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 -2 Spoiler

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    This something that will happen in many chapters ahead

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    Chapter xx. Our baby

    "Ming Er, our child is a healthy baby girl"

    Ming Er face shone brightly although she still tired after just deliver a baby. I don''t she happy because I call her ''our baby'' or because the baby is healthy

    "Is that her?" she pointing at our baby in my embrace.

    "Yes, she''s our baby"

    "Can I hold her?"

    "Of course you can, you''re her mother after all"

    I bring our baby closer to her so she can take a hold of her. She''s carefully receives our baby from my hand and hug her in her chest.

    "She''s beautiful, isn''t she?" she asking me after look at our baby.

    "Yes, she''s beautiful like her mother. Look at her, she has your nose and your eyes, and the lip also. I bet when she grows up later she will resemble her mother"

    She smiling when hears my praise. She kisses her forehead.

    "My childбнmy beloved childбнdo you hear what your father said? He said you''re beautiful. Ben Benбн.do you have a name for her yet?"

    "Yes, I do. I hope you like the name"

    "What''s her name?"

    "├ў╨╟гиmикng xийngгйI take ming from your name, and with our family name, her name will be You Ming Xing"

    "Ming Xing (bright star)бн.that''s a good name, I like that. We can also call her xing xing which mean stars. Ben Ben, thank you for choosing a good name for her"

    "Hey, she''s our child. Of course, I want the best for our child. Don''t you agree?"@@

 -1 Living cost in a city in Sichuan

    This is how much living cost in a city in Sichuan province that I use to make price standard in my story. (Data from 2018 year) It''s on Yuan not Yen, okay?

    * Restaurants

    Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant 20.00 гд

    Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course 130.00 гд

    McMeal at McDonalds (or Equivalent Combo Meal) 30.00 гд

    Domestic Beer (0.5 liter draught) 5.00 гд

    Imported Beer (0.33 liter bottle) 15.00 гд

    Cappuccino (regular) 26.00 гд

    Coke/Pepsi (0.33 liter bottle) 3.30 гд

    Water (0.33 liter bottle) 2.00 гд

    * Markets Price

    Milk (regular), (1 liter) 14.09 гд

    A loaf of Fresh White Bread (500g) 8.49 гд

    Rice (white), (1kg) 8.50 гд

    Eggs (regular) (12) 11.24 гд

    Local Cheese (1kg) 65.00 гд

    Chicken Breasts (Boneless, Skinless), (1kg) 20.37 гд

    Beef Round (1kg) (or Equivalent Back Leg Red Meat) 48.50 гд

    Apples (1kg) 8.67 гд

    Banana (1kg) 5.40 гд

    Oranges (1kg) 8.00 гд

    Tomato (1kg) 10.67 гд

    Potato (1kg) 4.33 гд

    Onion (1kg) 4.33 гд

    Lettuce (1 head) 2.33 гд

    Water (1.5 liter/bottle) 6.20 гд

    Bottle of Wine (Mid-Range) 65.00 гд

    Domestic Beer (0.5 liter/bottle) 5.00 гд

    Imported Beer (0.33 liter/bottle) 12.25 гд

    Cigarettes 20 Pack (Marlboro) 17.50 гд

    * Transportation

    One-way Ticket (Local Transport) 1.50 гд

    Taxi Start (Normal Tariff) 5.00 гд

    Taxi 1km (Normal Tariff) 1.45 гд

    Taxi 1hour Waiting (Normal Tariff) 18.00 гд

    Gasoline (1 liter) 6.43 гд

    Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (Or Equivalent New Car) 140,000.00 гд

    Toyota Corolla 1.6l 97kW Comfort (Or Equivalent New Car) 119,450.00 гд

    * Utilities (Monthly)

    Basic (Electricity, Heating, Cooling, Water, Garbage) for 85m2 Apartment 198.38 гд

    1 min. of Prepaid Mobile Tariff Local (No Discounts or Plans) 0.10 гд

    Internet (60 Mbps or More, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL) 75.00 гд

    * Sports And Leisure

    Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult 200.00 гд

    Tennis Court Rent (1 Hour on Weekend) 60.00 гд

    Cinema, International Release, 1 Seat 35.00 гд

    * Childcare

    Preschool (or Kindergarten), Full Day, Private, Monthly for 1 Child 1,200.00 гд

    International Primary School, Yearly for 1 Child 50,000.00 гд

    * Clothing And Shoes

    1 Pair of Jeans (Levis 501 Or Similar) 300.00 гд

    1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&M, ...) 287.00 гд

    1 Pair of Nike Running Shoes (Mid-Range) 500.00 гд

    1 Pair of Men Leather Business Shoes 400.00 гд

    * Rent Per Month

    Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre 1,500.00 гд

    Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre 600.00 гд

    Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre 3,000.00 гд

    Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre 1,200.00 гд

    * Buy Apartment Price

    Price per Square Meter to Buy Apartment in City Centre 12,000.00 гд

    Price per Square Meter to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre5,000.00 гд

    * Salaries And Financing

    Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) 3,750.00 гд

    Mortgage Interest Rate in Percentages (%), Yearly, for 20 Years Fixed-Rate 5.15

 1 Preparation

    "Xiao Ben, what are you cooking?" a gentle female voice entering my ears.

    The owner of this voice is Ming Mei, my wife. We just married couple month ago and have a good life together in this capital city. My job is a cook in Royal Palace although my level is only a junior cook there.

    "I''m cooking for tomorrow''s King lunch Ming-Er"

    "You already cook it now although the lunch is still tomorrow?"

    "Um. I want to make the King impressed with my cooking, so I can be promoted to senior cook"

    King Shi Lie The make a competition about the dishes during his lunchtime. He gives an opportunity for one young cook every day to impress him with a new dish. The junior cook who able to impress him will automatically promote to senior cook, which mean more salary he will get every month.

    Tomorrow is my turn to present the King with the new dish. I don''t want to miss this chance since there are hundreds of junior cook in the palace. If I miss this chance, which means I must wait next year to be able to make a new dish presentation in front of the king.

    Moreover, I need this salary rise for Ming Mei. She''s already pregnant with my first child. I want to have enough savings for my first kid.

    "MmmбнI believe Ben Ben can do that. Your cooking is always delicious. Even with only leftover that you bring from Palace kitchen"

    I''m smiling hearing my wife praise. The greatest happiness for a cook is when people who eat his cooking said his food is delicious.

    "Um. With your support, I''m feeling tomorrow I will succeed to conquer his majesty appetite. If I can become a senior cook, we will not worry about money for our child"

    "Mmm Ben ben is so caring. I''m happy to become your wife. Please continue, my husband, I will watch you from the side. Watching your back while cooking is also pleasant in my eyes"

    Ming Mei retreats to the dining table after left me a kiss in my cheek. With the support of my lovely wife, I''m feeling my spirit rise ten-time fold, make me can more focus on my cooking.

    I''m watching the ingredients that currently boiled in a pot with the small fire. Although the process of this dish is taking a long time, I''m believe the result also good.

    Next day, In Palace Kitchen.

    I already place the pot that made up last night in the kitchen stove and still simmering it.

    "Junior cook, Ben, what do you made for today King''s lunch? You are the one who gets today turn, right?"

    I look at the one who talks to me. His name is Bao Tong, a senior cook in the kitchen. Since the one who asks is my senior, I can''t refuse to answer him, but I also can''t reveal my dish to him.

    "I made soup for your highness lunch, senior"

    "Oh, soup. Well, good luck then. Most of the junior who get this opportunity usually fight with the main dish, but you choose use soup. No wonder you called a talented young cook, you have insight that different with common cook"

    "Senior has overpraised me. It''s just me who don''t have the confidence to make the main dish, so only cowardly make the soup for your highness"

    "Hahaha, don''t be so low profile like that. The side dish that you make already caught attention from some prince and princess you know? Anyway, what''s your main ingredient for soup?"

    "It''s fish, senior"

    "Fish? Don''t you know your highness hate the fish because of its bones? Don''t ruin your chances with using fish, junior Ben"

    "Thanks for your concern, senior Bao. But I already removed all the bones from the fish, you don''t have to worry"

    "Oh really, well good luck with your soup then, I still have matters to take care"

    "Goodbye Senior Bao"

    Although we not close, his attention for me makes me touched. Yes, I know the King hate fish because its bones, that why if I can make something delicious from something he hates, his impression to me will be deeper. Unfortunately, I don''t notice the sinister smile in senior cook Bao lips when he left me.

 2 Making the soup

    While simmering the pot in the stove, I prepared another ingredient for my soup. I sliced potatoes, carrots, celery, tomatoes, and parsley. Then I rinse some rice to clean the rice and soak it in the coconut milk before I used it later. I check the pot on the stove. The content of the pot is fish broth that I prepared last night by simmering fish head that already soaked in lime essence to remove its fishy smell. I simmering this fish head almost half night to get a thick broth which rich with fish nutrient. After the broth done, I strain the fish broth from the pot into another clean pot and filter the fish parts from broth using a colander. Finally, I get a fish-free broth but rich in fish nutrient. I keep simmering this broth at home and only stop simmering when I bring the pot to Palace Kitchen. Now in this fish-free broth, I add another ingredient that I already sliced before like potatoes, carrot, celery, tomatoes and parsley and the fish fillet that I carefully removed all the bones one by one last night. I keep simmering the broth for a quarter hour. I add salt and pepper to add the flavor to the soup. And the last thing, I put the rice that already soaked in coconut milk into the soup and let it simmer over the stove for 20 minutes.

    When I''m still in the last step in finishing cook my soup, Eunuch Hong, who responsible for the King food, enter the Palace Kitchen and make an announcement.

    "All the dishes that will be presented to your highness King Shi should be all prepared within half an hour!"

    All the cook that has the duty to prepare the King lunch today and haven''t finished it hurriedly try to finish their cooking. With my speed of cooking, I believe I will finish before the time is up.

    Carefully I stir the soup slowly to make sure all ingredient mix thoroughly within my soup.

    Eunuch Hong, who waiting for all the dishes prepared, walking around the kitchen to inspect the work of the cook in the Palace Kitchen. When he arrived near me, senior cook Bao who seems already finished his work, introduce me to Eunuch Hong

    "Your excellency Hong, today''s soup is made by our talented junior cook You Ben. He''s the one" he said while pointing at me who still stirring the soup.

    "Your name is You Ben? I hope you can impress your highness. It''s been a while from last time when a junior cook promoted to senior cook"

    "I put my utmost effort in this soup, your excellency Hong. I hope my dish suit with your highness taste"

    "Hmmm, what do you make?"

    "Fish soup, your excellency"

    "I hope you know what you make"

    Eunuch Hong continues his inspecting with senior cook Bao. I didn''t notice that senior cook Bao slipping something into the palm of eunuch Hong during our talking.

    Finally, my soup is done. I pour the soup into the jade bowl that usually used by the King to eat soup. I put the sliced lime in the bowl edge to add more flavor before putting a lid over the bowl. Before I put it in food cart that will deliver into King''s dining chamber later, I check once again the condition of the soup.

    - Thickness : okay, not too thick and not too thin either

    - Potato : all in soft state and cut in slice and dice in bite size

    - Rice : soft, but not too soft like porridge

    - Aroma : although I put several spices, the fish freshness still can be smell from there

    - Temperature : not too hot when presented to the King

    After all have been check and I satisfied with the result, I put the soup in the food cart.

    All dishes that will be the King lunch and worked by other cooks finally ready and put together in the food cart. Eunuch Hong orders his men to pull the cart into the dining chamber. Actually, I want to follow them but Eunuch Hong prevent me to come along by saying

    "Young man, if your highness pleased with your cook, you will be called to the dining chamber. You should wait here until the lunch finish"

    "Yes, your excellency, thank for remind me"

    So I have to wait in the Palace Kitchen until the King finished his lunch and give his evaluation of my dish.

 3 Wronged

    Dining Chamber Shi Kingdom

    The ruler of Shi Kingdom, King Shi Lie The, sit on his throne with delicacy spread in the table in front of him. Eunuch Hong who responsible to King''s food reading today''s menu to King Shi, start from the appetizer, soup, main dish, side dish and dessert.

    King Shi nodded after hearing the list of food that presented to him during the lunch

    "Today''s which junior cook makes the new dish for Zen?"

    "Reply to your highness, today junior cook You Ben makes the soup for your highness"

    "Start with poison testing, Zen already can''t wait to taste today''s new dish"

    "Your lowly servant will conduct the poison test immediately Your Highness"

    Eunuch Hong immediately starts the poison test on each food presented in the table. While he testing the soup that You Ben make, he secretly put what he received from Bao into the soup. After all the food had been tested, he reporting to King Shi

    "Reporting Your Highness, all food has been tested and no poison found inside. Your Highness can eat safely now"

    "Good. Zen already wants to taste the new dish. Bring that soup to Zen"

    Eunuch Hong brings the soup bowl to King Shi which accepted and opened immediately by King Shi.

    "Hmm, the aroma is good. But this scent ... is this fish?"

    "Reply to Your Highness, the cook himself say that this soup indeed fish soup"

    "He really has guts to cook this, very well, Zen will try the taste"

    King Shi takes the spoon and scoops the soup from the bowl. Before put the spoon into his mouth, he sniffs the smell of the soup first

    "Hmmбн.such rich fragrance, this soup indeed made with meticulous effort"

    After commenting this, King Shi puts the spoon in his mouth and start to taste the soup. He nodded and took another scoop from the soup bowl. After some scoops, suddenly King Shi brows frowned, his face becomes red, smashing the jade bowl in his hand to the floor, and he shouted a loud roar

    "GET THAT COOK HERE!"

    A palace guard immediately runs to palace kitchen to pick up You Ben and bring him to the dining chamber.

    Meanwhile in Palace Kitchen

    I''m waiting for the news from the dining chamber anxiously. I know it needs at least one hour before his majesty King Shi finishing his lunch. The other cooks also waiting with an anxious face, they hoping there''s nothing go wrong with today''s lunch. Once his majesty King Shi unpleased with any dish presented today, the cook will get punishment. If senior cook, he will demote into a junior cook, and if he''s a junior cook, he will immediately fire from Palace Kitchen. I''m startled when a palace guard suddenly enter the Palace Kitchen and shouting,

    "Junior cook You Ben, your highness King Shi summon you to dining chamber!"

    Eh? That fast? Did his majesty King Shi impressed with my cook and immediately rewards me? I raise my hand to answer the call

    "I''m You Ben"

    "Come with me quick, don''t make Your Highness King Shi waiting"

    I follow the guard to the dining chamber with the heart full of expectation. My mind full with imagination how his majesty King Shi like my soup and call me there to give praise directly. But when I''m entering the dining chamber, somehow I feel the tense atmosphere and the air feel eerie. My heart getting cold when seeing the smashed jade bowl in the floor. Did I do something wrong? I immediately kneel down in front of his majesty King Shi.

    "Your lowly servant You Ben, greet Your Highness, King Shi. May God bless Your Highness long live, long live, long live"

    King Shi just snorted before speaking.

    "You''re You Ben? You know your mistake?"

    "Reply to Your Highness, your lowly servant didn''t know. Your servant make today soup with my utmost care and carefully avoid any mistakes, Your Highness"

    King Shi step down from the throne platform approaching me and suddenlyбн

    PUI!

    He spat in front of me. His saliva that dropped into the white marble floor in front of me. My heart suddenly feels anxious when seeing the red trace in that saliva.

    "If you don''t know what your mistake, then look at what Zen had in Zen''s fingers"

    King Shi lowered his hand to show me what he held in his finger. I raised my head to look at what thing is in his majesty King Shi''s hand. What I see make my heart suddenly like stop breathing.

    What his majesty King Shi held in his hand is a big, almost transparent, fish bone!

 4 Tragic ends

    IT CAN''T BE TRUE! NO WAY!

    I carefully remove each bone from the fish even the smaller one, how come such big bone still on the soup? Moreover, the fish''s bone is something his majesty King Shi hates most, and now that fish''s bone even makes his mouth or tongue injured. Suddenly I realize how grave my situation now, should I plea lighter punishment by admitting something that I have never done, or should I defend my innocence with that fish''s bone? I''m still muddled with this unexpected situation when his majesty King Shi said something that more shocking than his previous words.

    "Since you already see it, your punishment is executed tomorrow"

    ''Executed tomorrow''бн.''Executed tomorrow''бн. ''Executed tomorrow''

    That words like thunder that striking my ears, echoing without ending. Not just fired but directly executed? Oh my God! No! I can''t accept this! I was wronged, I never let such a basic mistake by leaving such big fish bone in my cooking. I want to see my kid born from my wife! I want to see my kid growing! I must stay alive to see that!

    "Your Highness, have mercy! This lowly servant beg your forgiveness"

    I''m kowtowing many times in front of King Shi until my forehead bleeding. King Shi only watch me with cold eyes.

    "You admit making mistakes?"

    "Your Highness, this soup is your lowly servant made with a meticulous effort for whole night that even smallest bones removed just to give Your Highness the highest taste from a fish can bring. Please have mercy, a cook will never make such a basic mistake"

    "Are you accusing me wronged you?"

    King Shi glare become colder and ruthless.

    "Your servant did not dare. Did not dare at all. your lowly servant only ask your Highness to investigate this matter and uphold justice"

    "You dare to order Zen?"

    King Shi frowned and asks in a stern tone

    "Your servant did not dare. Only beg magnanimous heart from your Highness to spare this insignificant life of your servant"

    "You said you prepared this soup for a whole night. Did anyone else ever touch your soup?"

    "No, your Highness"

    "Before you put your soup in the bowl, do you check it again?"

    "Yes, I do your highness"

    "Then blame yourself for your carelessness. Guards, throw him in jail and executed tomorrow"

    I''m stunned hearing what King Shi said. He definitely only finds a way to blame me without any intention to look for the truth. His image as a just and fair ruler in my minds shattered into pieces. In my eyes, he just likes another tyrant, only care for himself. I''m unwilling to accept this!

    Slowly I stand up from my kneeling. This man in front of me is not worthy of my respect. He just wants to kill me because small wound caused by a fish bone which I''m sure not from my cooking. Anger, grievance, sorrow, frustration all mixed together and exploded in my words.

    "Shi Lie The! I thought you''re a wise and just ruler, but I''m wrong. You''re just a tyrant that only care about yourself. You''re just a narrow-minded person, egoist, ruthless, you don''t deserve any respect! Pui! Your kingdom will not last long under your ruleбн"

    "INSOLENT! KILL HIM AND CHOP HIS HEAD!" King Shi roared hearing my words

    "Heavens will not forgive you! You should protect your people! Not kill them on your whim! Damn your kingdomбн.Argh!"

    I saw a sword prick my heart from my back through into my chest. And when the sword retracted my body fall listlessly in the floor and another sword chop my head apart from my neck. I watch what they doing with my eyes open wide. Isn''t that my body? And that head that rolled in the floorбнis that my head? Why can I see that? Am I dead and this isбн..my soul?

    King Shi spat on my head, he looks at my head with a sinister look

    "Dare to curse Zen? Kill his family too!"

    A group of guards is immediately leaving the dining chamber. Oh no! Did he just say to kill my family too? My wife! My parent! I must return and make them leave the house. I run from the dining chamber to my house. Without a body, I can get through the wall and arrive at my house faster than those royal guards. In my house, I see my wife is sitting in the dining room while rubbing her belly

    "My child, your father will soon return home, let''s prays he comes with good news okay?"

    It seems my wife waiting for my return with the result of today''s new dish event. But it doesn''t matter anymore my wife, you should leave this house and escape

    "MING ER, GET OUT FROM HERE QUICKLY!!! SAVE OUR CHILD!!"

    Sadly, no matter how hard I''m screaming, Ming Er seems didn''t listen to my voice. She still sits calmly waiting for my return. I try to grab her hand but my hand seems only passing her hand. I keep shouting and grabbing her hand although it''s all futile until there''s knocking sound on my house''s door.

 5 The Truth

    Ming Er hearing the knocking smile, and said to our child in her belly

    "My child, your father''s home. Let''s welcome him and hear the news from him"

    She stands up from the chair and walks to the door to open it.

    "MING ER! DON''T OPEN IT!! RUN! RUN AWAY FROM HERE!!"

    Although I know it''s futile I still scream from the top of my lungs with the hope she will eventually hear it and run away from the house. But like before, my scream seem through the deaf ears.

    Ming Er put a smile before she opens the door. She always greets me with a smile every time I return from Palace Kitchen, which makes me able to forget all my tiredness and soreness from working in the kitchen. But that beautiful smile froze when she open the door and see its royal guard that stands in front of the door with an unsheathed sword on their hands. She startled and takes some back step.

    "Officers, what happens? Where''s my husband? Is there something wrong?"

    She still tries to find out why those royal guards come to our house with such killing intent. Too bad they only listen to King order, they will not negotiate or talk with other people. When they give the order to kill, they''re just killing without blinking an eye. That''s why they did not answer Ming Er question, instead, a sword trusted and stab my wife''s chest. Ming Er saw the sword prick her chest with widened eyes, disbelief with what she saw, she walks limply some step back which make the sword unplugged from her chest before she falls to the floor

    "Ben benбнsorryбнI can''tбнbe with you бнanymore"

    That''s the words Ming Er said with the power from the last of her breath.

    "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

    I scream and cry with all my strength I have. Ming Er, I''m sorry, I''m so sorry to make you die like this. If we can''t live in this world together, let''s live together in another world. I cry and calling her name beside her now a breathless body in the floor, but I don''t see her soul at all.

    My parents who heard the commotion in the front door also comes out, but only to get killed by those Royal Guards. After killing all my family members, they also chopped their head as proof to the King that they already finished they duty, which later, those heads showed up to the public as criminals.

    With bloodshed eyes, I return to the palace. I want to know the truth behind my death. I''m sure nobody touches my cooking and put that fishbone in my cooking. Then who? Who puts that fish bone in my soup? How can that fishbone be put in my soup? What''s the benefit from killing a junior cook like me to him? I return to Palace Kitchen, I believe the one who responsible for my death is still there.

    Before I arrived in the Palace Kitchen, I saw senior cook Bao and Eunuch Hong talking in a quiet corner of the Palace. They talk in such secretive ways which make me want to know what they talking about.

    "Bao! Your action makes some innocent people killed"

    "I''m sorry your excellency Hong, that beyond my expectation. I only want your highness angry and make him kick out from Palace Kitchen"

    "That bone you give to me prick your highness tongue, He''s not just angry, he furious!"

    "What else can I do, your excellency? The dead can''t be brought to life again, besides, there''s hundreds junior cook like him. Losing one or two is not a big matter for the Kingdom"

    "Humph, Don''t forget our agreement. When you become Kitchen Head, you must deliver to me the same dish that king eat every day. I''m tired only take a bite of those delicacies every day. And also 1 gold coin every month.

    I dumbfounded. For such trivial matter, I must die? 1 gold coin is wage for the senior cook, while the head of the kitchen will get 5 gold coins each month. Junior cook like me only 50 silver which hardly enough to support me, my wife and both my parent with each person need 10 silver each month for the basic necessity. I don''t want to be the head kitchen, why senior Bao so afraid if I become the senior cook. I only want a decent income when my child born, am I asking too much for that?

    My sight becomes dark and I can''t see anything else except darkness. I''m so sad and let this grievance shrouded me. I can''t feel anything anymore and slumber in darkness.

