After my stepmother was shot, I took my brothers to the countryside

"Hey? Xiao An? Xiao Le? Where are you going with the baskets?"

Shen Nian'an was carrying a basket and walking with Shen Nianle on the way to Goudan's house. A sudden sound from behind startled them both.

Shen Nian'an turned around and saw that it was Aunt Li, the loudmouth in the team: "It's Aunt Li! Let's go play with Goudan." After saying that, he and Shen Nianle ran away quickly.

"Hey! Why are you running?" Aunt Li shouted at the two brothers, and they ran away without looking back.

"Why do I need to carry a basket when I go to play with Goudan? I can smell something! Something is wrong!" The more Aunt Li thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong.

She quickly put aside the matter of looking for her sister-in-law and walked towards Goudan's house.

"Goudan! Goudan!"

As soon as he ran to Goudan's house, Shen Nianle hurriedly called out to his little friend. Goudan came out of the house, but before he could say anything, Shen Nian'an came in carrying a basket.

Shen Nian'an put down the basket, placed a lunch box on the table, and stuffed all the remaining lunch boxes into the quilt on the kang. He straightened the quilt and made a "hush" gesture to Goudan's mother who had been sitting in the corner of the kang and staring at him.

Goudan's mother imitated him and made a "hush" gesture in return.

"Aunt Li, why are you here?"

"If I hadn't seen you two brothers acting sneaky, I would have thought what you were doing! Come over and take a look!" Aunt Li looked at her and said, "You two are acting sneaky. How can I not come over to take a look?"

Shen Nianle's voice rang out from outside the door. Shen Nian understood and walked to Goudan's mother: "Aunt, my sister made some dumplings today and asked me to bring some over for you and Goudan to try."

"Eat, eat." When Goudan's mother heard that there were dumplings, she quickly crawled to the kang table.

Aunt Li came in and just saw Shen Nian'an opening the lunch box, revealing plump white dumplings inside.

When Aunt Li saw the dumplings in the lunch box, her stomach rumbled. She swallowed and her eyes unconsciously glanced at the plate of dumplings on the table.

"Aunt Li, are you here to see Aunt Goudan and Goudan too?" Shen Nian'an looked at Aunt Li with curiosity.

"Yes! It's been a while since I last came here, so I came to take a look." Aunt Li looked around the house.

Aunt Li walked into the house, looking around. Finally, her eyes fell on the lunch box on the table. "Hey! Xiao An, these dumplings are made by your sister. Why did she make so many?"

"My sister did it. A while ago, Xiaole fell into the river, and Aunt Goudan helped call for help to rescue Xiaole. Coincidentally, my sister made dumplings today, so she asked us to send some over to thank Aunt Goudan."

Shen Nian'an put the dumplings into Goudan's mother's bowl. Goudan's mother took the chopsticks and stuffed them into her mouth one by one.

"Auntie, please eat slowly, there's more!" Shen Nian'an saw that Goudan's mother was eating too quickly and reminded her softly.

Aunt Li sighed as she watched Goudan's mother wolfing down the food. She was a poor girl, having developed this problem ever since her husband's daughter died.

"Okay! You guys eat, I'll leave first." Aunt Li swallowed her saliva, looked at the dumplings in the lunch box, and hurried out of the house.

Only after making sure that Aunt Li had left did Shen Nian'an take the lunch box out of the quilt.

"Goudan! These are what my sister bought on the street today! She said these are called seafood. Have you ever eaten them?" Shen Nianle pointed at the lunch boxes that Shen Nian'an opened one by one and asked Goudan.

Goudan shook his head. He had never even heard of it: "I haven't eaten it."

Shen Nianle quickly asked him to sit down: "I haven't eaten it either! Do you know how to eat it? How about I go home and ask my sister to teach me, and then I'll come back and teach you?"

Goudan quickly shook his head: "You guys go back and eat, I will eat this." How could he let someone bring him food and run back and forth?

