Chapter 99: CH 99

Chapter 99: Ordinary Daily Life

Un-edited so please don’t kill me if you find anything wrong, please gently commenting so I can fix it. Thank you.

(T/N : Alright so the title for this chapter is [这俗世呀] and it means ‘This Mundane World’ however I feels like it is a title for Cultivation novel so I changed it into ‘Ordinary Daily Life’)

After a few autumn rains, the temperature drastically dropped.

As soon as Fang Daichuan walked out from the house, he was hit by the cold air outside. He tightened his coat and pushed open the door of the convenience store while talking on the phone: “When will you get here? I am waiting at a small store at the intersection to hide from the wind. Hurry up. If it’s too late, we will get stuck in traffic.”

The young girl inside the convenience store greeted him without raising her head: “Welcome.”

“Two cups of hot coffee.” Fang Daichuan made a gesture.

The young girl heard familiar voice, raised her head and shouted in surprise, “Chuan’er-ge! Is that you, Chuan’er-ge!?”

Fang Daichuan is a small actor. Therefore he never wears any disguise when he goes out. Right now his face is fully exposed. The first time he is being recognized feels a little uncomfortable: “Uh… yes, it’s me.”

“Please sit down!” The young girl walked out of the counter and pulled the chair from the corner of the door for him attentively. “Have you had breakfast? What would you like to eat? We have sauce pork bun [1], sandwich rice balls [2], hot coffee and soy milk [3]! Self-heating hot pot [4] and microwave rice!”

[酱肉包;Jiàng ròu bāo]

[三明治粢饭团;Sānmíngzhì cī fàntuán]

[豆浆; Dòujiāng]

[自发热小火锅;Zì fārè xiǎo huǒguō]

Fang Daichuan laughed: “Two cups of hot coffee, go ahead and make it, don’t mind me.”

After a while, the young girl carefully brought two cups of coffee. She walked briskly with her ponytail jumping. She also carefully made latte art heart shapes on the two coffees. Fang Daichuan smiled when he looked down and saw the peach heart, and gave her a helpless look as she stood in the counter, raising her hand to her chest and tilting her head to give Fang Daichuan an exaggerated gesture of a heart.

“Chuan’er-ge, we all like you!” After a while, the shop became empty and the young girl handed him a piece of post-it note, “Sign my name please.”

Fang Daichuan signed it neatly. He was wearing a long grey trench coat made of cotton and linen, light blue ripped jeans, and high-top safety shoes. He looks handsome and vigorous. The young girl took out her phone and snapped a few photos.

“Chuan’er-ge, I heard that you secretly infiltrated into a high seas cruise ship, helped the police solve a big transnational case and even put an overseas mercenary force to an end, you even got bravery award, is it true?!” The little girl was excited to listen to gossip.

https://www.unodc.org/e4j/en/firearms/module-5/key-issues/international-public-law-and-transnational-law.html

Fang Daichuan was embarrassed: “It’s not like that, it’s mainly because the police are brave and invincible. I’m just joining in for fun.”

The young girl stomped her feet with excitement: “Chuan’er-ge, no need to be modest! The police have sent announcement on Weibo to praise you, but you don’t even know that when you were taken away by the police to discuss the task, many gossip accounts spread rumours that you were taking drugs and using prostitute! We, your fans, argued to defend you and were attacked by netizen. We said in the fan group at that time that Chuan’er-ge was definitely isn’t someone like that! You don’t know the face slap that happen when the police announcement came out!”

Fang Daichuan smiled awkwardly.

“Knock knock!” The glass window behind him was knocked twice, Fang Daichuan turned around to look and saw Li Sinian greeted him with a smile and motioned him to come out.

“Wow… so handsome!” the young girl whispered, “Is it your friend Chuan’er-ge? He must be a star!”

Fang Daichuan stood up with the cup in his hand, said with a smile, “No, he is the mercenary Chief that I brought back home.”

“Chuan’er-ge, you are so humorous.” The little girl was amused by him.

