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Translated by Amaryllideae, Edited by Ahzinal

Thank you for the ko-fis Mrow!!! ❤

At first, Luo Tian and Li Yuehua worried that after Luo Fei was married off to the Xi's house, he would cry and shout about wanting to go home not even after two days. They didn't expect that kid to actually be successful in settling down and establishing roots. They obviously lived so close to each other, but he had actually not even returned once to his parent's house. Originally, Li Yuehua had wanted to go to the Xi house to see how Luo Fei was doing, but she was stopped by Luo Tian.

“How many days has it been?” Luo Tian said, “Just wait a little longer. You will be able to see him when they visit us*. Don’t let Xi Yanqing worry.” According to the customs of Yu Qing Country, there are to be three visits to the bride's parents. One visit is on the sixth day after marriage, the second is on the sixteenth day, and the third is on the twenty-sixth day. Accounting for all the “sixes*” of each month means that everything will go smoothly in the future. During this period, it wasn't that no one visited early, and some mothers would even go to see their own children, but if that happened , it is easy to be gossiped about by people behind their backs. If it wasn't that "the party that married their children out of the house is not at ease with the husband's family", then it's that "the child's marriage is not going well". Anyway, nothing good came of it, so no one usually did it. After all, It was only in six days, so talking about the length, it wasn't that much.

[T/N: Married women often come back to visit their parents' homes with their husband as part of rituals.]

[T/N: I think the smooth marriage correlation is that the word six (六, liu) is a homophone for the word smooth (流, liu) But here's more info (last paragraph) ]

“All right. I-I'm just worried that they aren't able to eat well. I'm telling you, since he was young till now, Er-bao's cooking skills have not improved. Also, Yanqing just returned from fighting in a war. I reckon the he also wouldn't know how to make some stuff to eat. What if……”

“What 'what if'? You women just love to worry.” Luo Tian lying in the blankets rested his head on his sturdy arm. “You can just be at ease. Can't you tell from Yanqing, that kid's expression when he looks at Er-bao? He cherishes our Er-bao in his heart and definitely wouldn't allow Er-bao to suffer any grievances. When I came back from the field today, I met Xiao Zhou. Xiao Zhou also told me that Xi Yanqing and Er-bao were laboring together while talking and laughing. Afterwards, the Zhou family's old aunt reminded them that after getting married, Er-bao should pay more attention to his body. Yanqing immediately didn't let our Er-bao work anymore."

“Ai, Er-bao, after leaving home, he is really like a chick flying from the nest. Even if you try, you can’t even catch him anymore.”

“Hei, I say, Li Yuehua, is something wrong with you? The one who was afraid that he would come back is you, but then the one complaining that he is not coming back is also you.” Luo Tian shook his head. “Really hard to please!”

“Still don’t know who is serving who!” Li Yuehua glared, “Aren't I just, just concerned about him? I'm saying, that plum blossom on his hand is so light that you can't even see the color. What if it's really as Qin Guizhi said? I'm really afraid that during then our Er-bao…”

“Younger generations will do well on their own. Why are you thinking so much? Sleep!”

“You want to sleep, sleep yourself!” Li Yuehua turned onto her other side and continued to think about her Er-bao. She counted on her fingers and it seemed that there were still two days until he could come back. Thinking about it, she felt that two days were still quite difficult to bear.

However, some people just can’t help but keep harping on, but it seems that after harping on about it, they (XYQ and LF) actually came.

After Xi Yanqing's quail egg and dough clump soup, Luo Fei ate another not fully cooked deep-fried pancake alongside a not fully cooked plate of pan-fried potato pieces, as well as a plate of soft and mushy mashed potatoes, that were boiled for too long because he was afraid they would still be raw.

In short, if he had to eat this for any longer, Luo Fei felt that he would develop stomach problems. Thus, after he consulted with Xi Yanqing, he decided to go back to the Luo house to learn how to cook with Luo Ru.

Xi Yanqing had especially said that if he learns well, he could be compensated. He wouldn't deduct a single wen but rather increase his pay by a wen.

So, on a sunny morning, Luo Fei took out a little money from his secret stash, went to the village's Zhao house, and bought two pieces of tofu. Carrying them, he returned to his parents' house. About the matter of returning to his parents' house, Luo Fei hadn't taken it seriously at first. From his point of view, his parents' house was a place where, if he wanted to return, then he would return and without Xi Yanqing had no objection either. . Not returning before now was simply because he felt there was no need to. Moreover, he had already been employed by Xi Yanqing, so shouldn't he have some kind of personal integrity? He couldn't skip work when he just started. So only when he really needed to go back would he go back, like today.

“Father! Mother! Big brother, San-bao, Si-bao! I'm back!” Luo Fei yelled as soon as he entered the door. "Are you guys home?”

“Aiyo, my Er-bao is back!” Li Yuehua wiped her hands on her apron as she ran out. “Er-bao, why did you already come back today? Hurry and let mom take a look at you!”
  

“Hehe, I was missing you guys, so I just came.” Luo Fei handed over the tofu, “Mom, I just bought it, still warm.”

"If you're coming, just come. No need to bring tofu." Luo Tian said, "Where's Yanqing? How come he didn't accompany you?"

