After crying for a long time, Yao Xiujuan finally calmed down. She came out of Chu Tian's arms, wiped the tears from her face, put her daughter in her arms on the kang, took out a boiled egg and a black cake that was not as big as a palm from her arms and handed them to Chu Tian. Then she turned around and took off her daughter's cotton coat while speaking without looking back.
"Brother Tian, you should eat these eggs and pancakes quickly. I'll go to the kitchen to bring you some water later."
Chu Tian looked at the eggs and pancakes in her hands, her eyes were extremely complicated. Not to mention the pancakes that looked extremely rough, even the eggs, she had only eaten fried eggs or egg drop soup before. As for boiled eggs and poached eggs, she hated them very much. Even in the extremely poor conditions of the end of the world, she would rather starve than eat them...
However, in this era of food and clothing shortages, a kilogram of pork cost one yuan and forty-five yuan (the unit of measurement in the Northwest is kilogram, and one kilogram equals two catties), a kilogram of rice and white flour also cost more than one yuan, and even an egg cost four or five cents each.
Therefore, when the fourth branch of the Chu family had not been able to eat an egg for several years, the egg in front of them became even more precious, more precious than any food Chu Tian had eaten in modern times.
Yao Xiujuan covered her daughter with a quilt and turned around to see Chu Tian holding an egg with his head down, thinking about something. Thinking he didn't know how to peel it, she walked up to him, took it from him, knocked it on the edge of the kang, carefully peeled the egg, and then handed the peeled egg to Chu Tian.
With a smile on his face, he said, "Brother Tian, it's peeled. Come and eat it."
Chu Tian's gaze slowly moved from the peeled egg in her hand to Yao Xiujuan's face. He looked at her pale and cracked lips, her sallow and rough face that was obviously malnourished but still beautiful. In her puzzled eyes, he took the egg from her hand, broke it in half, and placed one half to her lips.
Yao Xiujuan looked at Chu Tian in surprise and took a step back. "Brother Tian, you need to nourish yourself more. I can't eat."
Chu Tian took a step forward, still placing half of the egg on her lips, and said firmly, "Eat it. You are five months pregnant now. Even for the sake of the child, you need more nutrition than I do."
Seeing Yao Xiujuan's hesitant expression, Chu Tian continued, "Don't worry, I promise that our family will never lack eggs in the future. Just eat this half egg obediently..."
Looking at Chu Tian's unquestionable expression, Yao Xiujuan didn't know why, but she believed what he said very much. She slowly opened her mouth and took the half egg from Chu Tian's hand. In an instant, the fragrance of the egg spread in Yao Xiujuan's mouth. This taste made Yao Xiujuan, who had eaten all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas later, still miss it often.
Seeing that she had finished eating, Chu Tian put the remaining half of the egg in an empty bowl on the table beside him, and took small bites of the pancake that looked so choking and stuffed it into his mouth.
After eating, he walked back to the kang, sat down, took off his shoes and cotton-padded clothes, patted the edge of the kang, and looked at Yao Xiujuan for a gesture.
"You come up and sleep for a while. I'll go to the main hall with you and your mother to have dinner in the evening."
Yao Xiujuan glanced at the half egg in the bowl and opened her mouth, wanting to ask why he didn't eat it, but when she looked at her daughter sleeping on the kang, she knew what Chu Tian meant. Chu Tian was like this. Whenever he had something to eat, he would think of giving it to her and his daughter, but he would never be willing to eat it himself...
"Dad, can I really eat this?"
Wu Ya pointed at the half egg and looked up at Chu Tian who was holding her in surprise.
Chu Tian smiled and nodded, "Well, Wu Ya can eat..."
Hearing this, the little girl happily picked up the half egg and was about to put it in her mouth, but stopped after thinking for a moment and passed it to Chu Tian's mouth, saying in a baby voice, "Daddy and Mommy eat first..."
"Wu Ya, eat it. Dad and Mom have already eaten it. This is specially left for Wu Ya..."
Chu Tian's heart was about to melt. What kind of little angel was this? How could he be so sensible? He was only a two-year-old child who had never eaten eggs before, but when he only had half an egg, he still let his parents eat it first...
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