Chapter 30
This chapter’s dish of the day is Braised Noodles! Honestly you can use almost any noodles to make it and throw in any ingredients you have on hand. Easy and yummy! Great for when you want to clear out your fridge!
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Yunyu did not care if Ge Qing met a ghost or not. Whatever she got was what she deserved.
She blocked all of Ge Qing’s way of contact and as she was preparing to exit the WeChat interface, she saw the blank profile picture, whose name was his real name, “Qin Yusui” at the very top.If you are seeing this, this transaltion is stolen. Head over to NovelUpdates to read from the original translator.
The names in Wechat are such that if you don’t rename them, it will be their default name and people tend to not put their real names as their default names. Instead, they set their default names as nicknames or cool names or whatever they think represents them.
Clicking on his circle of friends, the displayed number was zero (T/N: This is somewhat like a “story” section that is on WhatsApp or Instagram. But instead of having it be there temporarily, it stays there like a post that your circle of friends can see and that you can use to update your status, post videos or pictures or whatnot on). If you are seeing this, this transaltion is stolen. Head over to NovelUpdates to read from the original translator.
Wechat Moments
She opened the message and saw that he only sent over a file (T/N: From when he sent the incident investigation report). After giving it some thought, she typed a few words and sent it.
Little Fox: Mr. Qin, thank you for what you did just now (T/N: aka thank you for investigating and sending over the information that I needed).
After thanking him, Yunyu did not care about anything else. She took a shower and went to sleep.
Before going to bed, she stroked her lower abdomen and said silently, ‘Hello, little guy’.
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The Imperial Capital thousands of miles away, the Long Family Manor.
The Long Family Manor was located on the hillside of a mountain at the outskirts of the Imperial Capital. The Long Family has had branch families in addition to the main family over the years, and had a large population. The main house was in this manor.
But except for General Long Xiaokui and his wife, there were not many people living here. The rest of the Long family had their own jobs, and only came back to gather for family sacrifices and Chinese New Year.
However, on this day, many people came to the manor, dressed in black, with serious and solemn expressions.
The news of the death of the matriarch of the Long family had been spread in the Imperial Capital. In addition to people from all clans of the Long family, many people from the metaphysics business, government and military circles came to express their condolences.
The cause of Long Fengjun’s death had not been announced to the public, otherwise it would cause great panic and confusion, and have too much influence in the metaphysical world.
Now, even though only the news of the death was spread, the entire imperial capital was already shaken.
Everyone from the Long family gathered in the manor.
Although Qin Yusui’s surname is not Long, he was Long Fengjun’s favorite great-grandson, and was raised by Long Fengjun when he was young.
Long Fengjun did not allow him to practice, saying that this path was too bitter and difficult. He had death in his destiny, so he could not take this path.
Qin Yusui stood on the wide balcony, the scarlet fire flickered between his fingers. This was the first time he had smoked in twenty-nine years.
He inhaled the bitter and choking nicotine into his lungs, soothing his almost numb heart.
He pinched out the cigarette and turned on the phone. The phone interface was still showing a profile picture. It was a white jade bottle carved from mutton fat jade. Exiting the picture, he saw a message in the chat interface.
Little Fox: Mr. Qin, thank you for what you did just now
Distant and polite.
He moved his finger and closed the app.
There were slight footsteps behind him. When he looked back, he saw a young man with a face similar to his, but was more delicate and handsome.
The man said, “Brother, my condolences.”
Qin Yusui hummed lightly (T/N: I actually never understood what this meant until I saw the raws. So, for those who are curious, the raws said 秦予绥淡淡嗯了声 which translates to Qin Yusui faintly made an “en” sound. Just imagine if you were too lazy to reply when someone is talking to you and you make that noise with your throat without opening your mouth to acknowledge that you’ve heard what the person has said. I guess it could be a grunt of sorts?) , turned his head and looked at the bustling night scene of the Imperial Capital in the distance. It was like a colorful psychedelic world.
The man was his half-brother, Qin Nanqi, the child born to his father as a result of his remarriage after his mother died.
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Yunyu woke up at four o’clock. It was still dark, and it was raining outside, looking foggy from the window.
