“The weather is getting colder, and we might not be able to catch loaches anymore. I know you like them, so I fried some,” Zhao Guihua said with a doting smile.
"Mom, you're the best, you love Xingxing the most." Xingxing immediately hugged her leg and acted coquettishly, making Zhao Guihua call her "my darling" and "my sweetheart" repeatedly.
The quintuplets shook their heads, looking on with disbelief. The younger sister was very cute and lovable, but sometimes she was just so cheesy.
"Mom, we picked a lot of pine cones and pine balls, look!" Zhou Dafu was a little uneasy, afraid to say that they had tasted them, lest his mother beat them.
"What did you pick again? It must be Erfu's doing again, right?" Zhao Guihua knew her son all too well, so her tone was certain.
On Tuesday, Zhou Erfu, in a fit of despair, said, "Mom, I've already eaten, and I'm fine. These are safe to eat."
Zhao Guihua picked up the fluff ball and pine cone and looked at them. She remained silent for a long time. Seeing that she didn't speak, the quintuplets became even more uneasy. What did their mother mean? Did this have some side effects and meant they couldn't eat it?
"The fruit inside this fluffy ball is called chestnut. I've seen wealthy families eat it, and it is indeed edible. Pine cones are also edible, but poor families don't know that they are edible. Wealthy families do have people who eat them."
How did Zhao Guihua know so much? It's because her older sister was sold to a wealthy family as a maid. Her older sister was clever and capable, and she had a sweet tongue and knew how to please her master, so the master would often reward her with things.
Chestnuts and pine nuts were gifts from the host to Sister Zhao Guihua. She saved up all these treats and would bring them home for her family whenever she had a break.
So Zhao Guihua also learned a lot about things that poor families had never eaten from her older sister. However, thinking of her older sister, she was also very worried, as her parents had only given birth to the two of them.
Not long after Zhao Guihua got married, her parents passed away one after another. Later, when they were fleeing from disaster, her eldest sister left with her master's family and no one knew where she went. In short, she was never seen again.
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