Slices of beef and lamb tossed into the pot quickly changed color. Scoop them out and eat them with sauce; the taste may not match the delicacies of fancy hotels, but it carries a flavor that can be found nowhere else. It sublimates automatically in the mouth, creating a transformation on the taste buds that makes the brain remember: this is the most delicious, the best-tasting thing – mom's cooking.
The Kang family's New Year's Eve dinner was no different from usual, and that was precisely how it should always be.
Dinner like this, a home like this, should never change.
Because this is their family's happiness.
......
After dinner, there's a long night ahead. Doing nothing would be too dull.
Ming Mei asked En: "What should we do to stay up tonight?"
Kang Chen said: "Why not play cards again? You love playing cards the most, right?"
Ming Mei nodded: "Sure, sure, the old man can't stay up late, so Yousheng and Xizeer can join us, and the four of us in the family can play..."