Grandma Yun went to the steamed bun shop last night, and she slept there. She should also have just gotten up and was preparing to start work now.
Yunyu had to accompany her mother to the hospital today, so she could not go to the steamed bun shop to help.
Yunyu drank a cup of spiritual spring water as usual and meditated to adjust her breathing. When she opened her eyes again, it was already six o’clock, and the rain had stopped. When she walked into the yard, she could smell the fresh smell of soil and grass.
Walking outside the gate, the sky was bright, and one could see the clouds in the mountains in the distance, making it look like an immortal land.
Yunyu stretched her waist and went to pick vegetables from the vegetable garden.
It rained today, so she didn’t water the vegetable garden. She decided to stop watering the vegetables every day using the water from the well as the speed of growth of vegetables was too high, and they could not finish eating nor selling them. Grandma Yun made a lot of pickles with them and even sent lots of vegetables to Wu Li’s house every day.
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Yunyu picked two baskets full of vegetables. In a while, Dong Jianhai would come by to buy them so she prepared them in advance.
Seeing that it was still early, and Mother Yun did not wake up until 7:30, she went to the watermelon field in the peach orchard for a walk.
These peaches and watermelons were mid-ripening products, but because she watered them with spiritual spring water, some of them have gradually begun to ripen.
She brought a bamboo basket and picked a lot of peaches that had begun to turn ripe, and then went to pick a watermelon that was already ripe, but there were not many that were ripe.
As she went back carrying the bamboo basket and hugging the watermelons, she happened to bump into Dong Jianhai who came to pick up his vegetables.
Dong Jianhai saw that Yunyu was struggling to carry the things, so he hurried over to help carry them into the yard. The things were quite heavy, and the fact that this delicate little girl could carry them all the way back here was already very good.
Yunyu greeted him with a smile, “Uncle Dong, you’re here. I’ve put all your vegetables in the kitchen. I’ll head into the house first.” She had peach hair all over her from picking the peaches.
“Okay, do your own thing. You don’t have to worry about me,” Dong Jianhai was already quite family with the Yun family. He even pays the one month cost of buying vegetables in advance to avoid the hassle of having to pay 200 yuan daily for them.
Their family could not finish 200 yuan worth of vegetables and can even share some with their relatives.
Yunyu went back to the house, took her clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower. Two deep red marks were marked on the palm of her hand. The benefits of using the spiritual spring water to practice were obvious, but there were also side effects. Her body had become very delicate. Just a light touch would result in red imprints on her skin. In the future, as her cultivation increases, so will the delicateness of her body.
After soaking her hands in some spiritual spring water, the red marks dissipated a lot. She then put on her clothes and went to wake up Mother Yun.
Dong Jianhai had already placed the vegetables from the kitchen in the trunk. Seeing that the peaches in the bamboo baskets in the courtyard were very fresh, he couldn’t help but pick one up and washed it with some well water. The peaches were just ripe and slightly soft. The moment he took a bite, he immediately sighed. The taste of the peach was even better than that of the vegetables. It was sweet and soft in the mouth. The juices were overflowing and flesh seemed to almost melt in the mouth. It was very sweet. Not the kind of sweetness that came from injecting artificial sweetener, but the unique fragrance and sweetness of peaches. Anyway, he felt that the peaches that he had eaten before were all incomparable and that the legendary 3000-year maturity peaches probably tasted like this (T/N: These peaches were mentioned in Journey to the West and they belonged to Queen Mother who is the highest goddess of Chinese Taoism. The peach is said to promote one’s lifespan and Sun Wu Kong (the Monkey King) once stole some. You can search up on 蟠桃园 Pántáo yuán to read more about it).
When Yunyu came out, she saw Dong Jianhai, a middle-aged man, eating peaches intoxicatedly. She wanted to laugh, but she held back.
Seeing Yunyu coming out, Dong Jianhai smiled embarrassedly, “Yunyu, your peaches taste really good. Are you selling them?” “
“Uncle Dong, these peaches will naturally be sold.” If the peaches were not picked when they ripen, it would be a waste if they fell on the ground. She planned on sending it over to the steamed bun shop to be sold.
