Farm Girl's Manor

After Mo Qingze took his seat, everyone else followed the original seating order and sat down as well. Mo Yan was about to start eating when she saw Tang Xin awkwardly standing on the side without joining the table; she pointed to a few empty chairs by the wall and said, "Tang Xin, there are no outsiders here, move a chair over and eat with us!"

Tang Xin was startled and then a bit flustered as she waved her hands and said, "No, no, I can eat later."

She understood her own status. Once she went to the Government Office to change her household registration, she would become a servant of the Mo Family. Although she did not know the exact rules a servant should follow, she did know that servants should not eat at the same table as their masters.

Mo Yan, well aware of her thoughts, was about to speak when Xin Er got up from the table first and, leaving no room for refusal, pushed Tang Xin into her own chair, handing her a rice bowl and chopsticks. "If you wait, the food will be cold. My home doesn’t have that many rules, just eat peacefully!"

Sitting on pins and needles, Tang Xin could barely hold her chopsticks steady, but after Mo Qingze spoke a few gentle words of persuasion, she carefully picked up the rice bowl.

However, looking at the bowl full of snow-white rice, she couldn’t bear to eat it.

Whether before or after fleeing hardship, the Tang Family always faced tough times, with white rice appearing on the table only during festivals. But since the death of Tang Xin’s birth mother and Tang Yushi’s entry into the Tang Family, she had not had a single grain. Now she only remembered the rice being fragrant and soft, but had forgotten exactly how it tasted.

"What are you thinking about? Eat quickly, it won’t taste good when it’s cold!" Seeing Tang Xin in a daze, Xin Er subtly nudged her with her arm and hurried her to eat by piling a generous helping of garlic shoots stir-fried with pork onto her chopsticks.