"Sorry for the wait." After carrying a large pot of rice over to the dining table, Mei Ling Hyuga smiled at the three men and spoke softly.
"It's all right, Aunt Meiling. Hurry and put it down. Isn't it burning your hands?" Ruri stood up and asked Mei Ling Hyuga with concern.
"Thank you, Ruri. I'm fine. All right, all right, sit down and start eating," Mei Ling Hyuga told Ruri gently.
After hearing what Mei Ling Hyuga had just said, Ruri nodded with a smile, then sat back down in his seat.
Mei Ling Hyuga then divided all the rice in the pot evenly among the others.
"All right, now that the rice is here, we can really start eating. There aren't many leftovers left, so let's finish them all off. Don't leave anything this time," Hizashi Hyuga told the others with a smile.
Ruri and the other two nodded with smiles after hearing what Hizashi Hyuga had just said, then began eating the food on the plates with the chopsticks in their hands.
Just like that, they sat around the dining table and ate together. This should have been their dinner. It was already so late that everyone else had eaten.
Before long, they had finished all the vegetables on the plates, as well as all the rice in their bowls.
"I'm so full. I didn't expect Aunt Meiling's stir-fried dishes to still taste so good after sitting for so long," Ruri told Mei Ling Hyuga with a smile.
After hearing what Ruri had just said, Mei Ling Hyuga also spoke softly in great surprise. "Actually, I never expected these dishes I stir-fried to keep their original flavor after sitting for so long, either. It really surprised me, too. And when I took my first bite just now,