"You know, Mother and Father don't have a good relationship. Forcing yourselves to be together will only make you both unhappier, right?"
Xiao Feng's eyes turned red, and he nodded with a hint of tears: "But I don't want Mother and Father to separate. I want to be a child with both a mother and a father."
Although Tao Lengshuang had no children in her previous life, she knew how much damage parental separation could cause a child.
She really wanted to avoid such a situation.
However, it was very clear that Mo Lingxi had no intention of spending his life with her, nor did he plan to get along well with her.
She would not compromise for the sake of a child.
"Xiao Feng has a father and a mother, but Mother and Father will be separating. Do you understand?"
Xiao Feng didn't quite understand, but he knew that Father and Mother would eventually truly separate.
"Can't you be together?"
"No."
Tao Lengshuang did not deliberately deceive or coax him just because he was a child: "Our Xiao Feng wouldn't want Mother to be unhappy either, would he?"
Xiao Feng was an understanding child. Hearing this, he obediently nodded: "Xiao Feng doesn't want Mother to be unhappy."
Tao Lengshuang hugged him and gently comforted him: "Mother will make braised pork for you, okay?"
Xiao Feng managed to muster some energy and said, "Okay."
Seeing this, Tao Lengshuang first took Xiao Feng to tidy up the things they bought in town today and also dressed him in new clothes.
"Look, look, our Xiao Feng looks even more handsome in his new clothes. He's truly Mother's treasure."
After putting on the new clothes, Xiao Feng looked much better.
Xiao Feng looked at his new clothes again, and a slight smile appeared on his thin face: "Mother, the new clothes are so beautiful."
Children's emotions are always like this, coming and going quickly.
After Tao Lengshuang praised Xiao Feng a few times, she felt a tall and cold shadow. She knew who it was without looking.
Her smile vanished instantly: "Is something wrong?"
Mo Lingxi didn't even glance at her. He directly took away all her things from the room and placed them in the kitchen.
Tao Lengshuang was so angry she gritted her teeth, almost unable to resist rushing up to fight him. This damned scoundrel!
After tidying up all the things, she hid the silver in a corner.
"Xiao Feng, Mother will make braised pork for you, not for someone."
She led Xiao Feng to the kitchen and saw her things piled up in a corner.
Considering the coldness of the night, Tao Lengshuang decided to lay down some straw, covered with old clothes, and find some wooden boards tomorrow.
"Mother, Xiao Feng will stay with you tonight." Xiao Feng was extremely distressed and a little resentful of his father.
Tao Lengshuang couldn't bear for her son to suffer with her. She said gently: "You stay with your father tonight, and come stay with Mother tomorrow night."
Seeing his mother's determined look, Xiao Feng could only agree, thinking that he would have a good talk with his father later.
Tao Lengshuang tidied up her things and began to process the meat and pork offal: "Tonight, Xiao Feng can eat as much meat as he wants."
She wouldn't give a single piece of meat to that bastard Mo Lingxi.
As soon as he heard that he could eat meat freely, Xiao Feng's eyes lit up.
He was so tempted that his mouth watered. He nodded like a pecking chicken, his beautiful big eyes never leaving the piece of fatty meat.
Fatty meat, lots and lots of fatty meat, that he could eat as much as he wanted.
He only got to eat a little fatty meat during festivals, and today he could eat his fill.
He felt so happy.
Tao Lengshuang gently pinched his nose and teased: "Look, there's a little glutton here."
Xiao Feng blushed and patted his belly: "Mother, it's not me who wants to eat, it's my belly. My belly says it wants fatty meat."
Tao Lengshuang clapped his belly in surprise: "Belly, do you want to eat fatty meat?"
"Yes, yes, it's my belly that wants to eat, not Xiao Feng." Xiao Feng said with a sly smile.
Tao Lengshuang couldn't help but laugh: "So it's your belly that wants to eat, but your belly doesn't have a mouth, how can it eat?"
"How about Mother eats it for your belly and then tells your belly what it tastes like, okay?"
Xiao Feng became anxious, grabbed her hand, and shook it: "Mother, I'll taste the braised pork for my belly."
Tao Lengshuang stopped teasing him and said, "Okay."
She put the washed fatty meat into a pot of cold water, added some ginger, and then blanched it for a while before taking it out.
She poured an appropriate amount of oil into the pot, added a little sugar, fried it until caramelized, and then added the meat.
With a "sizzle."
A fragrance of meat filled the air.
It made Xiao Feng keep inhaling, his mouth watering: "It smells so good!"
Tao Lengshuang, both amused and heartbroken, added seasonings: "Then Xiao Feng must eat more later and get fatter."
Xiao Feng sucked his fingers, his eyes glued to the meat: "Father and Mother eat more. Xiao Feng is still young, a little is enough."
Tao Lengshuang stroked his head with pity, thinking that she wouldn't give any meat to Mo Lingxi.
While making the braised pork, she started processing the pork offal and pig bones.
The pig bones were for soup, and the pork offal was for stir-frying. Stir-frying some wild vegetables would be enough for tonight.
"Mother, pork offal doesn't taste good. It smells stinky." Xiao Feng was a little disgusted by the pork offal, but he couldn't bear to waste it.
When the family was poor and couldn't afford meat, his father had bought pork offal to eat, and it smelled stinky.
Tao Lengshuang mysteriously sold it as a surprise: "Wait and see if the pork offal smells stinky, Xiao Feng."
If she had enough seasonings, she would have preferred to make braised pork offal, which would taste even better.
Xiao Feng looked expectant. His mother's cooking skills were quite good, so the pork offal she made must taste great.
After dinner was ready, Tao Lengshuang and Xiao Feng stood in the kitchen eating. Looking at the colorful and fragrant dishes on the simple wooden board, Xiao Feng's mouth watered. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
Braised pork, pig bone soup, stir-fried pork offal, and stir-fried wild vegetables.
Paired with coarse rice.
"Drink a bowl of pig bone soup, and then mix the braised pork sauce with the rice. I guarantee our Xiao Feng will eat several bowls."
Tao Lengshuang smiled, served Xiao Feng a bowl of soup, and poured some braised pork sauce onto his rice: "Eat quickly, I made quite a lot."
"Mother, Father..."
Seeing Tao Lengshuang's smile fade, Xiao Feng immediately changed his words: "Mother, eat."
He picked a piece of meat for his mother, then happily started eating with his bowl.
"Delicious, so delicious. Mother's braised pork, pork offal... everything is so delicious. Xiao Feng can eat three big bowls!"
It was the first time he had eaten such delicious and fragrant food.
Tao Lengshuang wiped his mouth, picked up four pieces of lean meat for herself, and served herself another bowl of soup, not daring to ask for more.
No matter how much she craved it, she had to endure.
As someone prone to gaining weight and currently on a diet, she couldn't eat too much meat, and it was best to avoid fatty meat altogether.
Looking at Xiao Feng eating happily, Tao Lengshuang couldn't help but feel envious. Wuwuwu, she also wanted to eat big chunks of meat, to eat freely.
Just then, Mo Lingxi walked directly into the kitchen, served himself a bowl of rice, and stood there eating.