The whole scene does look kind of bleak—just eating, but then having a kid hug a trash can while eating, like what's up with that? Fu Rui was feeling bad about it, "Zhenzhen, why are you letting your little brother eat with a trash can? That's so dirty."
Zhenzhen explained, "The trash can is clean. He's eating crispy mooncakes, and if you don't hold them over something, he'll drop crumbs everywhere."
Not just Mei Mengchen, she herself did the same. Though when she ate, she caught the crumbs with her hands.
He Yiran quickly asked, "Chenchen, does it taste good?"
"Yeah, it's super tasty."
Mei Mengchen meant the crispy mooncake, but honestly the regular mooncakes are pretty good too. It's just everyone prefers the crispy kind that Zhenzhen has mentioned several times.
