"Xu Bao, what delicious dish are you making today?"
"Stewed Fish Entrails!"
Upon hearing this dish, Shen Guofu shivered.
As a child, he had heard countless times from Granny Shen how his old home was in the Northeast, right by the river. There, the family often caught fish bigger than a man, and they would stew the fish entrails in a pot with their homemade soybean paste, refusing to trade it even for a pork hock.
This was Granny Shen's childhood experience.
After reaching adulthood, she followed her husband, Mr. Shen, to work in Beijing, where they had two children.
She had thought that with a son and a daughter, she could live a good life.
Unexpectedly, just a few years after Guofu's birth, her husband passed away from an illness, leaving her a widow.
At that time, some people advised her to remarry; others, to return to her hometown.
