Li Jinxiang couldn't help but smile when she saw him putting on an air of generosity, urging the guests to eat. 'He only dares to eat from the two bowls right in front of him,' she thought, 'and won't even reach for the dishes farther away, yet here he is telling others to dig in.'
As if they needed any encouragement.
Meizi was having such a good time that she simply picked up a pig's trotter with both hands and started gnawing on it, leaving her lips shiny and red. She was used to being pampered at home; she found the trotter too slippery to handle with chopsticks and was always dropping it, so she just grabbed it with her hands. No one laughed at her.
Yang Family and Zheng Changhe watched her with loving eyes, even placing more food into Meizi's bowl. Zheng Changhe also went to the kitchen to fetch a clean cloth for her to wipe her hands with later. This made Meizi mumble her thanks with a full mouth, her eyes curving into happy crescents.
