The aroma of cooking filled the house: I sent my eldest brother to become the Grand Secretary.

After Granny Zhang walked out, she looked back at the signboard of Shen Family Restaurant.

If you look closely, you'll notice that the old woman's eyes are slightly red, and there are some unusual emotional fluctuations in them.

Grandma Zhang couldn't remember the last time she had felt kindness from others.

She felt a little uncomfortable and even somewhat timid.

Her neighbors were worried that she would bring bad luck to them, so they rarely spoke to her or even made eye contact with her.

From the little girl who bought her fish to the shopkeeper, everyone at Shen Family Restaurant was very welcoming to her, and they even showed some kindness. She didn't feel a trace of malice from the moment she entered until she left.

After walking for about the time it takes to burn an incense stick on Xin'an Street, Granny Zhang stopped in front of a dilapidated thatched hut, pushed open the door, and went inside.

Grandma Zhang's granddaughter, Li Xiaoyu, was delighted to see her grandmother return and walked up to her.

She took the fish basket from her grandmother and found it was already full, which made her a little sad.

In the past, as long as her grandmother sold the fish, they could have a full meal. But now the fish basket was still full, which meant that her grandmother hadn't sold any fish today, and she would have to eat fish for the rest of the day.

After putting down the fish basket, she put away her sad expression and put on the happy expression she had at the beginning, and pulled Grandma Zhang, "Grandma, you've worked hard. Let me cook today."

After saying that, he prepared to take the fish to the kitchen.

Grandma Zhang looked at her granddaughter, who was dressed in tattered coarse cloth clothes, whose hair had become dry and yellow due to long-term malnutrition, and who was so thin that there was no flesh on her body.

She felt extremely guilty, thinking that if she had stopped the child's mother that day, the child's mother would not have died.

Now, all I can do is catch a few fish every day to earn a little money for food.

If it weren't for her, the family wouldn't have come to Xin'an County, their son and daughter-in-law wouldn't have died, and their granddaughter wouldn't be an orphan.

She had considered just dying, but the thought that her granddaughter would have no relatives left after she died came to mind.

Even if she herself starved to death, she would raise her granddaughter to adulthood.

She remembered the girl's gesture when she received the basket, so she quickly asked her granddaughter to bring the fish basket.

Although Li Xiaoyu was puzzled, her grandmother didn't hurry up and take the fish basket to the kitchen to empty the fish, but instead wanted to look at the fish basket.

But she still obediently handed the fish basket to her grandmother.

She saw her grandmother reach into the fish basket and thought she was going to take the fish out, so she quickly ran to the kitchen and brought out a basin.

When she returned, she saw two things on the table that were tightly wrapped in oil paper.

She happily walked up to her grandmother and said, "Grandma, you sold the fish! Are these the steamed buns you bought?"

In the past, whenever Grandma had money, she would take her to buy steamed buns.

I didn't expect that they would actually buy it all this time, and even two big bags of it.

Grandma Zhang was also very puzzled about what was inside the oiled paper.

She carefully opened the oil paper, revealing a square box made of bamboo. She then carefully opened the lid of the box.

When she saw what was inside, she was first startled, then seemed to understand Shen Cao's previous behavior, and her heart seemed to be gently swept by something.

Looking at the lunchbox in front of her grandmother, Li Xiaoyu felt like she was dreaming. After blinking to make sure she wasn't dreaming, she quickly moved closer to her grandmother.

I took a deep sniff, and it smelled so good.

She looked at the vegetables inside, so much meat! Why did Grandma buy so much meat today? Is it very expensive?

Grandma Zhang wiped away the tears in her eyes with her sleeve, then pushed the lunchbox to Li Xiaoyu, "My dear granddaughter, you must be starving, come and eat quickly."

Li Xiaoyu didn't move; she waited for her grandmother to open the other lunchbox so they could eat together.

She didn't want to eat the good food while her grandmother ate the bad food. She wanted to see what was in her grandmother's bowl of rice, and if it wasn't good, she would share it with her grandmother.

Grandma Zhang looked at her sensible and well-behaved granddaughter and carefully opened another lunchbox.

The dishes in this boxed lunch are different from the first one, but it still contains both meat and vegetables.

Li Xiaoyu felt like she was dreaming. She hadn't eaten meat in a long time, or even stir-fried vegetables.

She didn't understand why her grandmother had bought such a nice meal today.

Is it...

Grandma Zhang noticed her granddaughter's worry, took her hand, and comforted her, "Xiaoyu, it's Grandma's fault for making you suffer with me."

Seeing her grandmother's self-reproachful expression, Xiaoyu jumped off the stool and hugged her. "Grandma, Xiaoyu doesn't feel like she's suffering. As long as I'm with you for the rest of my life, I won't feel like I'm suffering."

Grandma Zhang lowered her head and gently patted her granddaughter's head, "My dear granddaughter, Grandma will never leave you."

Grandma Zhang wiped away her tears with her hand. "Look, it's Grandma. My dear granddaughter must be hungry. Let's eat."

Upon hearing that it was time to eat, Li Xiaoyu quickly sat back down on the stool.

She looked at the boxed lunch in front of her, which was full of food, and didn't dare to finish it all at once.

Grandma Zhang also felt it was a waste to finish the meal in one sitting, so she asked Xiaoyu to get a bowl from the kitchen.

Then I took out the two remaining cornbread buns from the house.

She scooped some of the food out of both lunch boxes and filled a whole bowl, leaving half of the food in the lunch boxes.

She took the bowl of food to the kitchen and locked it in the cupboard.

"Eat up, Xiaoyu, hurry up and eat."

Li Xiaoyu took the first bite of meat with her chopsticks and put it in her grandmother's bowl.

"Grandma, you should eat some meat."

Grandma Zhang's voice choked with emotion, "Oh! Xiaoyu eats too."

She also put a piece of meat on Li Xiaoyu's plate.

The two ate slowly for a long time before finishing this meal, which was even better than the one they had eaten during the Chinese New Year.

After finishing her meal, Li Xiaoyu couldn't bear to wipe the oil off her mouth and licked it several times with her tongue.

Li Xiaoyu even used a cornbread bun to eat the oil off the oil paper in the lunchbox.

Grandma Zhang figured that the little girl probably put the food in the fish basket because she was afraid she would feel embarrassed to accept it.

I shouldn't take advantage of a child. Next time I go to buy fish, I must pay for the meal for her.

After finishing their meal, Grandma Zhang took Li Xiaoyu to the place where she usually set her fish traps.

Those are places that no one else goes to, so they can only go to places that no one else goes to catch a few fish that others don't want.

They used to go to places with lots of fish, but every time they went, they found that their fish cages had been tampered with, and a few times they even had large holes cut in them.

The people around them gloated as they looked at their fish traps that had been cut up, and the two knew that these were the people who did it.

They didn't want them to come here to fish.

From then on, the two could only go to places where no one was around.

Therefore, Grandma Zhang's fish are not available every day.

Today, Granny Zhang went to the chicken slaughterhouse and spent a penny to buy some unwanted chicken intestines and the like.

She wanted to catch big fish every day so that her granddaughter could have a full meal every day.