When Shuying prepared the soup pot and various dishes, her husband had not returned yet and kept looking outside the door.

Seeing that the time was almost up, she simply put the hot pot base in first and let the hot pot soup simmer for a while. When her husband arrived, the family of three could eat while putting in the dishes.

The soup pot was an old-fashioned one with charcoal. There was no charcoal at home, so she went to the market in Shilitun Village and bought a small bag. The dishes for the hot pot included meat slices, vegetables and tofu. The dried goods that her parents had sent her a few days ago also came in handy. Shiitake mushrooms and black fungus were good ingredients for hot pot.

Chen Yi had just finished eating tofu with green onions and felt a little unsatisfied when the spicy and fragrant aroma of the hot pot on the table wafted into his nose.

Chen Yi had never eaten hot pot before, so out of curiosity she climbed onto the long bench in front of the dining table, licked the spoon, and stared at the soup pot and various dishes on the table.

"We have so many dishes at home!" Chen Yi asked what a soup pot is like a curious baby.

The hot pot at her house tonight was only considered a low-end hot pot in her time, but now, this meal is definitely considered a very sumptuous one.

Shuying rubbed the boy's head and said, "This is hot pot. We are going to have hot pot tonight!"

“Is the hot pot delicious?”

"I guarantee you'll want to swallow the delicious food on your tongue later." Shuying replied while asking the child to go outside to see if his uncle had come back.

Chen Yi quickly got off the table and ran out. Shuying told the child to run slowly. The child quickly ran to the gate of the courtyard. Chen Xi came in and stopped him: "Where are you going?"

"Uncle, aunt asked me to look for you. Why did you come back so late? It's time for dinner at our house. Let's have hot pot tonight!" Chen Yi couldn't help but salivate at the aroma coming from the hot pot.

As Chen Xi brought the child into the main room, he asked what hot pot was. However, when he smelled the aroma coming from the hot pot, Chen Xi could no longer sit still and hurriedly brought the child into the main room to have dinner.

When the adult and the child entered the main room, the rich hot pot soup in the soup pot was already bubbling and boiling. Shuying asked her husband to help the child wash their hands before going to the table for dinner.

The spicy red soup pot is very tempting. The taste is a bit pungent, but more fragrant and spicy, and looks very appetizing.

This made Chen Xi, who usually didn't care much about his appetite, a little restless. He hurriedly took the children to wash their hands and went to the table, much faster than usual.

A family of three was having dinner. The dishes in the soup pot were almost cooked. The shadow of the tree allowed the two to taste the food.

Chen Xi had never eaten hot pot before, and was quite surprised by this way of eating it. Under Shuying's gaze, he first picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth.

The fragrance, spiciness and numbness first exploded on his tongue. The meat slices dipped in the soup were particularly tasty and tender, with a hint of the umami taste of mushrooms. The hot pot base also added a lot of fragrance and mushrooms. In addition to being spicy and fresh, the soup also had a particularly rich taste.

Especially this time, Shuying put a lot of chili peppers in the hot pot base she made, which was very much to Chen Xi's taste. He enjoyed it very much and liked it very much, which surprised him very much.

"How does it taste?" Shuying asked deliberately when she saw her man picking up food frequently with a good appetite.

Chen Xi gave a thumbs up as he ate: "Delicious!" He paused and added: "Especially delicious!"

Chen Yi, who is usually talkative, was silent today. She glanced sideways through the tree shadow and saw the little guy concentrating on eating, sticking out his tongue and exhaling because of the spiciness.

But the little hands that were picking up vegetables from the hot pot never slowed down.

It is not good for children to eat too spicy food, so Shuying prepared a bowl of boiling water for the child to rinse the food before eating.

"Auntie, our hot pot is delicious, but it's very spicy!" Chen Yi's eyes turned red from the spiciness, and he obediently dipped the hot pot in boiling water before eating it, while asking: "Auntie, can we eat hot pot again tomorrow?"

Chen Xi also looked at her with shining eyes, with some anticipation in his eyes.