    What I don''t know is one month after my death, the locust swarm invaded Shi Kingdom and wreak havoc on crops that almost harvested. This locust swarm spread into the whole area of Shi Kingdom, devastating all farming and agricultural field barely leave nothing to eat for the people. This disaster forces the Kingdom to spend half from its treasury to buy food from its neighbor kingdom. But the disaster still continues, 2 months after locust swarm, the rain that expected to come and give chance to plow and planting the land doesn''t come at all, and so the next month, the next month after that which bring drought to Shi Kingdom. Many streams and small rivers become dry soil and can''t give water anymore. Famines happen in all area of Shi Kingdom. Many Shi Kingdom citizens that choose to migrate to another kingdom, creating mass citizen exodus from Shi Kingdom. King Shi Lie The realize that his Kingdom facing heaven tribulation forced to give You Ben and his family proper burial to appease heaven anger. But it''s all too late. The disaster is greatly weakening Shi Kingdom and invites the neighboring kingdom around Shi Kingdom to invade this powerless kingdom. Against enemy from everywhere, King Shi from his desperation chooses to end his life by suicide. Without a leader, Shi Kingdom defenseless and become easy pie for the neighboring kingdom to invade and divide its land. Less than three years, Shi Kingdom that once powerful and prosperous country, removed from the map of ancient China.

 6 Reincarnated

    I open my eyes and feel a heavy headache striking my head. It''s like I''ve slept for a very long time and my body feels stiff and aching in every place.

    "Where is this? What is this place? What happens to me? Why I use this strange dress?"

    Series of questions flooding my minds since the place I just awaken is very different from any places I remember when I''m alive. Huh? When I''m alive? Faintly the memory, when I saw my head chopped from my neck, appears in my mind. Yes, I remember now. I was dead in Dining chamber of Shi Kingdom in the blade of royal guard''s sword. Unconsciously my hand touches my neck. Oh, my head still there on my neck, I can feel the heartbeat in my chest. Did I live again?

    Wait, this is not my hand. Whose hand is this?

    Suddenly a flood of information entering my brain answering all my questions before. Both my hands hold my head to keep my head that feels like almost exploding from so much information coming in such a short time. I try to digest this information flood bit by bit start with the owner of this body.

    The previous owner of this body is actually a man with the name similar with me, You Ben. His age is 25 years old also the same age as when I die. He works as a restaurant owner and the chef in the restaurant. His restaurant quite popular in this He Xing City, because the price is affordable and the food tastes good. What makes me can inherit from his body, is because the previous owner of this body dies. He dies in a miserable way after what happened with his restaurant. It all starts when a chain restaurant group want to acquisition his restaurant and put the restaurant under their group. The owner refused because the reputation of this chain restaurant is not good. They often use the low-grade ingredient for their food and put an expensive price on their menu. The reason this chain restaurant still can operate despite all its bad reputation, that because the chain restaurant is part of a big conglomerates company.

    This chain restaurant is running by Bao Family and the big company that is their backer is owned by Hong Family. Bao! Hong! Those two names suddenly incite the rage in my heart. I remember their conversation before darkness shrouded me. It''s seemed those bad genes inherited from their ancestor.

    I clenched my fist. It seems in this world, the current You Ben also become their victim. I start digging further the memories of the previous owner. After the previous owner refusal, troubles keep coming to his restaurant. Start with supplier no longer send ingredient to his restaurant, critics write bad reviews about his restaurant, thugs that make a mess in his restaurant, dog shits that throws in front of his restaurant, health inspector that force temporary shutdown by unhygienic reason make one by one his customer no longer coming to his restaurant.

    This series of the unfortunate event make the previous You Ben depressed and turn to alcohol as his escape. His wife asks for a divorce after his restaurant become run down which make him more depressed. Finally, in the night when he dies, he drinks many alcohol and sleeping pills which bring him to his death, and make me, the ancient You Ben, inherit his body.

    I sighed and look around my surrounding. It seems the previous You Ben decide to end his life in his precious restaurant. Maybe to make that chain restaurant withdraw their intention to take over his restaurant, he chooses to die here. Well, if someone dies in a certain place, the selling value of that place will decrease, especially if the one who dies is not dead in a normal way. I look around the restaurant, in one of the wall, there''s painting of the previous owner with a woman. No, this is not painting, this called portrait in this world. I look carefully at the woman picture, she does not resemble my wife Ming Mei, it seems in this world, previous You Ben married the wrong woman, who can''t be lived together is poor and riches. Because when her husband business down, she chose to divorce him.

    Ming Mei. When I remember her, my heart feels aching. I remember her last words before she dies,

    "Ben benбнsorryбнI can''tбнbe with you бнanymore"

    Ming Er, where are you now? Are you also reborn in this world or are you live peacefully in heaven? Unconsciously, tears start flowing from my eyes. My lovely wife, my unborn child, can I have them again in this second life?

 7 Fateful encounter

    I wipe the tears from my face. Sorrow did not bring them back to me. Heaven sends me back to live must have a certain reason. And for me, the reason is to revenge against treacherous Bao and Hong. At least, that is my reason to live right now.

    I continue looking at this restaurant, I see the calendar it shows number 201X. Seem I''m in deep slumber for over two millennia, so long time since I die. The world also already greatly changed. There''s no more kingdom like in ancient China. People can go around the world easily now. That''s what I get from previous owner memories. I go to the kitchen and looking at the equipment there. There are so many types of equipment that completely new to me. There''s no more firewood stove, it''s replaced with gas stove. The lighting no longer uses oil lamp and candle, it''s replaced by the electric lamp. There are also things called electronics like the blender, microwave, the freezer which haven''t exist in my time.

    The other equipment like frying pan, kettle, pot, and spatula is not different from the ancient time. So even the world already changed, there''re some things that never change from the old time. I look at the kitchen knives at the shelf, it looks sharp and well cared. Seems the previous owner also people who love cooking like me, I can see his passion for cooking on the equipment that he left.

    I''m still looking at the kitchen when I heard the sound of the door opened. Ah? Who''s going to eat in this rundown restaurant? Did the door lock when the previous owner died? When I try to dig his memory it seems he deliberately not lock the door so people can find his body easily. So like that, and maybe this guest is not someone from here, lost and entering this restaurant.

    So I come out of the kitchen and greet this guest. It''s a girl in her twenties, carrying a traveling bag who come in. But when I see her face, I''m stunned and almost blurted a name and calling her,

    MING ER!

    Yes, the person who just coming into this restaurant resembles my wife, Ming Er. I almost can''t hold this urge to call her name and hug her, but I manage to hold it and calm myself. ''You Ben, this is not the world you know before, your wife is already dead thousand years ago, she just someone resemble your wife'' that what I tell to myself to calming down. So, I have to greet her first and ask her purpose in my restaurant

    "Miss, are you coming to eat?"

    "Sir, are you the owner of this restaurant?"

    "Yes, I am"

    "Do you need a worker here? I''m looking for a job, and if there any vacation, I would like to apply"

    I''m sighed, so she''s come not to eat but looking for a job. Doesn''t she look at how this restaurant going? Dust in table and chair, spider webs on the corner of walls and rooftop, decoration flowers in vase already withered and dry, there are no other people here except me and her. Is this what a restaurant should be?

    "So, you don''t come to eat but looking for a job?"

    "Yes, I''m sorry. I would not ask much for the salary. As long as I can rent a room and have eaten something every day is enough for me"

    "I''m sorry miss, but don''t you see how this restaurant looks like is? It''s a rundown restaurant which hardly has a customer every day. I think you''re looking for a job in the wrong place. Why don''t you apply in that chain restaurant?"

    She looks dejected and desperate hearing my words.

    "I used to work there and don''t want to work there again"

    There''s sadness carried in her voice, and somehow my interest piqued. What exactly happened to her? I pull a chair in the nearby table and please her to a seat.

    "Miss, why don''t you take a seat first and tell me your story"

    She didn''t refuse and sit on the chair, I pull another chair and sit in front of her.

    "First, can I know your name, miss?

    "My name Ming Er, Li Ming Er"

    When she said her name, my heart feels like almost stop beating. Ming Er! She also has the name Ming Er! Is this coincidence or heaven sends her back to me?

 8 Ming Er story

    I try to stay calm after hear her name and continue to ask her,

    "So miss Li, you used to work at Bao chain restaurant but don''t want to work there again, yes?"

    She nodded hearing my question.

    "But there still many other restaurants that not owned by Bao Chain Restaurant, why you don''t apply there?"

    "I do, but they don''t accept me"

    "Oh, why is that? You don''t ask much for salary but they still not accept you. That''s sound not right"

    "That''s because my body condition, they don''t want to accept me"

    "Your body condition? Are you having a sickness that can contagious or something?"

    "No, it''s not like. I''m healthy and have no sickness. It''s just I am...."

    She looks hesitate to continue her words. Maybe because she already rejected in many places because of that, she hesitates to tell me the reason.

    "Because you''re what miss Li?"

    "Because....I''m pregnant!..... I''m currently pregnant for two months, that''s why they didn''t accept me. They don''t want to hire someone who her belly will get bigger in couple month later and can''t move easily and must pay benefit for birth labor too"

    She''s pregnant! Moreover two months! Just like Ming Er when she dies. Is this just a coincidence? Or heaven really sent her back to me? Wait, maybe I''m just overexcited with this, how if she already married, is not that only my wishful thinking if she already married and I''m expecting her?

    "So, you already married miss Li. Is your husband income not enough to support you and your baby that makes you look for a job?"

    "I''mбн. I''m not marriedбн.yet"

    She said that with sad tones. Her eyes also start to teary when she said that. What happens to her that makes her so sad?

    "You''re not married but pregnant?"

    She nodded

    "The man who makes you pregnant don''t want to be responsible?"

    She nodded again

    "If I may guess, that man works in Bao Chain Restaurant?"

    Her cries are broken with my last question. It''s seemed my guess hit the right spot in her heart.

    "Sorry miss Li, I don''t'' mean to make you sad"

    I handed her my handkerchief to wipe her tears

    "It''s my fault that makes this all happen, misterбн.sorry, I don''t even know your name"

    "You Ben, my name is You Ben. Why don''t you tell me from the start"

    "Alright, Mister Ben. When I start to work at Bao Chain Restaurant, everyone is nice to me there, although the work hours are long I feel good to work there. Young master Bao also good for his employees. Three months after I work there, master Bao starts to get close to me and even ask me to be his girlfriend. He''s young, handsome and rich, which girl who doesn''t want to be his girlfriend. So I accept his request and become his girlfriend. Since then treatment from my colleague to me become colder, especially among the female workers. When I told master Bao about this, he only laughs and said that they''re just jealous of me. I supposed to ignore that and keep being his girlfriend. Master Bao is good to me, sometimes he gives me a present like flowers or chocolate or buys me a nice dress, just like a real gentleman"

    Ming Er telling this story with her eyes looking far away like remembering her good time.

    "He also takes me to party, introducing me with his friend. Until one day he asks me to come with him to a party, and at that party he makes me drink too much and I''m was drunk. When I''m sober, I already in the hotel room with him, and myбн.."

    "You don''t have to tell me that part if make you sad, but I know what he did to you in that hotel room"

    Ming Er nodded, that incident in the hotel room seems to leave a trauma to her. But she can continue her story

    "After that, my relationship with master Bao, bit by bit is getting distance and distance. When I ask him if he abandoning me, he always said he was busy, until two weeks before today, I just realize I don''t get my periods again and when I''m checking with Pregnancy test-Kit, I''m pregnant. When I tell this to master Bao he only gives me money and told me to do abortion. At that time I just realize that master Bao only wants my body and didn''t really love me, I''m only his lust object and ditched after he satisfied. When I return home and tell my parent about this, they enraged and cast me away. They say I''m bringing shame to the family. Except this baby in my belly, I don''t have anybody else in this world"

    I''m sighing hearing her story. These Bao families are indeed rotten from their ancestor. Both You Ben and Ming Er in this world was also being their victim again.

 9 If you donтАЩt mind

    Hearing her story makes me sad, but what can I do for her? I''m not in a position that can help her financially with this rundown restaurant.

    "Miss Li, then what your plan for the future?"

    "I don''t know, maybe find part time job and raise my child as the single mother. But right now I need a place to stay and job to keep this baby"

    "Why don''t you just do abortion like he said?"

    "This child is innocent, I can''t kill my child by doing abortion. This is my fault, not my child fault"

    I''m silenced by her words. Ming Er that used to be my wife also a kind woman like her. Seeing Li Ming Er remind me how they so similar to each other.

    "Miss Li, it''s not that I don''t want to hire you, but you should see my restaurant condition. Do you think this kind of restaurant can give you a decent salary?"

    Ming Er looking around and see how my restaurant''s condition. After seeing how bad the condition is, she looks at me with apologetic looks.

    "I''m sorry mister You. I''m so desperate till not realize it. You also have your own difficulty, I can''t add more difficulty to you. Please forgive me and excuse me, I should find a job in another place"

    After saying that, Ming Er grabs her bag and stand up.

    "Miss Li, please wait a moment. Although I can''t hire you to work here, I have something to offer. If you don''t mind, you can stay here. I have some empty rooms upstairs, and if you don''t mind, you can use one of them. I don''t take charges for that"

    Ming Er looks at me with disbelief eyes

    "Mister You, you really let me stay here for free?"

    "Yes, in fact, I am also the victim of Bao Chain Restaurant. Can be said we''re a comrade in the unfortunate event"

    Then I start to tell her about the cause of the rundown of this restaurant from the memory of the previous You Ben. When I finish tell her my story, she looks at me with teary eyes

    "Mister Youбн. I thought I''m the most unhappy person in this world, but after hearing your story I think my suffering is nothing compared to you"

    "Ah it''s okay, I still have something I want to do in this world. And I won''t give up easily until I can do what I want to do"

    Of course, I''m talking about my revenge to Bao and Hong, although I don''t know how to do that.

    "So, do you accept my offer or you still want to look for a job in another place?"

    The time right now is about 9 p.m, shops along the street already closed and the road become deserted with only one-two people passing by.

    "Mister You, if I''m not troubling you, I will accept your offer. A place to stay is what I needed most right now. I can''t afford to stay in a hotel and I''m afraid if I must spend the night in the park or street"

    "No problem at all. Let''s go upstairs and I''ll show you your room. Ah let me help you with that bag, it seems heavy and you already carried it all the day, don''t you?"

    Without waiting for her to reply, I take her bag and lead the way to her to the upstairs. She follows me silently from behind. We stop at the room that used to be my ex-wife room.

    "This is the room. It may be a bit dirty but I hope you don''t mind"

    I open the door and show her the room. The previous owner never enters this room again after they divorced because it gives him a pain in his heart. So it''s a bit dusty but still a neat room.

    "This is more than enough mister You, I''m really grateful for this"

    "Hmm. Here''s your bag, you can use the closet there to put your clothes. The bathroom is at the end of the corridor if you want to take a bath. But I don''t have hot water in there"

    "That''s doesn''t matter mister You, I already have a place to stay and clean myself is already a great blessing for me. I can''t ask for more"

    But after saying that, suddenly a growl comes from her belly, which makes her face become beet-red

    "Hahaha, if you hungry you still can ask for food. How about this, you take a bath first, after that you can get down and eat. I''ll make something for us to eat"

    She nodded shyly after hearing my proposal. I left her to make something to eat at the kitchen below.

 10 Leftover food

    In the kitchen, I''m wondering what can I cook for her. There are not many ingredients left by the previous owner in the kitchen. Although there are many spices still available, not much staple food can be cooked here. The previous owner has a wide knowledge of dishes from many countries that even I never heard the name before. I use his memory to create something nice to eat with those leftovers.

    I look at leftover that I put together in the table. There are some cooked brown rice, egg, butter, milk and dried plum. I rack my brains to create something delicious from this leftover. Finally, I have something in my mind since it''s already past the dinner time, the body will enter the cycle of rest and rejuvenate during sleep. Eating something heavy only bring burden to the body, so I will make something light that can quickly be digested by the body.

    From the spices self, I took a dash of cinnamon, one tablespoon honey, and a quarter teaspoon vanilla extract.

    The first thing to do in cooking those leftovers is, take one cup of cooked brown rice, one cup milk, two tablespoons dried plum, one egg, and one tablespoon butter. Then I start to cook by combine the cooked brown rice, milk, dried plum, cinnamon, and honey in a small saucepan. Bring them to a boil, and then reduce heat to low fire and simmer for 20 minutes.

    After that, I beat the egg in a small bowl. Then temper the egg by whisking in some of the hot rice, a tablespoon at a time until I have incorporated about 6 tablespoons. I stir the egg into the rice along with the vanilla and butter and continue cooking over low heat for 1 to 2 minutes to thicken.

    After that''s all done, the dish called Brown Rice Porridge is finished.

    Ming Er gets down from the upstairs just when I just finishing my dish. It seems she spend some time to take a bath before she gets down. Her wet hair that not completely dried using towel dangled over her shoulder give a fresh air. She also has changed her dress into a clean one. She looks a lot better than the first time she enters the restaurant.

    I smile when see her entering the kitchen and sit on the counter. She also smiles shyly when look me smile at her.

    "Miss Li, you look a lot better than when you first time enter this restaurant"

    "Thank you Mister You, and please call me Ming Er, you don''t have to polite with me, after all, I''m just a freeloader in here"

    "OkayбнMing Er, you also don''t have to call me to mister You. You can call me You Ben or Ben Ben, and please don''t think you''re freeloader here. I glad I can help someone that needs help"

    "Ben benбнmmm, why I feel secure and comfortable when said that?"

    "You think so, Ming Er?"

    "Um. It''s like a feeling that I meet someone that I already know for so long. Did we ever meet before Ben Ben?"

    "I don''t think so. It''s the first time I meet you. By the way, here''s the food. Sorry, it''s only leftover porridge. I don''t have much material left in this restaurant"

    I handed her a bowl of Brown Rice Porridge. She accepts it and takes a scoop.

    "Ben Benбн Your cooking is delicious. Even with only leftover, this porridge taste great"

    I''m stunned hearing what she said. My memory goes back at night before the day I died, when I''m preparing the broth in the kitchen and my wife looking at me. Without I noticed, tears start flowing from my eyes.

    "Ben Benбн.why are you crying? Am I said something wrong?"

    Ming Er looks at me with concern expression. I hurriedly wiped the tears from my face.

    "No, you said nothing wrong. It justбн.it''s been a very long time when someone dear to me said something like that"

    "Is that your wife?"

    "Um. It''s my wife who said that"

    "Where is she now?"

    "I don''t know, she left me and never come back"

    "Ah, you''re such a loving and caring person, why she left you? She should happy have a husband like you"

    "Maybe she doesn''t want to stay at the side of a broken man like me"

    "But, aren''t you also once being a successful chef? Up and down is a common thing in this world. Today maybe you''re a broken man, but tomorrow you could be a successful man again"

    "Do you think so?"

    "I believe that. Most people who face a problem like Ben ben already turn into drunkard or even do suicide because they don''t believe they can rise again. But Ben Ben is different, I can feel your spirit in your cooking"

    "Thank you Ming Er"

    "No, it''s should me who should thank you, Ben Ben. You already give me shelter now you give me food, a delicious one. I do not lie, the sweetness from milk and honey combined with sour flavor from the plum, it''s awesomeбн..um, do you still have more?"

    She shows me her empty bowl with a shy smile. I laugh with her request and give her the remained porridge in the pan.

    "Sure, you can have it. You should eat more because there''s another life in your belly"

    Her face is blushing while rubbing her belly. Ah, I just remember, Ming Er also rub her belly while she waiting for my return from Palace Kitchen

    "You also should have enough rest and have a calm mind. You have walked around all days looking for a job right?"

    She nodded as yes answer.

    "Alright, after finish your bowl, you should go upstairs and rest. Leave this all to me"

    After emptying her bowl, Ming Er does as I say. She goes upstairs and takes a rest. I lock the restaurant door and close the curtains. After washing all the bowls and cooking equipment, I also go upstairs to sleep.

 11 Propose

    Next day, I wake up a little bit late. Well, there''s nothing much to do anyway. When the restaurant business is still prosperous, usually I''m going to the market early in the morning to get the freshest ingredient. But now, if I even get one customer it would be a great day for me.

    Lazily I wake up from the bed and stretch my back. Feeling how the hair start grows on my chin makes me goes to the bathroom to bath and shave. When I open the bathroom door, the view inside the bathroom make me stunned and standing in front of the bathroom door without doing anything like my feet were nailed in the floor. Its Ming Er that currently using the bathroom and not locking the door. Although she''s pregnant, her naked body still shows a smooth and flat belly besides round butt and protruding chest. Surprisingly when she saw me standing in front of the door, she didn''t angry or screaming. With a low and gentle voice, she''s saying,

    "Ben Ben, can you close the door?"

    While covers her private areas with her hands.

    Her voice awakened me, which hurriedly close the door. Damn! I forget that I now live with someone else here. What should I do if she decides to leave this restaurant because thinking I''m a pervert? With mixed up feeling and confused mind, I go to downstairs to calm myself. When I arrived in downstairs, I''m stunned again, where''s the rundown restaurant yesterday? It''s now clean and tidy. The table also free from dust. The spider web is no longer seen in corner and roof. The chair and table arranged in an orderly manner. The dirty curtains and tablecloth also already put down and removed. Did she do all this cleaning?

    While waiting for her finish her bath, I decided to make breakfast for us. It''s the same porridge, like what I made last night because I still don''t have any ingredient. I''m finished making the breakfast when Ming Er walking down from upstairs. She looks calm and composed and no sign of angry at all while greeting me

    "Good morning! Mmmбнsmells good. Can I get some?"

    "Good morning. Sure, here''s your bowl"

    I handed her a bowl of porridge, she sat at the counter and start scooping the porridge.

    "Mmm, although I already eat this last night, it''s still good"

    "Ming Erбн..are you not angry?"

    "Me? Angry for what?"

    "That bathroomбн.."

    "Oh, it''s okay, that''s an accident. I know you didn''t do that intentionally. Besides, I should lock the doorбнbut the lock is broken"

    "SorryбнI''ll fix that right away"

    "Ben Ben, if you can''t fix that, it''s alright, I just stick a paper written ''occupied'' in the door"

    "Since I''m living alone, when the lock is broken, I''ve not repaired it. But now, you here, it''s must be fixed"

    "Um, but if you can''t fix it don''t push yourself to fix it. Can I have more? Since I''m pregnant I''m getting like with something sour lately"

    She shows me her empty bowl again. I smile and give her second serving.

    "Ming Erбн.are you really sever your ties with your parents?"

    "Ben Ben, are you trying to send me back to my parents'' home?"

    "No, that''s not what I mean. But you know, sometimes in anger people said something that they will regret later"

    She sighed before answering,

    "I also don''t want to sever ties with my parent. But before they cast me away they said don''t ever come back if you do not bring the man who impregnates you as your husband. That''s impossible, right? I can ask a man to pretend to become my husband to my parent, but I don''t want to lie to my parent. Maybe I''m just destined to live as a single parent"

    "What if there''s a man who wants to marry you without a need to pretend as your husband?"

    "Nah, that''s impossible. No man wants to marry a girl that already carrying someone else seeds in her womb. Isn''t that equal to wearing a green hat for that man?"

