Translator: RandomAlex
Editor: Makoto
Xuan Lele has recently hit another learning peak, and was too busy to eat every day. Wei Mingyan saw her working so hard and volunteered to deliver her food.
The girls’ dorm room wouldn’t let the boys in, so each time Wei Mingyan brought his lunch box to school, Xuan Lele came down from her dorm room, and the two of them went to the cafeteria to eat together.
Although the students here didn’t really mind whether the people sitting next to them bought or brought their own food, as the canteen was set up by the school and anyone could sit around there, it was still very torturous every time they smelt the thick fragrance wafting along the windows.
Wei Mingyan is a man who was dubbed the devil on the live broadcast website. After his unremitting efforts, the dishes he made not only look good, but also taste good. Even the fragrance alone could make people unconsciously drool.
Of course, it was unknown to outsiders if the dishes he made contain ‘little secrets’ that do not belong to this world.
Xuan Lele worships her boyfriend, but now she was like a mouse falling into a rice bowl. Every day, Wei Mingyan feeds with various delicacies, making her face a little rounder.
Yang Qing didn’t worry less, looking at this girl’s increasingly round face. After all, the trend nowadays is to have a sharp jawline. Not to mention girls, even men need to have a sharp jawline to look good.
She then advised Xuan Lele to start losing weight or eating less, when Xuan Lele finally had a look at herself in the mirror.
She really has gained a little weight.
“No, your face just has to be rounder to look better, and I really don’t think you’ve gained any weight on your belly, legs, or anything like that.”
In response to his girlfriend’s attempt to lose weight, Wei Mingyan expressed disapproval. “It’s easy to get sick when she’s so into a handful of ribs. I think you are just perfect right now.”
To say nothing of Xuan Lele, who has a highly suggestible temperament, she had eaten plenty of sweets of generous portions over the past few days, but her stomach was indeed still as flat as it had been.
And her face was round, as if it really looks a little better than before.
Yang Qing firmly believed that this was because Xuan Lele was radiant in love. Looking at this couple every day, she felt like she elevated herself and refreshed her perception of a good man.
They simply took a tape to measure, but the final result made Yang Qing straighten her eyes.
“This, how is that possible …?”
This whole time, she eats fish and meat daily without doing a single workout. Why is her waist this thin, and her calf seems to be more symmetrical than before? Then, she looked at Xuan Lele, who was accompanied by her boyfriend with deep affection and delicious food these days, her beautiful eyes smiling into a crescent moon, the skin on her face bright, clean and white. Her slightly round face really made her whole facial features three-dimensional, and it really fits her.
Yang Qing realized that her friend, whom she had lived together for so long, had suddenly become much more beautiful!!
Yes, her face was rounder, but she looked better because of it!
Even the breakouts she had from studying late at night previously were gone, and now her beautiful face was just like an egg shell, making people’s hands itching to touch it.
“Impossible, I’ve heard of people getting skinny and counter attacking, but how come there are still ones that look better when they get fatter?”
Yang Qing praised Xuan Lele for a long while, and although her face was not red, Xuan Lele felt a little embarrassed. “Maybe it’s because Mingyan gave me stew, and you know that he does live broadcasts. These days, the content of the live broadcasts was about supplement soups, which he gives me every time he brings a meal.”
“Supplement soup …?” Yang Qing repeated. “Do soup supplements have such a powerful effect? I have eaten it before, but why haven’t I looked good…”
“Mingyan’s supplement soup seems to be made from a secret family recipe. When I drink it, I can obviously feel that my spirit is much better and my body is warm. Remember how my feet used to get cold at night? It’s much better these days.”
Xuan Lele has been washing clothes by the river since she was a child. Her grandmother was old, has arthritis, feels uncomfortable in winter, and can’t touch water, but she had to work hard for her granddaughter. Xuan Lele was sensible when she was a child, and she washed her clothes quickly after school every day.
When she was a child, they had to use firewood to boil water. Chopping firewood was hard work. The old and the young didn’t have much strength, so they had to wash clothes with cold water. Xuan Lele got cold, and from the first onset of the cold, her face turned white with pain. At that time, she was young and didn’t take it seriously. However, it progressed to her feet being cold at night even when she was under the covers. Unfortunately, she didn’t know that it was because she didn’t drink enough milk before she was a full month old.
Even worse in winter, she can’t even get a hand warmer. She would always be cold even when she put on her shoes. This problem made her suffer a lot.
However, after drinking the soup stewed by her boyfriend these days, her feet were actually a little warm.
