He had come home relatively early today.
As soon as he got home, Lin Xiuqing helped him take off his coat and served him a bowl of pelican meat.
His wife had stewed it with medicinal tonics, making it sweet. Locally, when they made nourishing stews, they would get some tonic herbs from the pharmacy, then stew them with rice wine and sweeten them.
Lin Xiuqing scooped up a spoonful and held it out to him, smiling. "Have more broth. We all had some at noon, and I took half a pot over to the Old House. This pelican still weighed twenty jin after it was butchered. Eat plenty."
"Mm. Since there's so much, go get yourself another bowl too. Build yourself up. Your constitution's weak, and what you eat nourishes two people."
"If I eat now, I won't have room for dinner. I'll have some later. You eat first and take the edge off your hunger, then have a nap. We'll eat dinner when you wake up."
She was so thoughtful~
Ye Yaodong happily polished off the bowl of pelican soup and felt strength fill his whole body. Apart from being rocked around on the boat, he hadn't done anything tiring anyway, and now he felt even more energetic.
He had no intention of sleeping after eating. If he slept now, he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.
He called over his eldest son, who was out by the back door supposedly watering the vegetables but actually taking the opportunity to play with water, and had him carry the bucket of Fish Catch to the Old House with him.
The two Red Paste Crabs and several fish only weighed four or five jin. With the bucket hanging from the crook of his elbow, the boy could more or less