    "Hmm, what if that man doesn''t mind with whatever happens to you in the past, willing to accept whoever you are, don''t care if you already pregnant with someone else, and will love that child, like his own child?"

    "Oh, I would like to meet that man. But that also like searching a needle in the haystack. The chance to meet that kind of man maybe one per million or even billion"

    "What if you don''t have to search that man?"

    "Mmm? What''s that mean?"

    "That man is already in front of you. Ming Er, will you marry me?"

 12 I sayтАжYes

    "What?....No way....Ben Ben..."

    Ming Er look surprised with this sudden proposal by me.

    I don''t know why suddenly I blurted those words. I just have an urge to protect this pitiful girl. Besides, heaven already sends me someone who really looks like my wife in the past. How can I let this chance to slip away? Who knows if she finds a job, she will still stay with me and not move away? What if someone also approaching her with ill intent? So I repeat my proposal once again,

    "Ming Er, will you marry me?"

    Ming Er dumbfounded when hearing what I''m saying just now. She looks at me with disbelief eyes and asking in trembling tone

    "Ben Benбн.you...you''re joking right?"

    I look at her straight in her eyes, while shaking my head I reply her

    "No, I''m not joking. I''m serious"

    "You want to marry me? just now...you propose me?", She asks in disbelief tone.

    "Yes, I do"

    "You know I''m already pregnant, right?"

    "I know that I don''t mind and I will accept you just the way you are"

    "You will love this child although it''s not your own blood?"

    "I will love him or her like my own child, and if we have another child, I will not discriminate against him or her"

    "But you only knew me since yesterday"

    "Is it really needs a long time to love someone?"

    "Why you love me? There are many other girls that better than me, not someone that already used like me"

    "Did I need a reason to love you? Did I need permission to love someone? Maybe you''re right, there are many better girls than you outside. But my eyes only see you"

    "Do you mean with what you just say?"

    "I mean it. So, what you say? Can you love me? Will you marry me?"

    "Give me time to thinkбнit''s so sudden, I don''t know what to think"

    "Okay"

    Ming Er closes her eyes, there are tears in the corner of her eyes. And when she opened her eyes, with the sweetest smile in her face, she answering it

    "Ben BenбнThank youбнand the answer....I sayбнYes"

    I left the kitchen and approaching her that still sit on the counter with tears on her face. I stop two-step in front of her and stretching my hand. Instead of taking my hand, she stands up and hugs me. She leans her head in my chest and her cry break after that.

    "Waaaaбн.Ben benбн.*sob sob*бнwhy you so good to meбн*sob*"

    I just hug her back while rubbing her head. For a moment we both drown in our emotions and feelings. After her cries recede, she raises her head and looks at me

    "Ben benбнtell meбнI''m not dreaming right?"

    "No, you don''t. Or should I pinch your cheek to wake you up?"

    "Rather than a pinch, how about a kiss? So when I wake up I can see my prince"

    Compared with my previous Ming Er who timid and gently, this new Ming Er is rather bold and lively. But it''s not I dislike it, I somehow also like this new Ming Er. So I bring my head closer to her head and give her a kiss.

    "Mmmбнnow I''m feeling like snow princess hihihi"

    "You believe now?"

    "Um, after what happened with that bastard, I''m losing my trust to man. But after meeting you I think not all man in the world is bad"

    "So, can we marry now?"

    "Not now"

    "Why?"

    "Because I don''t want my husband look bad in our marriage certificate''s photo"

    She said that while rubbing my unshaved chin, which make me laugh heartily. So you can tease me now huh?

    "Ah you right, I should take bath first and have shaved. After that, we go to city hall and registering our marriage"

    "Um, that''s better. I also want to change my dress too. I want to look beautiful as your wife"

    We go upstairs together while holding our hands. We separate as I''m going to the bathroom to take a bath and shaving, and she going to her room to change her dress to a better dress.

 13 Going to Married

    After taking bath and shave my beard, I take the best suit I have in my closet. I spend enough time in front of the mirror to make sure I''d look good in Ming Er eyes. When I''d to leave my room, Ming Er is already waiting for me. She''s wearing a red traditional dress with light make up on her face. Her long hair is rolled up and makes a bun, tied with a hairpin. Although she''s not as beautiful as a movie actress, she has her own charm as a woman. With this traditional dress, she looks just like my previous Ming Er, when we married before.

    Seeing me looking at her without blinking eyes, she bashfully smile and asking me,

    "Am I looks good?"

    "Good? It''s more than good. It''s adorable!"

    "Really?"

    "Are you doubting your husband words now?"

    "Um, no. But every time you say I look good, my confidence also raise"

    "How am I look?"

    "Look handsome," she said that while fixing the tie in my neck. It''s still hard to fix the tie for ancient people like me although I already inherit memory of the previous owner on how to fix a tie. But still, I make it awful.

    "Now'' its handsome and neat" she raises her thumb up.

    "Can we go now?"

    "Yes!"

    We both go downstairs holding our hands together again. There''s no customer like before so I just close the restaurant and go to city hall to register our marriage. We take the bus to go there since I''m don''t have my own car nor know how to ride it.

    In the bus, we sat next to an old couple that looking at us with an excited look on their eyes. The elder woman even ask to Ming er,

    "Child, you look so happy, are you two just married?"

    "No, auntie, we haven''t married yet. We''re on our way to city hall to register our marriage"

    "Oh, you''re going married today. That''s good, you two look love each other and I pray your marriage will last forever"

    "Thank you, auntie. I''m happy because today I''m married to someone I love and can give what I need, someone that I can spend the rest of my life with"

    That elderly woman nodded hearing Ming Er words.

    "Isn''t that nice, hubby? Girls right now only chase what they want and not care what they need. They think as long as they can have a handsome and rich man, their life will be happy. Child, you make a wise decision, look at me and my husband. When we going to married, he not promised my many things, he only says that he will love me and take care of me, and he fulfills what he said at that time. we just celebrate our 50 years wedding anniversary yesterday"

    The elderly woman hugs her husband hand and his husband only smiling and pats his wife''s hand.

    "Really? Congratulation, auntie. I hope our marriage also can last long as auntie" Ming Er said that with enthusiastic expression.

    "You can do that child. Young man, take care of your wife with your utmost care. Make her happy"

    "I will auntie" I reply her politely

    "Ah too bad our stop is next to the bus stop. I still like to talk to such a loving couple. We wish you a happily married life child"

    "Thank you, auntie" Me and Ming Er reply her together.

    The elderly woman nodded and rises from her seat to get out from the bus. His husband who follows behind her said with an apologetic look in his eyes,

    "Forgive my wife, she a bit excited after our wedding anniversary yesterday"

    "It''s okay uncle. That''s something you both can proud of and we envy you two can stay together for such a long time. we hope we can be like you too"

    "Ah, in this case, I also congratulate you on your wedding, may God bless you with happy and prosperous life"

    "Thank you uncle" Me and Ming Er reply her together.

    After they both leave the bus, Ming Er look at me with a happy look in her eyes

    "Ben Ben, do you think we can like them? Married for 50 years?"

    "Um, I want to. If possible it''s not only 50 years, but 60 or even 70 years or maybe more"

    "Mmm, I''m already imagining we surrounded by our son and daughter, our grandchild, our grand grandchild, all congratulate us for our wedding anniversary"

    "And we going to make it happen by married today right?"

    "Um. After we married, what we''re going to do?"

    "We go shopping first. I don''t have anything left to eat tonight"

    Ming Er chuckled upon hearing what I''m planning after we married. Well, I mean it. Can''t I let her eat leftover food everyday right?

 14 Officially Married

    The bus that we ride finally stops at the bus stop near the city hall. We get off the bus and go to City hall. In there we are going to marriage registration section. After filling the form, verified, taking photograph and waiting for some hours, finally, our marriage certificate is finished. We hold that certificate together and smiling when our eyes met.

    "Ben Benбн are we husband and wife now?"

    "Yes Ming Er, aren''t you hold the proof in your hand?"

    "I still like dreamingбн..yesterday I''m just a castaway girl with nobody cares, now I''m a happy wife that standing beside a loving husbandбн.it just feelsбнtoo good to be true"

    "Should I kiss you to wake you up again?"

    She blushing when hearing my teasing, but she replies it splendidly

    "I want it, but not here, at our home and not just one kiss, but many kisses"

    I''m laughing hearing what she said, this bold and lively version of Ming Er really surprising me.

    "Okay, will give you as many as you want at home"

    She giggling hearing my answer and make a wide smile that showing her white teeth

    "Tee Hee~ I can''t wait until we get home. Let''s get shopping and go home Ben Ben"

    She wrapped her hand around my arms and drags me out from city hall. On our way to the market, we pass by a photo studio and she asks me to make some portraits of us. After making some poses and photographed, some minutes later we already have our photographs done. We also buy some picture frames to display our photos. After that, we continue our way to the market and only stop again on the street peddler that sell dumpling to buy some for lunch.

    In the market, Ming Er shows another interesting side of hers. She able to haggle and get lower prices for the ingredient that sold in the market. Especially, when the seller also a woman. She can say something nice and flatter the seller to get a cheaper price. We return to our homes with two big pack groceries in both my hands. After putting the groceries in freezer and shelves, finally, we have a free time to spend. I decide not to open the restaurant since there''s nobody ever come to eat anyway, and I want to spend today''s time with Ming Er.

    Ming Er busied herself by putting the photograph in the photo frames. After all, done, she takes one of the frames and walks to the wall where the picture of the previous owner with his ex-wife displayed.

    She stands up in front that picture and asks me

    "Ben Benбнcan Iбн?"

    "Sure, you''re now this house''s madame. You can do it"

    I know she wants to replace that picture with the new picture of me and her. After she hears what I said, she smiles and before takes the picture off from the wall, she even thanks the picture.

    "Sister, although I don''t know you, I thank you for let a good man like Ben Ben go and make him take me as his wife. From now on, I will take your part to accompany him in happiness and sadness, in poor and riches together"

    After saying that, she put our new picture on the wall. She staring at it quite long, which make me curious which picture she put in there.I''m standing behind her while hugging her slim waist and look what picture she put in there.

    It''s a picture of us posing me standing behind her hug her waist and we look at each other. I whispering in Ming er ears

    "Do you like this picture?"

    "I like it very much. I can feel the warmth of your body in my back and the love in your eyes"

    "Um. Actually, it can be better, but I''m too shy about posing that"

    "How?"

    "Like this"

    I turn her back so we facing each other. I close my face to her and give her a kiss. She closes her eyes and receives my kiss passionately. After some minutes, we separate our lips and look each other with an affectionate look in our eyes.

    "Ben BenбнI also ashamed if someone took our picture like that"

    "So let it posing for ourselves only, right?

    "Umбнben ben, can you give me more? You said you will give me as many as I like"

    "Sure, especially if my lovely wife asks it herself"

    And we engage in passionate kisses once again. After we finish kissing, we look at the picture we made today and place it in the place that we can see every day.

 15 Wedding party preparation

    After we finish placing all of the picture frames in the wall, we go upstairs to change the clothes into casual one. After we change clothes, I will go downstairs to prepare our wedding party, while Ming Er will prepare our wedding room.

    Since we''re not inviting anyone to celebrate our marriage, we decide to make a party on our own. The party will hold tonight but I''m already preparing the ingredient this afternoon. Because the person who will eat the dishes only me and Ming Er, I ask her what kind of food she would like to eat tonight before we separate.

    "Ming Er, for tonight party, what kind of food you like to eat?"

    "Um, I''m not a picky eater, but for tonight if possible I want something sour, something that not too spicy because that will make my belly feel hot, and something that not use too much garlic because I want to keep my breath smell good when we kissing"

    She said the last part of her request with a bit shyly looks on her face. Oh, she looks cute when she like that, and how thoughtful she is. So I decided to make something delicious and lavish although only use the ordinary ingredient that we buy in the market.

    Tastes of Chinese food are traditionally categorized into five flavors: salty, spicy, sour, sweet, and bitter. Since she already mentions not a spicy one and I don''t like a bitter one, the only remaining choice is salty, sour and sweet. I''m racking my brain to arrange cuisine that fits into those three categories. Finally, I find something that fit the requirement. Its Shanxi cuisine and Jiangsu dish that I will prepare for tonight party.

    For the soup, I choose to make sour soup broth (╦с╠└; ╦сЬл; suибn tибng) so I prepared the ingredient as follow:

    ? 1/3 cup dried shiitake mushrooms

    ? 1/4 cup dried wood ear mushrooms

    ? 1/4 cup dried lily flowers

    ? 1/2 lbs (230 g) pork loin (or chicken breast) cut into thin strips

    ? 1/2 tablespoon Shaoxing wine or dry sherry

    ? 1/4 teaspoon salt

    ? 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch

    And for the soup

    ? 2 teaspoons minced ginger

    ? 2 green onions chopped

    ? 2 tablespoons Chinkiang vinegar

    ? 1/2 teaspoon white pepper powder for a less spicy dish

    ? 6 cups water or chicken stock

    ? 1/2 block (8 oz / 227 g) firm tofu, cubed

    ? 1 tablespoon light soy sauce or soy sauce

    ? 3 tablespoons cornstarch

    ? 1 teaspoon salt or to taste

    ? 2 eggs beaten

    ? 1 teaspoon sesame oil

    And this is how I make the soup

    1. Gently rinse dried shiitake mushrooms, dried wood ear mushrooms, and lily flowers with tap water. Soak each of them with 1.5 to 2 cups warm water in three big bowls. Rehydrate for 30 minutes to 1 hour, until tender. Slice mushrooms into strips. Snip off the tough ends of lily flowers and discard. Remove tough ends of wood ear mushrooms, then chop into bite-sized pieces.

    2. Combine pork, Shaoxing wine, salt and cornstarch in a bowl. Mix well by hand. Marinate for 10 - 15 minutes.

    3. Add Chinkiang vinegar and white pepper into a small bowl. Mix well until the white pepper is completely dissolved.

    4. Add water or chicken stock, ginger, and green onion into a pot and heat over medium-high heat. Add rehydrated wood ear mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, lily flowers, and tofu to the pot. Cook until bringing to a simmer. Add soy sauce and turn to medium-low heat.

    5. Mix the cornstarch with 1/4 cup of water in a bowl until cornstarch is fully dissolved. Slowly swirl the cornstarch slurry into the soup. Stir to thicken the soup.

    6. Add the pork from step one into the soup, stirring several times to prevent the pork strips from sticking together. Add the salt. Slowly swirl in the beaten egg and stir well. The egg should be scattered and not clotted.

    7. Remove the pot from the stove. Add the vinegar and pepper mixture and stir to mix well.

    8. Garnish with cilantro and drizzle with sesame oil. Give it a final stir.

    And for the main menu, I prepare a dish called Squirrel-shaped mandarin fish. Why I choose fish as the main menu, it''s because fish is a symbol of luck and fortune in China. That''s why in the market, I especially buy fish for tonight party. And for this dish I also prepared the ingredients as follow:

    ? 1 river bass, about 1 pound

    ? Pinch of salt

    ? 15 tsp sugar

    ? Dash of white pepper

    ? Two egg yolks

    ? 2 tbsp cornstarch

    ? 5 cups of cooking oil (or enough to submerge fish)

    ? 3 tbsp ketchup

    ? 4 tbsp water

    ? 5 tsp salt

    ? 1 tsp white pepper

    ? 1 tbsp bamboo shoots, cut finely

    ? ? cup deveined and peeled shrimp

    ? 2 tbsp green peas

    ? 2 tbsp of cornstarch mixed with a bit of water

    ? 1 tsp white vinegar

    And the way I cooking this fish as follow:

    1. Clean the mandarin fish and cut off the head. Do not discard the head. Slice on both sides. Remove the bone. Do not cut off the tail. Reverse the fish so that the flesh is facing outside and make cuts with 1 cm spaces in between to create a diamond-shaped pattern. Do not cut through the skin. This will create a quill-like pattern.

    2. Season the fish with salt, 5 teaspoons sugar, white pepper, and egg yolk. Set aside for about 20 minutes. Bat with cornstarch.

    3. Heat the wok, add oil until there is enough to submerge the fish, and deep-fry the fish when the oil is at a high enough temperature. Take the fish out when it''s half cooked. Wait until the temperature goes higher and then put the fish back into the wok. Check the fish; it should be golden and crispy. Set aside.

    4. For the sauce: Leave some of the oil in the wok. Add ketchup, water, salt, 10 teaspoons sugar and white pepper. Then add the bamboo shoots, shrimp, green peas and egg yolk. Add two tablespoons of the water and cornstarch mixture and the white vinegar. Mix briefly.

    5. Pour the sauce on the fish.

    6. Deep-fry the head separately; arrange it with the rest of the fish for presentation

    It needs about one hour to cook this fish into a dish for dinner.

    Since I make a bit too much soup, I also decide to make xiaobaolong (soup dumpling) enrich our menu tonight. It''s the same process like make dumpling, but for the filling, I use the soup that I already made. It''s a famous cuisine that easy to find in the Shanghai area.

 16 Wedding party dinner

    After all cooking preparation finished, the next thing to do is prepared the table. I choose the two-seater table with the chandelier in the middle of the table. Yes, I want a candlelight dinner theme for our wedding party celebration. I also take a bottle of wine from the wine cellar to celebrate our wedding. After all been set, I start to cook the dish I want to make for tonight party. While waiting for the soup done, I started to cook fish and thanks God, I can finish my cooking on time before dinner time come.

    After putting the dishes on the table and cover it with a lid, I go upstairs to take a bath and changing clothes. I also take a ring that my ex-wife used to wear when we married before. She''s kind enough to leave it to me after we divorce, for her kindness, I can''t have ill feelings toward her and hope she can find her own happiness with her new husband. Since I and Ming Er only married in city hall, there are no exchange rings like what usually happens to the couple that married in the church. So I want to give it to her, at tonight''s dinner. After changing dress into a clean and neat suit, I''m going out of the room and knock Ming Er room''s door.

    She''s coming from the room wearing a white long night dress. Although her skin not creamy white instead a bit tanned, her dress giving an exotic view of her skin color. I almost can''t say anything when seeing her like that. Ming Er look at me bashfully before asking a question

    "Am I looks good in this white dress?"

    "Not only good, it''s superb!''

    "Really? I''m not to confidence wearing a white dress because my skin isn''t as white as other girls"

    "What are you talking about. Compare with those pale white skin, your freshly tanned skin is more exotic in my eyes. I like that"

    "Ben benбнyou like this?"

    "Um. You look like a princess when wearing that. So my princess, shall we go"

    I stretch my hand to hold her hand while we walk downstairs. Ming Er takes my hand and we both go downstairs holding the hand like a couple going to the dance floor together.

    After we arrive downstairs, I pulled a chair in the table I prepared and please her to sit. After that, I lite up the candle and turn off the lamp. Since there''s no waiter to serve us, I also act as her waiter. I show her the wine bottle that I prepared before in ice bucket, open the bottle lid, pour the wine into her glass and mine. After putting the bottle of wine back into the ice bucket, I sit in the opposite chair in front of Ming Er and start our dinner party.

    "I want to toast for our marriage. I wish our marriage will last forever until death separates us. Cheers"

    I raise my wine glass to Ming Er. She also raises her glass and makes toast

    "I also want to toast for our marriage. For the best husband in the world, for our happiness, and our everlasting love. Cheers"

    We take a sip from our glass and smile to each other. I stand up from my chair and prepare the dish for her. First I open the xiaolongbao container which still releasing warm steam from inside. I take one and put it on her plate.

    "Please have a taste of my homemade xiaolongbao, my lovely wife"

    "Um. It looks delicious"

    Ming Er lifts her plate and take the xiaolongbao with her chopstick and take a bite.

    "Um, It''s different with any dumpling I ever eat. This sweet-sour taste is just what I currently like right now. Husband, why you sit too far from me, move your chair beside me"

    Since this is not a formal party, we can sit wherever we like, so I move my chair to sit next beside her.

    "That''s better. Now let''s eat together. Open your mouth, Ben BenбнAammm"

    I open my mouth and she put the xiaolongbao that she just bites in my mouth. I take a bite and let her finish the rest. Well, she''s my wife, we will share happiness and sadness together, so what about sharing food? I take another xiaolongbao and put in my plate, this time it''s my turn to feed her

    "Ming Er, now it''s for our babyбнopen your mouthбнaammmm"

    She smiling hearing what I''m said but did not refuse and take a bite of xiaolongbao that I feed to her. I also put the rest into my mouth. After I finish eating my xiaolongbao, Ming Er giggling when look at me

    "Husband, you can''t eat sloppy like that if there''s someone else around us. Look there''s some leftover in your lip"

    After saying that, she''s stretching her hand to my face. I thought she will take it with her hand, but she actually wraps her hand around my neck and pulls my face closer to her. She takes the leftover with her lips and followed by a kiss. Although a bit surprised, I reply her warm kiss with a passionate one too. After kissing for a while finally we can be parting our lip from each other.

    "Tee hee~ this leftover taste is very tasty"

    I smile with her haughty attitude, I know she''s a bold girl but tonight her courage seems to rise tenfold. Did the wine incite her courage to a higher level?

 17 Unforgettable nigh

    After eating xiaobaolong, the opening snack, I present her with the next dish, the soup.

    "Wifey, you should try this soup too. It''s the same soup that used to fill the xiaolongbao that you just eat"

    While explaining the soup, I pour some into Ming Er bowl. She looks at her bowl but not taking it, instead, she looks at me blinking her pretty eyes with open her mouth. I chuckled looking how cute she is when she asked me to feed her again with her gesture. So I take the spoon and start to scoop the soup from the bowl and drive the spoon to her mouth.

    "Open your mouthбн.aaammmm"

    She swallowed the spoon in her mouth and chew the content slowly and open her mouth again after gulping it. Since she dares to tease me, I also tease her by moving the spoon slowly into her mouth. one time, two times, three times, finally she becomes impatient. While pouting her mouth she''s taking the bowl from my hand.

    "Too slow! I can die from hunger if your hand move that slow"

    But after saying that she laughing, I also laughing because I know she''s only joking with me. Within minutes she already emptied her bowl and asks for the second serving.

    "One more. I''m starving waiting for your hand moves"

    I''m chuckled hearing what she said, she also smiles wide after handed her bowl. I refill her bowl and handed back to her. She also empties the second bowl within minutes. After finishing her soup, she speaks to me

    "Husband, this is the best soup I ever eat. Although there are some pepper and ginger in the soup, it doesn''t make my belly hot. Only make my body feel warm. The sourness from vinegar also in the correct amount, just like eat the original dish from southern China"

    "You like it?"

    "Very much. So what next surprise you prepared for me, husband?"

    "Watch this"

    I open the lid at the squirrel shape mandarin fish dish. Fresh steam from the fish dish spreading after I open the lid. Ming Er sniffing the smell that carried in the air.

    "Um, smells good, and elegant fish shaping. Husband, can we eat that now?"

    I only smile and handed her rice bowl and after that take fish meat pieces and put it in her bowl. Every time her bowl empty, I put it again until she covers her bowl with her hand

    "Enough husband, I don''t want to throw up and send this delicious food out from my belly. It would waste your effort into cooking this delicious food if I throw up"

    "How''s the taste?"

    "Perfect! My tongue give 100 marks for your cooking"

    "Thank you, wifey. Would you like something to drink?"

