With swift and practiced movements, Li Hua served three bowls of room-temperature peanut curd. Gu Zi took her bowl and immediately took a sip. The taste was rich and delicious, a treat she had grown to love despite having it frequently at the shop. "Sister-in-law, I thought there was none left. How did you know I wanted some?" she asked.
Li Hua handed the remaining two bowls to the Su brothers and set the tray aside, picking up her own bowl to eat. "I knew you were coming today, so I saved some for you. I could tell you loved it the day you taught me how to make it," she replied.
She didn't need her sister-in-law to spell out everything for her. Having received so much kindness from her sister-in-law's family and having started a business under her sister-in-law's guidance, she was grateful. She would never have dared to dream of such things in the past.