Cheng smiled and said:
"It's just a little bit of food, what's the point? There's no need to be so polite, sister-in-law.
I've been married to Youliang for over ten years, but until now, we've only had Liulang and Zaohua. Since Daohua saved Liulang's life, she saved our entire Fifth House family!
I know that you and Fourth Brother are both kind people, and naturally you would do a favor without expecting anything in return. But I don't really have anything to repay you with, so if you can give me a little more food from the rice flowers, I'll feel better.
Besides, although we live in separate houses, Youliang has always liked playing with his fourth brother since he was little. Now, the younger ones also like to play together and miss each other, and are closer to each other than with others.
This involves two generations, and they have good fate.
Seeing these little ones being so close to each other makes me feel happier than drinking honey and picking up silver."
Cheng's words made Jiang's eyes red:
"Sister-in-law!"
She was moved and held Cheng's hand.
Cheng smiled and didn't struggle, letting Jiang hold her hand. She turned to Xia Daohua and said, "Good girl, try Aunt Fifth's cooking. If it's too salty or too bland, at least tell me!"
Xia Daohua smiled and said:
"Don't I know about Aunt Wu's cooking skills? I've eaten so many delicious things from Aunt Wu."
She picked up her chopsticks, picked up a dumpling and put it in her mouth:
"Mmm, so fresh! The dumpling filling is really well seasoned, even better than the ones my grandma made last time!"
Xia Daohua found a small basin and poured out the large bowl that Cheng had brought. She also gave each of the children a pair of chopsticks and said, "Aunt Wu's dumplings are so delicious. Let's eat together!"
She reserved a portion for Jiang and Xia Youtian, and let the children eat the rest.
Lihua and Wulang stopped after tasting two. Linghua's cheeks were bulging from eating so much, and Zaohua and Liulang's mouths were also greasy, with faces full of excitement and satisfaction.
Xia Daohua watched them eat happily. Cheng and Jiang had a heart-to-heart talk with each other, and now they looked at the children eating happily with loving faces.
While eating, there was another knock on the door. Xia Daohua walked over and saw that it was Xia Yujiao.
Xia Yujiao nodded to Jiang and Cheng: "Fourth sister-in-law, Fifth sister-in-law."
Then he said to Xia Daohua, "Daohua, have you rested yet? My mother is calling you over!"
Xia Daohua quickly agreed, put down her chopsticks, stood up and left with Xia Yujiao.
When they arrived at the old couple's room, Grandpa Xia and Mrs. Zhou carefully examined Xia Daohua from head to toe. "Daohua, you've suffered so much. Your little face has become so thin!"
Xia Daohua laughed and said, "No, I've grown taller. Look, haven't I grown a lot taller?"
Xia Daohua hadn't been sleeping well these days. After all, she couldn't sleep very well away from home. But when it came to food, she'd been eating well these days.
Xia Daohua’s three meals a day plus snacks and midnight snacks are basically all eaten in the Space Supermarket.
Self-heating hot pot, self-heating rice, eight-treasure porridge, milk cereal, sushi rice balls, preserved egg and lean meat porridge, fried dough sticks and tofu pudding, even butter-fried steak, stone-grilled chicken steak, deep-fried pork tenderloin, braised lamb meatballs...
Summer rice flowers are basically eaten in different ways.
Over the past month, whenever she entered the storage area of the Interstellar Supermarket, the aroma of hot meals would waft through the air. The combination of meat and vegetables was nutritious and delicious.
It’s not that Xia Daohua is too self-indulgent, it’s just that these days, the Sun family has been frugal to an outrageous degree!
On the way there, they ate the dry food that Sun had brought with him and drank cold water in bamboo tubes;
On the way back, Sun ate the dry food she had asked for from Grandma Qu's house and drank cold boiled water in a bamboo tube.
Grandma Qu's family is quite particular about their diet. At least the water must be boiled and cooled to the right temperature before drinking.
Unlike the Sun family, who just gave everyone raw water to drink, as for whether they would get sick or not, it was like a stupid boy sleeping on a cold kang - it all depended on their fire power!
Xia Daohua was "sensible" and gave her dry food to Taohua and Sanlang.
Peach Blossom doesn't eat it, but Sanlang is not polite at all.
In his opinion, summer rice flowers are a burden.
He can't do any work, and has to keep an eye on Sun's money. Maybe the reason he eats so poorly is because Xia Daohua is next to him and it's not convenient for Sun to prepare special meals for him!
So every time Xia Daohua was "modest", Sanlang would accept it all, and it was no use for Taohua to glare at him again and again.
Xia Daohua couldn't help but smile when she thought of these things.
Seeing Xia Daohua's genuine smile, the old couple accepted her explanation with some skepticism. Xia Daohua had indeed grown a bit taller.
But my hair still grows faster. In less than a month, my hair has grown another three inches.
Old Madam Zhou smiled and said to Xia Daohua:
"I'm relieved that you're okay, kid. You can keep the one or two taels of silver for yourself, and you don't have to report it to me. Your second aunt treated you harshly along the way, didn't she?"
"Second Auntie is just a bit harsh in her words. But what she feeds me is the same as what she feeds Erlang, Taohua, and Sanlang. It's even better than what Second Auntie feeds herself!"
The old couple nodded, asked Xia Daohua to calculate Sun's approximate expenses on the road, and then let her go.
As soon as Xia Daohua left the old couple's room, Sun arrived.
She had just had a quarrel with Xia Yougui and was feeling very aggrieved. When she saw the old couple, she couldn't help herself and spoke in a bad tone.
The old couple said to Sun:
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