Gu Shaozhen and Zheng Shaojin were, after all, nineteen-year-old boys. After patiently following their elders' instructions and escorting their younger siblings around all morning, they were getting restless. They found an excuse to slip away and went to find their own circle of friends.
Xiao Man wandered the nearby streets for a while with Gu Shaoqin and Gu Shaoling before heading home. When she got back, Zhou Hui Lan pulled her aside and asked her how to make that braised winter melon dish. Her mother-in-law had come home last night praising it endlessly, but no one knew how to cook it.
Xiao Man followed Zhou Hui Lan to the kitchen. Since it was a gathering of the two families, someone from the Tang family ought to help out. It couldn't be her grandparents, and Mr. Tang was a man with no culinary skills to speak of. That meant Xiao Man would be their representative.