(T/N : Girl that is not a joke…never mind…)

Li Sinian took a cup of coffee in his hand and opened the car door for him. When he turned around, he saw the little girl standing on the door. For a moment, her hands were stretched out and her fingers made heart shape. Next, her hands were on the top of her head and she then made another heart pattern. She made several patterns at once. In short, it was a passionate confession.

Li Sinian smiled, said nothing and started the car.

Today Grandpa is making homemade food and invited them to come over to Hutong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutong

The persimmon tree in grandpa’s yard was bearing fruit. He was too old to deal with it, so he asked Fang Daichuan to pick persimmons for him and also invite them to dinner.

“Why is the Deputy Bureau looking for you? Don’t you think they already overwork you?” Fang Daichuan held a coffee cup and fed it to Li Sinian as they stopped at a traffic light.

Li Sinian glanced down at the latte art heart shape, took a big sip quietly that shattered the shape of the milk foam: “It’s not a big deal, I’ll report to him every month and explain the progress of the task.”

Fang Daichuan frowned: “So troublesome? Are you that idle in America?”

Li Sinian smiled but said nothing.

“Also, what kind of persona do you give me?! I ask the police to help refute the drug addicts and prostitute rumours. But what the hell did you do? You even gave me an award for bravery, what am I supposed to do with that?” Fang Daichuan pouted.

Li Sinian reached out and rubbed the dog’s head: “The medal is very beautiful, go back and throw it to Beta to play with.”

(T/N : Yes author said dog’s head. Well, author did wrote Chuan’er with ‘puppy eyes’ and so on so…)

“Forget it,” Fang Daichuan wrinkled his nose. “It’s gold-plated, it won’t be poisoned.”

The brothers did not get along.

(T/N : Yes Beta is a male.)

Beta hates that Fang Daichuan had beaten his master to the point of vomiting blood. Fang Daichuan doesn’t like that Li Sinian hugged his son every day. When he got home, he hugged Beta first and he was tired seeing them with each other.

A while ago, when Beta was old enough. Li Sinian had no time so he asked Fang Daichuan to send Beta to be sterilised. Beta didn’t want to go, so Fang Daichuan forcefully put it into a cat bag and sent it to the hospital. After coming out of the hospital, Beta wore an ugly cone of shame* and desperately biting the seat cover of Li Sinian’s new car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_collar

When Li Sinian came back that day, Beta was holding the master’s trouser legs, crying with tears in its eyes. Biting its master and turning back step by step to Fang Daichuan’s feet and yelling, pointing at Fang Daichuan to complain to the master, its face was deformed by grievance.

——It has no idea that the mastermind behind the scenes is its beloved master. What a tragedy, so sad.

From then on, Fang Daichuan and Beta were almost incompatible and they could not eat at the same table. Every night Li Sinian will eat one meal with his wife and then with his son. He maintained the harmony and stability of the pet family by using his golden right hand.

(T/N : Before anyone reacts, I just want to say don’t worry. Author dedicated 10 Extra just for Beta and Chuan’er to get along lol so yeah, from 15 extra, 10 chapters are about Beta and Chuan’er.

Sinian : What about me?

Me : … Back to the story!

)

Today he didn’t bring Beta out. Li Sinian heard that there was a big yellow dog in his grandfather’s house. Cats and dogs were naturally not getting along. Li Sinian thought about this and decided to not disobey the laws of nature.

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The small Hutong was too narrow for the car to enter, so the two parked the car on the parking lot beside the road and walked in.

“There used to be an old man that sold orange candy and Arctic Ocean soda here.” Fang Daichuan pointed to a flat land at the Hutong’s entrance.

Li Sinian laughed at him: “You remember everything about food but you forgot everything else.”

Fang Daichuan was a little embarrassed, he hooked his Nian-ge‘s little finger and smiled at him.

When they walked by the small courtyard next door, Li Sinian stopped for a while. He looked at the bicycles and screen walls through the open door, smiled and didn’t know what he thought.

Fang Daichuan felt a little distressed.

