Ning Tang said, "I'll come back from the market and buy some dried fish and other things and send them back to my parents and my second uncle and aunt."

Ning Xue nodded, and said in a rather elder sister manner, "It's a good thing to be filial."

After saying that, she glanced at Da Wa, Er Niu, and San Wa who were following behind Ning Tang, carrying bags, and frowned in disapproval, "Forget about you carrying them, but the children are still so young, why let them carry so many things."

Ning Tang was stunned. Dried seahorses and shrimps were small in size and light in weight, so it was not difficult to carry them. Moreover, the three children did not complain, but Ning Xue felt aggrieved for holding them.

Ning Xue walked forward and gently touched Da Wa's head, wanting to take the bag from him. "I'm your mother's cousin, you can just call me aunt. You must be tired carrying so many things back from the market. Come, aunt will help you carry them."

I thought the eldest child would get close to her and complain to her, but unexpectedly, the eldest child looked at her warily, put his two hands behind his back, and said, "No, I won't give it to you."

After saying that, Da Wa looked up at Ning Tang, looking nervous, "I didn't give it to her. I carried it all by myself."

He was afraid that Ning Tang would use the excuse that Ning Xue helped him carry it and not give him the dates.

Ning Xue stood there with her hands outstretched. Ning Tang was almost laughing at Da Wa's reaction and replied, "Yeah, you didn't give it to me. You carried it all by yourself." She looked at Ning Xue and said, "You saw it too. It's not that I didn't want to carry it. It was Da Wa who asked me to do it."

Ning Xue gritted her teeth and hummed a sound from between her teeth as a response.

It was almost six o'clock, and Erniu was already hungry. She wanted to go home and eat the meal Shen Lie had made, so she stamped her feet and shouted, "Stepmother, I'm hungry."

"Stepmother?" Ning Xue was stunned and asked Ning Tang, "She called you stepmother?"

"Yes, all three of them call me stepmother." Ning Tang said, "Is there any problem?"

They were not related to her in the first place, and if the eldest, second, and third children really called her mom, she would feel uncomfortable.

Ning Xue frowned and said, "How can I call you stepmother? Stepmother is so unpleasant to hear."

She patted Su Guangzong and Su Yaozu, and the twin brothers shouted in unison, "Mom."

Ning Xue glanced at Ning Tang proudly.

Ning Tang raised her eyebrows. It’s true that Ning Xue does have the aura of a heroine.

While she was competing with the three kids from the Shen family in wits and courage, Ning Xue had already conquered the twins from the Su family.

Judging from how close the twins are, they probably treat Ning Xue as their real mother.

Ning Xue didn't see the expression she wanted to see on Ning Tang's face, and she felt unhappy. She changed the subject and began to praise the Su family twins, "Our twins are good-looking."

She glanced at the three children of the Shen family with a proud look in her eyes.

Su Guangzong and Su Yaozu are indeed good-looking. They both look like Su Junyan. Su Junyan is handsome, so the twins must look similar.

Moreover, the twins don’t like to go out and play. Compared with the black kids that can be seen everywhere on the island, the twins are like white porcelain dolls.

On the other hand, of the three children of the Shen family, except for the youngest one, the other two play outside every day, and their skin is tanned dark. Only when you look closely can you see their handsome facial features. From a distance, they are just two little black coal balls.

It is said that whiteness can hide a hundred uglinesses, but the two older children of the Shen family are uglier than blackness. The third child is still young and can be considered cute at best, but he has never grown up.

No wonder Ning Xue showed off the Su twins when she saw them.

Ning Tang nodded: "It's pretty good." She spoke the truth.

Ning Xue carefully observed every expression on Ning Tang's face and found that she was just admiring her without any jealousy, which made her even more puzzled.

How could she know that Ning Tang came from the information-rich era, where good-looking child stars could be seen everywhere on TV and in movies. No matter how delicate and good-looking the Su twins were, they could not compare to the mixed-race child stars with big eyes, long eyelashes and high noses.

Ning Xue didn't give up and looked at the eldest, second and third daughters.

My two cousins ​​from my aunt's family are so good-looking, aren't you jealous? !

However, the three children were not old enough to know what was beautiful and what was ugly. Rather than caring about beauty or jealousy, they wanted to go home and fill their stomachs.

The eldest child frowned and said, "Stepmother, if you don't leave, we will go home to eat first."

Ning Tang shrugged and said goodbye to Ning Xue, "The children are urging me to leave, so I'll leave first."

Ning Xue squeezed out two words from between her teeth, "Goodbye."

When they got home, Shen Lie saw them carrying large and small bags and asked in surprise, "Did you buy out the entire vegetable market?"

Ning Tang wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "It's not that exaggerated. I just bought a little." She stretched out her thumb and index finger and gestured to show that she really only bought a little.

Shen Lie took the bags from her and the three children, opened them and looked at them. "Wow, dried seahorses, dried abalone, dried mackerel, shrimps... Did you buy everything I told you to buy?"

"Yes, I didn't recognize some of the seafood and asked a lot of stall owners." Ning Tang said.

The eldest child raised his hand and said, "Dad, we helped stepmother carry things."

Erniu and Sanwa nodded their heads and said, "Yes."

Shen Lie was generous in his praise, "Great! I'll make you a delicious reward tonight."

The three children were praised and their faces were full of smiles.

Before cooking, Shen Lie divided the seafood. He sent the extra portion to Ning Weiguo and his friends, and kept the rest for themselves.

After all, they are on Hailang Island, so not only dried seafood, but even fresh seafood can be easily bought.

But Shangang Village is different. Shangang Village is in the north and not near the sea. It is very difficult to eat these seafoods. In any case, Ningtang has never eaten them since he came here.

Thinking of this, Ning Tang couldn't wait to send seafood to Ning Weiguo and Sun Aiju, "Shen Lie, you cook, I'll write a letter to my parents."

Shen Lie said yes, and then asked, "By the way, do my father-in-law and mother-in-law know how to cook these seafoods?"

Ning Tang shook her head. "There is only a small river over there in Shangang Village. When I was at home, I only ate the arowana and yellowtail caught in the river. The seafood in the market must be supplied with tickets. My parents have never eaten it, so they probably don't know how to cook it."

Shen Lie said, "Then remember what I'm going to say. In fact, these seafoods are very simple to cook, whether they are stir-fried or cooked into porridge. The main problem is that they are difficult to soak. For example, dried abalone needs to be soaked in water two days in advance, and then the water needs to be changed every three or four hours. As for dried shrimps, just soak them ten minutes in advance before cooking porridge..."

Shen Lie was talking about Ning Tang while he was writing down the words in the letter. By the time he finished, he had filled up the entire page.

Ning Tang looked at the page filled with words and secretly felt that Shen Lie was quite a thoughtful person.

She added a few more words in a vain manner, reporting that she was safe, filling up five pages in total. "Shen Lie, how do I send a letter from here?"

Shen Lie: "Just leave it there. I'll take it to the post office when I'm on vacation."

The next day, Shen Lie was on vacation, and he took the letter and the package full of seafood to the post office to mail them.