Chapter 468: When you are truly hungry, you can eat anything

The little ones had plenty of energy, but they soon felt bored and sleepy, and before long, they were each sprawled out on the upper berths, fast asleep.

Tangyuan randomly jumped onto one of the little masters' beds and curled up in the little master's arms to catch up on sleep.

Shen Man wasn't in a hurry to nap; she took out the second volume of the medical book written by her master and senior fellow apprentice and read it with great interest.

Ever since her master and senior fellow apprentices wrote the first volume a few years ago and achieved great success, the president of the Xinhua News Agency had specially visited to invite her master and senior fellow apprentice to co-author the second volume.

After more than three years of gestation, the second volume was finally successfully compiled. Through the printing of the Xinhua News Agency, it had already been released.

Traditional Chinese medicine is broad and profound. The first volume talked about drugs and drug principles, growth cycles, processing methods, efficacy formulas, and practical cases.

The second volume was about acupuncture, pulse-taking, meridians, and other techniques.

Although she was currently working in a hospital and mostly used Western medical equipment, having more skills wouldn't weigh her down; learning another skill was good.

The quiet atmosphere lasted until the evening. In the evening, Jiang Ye heard the sound of the dining car calling out, so he pushed open the door of the room to order boxed meals.

The children had grown up and weren't as easy to fool as when they were little. Without exposing his wife's space, they were extremely careful when taking things from the space, fearing that the children would discover clues.

"I want four boxed meals."

"I want five boxed meals."

Jiang Ye and the man in the opposite room said in unison, though the quantities were different.

"Alright, please wait a moment, you two."

The middle-aged woman selling the boxed meals smiled happily. Neither of these two rooms was short of money; the boxed meals they wanted were the best grade, and they ordered four or five at a time. Profit, profit!

Jiang Ye calmly sized up the man opposite, and the man opposite was also sizing up Jiang Ye.

Both felt a sense of mutual appreciation; confirming the look in their eyes, they were likely both people from the military.

However, this wasn't a good time for small talk; both had missions to carry out, so they didn't communicate, just nodded slightly and turned back to their respective sleepers.

"I'm starving. Guard Liu, what's in today's boxed meal?"

"Braised pork with quail, over rice."

Guard Liu closed the door, placed the lunch boxes on the table, and distributed them to everyone.

Carrying out this kind of mission didn't mean they had to scrimp and save. Maintaining good physical strength—if they didn't eat and drink their fill, how would they have the energy to work?

"Ah, this dish again; I'm sick of eating it."

Xu Fengnian complained dissatisfiedly, displaying the carefree nature of a teenager to the fullest.

"Xu Fengnian, sit down properly. Eat it or don't; if you don't eat, you can go hungry."

Xu's father didn't indulge his son's bad habits, sternly rebuking him without any intention of indulging him.

Seeing his wife about to speak up for their son, he glared at her. "A doting mother spoils her son. You need to think about it: if you keep indulging your son like this, when we get to the new place, if your son's temper causes a huge disaster, you won't even know who to cry to when you want to cry!"

Guard Liu and his brother Hu Tian exchanged a look and both took their boxed meals and huddled in the corner.

The leader was reprimanding his own son; the two of them, as outsiders, wouldn't get involved.

Honestly, they were very disgusted by those arrogant second-generation officials who didn't know what was good for them.

For no other reason than stupidity.

This leader's son was noisy and naive, but he hadn't reached the point of being truly disgusting.

If he could maintain this childlike innocence and do good things in the future, they felt it was fine.

If this second-generation official went down the wrong path in the future, they wouldn't show any mercy!

Father Xu knew this truth, which was why he had always been restraining his wife and son.

It was just that they had a child late in life, and this only son had been spoiled by his mother to be a bit too naive and speak without thinking.

He had been bullied terribly when he was on the farm before, which left him without the ability to protect his wife and son, causing his son's personality to be a bit eccentric.

A few years ago, the higher-ups cleared his name and gave him a local official position, so their conditions improved, but at the same time, because the child had suffered so much before, his wife had indulged him a bit...

Now the higher-ups had entrusted him with an important task, appointing him as a municipal-level department head in the Northeast. He knew this was an opportunity, but also a greater challenge.

An official of this level could not have a shred of greed in their hands.

Otherwise, they would be doomed and would fail the cultivation of the Party and the country.

He had also thought for a long time and decided that after arriving at the destination, he would have a good talk with his wife and son, telling them to restrain themselves, not to get carried away, and not to be used by others...

Fortunately, after Xu Fengnian muttered a few words, seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he put away his sharp comments.

His parents were eating quietly; how could he dare to truly go against his dad?

Although he said that, when he was truly hungry, he could eat anything, and everything tasted delicious.

The movements in the room next door fell completely into Jiang Ye's ears; there was no help for it, the distance was too close, and it wasn't soundproof. Through the conversation in the other room, Jiang Ye roughly guessed that the other party's identity was somewhat special.

Interesting, that family opposite was also going to the Northeast; they were traveling the same way, and they would likely run into each other to buy boxed meals in the next few days...

"What's wrong, A-Ye? Eat quickly, eat more; the children and I can't eat this much."

After Shen Man opened the boxed meal, she put most of the braised pork into the man's bowl; there was too much meat, and it was fatty, so she didn't like eating it.

There was sauce, and the braised salted fish brought from home; it was enough for her to eat with rice.

The children followed suit, putting the extra food from their bowls into their dad's.

"Dad, you eat more."

"Dad, eat the meat."

"Stop putting it in for now. You eat first; I'll finish the leftovers."

Jiang Ye's appetite was definitely larger than his wife and children's combined, so he had specially bought four boxed meals, because his wife would leave half, and the children would leave more than half.

"Does Tangyuan want to eat?"

"Tangyuan likes eating sponge cake; it doesn't like these meals very much. There are live fish there; if Tangyuan wants to eat, it can eat whenever it wants."

Shen Man replied; Tangyuan was still fast asleep on the upper berth, with no intention of waking up at all.

Tangyuan's favorite foods were sponge cake and dried small fish.

It had no interest in other foods and didn't particularly want to eat them.

For this trip, she had someone buy plenty of dried small fish in advance, so whenever Tangyuan wanted to eat, it could eat them at any time.

The fish in the lotus pond had also grown quite a bit; if Tangyuan wanted to eat fresh ones, it could catch them directly.

In short, Tangyuan could take whatever it wanted from the space at any time.

"Mm."

Jiang Ye hummed, indicating he understood.

No wonder his wife had asked him to arrange for an oven before; it turned out that making sponge cake was mainly to make snacks for Tangyuan.

Thinking about it, he felt a bit unhappy, thinking, if his wife treated him with such responsiveness, that would be great. ===== CHAPTER 469 =====