“Woof-woof-” The big yellow dog noticed Fang Daichuan’s presence, ran out from the door next to him, slammed into Fang Daichuan’s arms and licked his face.

“Oh, come on, Da Huang, just look how much you weigh, you still think you’re a puppy, I can’t carry you!” Fang Daichuan laughed and rubbed Da Huang’s head affectionately, his heart that was broken by Beta was instantly healed.

Da Huang jumped down, squatted on the side and looked at Li Sinian with head tilted.

Li Sinian squatted down and stretched out his golden right hand: “Hello, Da Huang, I’m Li Sinian.”

Da Huang thought for a while, leaned over and licked his hand, rubbing its head with his hand.

“Yo, what a surprise,” Grandpa walked out of the door with an old tobacco bag in his mouth while pulling up his shoes, “Da Huang doesn’t usually take the initiative to get close to strangers. This young man is a nice one.”

Fang Daichuan had a black line on his forehead, he didn’t know what kind of logic Grandpa used to praise Li Sinian for being nice just because he was approached by dogs.

Li Sinian, on the other hand, stood up and nodded, shouting, “Hello, Grandpa.”

Grandpa nodded: “Nice to meet you, it’s the first time our Chuan’er bring a friend to the house. Come in quickly, I will show you around.”

The persimmon tree is very tall and old. Picking persimmons is like picking jujube. The ripe persimmons cannot be knocked down. When they fall to the ground, they will break into pieces. Someone has to climb up the tree and pick them one by one.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/jujube

Fang Daichuan carried two ladders and divided the work with Li Sinian. One climb on the left and one on the right. Grandpa leaned his neck up and also worked, picked one, blew the soil on the top and stacked it in the box.

“Old Li’s jujube is ripe. His daughter got married this year. He came with the son-in-law to the door and gave me two baskets of jujubes. He chat for a while, saying that his son-in-law is very tall.” The grandfather speaks casually. “I picked persimmons today, later I will send him a basket and told him that my family Chuan’er and his friend picked them by hand. Our family Chuan’er is taller and his friend is taller than his son-in-law. Let me show off too.”

Li Sinian’s hands became stiff and he looked down at Grandpa, who was staring at him, his hand trembled and a ripe persimmon slipped out of his hand and hit the ground.

“Look at you, be careful,” Grandpa gave a regretful look, “you young people nowadays have no patience and you like to rush things. Just learn from us old people, we take our time and we don’t throw things away if we no longer like it. After all, life is long, you can just repair things slowly instead of discarding them.”

(T/N : Alright so things about Chinese idiom is that it can means a lot things depends on how you translate it. So here Grandpa said [a lot] idioms [你们现在的年轻人呀，说风就是雨，用坏了就扔，一点耐心都没有。哪像我们那会儿，干什么都慢慢的，用坏了修一修还要用一辈子，讲究个细水长流。] that, originally I translate as “you young people nowadays have no patience and you like to rush things. Just learn from us old people, we took our time, especially in relationship. After all, what you pursue isn’t short term but a lifetime relationship.” However, because of the later paragraph I have to change it.)

Li Sinian didn’t dare to answer back, smiled, and obediently raised his head to pick persimmons.

Fang Daichuan didn’t realised the context of the conversation*, he raised his neck to look for the persimmon on the top of the tree and said with a smile, “Oh, grandpa, don’t talk about ancient times, what age is this, being quick is being efficient, let’s finish picking the persimmons, I want to eat your pancake.”

(T/N : And this is why I have to change my first translation because even if he is slow, it would be weird if Chuan’er did not notice Grandpa’s meaning if I keep using my first translation.)

Grandpa’s pancakes are delicious, the dough is boiled inside the hot water and the pancakes are tender on the inside and crispy on the outside. When you bite it down you can feel the layers.

He quickly fried two more dishes, cut a cold dish, and at last made two meat and two vegetarian dishes. Shredded duck with sauce [1], beef in cold sauce [2], leek, vermicelli* and cabbage, wrapped in a pancake [3] and pepper mutton soup [4]. In the mid-autumn season, in the small open-air courtyard, Fang Daichuan was sweating while eating.

