Begging You to Break Off This Engagement! Chapter 22 part1

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After changing to the soft buckwheat pillow, Luo Fei felt that his neck finally did not hurt when he slept at night.

In fact, he also knows that his previous pain should be more psychological. After all, the wooden pillow has been used by the previous host for many years, and the body should have been used to it. But sometimes the psychological feeling will be more important than the physiological feeling, so if psychologically it is comfortable, there will be no problems in other places.

Luo Fei, who has no problems now, recently has had a brilliant mood every day. As long as it doesn't rain, he will go to bed early and get up early. Basically, when the rooster has crowed, he would already have opened his eyes and begin to tidy up things for the day. Fold the blankets, sweep around the bed, take the changed out of clothing to the basin. Then he will wash his face and prepare for breakfast. Yet Xi Yan Qing got up even a bit earlier than him. After he wakes up he would get dressed, and go out to pump water first. When he fills the kitchen water tank he would go to chop wood, he would usually chop enough to burn for one to two days and stack it by the side.

Nowadays it is getting warmer, the burning of firewood is not as much as it used to be, because as the air temperatures rose, the whole house would also become hotter and hotter.  Now around the time when Luo Fei would basically be finished with cooking breakfast, he would not light any other additional fires. The west portion of the house where they would light a fire every two days would be changed to lighting a fire every three days.

On this day, Luo Fei used the methods he had learned from Luo Ru to steam some plain steamed buns and twisted bread roll* for the first time. He saw Xi Yanqing take a bite and bit his chopsticks, expectantly asking: “How is it? Is it delicious?”

[T/N: I posted some pictures of regular steamed buns before, but these steamed bread rolls are twisty and often spring onion is added to give it a bit of savoriness]

In fact, Xi Yanqing knew that this little donkey had already tasted it, and only after feeling that it was good enough, put it on the table. So asking him was just waiting for praise. So he wrinkled his brow: “How come it seems like it didn't rise, did you let the dough go flat?”

“Ah?” Luo Fei stared blankly, “Can't be?” He bit it with his mouth and tasted it. “It tastes pretty good…” He looked particularly wounded.

“Tsk, tricking you.” Xi Yanqing had wanted to keep on teasing him, and but seeing the little donkey quickly feel wronged until he became a small puppy, he thought about it and just let it go, “Want to hear the truth?”

“Nonsense!” Luo Fei glared at him!

“These are the best buns I have ever eaten after coming  here.” Xi Yanqing took a big bite and kneaded at it. “It's so soft, rose very well, and Wife even made it himself. Thinking about how later we will finally not need to eat steamed buns made in the style of disci*, I am very happy.”

[T/N: Disci are the big metal discs thrown for sport that originated from ancient Greek times. Xi Yanqing's comparison of them to steamed buns is basically saying that the steamed buns they made before were as hard as metal lol]

“Then I will pack up the rest, and we can take it to go.” As Luo Fei said that he began to stand up – today they were going to the dry fields to water the crops, and get ready to grow the soy beans.

“First eat, after we finish then we can decide what to do.” Xi Yanqing pulled Luo Fei back, and also peeled an egg that he put into Luo Fei's hand.

“You eat it,” Luo Fei said. He wanted to boil two eggs in the morning, but when he went to look in the egg basket, he saw that in total, there was only one egg in it. He boiled it, but just then he hadn't been shameless enough to pick it up to eat himself. Previously, when the weather was cold, and the chickens all did not lay many eggs, so eggs were very valuable. This one was actually from some other family he didn't know of that Xi Yanqing bought from, in total there were only seven, normally they were not willing to just eat them.

“You eat it, your body can still grow for a couple of years, we can't let your nutrition be too lacking. Besides, the days are getting warmer, and eggs will be easier to buy later. It doesn't matter if I eat them sooner or later." Xi Yanqing put the egg in Luo Fei's small bowl.

“Then… half each.” Luo Fei split it apart, handing Xi Yanqing the bigger half. “You don't mind right?” After all, it had touched his bowl.

“Of course not, Wife's egg, how would I mind?” Xi Yan Qing said as he took Luo Fei's other hand that held the smaller half and put it directly into his mouth.

“Only your mouth is indecent like this!” Luo Fei fiercely ate the bigger half, on one hand he was a little moved, but on the other hand he felt that he wanted to beat up Xi Yanqing. This person is too good at annoying him. Whenever  he has the chance, he would always assail him with obscenities, always making his hair stand on end!

