Chapter 41: His Wife’s Leftovers, He Doesn’t Dislike

The spicy aroma exploded in his mouth. Even though Zhou Yubai didn’t particularly value food, he couldn’t help but be amazed.

He didn’t expect that the crayfish, which no one dared to eat, would taste even better than it smelled.

He, a person who never cared about food, was actually amazed by the taste.

Zhou Jiakang had been unable to resist the aroma. Seeing Zhou Yubai swallow it, he stared at Zhou Yubai and asked, “Third brother, how is it? Can it be eaten?”

Zhou Yubai nodded, “It can be eaten, it’s delicious.”

Hearing his two words, “delicious,” not only Zhou Jiakang, but also Zhou Jun, Father Zhou, and Lin Shulan quickly grabbed one each and peeled it to eat.

Because from childhood to adulthood, this was the first time they had heard Zhou Yubai say the words “delicious.”

The children didn’t need to be said, they all scrambled to eat.

After a bite of shrimp meat, they all showed a satisfied expression.

Only Sun Fengjiao curled her lips, putting a chopstick of meat into her husband’s and three daughters’ bowls, saying disdainfully, “That hazi is all shell, how can it be more delicious than meat?”

Zhou Jiakang was sensible this time, directly peeling one and feeding it to Sun Fengjiao’s mouth.

After Sun Fengjiao took a bite, she couldn’t speak anymore.

She quickly started peeling herself.

After Zhou Yubai ate one, he silently peeled shrimp and put it into Shen Chuning’s bowl.

Shen Chuning ate one, he peeled one, never letting Shen Chuning’s bowl be empty.

Shen Chuning saw that he only peeled for her and hadn’t eaten himself, feeling a little embarrassed.

“Brother Yubai, eat yourself, I’ll peel my own, ma xiao is only soulful when you peel it yourself.”

Shen Chuning had heard someone say this in her dream, and she didn’t know why, but she blurted it out.

Zhou Yubai’s deep eyes looked at her, without thinking, he directly refused, “No, the shells are too hard, they’re easy to cut your hands.”

His wife’s tender hands were not suitable for peeling such hard-shelled shrimp.

Shen Chuning: …

In a short while, the large bowl of crayfish was empty, but there was a pile of shrimp shells in front of everyone.

After the children ate the cucumber strips soaked in the crayfish bowl, they were still not satisfied.

Zhou Hongjun looked longingly at the soup at the bottom of the bowl and asked Shen Chuning, “Third Aunt, this hazi soup looks so fragrant, can it be used to soak rice?”

Lin Shulan also said with heartache, “So much oil was used to make this hazi, all that’s left is oil, it would be such a waste if it can’t be eaten…”

Shen Chuning thought, in her dream, when she saw others eating hazi, no one used the hazi soup to soak rice, but many people ate noodles with the soup after finishing the hazi.

“This soup probably won’t be good for soaking rice, but it’s good for noodles. Father, Mother, everyone eat first, I’ll go cook some noodles.”

As soon as Shen Chuning was about to get up, Zhou Yubai pressed her down, “Wife, I’ll go, you eat.”

Shen Chuning rubbed her stomach, “I’m already full, you were only peeling shrimp for me just now, you didn’t eat much. You eat, I’ll go cook.”

She was indeed full.

Although she was picky, she had always eaten fine grains since she was a child, but she didn’t have a large appetite.

She had eaten so much shrimp meat and cucumber strips just now that she was really full.

Zhou Yubai didn’t compete with her, but stood up with her, “I’ll go with you.”

Shen Chuning couldn’t say anything more.

After the two left the main hall, not only Zhou Jiakang and Zhou Jun were dumbfounded, but even Lin Shulan felt a toothache.

When had her son, who was always cold-faced, ever been so considerate of someone?

Making hand-rolled noodles would take too long, luckily, Father Shen had prepared hanging noodles in Shen Chuning’s dowry.

Shen Chuning took some hanging noodles and cooked half of them.

She scooped them into the large bowl that had contained the ma xiao, the fragrant white noodles and the fragrant soup mixed together, the rich aroma instantly made people’s mouths water.

For a moment, adults and children started eating, quickly putting the noodles soaked in the soup into their bowls.

Zhou Yubai served Shen Chuning a bowl first, then served himself a bowl and started eating.

Everyone ate deliciously, only Shen Chuning looked at the noodles in front of her with difficulty, she was really full.

But there was no way, they were already in her bowl, she could only pick them up with chopsticks and try to eat them one by one.

Until all the noodles in the large bowl were gone, Shen Chuning still had more than half a bowl of noodles left.

Only then did others notice that there were still so many meat and vegetable dishes on the table.

And the rice steamed today was also white rice without any mixed grains.

They wanted to add another bowl of rice and eat some meat, but their stomachs were already round and full, and they couldn’t eat any more.

Lin Shulan saw what everyone was thinking and directly put away the dishes and rice, “You’ve eaten so much hazi and noodles, and you still want to eat, don’t you guys want to burst?

Don’t eat anymore, get up and move around to digest, we’ll eat the rest tonight.”

After Lin Shulan put everything away, Shen Chuning still had more than half a bowl of noodles left.

She felt the food was stuck in her throat.

There was no way, she could only tug at the man beside her and cautiously asked, “Brother Yubai, I really can’t eat anymore, can you help me eat?”

Zhou Jiakang immediately laughed loudly, “Third sister-in-law, you’ve just married Yubai, you probably don’t know yet, he has a quirk. He absolutely doesn’t… eat things that have been touched by other people’s saliva.”

Before Zhou Jiakang finished speaking, Zhou Yubai had already taken Shen Chuning’s bowl to his side and ate it in large mouthfuls.

In a short while, the bowl was empty.

Originally, Shen Chuning was a little embarrassed because of her unreasonable request.

Now it was Zhou Jiakang’s turn to be embarrassed.

He scratched the back of his head foolishly, “Hehe, Yubai has been in the army for so many years, his habits have changed a lot.”

Zhou Yubai: “I don’t eat leftovers from others, but I like to eat my wife’s leftovers.”

Zhou Jiakang and Sun Fengjiao: …

Zhou Jun and Xia Yue’e: …

They had already eaten enough today, they really didn’t need any more dog food.

Shen Chuning never expected that Zhou Yubai, with his cold and fierce face, could say such things in front of everyone.

Her cheeks flushed, and she quickly ran to the kitchen, “Mother, let me help you clean up.”

“You’ve been busy cooking all morning, what do you need to help with now? Go and rest, let your two sisters-in-law do the rest!” Lin Shulan said.

Sun Fengjiao and Xia Yue’e knew that the oil and noodles at noon were provided by Shen Chuning.

They had a good meal with Shen Chuning, and after eating, they naturally had no objections to washing the dishes.

They also echoed Lin Shulan, “Mother is right, Third sister-in-law, you worked hard cooking, let the two sisters-in-law do the cleaning, go and rest.”

Shen Chuning wasn’t a diligent person, since she wasn’t asked to do anything, she didn’t do anything.

Zhou Yubai was in the main hall discussing with Father Zhou and his elder and second brothers about buying bricks and tiles for building the kitchen in the afternoon.

Shen Chuning had the habit of taking a nap, feeling sleepy after eating, so she went back to her house for a nap.

When she woke up, she heard noisy voices outside the courtyard.

There were even the voices of her father and two brothers.

Her heart skipped a beat, she hadn’t even gone back to her parents’ home yet, why did her father and brothers come, could something have happened?