Shen Nian'an looked at Goudan, then at the dishes on the table: "These should be peeled! Try peeling them!"

"I understand! Xiaoan, Xiaole, you guys go back quickly and thank Sister Nian Nian for me." Goudan nodded repeatedly.

The Shen Nian'an brothers then returned home. Goudan looked at the dishes on the table, then at his mother, and a warm feeling flashed through his heart.

He picked up a shrimp, tried to peel off the shell and put it in his mouth to chew. His technique of peeling the shrimp was clumsy, but he managed to peel the shrimp. Goudan then fed the shrimp to his mother's mouth.

"Mom! This is what Sister Nian Nian cooked! Come on, open your mouth."

Goudan's mother opened her mouth and took the shrimp, nodding and shouting, "Delicious, Goudan, eat it."

A smile appeared on Goudan's little face. After Goudan's mother had eaten and shrank back into the corner of the kang, he covered the remaining shrimps with them and started to eat other things.

As soon as the Shen Nian'an brothers got home, they told Shen Nian about their encounter with Aunt Li. Shen Nian praised them for being so smart and able to respond quickly.

The three of them sat at the dining table, and the Shen Nian'an brothers looked at each other with excitement on their faces.

A large plate of dumplings, a large plate of braised shrimps, a large plate of steamed crabs, fish soup, and a plate of stir-fried vegetables.

Looking at the delicious seafood feast in front of them, the two brothers were a little hesitant to pick up their chopsticks.

"Eat! Why aren't you eating?" Shen Nian picked up a large crab and put it in Shen Nian'an's bowl: "I bought this specially for you to eat, to celebrate your two going to school!"

"Sister, so much seafood must cost a lot of money, right?" Shen Nian'an asked hesitantly.

"Yeah, it cost a lot of money!" Shen Nian nodded: "But as long as you enjoy your meal, it's worth it!"

The Shen Nian'an brothers were very touched when they heard Shen Nian say this, and they also started to pick up their chopsticks, but they still didn't know where to start.

"Sister! How do I eat these things?" Shen Nianle could only ask his sister.

So, Shen Nianyun began to introduce how to eat these seafood one by one: "This is shrimp. You need to peel it first, remove the shrimp head, and then eat the meat inside." She demonstrated as she spoke, and Shen Nian'an and Shen Nianle followed suit.

Then, Shen Nian picked up another crab: "This is a crab. Open the shell from the tail. These are its gills. Throw them away. Then eat the crab meat inside."

The Shen Nian'an brothers followed Shen Nian's instructions one by one. They were a little confused at first, but gradually they got the hang of it.

With Shen Nian's help, the two brothers ate with gusto. It was the first time they had eaten such delicious food, and it was seafood, which they had never even seen before.

The Shen Nian'an brothers were very satisfied with the meal, and Shen Nian was also very happy. At last, she didn't have to eat alone in secret. Every time she ate alone, she felt very guilty.

"Zhao Gaoxuan, what do you think Nian Nian will cook today?"

Ye Jiaojiao and Zhao Gaoxuan were sitting in the room eating. They had been cooking for more than a month, but Zhao Gaoxuan's cooking skills had not improved at all. Every day she had to eat while smelling the aroma of the dishes made by Nian Nian behind her.

Zhao Gaoxuan glanced at her and said, "Look at how promising you are."

"Then don't suck! Why are you sucking so hard?" Ye Jiaojiao rolled her eyes at Zhao Gaoxuan. It was all because of his cooking that the food was bad.

"Who sniffed it? I think the smell is a bit pungent. Shen Zhiqing must have cooked spicy dishes today." Zhao Gaoxuan sniffed twice more, then quickly lowered his head and drank two mouthfuls of the porridge in the bowl.

Spicy food? Ye Jiaojiao felt her mouth begin to salivate unconsciously.

"Midsummer, midsummer."

When someone next door was looking for Shi Shengxia, Ye Jiaojiao muttered, "Here they come again."