One meal a day wasn't enough, even with their minimal daily activity, especially since that one meal was never filling.
Xu Ru complained about being hungry every day. Although her family wasn't particularly wealthy, Xu Yuanshan and Tan Jing had always raised their daughter like a princess. She had never been wronged or gone hungry.
Watching her daughter suffer from hunger every day, Tan Jing gradually started thinking about giving her extra food.
It was difficult to do during the day with so many prying eyes around, but nighttime was a different story.
When everyone was asleep, Tan Jing quietly got up without turning on the lights, went to the kitchen, and took out one of the steamed buns from earlier that day.
"Here, eat."
Tan Jing gently shook her sleeping daughter awake and handed her the steamed bun.
She had secretly steamed this bun along with the others, hiding it from Zhou Jingyi.
