Lu Siyuan's cooking skills were not particularly good, but compared to some people, they were satisfactory. He cooked five or six dishes with a mix of meat, vegetables, and a soup. Ignoring the housing, just from the food, there seemed to be little difference from the 21st century.
Everyone was used to eating this way in the city, so nobody found it odd. Grandpa Lu, although he lived in the village, wasn't stingy. In his view, as long as no food was wasted, he didn't mind how much was eaten.
A phrase he liked to repeat was, "You come with nothing, and you leave with nothing. Eat what should be eaten, drink what should be drunk." In the past, they were frugal in order to save money for Lu Siyuan's education, but now Lu Siyuan earned far more than what he had saved, so he was reassured.
