While Qin Meiru's family was discussing blind dates and stealing corn, Chang Kun left Cheng Min and Xiu'er at his older sister's house to play.

He returned to his own yard and took things out of his spatial storage.

The grains, vegetables, and fruits I planted are already ripe and plentiful. I'm going to another place in a couple of days, so I need to leave more for my family.

Mature peanuts are squeezed out to make oil, and the two large oil jars with the character "囍" (double happiness) in the house are filled to the brim.

Two sacks were filled with things that don't spoil easily, such as broccoli, pumpkin, potatoes, and sweet potatoes; two baskets were filled with things that don't last long, such as persimmons, cucumbers, green beans, corn, and radishes.

Take out a big watermelon and pile it in a corner of the kitchen. There's nothing more refreshing than eating a few slices of chilled watermelon after dinner in late summer.

With vegetables and fruits in hand, rice, wheat, potatoes, and sweet potatoes were also packed into two large sacks each.

Three large plates of sunflower seeds were shelled and put into a pot to dry-fry. A little salt was added. These white sunflower seeds tasted salty when fried, and they were Chang Kun's favorite snack in his previous life.

These sunflower seeds were specially roasted for the little girls in the family. Among the younger sisters, only Xiuer didn't know how to crack sunflower seeds, but she was the one who loved them the most, and her little mouth was never still.

However, eating too many of these white melon seeds can easily cause dry mouth and internal heat. It's fortunate that she doesn't know how to crack melon seeds, otherwise she would often have cracked lips.

There was still half a donkey meat left in the space, plus 5 catties of garlic-flavored pork belly and 10 catties of fish floss, which was a reward from the system. It was enough for the family to eat for a while.

Add water to the rice and cook a pot of porridge. It's delicious and sweet when eaten with fish floss in the evening.

Cut the donkey meat into chunks, stir-fry it in oil in another pot, add potatoes, and cook into a pot of fragrant donkey meat stew with potatoes.

When we have dinner tonight, I'll stir-fry some broccoli and heat up some minced garlic and pork belly. The whole family will definitely enjoy it.

When Mom and Dad get off work and my little sister gets out of school, the house is bustling with activity again.

"Big brother, what are you stewing? It smells so good!" A few little girls crowded around the stove, sniffing the aroma of stewed potatoes and donkey meat.

"Does it smell good? It'll taste even better when we eat it!"

"Big brother, are you and Sister Xiaomin really going on a long trip?"

"Yes, you all need to behave well at home and not make your mother angry."

Xiao Qing pouted, looking a little unwilling.

"Xiaomin has only been with us for a few days, and you've already taken her out to play. None of us have even gone on a long trip yet."

Chang Kun chuckled lightly. These days, traveling far is already inconvenient, and if you bring these girls along, it's even more difficult.

"When there's a chance in the future, your older brother will take you out to play," Chang Kun said, patting Xiao Qing on the head and promising her a bright future.

Even decades from now, transportation from north to south will still not be that convenient.

Besides, by then Xiaoqing and the others will probably all be married and have children, so they won't have any free time to go out and travel.

The only time I can do is wait until these people's grandchildren are born, and then after I retire, I can form a senior citizens' group and leisurely stroll around the beautiful landscape with my family.

At the dinner table, my parents kept praising the pork belly with minced garlic. They said that the pork belly, with more fat than lean meat and a non-greasy texture, was just so delicious.

Cheng Min prefers light flavors, shoveling small bites of porridge with fish floss, occasionally picking up a piece of stir-fried broccoli.

She never expected that after becoming someone's daughter-in-law, she would rarely even touch the stove.

Meals at home are prepared by either my mother-in-law or my husband; I've never heard of such treatment anywhere else.

The four younger sisters were most interested in the stewed donkey meat with potatoes, and each of them held a large piece of donkey meat and tore it apart.

The donkey meat stew had been cooking for quite a while, and Xiaoqing, Xiaomu, and Xiaoshui were eating with their mouths full of oil, grunting and slurping like little pigs fighting for food, nodding as they ate.