[酱爆鸭丝; Jiàng bào yā sī]

[凉切酱牛肉;Liáng qiè jiàng niúròu]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicelli

[韭菜香干和粉丝白菜，裹在饼里卷着吃; Jiǔcài xiānggān hé fěnsī báicài, guǒ zài bǐng lǐ juǎnzhe chī,]

[又飞了个羊杂碎汤，放了一把胡椒面; Yòu fēile gè yáng zásuì tāng, fàngle yī bǎ hújiāo miàn]

Fang Daichuan’s dad also knows how to make pancakes but his hand is not as good as the old man. Either the water is too hot and the noodles are cooked too fast or the water is too cold so it is not crispy enough.

Fang Daichuan praised while eating: “If you talk about pancakes, it has to be my grandfather. My dad’s baking is not as authentic as Grandpa.”

“The old lady loves pancakes.” Grandpa opened a bottle of white wine and poured it for both of them. “I had cooked them for your grandmother for all her life. In her last few years she had a bad appetite and liked to eat soft and sweet ones. Every year when the persimmons began to fall, I mixed them with persimmons to make pancakes for her and she could eat 3 of them. How many years did your father cook them?”

He pushed the wine cup to Li Sinian, raised his eyes and asked, “Would you like a cup?”

Fang Daichuan hurriedly refused: “You can refuse, we come by car. You don’t drink when you drive.”

Li Sinian ignored him, picked up the wine glass and touched it with Grandpa, raised his head silently and took a drink.

“Okay!” The old man was delighted, he reached for the wine bottle, intending to fill his cup again. Li Sinian hurriedly took the wine bottle and filled the grandfather‘s cup with wine. He took Fang Daichuan’s wine cup and had a second cup.

Fang Daichuan saw that he couldn’t persuade him, so he sighed and poured himself a bowl of soup to drink.

“Our Chuan’er grew up with me. When he was a child, his parents were busy, his diet and his behaviour were all like me.” Grandpa fill another cup, pointed at him, “He is stubborn and he won’t give up of what he likes. He has to eat whatever he likes for the rest of his life and he won’t change his taste until he dies. Our Chuan’er love to eat the meal I made. I thought, if I’m gone, who will cook crab roe soup rice for him and who will give him pancakes?”

(T/N : You can saw crab roe soup rice on chapter 91)

Fang Daichuan silently sighs: “Don’t worry, Grandpa, with your body, you can live at least 109 years. When you go down, my dad’s cooking skills will be polished and I can eat.”

“You expect your dad to cook for you for a lifetime?!” Grandpa glared at him.

Li Sinian tilted his head and drank the cup, put it down and said with a straight face: “I am not very good at cooking, I can cook well, but the appearance and taste are far from good. If you don’t mind me, I’ll come often and ask you for advice. I will learn whatever you teach me. I’m a slow learner, but I have a long time to learn. If I cook just a few dishes for the rest of my life, I’m sure they won’t taste too bad.”

On the way back, Fang Daichuan was driving, Li Sinian was sitting in the co-driver seat, dazed.

Fang Daichuan glanced at him while waiting for the red light: “Are you drunk? But you only drink three glasses of wine, aren’t you good at drinking?”

Li Sinian smiled, thinking of the energetic girl whom they met this morning and how she made a heart gesture.

Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat and for a while, he felt intoxicated. He move his fingers to made heart and blinked his left eye at Fang Daichuan: “Chuan’er-ge, I give my heart to you.”

Fang Daichuan was stunned for three seconds. He is so cute he can’t help himself, he lay on the steering wheel and laughed so hard that he couldn’t stand upright for thirty seconds. Li Sinian was so enraged by his laughter that his face turned a rare shade of red. He took advantage of the last five seconds before the light changed colour to grab Fang Daichuan’s collar and kiss him.

Author’s notes :

A heart+wink from Nian-ge, mwahahahaha.

(T/N : Grandpa knows everything. And yes, Sinian are the ones who cook in the relationship. Ah, the extra is truly sweet.)

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