Niu Dan touched his feet and smelled them, and his saliva started to flow before he could say anything.

　　Gu Zhao stopped teasing the child and handed the chicken to Niu Dan with a smile. Niu Dan took the chicken and put it into his mouth. Gu Zhao smiled and said, “If you want to eat this chicken, ask your mother to cook it for you.”

　　Niu Dan stuffed his mouth with meat and mumbled that his mother wouldn’t give it to him.

　　”What are you afraid of, kid? You came here to ask for meat today. Did your mother scold you? Kid, don’t be afraid of trouble. Your mother always loves you. She can’t just abandon you after you eat a bite of chicken.”

　　”Okay, eat slowly.” Gu Zhao stood up, sighed, and said worriedly, “Alas, only one chicken died in my family. It’s gone after we eat it. If I want to eat meat in the future, I have to wait for a chicken to die before I can have meat.”

　　Niu Dan was only four years old and didn’t understand the logic. Why was the chicken being killed and then dead? His mouth and mind were filled with the delicious smell. He even went to find his mother while chewing on the chicken bones and begged for a chicken to eat.

　　Gu Zhao closed the door again.

　　In the kitchen, Li Zhouzhou had already taken the chicken out of the pot and was serving mixed-grain rice. Seeing his husband coming back, he called him to eat. He was still wondering why he delayed for a while he gave Niu Dan a piece of meat.

　　After Gu Zhao finished speaking, seeing that Zhou Zhou was confused, he simply explained it.

　　”…I’m just talking. Maybe I can’t even kill a chicken.” At this point, Gu Zhao looked remorseful.

　　Seeing this, Li Zhouzhou immediately said, “It’s just a piece of meat. I’ll give it to you. Don’t take it personally, my husband. How can a small kid kill a chicken? He can’t even lift a knife. It’s okay, let’s eat the meat. I won’t say anything more.”

　　Gu Zhao nodded.

　　The Li family had lunch behind closed doors. The multi-grain rice cooked over firewood was especially fragrant, with more white rice. The bowl that normally holds porridge was used to hold the chicken. Li Zhouzhou stewed half of it today, and put in some mushrooms that he picked up in the mountains in autumn, which he dried and stored, and soaked when he ate, and bought tofu from Uncle Wang at the entrance of the village.

　　Uncle Wang was also a boy with a skill in making tofu. During the slack season, he would make a plate of tofu every day, three cents for a large piece, and supply it to the villagers. Sometimes people from Dongping Village would also come to buy it, but if you went too late, it would be sold out.

　　Li Zhouzhou bought it when he came back from doing laundry in the morning.

　　A pot of mushrooms, chicken, tofu and cabbage, stewed over low heat with firewood until soft and tasty. The tofu absorbs the aroma of the chicken, and the mushrooms and cabbage enhance the flavor. Half a spoonful of the meat, vegetables and soup is placed on the multi-grain rice, and it is hot and fragrant.

　　”Zhou Zhou, eat meat.” Gu Zhao picked up some meat with chopsticks for his wife, and then a piece of tofu. “This one is so delicious after absorbing the gravy.”

　　Li Zhouzhou killed the chicken to nourish his husband, and he just ate the cabbage and tofu himself, not even thinking of using chopsticks to pick up the meat.

　　There’s only so much of half a chicken, so my husband and dad can just eat more.

　　”My husband, you eat it. I like tofu and cabbage.”

　　Gu Zhao and Zhou Zhou were sitting on the same stool. Under his father’s gaze, Gu Zhao shamelessly leaned against Zhou Zhou and said coquettishly, “Let’s eat together. Let’s eat together. It’s delicious to eat together.”

　　Li Da coughed and almost choked. He had never seen a man with such a character.

　　But it’s hard to say for Li Da. He can’t just tell Gu Zhao not to act coquettishly towards Zhou Zhou or be nice to him?

　　Li Zhouzhou’s face almost turned red, especially when he heard his father coughing. He felt embarrassed and couldn’t do anything about his husband, so he had to say, “I’ll eat, husband, eat obediently.”

　　Gu Zhao saw his wife eating, and then he ate his food obediently.

　　The Li family was happily eating meat, but the Zhang family was in a commotion.

　　The piece of chicken was not very big, and after eating all the meat, dandan was reluctant to throw away the bone, so it held it in its mouth and smashed it again and again. There was no taste of meat on the bone at all, but he was still reluctant to throw it away, so he held it in his hand.

　　The Zhang family, like the Wang family, had no courtyard walls. The main house had three mud-brick houses and a kitchen in the side house. However, the Zhang family was small, with an old father and a sixteen-year-old brother. He was strong and good at farming, and the family had a lot of land. It was not difficult to have meat from time to time.

　　But the difficulty lies in the fact that Zhang’s family is extremely poor and miserable.

　　The one in Zhang family’s surname was Tian, ​​and her home was farther from Shili Village, in Datian Village. Tian^[1]Aunt Zhang was the third child in the family, with two older sisters and two younger brothers. Her older twin brother was born with a lame foot and a thin body, while she was strong and had good hands and feet.

　　The villagers said that it was Tian who stole the eldest brother’s food when he was in her mother’s belly and also bullied him.

　　Tian also thought so, and since childhood, she always gave the eldest brother first any delicious food or drink.