Well, it seems that these uncle and nephew really like hot pot.

However, eating hot pot frequently can easily cause sore throat and is not good for the stomach. Shuying replied, "Let's see", and both the big and the small felt a little disappointed.

Shuying pursed her lips and wanted to smile. She planned to make some clear soup-flavored hotpot when she had time in the future. Her husband was fine with spicy hotpot, but it would be bad for the child's stomach if he ate it often. It would be even better if there were meatballs to go with the hotpot.

We had a hot pot in the evening and the family of three were very satisfied.

After washing up and before going to bed, Shuying wiped her own face and then sat on a stool to wipe the child's face.

Chen Yi hugged Shuying's waist, tilted his little face up and enjoyed it while letting his aunt rub her lips. When she was done, Chen Yi put his little face against Shuying's cheek and said, "Auntie, do I smell good?"

The child's skin was so soft and smooth, and it felt especially comfortable to touch. Shuying was very supportive and replied, "It smells so good! Why does it smell so good?"

"You smell good too," Chen Yi replied, "Auntie, would you like to hold me to sleep at night? I'm so warm!"

Before Shuying could reply, Chen Xi, who had just washed up and entered the house, told him to go to sleep alone with an expressionless face.

Now that he is back, he naturally cannot let this guy steal his wife again!

Chen Yi, whose calf was unable to twist his arm, could only snort a few times to express his dissatisfaction.

The family of three went to bed. Chen Yi wanted to sleep next to Shuying, so Shuying had to sleep in the middle. While talking to the child, she saw her husband hanging up his coat and going to bed, and immediately she felt a pain in her back.

After last night, her only thought was that she couldn't handle the man who had been holding back for so long. This man had really great physical strength.

As soon as the man went to bed, Shuying planned to take the child to sleep first.

When the child fell asleep, Chen Xi immediately took him into his arms and looked at him with burning eyes, which made the tree shadow look like Alexander. He hurriedly said, "My waist hurts!"

Chen Xi immediately hugged her, let her lie on him, and patiently rubbed her waist.

This position could easily cause an accidental discharge of the gun. Shuying wanted to sleep alone, but the man held her slender waist and said in a deep voice, "Don't move!"

The man's strength was too great, and it made her feel uncomfortable and a little painful. Shuying endured it for a while.

She hissed, a bit disgusted and refusing. Chen Xi quickly controlled the strength and rubbed her patiently, asking: "Does it still hurt?"

It didn't hurt, and it was a little comfortable. However, she was afraid that the man would get horny again, so she didn't dare to move and just let the man rub her waist.

In fact, not only does her waist hurt, her legs are still sore and her lower body hurts too.

Last night this man was so cruel that he almost tortured her to death.

Shuying deliberately complained a few words, and Chen Xi curled his thin lips. Compared to his wife, he was very satisfied with last night.

The only thing he was not satisfied with was that his wife's waist was too thin and could be broken easily.

Chen Xi complained that his wife did not eat enough for dinner, so he told her to eat more in the future so that she would gain weight and be easier to hold.

Shuying was a little annoyed and deliberately asked, "What's wrong? Do you think I'm too thin?"

She looked thin when she was dressed, but when she took off her clothes, she had flesh where it should be and could be called plump. She had not forgotten that this man had tortured her a lot when she was at home, so how dare he complain that she was thin?

Shuying angrily attacked the other party, but after attacking for a long time, she found that the man was not angry at all. Instead, he kept looking at her with burning eyes, as if he could never look at her enough.

Shuying calmed down a little and asked him what was wrong.

Chen Xi has always been a person who doesn't like traveling and is very introverted, so it's impossible for him to say that it was because of Deputy Headmaster Fang.

Before entering the hospital in the evening, Deputy Captain Fang came to see him, and he learned about what had happened in the Fang family recently and how Xia Lina had been arguing with Deputy Captain Fang for divorce because of raising Fang's nephews and nieces, and that the relationship between the Fang family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was not good.

