"My dears, what's wrong? Why aren't you eating?" She squatted down and gently stroked her sons' chubby backs. "These are quite delicious. You can look at them but not eat them. They won't go into your little stomachs on their own."
Li Ji frowned and shook his head, "No, it's delicious."
"Not tasty?" Zhong Yuxiu chuckled helplessly, hugged her sons and kissed them on the forehead.
How can it be so cute?
"Yes." Li Ming nodded seriously.
The three little guys had very similar expressions. Li Ji frowned in displeasure, Li Zhen pursed his lips and pouted, and Li Ming glanced at the supplementary food on the table, looking bitter and resentful.
Wang Daya and Gong Zhaodi looked at each other in bewilderment. How could they have imagined that the children would actually say it was not tasty? They had eaten it this way before and it had never tasted bad, so why was it that today...
Could it be that I just ate something else and that’s why this happened?
"Comrade Zhong, they must have tasted other food and thought these were not tasty."
"It should be." After eating the food cooked by Feng Zheng, other delicious foods really didn't taste good. However, they had to eat them. They were still too young and their internal organs couldn't stand the strong taste of salt. "My dears, these are also delicious, but you just ate something else. Come, Mommy will talk to you."
The three people in Liji turned their heads and looked at her.
Zhong Yuxiu hugged the three of them and said lovingly, "From now on, you can eat some of our meals every day, but the prerequisite is that you eat complementary foods, okay? Of course, if you don't eat complementary foods, then you won't get any of the meals that Mommy eats."
Li Ji's brows furrowed tighter and tighter, as if he was facing a life or death decision, and he muttered for a long time.
"not good."
"Mom knows these don't have much taste, but you're too young. Eating something too strong isn't good for your health. I went through this as a kid, too. You're not the only ones going through this, understand?"
"Why?" Li Ji tilted his head, very confused.
They ate such disgusting food before, but now there is delicious food, why not let them eat delicious food? Was my mother also so pitiful when she was a child? She couldn't eat delicious food.
Zhong Yuxiu nodded affirmatively. "Yes, when Mom was little, she was just like you guys. She ate bland food. It wasn't until you were five that we allowed you to eat what we ate."
That being said, in fact, it is best for children to have a light diet; if the flavors are too strong, they will develop a habit of heavy flavors in the future, which is not good.
Moreover, children have weak stomachs, so they should eat less spicy, heavy, and cold foods; otherwise, their stomachs might be damaged from eating them at once, and it is difficult to heal a damaged stomach.
"It's not tasty." Li Zhen pursed her lips and pouted slightly.
"Eat it even if it's not tasty! If you don't, there will be no more delicious food in the future."
Li Ji seemed to have made up his mind. He reached out and picked up the spoon in the bowl, scooping a spoonful of egg custard into his mouth. It tasted bland and not tasty at all, but he still ate it slowly.
At the beginning, Zhong Yuxiu breathed a sigh of relief, "Lizhen, Liming, look, brother has eaten. Do you want to eat?"
Li Zhen and Li Ming watched their brother eating the egg custard with an expressionless face. They silently picked up their spoons and lowered their heads to eat as well. However, it was really unpalatable and not as good as when they ate with their mother.
The three boys were not very active in eating, but at least they finished all the complementary food prepared for them.
"Mom, I'm full." Li Ji touched his belly and showed it to her.
Zhong Yuxiu chuckled, "Okay, I'm full, I won't eat anymore." She reached out and touched his belly, "Our eldest baby is really well-behaved. He eats even if it doesn't taste good."
Being praised, Li Ji grinned. Although the food was not tasty, Haohao seemed very happy.
Li Zhen and Li Ming came over and touched her belly as well; they were also full, so they couldn’t just touch their eldest brother, they had to touch them too.
"Okay, let mommy touch it." Rub their little bellies, then coax them to get off the table and wash their faces and hands; then, let them go and see for themselves.
The little ones were happy and played by themselves without bothering her.
Wang Daya and Gong Zhaodi packed up the things and sent them to the kitchen. Then, Gong Zhaodi helped clean up in the kitchen, while Wang Daya called Zhong Yuxiu to the side and talked away from the children.
"Comrade Zhong, the children don't want to eat these things now. What should we do?"
"They have to eat even if they don't want to. I've already made it clear to them! From now on, they will have complementary food for every meal, and then they will come to the table to eat something with oil and salt with us."
Wang Daya asked, "Can their bodies withstand it?"
"It's not a big deal if they eat a small amount. At worst, we can ask Comrade Feng Zheng to put less salt. By the way, we can prepare something else for them and put the food prepared for them in front of them when serving. They see that we all eat the same thing, so they probably won't clamor for us to eat food with more salt." He tried to fool them first.
Wang Daya nodded and said, "This is the only way now. I'll go discuss this with Comrade Feng Zheng."
"Well, just add salt to the dishes twice." What else can you do? These three clever little guys won't listen to reason.
After Wang Daya went to the kitchen, she helped clean up while talking to Comrade Feng Zheng.
"Big fool."
"Ah?" Feng Zheng looked back at her, not understanding why she called him.
Wang Daya said, "When cooking from now on, add salt twice; add less salt the first time, serve a small portion to the children, and then add salt the second time, this time you can add more salt."
"Why?" Feng Zheng asked innocently.
Wang Daya sighed, "The children clamored to eat the same meals as Comrade Zhong, and Comrade Zhong agreed. The condition was that they finish the complementary food prepared for them at every meal. We wanted to see if we could trick them with the same food but different salt and flavor."
Feng Zheng scratched his head, not understanding all this. His brain was slow and he couldn't think clearly. However, Comrade Zhong had agreed, so he just had to do as he was told.
"good."
After agreeing, he turned around and continued to work. There was only work and cooking in his mind. Other things could not stay in his mind.
Gong Zhaodi wiped the table and came over to her and asked, "Isn't Comrade Zhong worried?"
Starting to eat salt so early.
"Comrade Zhong knows the answer." Wang Daya could only say this. Seeing Gong Zhaodi frowning, she added, "Don't forget, Comrade Zhong is a doctor. She should know something about this. Since she said it's okay to eat some, it shouldn't be a big problem."
Only then did Gong Zhaodi stop talking.
In the hall.
Yan Rushan rested for a while, then said, "Grandpa, I plan to go back to Hongxing Village and leave soon."
"It's better to go back and see if there's anything else you haven't brought out, and bring it back."
"Okay." He planned to take the company's people who were installing the defense door system back with him to survey the terrain and the installation location first. They also needed to measure dimensions, not only for Red Star Village but also for the Medical Research Institute. "Wife, do you want to come back with me? I need to take people back to the Medical Research Institute to measure the dimensions."
There are a lot of things involved.
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