"He also came, but, on the way here, we met Han Yang and Chen Huazhang, so he probably wanted to say a few words to them and then come." Luo Fei entered the house, "where's San-bao?"

"San-bao is in the vegetable garden." Luo Ji said, "How have you been these few days?"

“Ah, not bad.” Luo Fei originally wanted to complain, but he was worried that his family would think Xi Yanqing wasn't good enough to him, so he just said "not bad". After all, even asking his own heart, Xi Yanqing was really good to him.

“Er-ge, why are you already back today?” Luo Ru patted her sleeves and asked as she came out of the back yard. She remembered that her second brother should not have been returning today.

“Er-ge came to learn how to cook with you as not to waste food.” Luo Fei said straightforwardly, “These few days have been very good. It's just, once it comes time to eat, I always feel queasy. You also know that I don't like entering the kitchen, so our meal times have been miserable.”

“All right, then I will teach you how to make good food. Don't worry, as long as you study with me for a few days, you will be able to eat well!” Luo Ru patted her chest as she promised. She felt that her second brother is quite smart, just that before he never liked dealing with oil and grease, so he was never willing to go into the kitchen. If he really decided to put work into learning, then it would definitely be no problem.

“That’s set then. Afterwards, I will learn from you every day.”

“Every day? You want to return home to live here?” Li Yuehua asked as she furrowed her brow. She misses her son, but she would not let her married-off child come back to live with her. That is not good for the child or the husband’s family.

“En, then I'll just come over when I have time. Yanqing also agreed.” Luo Fei said, “So I won't always have to not eat well. Mom, what did you make this morning? Is there any left? Yanqing and I couldn't even make flat cakes properly, so we didn't really eat this morning."

“I just made some porridge in the morning, and we had some dried eggplants in sauce with it, but there isn't much left.” Now, it was already springtime, but it was only in autumn when there was a lot of food; where it was impossible to finish all the food and there would still be some left after eating. But most of the time, just having enough food to fill their stomachs was enough. Li Yuehua's heart hurt as she glanced at Luo Fei: “If you are hungry, mother will make you some dough drop soup quickly.”

“Then that's fine mother. Xi Yanqing knows how to make that. We often eat that these few days, and I am getting so tired of eating it.”

“You've already gotten married, so why are you still calling him with his surname!" Li Yuehua knocked at Luo Fei's forehead. “This is not good, change it.”

“Er-ge, Er-ge, is Xi-ge good to you? Actually good to you?” Luo Yi jokingly asked.

“He is good to me. He went up the mountain and found five bird eggs and gave them all to me to eat.” Luo Fei thought to himself, when meeting others, why is the first problem they notice is what he calls Xi Yanqing? The focus of these people is really strange. However, it seems that his form of address really does have to be changed.

Luo Fei didn’t want to eat dough drop soup. But other than porridge, he didn't know how to make anything else. When making wheaten products, time was also tight; so at the end, Luo Ru looked at the tofu Luo Fei bought, sliced it into finger-width slices, and finely sprinkled some salt on it. After she lit the firewood, she also tasted the tofu. At this time, she added lard to the pot then fried the tofu. The outside was seared and the inside was tender. When it entered the mouth, it was especially fragrant.

At first, Luo Fei wanted to dip the tofu in soy sauce; but after tasting the plain fried tofu, he felt that it was better that way. Thus, he had renewed motivation to learn from Luo Ru. In fact, it seemed that he didn’t really have to learn, because, when Luo Ru was cooking, he was watching by her side. This thing is not that complicated, so just by watching, he already knew how to do it.

Luo Ru pan-fried one whole piece of tofu, and Luo Fei ate half of it. The remaining half was left for Xi Yanqing. However, at this time, anyone who smelled such a fragrant thing would generate some appetite. When Luo Fei saw Luo Yi peeking in from time to time, he also pan-fried the second piece. That’s right, the second one he fried, with Luo Ru watching from the side.

“I just knew that if Er-ge focused on learning, then there'd definitely be no problem. Needlework is so hard, yet you do it so well. How would making some small dishes still be hard?” Luo Ru was also happy. She ate a piece of pan-fried tofu while beaming.

“San-bao, come look if this is okay. Tomorrow Er-ge will come around noon. Whatever you are making, Er-ge will come and learn from you. Is that all right?” Luo Fei felt that coming at dawn was too early, but at noon was good. The food made during noon would be much more complex than in the morning, so he was mostly likely going to be able to learn more.

“Okay! How would it not be okay?”

“Then this is settled.” Luo Fei finished saying this then saw that Xi Yanqing still hadn't come. The tofu was almost cold, so he was a little troubled and hesitantly said: “I will go out and have a look.” It was too difficult if you wanted to eat something fancy in this place; but, although this pan-fried tofu is not a fancy thing, when you eat it, it is actually rather tasty. However, waiting until it was cold to eat was not good as the lard used would congeal once it got cold.

Xi Yanqing and Chen Huazhang set an appointment for when he would drop in to measure what was needed for the furniture. he was about to enter the Luo* family's courtyard, but he met Luo Tian outside and started chatting about some things, so he hadn't come in.

[T/N: Original text said Xi but I think it's a typo.]

Notes:

Hehe, sorry but the exciting part is in 19.2 :3

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