Compared with Deputy Headmaster Fang, Chen Xi felt that he was indeed lucky enough. The best thing he had done in his life was to take the initiative and marry his wife early.

As for married life, it is much better than he expected!

In a blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve. On this day, the shadows of the trees clearly showed the festive atmosphere of the military area, and the sounds of firecrackers and fireworks were heard incessantly.

After lunch, Shuying started preparing the New Year’s Eve dinner early. Her husband also had a day off today, so he helped her kill fish and wash vegetables.

There was a lot of tofu made, so Shuying prepared to fry some tofu puffs and some meatballs.

Meatballs sounded very delicious, so Chen Yi didn't go out to play in the afternoon. She followed Shuying closely.

Shuying first fries the meatballs, which contain meat and radish shreds. The radish shreds are rubbed into shreds and marinated with salt to remove the moisture. They are then put into the chopped meat paste, and then chopped green onions, ginger, pepper, salt, light soy sauce and a small amount of flour are added and rolled into small meatballs.

The oil temperature is 60% hot, and the meatballs are fried under the shadow of the tree. Soon after the meatballs are put into the hot oil, they turn golden and float to the surface of the oil. The aroma of the fried meatballs immediately fills the entire kitchen.

Soon, the first pot of fried meatballs was taken out.

As soon as the first pot of fried meatballs was taken out, Chen Yi was so tempted by the aroma that she couldn't sit still. She squeezed her small body against the shadow of the tree, fearing that the child would get splashed with oil. After the fried meatballs cooled down a little, she gave him one to taste and let him play outside.

Shuying also tried one and it tasted pretty good, quite delicious.

Chen Yigang, who was eating fried meatballs for the first time, was so amazed after finishing one that his eyes widened. He couldn’t believe that there was such a delicious thing.

After swallowing a fried meatball in one gulp, Chen Yi stared at the fried meatballs in the small bowl, drooling: "Auntie, our fried meatballs are so delicious! I want to eat more!"

Shuying fried a small pot of meatballs, took a small bowl, and gave a meatball to the child, asking the child to take it to Gao's house next door.

There were not many fried meatballs in the small bowl, only six or seven, just for the three brothers of the Gao family to have a taste.

The three brothers of the Gao family often take her children out to play, and Shuying likes them very much.

There was only a small bowl of fried meatballs at home. Chen Yi held the small bowl with a knotted face, fearing that there would not be enough fried meatballs.

Shuying had just cooked a pot of tofu, and when she turned around, she saw her child looking at the meatballs in the bowl with a confused and painful look on his face. Shuying wanted to laugh, so she told him to hurry up, as there were enough meatballs at home for him.

After the child ran out with the bowl, Shuying turned down the fire, took a meatball to the backyard and stuffed it into her man's mouth.

The fried meatballs were really delicious, especially those fresh from the oven. After eating the fried meatballs, Chen Xi gave her a thumbs up and said, "Delicious!"

"Do you like hot pot or fried meatballs?"

Chen Xi chose hot pot without hesitation. Although fried meatballs are delicious, they are easy to get tired of. He especially likes spicy hot pot.

Chen Xi was looking forward to seeing his wife. Shu Ying knew that this man wanted to eat hot pot. Shu Ying pursed her lips and wanted to smile: "Let's talk about it after the New Year! I'll go to the kitchen first!"

The children were not at home at the moment, and Chen Xi did not want to keep a distance from his wife. He did not mind the smell of oil and smoke on her at all. He hugged her waist, pinched her chin, bent down and kissed her. It was not until there was a knock on the door that Chen Xi let go of her. Shuying panted and hurried to open the door.

The person coming outside the door was Xia's mother, who had accompanied Xia Lina back yesterday. She was in her fifties, well dressed, and looked quite young.

Then I heard the other party ask very naturally and familiarly: "Mrs. Chen, what kind of food do you cook? Why does it smell so good? I just saw you sent a bowl to the neighbor next door. My son-in-law's family is also a neighbor to yours, how about sending a bowl to my family too?"

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