Episode 3 recap: Chi Yue cooks chicken soup for the children.
Chi Yue sensed Li Ziqiang's hostility towards her and couldn't help but conclude that the previous Chi Yue was truly unkind to them. Looking at the children who had lost their parents, she couldn't bear to abandon them. Chi Yue proposed three rules, promising to repay the twenty taels of silver, but the children had to live in peace with her. However, the most important thing at the moment was that they had no food to eat. Li Zixi no longer wanted to eat wild vegetable porridge. She wanted to drink fragrant chicken soup.
Chi Yue agreed that they would have chicken soup today. She made a makeshift slingshot with her own hair rope, and to her surprise, she had good luck and caught two wild chickens with a single shot. However, she had never killed a chicken before and had no idea how to handle it. The three children didn't know either. Chi Yue had no choice but to take a kitchen knife and try to butcher the chickens. After struggling for a while, she finally managed to prepare the chickens. Lighting a fire became another big problem. Chi Yue filled the entire kitchen with smoke, causing the three children to quickly run away due to the irritation, while she persisted in making the chicken soup.
Li Ziqiang looked at the chicken soup given to him by Chi Yue. His teenage pride prevented him from drinking the soup calmly. Chi Yue deliberately enjoyed the soup's aroma and then mentioned that it was a pity it had spilled. Only then did Li Ziqiang pick up the bowl. Uncle Li Cui and Aunt Li discussed Chi Yue's changes. Both of them clearly remembered that Chi Yue had pretended to be dead to sell Li Zichen and divide the money. They had no idea why Chi Yue suddenly changed her mind. Li Cui decided that they couldn't let Chi Yue stay, so he whispered a plan to Aunt Li.
Ji Hong, who had just arrived at the entrance of the village, encountered the enthusiastic Li Cui. Li Cui deliberately made Ji Hong's carriage get stuck in the mud pit in front of Chi Yue's house and then asked him to seek Chi Yue's help.
The plot of this drama is good, but the details are lacking. How can a poor family afford candles? Candles like those are only used by wealthy households, it's too unrealistic.
And then, the clothes of the poor family's children are all patched up, but look at how nice the clothes actually are.