"It's so delicious!" Gu Xin went to wash up, and Cai Xiaolian looked at Gu Shouxin in confusion.
"It's delicious," Gu Shouxin said with a smile. "I could easily eat three more bowls."
“But my daughters don’t think it tastes good! Niannian didn’t want to eat it at first glance, and Xinxin didn’t want to eat it after just one bite.” Cai Xiaolian’s confidence, which had been given by Gu Shouxin’s attitude, was immediately shattered by her two daughters.
“They’re too young to understand what good taste is.” Gu Shouxin put down his chopsticks, looked at Cai Xiaolian, and said earnestly, “Xiaolian, this is my second life. In my previous life, I lived for over fifty years, and only one person ever cooked me a bowl of delicious noodles. She kneaded and rolled the dough herself and cooked it for me! It was also on a night like this, and she didn’t know I would suddenly come home.”
"Who is it?" Cai Xiaolian asked.
“My mother.” Gu Shouxin’s eyes were filled with reminiscence. “My mother, like you, grew up in wealth and comfort. She didn’t know how to do housework, she couldn’t do anything. After she got married, the year she gave birth to me, our family fell into decline. We were framed by villains, and all the men in the family were convicted. Women are strong when they become mothers, and my mother, a pampered young lady, took me and ran away. We settled in the countryside. My mother raised me until I was ten years old, but then she fell ill from overwork. When I was ten, I went out to work, and I didn’t know when I would come home each night. Every night, my mother would light an oil lamp, even though it was expensive, she lit it for me so I would know that someone was waiting for me at home. She would often get up and make me a bowl of noodles, but not white noodles, but coarse noodles.”
"Later, my mother and I were discovered by villains who wanted to kill us all. To protect me, my mother drugged me and asked someone to take me away. She carried a dummy she had sewn herself into the mountains, where she was torn apart by wild animals. When the villains went to search for us, they found our belongings and one of my mother's legs, and assumed that we had been eaten."
“At that time, I hated them so much that I swore to ruin the future of that wicked family! So I entered the palace and became a eunuch. I flattered them, I came up with bad ideas, and I was careful at every step. First, I corrupted the descendants of that wicked family, then I controlled them and seized control of their empire.”
"On my deathbed, I thought of the noodles my mother used to make for me at night when we were wandering in the mountain village. I thought that no one would ever light a lamp for me again. I thought that no one would ever cook me a bowl of hand-pulled noodles at night."
"But now I have it. Xiaolian, thank you, it's really delicious. This is the best thing I've eaten since I came to the Great Zhou, even better than Xinxin's jade beads melting in water!"
Gu Shouxin's eyes gradually cleared, and his gaze towards Cai Xiaolian was filled with tender affection.
Cai Xiaolian couldn't stop her tears; she never imagined that her beloved husband would experience such a thing.
She couldn't help but grasp Gu Shouxin's hand: "Dad, from now on, I'll leave a light on for you at night. Whenever you want something to eat, just tell me, and I'll get up and make it for you!"
Gu Shouxin shook hands with Cai Xiaolian: "Okay!"
The kitchen oil lamp swayed gently in the breeze, and a pair of figures on the wall clasped hands. In the soft yellow light, the scene was very warm and cozy.
...
The next morning, Gu Nian and Gu Xin noticed that their parents were a little different, but they couldn't quite put their finger on what was different.
Seeing Cai Xiaolian go to the outhouse, Gu Nian followed her: "Mom, I was good last night, wasn't I? I didn't disturb your time together! When are you going to give me and Xinxin a little brother?"
"Get lost!" Cai Xiaolian slapped Gu Nian. "A young lady like you shouldn't follow your uncle's example and have a younger brother. Aren't you ashamed!"
Gu Nian: "My eldest uncle wants the fifth brother, since his fourth brother is already twenty. I want the third brother, since my second sister is only eleven!"
Cai Xiaolian: "Get out! Get out! Get out! You brat, you even make fun of your own mother!"
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