Xi Yan Qing drank a bowl of rice porridge, and smiled again as he ate a big steamed bun. Luo Fei didn't eat as much, so although he ate a bit slower, he also quickly finished eating.

Luo Fei simply cleaned up the table, and washed the bowls. Then he took the apron off and left with Xi Yanqing.

“I will bring two buckets, you go find a water scoop and clay basket.” Xi Yanqing said to Luo Fei in the yard, “When we go, we may need to bring something back.”

“What are we bringing back? Aren't we just going to water the fields?” Luo Fei knew that this was in preparation for planting the soybeans. The main reason is that the land is too dry, and so water is must be poured once before sowing the seeds. At this time, there was nothing in the ground. What did he want to bring back?　

“Today, your steamed buns and the twisted breadroll were steamed so well, I will give you a small reward. But I can't tell you now.” Xi Yanqing put the yoke* that held their items onto his shoulder. “Let's go.”

[T/N: I wasn't really sure what it's called in English, but it's basically the stick that balances loads on its 2 ends that people used to carry more stuff.]

“Right away!” Luo Fei quickly got out the clay basket and put it in front of Xi Yanqing. He ran into the house at top speed and packed some water. After they had exited the big entrance, Xi Yanqing  locked the door, and Luo Fei asked Xi Yanqing again: “What reward is it? Something in the ground?”

“Not telling.” Xi Yanqing said, “But if you call me "Beloved Husband" once, I will tell you.”

“Stop being so shameless! I don't care if you don't tell me!” Luo Fei threw the clay basket onto his shoulder, and strode forth with big steps, his face with an expression as if saying "this one is disdaining all of you with the back of my head"!

Xi Yanqing seeing his awkward appearance, could only quickly catch up to him, but on the way, he still did not tell him what on earth the reward actually was.

This young couple, added togehter had six mus of land, four mus of paddy fields and two mus of dry field. One mu of dry field Xi Yanqing used to grow corn, and there were still four mus of paddy fields and one mu of dry field. The land to be watered today was the mu of dry land belonging to Luo Fei.

Luo Fei's dry farmland was some distance from the dry fields of Xi Yanqing. One is east of the village and the other is west of the village. They were both rather far to go care for, but thankfully the paddy fields are together. Xi Yanqing plans to sow the paddy field after the finishing planting the soybeans. At present, their location in the four-mu paddy field is not particularly good. Xi Yanqing's expectations were not high for the paddy fields. However, he has already discussed with Luo Fei. This year, he would use an mu of paddy fields for experimentation.

There were certain techniques in this work, earlier or later, Luo Fei feels that it is right to listen to Xi Yanqing about everything relating to planting crops. He knows that Xi Yanqing has already planned it. Xi Yanqing's mu of dry farmland is used for Corn-Covered-Soybeans, and his mu is purely for soy beans. As for the back garden at home, the eggplant is planted with cucumber, Chinese chives, leeks, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, and green beans. This is a bit more fortunate. There are quite a few types of vegetables here. There are many vegetables that they thought would need many more years before being introduced to the area. Although not as many as in the modern world, at least it was not too terrible, and after planting all of those, everyday switching the way of eating them was still be viable.

It would be really nice if they could have a little fruit again.

Ever since Luo Fei had eaten an apple on his wedding day, afterwards was only dates. If it continued like this, he thought that he would soon forget the taste of the various kinds of fruits he had eaten before, thinking about this brought up a feeling of hardship.

Sometimes he really could have brought some gold fingers or the like with him, like some spacial dimension or spiritual spring, or even in the most unfortunate circumstance if they just had an ox. But the reality is that there is nothing, he has to rely on himself. Eh, no he could rely on Xi Yanqing.

As such, it seems that his biggest golden finger is that at home he has a boss, a boss who is always thinking about using his yang instrument on him!

Just thinking about it made him feel dizzy. Fortunately, this boss had some integrity, and wouldn't really force this or that on him, and really just liked to run his mouth.

Luo Fei watered the fields under the direction of Xi Yanqing: “Qing-Ge, do you think we could plant some fruit to sell?  There are very few fruits sold here.”

“There is no equipment for storing things in a cool place, fruit is also not easy to preserve, and the local demand for it is not reliable.” Xi Yanqing smiled and asked, “You want to eat fruit now?”

Notes:

Ahzinal wasn't able to get around editing this for release today, but I'll update it later with the edits :3 Let me know if you guys find any glaring errors~

Also, their daily life just gets cuter and cuter??? >///<

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