You can't know how hard it is to raise a child if you've never raised one.
Even a small bowl of chicken soup took her several days and nights of effort to simmer and achieve that flavor.
Back then, she searched for ingredients every day, trying to figure out how to make the chicken soup more flavorful and less greasy.
Failure after failure, attempt after attempt, all because of the doctor's words, "This child is weak, make him more chicken soup to nourish him."
Even if there were cooks in the household, they were not the kind of cooks who could prepare delicate dishes like those in the households of civil officials.
Finding someone also takes time.
But she couldn't bear to leave her child waiting, so she had to take care of the child herself.
Seeing that Madam Chang was lost in thought, Chang Xiao couldn't help but say softly, "Father also loves the chicken soup that Mother makes. It's just a pity that Mother hasn't cooked soup herself much in recent years."
Madam Chang chuckled, "I've passed all my cooking skills on to your daughter-in-law. With her cooking for you, that's enough."
Seeing her son and daughter-in-law being so affectionate, she felt happy.
Just as Chang Xiao was about to say something more, he heard a soldier outside the door say, "Young General, it's time for the shift to change."
"Alright." Chang Xiao stood up, glanced at Madam Chang with a light smile, and said, "Mother, wait for your son to return."
"You little rascal, your mother won't wait for you to come back, but she can wait a little longer. Go on your way."
Upon hearing Madam Chang's words, Chang Xiao smiled foolishly.
Watching Chang Xiao's departing figure, Madam Chang slumped into her chair, somewhat dejected.
If she could, she really wouldn't want her son to go.
She only hoped that her child would live a peaceful and happy life.
Hearing footsteps, Chang An turned around and saw Chang Xiao approaching. A slight smile appeared on his lips as he said, "I'll go back and rest for a while."
"Alright." Chang Xiao watched his father slowly walk up the steps, but an arrow flew through the air.
Chang Xiao was extremely anxious and called out, "Father!"
But Chang An was moving extremely slowly for some reason. Chang Xiao didn't have time to figure out what had happened, so he rushed behind Chang An and gripped the arrow tightly with both hands.
But the arrow was too powerful, and he couldn't control it at all. The arrow was about to pass through his body and pierce Chang An.
Without a second thought, he used the last of his strength to move his feet, trying to distance himself from Chang An.
Exhausted, the arrow lost control and pierced straight through his body.
"Tch, this kid's really something, actually throwing his life away?"
"Alas, what a pity about my experiment. I wanted to see if that person could unleash their full potential at the moment of life and death."
"You two, don't go too far, or the board of directors might..."
"The board of directors? You dare sue us?"
The person trying to persuade them snorted and ignored them, focusing instead on slaughtering the zombies below.
"Hypocritical. How pitiful they are. Why don't they betray the Interstellar Alliance and join them? They're still killing their people anyway."
Chang An felt his body regain its movement. He quickly ran to Chang Xiao's side, hugged him tightly, and called out in a hoarse voice, "Xiao'er."
He lost many people and many loved ones in his life.
It seemed that life and death separations were the norm for the Chang family. Whenever there was war, the Chang family would hang white cloths. It wasn't until his generation, when there was really nothing left to hang, that things improved.
He once thought that Chang Xiao loved literature more than martial arts and would live a peaceful life, unlike him who would go to the battlefield.
But he never expected that his blind filial piety towards his grandmother would actually force him to the battlefield.
He never imagined that he would actually have the day when he, as a parent, would outlive his child.
"Father, Mother made chicken soup and saved a bowl for you."
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