Xiuer's teeth weren't strong enough; she tried to tear at the donkey meat fibers, but she couldn't chew them properly.

"Ptooey! Ptooey!" She spat the donkey meat onto the table, her face contorted in a grimace. "Brother, this donkey meat is impossible to chew!"

"Swallow it even if you can't chew it!" Liu Meifen slapped Xiuer on the back.

It's okay for a little girl to be naughty, but wasting food is a heinous crime these days, and it would be a disgrace not to get a beating.

"Big brother, I really can't chew it..." Xiu'er looked at Chang Kun with a pitiful expression, "Can you eat it for me?"

Chang Kun didn't mind at all; he picked up the mushy donkey meat that Xiu'er had spat out and threw it directly into his mouth.

It's perfectly normal for parents to eat their children's leftovers without ever complaining.

"Big brother, is this donkey meat the same as our homemade mini flatbread? Is the mini flatbread this fragrant too?" Xiao Qing chewed on the donkey meat, finding it increasingly delicious, and then turned to stare at the little donkey in the corner of the yard with ill intent.

Chang Kun chuckled. This girl, when she first brought Xiao Huoshao home, she vowed to take good care of it.

Unexpectedly, after only a month or so, they started to complain that all it did was eat and its poop smelled bad, and that it would be better to kill it and eat its meat.

Xiao Mu and Xiao Shui, standing beside him, looked at Chang Kun with bright, sparkling eyes.

At that moment, all they wanted to do was eat the delicious donkey meat, completely forgetting the joyful time they had spent riding on Xiao Huoshao's back.

Xiao Xiu'er is bored at home. The only things she can play with in the yard are the little donkey and the fish in the pond. Now there's also a myna bird.

She seemed quite fond of the little donkey, and upon hearing this, she stood up with her hands on her hips: "You're not allowed to eat those little flatbreads! The meat isn't flavorful at all! You can't even chew it properly!"

"Hmph! That's because you can't chew it! I think Xiao Huo Shao will be slaughtered and cooked sooner or later!" Xiao Qing wasn't going to put up with Xiu'er.

"Big brother, we can't kill Xiao Huoshao. This donkey meat isn't even as good as greyhound meat. Shall we go catch a few greyhounds tomorrow?" To save Xiao Huoshao's life, Xiu'er immediately changed her target and brought up the roasted squirrel that the sisters loved to eat the most.

"Roasted greyhounds! That's delicious!" Xiao Qing and the others' eyes lit up. "Big brother, shall we go catch greyhounds tomorrow?"

Liu Meifen immediately started yelling, "You guys are asking for it! Aren't you going to school tomorrow? I'll have Xiaomin test you later, see how well you've been learning lately!"

Upon hearing this, the three girls immediately fell silent, burying their faces in their bowls, only the sound of them shoveling rice into their mouths could be heard.

Now it was Xiuer's turn to be smug. She leaned close to Chang Kun's ear and whispered, "Big brother, tomorrow we'll go catch some greyhounds and not let Xiao Qing and the others eat them!"

Chang Kun thought about it for a moment. He was leaving the day after tomorrow, and he didn't have much to do tomorrow, so he spent some time playing with Xiao Xiuer, which was quite nice.

Seeing her older brother nod, Xiu'er glanced triumphantly at her older sisters, Xiao Qing, and raised her little head.

"Alright! Let's eat. If you can't eat the donkey meat, have some potatoes. The flavor of this dish is all in the potatoes."

While Chang Kun's family was happily having dinner, Qin Meiru's family was already lying on the kang (a heated brick bed).

These days, most people have to lie down after eating to properly digest their food and not waste a single bit of energy.

"Daughter, just imagine how wonderful it would be if you could eat your fill every day after you moved to the city!"

Qin Meiru didn't speak, but tilted her head to look at the starlight in the night sky.

The stars are so beautiful tonight, just like life after moving to the city.

What she didn't know was that Lü Jiawei had already heard about her family's previous arranged marriage and dowry practices with Chang Kun, and had a very bad impression of them.

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