About half an hour later, dish after dish was ready, and the woman brought them out one by one. They were all made from common ingredients, and tasted quite average, but Yang Xiao ate with relish, and Wang Yue Qianxun followed suit, eating a lot.
The woman did not eat; she simply watched Yang Xiao. Seeing him devour his rice, she smiled and told him to eat slowly, her eyes filled with motherly love.
The food tasted average, quite different from how Sato Shouta had described it to him, but Yang Xiao understood. Firstly, the woman lived a hard life, with no money to buy good ingredients. Secondly, struck by the double blow of Sato Shouta's disappearance and her husband's death, the woman had mental health issues, leaving her no mood to cook delicious meals for herself. Over these seven years, her once superb cooking skills had long been neglected.
