Chapter 1011 Three Eggs
While they were talking, the aunt who had just brought them ginger soup had already brought the food.
In the basin were cooked sweet potatoes, and in a bowl was sauerkraut, but this sauerkraut had been stir-fried with chili peppers, still steaming with the fragrance of chilies wafting through the air, evidently prepared especially to entertain them.
In another bowl were three boiled eggs.
This was probably the best thing they had to offer guests.
As soon as Xiaoyu saw the eggs, she panicked.
Talking non-stop, she argued back and forth with the old lady.
Considering the bowl, Bai Xiao still went ahead and took it.
"What’s up with Xiaoyu?"
The old lady saw Bai Xiao take the bowl and immediately nodded satisfactorily, pointed at the items, and said a few words to her.
"We can’t accept these eggs from the old lady. You don’t know, the old lady has three sons and two daughters, but the youngest son had polio since childhood, the second son is mentally disabled, and the family relies entirely on the village chief. He has to support his parents, take care of two brothers, and even though the two sisters are married off, they are unable to help their home family effectively.
The family’s two chickens produce these eggs which they sell to earn a little money to buy necessities like firewood, rice, oil, and salt. They usually wouldn’t eat them themselves, so for them to bring out three eggs at once is worth the money to buy a pound of salt."
Only then did they understand that the hosts were truly offering their utmost sincerity to entertain them.