The next day.
Early morning.
"Why aren't you eating?"
Xu Taiping glanced at the bowl of thin rice porridge and the meat patty on the table, then at the siblings before him, and suddenly asked in puzzlement.
"Brother Taiping, we've already eaten."
Lu Yun scarcely dared to look at Xu Taiping.
"What about you, Lu Wen?"
Xu Taiping turned his gaze to Lu Wen beside him.
"Brother Taiping, I-I've eaten too."
Lu Wen licked his lips, then gave Xu Taiping a bright smile.
Xu Taiping frowned at their words.
Of course, he was not frowning over the siblings' well-intentioned lie. What made him frown was that their words were exactly the same as what he had seen with his left eye yesterday.
Without a word, Xu Taiping rose and took two bowls and two pairs of chopsticks from the cupboard beside the stove.
"Let's eat together."
Xu Taiping divided the porridge into two bowls, then split the meat patty into three portions and handed the siblings one portion each.
The siblings froze at first.
Then the elder sister, Lu Yun, smiled at Lu Wen beside him and said:
"Eat, A Wen."
"Mm. You eat too, Sister."
Lu Wen nodded obediently.
Watching the siblings, who were so considerate that it made his heart ache, Xu Taiping felt a little pang of sorrow, but also breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.
That was because the scene of him sharing out the patty and porridge had not appeared in what he had seen yesterday.
In the scenes he had seen yesterday.
This morning, Lu Yun had prepared porridge and a meat patty for him, but out of sympathy for the siblings, he had not eaten them and had instead gone out to buy food on the street.
As a result, however, the fiercely