21: Chapter 21: Sneaking a Bite_1
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Feng Caie stared intently at Yang Ruxin, afraid that she would take too much.
Yang Ruxin looked at Feng Caie, who was guarding the food as if it was against a thief, and couldn’t help but roll her eyes.
In the past, she would have slapped her out of the door a long time ago, but now…
in front of the elderly Yang, she wouldn’t do that.
There would be plenty of opportunities to deal with this woman in the future.
“Why are you taking so many vegetable Tuanzi?” Feng Caie saw Yang Ruxin take three vegetable Tuanzi and was immediately displeased, “Can you even finish eating them?”
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Vegetable Tuanzi was made by chopping up wild greens and radish leaves, mixing them with flour, forming them into balls, and then steaming them.
Of course, there was no white flour here, but a mix of corn flour and sorghum flour instead.
However, this was still much better than pancakes made purely from corn flour.
Yang Ruxin paid her no mind and scooped another bowl of vegetables.
In this era, stir-frying was already a thing, but few rural families were willing to use so much oil for cooking, mostly boiling in plain water.
Today’s lunch was plain boiled potatoes, but since it was considered a hearty dish, it was cooked with pork belly.
Although it didn’t look appetizing, this was still considered a good dish in a rural household.
“There’re only a few slices of meat in total, and you’ve taken four slices.
What are your grandparents supposed to eat?
How can you be so unfilial?” Feng Caie exclaimed again and even reached out to snatch the bowl.
“Erni, what are you doing sneaking food?” Yang Ruxin suddenly shouted.
“What nonsense are you talking about?” Feng Caie got a fright and subconsciously shouted back, “When did I sneak any food?”
“There’s still some bits of dessert in your teeth, it must be the green bean cake…” Yang Ruxin indicated with her mouth, “Did you give any to Grandpa and Grandma?”
Feng Caie subconsciously started picking her teeth.
The green bean-like eyes of Yang Anshi had already glanced over.
Yang Ruxin took this opportunity to carry the bowl and walk out with the vegetable Tuanzi, “Grandpa, Grandma, I’m going back to my room…” Then she ran off in a flash.
As for whether there would be a food shortage in the main house, that was no longer her concern.
In the side room, the young ones saw not only had Yang Ruxin brought back vegetable Tuanzi, but even a bowl of vegetables, and they all collectively swallowed hard.
However, they all made an effort to look anywhere else and avoid staring at the pieces of meat on top.
“Come on, hurry up and eat…” Yang Ruxin felt inexplicably sad, she put down the bowl, and then tore the vegetable Tuanzi apart, the three of them providing exactly half a piece per person.
Then she discovered another problem: there were no chopsticks to speak of, let alone a spoon.
“I’ll go get some chopsticks…”
However, just as she reached the doorway, she heard Yang Anshi’s shouts, clearly, a fight had broken out in the main house.
She then turned back, “We can eat without chopsticks, with our hands…
but…
we need to wash them first…”
Fortunately, there was a basin and a little bucket in the room, filled with clean water.
After washing their hands, Yang Ruxin only took half a vegetable Tuanzi and stuffed it into her mouth, finding herself unable to swallow the boiled potatoes that had a few pieces of fatty meat.
But even swallowing the vegetable Tuanzi proved difficult.
She stretched her neck several times before finally getting it down and couldn’t help but sigh.
If one wasn’t careful, the meal could truly be choke-inducing.
“Big sister, why aren’t you eating the vegetables?” Erni glanced at Yang Ruxin.
“Big sister eats…” Yang Rufeng took the piece of meat Erni had given to him and attempted to stuff it into her mouth.
“Big sister eats…” Sini followed suit.
“Big sister already ate some in the main house…” Yang Ruxin shook her head, “Hurry up and eat, you need to eat more to grow fast…”