Gou Dan wiped the drool from his mouth, lifted his small face, and looked at Lin Tang.
"Little Aunt, you eat quickly, we'll just smell it."
Saying this, worried that his Little Aunt would dislike her shabby younger brother, he quickly wiped the drool that had fallen onto Chou Dan's chin.
Hearing this, Lin Tang's heart suddenly ached.
Every child she had seen in that other world needed coaxing and tricking from adults to eat obediently.
Unlike this era, where even having enough to eat was difficult.
Lin Tang had always liked sensible children.
Her heart softened, she patted Gou Dan's small face, and said with a smile, "Let's eat together."
In the memories of the two little ones, their Little Aunt had always been a cold and fierce person.
Her sudden gentleness instantly startled the two children.
Gou Dan's expression changed even more drastically.
"...Little, Little Aunt, we don't... don't want to eat."
Although he said that, his eyes were fixed intently on the porcelain bowl.
The longing and craving for food revealed in those eyes made anyone who saw it feel heartbroken.
Looking at her sensible, dark, and thin nephew who was eagerly waiting to be fed, Lin Tang's heart felt soft.
She raised her hand and patted the little fellow's slightly rough little head.
"I'm full. There are two Eggs in this bowl, I can't possibly finish them all, you two have to help me eat them.
One bite each, come on, open your mouth..."
As she spoke, she scooped a spoonful of bright orange egg custard and brought it to his lips.
Gou Dan hesitated, glancing at Li Mu, then forcefully turned his head away.
"Mother, I just ate a bowl of Rice Porridge, I'm full now. Let Gou Dan and the others share the egg custard!" Lin Tang looked at Li Mu and said with a pleading expression.
Li Mu already favored her.
Seeing the young girl's soft, cute, and obedient appearance as she acted cute, how could she refuse?
Besides, she wasn't a malicious Elder; wasn't this all due to poverty!
Li Xiuli just stiffened her face and said to the little brats, "Look how good your Little Aunt is to you, she remembers you even with good food.
Look around the village, which family's Little Aunt is this generous?
People must have a grateful heart; don't forget your Little Aunt when you have good things in the future.
When you grow up, you must also be filial to your Little Aunt..."
Her family did not tolerate ungrateful wretches.
Li Mu immediately chattered on and on, making the children blush and look deeply moved.
It was as if Lin Tang had done something incredibly significant.
"Little Aunt, don't worry, when I grow up, I'll earn money to buy you meat." Gou Dan, being the eldest child of the Lin Family, took the lead in making a pledge.
Chou Dan grew up following Gou Dan closely, but at only four years old, he was muddled and didn't understand what the adults were saying.
He echoed his older brother, shouting, "Buy meat, for Little Aunt... buy meat."
Lin Tang: "..."
As an adult, why would she need children to buy her meat!
Was this how her Parents had always educated their nephews in her memory?
Too shocked, the fingers holding the bowl trembled.
Her appearance, however, looked to Li Fu and Li Mu like their daughter was simply too easily moved.
The old couple's protective feelings for their daughter surged straight to their foreheads as they imagined things.
They secretly thought: It seems we need to educate these little brats more on how to be filial to their Little Aunt in the future.
Lin Tang, unaware that she would be specially looked after later, handed the spoon to Gou Dan.
She said with a smile, "Gou Dan, you are the older brother, you divide it."
Gou Dan froze, licked his lips, and sucked the egg custard from the corner of his mouth into his mouth.
He looked blankly at Lin Tang, pointed at his own small nose in disbelief, and asked, "...I, I get to divide it?"
This entire bowl of egg custard was for them?!
And *he*... was the one to divide it?
For a moment, Gou Dan's small body suddenly burst forth with an unprecedented sense of pride.
His little face turned red with joy.
The food at home had always been divided by Grandma.
He was actually being given such an important task; even his father had never had one.
Did this mean he was more capable than his father?
Gou Dan became Excited, puffing out his small chest proudly.
The way he looked at Lin Tang also became joyful.
Lin Tang didn't realize that simply wanting to go out for another stroll to see if she could pick up any more good things, and casually handing the small task of dividing the egg custard to the eldest, Gou Dan, had caused him to imagine all of this.
Thinking about the Family's meals, Lin Tang felt a bit heavy-hearted.
She said to Li Xiuli, "Mother, let's stir-fry an Egg tonight. The work in the fields is so hard; you all need to replenish your strength well."
"Stir-fry Eggs? No stir-frying." Li Xiuli shook her head and refused.
"Every family gets through it this way. The Eggs are kept for you; you lost so much blood, you need to recover properly.
If your older brothers get greedy, they can go find good things themselves.
Whatever they pick up, even if one person eats it all, I won't care.
The things you pick up, Mother must save for you to eat slowly."
The Eldest Daughter-in-law was relatively generous.
The Second Daughter-in-law was petty, hoarding everything in her own room; she was extremely short-sighted.
She absolutely would not let her daughter suffer a loss.
Lin Tang knew Li Mu couldn't resist her acting cute, so she suppressed the unfamiliarity and awkwardness in her heart, pulled on her mother's sleeve, and looked pleadingly.
"Mother, just stir-fry a few. I already promised my brothers.
Look how thin my brothers are, and how thin you and Father have become. If you don't feel bad for them, I do."
"It's just Wild Eggs; it's something we got for free anyway. Just pretend I didn't find them today, okay?"
"How long has it been since you all even tasted Eggs? Just be extravagant this one time, alright?"
Li Xiuli's eyes turned slightly red, and she patted her daughter's hand.
"Alright, alright, Mother promises you, we'll stir-fry Eggs tonight."
Which young girl wouldn't want to hoard all the good food in her own room?
Only her daughter was foolish enough that after finally finding a few Eggs, she insisted on sharing them with the Family.
How could she not dote on such a daughter?!
"It's getting late; isn't it time to change your dressing? Come, let's go back to the room, Mother will change your dressing for you."
Li Xiuli turned her face aside to wipe her eyes, Pulling Lin Tang back to her room.
Lin Tang, whose heart was set on going treasure hunting, threw up her hands in exasperation, "..."
Lin Tang's room was on the far right. It wasn't large, but it had excellent lighting, and a Jujube tree was planted outside the window.
In front of the window sat a small, very old-looking desk, and next to the single bed was a Wardrobe as old as the desk.
Newspapers were pasted on the walls, making it look clean.
It didn't look like a rural house from this era at all.
Li Xiuli carefully removed the white cloth from her daughter's head.
She looked closely; it had stopped bleeding.
It should heal well with some more care.
Lin Tang had originally worried that the injury on her head would heal too quickly and be discovered, but unexpectedly, the System intelligently created a camouflage.
The inside was healed, but the surface still looked injured!
There was a one-hour break at noon.
After a whistle blew, the Production Brigade's Commune members went to go to work.
Before leaving, Li Xiuli instructed Lin Tang.
"Tangtang, your head injury hasn't healed yet, so just rest at home, don't make Mother Worry."
Lin Tang looked at her mother's frail body, feeling a pang of sadness.