Zhao Tianlei and Zhao Tianhe finished their work and headed home together.
"Xiao He, let’s go together..."
Zhao Tianhe thought for a moment. He decided to join in the excitement too.
But today, sister-in-law had gone to the town, surely buying a lot of food. Should he also go and take a look?
No, he should also try to persuade Da Li.
After all, Da Li’s girlfriend’s family was asking for too much.
He wanted to know what was going on.
Why did they suddenly ask for so much more?
There must be some issue with Da Li’s girlfriend’s family.
The two men entered the house and saw Yun Xiaoxiao teaching the two little ones to recite something.
"Dad, Little Uncle..."
Although Zhao Tianhe wasn’t the youngest in the household, due to his frequent interactions with Zhao Tianlei, Da Bao and Xiao Bao started calling him that.
"You’re back, I haven’t started cooking yet."
Why have you come back so early today?
"I’ll go, watch over Da Bao and Xiao Bao for me....."
Zhao Tianlei planned to start cooking. He wasn’t of the mindset that ’gentlemen should stay away from the kitchen’ and didn’t think it was shameful for a man to cook.
"There’s meat in the cupboard."
Wow, sister-in-law actually went to the town to buy meat.
"Third Brother, I’ll help you make fire." Zhao Tianhe hurriedly followed Zhao Tianlei to the kitchen, watching Third Brother take out a big piece of lean meat from the cupboard on a plate.
Zhao Tianlei glanced at him, "This is beef."
This is a rather precious item.
"Where did sister-in-law buy it from?"
Beef is considered valuable property in the brigade, and it’s usually the case that they don’t slaughter cows at all.
"Bought it from the town."
Zhao Tianhe coughed lightly, "Then sister-in-law is quite lucky, but how should we cook this piece of beef?"
"Cut some of it to stir-fry, and the rest can be used to make potato stew."
Since there wasn’t much meat, they’d just add more side dishes.
The kitchen started bustling with activity.
Yun Xiaoxiao glanced at the kitchen from the main room; it was already smoking. They were cooking, and moving quite quickly at that.
She was thinking about going to check if they needed help when two tall men stepped through the gate, one carrying a bucket and the other with a basket on his back.
"Hello, sister-in-law....."
"Hello, sister-in-law."
Cao Dali took an extra glance at Yun Xiaoxiao. Originally, sister-in-law didn’t ask for a dowry, and her family even provided money to build a house.
Compared to sister-in-law, Cuihua’s family seemed somewhat disappointing.
It made Cao Dali feel a little less sad.
"Uncle Fang, Uncle Cao..."
The two little ones couldn’t sit still any longer and approached to see the fish in the bucket, their eyes shining, "We have fish, we have fish, the sour fish my dad makes is so delicious."
"Sister-in-law, we’re intruding."
Yun Xiaoxiao waved her hand, "It’s no bother, no bother at all, they are in the kitchen."
In the kitchen, one was lighting the fire while the other was bustling around.
The beef was already stewing, so they quickly started peeling potatoes.
"Let’s go have a look."
Yun Xiaoxiao went back to her room, not bothering with the two little ones. Winter had come, and it was getting dark early.
"Third Brother, we caught some fish in the river..."
"Fine, we’ll have an extra dish tonight, clean the fish."
Zhao Tianhe who was making fire spoke up, "Sister-in-law bought beef from the town, are we having beef tonight?"
This was rarer and more expensive than pork.
"Da Bao, go and pull some green onions."
Da Bao, taking Xiao Bao with him, went to pick vegetables and also brought back some green onions.
In the kitchen, Cao Dali held the fish and began processing them, and none of the four men was idle.