Begging You to Break Off This Engagement! Chapter 18.3

Translated by Amaryllideae, Unedited

After Xi Yanqing tidied up the tub and went inside, at first glance he saw Luo Fei face down on the bed, asleep. But he did not call to him. Let’s just let it be today. It is estimated that the stimulation of this little donkey was also quite big. In fact, thinking about it, it was a little impulsive. He should not have let the little donkey see it so quickly, otherwise, if this little donkey is even more afraid of it, then wasn’t it just adding obstacles to his road of chasing his wife?

This was truly lifting a rock and dropping it on your own feet!

The more he thought, the more Xi Yanqing felt regretful, but he knew that regret was useless. He could only let Luo Fei get over it slowly. However, the next morning, Xi Yanqing painfully* found that Luo Fei actually did not take the initiative to talk to him.

[T/N: The literal Chinese was “ball-breaking”??? LOL]

“As for?” Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, Xi Yanqing said, “Didn’t you just see something you would have seen sooner or later earlier? You really won’t even speak to me?”

“En.” Luo Fei’s face was unnaturally red, he pointed outside, indicating that he was going to go wash clothes.

“Forget it, if you don’t want to talk, then don’t talk, I need to go into the mountains today. I’m guessing I will come back very late. If you are hungry, then you should eat first by yourself.”After he finished, he took the ax, “Right, after I leave, you should close the door properly and protect yourself.”

“I know, pain in the ass!” Luo Fei muttered quietly, glared at him, and then resumed his combat stance for washing laundry.

After Xi Yanqing left, he really didn’t return for the whole day. Luo Fei washed the laundry in the morning and set them out to dry, however, the result of when he was hanging them on the fence was him thinking of some things he shouldn’t be thinking about.

There are no drying racks in the countryside, and there are no clotheslines at this time, so everyone hung laundry on the fence. But this is not the point. The point is that Luo Fei found that when he glanced at the fence, he would think of Xi Yanqing’s thing!

So big! Even when it’s not erect, there’s still enough (meat) to cook an entire dish with! *

[T/N: Translation provided by danmei discord friend juju!]

Pei pei pei! What are you thinking about Luo Xiaofei!

Luo Fei made himself flushed and swelling. He shook his head, and decided to hurry and do something else to divert his attention!

He always wanted to earn money to support himself. But these days, they passed like water flowing through, but before he has even accomplished anything, he has already gotten married. This won’t do, he has to firmly grab onto time! His mother’s teaching to him is: People! Must have the ability to support themselves! Not because you want to prevent from one day being abandoned, but to improve yourself.

Although in his previous life he had only been working in fits and starts*, now that he is in this era, he could not do that anymore.

[T/N: Literal is “to fish for three days while drying the nets for two days” and it’s basically not persevering and actually working hard]

Luo Fei took advantage of the light being good, and quickly pieced the remaining pieces of cloth together and made a complete pillowcase. After that, he wanted to ponder over a few purse patterns. When he made a purse, he would go to the town to see if he could sell it. But when he went to the storage room – it was actually just a small room, he went inside to find some ingredients, he unexpectedly found half a bag of dried corn kernels.

How about… not cooking at night, instead make some popcorn to eat? Anyway, there is oil and sugar at home.

Luo Fei was carried away on a whim and scooped out two large bowls of corn. He remembered that he had seen his grandma doing this before, that is, just putting some oil into the wok, and then put some corn kernels inside, then the fire lit, dinglangdinglang, and there was popcorn. And then just put some caramel on top. Tsk! It is fragrant and nutritious. He likes to eat popcorn while watching a movie, and can even eat a big pot by himself! The pot at home is so big, this way he can make two bowls right?

Make more, in this era should be no popcorn! Anyway, he hasn’t seen it in town. If you can make it, you can also sell it!

Luo Fei was super happy. He washed the corn kernels and even considered that the wet kernels would cause the oil to jump out so he wiped the washed corn kernels with a clean cloth. After rubbing at them, he put them aside and got some firewood to light the fire. He had already cleaned the pot earlier, and it could be used directly. He poured a little oil into the pot, then poured all the dried corn kernels into it, and covered it with the lid!

Add some wood, let the fire burn, and just wait to eat!

Luo Fei squatted before the fireplace, and after adding firewood, he moved his ear closer to the pot, trying to hear whether there was any sound inside the pot. Afterward, he discovered that this pot was bigger and also thicker than the pots from modern times, adding some more firewood wouldn’t make it immediately cook with a big fire, and so adding heat was very slow.

He waited patiently for a while, and finally heard a smothered “peng!” after a few minutes!

There it is! There is definitely popcorn now! When his grandma popped corn it was exactly this sound!

Luo Fei Ma went under the kitchen stove to continue to add firewood, seeing that the other popcorn kernels did not explode, the heat should not be enough. He added more firewood to the premise of not making sure the fire wasn’t extinguished, and he took also took a thing fan some wind in front of the stove.