Dong Jianhai asked: “How are you selling these peaches?” The taste was so good that even those who do not like fruit cannot refuse.
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[水蜜桃 Shuǐmì táo]
Because they were in a small town, the price was set at a cheaper rate.
She did not dare to quote a price that was too expensive.
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Dong Jianhai’s wife and daughter liked to eat fruits, so ordinarily, he visited the fruit shops often. He knew that early-ripening peaches in the largest chain fruit store in town were only 10 yuan per jin, but the taste was incomparable to the Yun family’s. He felt that 10 yuan a piece was really not expensive. With this kind of taste, even if the price increases by a few folds, they can still be sold out in large cities.
Dong Jianhai naturally wanted to buy them, but Yunyu only sold him ten pieces.
This time, not too many peaches were ripe. She planned on using them to attract customers.
10 was good too. Dong Jianhai was not greedy, so he picked 10 peaches and put them in the trunk.
He heard that Yunyu was going to take Mother Yun to the hospital to remove the plaster cast, so he offered to give them a ride as he happened to be heading back to town.
With Dong Jianhai’s help, the two worked together to carry Mother Yuninto the car and went directly to the hospital in town. Dong Jianhai only left after that.
Yunyu accompanied Mother Yun to do various examinations and scans. The hospital was relatively empty, and it was very fast. The results were obtained in half an hour. The doctor looked at the scams and praised, “The fracture has healed very properly. How did you take care of it? The fracture is not visible at all. After the cast is removed, you can practice walking normally.”
With the doctor’s affirmation, the plaster was removed immediately. Feng Xiuzhen moved her right leg and felt no pain or itching. After removing the plaster cast, she would also have to carry out physiotherapy for half a month before she can walk properly.
Feng Xiuzhen still had an old disease in her left leg. So even though her right leg was healed, she would still be walking with a limp.
The mother daughter pair then left the hospital. Feng Xiuzhen looked at the blue sky outside and was in a good mood, “Yu’er, let’s go to Grandma’s steamed bun shop and see if there is anything we can help with. From now on, I will get up earlier to help out in the steamed bun shop. Let your grandma sleep more. She is getting older, so I’m afraid she will not be able to bear it.”
Yunyu nodded.
Now at nine o’clock, the peaches and watermelons that Yunyu picked had just been delivered to the steamed bun shop with the help of Dong Jianhai.
Dong Jianhai didn’t know that there was a steamed bun shop here, but he found out after hearing about it from Yunyu and helping to deliver the fruits. He bought a few steamed buns along the way, but Grandma Yun still refused to take his money. So he went back with the buns and gave them to the old lady at home. He did not expect the old lady to want more after eating them because the steamed buns tasted good.
He tried them and found that they were really delicious. The ingredients themselves were already very good, and the seasoning they were paired with made them even more heavenly.
Dong Jianhai planned not to prepare breakfast anymore in the future, but to go directly to the Yun family’s steamed bun shop to eat. The food was made by Grandma Yun and he was reassured of the hygiene.
When Yunyu and Mother Yun went to the steamed bun shop, the shop seemed like a hotel (T/N: Honestly I’m not very sure why the author used “hotel”. Maybe it’s because they were still busy at this hour or because there were people sitting about?). They found that the stall had not been closed, and there were still people sitting in the shop eating.
The fruit delivered by Dong Jianhai was placed by the main door. When Grandma Yun saw her granddaughter and daughter-in-law, she hurriedly smiled and said, “Xiu Zhen’s legs can walk?”
Feng Xiuzhen said, “Mom, I can walk now. Just now, Yu’er accompanied me to the hospital to remove the plaster cast. The doctor said that it is healing well, and that I can walk already. Mom, I will go to the kitchen to help first. In the future, I will come to help so you can relax a little.”
Grandma Yun smiled, “Okay, you come to help. If we can make more buns, we can sell more every day. There are always customers who say that they didn’t manage to buy them.”
It was already nine o’clock, and there were still people queuing up outside to buy buns.
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Grandma Yun continued, “You and Xiao Yu’er haven’t eaten yet. I’ll bring you some steamed buns. You both go in to eat first.”
“Grandma, let me do it. You go ahead and do your own thing, don’t mind us,” Yunyu said.