    "Um, but not wine again. I get tipsy if drink too much wine"

    "Okay, I already prepared orange juice. Would you like some?"

    "Oranges? I would love to. Didn''t I say I like something sour lately"

    I take some blended orange juice from the kitchen and handed the glass to her. She takes it and drink it slowly and emptied the glass.

    "Husband, this is the most delicious dinner I ever have in my life. I don''t understand why those fools don''t want to eat here. If they know what they missed, they will regret it for a long time"

    "Hmm, let it be. One day I will make them waiting in a long line before they can eat what I cook"

    Ming Er chuckled upon hearing what I''m saying. She raises her thumb up as praise.

    "Oh, I have something else for you Ming Er, I hope you don''t mind to accept it. It''s not something new or expensive, but its something that has good memory for me"

    I''m kneeling in front of her seat while taking the ring out from my pocket.

    "Would you accept this?"

    Ming Er nodded with teary eyes. I take her hand and put the ring on her ring finger. Fortunately, the ring is not too small or too bigger for her finger, although not 100% fit in her finger, but it can enter her ring-finger and stay in there without loosen.

    "Ben Benбнthank you"

    Ming Er wraps her arms around my neck and whispering in my ears

    "Tonight is an unforgettable night for me. Thank you for loving me, Ben Ben"

 18 Would you dance with me?

    We hugging each other and let our feeling flow together with the breath we take. After we let go of each other, I say to Ming Er,

    "Wifey, let''s close our wedding party this night with one more thing. Will you?"

    "What is that husband?"

    "You sit here and wait a moment. I''ll prepare the event"

    Ming Er obediently sits back in her chair. I go to the kitchen and play a song in the music player. A soft song starts to fill the room from the loudspeaker. I walk approaching her, and lowering my back while stretching my hand,

    "My princess, would you like to dance with me?"

    Ming Er stares at me with excited eyes, she nodded and take my hand. We start to dance cheek to cheek in the room following the song tune. My arms wrapped her slim waist and swaying together with our steps. Ming Er height is one head shorter than me, so when I hugged her, she can lean her head in my chest. I don''t remember how long we dance, but we still dancing although the music already stops playing.

    "Ben benбн."

    "Yes"

    "I wish we can be like this a little longer, but my feet start feeling tired. I''m sorry"

    "It''s alright, let''s consider we''re done here. C''mon, let''s rest, hug my neck"

    Ming Er hug my neck tightly, and I start to lift her in princess carry to upstairs.

    After we sign the marriage registration, we''re husband and wife, so there''s no need to sleep in a separated room. Since my room is quite messy, we spend this night by sleep in my ex-wife room that now used by Ming-Er. When I open the room, I surprised that room already decorated by Ming Er with full pink and red color.

    "Wifey, is this what you do all day?"

    "Yes, husband. Do you like it?"

    "Beautiful. I never know you have such artistic talent"

    "You can put me down Ben Ben, we already in the room"

    I put down her so she can stand by her own feet. She looks like thinking of something when she already stands on her feet

    "Ben Ben, you have a digital camera and its tripod?"

    I''m thinking for a while, try to dig the previous owner memory of his belonging.

    "I think I have one in my room"

    "Can you lend me those?"

    "Okay, wait a minute, I''ll take that first"

    Although I said a minute, it actually takes some minutes before I can find what I''m looking for in my messy room. I bring that camera and tripod to her room.

    "Here, the camera. What you want to do?"

    Ming Er checking the camera. After seeing it''s still working fine, she put it on a tripod and set the angle toward the bed.

    "Husband, sit on the bed there, I want to make sure the angle is right"

    I sit down on the bed just as she asking me. She adjusts the camera angle, distance, and timer before she runs to the bed and sits on my lap.

    "Husband, hug me, we only have less than 7 seconds"

    I do as she said and several seconds later, the flash lamp in the camera flashing and the camera take our picture several times. She jumps from my lap and checks the camera again. After setting the time she sits in my lap again but with a different angle. After the camera takes the picture from that angle, she set another timer for the next pose.

    But in the third session, she''s not sitting in my lap but standing and kiss my lips. We don''t care anymore although the camera already taking our picture a while ago. After finish kissing, she''s back to set the camera again. This time she posing while hugs me from behind.

    After that we looking at the picture that already taken. Ming Er looks excited when looking how the result on the camera. We even start to pick which picture we will print later.

 19 Officially husband and wife

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    Ming Er put the camera on the table after finish sees the result. After she takes care of the tripod, she walks to me that still sit on the edge of the bed. She sits on my lap again and leans her head in my chest. I wrap her waist with my right hand and use my left hand to rub her hair. Ming Er seems like her hair being rub like this and close her eyes. After a while, finally, she utters a word

    "Ben Benбн.."

    "Yes?"

    "After we married, what is your next plan?"

    "Um. I want to see my father and mother in law first"

    "You want to see my parents?"

    "Yes. Now you have a husband, they don''t have reason to cast you away right?"

    "Umбнwhen you want to go?"

    "The sooner the better, how about next morning? Where''s your parent live?"

    "Okay, they live in a farm village near He Xing city, there''s a bus line passing my parent village. Only one hour from here"

    "Great! I hope they will glad their daughter return"

    "Um. I hope so Ben Ben"

    For a moment we''re both in silence. After a couple minutes Ming Er open her eyes, lift her head and look at me while asking

    "Ben Benбн.do you dislike woman take initiative first?"

    "No, I don''t. Why?"

    "Because..."

    She didn''t continue her words because her hand already pull my head closer to her and her lip already kiss my lip afterward. While we kissing, her hand start to unbutton my shirt and caressing my chest after all buttons in my shirt were off. Ah, so she wants this, well it''s our first night anyway, we should do this after all. Then I also start to unbutton her dress too, which after uncover, reveal a white bra covering her chest. When I try to unhook the bra, I get a trouble releasing the hook. Damn! There''s no such thing like the hooked bra in ancient times. Although I have memory how the previous owner unhook his wife bra, however, this action need practice to mastery, not just a knowledge.

    Seeing me having trouble unhook her bra, Ming Er giggling

    "Ben Benбн.if you can''t unhook it from the front, you can use this way"

    After saying that, she holds my hand and put my palm in the cup of her bra. The bra that she currently wears is a bra that not uses shoulder strap type. After my palm grabs the cup of her bra, she pulls my hand down, which make my hand pull the bra down to her belly, reveal what hidden under it. A twin peaks with small pink nipples on top of it, exposed in front of my eyes. The size is not too big but not small either, proportional to her height and stature. For a moment I only can admire the view in front of my eyes which make her blushing.

    "Ben benбн.are you only want to stare at the whole night?"

    Her voice awakens me from the dazed state. Slowly my hands start to touch and caressing her breast. The soft and bouncy sensations from the grip on her breast make me start to kiss and lick the nipple on her breast. Soft moaning sound comes from the half-open mouth of Ming Er, which already closes her eyes to enjoy my treatment on her breast. My mouth went from left breast to right breast, hopping from one side to another side. Not only kissing and licking, but my mouth also starts sucking the nipple on her twin peaks and sometimes make soft bites on it. Ming Er hands caressing my hair and sometimes pressing my head against her breast when I make a strong suction on her nipples.

    "Ben Benбн.don''t youбн.interestedбнwith otherбн.parts of me?"

    Ming Er asking me with her panting breath. Hearing her question made me realize she has another great asset on her. While my mouth still playing on her breast, my hand start to unzip her shirt and make it fall to the floor, revealing a white panty inside. After nothing blocking her butt, my hand started caressing her round bouncy butt like kneading a dough. With one hand caressing her but, my other hand starts to rub her lower side panty. I can feel that area already damp when I rub it. My action starts making Ming Er moaning more and breathing faster. Feeling her panty hindering my hand from touching her body freely, Ming Er pulls down her panty by her own hands. Now she is standing completely naked in front of me, without any fabrics attached to her beautiful body. What surprised me is there are no hairs in her pubic area. It seems Ming Er shaved it for her own reason. But it doesn''t matter to me, because my previous Ming Er also only grows thin hair in her pubic. That''s somehow making me like the less hairy kind on the pubic area. Seeing me staring her crotch without blinking, Ming Er asking me why shyly tones

    "Ben Benбнdo you dislike shaved crotch?"

    I shake my head as an answer. And after gulping my saliva finally I can answer her

    "No, I do not dislike it. It justбнtoo beautifulбн.clean like a baby"

    She blushing when hearing what I said

    "Thenбнdo as you wishбнit''s yours"

    I stand up from the bed and lay her down in the bed. I also stripped my unbuttoned shirt and my trouser and pant. Now we''re both naked in this room. Her melancholy eyes stare at my manhood like a thirsty person seeing a glass of water. With a low voice, she invites me to come over her

    "Come to me, my loveбн.make me your woman"

    Without waiting her invite me again, I climb up to the bed and crawling over her body. I give her a passionate kiss for a starter, which she responds to it by hugging my head and pressed my head against her. Our tongue twisting each other like snakes in their mating season followed by a slurped voice from our mouth.

    After kissing her lip, my mouth expanding its area to her slender neck, leaving some bite marks on its way below to her chest. In there, my mouth playing with her nipple that already erected and become hard like a bean, protruding from the mound in her chest. Her hand is caressing my hair when my head buried in her chest. Her sexy moans make me aroused more and leave no area in her breast without my mouth or tongue lick or kiss. My hands replacing my mouth fondle her breast while my mouth goes below on her flat belly. I wonder how this flat belly will look alike when her pregnancy already enters fourth or fifth month. I lick her bellybutton which makes her wriggling because she felt ticklish. Finally, my mouth is entering its final destination in her pubic area. Her shaved skin in that area feels smooth when my hand rubs it. Without any hairs covering, her clit can be seen clearly, standing upright between her labia. When I lick it, it twitching followed with a loud moan from Ming Er mouth, which make me lick it again and again, and finally, I buried my mouth there and start sucking it gently.

    Ming Er''s thigh clamping my head that buried in her crotch like doesn''t want to let it go from there. Her hips also start shaking wildly like want to rub her crotch with my face. Ming Er face''s already become red because of this. She closes her eyes and bites her finger in her mouth while moaning and calling my name. I keep doing this until her back suddenly arching and her hip move violently like want to release something from her body. Her thigh that''s clamping my head also shuddered like a person having a fever. It happens for a minute before her body laid back on the bed and breathing heavily like have run for a long distance.

    "Ben benбн.ah ahбнput yoursбн.ah ahбнin mineбнah ahбн don''t make me waitбнaahh"

    Ming Er said that while releasing her thigh from my head and spread her leg wide. I raise my head from her crotch and see her crotch already very wet from my saliva and her love juice. So I put my manhood in her vagina entrance. Before I insert it inside, I rub my manhood with her juice to make it enter smoothly. Slowly, my manhood''s head is entering her vagina. Although she''s no longer virgin, I still feel some resistance from her vagina.

    "Ben benбнbe gentleбн"

    Ming Er looks at me with her melancholy eyes. She looks ready to accept my manhood in her body.

    "I''ll be gentle Ming Er, tell me if you feel pain or discomfort, okay?"

    "Umбн.can you do that while kiss me?"

    I lowered my back to make my face closer to her face. Her hands immediately wrap my back and her legs lock my waist. I kiss her open lips while slowly trust my manhood deeper into hers. Although there''s still resistance for my manhood to enter, the wetness in her vagina act like a lubricant that makes my manhood easier to get through. With a final thrust, I trusted my manhood deep into her vagina until reach its root. Ming Er makes a low shrill when my manhood reaches the deepest part of her vagina, maybe it even touches her womb inside.

    "Ming Erбнare you feel pain?"

    I ask her because I see tears in the corner of her eyes.

    "No Ben BenбнI''m happyбнbecause I finally become one with youбнbecause you make me a woman again"

    She smiles after saying that and start kissing me again. I also start to move my hip up and down on her body. There are no more words come from our mouth, only slurping voice from our mouth, splashing sound when my manhood thrusting her vagina and pounding sound from my balls that hit her butt. I don''t know how long we doing this until I feel her vagina walls start to squeeze my manhood inside. Ming Er nails that grip my back also like buried in there. Her legs push my butt to move deeper and faster in her body. The sensation from her orgasm makes me also can''t hold any longer, with a deep shove in her vagina, I release my sperm into her womb within several shots.

    "Warmбн.. I can feel Ben Ben''s warmth inside my bellyбнit feels so goodбн.aahhh"

    After saying that, her hand and leg slipped from my body like losing power. Ming Er lay in the bed with her heavy breath making her chest moving up and down rapidly. Her eyes closed but her lips make a satisfied smile. I also want to catch my breath after this ejaculation so I lay beside her while hugging with my manhood still inserted in her vagina. We lay on our side face to face. I use my hand to wipe the sweat from Ming Er forehead and give a kiss on that spot. Ming er raises one of her legs and wrapped it in my thigh. Both of her hand placed in my chest like seeking the warmth from there. When I''m about to pull my manhood from her, she stops me

    "Noбн don''t pull itбн. I want to feel our connection a little longer"

    After saying that, she buried her face in my chest like looking for a nest in there. Since she wants it there, I also keep my manhood inside her vagina and feel how her vagina walls like massaging my manhood. This makes me aroused again and starts to move my manhood again slowly while catching my breath.

    "Mmmmбнyesбнlike thatбн.gentle like a silkбн.ummmбн.deeperбнaahh"

    Although Ming Er still rests from her previous orgasm, she''s enjoying the movement of my manhood within her vagina. Her love juice and my sperm make the movement of my manhood more smoothly this time, there''s no more resistance from her vagina.

    "Ben benбнlet meбнtake the leadбнmmm"

    She pushes me to lie on my back while she''s riding my manhood. I let her decide her own pace and enjoy the view in front of me. I see her breast swaying gently when her hip makes a slow move and bouncing wildly when her hip moves fast. Love juice and my sperm gushes from her vagina make my balls wet and also make some foam around her crotch. Splashing sound comes out from our genital every time she pushes her hip down. When she moves her hip faster and her vagina walls start to squeeze my manhood again, I know she will have her peak again. I try to hold but her vagina squeezing my manhood like milking it and suck every drop of my sperm on it which make me can''t hold anymore and ejaculate together with her orgasm. After that Ming Er lay her body on my chest and lean her head on my shoulder. Her leg still clamping my thigh tightly which make me can''t move my body freely. I just hold her back and feel her heartbeat in her chest that pressed against my chest, like racing with my own heartbeat. My manhood which nested in her vagina still feel her vagina twitching and massaging my manhood. This time Ming Er take a longer time to rest from her orgasm, which makes her look like sleeping over my body. I let her rest because she must be tired after two rounds of intercourse this night. My manhood also slowly shrinking and popped out from her vagina, which makes all liquid that previously blocked by my manhood start dripping out, wetting my crotch and the bedsheet.

    After 30 minutes, Ming Er finally opens her eyes. She smiles shyly when see me stare at her eyes

    "Ben BenбнsorryбнI''m resting on your body"

    "It''s okay I don''t mind. I also like to embrace you like this"

    "MmmбнI also like in your hug. There are a comfort and secure feeling within your hug. Ben benбнwith this, we''re officially husband and wife right?"

    "Yes, you''re my beloved wife"

    "And you''re my beloved husband"

    We kissing each other before I pull the blanket to cover our naked body and go to rest. We sleep while embracing each other in our hands.

 20 Morning Love

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    Please skip this chapter, start at chapter 21 to follow the story.

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    The sunlight from the window tells me that the day already morning. I see my wife, Ming Er, sleep peacefully while cuddling in my chest. She wears a smile on her lip, like have a nice dream during her sleep. Looking at her peaceful sleep, I can''t help but start to rub her hairs, which make her lips twitching and make a wider smile. Watching her sleep make me somehow feel comfort, I keep rubbing her hair until she wakes up by herself. About ten minutes later, finally Ming Er awake

    "Good morning wifey"

    "Good morning husband, ah! Why don''t you wake me up"

    Looking her still in half-sleep eyes and messy hair but not reduce her beauty. Without any makeup, her natural beauty shone under the morning light.

    "You sleep so peacefully, how can I wake you up like that"

    "Ah, it''s been a long before I can sleep this comfortable. Within your embrace, I only feel happiness"

    "I want my wife always in happiness andбн."

    I haven''t finished my words when Ming Er finger close my lips

    "Don''t be like that husband. I''m your wife, I''m not feeling right if only me who happy while you''re sad. I want to be your strength, be your support. Share your sadness with me, together we change that sadness into happiness, Okay?"

    I''m silenced by hearing her words. How thoughtful and unselfish she is. I''m getting more and more love you Ming Er! I take her hand that close my lips and give a gentle kiss on that hand

    "Thank you wifey, I hope you can lend me your strength when I''m feeling weak, support me when I''m about to fall, accompany me whenever I feel alone"

    "Um, aren''t we family now? And that''s what a family should be"

    "Yes! I''m happy to have you as my wife"

    "And I''m happy to have you as my husband"

    We ended that conversation by kissing each other again. After kissing, while still cuddling in my chest, she speaks again

    "Husband, since you''re my husband, I''ll be frank to you. Before I met you, because that Bao bastard, I lost my trust in the man and traumatized by sex. It reminds me how that bastard **** me when I drunk in the hotel room. But after meeting you, I change my thinking, not all the man in this world is bad, you''re the exception. And after last night sex..."

    Ming Er didn''t continue her words, instead, her face becomes red. I probe what she wants to say.

    "What about last night?"

    "It''sбн.it''sбнI don''t know how to describe it. It''s a mixed feeling between being loved, comfort, secure, peace, happy, joyбнand pleasure. It heals my trauma about sex"

    "In other words, you like it?"

    Ming Er bashfully nodded and continue her words

    "Andбн.andбн"

    "And?"

    "Can we do it again now?"

    When she''s finished saying that her face already become beet red. Not like kissing, she still hesitates if asking about sex.

    "How about clean our body first? Look there''s something sticky in your body"

    I said that while rubbing her crotch that still have some dried love juice and sperm in there. She bashfully nodded hearing my suggestion. We walk to the bathroom together, wearing nothing because we''re too lazy to take our clothes from the floor.

    In the bathroom, I fill the bathtub to soak our body later and turn on the shower to wash our body. I take some liquid soap and start to wash Ming Er body, She also takes some liquid soap and washes my body. We ended washing each other body. When I turn her back to wash it, Ming Er ask me a question which a bit surprised me

    "Ben benбнdo you think my breast is small?"

    "No. Why you think like that?"

    "Because other females at my age usually have bigger breast than me"

    "Nah, your breast is perfectly matched with your body. Not too big and not small either. Look, my hand barely covers them all"

    After saying that, I cupped her breast with my hand from behind. My palm barely covers her entire breast. While cupping her breast, I also fondle that bouncy breast a little which make Ming Er moaning. Her hand starts caressing my body and ended with my manhood. She strokes it gently like want to wake him up. The soap in her hand makes she can stroke my manhood smoothly. Slowly, my manhood becomes full erect under her hand caressing.

    "Husband, let''s do it here. I can''t wait anymore"

    "Okay, hold on the wall wifey"

    After rinsing my manhood clean from soap, I insert it into Ming Er''s vagina from behind. I thrust it slowly since she likes the gentleness during the sex. While inserting my manhood, my hands still keep fondling her breast from behind.

    "Wifey, if you feel your breast not big enough, I can help you massage it like this every day"

    "Agh..aghбнyesбнpleaseбн.agh"

    Ming Er says that while her hip starts moving forward and backward, make my manhood move in and out of her vagina. Having sex while standing and penetrating from behind seems to make Ming Er reach her peak faster than before. After ten minutes, her vagina walls already squeezing my manhood tightly and her body shivering like people having a cold. Fortunately, I hug her breast when she gets her orgasm, her leg becomes limply and almost can''t support her to stand. I pull my manhood and lead her to sit on the water closet. After spread her leg, I put my manhood again in her vagina, then start moving it gently. She looks at me with her melancholy eyes and half-open lips which make me kiss her passionately there. I''m still thrusting my manhood in and out her vagina when suddenly warm water gushes and wetting my crotch and thigh. Ming Er blushing when she looks at me, with a low voice she says

    "Sorry husbandбн. I can''t hold my pee anymore"

    "It''s okay, it''s only like being wash by warm water"

    I take the shower hose and rinse my manhood and her crotch before continuing our activities. This time I sit down on water closet and Ming Er sit on my lap with my manhood on her vagina. Because she sits on my lap, that makes our height almost equal and we can directly look at each other eyes without lowering or raise our head. With our hand help each other head, we start to French kisses again. Since she''s on the top, the paces of movement from my manhood also in her control, which makes her easier to reach her peak again. With her body start to shivering and her vagina walls like squeezing my manhood, I accelerate my manhood trust by moving my hip toward hers. And we finally reach the peak together again. While panting and catch her breath, she resting her chin on my shoulder and whispering

    "Hubby, thank you"

    "Wifey, thank you too"

    "That bastard Bao things is far below compared with yours, hubby. His things is small and disgusting. Remembering his thing only makes me want to puke"

    "Really? This manhood of mine is your exclusive right, wifey. Only for you"

    "Um. this body of mine also your hubby. I won''t let any man except you touch it"

    "What if your father touches you?"

    "Hubby! You''re naughty! I mean touch with sexual intention, hubby"

    Ming Er pouting while pinching my cheek that still smiles smugly. Well, which man who didn''t proud when his manhood being praise by a woman?

    "I know wifey, I''m just joking and remind you that we will visit your father"

    "We can go there after lunch. He''s already at his farm in the morning. We can''t meet him if we going now"

    "Oh, okay. I follow your schedule then"

    "And one more hubbyбн.."

    "What is that wifey?"

    "I think we should take a bath againбн.Look"

    She stands up from my lap and showing white liquid that dropped from her hairless vagina. I laugh and take shower hose and spray the water toward her vagina.

    "Aww hubbyбнthat''s cold"

    I laugh again and put the shower hose down. I stand up from the water closet and hug her while whispering in her ears

    "If you feel cold, then I''ll warm it"

    She hugs me back and leans her head in my chest

    "In your chest is the warmest place I ever found"

    For a moment we hug each other and say nothing. Our feeling already conveyed to each other from the touch between our skins.

    "Wifey, let soak our body in the bathtub and finish our bath. After that, we have breakfast together"

    "Um. okay"

    I''m entering the bath up and lay my body on the base. Ming Er following and lean her body over my body. I hug her waist and rub her belly

    "Wifey, about our childбн.do you like a girl or a boy?"

    "HmmбнI want a baby girl"

    "Um. Then I start to pick a good name for her later. Can I give her the name?"

    "Of course hubby, you''re her father. Pick a good name for her okay?"

    "Definitely. I hope she will be as beautiful as her mother too"

    "Um. I hope she has a kind heart like her father too"

    After clean up our body in the bathtub, we dried each other body using a towel and after that return to our room. Ming Er is giggling when she seeing how messy the room now. I can only smile wryly and start to pick our clothes that scattered on the floor.

 21 Meet father in law

    After taking a bath, change clothes, we both go downstairs to have breakfast. Since there''s still some leftover from last night dinner, I''m re-heating them and prepare the breakfast. While eating our breakfast, we talking about today schedule

    "Wifey, do you think I should bring some change clothes?"