After a while, the pot was again going “peng peng peng”, and it sounded three times!

Luo Fei was so excited, he almost jumped up and began to fan even harder. But it was strange, afterward, there was actually no more movement in the pot.

Was it because the skin of the remaining corn kernels was too thick?

Luo Fei wanted to take off the lid to see because the lid is a wooden cover, he wasn’t able to see the situation the inside. But what if the hot air ran out after he opened it?! Besides, no fragrance has started wafting out. He decided to let it cook for a little longer and then look.

At this time, the fire was already very strong. Luo Fei did not need to fan more wind and just added some wood to it.

Still no movement.

Luo Fei vaguely felt that something was wrong and finally decided to open the lid…

“Pop! Pop!” The condensation on the lid of the pot fell in and made a sound. Luo Fei looked inside. Fuck! Burned?! The golden corn kernels he had just seen a while ago were all burnt at the bottom of the pot. They had become pitch black and gave off a scorched scent! A person who took a bite could be poisoned and killed like this!

What he had smelled before was clearly the smell of popcorn! Luo Fei became anxious, at this rate pot might become useless, and he quickly added a big ladle of water!

“Whoosh…” From the pot suddenly burst out a cloud of pungent greenish-black smoke!

“Cough cough!” Luo Fei threw away ladle, and quickly covered his mouth and nose, backing away to the side, “Ah! Did I make a mistake!” This was clearly what his grandma had done!

As Xi Yanqing followed the setting sun home, he saw at a glance that the chimney of their house was fuming with smoke. He felt that it was a good time for Luo Fei to be cooking, just on time for his return.

It is estimated that he can have a hot meal in a while. At noon, in the mountains, he wasn’t able to find any convenient places and was hungry for a whole day.

He also didn’t know what Luo Fei had made. It shouldn’t be those tooth-breaking virgin pancakes, right?

Xi Yanqing smiled and pushed open the big door of the entrance: “Erbao, I’m back!”

Luo Fei hearing this movement quickly shouted: “Don’t come in first!”

Such a shameful matter! Must destroy the evidence!

Luo Fei quickly took the thing for scraping out the pot to go at the burned corn, but the parts that did not stick were fine, but parts that did stick were exceptionally firm and couldn’t be scraped off in a short time!

“Ah!” He even fucking scraped his finger!

“What’s happened ?! What happened?!” Xi Yanqing originally wanted to wait and see what Luo Fei wanted to do. But hearing this he couldn’t wait anymore, and quickly shook off the water on his hand and went into the house. When he saw the situation inside, he was speechless. “You are… making the virgin sesame pancakes again?! No, this is even more evil than the virgin sesame pancake, what is this?”

“Virgin popcorn.” After Luo Fei said that he wilted, “but I failed.”

“What happened to your hand?” Xi Yanqing saw that Luo Fei was blowing on his finger, and grabbed it to take a look. “It’s cut, wash it in a bit, and sprinkle on some medicated powder. Do you still have some of what I gave you last time?”

“En.” Luo Fei quickly pulled his hand back. Thinking about where the powder was used before, he was 囧 again. “I used to watch my grandma popcorn this way, ah, although we did use the wok at home, the procedure was the same. Why did it burn? It must be that the pot is too big!”

“It’s not because the pot is big.” Xi Yanqing went to get some clean water to let Luo Fei wash his wound. He took a look at the pot. “You use the corn in the storeroom? That corn is not suitable for popping. The type of corn that we could use and pop at home has a very small grain size and is specially made for popping. The corn her is not good, very difficult to pop.”

“Well, I didn’t know.” Luo Fei said, “What should we do now? There is nothing to eat tonight. What if soaking and scraping out the pot doesn’t work.”

“It shouldn’t be as bad as that. Wait for a little, I’ll make something to eat.” Xi Yanqing  went to get some flour, added some water and then gently stirred it to form little clumps of dough. Then he added some water, continued to stir, and made a lot of dough clumps. At this time, the small pot was almost finished soaking. After all, the fire below was still burning, adding heat made it soak fast. After Xi Yanqing tested the water and felt that it was too hot, he added some cold water, quickly scraped clean the pot, and then put a proper amount of clean water, waited for it to boil, before slowly adding the dough clumps inside. He slowly dispersed the dough clumps, and then afterward as if performing a magic trick added in some quail eggs! He did not know where they came from.

[Dough clumps]

[Dough clump vegetable soup]

[Soy sauce braised meat and quail eggs, basically just mini chicken eggs]　　

And so, five minutes later, a bowl of quail egg dough clump soup was done. To call it a better sounding name, would be “pearl and white jade soup”.

Xi Yanqing added some salt into it, ladled some into two bowls and placed them onto the table. When Luo Fei finished sprinkling the medicine and came out and saw it, five quail eggs, Xi Yanqing actually gave them all to him.

Originally, these eggs are not very big. Instantly Luo Fei felt that his heart swelled a little!

Chapter end