“It’s that amazing??”
Yang Qing also knew her best friend’s problem. Every time Xuan Lele suffered from menstrual cramps, she took care of her, helped her with class notes, delivered meals and hot water. Later, Wei Mingyan came, and this job was replaced by that man.
She felt a little depressed thinking about it, feeling like the big cabbage she raised has been eaten by a pig.
Then, Xuan Lele received a phone call from her boyfriend. She immediately smiled sweetly, and went downstairs at a brisk pace.
“Here, the Dang Ginseng Tonic Soup. Drink this for the next few days. I processed it according to a special method, so keep drinking it for a week and you won’t be in so much pain next time.”
The two sat face to face in front of the dining room table. Wei Mingyan was practically performing a magic trick, opening one lid at a time to reveal the other three dishes.
“There are so many today!” Xuan Lele took a mouthful of the delicious food in surprise and couldn’t wait to lift her chopsticks to eat.
Right now, she has completely adapted to her boyfriend’s status as ‘Kitchen God’, and she didn’t need to lose weight. Her mouth was already salivating and ready to eat happily.
“Well, I have no class today, so I made more. There are two new dishes today. Have a taste and see whether you like them or not. If you like them, I will keep making them next time.”
The man’s gentle and nice soothing voice reached the ears of a couple sitting at a table behind them. The woman then looked at the kung pao chicken in front of her, which the aunt in the canteen fried in a big pot. As expected, it wasn’t that refined. Even the aroma wasn’t noticeable.
She poked it with chopsticks and looked at her boyfriend who was busy eating. “Look at the others!”
Her pock-faced boyfriend looked up in confusion, and scratched the back of his head. “I don’t know how to cook, so why don’t we go out for hotpot tonight?”
“Eating hotpot makes you get acne.”
“Do you want to eat barbecue?”
“Barbecue is not going to give you acne!”
“Hiss …… Then how about we go for Malatang?”
(TNote: Malatang = super-hot spicy soup, eaten like hot pot.)
His girlfriend stopped talking and looked down angrily and took a bite of the kung pao chicken. “If I didn’t like you, you would have been kicked away by me!”
The pockmarked face boyfriend blushed for this sudden confession. “I like you, too.”
“Eat your meal!”
When the two of them were sweetly feeding each other. Suddenly, they heard Xuan Lele’s stiff voice. “You, what did you say?”
“What happened to my grandmother??!”
The sound of chopsticks falling was inconspicuous in the whole canteen, but it was very conspicuous for the couple who were paying attention to them. They looked at each other and looked at the table in front while the two people quickly left.
“Something seems to have happened at that girl’s house …”
“It looks so urgent… I hope it’s okay.”
“Their food is still on the table though, and they haven’t taken a bite. Isn’t it a bit wasteful? Besides, it looks really delicious …”
Wei Mingyan accompanied Xuan Lele as they travelled all the way to a remote mountain village.
When they reached a road leading to the village, the bus dropped them off and they had to walk the rest of the way on their own. It had just rained here, and when they came to Xuan Lele’s house, their trousers were already covered with yellow mud.
“Lele…”
The village chief was standing by the door, and when he saw Xuan Lele coming, his wrinkled face greeted her with sorrow. “Your grandmother, um…”
He didn’t have the heart to look at the young man who came back with Xuan Lele now. When he saw Xuan Lele stagger in with red eyes, he sighed and pulled out his own dry cigarette and squatted at the door to smoke it.
Wei Mingyan accompanied Xuan Lele into the little musty house. It was not that the old person didn’t clean it up, but that their house was just like this. It rained and got wet, and they couldn’t get any sun. Even if time went by, it wouldn’t smell any better.
“Grandma!”
At the sight of the old person, with gray hair and her eyes closed as she laid down on the bed, Xuan Lele’s tears burst out and she jumped to the side of the bed to hold her grandmother’s hand, which was covered with spots that came with age.
“Lele, Lele ah…”
The old woman who had just fallen asleep woke up after hearing her granddaughter’s voice. She opened her muddled eyes, her hands shaking as she grabbed Xuan Lele’s, and mumbled, “You can’t let them tear down your parents’ graves. They can’t do this. If they move the graves, they can’t reincarnate and can only be wandering ghosts…”
“No, no, call the village chief. I want to tell him that they can’t move my daughter’s grave…”
The village head who was smoking a cigarette at the door heard her call him, and with a sad face, he stood up slowly. “Big sister, it’s really not that I don’t want to help you. It’s because now the whole village is talking about moving the grave…”
Wei Mingyan frowned when he heard it. “Sorry to interrupt, has the mountain where Lele’s parents were buried been bought?”