Yunyu picked up a few steamed buns herself, put them on a plate and brought them to the table inside to eat. Coincidentally, she saw a few acquaintances inside.
Song Ziming and his senior brother were also inside. Song Ziming ate a bun in two or three bites, raised his head and gave Yunyu a silly grin.
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Yunyu went to the kitchen to deliver two steamed buns to Mother Yun before she came out and sat opposite Song Ziming, “Why are you still in town?”
When she wasn’t fierce, her voice was delicate and soft.
Song Ziming swallowed the food in his mouth before laughing, “Xiao Yu’er, you’re better (T/N: Like making a remark that she recovered from the time she fainted when breaking the formation). After we discovered Grandma Yun’s steamed bun shop, we’ve been eating here for the past two days. You didn’t lie to me. The taste is really good. I’m going to stay in the town for a while to eat steamed buns every day. It’s just that I got up late today, and the braised noodles in the store were gone. I heard that it is the shop’s signature dish and people come to line up for it very early in the morning.”
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焖面Mèn miàn – Braised Noodles
Yunyu said, “I’m better after having a good sleep these two days.” She was just exhausted that day. It was nothing serious.
Now Grandma Yun’s steamed bun shop has become the town’s web famous steamed bun shop with young customers taking photos and posting them online.
It was just that many netizens did not believe that a steamed bun could be that delicious.
Grandma Yun smiled and turned her head when she heard Song Ziming’s words, “Then, Xiao Song, you come over to eat tomorrow morning. I’ll secretly save you a portion.”
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Song Ziming said happily, “Thank you, Grandma.”
“There’s no need to thank me,” Grandma Yun said, “If it wasn’t for your help, how could we receive the license for our shop so quickly.” As long as it was related to food and beverages, even if it was a small steamed bun shop like theirs, they needed to apply for various business licenses, health permits and so on.
Before, Grandma Yun didn’t know that, neither did Yunyu. It was only after someone told her a few days ago that Grandma Yun hurriedly made up for it. However, the speed was slow. Grandma Yun was always in fear as she was afraid that someone would come to check. Fortunately, when Zi Ming came to eat buns the day before, they chatted idly for a bit. When he found out about the matter, Song Ziming volunteered to help with it. Grandma Yun thought he was joking, but, to her surprise, he delivered all the necessary documents that morning.
After knowing this, Yunyu also thanked Song Ziming.
After another ten minutes of selling, even the buns outside were sold out. Some customers did not manage to buy any, so they couldn’t help complaining, “Why are they gone again? Can’t you make more?”
Grandma Yun said with a smile, “We apologize, we only have two people in the shop. All the steamed buns are handmade so we really can’t make many.”
The remaining customers could not do anything about it either. Seeing the peaches in the bamboo basket at the door, they asked, “Are you selling peaches?”
The peach looked juicy and delicious.
Yunyu came out and said, “It’s for 10 yuan each. I can guarantee that they are sweet and delicious. The quantity is limited, so if you’d like to, you better buy them as soon as possible.”
The customer was a girl, and she said with wide eyes, ” 10 yuan each? Why don’t you go rob a bank?” She had never seen such an expensive peach.
Yunyu said quietly, “They taste really good. I won’t lie to you.”
“What is that? Is it something to eat?” Song Ziming heard the commotion and ran out. When he saw the peaches, he didn’t even bother asking the price. He picked up two and ran to the kitchen to give them a wash. He handed one to Li Zhou before running to the door and stood next to Yunyu to eat it. He let out a groan when he took the first bite, and hurriedly said, “Xiao Yu’er, wrapped all the remaining peaches for me. I will save some to eat with my senior brother and send the rest to my Master and Senior Sister.”
The girl stared at him, “Are you a hired actor?” (T/N: The exact words were 你是托吧? Nǐ shì tuō ba. Which means are you someone who is hired to increase consumption/ purchase. Kinda like a person paid to say something is good to convince the crowd. Think paid reviewer)
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Yunyu did not comment on it. She picked a peach and went to the kitchen to wash it and cut it into seven or eight pieces. She placed the pieces on a plate and served it out for them to taste, “Taste it yourself.” Song Ziming looked at the remaining peaches eagerly.
