The Lantern Festival meal was sure to be a highlight, since they weren't going back to their hometown, their small family home definitely deserved a grand feast for the holiday. Plus, with Ning Ge being in Qing City, it wouldn't do just to let him go to a restaurant and get by with a meal alone.
Cheng Su carried her grocery basket to the agricultural market. On the way back from her in-laws, she had also brought home a live chicken, which she was still keeping. She thought that today would be the day to slaughter it, to spare her the continuous care it required.
During the New Year's celebrations, they'd had chicken stewed with mushrooms, or sometimes stir-fried, to the point of growing tired of it. Cheng Su planned to make something different, soy sauce chicken.
She headed to the ingredient shop to buy the necessary items, weighed a live fish, and bought a handful of chilis and green peppers.