“That wasn’t what happened, but the grave is facing the five Qiu’s home in the village. His family has become miserable. Father Qiu became crippled a few years ago, and his eldest son drowned. The younger son fell into the river some time ago but was luckily rescued. They thought it had to be the Xuan family’s grave that was causing the troubles…”
“No!! My daughter and son-in-law were the most obedient and well-behaved people, and they are fine. It’s Qiu Wu who has done something wrong, he’s guilty…”
“Big sister, the whole village is in a panic because of Qiu Wu. If I hadn’t stopped them, they would have just dug the graves by force. Look at it this way, I’ll let the village people raise some money…”
“I don’t want it!!!” The old woman on the bed was violently trying to sit up from the bed as if she was in a rage. “Haven’t my family been victimized enough?! My youngest daughter, my eldest daughter, you insist on making my Xuan family die out!!!”
This sharp voice was filled with the old woman’s sorrowful vicissitudes. Xuan Lele saw her agitated and even stepped forward to soothe her, “Grandma, grandma, don’t get excited…”
“Lele, hurry up. Get out of here and never come back. Everyone here is going to hell! Not only did they kill my two daughters, but they also had to dig up their graves. Everyone in the village doesn’t know that if you dig a grave, you’ll never live after eternity ahhhhh!!!”
“Village head, excuse me, does Mr. Qiu Wu, who asked to move his grave, have a certificate of contracted land or barren hills in his hand?”
Wei Mingyan laid before the village chief the legal provisions he had just searched out. “In the laws of China, even if a person has contracted the barren hills, they need to sign an agreement with Xuan Lele’s grandma to move the graves, and then provide some compensation. Only after consultation between the two parties can they move the graves. These two things are indispensable. If even one thing is missing, it’s enough to bring Mr. Qiu Wu to court.”
The foolish, small village, with little or no communication with the outside world does have a unique way of passing down feudal superstitions.
But, to say that the entire village didn’t have a single young person who knew the law was nonsense. More than that, they were oppressing Xuan Lele’s grandmother, who was too old to understand, and Xuan Lele, who was too young to overpower them.
It’s really nice to be from a poor mountain village.
Translator: RandomAlex
Editor: Makoto
Xuan Lele has recently hit another learning peak, and was too busy to eat every day. Wei Mingyan saw her working so hard and volunteered to deliver her food.
The girls’ dorm room wouldn’t let the boys in, so each time Wei Mingyan brought his lunch box to school, Xuan Lele came down from her dorm room, and the two of them went to the cafeteria to eat together.
Although the students here didn’t really mind whether the people sitting next to them bought or brought their own food, as the canteen was set up by the school and anyone could sit around there, it was still very torturous every time they smelt the thick fragrance wafting along the windows.
Wei Mingyan is a man who was dubbed the devil on the live broadcast website. After his unremitting efforts, the dishes he made not only look good, but also taste good. Even the fragrance alone could make people unconsciously drool.
Of course, it was unknown to outsiders if the dishes he made contain ‘little secrets’ that do not belong to this world.
Xuan Lele worships her boyfriend, but now she was like a mouse falling into a rice bowl. Every day, Wei Mingyan feeds with various delicacies, making her face a little rounder.
Yang Qing didn’t worry less, looking at this girl’s increasingly round face. After all, the trend nowadays is to have a sharp jawline. Not to mention girls, even men need to have a sharp jawline to look good.
She then advised Xuan Lele to start losing weight or eating less, when Xuan Lele finally had a look at herself in the mirror.
She really has gained a little weight.
“No, your face just has to be rounder to look better, and I really don’t think you’ve gained any weight on your belly, legs, or anything like that.”
In response to his girlfriend’s attempt to lose weight, Wei Mingyan expressed disapproval. “It’s easy to get sick when she’s so into a handful of ribs. I think you are just perfect right now.”
To say nothing of Xuan Lele, who has a highly suggestible temperament, she had eaten plenty of sweets of generous portions over the past few days, but her stomach was indeed still as flat as it had been.
And her face was round, as if it really looks a little better than before.
Yang Qing firmly believed that this was because Xuan Lele was radiant in love. Looking at this couple every day, she felt like she elevated herself and refreshed her perception of a good man.
They simply took a tape to measure, but the final result made Yang Qing straighten her eyes.
“This, how is that possible …?”