The girl picked up a piece and tasted it and was stunned for a moment. Without saying another word, she just took out 20 yuan, “Bag two peaches for me.”
The rest of the customers tasted it and did not say anything. They simply just took out the money.
Song Ziming yelled, “Stop! Save some for me!”
Yunyu said, “Why are you panicking? Just go to the peach orchard to pick it later.”
And so, the half a basket of peaches were all divided amongst the remaining customers who did not manage to buy steamed buns.
There was Mother Yun in the store to help, and Yunyu had nothing else to do, so she took Song Ziming and Li Zhou for a walk around the town.
She actually wanted to come out and set up a fortune-telling stall, but thinking that these two came from afar, and they were considered guests of sorts, she could only bring them around. Knowing that they were staying in the best hotel in town, she felt relieved.
Grandma Yun wanted to invite Song Ziming and Lizhou to dinner at their house.
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So the three of them stayed in the town until the afternoon before they returned to the village. They had lunch in town. Song Ziming felt that their lunch was dull and tasteless. He was looking forward to the meal at the Yun’s in the evening.
After returning to the village in the afternoon, Yunyu first led them back to the courtyard to eat watermelons.
At the entrance of the village, the three of them got off the bus and walked towards the Yun family’s house. Unexpectedly, when they passed by the garbage dump area, there was a faint whimpering sound inside.
Yunyu paused, turned around and walked towards the garbage dump. She found a half-sized black dog lying on a pile of rubbish. Its fur was messy and dirty, and it was dying.
Song Ziming and Li Zhou also saw the black dog. The three of them smelled a faint smell of blood.
Yunyu frowned. She reached out to touch the black dog’s body and found that her palm was stained with blood. She flipped the dog over and saw that it had many stab wounds.
It should have been thrown in the trash after being abused.
Song Ziming clicked his tongue twice, “Abusing animals. Some people aren’t afraid of retribution.”
Humans eating meat and slaughtering animals for food is different from inflicting cruelty on animals.
Yunyu did not say much. She carried the black dog out of the garbage dump, intending to go back and save it.
Taking the black dog home, Yunyu fed it some spiritual spring water, and used the spiritual spring water to clean its wounds before smearing iodine on it. The wound on its abdomen was the most serious. The abuser seemed to have wanted to rip open its abdomen but because the knife used was too blunt, he failed to do so, only leaving a large gash.
Song Ziming scolded that the abuser was worse than a beast. He also couldn’t bear to look at it.
“There is iced watermelon in the well. You can help yourselves. I’ll treat its wounds first.”
After Yunyu said that, she turned and went back to the house to get a needle and thread. She disinfected them, sewed up the black dog’s wound, and applied some Yunnan Baiyao (T/N: 云南白药 Yúnnán báiyào – a famous Chinese patent medicine which has the effects of removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, detoxifying and reducing swelling).
云南白药 Yúnnán báiyào
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After treating the wound, Yunyu found a few unwanted old clothes, made a simple nest for it and put it under the eaves to let it heal.
Her body was also covered in blood, so she went to the bathroom to take a shower and change clothes. Song Ziming and Li Zhou were standing in the corner arguing about the species of roses climbing the wall.
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Yunyu didn’t know the variety of this rose. Anyway, the flowers bloomed were very big, and the petals were layered and beautiful.
She watched as a dozen varieties of roses emerged from the mouths of the two, before ignoring them, and going to fish out the watermelon in the well. When she cut into it, she found that the watermelon was just ripe. This was a watermelon with seeds, but the seeds were not too many, and the flesh was red. When you cut it, you can smell the sweet watermelon. Yunyu saved half of it for her family, and cut the remaining into blocks to be shared among the three of them.
Song Ziming took a bite out of the watermelon and murmured, “Xiao Yu’er, I’ll stay at your house and let Grandma Yun take me in as a grandson.” This watermelon tasted crisp and sweet, and the watermelon flavor was very strong, much more delicious than the early-ripening watermelon outside.
Why did he feel that Yunyu’s house was full of delicious food?
Li Zhou glanced at him and said, “Don’t mess around. Master has already urged us to go back.”
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