That morning, Fubao opened his eyes lazily. It was still dark outside. Although the kang was lit in the room, the cold air was still blowing in through the window cracks.

Today is the winter solstice. After waiting for half an hour, the sky finally brightened. Fubao put on his clothes and sat on the kang, watching them busy themselves.

Zhao Xiuer got up early in the morning and brought the chopping board into the house, and put it on the kang to knead the dough. A little later, Zhou Qiaoping came in with a few pounds of pork: "It's so early in the morning, and the stars are starting to fall outside."

Then he put the pork on the table and said, "Make some pork fillings and some wild vegetable and egg fillings. There are no leeks in this season. If there were leeks, we could have some leeks and egg fillings. Shuangrong and Yiqiu love them the most."

Fu Bao heard this and immediately cut a bunch of chives from her space. There were many varieties of vegetables in the vegetable garden, everything she wanted. She herself was also very curious about why vegetables in different seasons could grow at the same time. However, compared with her space and time travel, these were nothing.

Chives with the aroma of soil suddenly appeared in front of Zhou Qiaoping. She was surprised at first: "There are chives in winter?" But she soon accepted it and looked at Fubao with a smile: "Wait a minute, make delicious dumplings for us, Fubao."

Fu Bao watched Zhou Qiaoping chopping the meat, and immediately took out a few carrots and a bunch of green onions from the space. Zhou Qiaoping said hurriedly: "Enough, enough, how can I eat so much?"

Looking at the carrots that suddenly appeared, Zhou Qiaoping turned back to the main room and fetched some mutton: "Then let's eat three dumplings with different fillings today. Okay?"

Fubao waved his hands excitedly: "Eat, eat, eat."

This made Zhao Xiuer and Zhou Qiaoping laugh out loud.

In the yard, Li Huaiqing and Li Shuangrong killed a chicken with swift movements.

In the kitchen, Zhang Ercui and a few children were stewing meat, and the rich aroma of spare ribs and braised pork filled the yard. Adding the spices that Fubao had taken out earlier, the taste was indescribable.

Li Yisheng: "Aunt, when can we eat?"

Yi Qiu lay on his brother's shoulder, trying hard to inhale the aroma. His stomach made a rumbling sound. When he heard his brother's question, he also spoke eagerly: "Aunt, Aunt, I want to eat more."

Zhang Ercui looked at their black eyes staring at her with eagerness, and smiled as she opened the lid of the pot. She picked up a few pieces of ribs with chopsticks and handed them to Li Chongming who was also greedy. She said, "Second brother, share this meat with your brothers. The remaining meat will be more fragrant if we cook it again."

Li Chongming took the bowl in a hurry, trying not to drool. He blew on the meat to cool it down a little before passing it to his younger brother one by one, and finally it was his turn.

A few little rascals were gnawing on the ribs in their hands, their mouths full of oil.

After a while, Li Chongming came into the room holding a bowl and shouted, "Fubao, look what your brother has brought you." As he said that, he shook the bowl in his hand.

Fubao's eyes lit up and he shouted loudly, "Brother, brother."

Li Chongming smiled happily, quickly climbed onto the kang, and came to Fubao. As soon as the bowl came over, Fubao smelled a strong fragrance. There were a few pieces of soft, sweet and delicious braised pork in the bowl.

She couldn't wait to eat it, "Hmm... delicious." The fat but not greasy meat melted in her mouth and she swallowed it with a light sip. The lean meat was not dry at all, and she ate it with great pleasure. I didn't expect my aunt's cooking skills to be so good.

As soon as Fubao finished eating, he saw his cousin running back to the kitchen to help.

Meanwhile, grandma and mother had already prepared three kinds of fillings. Three large porcelain bowls were placed in a row on the kang, Zhou Qiaoping rolled the dough, Zhao Xiuer's nimble fingers flipped the dough, and they made round dumplings and placed them neatly on the dumpling curtain beside them.

As soon as the dumplings were cooked at noon, Zhao Xiuer brought a full bowl to Grandma Jin.

Three kinds of dumplings, spareribs, braised pork, two plates of stir-fried vegetables and refreshing side dishes filled the entire table. The family was having a lively meal.

