The deliberately lightened footsteps slowly approached the bedside, Tao Sixi stopped his thoughts and pretended to sleep.

"Eryun, didn't you just say that your fourth sister woke up? Why are you lying down again? Could it be that you are uncomfortable again? ”

There was a deep worry in the lowered voice, this was the stepmother Fan.

"Mother, the fourth sister really woke up before, and she talked to me......" Tao Eryun also whispered.

A calloused hand gently covered Tao Sixi's forehead, and quickly retracted it.

"It's not burning." Fan said softly, as if slightly relieved, and gently put one of Tao Sixi's exposed little feet back into the quilt.

Tao Eryun lightly touched Fan's arm and pointed to the low stool next to him.

The bowl of wild vegetable porridge brought over earlier has seen the bottom, and the head of the nest is gone.

Tao Eryun and Fan's mother and daughter exchanged glances, and their eyes were full of surprise.

"Pack up your things and let your fourth sister sleep more." Fan whispered.

Tao Eryun nodded, picked up the empty bowl, and the mother and daughter left the house lightly.

When the room was quiet again, Tao Sixi opened his eyes and looked at the door in a daze.

In my previous life, I was embarrassed to get along with my stepmother, and I just came back from rebirth in this life, and the embarrassment is still there, and I don't know how to face it, so I can only pretend to sleep.

The door is made of a patchwork of thin wooden planks, with sparse gaps in between.

Tao Eryun was sweeping the yard outside, walking back and forth, and Tao Sixi could see a rough idea in the house.

"Eryun, you sweep the floor and make a little noise, don't wake up your fourth sister."

Fan whispered to Tao Eryun in the courtyard.

Tao Eryun nodded.

"It's not early, my mother has to go to the stove room to cook lunch, you will go and find your little brother back after sweeping the yard, remember to tell him not to shout when he comes back, let your fourth sister sleep well." Fan told Tao Eryun again.

Tao Eryun nodded again.

Fan's footsteps walked away, and the sound of the broom in Tao Eryun's hand started again, a little lighter than before.

In the room, Tao Sixi turned over, closed his eyes and continued to think about things, his body was so weak that he fell asleep again unconsciously.

……

When lunch was ready, Fan first filled a bowl for Tao Sixi and hid two pieces of oil shuttle at the bottom of the bowl.

Then she went back to the front yard to set the dishes and chopsticks, went to the east house to invite the old lady, and then went to the other rooms to invite others to come over for dinner.

……

Tao Sixi looked at the food in the bowl and was a little distracted.

Half a bowl of multigrain rice, with two chopsticks fried cabbage at the head of the rice, accompanied by a few sour radish strips, and two oil shuttles hidden at the bottom of the bowl.

She hadn't eaten this crude peasant meal for nearly a decade.

When the Hou Mansion was at its most difficult, the food and water were more than the food in front of him......

Tao Sixi picked up a piece of fried oil shuttle that was almost burnt and looked at it in front of him.

In my memory, the old Tao family can't eat meat several times a year.

During the Chinese New Year, Mrs. Tao would instruct her daughters-in-law to refine oil with fatty meat, and the refined lard was put in a jar, and only taken out during the festival or when the family had guests.

Stir-fry vegetables with lard to greet distinguished guests, and you will have face.

And the oil shuttle left over from oil refining is also preserved.

When stir-frying, grab a handful to enhance the flavor, or chop up the dumplings, which can barely be regarded as a meat and give a family a tooth sacrifice.

In his previous life, when Tao Sixi was still in the old Tao family, he liked to eat oil shuttlecock the most, and he had never eaten it.

When she entered the Hou Mansion as the concubine of the prince and ate all kinds of delicacies, she knew that the oil shuttle was so vulgar, rough, and unacceptable......

Clamped a piece of oil shuttle and put it in his mouth, Tao Sixi closed his eyes and chewed slowly, savoring it.