Yun Xiaoxiao then noticed the teenager in the kitchen, shouting, who was about the height of one and a half meters and as skinny as a bamboo pole, with dark skin.
Yun Xiaoxiao took out some brown sugar and added it directly to the ginger soup.
"You should have a bowl too."
Seeing his wife purposely come over to add brown sugar and insisting he drink the ginger soup as well.
"I’ll drink, I’ll drink."
Er Dan, who had only tasted sugar as a child, found the brown sugar in the ginger soup not spicy at all but rather sweet and quite delicious.
Cao Dali finished up, carrying the fishing gear, and also returned one step behind.
"Third Brother, I brought it back for you."
"In the pot, the ginger soup your Third Brother made, come and have a bowl."
Ginger soup can ward off the cold.
But its taste, it was something he had a bit of trouble accepting.
However, with Third Brother sweeping his gaze toward him, he had no choice but to go and drink a bowl.
Upon seeing brown sugar had been added to the ginger soup, it seemed like it wouldn’t be difficult to drink after all, so he poured himself a bowl.
"Third Brother, sister-in-law, I’ll head back now."
Cao Dali, still in his wet clothes, planned to go back and change.
Meanwhile, Yun Xiaoxiao had already turned her attention to the bucket of fish, which, despite the somewhat murky water, clearly contained a good number of fish.
There were crucian carp, carps, and even some small fish and shrimp.
There was even one white lotus fish that weighed about a pound.
Zhao Tianlei came over and said, "For bigger fish, you can make pickled vegetable fish. The smaller ones are good for making fish soup."
He was planning to listen to him.
Before Yun Xiaoxiao could respond, a series of rumbling sounds answered for her.
Er Dan, feeling embarrassed, covered his stomach as his face turned a bright shade of red.
"Come on, go find Da Bao and play; leave the kitchen to your Third Brother."
Er Dan still felt especially awkward when he heard his sister-in-law say that.
"Go on, go find Da Bao and the others to play."
Only then did Er Dan reluctantly follow Yun Xiaoxiao to find Da Bao and the others to play.
Yun Xiaoxiao made do with half an enamel mug of milk powder for Er Dan.
"Da Bao, share your snacks with your brother Er Dan...."
Da Bao immediately sprang into action; they had been eating biscuits, and he gave Er Dan one that was the size of a finger.
Seeing the food, Er Dan instinctively swallowed.
"Eat up, we’ve got malted milk too. Have something to nibble on first, and wait for your Third Brother to make something delicious."
He ate the biscuit, but Er Dan declined the malted milk and insisted that Da Bao and the others have it.
"But we just had some and aren’t hungry anymore. You drink it, Brother Er Dan."
"This can’t be left for long, so have it now!"
Haven’t had malted milk or powdered milk before, Er Dan didn’t know that it wasn’t malted milk but powdered milk, which was even harder to come by than malted milk.
Yet, Er Dan found it tasted even better than sugar water; he couldn’t describe the flavor, but it was sweet and fragrant, unlike anything he remembered tasting before.
That afternoon, Er Dan had lunch at Zhao Tianlei’s place, which could be said to be his first full meal since the harvest.
Though it included sweet potatoes, there was more rice than sweet potatoes, and the pickled vegetable fish was delicious. Just the pickled vegetables with rice was enough to make Er Dan gobble down two bowls in one go.
Yun Xiaoxiao added another bowl of rice for him, "Eat the fish, eat the fish, don’t just eat the pickled vegetables."
A hungry teen can eat a horse, and it wasn’t just an empty saying.
It was certainly a time for growing boys to feast.
"Thank you, sister-in-law...."
While his wife served Er Dan some dishes, she hadn’t served him any.
Yun Xiaoxiao, realizing belatedly, picked up another pair of chopsticks and added half a fish head to his bowl, "Go ahead and eat!"
If it was fish head, then fish head it would be; his wife had served it to him, so it was something he could stomach.