Anyway, it wasn't too much effort.
Chen Jianjun was very filial. He held his little daughter for a while, then put her down to help with serving the dishes.
During mealtime, the two little ones sat on a bench together.
Gu Tingyun gave a piece of cured meat, half fat and half lean, to Helian Qiao.
Even though the little hamster wasn't picky about meat, it preferred the kind where fat and lean were evenly distributed.
He himself liked lean meat and disliked anything too oily.
But the Chen family, and even most of the rural folks, liked fatty meat.
After all, their chance to eat meat was scarce and they needed the energy for farming. The more oily food they ate, the more energy they had!
So before they divided their meals, gobbling up fatty meat was like waging a war. Only after it was done they would go for the lean meat.
Now this plate of cured meat had satisfied three different preferences, so there was no need to fight over it.