With Nathan and Adrian, she had a complete life, and it was this simple happiness that made Mandy understand what family meant.
The next morning, Adrian, Mandy, and Nathan were having breakfast in the yard. A fresh breeze was gently blowing outside. It was already late autumn, the most comfortable time of the year. Mandy had always felt fresh in autumn.
Mandy recently found a healthcare porridge recipe online. It was made up of more than ten kinds of grains as well as black beans, red beans, and millet.
According to the article, she read online, eating this kind of porridge could help maintain one's vitality and beauty and clear toxins from the body. Today, she prepared it for her husband and her son for breakfast. They were enjoying it together.
She especially told Lillian to go to the supermarket to buy the grains. Lillian bought a huge bag of them. Two days into eating the healthcare porridge, Mandy liked it very much, but later on, she felt sick of it and did not want to eat it anymore.
Nathan made fun of her for not being able to persist. Because she did not want her husband to look down on her for not being consistent, she decided to "endure" and just eat the porridge.
Truth be told, Mandy did not really like eating the porridge. It did not really have any taste.
Nathan was reading the paper while eating wonton from his bowl. The wonton's aroma floated in the air and filled Mandy's nose.
Mandy pursed her lips and stared at the large bowl of porridge in front of her. She found it really hard to swallow, so she moved her eyes and looked at Nathan's bowl.
Nathan suddenly smirked. He looked at Mandy, who looked distressed, and said, "Since the porridge tastes awful, why don't you just give up and have some wonton with me?"
A flicker of hesitation flashed in Mandy's eyes, but after a few seconds, she said resolutely, "No. It tastes bad, but it can help maintain my beauty and keep me looking young. The grains are definitely good for my health."
"Mom, why are you being so hard on yourself?" Adrian was eating steamed buns. The savory smell of the meat floated in the air as well, which Mandy found very tempting.
Mandy was starting to get pissed off at her husband and son. They ate the porridge with her for a week, but after that, they changed their minds. No matter how much Mandy asked them or even threatened them, they refused to eat another spoonful of the healthcare porridge.
On several occasions, Mandy went into the kitchen and saw the huge pot of grain. She thought, 'This should be enough for me to eat for a year.'
"Adrian, do you want to grow taller? Do you want to become more handsome?" Mandy put down the spoon in her hand and looked at her son with a friendly smile.
Adrian was a frank boy. He nodded and said with bright eyes, "Of course. I want to be as tall and handsome as my father when I grow up."
"Then you have to eat the porridge with me. You will become as handsome as your father if you eat the porridge," Mandy said with an evil smile.
Adrian pouted his lips and turned to look at his father. He asked, "Dad, is that true?"
"Yes, it's true. I also ate it when I was a kid," Nathan said after Mandy winked at him.
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