    "You should hubby because I think we will sleep over there. I still have some clothes there, but you don''t. so please bring some and bring toiletries too"

    "Oh okay, tell me about your family then, so I can know them better"

    "Um, my father name is Li Shao Ming, he''s a farmer. My mother name is Xiao Hua Er, and I also have one older brother that work as a truck driver, his name Li Shao He"

    "How about their attitude?"

    "My father is a strict, honest, and impulsive person. He can get angry easily but also can calm down easily. My mother just a timid, calm and gentle person. My brother is also a calm, honest, and kind person"

    "Um, so I only should be careful with your father right?"

    Ming Er nodded while giggling and she continues her speaking

    "But don''t worry hubby, my father will not angry without reason. If he knows you well, I''m sure he will treat you better"

    "Um. should we bring something there? Something like a present?"

    "No need hubby, you''re the best present for them"

    "Me? How come?"

    "My parent want me to bring a husband when I come back, and didn''t I bring one with me? Not just a husband but the best husband in the world"

    Aah, hearing my wife praising me make me want to hug and kiss her again. Such loving wife, Bao bastard, you don''t know what you losing here.

    "I will try my hard to become the best husband for the best wife in the world too"

    "Cheers. I know you can hubby"

    Ming Er smiles and raises her drinking glass and we make a toast.

    After finish breakfast, we wash the dishes together, and when washing the dishes done, we clean up the restaurant and re-arrange the table and chair. Although there''s no customer come today, I should prepare my restaurant when I''m ready to fight again. After the restaurant downstairs all been cleaned and tidied, we go upstairs to cleaning our room. When I show Ming Er the stain on the bed sheet, marks of our making love last night, her face becomes red and she starts to pinch me. I must run around the room evading her chase to pinching me.

    In the end, I manage to hold her hand which going to pinch me but causing we both fall and rolling on the floor. With such close contact, we start to kiss each other and make another round in the floor. When Ming Er see our new mess, she pouting and spoke to me

    "Hubby, you make another mess in the floor. You must help me cleaning later"

    "Sure wifey, we both make this mess, of course, I''ll help you clean. But it''s almost noon, we should take bath again and prepare to go to your parent house"

    So we take a bath again, and after that preparing what we will bring on our way to her parent house then leave our house to the bus station.

    Just as Ming Er said, it takes about one hour trip before we arrive in her village. I can see the paddy field, vegetable field, fruit field along the way to Ming Er parent''s house.

    "Wifey, your village is good. I see much agricultural product planted here"

    "Yes hubby, we send our farm and agricultural product to many cities"

    "If I can have a stable supply, I will have fewer problems to open the restaurant"

    "You can talk about that with my father, hubby. You''re his son in law, he will help you"

    "Um. I will talk with him about that"

    While we talking, we already arrived in front of a simple house in the village. A middle age man with a strong body build seems cleaning some farming tools in front of the house.

    "Dad!"

    Ming Er calls that man, dad. So he''s her father and also my father in law

    "Ming Er! You back? Who''s that man? Is that man the bastard who impregnating you? Let him taste my fist"

    He drops the farming tools that he currently cleaning and pull his shirt sleeves, clenched his fist and walking toward me with swinging fist. Surprisingly, Ming Er that stand beside me, suddenly step up and stand in front of me and spread her arms like a mother hen protecting her chicks.

    "DAD!!! I won''t let you lay a finger on him! He''s my husband but not that bastard"

    Her father stopping his step with his fist is hanging in the air

    "He''s not? And you said he''s your husband?"

    "Yes! He''s not that irresponsible bastard. The man with me now is a thousand times better than that bastard. I love him, he loves me and we love each other"

    After saying that, Ming Er return to my side and hug me, I also hug her to show I love her too. After hearing and seeing this, her father lowered his hand, take a look at me from head to toe before finally speaking

    "Alright, let''s talk inside"

    He turns his back, open the house door, and walk inside. Me and Ming Er look at each other

    "Hubby, you''re not angry right?"

    "No, wifey, you already said he''s an impulsive person, so I can understand. You look brave when you stand in front of me, blocking your father from hitting me"

    She blushing to hear my praise, and reply with low voice

    "I just don''t want my beloved husband get injured by my parent"

    "Um. Thanks to you I''m fine. Let''s go wifey, maybe your father and mother already wait inside"

    "Okay"

    So we''re both following her father to enter the house while holding hand together.

 22 Family suppor

    Seeing we''re hugging and smiling after a long interrogation, her mother that keep silent during our question and answer finally speak again. She speaks to her husband, Ming Er''s father.

    "Husband, you no need to worry about them. Don''t you see they love each other? That kind of smile can''t be made without sincerity. Why not we celebrate their marriage? We can invite the village people and announced their marriage"

    "Wife, you''re right. We lucky to have such a good son in law and should celebrate it. Let''s invite village people for a feast tonight. Kill some chicken and ducks for that feast. *Cough*, son, you''re a chef, right? Can you show me your skill in cooking?"

    "Of course father, leave the cooking for me. I''ll make a delicious dish for tonight feast"

    "Dad, you''ll be surprised after taste how delicious his cooking," Ming Er said some words to support me

    "HahahaбнI can''t wait for that. Okay, let me show you the storage room. You can use any ingredient there, but for chicken and ducks meat you must wait for a while until I kill them"

    "Please father, if I know what kind of ingredient you have here I can think any dish that uses that ingredient"

    "Okay, follow me, son. Ming Er, your mother miss you very much, accompany her. She would love to hear your story"

    "Yes, father"

    "Yes, dad"

    I follow my father in law to the storage, while my wife accompanies her mother. Both women look like they miss each other and doing hugging when I left them. They must have a lot thing to speak with.

    When we arrive at the storage, I see many vegetables and fruit stored there. Surprisingly they are high-quality ones.

    "Fatherбнthisбнall in finest grade, why don''t you sell it?"

    "Hah! That''s stingy chain restaurant only want to buy the cheapest one in bulk. Since they only want the cheapest one, then only the lowest quality that we sent there. There are some supermarkets that buy medium and finest quality, but not much considered how long this vegetables and fruit can be kept fresh. So, we are the one who enjoys the finest quality product here"

    "That chain restaurantбнyou mean Bao''s chain restaurant?"

    "What else? Is there any other chain restaurant in this area except them?"

    "No. so they really use the low-quality ingredient in their dish"

    "Huh, that''s no longer secret here. Besides their own chair restaurant, also those restaurants under their management also do the same. Ah! Right, you''re a chef, you have your own restaurant right?"

    "Yes, father, but..."

    Then I start to tell Ming Er father about what happened with my restaurant. After hearing my story he clenched his fist and gnashed his teeth.

    "Son of the bitch. I thought they only stingy but they also ruthless and vicious. No wonder they can control so many restaurants under their management. Son, you don''t have to worry about supply anymore, this ingredient is yours to use. Just re-open your restaurant and you don''t have to worry about the supply. I, myself, will deliver the ingredient if necessary"

    "Thank you father, but my financial condition is not too good right now. I can''t pay the money for this ingredient, besidesбн.I''m still thinking how to reopen my restaurant again after all happened before"

    "You don''t have to worry about the money. Consider this is my investment in you, and if your cooking skill is good, there''s always a way to get your customer back. Just show to me you''re really skilled in cooking with this feast tonight"

    "Yes, father. I will make a delicious menu for tonight feast, by the way, how many people will attend the feast father?"

    "HahahaбнI''m waiting for that. There are about 30-40 guests tonight, just make sure you cook enough for all of them. The content of this storage is yours. Take anything you want to make tonight feast menu. I''ll go and kill some chicken and ducks, you can choose freely here"

    After saying that my father in law leaves the storage to make some chicken and ducks meat, leaving me in this storage. I start scrutinize this storage content while thinking what dish I will make tonight.

 23 Feast Preparation

    After my father in law left me, I start to calculated how many times I have and what kind of dishes that I can make in that amount of time that can feed 30-40 people. The time currently at 2 p.m and the reception will be held at 7 p.m, which mean I only have 4-4.5 hours to prepare and cook the dishes. I can''t make dishes that need long preparation and cooking, besides I don''t have anyone else to help me here to cook. This is really a challenge for me by my father in law

    One menu that I already have in mind is a dish that will suit Ming Er taste, Sweet Sour chicken, which will make her liking for sour dishes fulfilled. I also thinking about making xiaolongbao again, which some of them will be a gift when the guest left the feast. I''m also thinking to make something sweet for the guest that brings little children with them. Maybe that would be pudding or sweet cakes.

    For the soup, since I see many fresh tomatoes here, of course, the soup will be tomato soup. So I start to take tomatoes, carrot, cabbage, and potato from the storage and put them all in the basket and carried to the kitchen. I hope they have the cooking utensil that enough to cook all these ingredients.

    When I arrive in the kitchen I see Ming Er already waiting for me there.

    "Hubby! I want to help you cook"

    "Wifey, aren''t you accompany mother? She surely misses you after you left the house for some time"

    "She said, she and I can talk again later, but us which just married need time to deepen our relationship, so she sent me to accompany you instead"

    "Um, our mother is wise. I''m lucky to have a mother like that"

    "Yes, she is. So what can I do to help you, hubby?"

    Ming Er look happy when I praise her mother, or maybe because I call her our mother? Whatever, as long as she happy, I also feel happy.

    "Ah, can you help me peel this carrot and potato? It''s not too hard right?"

    "Don''t insult my cooking skill hubby, although I''m not as good as you but peeling carrot and potato, of course, I can do that"

    She said that while pouting her mouth. she looks cute when she putting her mouth like that, which make me unconsciously stretch my face toward her face and kissing that pouting mouth

    "Hubbyбнmmmmm"

    Although a bit surprised by this sudden kiss, Ming Er didn''t refuse it all, instead, she replies it with a passionate kiss too. After we finished kissing, she speaks to me,

    "HubbyбнI was afraid when father start questioning you like that before"

    "What do you afraid of, wifey?"

    "I''m afraid your answer didn''t satisfy him and make him force us to divorce"

    "But my answer satisfied him, right?"

    "Um, that''s the best answer I ever heard and..."

    "And what wifey?"

    "And make me love you more"

    After saying that, her face is blushing. Ah this kind face of her is also cute, make me hug her and caressing her hair

    "Hubbyбн."

    "Yes, wifey?"

    "We can do this again later, but, we''re having not much time to cook, aren''t we?"

    "Ah you right wifey, let start to peel this carrot and potato and boil some water first"

    Ming Er show me where the cooking utensil stored and luckily there are pots that big enough to make a dish for 30-40 people. So after putting water in the pot and lite the fire in the stove, we both start to peel the carrot and tomato together in the kitchen.

    "Hubby, what do you want to cook for tonight feast?"

    "Dumpling, Tomato soup, Sweet sour chicken, Beijing kouya rolls, and if still have time maybe cake too"

    "Um, that sounds delicious"

    "Hmm, you''ll love that chicken dish since I make that special for you"

    "Tee Hee~ my hubby is the best"

    Although we peeling the carrot and potato with talking to each other, the works can be finished faster

    "Hubby, after peeling carrot and potato, what else can I do?"

    "Shredded the carrot and chopped the cabbage"

    "Okay I can do that too"

    Looking at her so enthusiastic help me cooking make me also pour my spirit into cooking 100%. This is a feast for us, I don''t want to make her and her family lose face because the food is not good.

    We still busy chopping and shredding cabbage and carrot when her father come into the kitchen carrying duck and chicken meat that already cleaned from its feather.

    "Son, this is the chicken and duck meat for the feast. I still have some that have the feather on them, I''ll send them right away after taken all their feathers"

    "Thank you, father! We will make a delicious feast with this meat"

    "Hmm, continue your work. I''ll work on the rest of the chicken and ducks"

    After saying that, he leaves the kitchen to continue his work. I put that chicken on the pot to make chicken broth and make the chicken meat tender. And for the duck meat, since I want to make them as Beijing Kouya or Peking Roast duck I must threat them first by,

    Rinse the duck inside and out, and pat dry. Cut off the tail and discard. In a small bowl, mix together the cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, white pepper, and cloves. Sprinkle one teaspoon of the mixture into the cavity of the duck. Stir one tablespoon of the soy sauce into the remaining spice mixture and rub evenly over the entire outside of the bird. Cut one of the green onions in half and tuck inside the cavity. Cover and refrigerate the bird for at least 2 hours.

    Finally, the chicken and duck is finish to prepared. I can take a breath and wait until the duck meat ready and the chicken meat become tende

 24 Cooking frenzy

    With duck and chicken meat finished to prepared didn''t mean our work is finished. There''s still a lot of things to do in the kitchen, like preparing rice paper for Beijing Kouya Rolls. There''s also dumpling that needs time to make. Since dumpling dough needs some rest before cooking, I start with making dumpling skin first.

    First, Add flour into a large bowl. Slowly pour the water into the bowl, mixing them together with a pair of chopsticks.

    When the water is mixed with the flour, dust both hands with flour and start kneading to form a dough. The dough will be quite tough and should easily be able to be lifted from the bowl without sticking to the bottom.

    When the dough has formed, dust the working surface with flour and dust hands again. Transfer the dough to the working surface and continue to knead it until its surface becomes smooth about 10 minutes.

    Rinse a clean dish towel with water. Dust the bottom of a large bowl with flour and transfer the dough into it. Cover bowl with the damp dish towel and a lid. Let the dough rest for 2 hours

    After resting, the dough will be softened and have a smooth texture. Dust the working surface and your hands with extra flour and transfer the dough onto the surface. Knead the dough repeatedly for another 3 to 5 minutes, until the dough hardens again. Let the dough rest for about 30 minutes

    Why I make this Beijing kouya into a roll, is because the sweet sour chicken will be served with white rice, if the guest must take another white rice to eat, their appetite will decrease. If the chicken and duck served together, there will be people who only eat chicken and people that only eat duck. So change the white rice into paper rice will help them to eat without decreasing their appetite and can enjoy all the dishes. Even if they can''t eat that during the feast, they still can bring that home. So I prepare the rice paper for that. The ingredient is simple and easy to get, it only:

    tapioca flour/starch, rice flour, cornstarch, salt, water, vegetables oil

    And how to make the rice paper also easy:

    Mix the rice flour and tapioca flour together. Place the flour in a large bowl and mix the types of flour together until you''ve created an even mixture

    Add the cornstarch and salt.

    Slowly mix in 1 tablespoon of oil and begin adding water to make a thin, pancake-like batter.

    Prepare your cutting board. Simply grease it and set it aside.

    Begin to heat your frying pan on medium to low heat. The level of heat depends on how quickly you will be flipping the paper. Make sure you use a non-stick frying pan with a tight lid.

    Add 1 tablespoon of oil to the pan.

    Fill your measuring cup with batter and pour it into the pan. Make sure your pan is slightly hot and begin gently but quickly pouring the batter into the pan. Pour in just enough batter to cover the bottom of the pan before it sets.

    Put the lid on the pan and let it steam for 30 seconds to 1 minute.

    Remove the lid and loosen the ends of the rice paper with your spatula.

    Carefully turn over the pan onto the cutting board. Gently tap the bottom of the pan for the rice paper to fall on the board.

    Let the rice paper cool. When it has cooled off for a few minutes, you can use your rice paper for whatever dish you''d like to make

    I made some rice paper and after that Ming Er continue to make it. It''s not too hard to make anyway, and we prepared around hundreds of rice paper for this feast, which takes about one and half hour to make it. While Ming Er did the rice paper, I prepared the duck and grill it

    Clock already showing 4 o''clock that time when a man enters the kitchen. When Ming Er sees whose coming she looks happy

    "Brother!"

    "Little Ming! You back!"

    "Um, I bring my husband home to introduce to our family. Husband, meet my older brother, Li Shao He. Brother, he''s my husband, You Ben"

    "Hello, I''m Ming Er brother, Shao He. Thanks for taking care my sister"

    "Hello brother, nice to meet you, I''m You Ben, your sister''s husband"

    "Mother told me to go to the kitchen to help. Is there anything I can do here?"

    "Thanks, brother, I will need some bamboo shoot and leek here. Can you get me some from storage?"

    "No problem. I''ll get that for you"

    Ming Er brother is like her father plus her mother combine and divide in two. His body is like his father but her attitude is like his mother. I''m getting along well with his brother. With another helper, I can ask him to watch the duck grill while I make the Sweet Sour Chicken

    For the Sweet Sour Chicken dish, the ingredients that I use are (for one chicken):

    ? 4 tbsps Peanut oil, divided

    ? 1 lb. chicken breast, sliced thinly

    ? 1 cup sliced celery

    ? 1 cup Chinese cabbage, chopped

    ? 1 medium onion, diced

    ? 1-2 carrots, shredded

    ? 1 red, yellow or green pepper, diced

    ? 1/2 tsp. grated fresh ginger or 1/4 tsp. dried ginger

    ? 1 clove garlic, minced

    And for the sauce:

    ? 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar

    ? 1/2 cup brown sugar

    ? Salt, pepper to taste

    ? 1/4 tsp. dried ginger

    ? 1/2 cup ketchup

    ? Pinch of garlic powder

    ? 1 cup chicken stock

    ? 2 tbsp. cornstarch

    Cooking direction:

    1. Have all ingredients chopped and ready to go.

    2. In a deep skillet or wok, heat 2 tbsps. oil over high heat.

    3. Add all vegetables. Stir-fry quickly until onion is cooked and translucent. Remove to bowl.

    4. Add 2 tbsps. oil to wok; heat. Add chicken and stir-fry until no longer pink on the outside (5-7 minutes).

    5. Mix in separate bowl sauce ingredients, making sure to mix cornstarch thoroughly.

    6. Put chicken in the wok, add vegetables and sauce mix. Cook over low heat until cornstarch is cooked, about 7 minutes, or until sauce is slightly thickened.

    7. Serve over hot cooked white rice.

    I use the leftover chicken to make the fillet for dumpling and after the dumpling finish filling, the next step is to cook the dumpling. Bring a large pot of water to a boil.

    Carefully add dumplings one at a time into the water. Use a big ladle to stir the water gently and continuously, until the water starts to boil again, so the dumplings won''t stick to the bottom, for about 1 minute. Adjust the heat so the water is at boiling point, but isn''t bubbling too fiercely.

    When the dumplings float to the surface, continue boiling until the dumplings are filled with air and swollen, and the dough starts to become transparent about 1 minute. Immediately transfer all the dumplings to a plate.

    After dumpling and sweet sour chicken done, the next thing is Beijing Kouya rolls. I make thins slices on the duck''s meat before putting it on the paper rice. To accompany the duck meats in the rolls, I fry bamboo shoot that already peeled its outer layer and sliced into a thin strand with leeks in the pan with cooking oil. After the bamboo shoot and leeks sent fragrant aroma from the pan, that means it''s ready. I put the duck meat that already slices into a thin sheet with bamboo shoot and leeks into the paper rice rolls and wrapped it into a roll. Then Beijing kouya rolls are done.

    The last thing to make is tomato soup. I choose tomato soup because it''s color is red, and red identic with a celebration in China. It''s not a complicated soup, and easy to make

    Heat oil in a large saucepan; add onion and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes to lightly brown. Stir in celery, potatoes, broth, and tomatoes. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 30 minutes. Let cool slightly, then purижe in a blender or food processor until smooth. Pour back into the saucepan and stir in basil, garlic salt, and pepper; cook for 5 minutes. Check seasonings, if the salt or pepper is lack, add some until the flavor is satisfied

    Thankfully, Brother Shao He is helping us. He strong enough to carry the big pot into the prepared table for the feast. It seems during our cooking, my father in law already arrange tables and chairs in the front yard.

    After the cooking finish, I feel very tired. It''s not easy to prepared dishes for 30-40 only by 2-3 people only. Fortunately, it all can be done half hour before feast starting and cooking rice is no longer hard to make in this time. just put the rice in rice cooker and all is done automatically. There are also blender and mixer which make whisking and stirring ingredient to become easier.

 25 The Feas

    After the cooking is finished we both take bath to clean ourselves from the kitchen smell. Ming Er family also already prepared dress that I will use during the feast. Ming Er wearing tradition dress qipao with red color, while I''m wearing the red robe with flower decoration in the chest.

    At seven, the guests start coming. I was introduced to them as Ming Er husband, and they give their blessing for our marriage. One by one guest starts coming until all the seat provided by my father in law was full. Seeing all the guest already coming, my father in law starts giving his speech in front of the guest, which mention about his daughter marriage, introduce me as his son in law, and hope blessing for us from the guest who attends the feast.

    After the speech, the ceremony for the wedding is continued by presenting tea for my father and mother in law as the sign of respect from me and Ming Er. After that, we are giving tea to Ming Er older brother, then to the village elders that coming in this feast. And the ceremony is over, time for the guests to eat at our banquet.

    The first menu served is the dumpling, which greatly appreciated by the guest for its taste. One of the guests even ask my father in law, where he buys this dumpling

    "Old Li, where are you order this food from? Which restaurant? The taste is good"

    My father in law seems happy with this praise, but he didn''t want to reveal it yet

    "Haha....is that so? You haven''t eaten the other dish. I''ll tell you later about that"

    After the dumpling, the next dish served is the soup. This dish also has praised from guest for its bright color and simple but tasty flavor.

    "Brother Li, this soup is tasty, the sourness in tomato make my appetite rise after eating it"

    One of village elder speak like that to my father in law

    "Don''t worry brother Cheng, you''ll have the main dish after this"

    "HohohoбнI can''t wait for the next menu"

    After the soup finish being served, the next dish is sweet sour chicken. This time guest is invited to take the rice and chicken that already prepared in several tables. The guests start makes a line and take the rice and chicken from the table. Since there are several tables with the dishes, the guests didn''t waiting for long to take those dishes. When all the guest already takes their portion, there''s only little leftover that left on the dishes. I guess some guests even take more than they should take, fortunately, the amount is sufficient for all guest. Even without they saying anything, that already proof the guest like the dishes.

    The last dishes served to the guest is Beijing Kouya Rolls, but some guest that already full decide to keep it and bring it home. Some who still have room in their belly for another dish just eat that on site. But after hearing how delicious these rolls from those who ate that, people who want to take it home can''t resist the temptation and start to eat that in the site, despite their full belly.

    "Gosh, this roll is superb, duck meat juiciness and bamboo shoot crispiness and fresh taste from the leek. This is a masterpiece!''

    "Brother Li, you haven''t mentioned where you order this dishes from"

    Hearing that kind of comments and questions, my father in law looks very happy. A wide smile from ear to ear can be seen on his face.

    "Gentlement, I''m not ordering these dishes from any restaurant at all. This night feast dishes all using the ingredient from my field"

    "Really? That can''t be. This taste only a master chef can make it"

    "That''s true gentlemen. Also true that it''s a master chef cooking. And that master chef is my son in law. He''s the one who cooks all the dishes in this night feast"

    "Oooohhhh"

    Many admiring voices come from the guest''s mouth. Since my father in law already introduces me, I step up and stand beside him while cupped my hands as a sign of regards.

    "Old Li, you''re lucky to have such son in law. You''ll eat something delicious every day"

    "Brother Li, can I borrow your son in law when I want to make wedding party for my son?"

    "Uncle Li, can you tell me, where''s his restaurant address? I want to visit and eat at his restaurant later"

    With so many questions from the guests, my father in law and I have to explain them one by one for what they''ve asked for. But from this feast, I already get some potential customers and also some of them also wanted to be my supplier of ingredients. This feast really bring great advantage for me!