This whole time, she eats fish and meat daily without doing a single workout. Why is her waist this thin, and her calf seems to be more symmetrical than before? Then, she looked at Xuan Lele, who was accompanied by her boyfriend with deep affection and delicious food these days, her beautiful eyes smiling into a crescent moon, the skin on her face bright, clean and white. Her slightly round face really made her whole facial features three-dimensional, and it really fits her.
Yang Qing realized that her friend, whom she had lived together for so long, had suddenly become much more beautiful!!
Yes, her face was rounder, but she looked better because of it!
Even the breakouts she had from studying late at night previously were gone, and now her beautiful face was just like an egg shell, making people’s hands itching to touch it.
“Impossible, I’ve heard of people getting skinny and counter attacking, but how come there are still ones that look better when they get fatter?”
Yang Qing praised Xuan Lele for a long while, and although her face was not red, Xuan Lele felt a little embarrassed. “Maybe it’s because Mingyan gave me stew, and you know that he does live broadcasts. These days, the content of the live broadcasts was about supplement soups, which he gives me every time he brings a meal.”
“Supplement soup …?” Yang Qing repeated. “Do soup supplements have such a powerful effect? I have eaten it before, but why haven’t I looked good…”
“Mingyan’s supplement soup seems to be made from a secret family recipe. When I drink it, I can obviously feel that my spirit is much better and my body is warm. Remember how my feet used to get cold at night? It’s much better these days.”
Xuan Lele has been washing clothes by the river since she was a child. Her grandmother was old, has arthritis, feels uncomfortable in winter, and can’t touch water, but she had to work hard for her granddaughter. Xuan Lele was sensible when she was a child, and she washed her clothes quickly after school every day.
When she was a child, they had to use firewood to boil water. Chopping firewood was hard work. The old and the young didn’t have much strength, so they had to wash clothes with cold water. Xuan Lele got cold, and from the first onset of the cold, her face turned white with pain. At that time, she was young and didn’t take it seriously. However, it progressed to her feet being cold at night even when she was under the covers. Unfortunately, she didn’t know that it was because she didn’t drink enough milk before she was a full month old.
Even worse in winter, she can’t even get a hand warmer. She would always be cold even when she put on her shoes. This problem made her suffer a lot.
However, after drinking the soup stewed by her boyfriend these days, her feet were actually a little warm.
“It’s that amazing??”
Yang Qing also knew her best friend’s problem. Every time Xuan Lele suffered from menstrual cramps, she took care of her, helped her with class notes, delivered meals and hot water. Later, Wei Mingyan came, and this job was replaced by that man.
She felt a little depressed thinking about it, feeling like the big cabbage she raised has been eaten by a pig.
Then, Xuan Lele received a phone call from her boyfriend. She immediately smiled sweetly, and went downstairs at a brisk pace.
“Here, the Dang Ginseng Tonic Soup. Drink this for the next few days. I processed it according to a special method, so keep drinking it for a week and you won’t be in so much pain next time.”
The two sat face to face in front of the dining room table. Wei Mingyan was practically performing a magic trick, opening one lid at a time to reveal the other three dishes.
“There are so many today!” Xuan Lele took a mouthful of the delicious food in surprise and couldn’t wait to lift her chopsticks to eat.
Right now, she has completely adapted to her boyfriend’s status as ‘Kitchen God’, and she didn’t need to lose weight. Her mouth was already salivating and ready to eat happily.
“Well, I have no class today, so I made more. There are two new dishes today. Have a taste and see whether you like them or not. If you like them, I will keep making them next time.”
The man’s gentle and nice soothing voice reached the ears of a couple sitting at a table behind them. The woman then looked at the kung pao chicken in front of her, which the aunt in the canteen fried in a big pot. As expected, it wasn’t that refined. Even the aroma wasn’t noticeable.
She poked it with chopsticks and looked at her boyfriend who was busy eating. “Look at the others!”
Her pock-faced boyfriend looked up in confusion, and scratched the back of his head. “I don’t know how to cook, so why don’t we go out for hotpot tonight?”
“Eating hotpot makes you get acne.”
“Do you want to eat barbecue?”
“Barbecue is not going to give you acne!”
“Hiss …… Then how about we go for Malatang?”
(TNote: Malatang = super-hot spicy soup, eaten like hot pot.)
His girlfriend stopped talking and looked down angrily and took a bite of the kung pao chicken. “If I didn’t like you, you would have been kicked away by me!”
The pockmarked face boyfriend blushed for this sudden confession. “I like you, too.”
“Eat your meal!”