Li Huaiqing: "With our Fubao, we can eat dumplings and meat again. Fubao is a blessing to our whole family."

Chongming: "Since my sister was born, our family life has really gotten much better. I've even gained a lot of weight."

Yisheng: "It's great to have a younger sister. I like my sister." Yiqiu was not as good at speaking as his elder brother and could only nod repeatedly.

Zhou Qiaoping covered her mouth and laughed, "Oh, if you keep praising me like this, Fubao's pigtails will be all the way up to the sky tomorrow."

Zhang Ercui was tactful and didn't interrupt. She always felt something was wrong. It seemed that after the little girl was born, the family never went hungry again.

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A pot full of spare ribs and braised pork, and so many dumplings that they were put in five times, and they were all eaten in one meal. Fubao was shocked by the amount of food the family ate, but Li Shuangrong usually did hard work, and Li Chongwang and Li Chongmin were growing up, so they were at the age when they could eat. There were so many people in the family, so it was normal for them to eat so much.

After dinner, snowflakes began to fall from the sky. Li Huaiqing led the goat into the woodshed, where snow continued to fall in from the hole in the eaves.

Fubao stared blankly at the sky outside. Suddenly, footsteps hurriedly came into the house: "Shuangrong, Shuangrong——"

Li Shuangrong strode out: "I'm at home, come in."

The visitor couldn't hide his anxious look on his face, and could even be said to be a little panicked: "Did your family eat dumplings for lunch today? And you also sent a bowl to Grandma Jin from Nantou."

Fubao immediately felt that he might be in trouble. Sure enough, the man walked into the house. It turned out to be Liu Er.

He said hurriedly: "Yang Daxing saw Xiu'er go to Grandma Jin's place, and secretly followed her, saying that it was the dumplings made of white flour that your family eats."

Zhao Xiuer said worriedly: "I covered it with a cloth, how did they know?"

Li Shuangrong's eyes widened with anger: "What does it have to do with him what my family eats? How can he be more involved than the village chief?"

Liu Er said, "Now every household is out of food, but your family is still eating flour. Yang Daxing looks like a nice guy, but he is actually a petty person. You made his son stay in jail for a month, and who knows what he is going to do to you now. He is now telling everyone in the village that your family has food, and he will probably gather people to come to your house soon."

Li Shuangrong said angrily: "Let him come. How can I snatch it away if I don't give it to him?"

Li Huaiqing suddenly felt that things were getting complicated, and asked, "How long will it take them to get here?"

Liu Er: "I don't know either. But he also found a lot of people from other villages, and they don't look like good people."

Fubao felt that things were not that simple. There was nothing a hungry person could do, especially those who had a grudge against his family. It was obvious that they would not have an easy life. There were so many children in the family. If they got physical, they would most likely get hurt.

After careful consideration, Fubao said: "Grandpa, let's go——"

Li Huaiqing and she had the same idea. There were not many Li family members in the village, and many of them had moved to the town. If there was a conflict, their family would not gain any advantage.

So Li Huaiqing made a prompt decision: "Pack up your things and get out of the spotlight first."

Zhao Xiuer took out her silver hairpin and asked Liu Er to take care of Grandma Jin. Those people targeted Grandma Jin only because they disliked the Li family, but they had no grudge against Grandma Jin.

She is in poor health and has poor eyesight, so it is unrealistic to take her with us. If we are caught up, it will be dangerous.

Zhao Xiuer: "Second brother, please accept this hairpin and buy some food for my sister-in-law and the children. Also, please help me take care of Grandma Jin and send her some food every day. Her eyesight is not good, and we don't know when she will be back..."

Liu Er waved his hands repeatedly: "Look at what you said, we are from the same village, it is only right to help, take it back."

Zhao Xiuer insisted on giving it. After all, everyone is in financial difficulty now, and how could they afford to feed an extra mouth?

Liu Er couldn't resist and accepted it.

After seeing Liu Er off, the family began to pack up their things in a hurry, originally wanting to take everything away.

Li Huaiqing looked at them angrily and said, "Don't bring so many useless things. Take some clothes and bedding and leave first."

The old man was indeed older. As soon as they moved out, Yang Daxing and a group of people broke into the Li family’s gate.

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