 26 A night at Ming Er home

    After the feast is over, my mind is full of joy and happiness. Although my body feels tired after cooking and feast reception, but its worth for what I got tonight. My father in law pat my shoulder while smile wide

    "Son, you don''t disappoint me. This night feast is successful and the guests praising your cook"

    "It''s also because Ming Er and brother He helping me, father, without their help I don''t know if I can cook this much for the feast"

    "Hahaha, alright. You must be tired after all this feast and the preparation. You should go rest. Hmmбнright, where you should sleep. Wife, did guest room ready?"

    Before Ming Er mother have a chance to answer, Ming Er already take my hand and drag me away

    "Dad, he''s my husband, of course, he should sleep with me"

    After saying that she drags me to her room, accompany with laughter from her father, mother, and brother.

    When we arrive in Ming Er''s room, she''s helping me changing clothes. After taking off the robe and accessories that I use during the feast until only singlet and pant remain. After that Ming Er take time to change her clothes as well. I set on the edge of the bed, scrutinize the room things. It''s an ordinary girl room, neat and clean, with some dolls and books on the shelf, dressing table with mirror, cosmetic, and woman accessories on it, closet where Ming Er keep her clothes, small table with its chair, a bed where I''m currently sitting at, clothes hanger, an audio player with some CDs. It''s a room that can you see everywhere.

    After put the hair ornament on the table, remove the hairpin, Ming Er takes off her qipao and after folding it into a neat stack she put it on the table, along with the hair ornament. What makes me dumbfounded is she also take off her bra and panty before she put a long sleeping gown on her body

    "Wifey, are you not wearing underwear?"

    "Silly Hubby, I make you can access them easier, don''t you like it? Besides, you should learn how to unhook a bra in a short time. Here, learn it"

    Ming Er laughs mischievously while throwing the bra that she just wears to me. I catch the bra that she throws to me, but not to learn how to unhook it, instead start to sniff it. There is still some warmth remains in the bra and feminine scent of my wife. Seeing I''m not learning how to unhook bra but sniffing it make Ming Er face blushing

    "Hubby! I told you to learn to unhook it not sniffing it. Give it back!"

    After said that she tries to snatch her back from my hand, but I hide it in my back while lean my back to backward, which make her hand only grasp empty air. Because she uses a bit forced to snatch it, this failed grasp make her body unstable and fall down on my body. I wrap my hand over her slim waist to make her not move from my body and sniffing her face that closes with my face. My action makes her face become redder.

    "Hubbyбнmmmmбн don''t sniff me like that. I''m a bit sweaty after that feast"

    "That''s okay wifey, I like your smell. It''s fresh and full feminine scent of my beloved woman"

    My sniffing stop when my nose meets her nose and our lip met to each other. We''re in passionate kisses for a moment

    "Hubby, I also like your smell. It''s different from any smell I know. It''s not fragrant or fresh, butбн."

    "But what wifey?"

    "It''s smell delicious. Like the food that you cook. Make me want to eat it"

    "Aren''t you already ''eat'' me twice this morning wifey? In the bathroom and our room floor?"

    She giggling and start at pinching me

    "Hubby! You meanie! This is your punishment"

    And she continues to pinching me in all my reachable body. But not that hurt pinching, instead of light pinching which makes me tickles. We laugh together while I''m trying to evade her pinching, which is hard to do since she laid over my body.

    "Aw aw awбнokay okayбнaw, I''m surrenderбнawбн stop it wifey"

    Finally, she stops pinching me after I manage to hold her hand. We look at each other eyes and start to kissing again. After we finish kissing, I ask her

    "Wifey, do you want to do ''that'' again?"

    "We can do it again later hubby, besides I know you very tired after this cooking and feast thing. Let''s just rest tonight, I''m also tired with that"

    Ah, my lovely wife! She understands me well and not selfishly push her wants to me. So I make her stand up to be able to lay down in bed properly. But after I look at the size of the bed, it smaller than the bed in my house which enough for two people sleep together. This Ming Er''s bed although big enough for one person, but if used for two people is barely enough. Our side already in bedside when we lay down together in this bed. Seeing this, Ming Er look at me with an apologetic look,

    "Sorry hubby, I''ll get a spare mattress to sleep with"

    But before she able to step out of the room, I already grasp her hand to stop her

    "Wait, no need for that"

    "But hubby, the bed is too small for two of us lay together in there"

    "It''s okay. I know how to solve this problem"

    I lay down my back in the middle of the bed and after that spread my hand

    "Come wifey, come to your mattress"

    Ming Er blushing when see this but not refusing. After nodded she climb to the bed and crawling over my body before resting her head on my shoulder and her body on my chest.

    "Do you like your mattress, wifey?"

    "Um, the warmest mattress I ever had, hubby. ButбнAm I not heavy to you?"

    "No, not at all. besides, when your belly starts to bulging a couple months later, you can''t sleep like this you know?"

    "Hubbyбнuntil that time comesбнcan I sleep like this every night?"

    "Of course, I would love to. Now let''s get some sleep"

    "Um. My hubby is the best in the world"

    After saying that she closed her eyes and start to sleep while I still caressing her hair when hug her sleeping. It seems being hugged and had her hair caressing make Ming Er can sleep quickly. In a couple minutes later a soft snore like a kitten already comes from her mouth. I look at her peaceful sleeping face before I also close my eyes.

    What I don''t know is, the next room from Ming Er room is her parent room and when we''re flirting with each other, there''s a pair of ear eavesdrop behind the wall.

    "Husband, it''s not good to eavesdrop on your own daughter"

    Ming Er mother warn her husband that doing eavesdrop. But Ming Er''s father did not stop, he makes a quiet sign and waves his wife to come to him. Curious with what her husband heard, Ming Er mother also come closer to the wall and listened as well

    "You hear that wife?"

    "Yes, husband. I hear that I can hear our daughter laugh happily"

    "Thank God. Finally, she can laugh like that. She looks very sad and depressed before, and now she regains her happiness back"

    "Um. Our daughter married a good man"

    "Okay wife, we already hear what we want to hear. Let''s go to rest as well"

    After knowing their daughter is happy, there are no more worries on Ming Er''s parent''s mind. Their burdens of having their daughter pregnant without husband lifted from them and make them feel relieved.

 27 Make Breakfas

    When the morning is breaking, I''m waking up with Ming Er still sleep peacefully in my embrace. There''s a smile attached in her small mouth like she has a nice dream when sleep. Looking her sleep like this, I don''t want to wake her up and just let her wake up by herself later. While waiting for her to wake up and caressing her hair, I''m thinking about how to re-open my restaurant again. Although I already have a supplier, that will be useless if I''m hot have the customer that come to my restaurant and eat.

    While thinking about that, a quarter hour already passed and Ming Er finally wakes up. With her half sleep eyes, she greets me

    "Good morning hubby"

    "Good morning wifey"

    I reply her greet and give her good morning kiss as usual.

    "Do you sleep well?"

    "Um, but I want to sleep a little longer, hubby, please?"

    "Okay"

    And Ming Er starts cuddling again in my chest. I''m back to my thinking on how to get my customer back while caressing Ming Er''s hair. Maybe get them back is easy, but if those bastards from Bao chain restaurant makes trouble again then all be back to square one.

    I''m still in the middle of my thought when a knocking sound comes from the room door, and Ming Er''s father come from behind that door

    "Ming Er! Wake up and come out for a while, I need to talk with you"

    My wife also heard that and lazily get up from my body and walk to the door and open it

    "What''s up dad?"

    "Can you make breakfast? Your mother a little unwell and can''t make breakfast for us"

    "Mother sick?"

    "No, No. maybe just a little tired after that feast last night"

    I that overheard their conversation also get up from the bed and joining their conversation

    "Good morning father! if you don''t mind, let me make the breakfast"

    "Good morning son. Do you want to make breakfast? That will be better. Just take what you need from storage, but make it fast okay? The rice already cooked but there''s no dish to accompany"

    "Okay, leave it to me"

    "Ah, make something soft for your mother too"

    "No problem, father. I''ll change clothes first"

    "Um. I''ll wait in the dining table then"

    After saying that, my father in law leave us here. After he left, I''m whispering to Ming Er that standing in front of me while hugging her from behind.

    "Wifey, fortunately, you''re not wearing transparent or thin sleeping gown. Even he''s your father, I''ll get jealous if your body seen by another man"

    I''m saying that by start fondling her braless chest from behind. Ming Er responds to it by lean her body to my chest.

    "Hubbyбн. I''m happy"

    "Happy because I''m massaging your breast or because I''m jealous?"

    I ask her again while playing with her breast and nipples from behind.

    "Mmmбн.bothбнmmmбнhubbyбнpleaseбн We must make breakfast"

    Because she reminds me about the breakfast I had to stop my hand from fondling her breast and release my hug. After getting free from my hug, Ming Er takes off her sleeping gown, and take a clean bra and panty from the closet.

    "Hubbyбнhelp me put this on, please?"

    Ming Er handed her bra to me and ask my help to put that on her chest. I take the bra and put the cup on her breast with a bit fondle it before hooking it on her back.

    "Wifey, what is the size?"

    "Mmmmбн34 with cup B, why hubby?"

    "Nothing. But if I want to buy you some lingerie, I must know your size, right?"

    I said that while caressing her uncovered butt since the chest already covers with the bra.

    "You want me to help you put the panty on this too?"

    Ming Er shyly nodded while handed her panty. I take the panty, squatting in front of her while stretching the panty so her leg can enter it. When she lifted her leg to put in the panty, I can see tiny hairs start to grow in her pubic area. After both her legs already enter the panty, I slowly pull it up until it covers her butt and crotch.

    "Done, wifey, what''s the rewards?"

    Ming Er grabs my head and gives me a passionate kiss as the answer. We kissing for a couple minutes before we let go of each other lips

    "Is that enough hubby?"

    "Um. now let get put some cloth on, get out of the room and prepare breakfast"

    Ming Er put a shirt and sports pant while I put on a shirt and my trousers. We both left the room together and heading to the kitchen.

    "Hubby, what do you want to make as breakfast?"

    "Hmm, let''s see what we have here first"

    I see we still have some duck meats from last night feast, so I''m thinking about making something like katsudon for breakfast. It''s easy and fast to make.

    "Wifey, can you get me some eggs, onion, scallions from storage?"

    "Okay, I''ll get it for you hubby"

    Ming Er left the kitchen to take what I needed from the storage room. For real katsudon usually using dashi but for this dish, I use broth that still left from last night feast. For one portion I will need,

    ? 80 ml broth

    ? 1 tablespoon (15ml) soy sauce

    ? 1 tablespoon (15ml) sake

    ? 2 teaspoons (8g) sugar

    ? 2 teaspoons (10ml) mirin

    After Ming Er bring what I need, I start sliced the onion thinly before putting the onion in the saucepan along with the broth, soy sauce, sake, sugar, and mirin. Duck meat is cut crosswise around 0.5 inches wide.

    Combine broth, soy sauce, sake, sugar, and mirin in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat, and simmer until tender, about 5 minutes. Add sliced duck meat and let simmer for 1 minute. Meanwhile, beat together eggs and scallions in a small bowl. Pour egg mixture on top of the duck meat and around broth. Cover and cook until eggs are as set as about 1 minute for very soft or 2 minutes for medium. Slide broth, egg, and duck meat out on top of a bowl of rice. Sprinkle with scallions and the dish is ready to serve.

    We bring this dish to the dining table, where my father and brother in law already waiting there.

 28 New business plan

    Seeing we already come with the breakfast bowls in a tray on our hands, make my father in law a bit surprised.

    "Son, that''s really fast. I thought you''ll be done making breakfast in the next fifteen minutes but you already finish now"

    "There''s still some leftover from last night feast, father, so I can make the breakfast faster"

    "Hohohoбнlet me see what you make this time son"

    I bring the bowl in my hand and serve that for my father and brother in law after that me and Ming Er sit on our own seats. When they open the lid that covers the bowl, fragrant aroma from fried meat and eggs released from the bowl and fills the dining room.

    "Ooohhбнwhat an aroma! What is this dish name, son?"

    "It''s duck meat rice with egg, father. There''s a meaning behind this dish too"

    "What is that?"

    "The meat symbolizes the mother and egg symbolizes the children. As is says, when a duck mother takes her ducklings out and meet the enemy, the duck mother will pretend to be hurt and distracted the enemy sight to her to make her ducklings have a chance to escape. This dish symbolizes the unity of a family, in this case, Ming Er re-unite with her family"

    After explaining the meaning of this dish, I hold Ming Er hand, she smiles happily hearing my explanation.

    "Well said! Son, I never thought you can make a dish that has deep meaning like this. Very good! Now let''s eat, don''t let this dish get cold"

    We start to eat quietly after that. No one is making a sound, everyone chew and digests the food in their own hand. When the breakfast finish, I can see a satisfied expression on their faces. My father in law starts to open the conversation after put his bowl down.

    "Son, you should re-open your restaurant. It''s too pity if your cooking skill keep buried like this"

    "That''s my plan father, but the customer thing still my main concern"

    "You can change the restaurant''s name and the outlook of the restaurant. That will attract the customer to come right?"

    "I still worried if those lowly people from the chain restaurant come and make trouble, father. They like to use dirty trick to make a ruckus in the restaurant like pretending there''s a bug in the food, intentionally dirtying the restaurant and even causing trouble with other customers. I''m worried about customer safety father, I can''t put security guards in the front door. First, it''s uncommon, second, that will scaring people to enter"

    "I see. How about moving to another town?"

    "The chain restaurant has many branches in many cities. That won''t work father"

    Ming Er that following my conversation with her father suddenly sounding her opinion

    "If the customer not coming, why don''t we become the one who comes to them hubby?"

    "Hahaha, Ming Er, you told your husband to become a food peddler? Pulling cart and sell food on the street?"

    "Dad, that''s an ancient way to sell food. Now it''s modern era, besides food stall only can sell one or two dishes, that''s not profitable"

    "Oh, so what''s in your mind wifey?"

    It seems Ming Er have an idea on how to make a new business. It''s surprising that my wife is also a smart woman. I feel lucky to have her as my wife.

    "We can sell food on the truck. We make a food truck, we come to the crowded place like park or school or construction site, places which have many people and people that need to eat, with the truck and sell the food to them. With the truck, we can move easily and cover large areas. I''m also will create an account on Instagram, YouTube, and other social media to promote our food truck"

    Food Truck!

    What a brilliant idea! That''s simply a portable kitchen. I can cook inside the truck and can sell it wherever the truck stops. I can''t hold my urge to hug and kiss her. My father and brother in law only laughing at that. Ming Er blushing with that sudden kiss from me in front of her father and brother. But after that, I remember something.

    "Wifey, that''s brilliant. But your husband can''t drive a truck"

    "Hubby, you forget my brother here is a truck driver? He can teach you how to drive a truck"

    "Yes. I can teach you driving a truck and help you get the driving license, brother. If necessary I can be the temporary driver for the food truck"

    My brother in law speaks his agreement on Ming Er proposal.

    Ah, that''s right, I almost forget my brother in law is a truck driver. But how to make a food truck?

    "Thank you brother, but how to make this food truck? I don''t have any knowledge of how to make this"

    "Leave that to Shao He, son. Consider this is our investment in you. We provide you the food truck, you just say what you want to install inside the truck, what kind of stove or what kind of refrigerator, just say it and you will have that installed when the food truck is ready"

    "Yes, I know a place to modify truck since I have many connections in the truck business, brother. You just have to learn how to drive it later"

    "Thank you, brother, father"

    "You welcome son. Now you should speak with Ming Er on how you two will run this business later. I will go to the field and Shao He will go to his workplace. If you want to discuss this again, we can talk later in lunch"

    "Okay father"

    After saying that my father and brother in law leave the dining room to go to their workplace, leaving me and Ming Er in there.

 29 Morning romance

    I look at Ming Er with eyes full of admiration which make her a bit awkward.

    "Hubby, why do you look at me like that?"

    "Wifey, I never thought you''re so brilliant! Your idea is so genius! Even I never thought about that"

    After saying that I rise from my seat and hug her tightly and kiss her face many times. Ming Er hug me back and receive my kiss with a happy face

    "IбнI just want to help hubby"

    "You not just help me, wifey, you bring a new hope to me"

    "You also give me hope when I''m in desperate time, hubby"

    We hugging for each other for a while, there no more words needed to express our feeling. We love each other, support each other and want our spouse to be happy, and that''s enough.

    "Wifey, let''s take a look at mother, also retrieve the breakfast bowl that we send to her before. Maybe she needs something from us to do"

    "Um, hubby cares for my mom, I''m happy about that"

    "Hey, she''s my mother too. We''re family right?"

    "Yes, I''m happy to have hubby as my husband"

    We go to Ming Er parent''s room and after knocking on the door, we enter the room. Ming Er mother still lay on the bed but her expression is better than when we previous meet her this morning when delivering the breakfast bowl.

    "Mother, how do you feeling?"

    "I''m feeling a lot better now, son. This breakfast, is this you are made? The taste is delicious, I feel I get some energy again after eating it"

    "If you still need rest, please just rest for more, mother. I and Ming Er will do the house cores"

    "Yes mom, leave the house cores to me and hubby"

    " It''s only cleaning the house and prepare for lunch, child. Nothing hard"

    "It''s okay mom, I''ll clean the house and hubby will make the lunch. You know, when I''d come to his house for the first time, it''s messier thanбнaaww"

    I stop her to talk any more about our messy home by pinching her full round butt lightly.

    "Yes mother, as Ming Er said, I''ll prepare the lunch while she cleans the house. Please get some more rest"

    Ming Er mother only chuckled seeing what I''ve done to her daughter.

    "Alright child, you can do that. Thank you"

    "Excuse us mother"

    I''m dragging Ming Er from her parent room. Ming Er mother laughing with my way to drag her because I wrapped my arms around Ming Er slim waist and pull her to the direction I''m walking to.

    After we''re leaving Ming Er parent room, Ming Er speak to me while pouting her mouth

    "Hubby! That''s hurt"

    "Eh, how come it''s hurt, I only pinch you lightly. Alright, which one is hurt? Here? Or here? Or maybe here?"

    I''m asking her with teasing tone while my hands start caressing her butt. Ming Er''s breath getting faster with me caressing her butt.

    "Everywhereбн.is hurtбнif you do not touch itбнhubby"

    Aha! She''s know how to tease me now, so besides caressing her butt, I''m also kissing her small lip.

    "Ahhбнhubbyбнnot in hereбнmmmбнmother can hear"

    Since I''m in the middle of enjoying her, I lift her butt and carry her move from that place. Ming Er understands my intention and wraps her leg around my waist and her hand in my neck. We continuing our kissing while walk away from there to the kitchen. When we arrive in the kitchen, I put her to sit on the table that usually used to prepare cooking. We keep kissing until our heart content.

    "Now wifey, is there any place that still hurt because I haven''t touched it?"

    Ming Er nodded shyly while pointing her lower part.

    "Oh please, wifey, didn''t I already touch that this morning before making breakfast?"

    Ming Er close her face to my ear and whispering

    "But I always crave for more hubbyбн."

    I also whispering in her ears as a reply,

    "Tonight I will spoil you to your heart content. Now go clean the house while I prepare the dish for lunch"

    "Ming Er nodded while blushing and step down from the table

    "That''s a promise hubby, don''t try to forget it or elseбн"

    Wow, she dares to threat me now? So when she walks past to me, I spank her butt lightly

    "Aww hubby, that''s hurt again. You must responsible"

    She laughing mischievously and sticking her tongue out like a spoiled child. I also laugh and pretend want to catch her but she already runs while snatching broom from the kitchen and heading out.

    I''m just shaking my head when seeing my lovely wife attitude. This kind of romance is good, and I''m thinking to do it every morning with her.

 30 Preparing dish

    After Ming Er left the kitchen I start thinking about what kind of this I should prepare for the lunch. I want to make something simple, easily made but delicious and can be used when I''m starting the food business using a food truck. So this dish should be affordable and liked by people. Selling food in the street somehow makes me remember my past life, long before I become a junior cook in the palace. I was also selling food in the street by pulling cart. Ming Er that time is an orphan, not marry me yet, and often help me push the cart with leftover food that I sell as her payment helping me sell the food.

    The food that I sell that time is thinly sliced cow''s beef offal like lungs, tongue, heart, innards, and other cheap parts from beef, cooked with spices and chili oil. Although sold in cold condition but still can give hot sensation and warmth to anyone who eats that dish. Little kids that we meet on the street often teasing me and Ming Er that time, shouting ''husband and wife lungs sliced'' but thanks to that teaser, my dish become popular and attract many buyers. And when we grow up later and she reaches marriage age, I propose her to marry me and she accepts it. We become the actual husband and wife since then and still keep selling food on the street. ''husband and wife lungs sliced''become a trademark for my dish, Ming Er always helps me selling the food and I always thinking she''s my lucky star. We live a simple but happy life at that time

    Later when my delicious dish becomes popular, I receive an invitation to become a cook in the Palace, which I gladly accept. My family also delighted with this invitation, but who knows the job as a cook in the palace brings me to my bitter end.

    So, since this new business is her proposal, I''m thinking to use this dish as one of the menus on our food truck. Since the cooking time is quite long, I decide to make two servings of this dish for lunch and dinner while preparing the ingredients for now, which is preparing the meat and braising ingredient. For one serving to 6-8 person, that will need:

    INGREDIENTS

    ? 3 to 3.5 lbs beef brisket, chuck, tongue, and/or tripe

    Braising ingredient:

    ? 1/4 cup light soy sauce (or soy sauce)

    ? 1/4 cup Shaoxing wine (or dry sherry)

    ? 1 tablespoon sugar

    ? 4 dried chili peppers

    ? 3 green onions, halved lengthwise

    ? 2 large slices ginger

    ? 1/2 cinnamon stick

    ? 1 bay leaf

    ? 1 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorns

    ? 1 teaspoon salt

    ? 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg powder

    Place the beef in a big pot and add water to cover by 1 inch. Cook over medium-high heat until boiling. Turn to medium heat and boil for 10 minutes. Skim the surface using a fine mesh strainer and discard the foam until the broth turns clear. Add all the braising ingredients. Turn to medium-low heat. Simmer, covered, until the beef turns tender but not tender enough to fall apart, 2 hours or so.

    Once the beef is done, transfer to a plate to cool enough to handle. Slice the beef against the grain into 1/8-inch (4-cm) pieces. Now I can serve the beef or store it in an airtight container in the fridge for 3 to 4 days before serving.

    After that finish, I only need to prepare the sauce and sliced meat into the plate and pour the sauces. Drizzle with plenty of sauce, top with cilantro, sesame seeds, and peanuts will give the dish more attractive appearance.

    For the sauces, the ingredient that I needed is,

    ? 4 tablespoons homemade chili oil with 2 tablespoons chili flake residue, or to taste

    ? 3 tablespoons braising liquid

    ? 2 tablespoons homemade flavored sweet soy sauce

    ? 2 teaspoons Chinkiang vinegar

    ? 1/4 teaspoon salt

    ? 1/4 teaspoon ground toasted Sichuan peppercorns, or to taste

    ? 3 cloves garlic, grated

    ? 2 green onions, chopped

    ? 1 teaspoon ginger, grated

    Mix all the sauce ingredients in a bowl. For an even better result, mix the sauce in advance and let sit for a couple hours before serving.