When the two of them were sweetly feeding each other. Suddenly, they heard Xuan Lele’s stiff voice. “You, what did you say?”
“What happened to my grandmother??!”
The sound of chopsticks falling was inconspicuous in the whole canteen, but it was very conspicuous for the couple who were paying attention to them. They looked at each other and looked at the table in front while the two people quickly left.
“Something seems to have happened at that girl’s house …”
“It looks so urgent… I hope it’s okay.”
“Their food is still on the table though, and they haven’t taken a bite. Isn’t it a bit wasteful? Besides, it looks really delicious …”
Wei Mingyan accompanied Xuan Lele as they travelled all the way to a remote mountain village.
When they reached a road leading to the village, the bus dropped them off and they had to walk the rest of the way on their own. It had just rained here, and when they came to Xuan Lele’s house, their trousers were already covered with yellow mud.
“Lele…”
The village chief was standing by the door, and when he saw Xuan Lele coming, his wrinkled face greeted her with sorrow. “Your grandmother, um…”
He didn’t have the heart to look at the young man who came back with Xuan Lele now. When he saw Xuan Lele stagger in with red eyes, he sighed and pulled out his own dry cigarette and squatted at the door to smoke it.
Wei Mingyan accompanied Xuan Lele into the little musty house. It was not that the old person didn’t clean it up, but that their house was just like this. It rained and got wet, and they couldn’t get any sun. Even if time went by, it wouldn’t smell any better.
“Grandma!”
At the sight of the old person, with gray hair and her eyes closed as she laid down on the bed, Xuan Lele’s tears burst out and she jumped to the side of the bed to hold her grandmother’s hand, which was covered with spots that came with age.
“Lele, Lele ah…”
The old woman who had just fallen asleep woke up after hearing her granddaughter’s voice. She opened her muddled eyes, her hands shaking as she grabbed Xuan Lele’s, and mumbled, “You can’t let them tear down your parents’ graves. They can’t do this. If they move the graves, they can’t reincarnate and can only be wandering ghosts…”
“No, no, call the village chief. I want to tell him that they can’t move my daughter’s grave…”
The village head who was smoking a cigarette at the door heard her call him, and with a sad face, he stood up slowly. “Big sister, it’s really not that I don’t want to help you. It’s because now the whole village is talking about moving the grave…”
Wei Mingyan frowned when he heard it. “Sorry to interrupt, has the mountain where Lele’s parents were buried been bought?”
“That wasn’t what happened, but the grave is facing the five Qiu’s home in the village. His family has become miserable. Father Qiu became crippled a few years ago, and his eldest son drowned. The younger son fell into the river some time ago but was luckily rescued. They thought it had to be the Xuan family’s grave that was causing the troubles…”
“No!! My daughter and son-in-law were the most obedient and well-behaved people, and they are fine. It’s Qiu Wu who has done something wrong, he’s guilty…”
“Big sister, the whole village is in a panic because of Qiu Wu. If I hadn’t stopped them, they would have just dug the graves by force. Look at it this way, I’ll let the village people raise some money…”
“I don’t want it!!!” The old woman on the bed was violently trying to sit up from the bed as if she was in a rage. “Haven’t my family been victimized enough?! My youngest daughter, my eldest daughter, you insist on making my Xuan family die out!!!”
This sharp voice was filled with the old woman’s sorrowful vicissitudes. Xuan Lele saw her agitated and even stepped forward to soothe her, “Grandma, grandma, don’t get excited…”
“Lele, hurry up. Get out of here and never come back. Everyone here is going to hell! Not only did they kill my two daughters, but they also had to dig up their graves. Everyone in the village doesn’t know that if you dig a grave, you’ll never live after eternity ahhhhh!!!”
“Village head, excuse me, does Mr. Qiu Wu, who asked to move his grave, have a certificate of contracted land or barren hills in his hand?”
Wei Mingyan laid before the village chief the legal provisions he had just searched out. “In the laws of China, even if a person has contracted the barren hills, they need to sign an agreement with Xuan Lele’s grandma to move the graves, and then provide some compensation. Only after consultation between the two parties can they move the graves. These two things are indispensable. If even one thing is missing, it’s enough to bring Mr. Qiu Wu to court.”
The foolish, small village, with little or no communication with the outside world does have a unique way of passing down feudal superstitions.
But, to say that the entire village didn’t have a single young person who knew the law was nonsense. More than that, they were oppressing Xuan Lele’s grandmother, who was too old to understand, and Xuan Lele, who was too young to overpower them.
It’s really nice to be from a poor mountain village.
