eat porridge, but in the last two months we've only occasionally given them some dry food.
Seeing that Duoxi could only eat porridge, Duolu felt sorry for Duoxi. Looking at the remaining piece of meat in the bowl, his little brows furrowed. He wanted to give the meat to Duoxi, but he was reluctant to do so.
In the end, it was Duoxi, the younger brother, who prevailed. The small boy stood up, picked up the bowl, and walked over to Duoxi.
Gao Shujing placed the spoon in the bowl, adjusted his position while holding Duoxi, and asked when the little guy came over, "Duolu, what's wrong?"
Duolu reluctantly handed the bowl over: "Give the meat to Duoxi."
Gao Shujing: "Duolu, you're good. Duoxi is still too young to eat meat. How about we let him eat meat when he's a little older?"
Upon hearing that Duoxi couldn't eat meat, Duolu was overjoyed. He had thought his meat was gone forever, and he happily said, "Okay, when Duoxi grows up, I'll give him meat to eat."
After Duolu finished speaking, he hugged his precious little chubby baby and returned to his seat, as if afraid that if he was even a second late, Gao Shujing would say that Duoxi could eat meat.
It can only be said that Duolu has a heart that loves his younger brother, but not much.
Duoshou ate the meat in his bowl, and before Rujia could give him more meat, he said to Duolu, "We used to eat porridge, and now we can eat meat. Have you forgotten?"
Duolu scratched his head, it was unclear whether he remembered the past, but he looked like he suddenly realized something: "Oh right, Duoxi can't eat meat, I need to eat more to help Duoxi eat."
Good grief, I was just thinking about sharing some meat with my younger brother, and now I'm thinking about eating his share too.
Duofu raised his chin: "I've always been able to eat meat." He didn't remember anything from before, but he had been eating meat since he was old enough to remember things, so he assumed he had always been able to eat meat.
The twins didn't understand this logic and thought that being the older brother meant they could eat meat.
Duoshou: "Auntie, I want to be the eldest brother, and I want to eat meat all the time."
Duolu is happy as long as he has meat to eat; he can't think of anything else. He's enjoying the meat that Yu Rujia recently brought over.
Duoshou quickly forgot about the problem because the meat was just too delicious.
Duo was overjoyed to see that he couldn't eat the same food as everyone else, so he grinned and howled.
Gao Shujing picked up the person who was flailing her limbs and said, "Rujia, I'll take Duoxi to eat over there."
Yu Rujia: "Okay, you carry him over first, I'll bring the porridge over."
Duo Xi moves around too much. He's not very big, but he's very strong. If I hold him while serving porridge, I'm likely to knock the bowl over.
Gao Shujing went out, and Yu Rujia picked up the porridge and instructed the children sitting down, "Wait a moment, Auntie will be back soon. Everyone, please help yourselves, okay?"
Duofu: "Auntie, I will look after my younger brothers."
With Duofu looking after them, Yu Rujia picked up a kerosene lamp and went to the next room with Duoxi's porridge. When they came back, all three of them were quietly drooling over the pot, but none of them touched it.
The group ate until they were stuffed after a hot pot meal. Even Duoxi, who had initially refused to eat porridge, ate it with gusto after being pulled away.
After dinner, Gao Shujing, as usual, delivered some hot pot to the cowshed. Thirty or forty catties of meat were gone in one night, and only a few catties were left. If people found out, they would definitely be called spendthrifts.
When he returned, Yu Rujia was fetching hot water to prepare a bath for the little ones. After a hot pot meal, the little ones had some soup on them and smelled strongly of it, so they had to be washed from head to toe.
Gao Shujing carried the hot water he had drawn to the bathroom and poured it into a large wooden basin. He poured two buckets of water into the basin, but it was only half full.
Gao Shujing picked up Duoxi and called out, "Duofu, come here too, Uncle will give you a bath."
He usually bathes the little ones in the following order: Duofu and Duoxi together, then he carries Duoxi to bed and lets Duofu watch over him, before bathing Duolu and Duoshou.
If we wash Duolu and Duoshou first, those two little ones are still young, and any new thing can lure them off the bed, and then they'll get themselves dirty again.
Duolu and Duoshou have gotten used to this bathing order, and the two little guys are still playing together.
After the children finished their baths, it was Yu Rujia's turn to shower. Her clothes had all gotten smelly, so she changed them, thinking she would shower tomorrow.
When I came out again after combing my hair, I saw Gao Shujing tidying up dirty clothes. His face looked particularly gentle in the dim light, and his slender fingers gathered a pile of dirty clothes into a bucket.
She had seen this situation many times before. Every time the little ones finished bathing, he would clean up after them. Yu Rujia didn't take it seriously until she glanced at him and saw him putting his dirty clothes into the bucket.
Yu Rujia hurriedly went over and said, "Fourth Brother, I'll wash my own clothes. You can take care of theirs."
Gao Shujing continued tidying up the clothes: "You must be tired today, get some rest. Let me handle these things."
As a lazy person, Yu Rujia naturally wanted to let him wash her clothes, but there were still her underwear and panties inside, and she still had some pride and was too embarrassed to let him wash them for her.
Yu Rujia: "It's okay, I'll wash it tomorrow."
Gao Shujing, as if she could read her mind, said what she really wanted to say: "I'll only wash the outer clothes, you can wash the rest."
The outer garment was fine, and the lazy Yu Rujia didn't insist on washing all the clothes herself anymore: "Then I'll trouble Fourth Brother."
A sense of pleasure welled up in Gao Shujing's heart. The fact that he was willing to wash her clothes meant that their relationship had taken another step forward, and it was time to add more fuel to the fire in the slowly boiling frog.
The next morning, Gao Shujing prepared breakfast an hour earlier than usual. Yu Rujia, still half asleep, handed the children to him when he knocked on the door. She then went back to sleep for another ten minutes before waking up to Duofu's loud voice.
Resigned to my fate, I got dressed, washed up, and went to have breakfast.
People shouldn't be spoiled. Before Gao Shujing came along, Yu Rujia would get up an hour or two early every day to make breakfast and still feel energetic. But after Gao Shujing came along, she got used to sleeping in late and found it a bit difficult to get up early.
After the family finished breakfast, Gao Shujing hadn't even finished washing her dishes when Captain Huang came over and called out from outside the gate, "Gao, are you up yet?"
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