    Preparation time for this dish only takes time around 30 minutes, and since the cooking time a little long (2 hours), I have much spare time until the cooking done, I decide to see how my lovely wife doing with her cleaning duty.

 31 Youming Delicious Food

    I see my wife is mopping the floor after she finishes sweeping it. I sneakily walk behind her and cover her eyes with my hand and whispering to her ears

    "Guess who?"

    Ming Er a little bit surprised with this, but after hearing my voice, she replies with giggling

    "Hmmбнthis warm handбнand smell of spicesбнonly one person has this handбнmy only beloved hubby"

    I''m laughing and release my hand from her eyes.

    "Hahaбнyour guess is correctбнthis is the rewards"

    I give her a kiss on her lips, which she receives it with a delighted expression.

    "Wifey, do you need help here?"

    "I''m almost done hubby, how with the kitchen?"

    "Just waiting for the meat cooked"

    "Wait for me in kitchen hubby, don''t the meat burnt hihihi, I will be done in a minute here"

    "Okay, I wait for you there"

    I left her to continue her work after leaving a light peck on her lip. While waiting her finish her work, I clean the kitchen from the trash that I made during cooking preparation. When I''ve still wiped the table, a pair of hand hugging me from behind and a soft voice come asking,

    "Guess who?"

    After asking, a woman head was leaning in my back. Of course, I know who the owner of this hand. I gently hold that hand and kiss it

    "Owner of this handбн.nothing else than the only woman I love in the world, Ming Er"

    "And what this hand''s owner likes to do?"

    "The owner of this hand like to hugged and kissed by her husband"

    "True, but there''s still one more thing. The owner of this hand also likes to hug her husband like this"

    After saying this, she tightened her hug in my back. Her cheek rubbed against my back like looking for a good spot for nesting. I rub her fingers that wrap in my chest gently

    "Mmmm, in hubby''s chest I feel comfortable, but in hubby''s wide back also nice"

    I let her hugging me until she slowly releases her hug on me.

    "Hubby, what you make for lunch?"

    "Just an old recipe. I''m thinking to make it as a menu when we sell food in food truck later"

    "Mmm, I can''t wait until lunchtime come. Ah right, hubby, can you think a name for our food truck business? Since it''s a new business, I''m thinking about make a patent about this kind business, so when other people want to start the same business, they should pay the royalty to us, or maybe we can make franchise business too"

    "Okay wifey, you handle this administrative thing and I do the cooking. Is that alright?"

    "No problem hubby. What about the name?"

    "Um. I''m already thinking a name for that. Since this is our business together, I take one word from our name and named it Youming Delicious Food (╙╨├√ yипumикng / famous, well known)"

    "That''s a good name hubby, I like that!"

    Ming Er looks glad when hearing our business name. Well, she''s the one who has the idea, and her family supports this business too, she deserves to be parts of the name.

    "You like it?"

    "Very much! I''ll think something for logo and design for our business. And also register an account with this name at Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube"

    "I leave that on you wifey, I know you will come with something great"

    "How many menus that you''re planning to sell hubby?"

    "Three or four maybe? Or we can change the menu every day. Dish A at Monday, dish B on Tuesday etc"

    "No, no it''s not good to change the menu every day. How about 3 menus and 1 changeable menu like hubby said? Specialty for the day?"

    "Oh, that''s also good. Are we also sell drink, wifey?"

    "Um, better not hubby, too complicated for the beginning. We just provide water in the dispenser for the buyer that needs to drink. We must also think about how the food will be served"

    "Yes, you right wifey. Selling food is also need a place to put the food into. What will we use? Plastic bowl, disposable chopstick? Plastic spoon? Styrofoam boxes?"

    "Um, that depends on the menu hubby. If you make fried rice or fried noddles, we can use paper boxes for the container, but for oily and have sauce we will use a plastic bowl. Styrofoam for those who want to take away"

    "Okay, until the food truck ready I will cooking menu that will sell on food truck later"

    "Mmm, I want to be the tester hubby"

    "Sure, but no biases opinion, okay?"

    "Hahaha, but hubby cooking always delicious"

    "Really? But this little mouth also always sweet"

    After saying that, I kiss her small mouth with my lips. If not the kettle in the stove whistling loud maybe I already kiss her for more long time.

 32 Lunch preparation

    Since the water in the kettle already boiled, it would waste if I do not make something to drink from it. Besides, it still needs one more hour before the meat that I cooked finished.

    "Wifey, you want some tea? You must be tired after cleaning the house"

    "Um. please make lemon tea for me, hubby"

    "Okay, no problem"

    Make lemon tea is easy and can be done in a short time. I put the boiled water in a pan and pour some black tea powder into it and simmer the water until tea mixed with water. After that, I put some lemon essence in the tea, stir it a while until mixed and then pour in the bowl using a strainer to make the tea that free from tea powder. For sweetener, I add honey and some white sugar into it. And to garnish it, I put a slice of lemon on the cup edge. After that, I pour the tea from bowl to cup and serve it to my wife.

    "Here wifey, have a taste"

    Ming Er accepts the cup that I give to her, she sniffs it to smell the aroma before taking a sip from the cup.

    "Um, the smell is fragrant and the taste is refreshing. Sweet and sour mixed perfectly in this tea"

    After commenting on the tea, Ming Er takes another sip.

    "Hubby, give me another cup for mom, she will like this tea too"

    "Okay"

    I pour the tea into another cup and Ming Er brings that cup for her mother that still resting in her room. While waiting for Ming Er return, I try another recipe for a dish that I will sell in the food truck. I remember Ming Er words for sell fried rice or noddle, she is right, that dish is well known and accepted by many people. So I try to make one noodle dish that easy to made and not too soupy, and that dish name is:

    Dan Dan Noodles, it''s a dish that only takes about 35 minutes for preparation and cooking.

    What needed to make Dan Dan Noodles for two people is

    Ingredients

    ? 2 serving fresh egg noodles

    ? chopped scallion

    ? blanched vegetables

    ? Chicken stock or pork stock

    Fried soy beans

    ? ? cup soybeans

    ? cooking oil for frying

    Pork topping

    ? 1 cup minced pork (with some fat)

    ? ? tsp. salt

    ? ? tsp. white pepper

    ? ? tbsp. light soy sauce

    ? 2 tbsp. cooking oil, divided

    ? ? tbsp. minced ginger

    ? ? tbsp. minced garlic

    ? 1 tsp. dark soy sauce

    ? 1 cup ya-cai

    ? ? tbsp. chili powder

    Mixed Seasonings

    ? 1 tbsp. sesame paste

    ? 1 tbsp. light soy sauce

    ? 1 tsp. sesame oil

    ? 1 tbsp.chili oil

    ? 1 tsp. black vinegar

    ? a really small pinch of salt

    ? 1 tsp. sugar

    ? 1 tbsp. minced garlic

    How to cook the Dan dan noddles:

    Fry soy beans

    Pre-soak dried soybeans until they are double in size. Transfer out and drain with kitchen towel.

    Add 3 tablespoon cooking oil in wok and add soaked soybeans to fry until you hear the "Pa Pa" sound. Transfer the soybeans out and set aside to cool down

    Make the pork topping

    Mix the minced pork with a small pinch of salt, white pepper and ? tablespoon of light soy sauce.

    Heat up around 1 tablespoon of cooking oil in wok, fry garlic and ginger until aromatic and then fry minced pork until crisp. Then add 1 teaspoon of dark soy sauce for better coloring, Move the pork to the out round of the wok, add another 1 tablespoon of oil in the bottom add ya-cai, separate ya-cai quickly and mix them with the pork. Add around chili powder (optional) and mix well. Transfer out and we are done with the pork topping.

    Cook noodles and serve

    Mix all the seasonings for serving and divide into two portions, separately in two serving bowls. Pour around ? cup of hot pork stock.

    Cook noodles in boiling water according to the instructions on the package and blanch vegetables in the last minutes when the noodles are almost ready. Transfer the noodles to the serving bowl.

    Top with pork topping and then pour around ? cup hot pork stock or chicken stock along with the edges.

    Add green beans and fried soybeans. Serve immediately while hot!

 33 Lunch Menu

    Ming Er returns after spending some time with her mother. With an apologetic look, she explaining why she took a long time to deliver the tea to her mother

    "Hubby, sorry I take a long time. Mom asked me about our future plan and I have to tell her about our new business"

    "It''s okay, wifey. Did she like the tea?"

    "She likes it very much as I do hubby"

    "That''s good, did she says something about our new business?"

    "Um. Mom said we should start with a menu that popular and easy to accept by people like fried rice or noodles. It''s important to have our customer first, that what she says"

    "Yes, that''s also my intention. Look, I already try to make a noodles dish while you talk with mother"

    "It looks delicious. Hubby, can I take a bite? Please?"

    Ming Er looks at me with twinkling eyes, and sweet smile like a child when ask their parent for new toys. I chuckled when she make this appearance.

    "Okay, just a bite. Hereбнaammm"

    I take a fork and scoop some noodles with that fork, closing that fork to Ming Er mouth that already open, waiting for me to feed her. With one bite all the noodles in the fork disappear in her mouth. after chewing it for a while, she swallows the noodles in her mouth

    "Hubby, delicious! Are we going to sell this noodles?"

    "Um. what do you think?"

    "That will be sold hubby, besides without soup this noodles will easier to serve"

    "Okay, I will put this noodles in our menu. Wifey, there''s still time before lunch, help me make the vegetable dish okay?"

    "Yes, what can I help?"

    "Get me green beans, peppercorns, chili, garlic, scallions, and ginger from storage"

    "Alright, wait for a moment"

    After Ming Er return carrying ingredients that I need, I start to cook the vegetable dish for the lunch. What I want to make is:

    Gan Bian Si Ji Dou dry-fried green beans with chilies and picklesбкare one of the best and most mistranslated vegetable dishes in the world

    Ingredients

    ? 1 teaspoon toasted whole Sichuan peppercorns

    ? 3 tablespoons vegetable or canola oil, divided

    ? 6 whole dried small hot chili (such as ивrbol)

    ? 4 medium cloves garlic, minced (about 4 teaspoons)

    ? 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger

    ? 3 scallions, white and pale green parts only, thinly sliced

    ? 3 tablespoons finely minced whole or shredded Sichuan preserved mustard stems

    ? 1 pound green beans, trimmed

    ? Kosher salt and freshly ground white or black pepper

    ? 2 teaspoons sugar

    Directions

    Crush half of Sichuan peppercorns in a mortar and pestle into a rough powder. In a medium skillet, heat 2 tablespoons oil, remaining whole Sichuan peppercorns, and dried chilies over medium-low heat, stirring frequently, until sizzling and aromatic, about 2 minutes. Add garlic, ginger, scallions, and mustard root and cook, stirring, until aromatic, about 1 minute. Remove from heat and set aside.

    Adjust rack to as close as possible to broiler and preheat broiler to high. In a large bowl, toss green beans with 1 tablespoon oil and season with salt and white pepper. Arrange in a single layer on a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet or broiler pan. Broil until beans are blistered and very lightly charred, 2 to 5 minutes depending on strength of broiler. Return beans to bowl.

    Using a rubber spatula, transfer Sichuan peppercorn mixture to the bowl with beans. Add sugar and remaining crushed peppercorns. Toss to coat the beans thoroughly in the mixture and season to taste with more salt and white pepper if desired. Serve immediately.

    The dish finish when I hear my father and brother in law voices in the house. I come out of the kitchen to greet them that already in the dining room

    "Hello, father, brother"

    "Hello son, did you make today lunch? I can smell delicious aroma from here"

    "Haha, yes, today''s lunch is what I''m just cooking. Shall we have lunch now?"

    "Definitely, bring them in. I''ll check your mother and take her out to eat if she already feeling better"

    "Sure, please wait for a moment"

    I return to the kitchen and preparing the dish with Ming Er. We cover the dish with the lid to make the surprise. When we arrive at the dining room, Ming Er father and mother already sit there along with her brother.

    "Hohohoбнwhat''s with that lid? Can''t we see the dish?"

    "Let''s say, this is sample menu for the food truck father, it''s not interesting if you know before"

    "Hahahaбнgo on, get the rest and have lunch quickly. I''m getting impatient with what kind of dish you make today"

    We back to the kitchen and get the rest of the dish. After all the dish already arranged in the table, we sit in our respective chair.

    "Okay son, let start. Introduce your dish to us"

    "Yes father, let me start with the vegetables first"

    I open the lid that covers the vegetable dish. I haven''t mentioned the dish name when my father in law already mention it

    "Gan Bian Si Ji! It looks fresh, not too oily and the aroma is good too. Good start son, what next?"

    I open the second dish lid that covers the noodles. This time my brother in law speaking first

    "Wow Dan dan noodles. I love that noodles, I often eat that noodles when I''m driving my truck. This one looks a bit different but still delicious"

    I smile and open the last dish lid. Unexpectedly, my mother in law also speak first

    "Husbandбн.that dishбн."

    "I know, wife, you ever make that dish when we still just married"

    "Um, it''s been a long time ago when I make it. It reminds me of our young days, husband"

    "Hmm, seems our daughter really fated with our son in law wife"

    I and Ming Er are following their conversation with the muddled head. Did they know what dish is this? Fu Qi Fei Pian, that a dish that I created a long time ago. And there are people still know about that dish?

 34 Conversation after lunch

    While I and Ming Er still don''t understand what happened, my father in law explains it to me.

    "Son, I never thought you will make this dish, Fu Qi Fei Pian, aaahhбнthis dish makes me remember my younger days when I''m just married to your mother. I''m just a poor young man at that time, but I''m willing to work hard. To work hard need a lot of energy, and because of we poor, we can''t afford to buy meat, only cheap part of the meat that we able to buy. And your mother here always cooks that dish to me. Now, we can live in prosper days, the meat your mother cook also being the better one and this dish is almost forgotten. This dish alone has a long history, a quite interesting story although end with the sad ending. I''ll tell you the story later after we finish eat. Now let''s eat before these dishes get cold"

    Without talking anything further we immediately start to eat quickly. Whether they really hungry or the taste suit them or afraid the food getting cold, the dishes in the table quickly disappears, moved into our own bellies. As the closing, I serve them with lemon tea that I made before.

    "Ahhh, it so relishes. It''s been a long time before I can eat satisfied like this. Son, is this dishes that you will sell in the food truck?"

    "Yes, father"

    "It''s good, you''ll have lots of customers with menu"

    "Thanks, father, I hope so"

    "I think you all waiting for the story of the Fu Qi Fei Pian, right? It''s said a long time ago, when China still under many kingdoms, there is husband and wife that selling food on the street. The man is a fine cook, his cooking is delicious, even the cheap and leftover part of meat he can turn into something delicious, and that''s what he sells along the street. When he sold this food on the street, he always helped by an orphan girl that later become his wife. They live by selling food together in the street, food that now called Fu Qi Fei Pian because made by this husband and wife pairs. Many street peddlers also try to make the dish like them, but still the most popular is the dish that husband and wife pair made"

    "Dad, that''s a wonderful story. Similar with me and hubby that will make food business by food truck"

    "Um, but the story did not have a happy ending. Because the food that they made becomes popular, the husband was hired as a cook in Palace. This, so far is good because of sound like promotion right? But one day this cook makes the king anger and sentenced to death along with his family members. Ugh, such tragic ends. But it seems this cook did not do something wrong that make the king angry because not long after his death, disaster comes one after another to that kingdom. Start with locust swarm that destroys that kingdom crops, drought and many wars followed after that. That kingdom itself becomes ruins within three years after that cook death. Whether true or not, it''s a folktale that been told from generation to generation, I just hope you two not end like this story but live happily ever after"

    I dumbfounded when hearing my father in law story. Isn''t that looks like my previous life story? And the recipe still exists after a thousand years? And after my death, is that what happened to Shi Kingdom? Seems Heavens still have mercy for those oppressed and treated unjustly in this world. When I take a glance at Ming Er, I see tears in the corner of her eyes

    "Wifey, are you crying?" I asked her while wiping the tears with my fingers

    "Hubby, after hearing dad''s story, somehow I feel so sad inside" after saying that she leaned her head in my chest like seeking for comfort

    Seeing how their daughter act, my parent, and brother in laws only smiles looking at us. When Ming Er realize her family''s eyes staring at her, she becomes shy and buried her face in my chest to hide. This only incite the laugh of her family members

    "Son, please bear with my daughter childish behavior, although she now a woman, but sometimes she acts like a spoiled girl"

    "Don''t worry father, your obligation to spoil her is now in my hand. I''ll be the one who spoils her"

    "Hahaha, my daughter has a good husband"

    When Ming Er hear she becoming the object of conversation, her face become red and she pinching me to stop that conversation. This makes her family member only laugh louder than before.

    That afternoon time in Ming Er parents is another good time that I have in there.

 35 Choosing trucks

    To lift the atmosphere that being awkward, my brother in law starts a new topic for conversation. My father in law already leaves the dining table with my mother in law to their room.

    "Brother You, I''ve searched some trucks that may be suitable to change into a food truck. Please take a look. This is not a new truck but I can assure you those trucks in good condition. I think it''s better to buy the secondhand truck than buy the new one because the price is cheaper and you still need money to open your business"

    "Brother He is so considered, I only can say thank you for that"

    "We''re family now, no need to be formal like that brother"

    "Still, I must say thanks to whoever gives me a help"

    "Um, please take a look brother, if you have interest for any trucks here just tell me and I will take care about the buying and modification matter, if nothing catches your eyes, I''ll find another truck that may be more suitable for you"

    Shao He handed me a camera with many trucks pictures inside. Ming Er no longer hides in my chest and take a look of that trucks pictures with me. The truck pictures in the camera are various in size, start from minivan to small truck. There are some trucks that already modeled as food truck like sell ice cream or fast food.

    "I don''t take the big truck for starting because it''s hard to drive and take a lot of space to park it. I suggest brother start with a minivan or mini truck as food truck although the capacity may be a bit limited. And maybe after the food truck is done, brother can start selling in my truck pools, I can negotiate to get a parking lot there with people in charge, and promote the food to my friends"

    My brother in law gives her opinion as we take a look at the pictures.

    "Um. Brother is right, the smaller truck is easier to drive and park. Hubby, how about this van?"

    "I think that a bit small, wifey, we need to carry some stool and water barrel to cook and clean"

    After a long discussion, finally, we made our choice for a mini truck that big enough and can load 3 passengers in the truck cabin, which suitable for food kitchen vending truck, made byHubei Chengli Special Automobile with model TJ20D3, using diesel fuel and able to carry weight from 1-10 tons. My brother in law ask what kind of cooking equipment that I want to install inside that truck, but I can''t answer that question yet.

    "Brother, let me see the equipment first in the store, then I will have the measurement of that equipment. I''m afraid I will buy too large equipment that hard to install in the truck. Let me do some surveys first on equipment, then I''ll make the list what kind of equipment I want to install in that truck"

    "Alright, if you already agree with this truck, I will contact the seller to negotiate the price, after that, I''ll find a modification workshop to paint and change this truck into food truck"

    "Yes, brother. I leave the buying and modification matter to you"

    "Okay. It set now. I''ll go to see the seller right away"

    After my brother in law left, Ming Er ask me

    "Hubby, is that mean we will go home today? We should start to look for that cooking equipment right?"

    "Wifey, if you still want to stay longer here, we can go home tomorrow or the day after tomorrow"

    "Um, I prefer to go home today hubby, if we packing now we still can catch the last bus to the city at five p.m"

    "Alright, but you must tell father and mother if we return today"

    "Um, I tell them right away"

    After saying that, she leaves the dining room to see her parent to inform them that we will return to our home today. She somehow looks happy if we return to our home. Well, in our own home, we have more freedom to do as we please anyway.

    Not long after she''s telling her parents, she returns with a smile on her face.

    "Hubby, father, and mother don''t mind we leave today. Let''s packing now"

    "Okay, but aren''t we should clean up this first? Let mother have enough rest"

    I''m saying while pointing dish and bowl that we use for lunch today.

    "Heheheбнhubby is right, let''s clean this first and after that, we packing and go home"

    So, we take the dish, bowl, plates, and glass back to the kitchen and wash it. After washing eating utensils done, we go to Ming Er''s room for packing. This time she takes her dress that stored in the closet too because she doesn''t bring many clothes when she comes to my house. When we still packing, there''s a knocking sound in the door and voice my father in law

    "Ming Er, you have guests. You should go out and meet them".

 36 Ming Ers Friends

    "Who are they, father?"

    Ming Er asks her father after open the door.

    "Your childhood friends. They come to visit you after heard you married. You should meet them"

    "Um, okay. Hubby, come with me, please? I want to introduce my husband to them"

    "Sure, they''re your friends since a child, I should know them too"

    Well, actually I''m feeling a bit jealous if her childhood friends are males, and I want to know what they look like. But seems my jealousy is unreasonable because when we arrive at the guest room, there are three women waiting for us there. There are also some packages gifts that they bring for Ming Er.

    "A Mei! A Lan! A Yun, I haven''t seen you for a long time since you two married. A Yun, are you already married too?"

    "A Ming! we heard you just married and we are in our parent house today, so we must visit you to say congratulation"

    "Sis Ming, I''m not married yet but I hope after I visit you there''s a man willing to marry me"

    After a warm greeting and hug each other''s and receive the gift that they brought, finally I''m introduced to them.

    "Sis, let me introduce my husband, this is my husband You Ben. Hubby, they are my childhood friends, A Mei, A Lan, and A Yun"

    "Hello ladies, I''m Ming Er husband, You Ben. Nice to meet you all"

    I smiling and stretch my hand to make a handshake to Ming Er friends who look at me with disbelief eyes.

    "Ah, yeah I''m Mei Hwa, Ming Er always call me A Mei, since you''re Ming Er husband, can I call you brother You?"

    "Sure, how should I call you? Sister Mei or A Mei like Ming Er call you?"

    "Just call me sister Mei. Ming Er usually call me A Mei because that''s my nickname since I''m a child"

    "Hello brother You, I''m Lan Xiang, you can call me sister Lan"

    "Hello sister Lan"

    "I''m Yun Xie, since I''m not married yet brother You can call me A Yun or sister Yun"

    "Hello A Yun"

    "Since you all come here to give congratulation for our wedding, we should serve something for you too. Would you like something to eat?"

    "Please don''t bother brother You, we just eat our lunch. Some tea or snack will do"

    "Okay, I''ll get some tea and snack for you all. wifey, take your time and accompany them"

    "Um. thanks hubby"

    After I''d left them in the guest room, they start to interrogate Ming Er

    "A Ming! That''s really your husband?" (A Mei)

    "Where do you meet him, A Ming?" (A Lan)

    "Sister Ming, How long you know him? (A Yun)

    "WaitбнwaitбнI can''t answer all your questions at once. One by one please"

    "Me first! Where do you find such hunky-dory guy like him, A Ming?" (A Mei)

    "We just coincidentally meet. What do you mean by hunky-dory?"

    "What? Don''t you see how tall he is? Also good looking, gentle and polite. If I''m not married and he''s not married you, I already ask for his phone number and address"

    "Don''t you dare!"

