Shi Lin thought for a moment and asked the Little one:

"Pan'er, did your mother give birth to a younger brother or a younger Meimei?"

"It's a younger Meimei! Little Uncle, have you forgotten?" The Little one happily licked a spoonful of malted milk, looking at Shi Lin with confusion.

"......"

Did you forget?

Shi Lin was speechless; he had clearly heard the Little one say she was saving it for her younger brother just now...

He figured the Little one might have said it wrong.

Seeing how carefully the Little one was eating, he said with a mix of heartache and helplessness:

"There's plenty of malted milk. Pan'er can eat big mouthfuls. If Meimei wants some later, Uncle will make her more. You don't need to save it."

Saying that, he also took out the shortbread and candy.

"There's also shortbread and candy here. Pan'er can take them to eat with the malted milk."

Seeing how the Little one was raised by his Fourth Sister and Fourth Sister's husband, looking malnourished, his heart truly ached.

At the same time, he was also speechless. With their family's condition, they insisted on having children, and when they weren't allowed, they hid elsewhere to give birth. Was having a male child going to make them fly to the heavens?!

At this point, he wasn't in a hurry to go back. He wanted to wait until his Fourth Sister and her husband returned, see his Little niece, and then he would feel at ease going back.

Leaving Xiao Pan'er to eat the malted milk in the room, Shi Lin went into the kitchen and started boiling water, preparing to kill the wild duck they brought from home for his Fourth Sister and her family.

Anyway, he was just idle. He didn't know when his Fourth Sister and her husband would be back?

He looked around the kitchen. Besides some water in the water vat and two or three sweet potato roots, there was nothing else!

Shi Lin was speechless.

Coming back from the fields, are they just going to drink plain water?

No wonder Xiao Pan'er, a three-year-old Little child, was raised into that thin, big-headed appearance.

In this situation, they even had a second child, and they still wanted to keep having more!

Shi Lin shook his head; he truly couldn't understand.

He put the water in the pot to boil, then turned around, got on his bicycle, and left the courtyard.

He rode back to the general store in Shanghe Village, bought twenty catties of rice, twenty catties of white flour, as well as oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and dried mushrooms, spending a total of 13 yuan and 7 mao.

Returning to his Fourth Sister's house, his Fourth Sister and her husband still weren't back.

In the kitchen, the water in the large pot had already boiled.

Xiao Pan'er held a piece of shortbread in her hand and sat in front of the stove, tending the fire.

Seeing Shi Lin return, Xiao Pan'er happily shouted to him: "Little Uncle! The fire didn't go out, it's burning strongly."

"Mm, Pan'er is great."

Shi Lin put down the rice, white flour, and other items, and patted the Little one's head.

Immediately after, he started cooking rice, killing the duck, making soup...

Xiao Pan'er stayed by his side the whole time, running back and forth to help, her dirty Little face full of the bright radiance of childhood.

Twenty minutes later.

Inside the house, the aroma of duck soup and white rice began to spread.

Xiao Pan'er, who had just eaten a bowl of malted milk, a piece of shortbread, and a candy, started drooling again and again.

So fragrant!

Xiao Pan'er, who usually ate coarse grains with boiled water, was truly smelling such a fragrant smell for the first time, even more fragrant than the food they had during the New Year at home.

The Little one's stomach, which had just felt a little full, instantly felt hungry again.

"Little Uncle, when this duck meat and rice are cooked, can Pan'er really eat them?"

During the process of cooking the rice and preparing the duck, the Little one had already asked him the same question several times.

Shi Lin smiled and once again gave the Little one a definite answer.

"Of course, Little Uncle cooked it especially for you to eat!"

"Hehe, Little Uncle is so good!" The Little one giggled, very happy.

"Pan'er is also great! If Pan'er didn't help Little Uncle, Little Uncle would be exhausted."

Shi Lin also encouraged her against his true feelings.

In fact, without the Little one's 'help', he probably could have finished faster...

But seeing the unchangeable smile on the Little one's face, he felt that being a little slower was worth it.

