The yellow rice cakes were fried with lard, the surface was browned, and the sticky and fragrant millet was inside. As for the side dish, Li Zhouzhou didn’t eat pickled cabbage today, so he used half of the leftover radish, cut it into shreds, marinated it with salt for a while, poured out the water from the radish, poured in vinegar, and mixed it. It was simple and refreshing.

　　It’s not good to eat cold food in such a cold weather. Tonight the soup is piping hot and the pancakes are also hot.

　　This meal was easy to prepare, except that the bone soup took an entire afternoon to cook, and firewood had to be added from time to time to prevent the fire from going out. Li Zhouzhou finished it in two or three moves, and it was already dark by the time they had dinner.

　　There is no way. The days are getting shorter. I can’t eat earlier, otherwise I will be hungry when I go to bed at night.

　　A family of three sat in the main room.

　　Li Zhouzhou served soup to his father and husband. “There’s still half a pot left. I added some firewood to keep it warm.”

　　”Thank you Zhou Zhou~” Gu Zhao’s voice soared. Ever since he shamelessly acted like a spoiled child to his wife in front of his father last time, he became more and more daring. From then on, he sat on the same stool with his wife when eating, and whenever he had nothing to do, he would pick up some food and pass the pancake to his wife.

　　Li Da coughed but to no avail. He held the large coarse porcelain bowl to cover his face and buried his head in eating.

　　Li Zhouzhou was embarrassed for a moment, but seeing how well-behaved and cute his husband was, he couldn’t say anything else. Besides, his husband was also very good to him.

　　A family of three eating.

　　Gu Zhaoai praised Li Zhouzhou, but it was not a false compliment. He always praised him to the point. For example, the chicken we had at noon was stewed well but still had the elasticity of the meat. The shredded radish was refreshing and went very well with the bone soup. In short, everything was good.

　　Li Da was eating shredded radish and thought to himself, what kind of words did he come up with? He is worthy of being an educated man. He can even praise shredded radish to such a high level. But let’s be honest, he didn’t think it was good before, but after his son-in-law said so, he felt that the hot soup with shredded radish was refreshing and comfortable after eating it.

　　”My husband would like to have another bowl later.” Li Zhouzhou was also happy.

　　Gu Zhao knew that Zhou Zhou loved him, so the meat, chicken and eggs stewed at home were always given to him first. His father also thought that he should replenish his body. They were both tall and strong, so they could make do with it, but that was not the way it was.

　　There are twenty acres of land at home. In modern times, such a large amount of land would still be laborious and time-consuming even with the help of mechanization. Now it really requires manpower, including sowing, weeding, irrigation, autumn harvest, and then drying, drying, pounding and shelling the rice when the crops are brought back.

　　I spend three hundred days a year doing hard labor in the fields, and I am busy all the time for the remaining two months. I think I am young and strong and don’t take it seriously, but in fact I am exhausted and at a disadvantage inside.

　　Gu Zhao took the opportunity to say, let’s not talk about it anymore, every time there is a nutritious dish, Zhou Zhou is reluctant to eat it and saves it for him to eat. How much more nutritious can he get by taking one or two chopsticks of meat? Zhou Zhou and his father need to take it seriously.

　　”I still listen to what the county doctor said about bone soup. Red dates can replenish qi and blood.”

　　Li Zhouzhou: “No wonder my husband asked me to add dates. We don’t even put them in bone stew in our village.”

　　“It’s neither sweet nor salty.” said Li Da.

　　When Li Zhouzhou cooks at home, no matter how it is cooked or whether it tastes good or not, Li Da will eat it all without being picky. Of course, he has never praised it.

　　”So that’s the practice of the prefecture and county.” said Li Zhouzhou.

　　Gu Zhao drank a mouthful of soup, shook his head and said, “No, it’s the method the clinic gave to pregnant women.”

　　”Cough cough cough–” Li Da took a big sip, thinking that he had to try it again and carefully taste it based on what people in the prefecture and county did. But then he heard that it was a woman who drank it, and a pregnant woman at that, and he choked immediately.

　　Li Zhouzhou was also stunned, but he didn’t tell his husband. There must be a reason why his husband asked him to do this.

　　”Dad, Zhou Zhou, listen to me.” Seeing that his father was choking and his face was a mess, Gu Zhao said quickly, “The woman was poor. When she was young, she had to do housework and farm work. She was very tired and could not get pregnant. Later, she finally got pregnant, but she had a miscarriage.”

　　Li Zhouzhou understood what he heard and became nervous. He asked, “What should we do then?”

　　Li Da no longer coughs, and his son Zhou Zhou also works in the fields and at home.

　　”The doctor said that my body was weak at a young age and needed to be replenished, but the woman was poor and had no money to buy tonic medicine, so the clinic suggested this method: bones without meat and dates are cheap, so stew them together. The stewed soup should be white. Drink it regularly, and it will replenish the body.”