Just as the Uncle and niece were happily tending the fire and waiting for the food to cook, the kitchen door was suddenly pushed open forcefully from the outside.

Bang!

A Little chubby boy ran into the kitchen and shouted loudly to the outside:

"Mother, come quickly, Pandi is here, she's stealing things, they're secretly eating meat here!"

Shi Lin frowned, stood up, and looked outside the kitchen.

At this moment, Xiao Pan'er, upon hearing the Little chubby boy's shout, also looked panicked, hiding behind Shi Lin, looking towards the direction outside the kitchen with some fear.

Soon, they saw a woman with somewhat high cheekbones outside the kitchen, holding the malted milk, shortbread, and candy that Shi Lin had brought over, eating as she walked.

Xiao Pan'er said softly with some fear: "Dama, Pan'er didn't steal anything, these were all brought by Little Uncle."

Hearing Xiao Pan'er's words, Shi Lin basically understood. This woman was the wife of his Fourth Sister's husband's Brother, and likely the mother of the Little chubby boy in front of him.

Shi Lin looked at the woman, his face showing anger, and said:

"Eldest Sister-in-law, what is the meaning of this?

I brought some things for my Fourth Sister and my niece, how did it become stealing in your Son's mouth? And, did I let you eat it?"

"Ah?"

Hearing Shi Lin's words, the woman was stunned for a moment, then put on a smiling face and said apologetically,

"So it's the second Brother's Little Uncle who has come. I'm sorry, we were coming to call Pandi to come eat. When we came over and smelled the fragrance, we thought a thief had entered the house, so..."

"Who do you see bringing things into someone else's house when a thief enters? Even if a thief entered, you shouldn't just pick up other people's things and eat them, right? Are they yours?"

Just now, seeing that Little chubby boy, hearing his words, and observing this Eldest Sister-in-law's demeanor and actions, Shi Lin strongly disliked them.

Today he was here, but if he hadn't been, Pan'er wouldn't know how much they would bully her.

What kind of good person, seeing delicious food at their second Brother's house, would say it was stolen? What could a three-year-old Little sprout steal? And pick it up and eat it? Prepare to take it away?

"This... I'm sorry, we were also anxious, afraid that a thief would come to the second Brother's house, so we thought of putting the things away first..."

The woman also knew she was in the wrong and kept apologizing.

"Afraid of a thief? Your Son wasn't shouting that just now. As soon as he came in, he said Pan'er stole things. Do you think I'm deaf?"

Even though the woman kept apologizing, Shi Lin was still very dissatisfied.

He felt that this Eldest Sister-in-law and the Little chubby boy definitely often bullied Xiao Pan'er.

Seeing how Xiao Pan'er was trembling with fear at this moment was enough to show the situation.

At this point, before the woman could speak, the Little chubby boy suddenly pointed at Xiao Pan'er and shouted loudly:

"Pandi did steal things. All the delicious food at home is mine. Her secretly eating meat here is stealing things! Stealing my meat!"

!!!

Hearing this sentence, Shi Lin's pupils constricted, his fists clenched, and he almost couldn't help but kick the Little chubby boy flying out.

What kind of ridiculous statement is this?

All the delicious food at home is his, and whoever eats meat is stealing his meat?!

No wonder Xiao Pan'er was raised like a bean sprout, while he was a Little chubby boy!

What the heck.

If he hadn't had some rationality left at this moment, he would have truly wanted to hang this Little chubby boy up and beat him.

Bang!

Shi Lin angrily punched the kitchen table, creating a hole in the table that had been used for many years.

The woman was startled and quickly pulled the Little chubby boy out of the kitchen, explaining:

"Child's Little Uncle, don't be angry, the Little child is ignorant and talks nonsense, it's not like that."

"Well, since you've already cooked, we'll go back first."

After saying that, the woman didn't even take the malted milk and other things, picked up the Little chubby boy, and quickly walked towards the adjacent courtyard.

As soon as they left, Shi Lin's Fourth Sister and her husband finally returned, carrying hoes.