    "Just kidding, just kidding. How long you know him before marriage?" (A Mei)

    "Errбнonly one day"

    "WHAATT???" (Three of them)

    "You knew him only one day and agree to marry him at the next day?" (A Lan)

    "How come you willing to marry him with only know him for one day?" (A Yun)

    "Um, because he sincerely wants to marry me, and I think he''s a good people, so when he propose me, I say yes"

    "Hahahaбнlove at first sight. That must be that" (A Mei)

    "If a man like him suddenly proposes me, I think I also would not refuse" (A Yun)

    "Right, A Ming, tell us how your first night" (A Lan)

    "YeahбнYeahбнtell us!" (A Lan and A Mei)

    "What do you mean by my first night"

    "C''mon, A Ming, tell us how many times you two doing ''that'' hmm?"

    "Mmmmбнtwice at night and twice in the morning"

    "WHOAAAA!!!" (Three of them)

    "What a hot first night" (A Mei)

    "He''s really a stud!" (A Lan)

    "Is that painful?" (A Yun)

    "No, it''s not painful, he''s very gentle duringбн..Hey! Why should I tell that to you? You never tell me how your first night when you''re married"

    "Tskбн.She almost gets hooked with our question" (A Mei)

    They almost succeed to baited Ming Er to tell how our first night, fortunately, she can escape from that tricky question. I actually almost enter the guest room with the tea, but hearing what they talking about, make me hold my step and hesitate to enter.

 37 WomenтАЩs talk

    After they''re no longer talking about our first night, I can enter into the guest room and serve the tea. But, hey, why they look at me with eyes like want to eat me alive? And their gaze always pointed on my lower part, ugh this makes me uncomfortable. So with an excuse to prepare some snacks, I leave them again and go to the kitchen. And after I''m leaving, they start to talk about me again.

    "A Ming, what''s your husband job? This is not weekend but why he''s here with you?" (A Mei)

    "Oh, he''s a chef and he owns a small restaurant"

    "Ah right, my parents say, he''s the one who cooks the dish at your wedding feast yesterday, and they said his cooking is good" (A Lan)

    "Um, yes. He''s cooking for our yesterday wedding feast"

    "Ahaha, after graduating from high school you take the cooking course because you want to cook something delicious for your husband but now it seems your husband is the one who cooks for you" (A Yun)

    "Stupid A Yun! Don''t remind me of that. But his cooking skill is indeed better than me. A Yun, you go to college after graduation from high school right?"

    "Yes, I''m taking a diploma degree in advertising and just graduated this year. Currently looking for a job but no luck so far, sigh"

    "A Yun, you should look for a husband than a job, hahaha" (A Mei)

    "Um, That''s right, only you that haven''t married between us. Don''t your parent always asking you when you''ll get married?" (A Lan)

    "Yeah that''s right, my parent always nagging that to me. Quite a hassle, because I haven''t met my Mr. Perfect" (A Yun)

    "You''ll get older if you keep waiting that Mr. Perfect, don''t be too picky. How about this? My brother still single, I can match up you with him?"

    "Ugh, brother He only sees me like his sister, not as a girl" (A Yun)

    "No, you''re now already grown up and pretty, he should see you differently"

    "A Yun, if you married with brother He, you can eat A Ming''s husband cooking if they visit here" (A Mei)

    "Yep, I also agree if A Yun married brother He, so our sisterhood will be closer than before" (A Lan)

    "Um, if you say yes, I will promote you in front of my brother"

    "Can I think about that first? Hey, why don''t you tell me about your marriage life? Maybe I can learn something from there before having real marriage" (A Yun)

    "Yes, A Yun is right. You two haven''t told me about your marriage life"

    "Right, A Mei you''re the first one who married. Tell us your story now" (A Yun)

    "What can I tell? My marriage life is so common. After three months married, I get pregnant, nine months later I have a baby, a baby boy, now he''s one year old. I''m not working so I spend my time like a usual housewife and taking care of my baby and husband. That''s all" (A Mei)

    "Tell us how your sex life is!"

    "I''m not feeling good to tell that"

    "You''re cheating! I already tell mine now it''s your turn"

    "Yeah, I tell mine if you tell yours" (A Lan)

    "Ugh, alright, the first month from our marriage, everything still sweet and smooth. We''re doing sex every day like normally newlywed do, and still, do after I get pregnant. But when my belly is getting bigger at 7 months of my pregnancy, we hardly have sex anymore. He also becomes more busy and busy with his works. He said he needs to work hard to support our child. Well, I can''t blame him for that. But six month after I''m giving birth, he still hardly touches me to have sex. I''m getting depressed for that you know. I don''t know if I''m no longer attractive in his eyes, or maybe my husband has another woman behind me".

    A Mei makes a sigh after telling her sex life.

    "Poor A Mei" her friends try to console her by patting her shoulder.

    "A Lan, your turn now"

    A Lan takes a deep breath before she starts telling her story. Her face looks a little sad.

    "Well, I''m married for one year now, and same like A Mei, we have a good sex life in the first month of our marriage. But seven month ago my husband gets promotion in his work. His work becomes more important than before, he''s often come back late and smells alcohol from his mouth. He said he had to do that to entertain his office relations. But because of that, he also seldom to touch me in the bed, within a week, we only make sex when he''s not working during the weekend, and it''s only once and not last long. He already tired after doing that once and sleep like a pig after that. Sometimes I''m thinking he''d better not promoted if only make me feel this way. Moreover, since we still have no child, his parent, especially my mother in law and my parent always asking that, and its start to irritating me"

    A Lan makes a sigh after telling her story, just like A Mei.

    "A Ming, it''s your turn now!" (Three of them)

    "Eh? Did I already tell you before, besides I''m just married not even a week"

    "A Yun hasn''t married yet, so she not included in the storytelling" (A Mei)

    "Yeah, you can tell us something else" (A Lan)

    "Like what?"

    "Hmmбнlike how big his things?" (A Mei with a mischievous grin)

    "Mmmбнit''s big" (Ming Er with a blush on her face)

    "How big? How long?" (A Lan with the curious look)

    "Maybeбнas big as this?" (Ming Er put the tip of her pointing finger and tip of her thumb together)

    "WHOAAA" (Three of them) which make Ming Er feel proud.

    "What a thick dick, and how long is that?" (A Mei)

    "I don''t know, its feel like filling my veggie to the fullest when inserted"

    "WHOAAA" (Three of them)

    "Sis Ming, did you ever touch it?" (A Yun)

    Ming Er does not answer it, just nodded.

    "One handgrip can hold it all or still have more?"

    "There''s still more"

    "Two hand grip?"

    "Maybe, I haven''t touched that with two hands"

    "WHOAAA" (Three of them)

    "Sis Ming, I envy you to have such husband with you" (A Yun)

    "No wonder you look so happy" (A Mei)

    "Can I borrow your husband?" (A Lan)

    "Do you interested have a foursome with us? (A Mei)

    " .... " (Ming Er speechless)

    "Please A Mei, A Lan. Don''t tease sister Ming like that"

    "Ahahaha" (A Mei and A Lan)

    And these women talks continue until I come from the kitchen carrying the snack. And this long conversation between Ming Er and her friends also make us missed the last bus to return to our home today.

 38 Making Snack

    After delivering them tea and left them again to make the snack, I''m thinking what snack should serve for them. Since they don''t want to eat, at least I can make some snacks for them. I''m thinking a snack that can be easily made and not too long to cook that. My choice falls to a snack called meringues. It''s a simple yet sweet and delicious snack with the simple ingredient. What I need to make meringues is:

    ? 4 large organic egg whites, at room temperature

    ? 115g caster sugar

    ? 115g icing sugar

    Cooking Method

    1. Preheat the oven to fan 100C/ conventional 110C/gas 1?4. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper (meringue can stick on greaseproof paper and foil).

    2. Tip the 4 large egg whites into a large clean mixing bowl (not plastic). Beat them on medium speed with an electric hand whisk until the mixture resembles a fluffy cloud and stands up in stiff peaks when the blades are lifted.

    3. Now turn the speed up and start to add 115g caster sugar, a dessertspoonful at a time. Continue beating for 3-4 seconds between each addition. It''s important to add the sugar slowly at this stage as it helps prevent the meringue from weeping later. However, don''t over-beat. When ready, the mixture should be thick and glossy.

    4. Sift one-third of the 115g icing sugar over the mixture, then gently fold it in with a big metal spoon or rubber spatula. Continue to sift and fold in the remaining icing sugar a third at a time. Again, don''t over-mix. The mixture should now look smooth and billowy, almost like a snow drift.

    5. Scoop up a heaped dessertspoonful of the mixture. Using another dessertspoon, ease it on to the baking sheet to make an oval shape (pic 3). Or just drop them in rough rounds, if you prefer. Bake for 1 1?2-1 3?4 hours in a fan oven, 1 1?4 hours in a conventional or gas oven, until the meringues sound crisp when tapped underneath and is a pale coffee color. Leave to cool on the trays or a cooling rack. Serve two meringues sandwiched together with a generous dollop of softly whipped double cream.

    This ingredient enough to make 16 servings and only take around 30 minutes for making it with an oven that can bake with the higher temperature around 200-250 degree Celcius.

    After this meringue done, I deliver them to accompany the tea that I already served before. And I still must wait for a while before I can enter the guest room because they still talking about me and my ''things'' size. Only after they no longer talk about it, I can barge in and serve the snack.

    "Sorry ladies, it takes a while to make it"

    "Wow, brother You, you just make this snack?" ( A Mei)

    "Yes, it''s just out from the oven. Maybe still a bit hot"

    "It looks delicious" (A Lan)

    "Brother You, are you also sell pastry as well?" (A Yun)

    "Hmm, I''m not selling pastry yet, but if the market is good, I''ll consider selling pastry too"

    "Hubby and I just planning to make a food business, can you help us promoting it?"

    "Sure, we will do anything we could to help our sister Ming" (A Yun)

    "What kind of business is that?" (A Mei)

    "We want to make food truck, so we can sell the food in many places"

    "A Ming! That''s great! What your business name?" (A Lan)

    "We decide to name it ''Youming Delicious Food'', we also will make an account in Instagram, Youtube, and Facebook to promote it"

    "We will be the follower and share it to our friends, just notify us when it''s done"

    "Thank you sisters, and please have a taste of this snack, wifey, you should taste that too"

    I''ll invite them to taste the snack that I just made, because they seem to hesitate to taste it, instead it''s me that they look to eat with their eyes. After I said that, they like being reminded and take the meringues to taste it.

    "Hubby, what is this snack called, it''s crispy, sweet and creamy"

    "It''s called meringues"

    Ming Er looks enjoying to eat that snack, Ah, how sloppy she eat that, there''s some cream left in the corner of her mouth. Maybe I should put fewer creams in this meringues.

    "Wifey, there are some creams in your lips"

    I wipe the cream in her mouth with my fingers and put my finger to my mouth to taste the cream. My action makes her a bit blushing. But when I look at Ming Er''s friendsбн..

    Hey, why you all also start to eat those meringues sloppily? There''s cream all over your mouth, you know?

    "Hubby, can you get tissue box in the dining room? And make fewer creams when you make this meringue again"

    "Ah yes, I understand. I''ll get that tissue box right away"

    So I leave the guest room again to get the tissue box. After I left, Ming Er stare at her friends fiercely

    "Girls, what''s your aim by eating sloppily like that?"

    "Ahaha, I thought your husband will also wipe this cream from my mouth with his finger" (A Mei)

    "Um, I also thought that too. Alas, you send him away" (A Lan)

    "Seeing sis Ming looks happy when he uses his finger on you make me want to know how it feels when his finger on my lips" (A Yun)

    " ..... " (Ming Er speechless)

    Fortunately, I return with tissue box in my hands not long after I left, and they wipe the creams in their mouth with that tissue paper. I also sit beside Ming Er to accompany her talking with her friends. But this time, she use provocative gestures to show to her friends that I''m is hers by the act like hug my waist, rubs my thigh, holding my hands, or lean her head in my arms like want to tell her friends ''He''s mine, don''t ever dare to touch him''.

    Well, actually that''s not necessary because in my eyes, Ming Er still the prettiest between those four even without makeups. A Yun in the second because she''s not wearing too many makeups like A Mei and A Lan, which make her looks natural. A Lan in the third place maybe because she hasn''t pregnant and still able to maintain her body shape. Only her gloomy face makes her a little losing her charm. A Mei is the last place because after she had a child maybe she doesn''t have much time to take care of her body, beside her makeups is a bit excessive because she now lives in the city.

    We''re still talking about many things until they said goodbye because the day is almost dusk. They promised to help us promoting our food business with their friend too, that''s another good thing that they bring in their visit today.

 39 Dinner menu

    After her friends left, Ming Er talk to me with apologetic looks in her face

    "Hubby, sorry, we missed the last bus because my friends visit"

    "It''s okay wifey, they are your childhood friends that not seeing you for a long time. Besides, they will help us promote our business. That''s great, right?"

    "Um, I''m glad hubby can understand that. Let''s clean up the table and bring the glass and plates back to kitchen, hubby"

    "Okayбнoh there''s still one piece meringue left, do you want to eat that wifey?"

    "Let''s eat that together hubby"

    She puts half of the meringue in her mouth and left the rest outside her mouth. I immediately understand what she means to eat together. So I bite the other half that left outside her mouth, our tongue sweep clean any left creams in each other mouth. Although there''s no cream left in our mouth, we still kissing for a while until we let go of each other mouth.

    "Wifey, that''s I called new way to eat snack"

    "Tee hee~ I''m glad hubby like it"

    "Hmm, let''s continue to clean this glass and plates, then we prepare the dish for dinner"

    We take the glass and plates back to the kitchen, wash it and keep it back in the cupboard.

    "Hubby, what do you want to make for dinner?"

    "We still have Fu Qi Fei Pian for dinner, but Dan Dan noodles are already eaten clean. I must make something to replace Dandan noodles"

    "How about Mapo Tofu hubby? That dish quite popular and many people like that dish"

    "Do we have tofu to make it?"

    "I think we have some tofu in the refrigerator"

    "Alright, let''s make it"

    Like Ming Er said, mapo tofu is a popular dish in Sichuan and can be made in a short time.

    Ingredients

    ? 450g silken tofu (Szechuan tender lushui tofu can be used)

    ? 100g minced meat-beef or pork

    ? ? tablespoon sesame oil

    ? 1 and ? tablespoons Doubanjiang, roughly chopped

    ? ? tablespoon fermented black beans (also known as dou-chi and fermented soya beans), roughly chopped

    ? 1 tablespoon pepper flakes or powder (optional)

    ? ? teaspoon salt

    ? ? tablespoon Sichuan pepper for making fresh ground powder

    ? 1 tablespoon light soy sauce

    ? water or broth for braising (400ml)

    ? 2 tablespoons cooking oil

    ? 2 scallion white, finely chopped

    ? 4 garlic greens or scallion greens, finely chopped

    ? 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped

    ? 5 ginger slices, finely minced (around 1 teaspoon)

    ? 1 teaspoon sugar (optional for reducing the spiciness)

    Water starch

    ? 2 and ? tablespoon water

    ? 1 tablespoon cornstarch

    Cooking Instructions

    1. Add a small pinch of salt and sesame oil to minced beef. Mix well and set aside.

    2. Mix 1 tablespoon of cornstarch with 2 and ? tablespoons of water in a small bowl to make water starch.

    3. Cut tofu into square cubes (around 2cms). Bring a large amount of water to a boil and then add a pinch of salt. Slide the tofu in and cook for 1 minute. Move out and drain.

    4. Get a wok and heat up around 2 tablespoons of oil, fry the minced meat until crispy. Transfer out beef out and leave the oil in.

    5. Fry doubanjiang for 1 minute over a slow fire and then add garlic, scallion white, ginger and fermented black beans to cook for 30 seconds until aroma. Then mix pepper flakes in.

    6. Add water to the seasonings and bring to boil over a high fire. Gently slide the tofu cubes. Add light soy sauce and beef. Slow the heat after boiling and then simmer for 6-8 minutes. Then add chopped garlic greens.

    7. Stir the water starch and then pour half of the mixture to the simmering pot. Wait for around 30 seconds and then pour the other half. You can slightly taste the tofu and add pinch of salt if not salty enough. By the way, if you feel it is too spicy, add some sugar can milder the taste. But be carefully as the broth is very hot at this point.

    8. Transfer out when almost all the seasonings stick to tofu cubes. Sprinkle Szechuan peppercorn powder (to taste)and chopped garlic greens if using.

    9. Serve immediately with steamed rice

    When we finish making this mapo tofu, my father in law enter the kitchen

    "Son, daughter, you''re not return yet? No wonder I smell good cooking aroma from the kitchen. Hahaha, good, I still can eat delicious food tonight. Are you done cooking? If so, let''s get dinner together"

    "Ming Er friends like to have chat with her father, and they already not see each other for long time, and I guess we still can return tomorrow"

    "Dad, you wait in dining room, we will bring the dishes there"

    "Oh okay, I''ll wait in there"

    We bring the dishes to dining room after place them in big bowl and big plates so we can eat them together. When we deliver the dishes to the dining room, my father, mother and brother in law already waiting there for our cooking.

    "What we have for dinner son?"

    My father in law ask tonight menu at me

    "Fu Qi Fei Pian, Mapo tofu and Gan Bian Si Ji, father"

    "Um, that''s good. I still want to eat that lunch menu again and you make it for tonight. Good job son, now let''s eat before it gets cold"

    We take our seat and start to eat without speaking any words anymore like afraid if we talking, our chewing speed will decrease and the food will be taken by other family members.

 40 Match Up

    After dinner finish, we still sit down in the dining room to have a family talk as usual. This time Ming Er is the one who starts the conversation. She starts by asking her brother about her friend that just visit her

    "Brother, do you remember my friend, A Yun?"

    "She''s your childhood friend right? The one always asks for candy when we meet?"

    "Ahahaha, that''s her, brother. But now she will not asks for candy anymore. She already grew up, and she just visits me this afternoon"

    "Hmm, it''s been a while you haven''t met her right? How is she?"

    "She just graduates from her diploma course in the college, brother, and now back to our village"

    "That''s good, why you suddenly talk about her?"

    "She''s still single, brother, and not have a boyfriend. You also still single, why don''t you start dating her?"

    "Hey, are you trying to match up your brother with your friend?"

    "Tee hee~, she''s quite pretty, brother. You''ll be surprised when sees her again, and you already knew her, so why not?"

    "That''s right son. You never bring any girl home and introduced as your girlfriend. Aren''t you supposed to already married at your age? Your sister even already married, when it''s yours? I can''t wait to have another grandchild from you"

    "Hahahaбн.Let''s see how about that later dad"

    "Brother, you can visit her and say congratulation for her graduation. Bring some gift for her too"

    "I say later, my dear sister. You look so insist, did A Yun promise you something?"

    "Ahahaбнno brother, not at all. I just want you to have someone to take care of you. You know, like me and hubby"

    "Fine, I see her tomorrow. Satisfied?"

    "Tee hee~, yes, I''m satisfied, brother"

    Ming Er makes deep nodded and smile mischievously. Her father and mother only can laugh when seeing her like this.

    "Oh, right brother You. This food truck, do you plan to operated day and night or only at days? If you want to use that days and night, you should consider adding a generator set to the truck to bring some light"

    "I currently planning only operating at daylight brother He, if this business goes well, I''m thinking to open the restaurant at night only to serve dinner"

    "Alright, you''re the boss"

    After that, there''s nothing important to discuss, just some small talk about daily matter and trivia things. And after all this talk over, they go to their respective room to rest. I and Ming Er clean up the table and return the eating utensil to the kitchen. When we washing the dishes, I see Ming Er looks a bit restless, like something bothering her mind. So I hug her from behind and whisper in her ear, asking what happen to her

    "Wifey, is there something bothering your mind? You look restless tonight"

    "Mmmбнhubby, you notice that?"

    "There''s nothing about you that missed from my sight, wifey"

    I reply her while kissing her neck frombehind which make her wriggle from ticklish sensation in her neck

    "Um, we supposed to be at home right now, hubby and having fun together. You promise to spoil me tonight remember?"

    I turn her back so we can see our face, I lower my head and gently kiss her.

    "I always remember my promise wifey, how about I spoil you here?"

    "You can''t hubby, my parent''s room is next to my room. I''m afraid they will hear our voices andбнI''m will ashamed if they heard that"

    I hug Ming Er and lift her then carry her before making her sit on the kitchen table like I did in the morning. I''m cling our forehead together, rub my nose against her nose, before peck on her small lips.

    "How about we serve them some tea, and put sleeping pills on that tea? They will sleep and not heard anything from our room"

    "Huubbyyyyy!!!"

    Ming Er pinching my cheek with both of her hand and pull it wider

    "Sowwrryyбнjust kidding wifey"

    Hearing me apologize, she smiling and release her pinching on my cheek and giggling

    "I know hubby doesn''t mean that"

    "Then why you pinching my cheek"

    "I''m just curious how hubby will look when I''m pinching your cheek like in the cartoon movies, but I don''t have reason to do that. Just now, hubby gives me a reason to do that, hihihi"

    Oh my, how naughty she is. So I retaliate by pinching her cheek too, but not a powerful pinch, only gentle pinch that makes her lips open which make me want to kiss it and insert my tongue into it.

    "Don''t think I can''t do that to you wifey, here your punishment...*smooch*"

    Ming Er didn''t resist and accept her punishment with joyful expression. She closed her eyes and let my tongue playing with her tongue inside her mouth. Her idle hands start to rub my lower parts which make me fervently to kiss her more

    "Hummбн.hubbyбнwe can''t do that hereбнhmmp"

    "Then where to, wifey? You don''t want to do that here nor in your room, the bathroom is too narrow, unlike bathroom in our home"

    "Let''s do in my room, but don''t make loud sounds. Can you do that hubby?"

    "You want to put ducktapes in our mouth?"

    Ming Er chuckled after hearing my question.

    "Silly hubby, we have something better than ducktapes. Hereбн"

    Her finger''s tracing my lips. I understand with what she means by that. I nodded as sign of understand

    "Wait for me in my room, hubby, I''m going to bathroom first to clean up"

    "Okay, don''t take too long time wifey"

    "Um, I''ll be quick hubby"

    She steps down from the kitchen table and goes to the bathroom while I left the kitchen and go to her room, waiting for her to spend the night time and do our romantic time together.

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    Not long after I''m entering her room, Ming Er comes in with a towel and tissue box in her hand. When she sees me only sit idly on the edge of the bed, she asked me, after putting the towel and tissue on the table.

    "Hubby, why you''re still wearing your clothes?"

    Hearing her question, I immediately strip off my clothes and only left my under pant that still covering my lower part. Ming Er smiles mischievously when she saw me almost naked.

    "Wifey, why you still wear your clothes? It''s not fair if only me that almost naked"

    "Be patient hubby, the night still early, let''s enjoy it to our heart content"

    After saying that, she takes a music CD and insert it on the player and play it. A soft music sounds filling the room and gives a romantic atmosphere. This also can reduce the sounds that we make during our romantic time.

    "Wifey, you''re a genius!"

    I praise her idea and raise my thumb up. Ming Er smile sweetly hearing my praise.

    "Shall we began, hubby?"

    She''s asking that question with seducing tone.

    "Yes! Yes!"

    I nodded deeply as a sign for her to start our romantic time. Ming Er takes six step distance from where I''m sitting and start to swaying her body following the music. While swaying her body, turn and twist, she slowly unbuttons her top clothes. Besides swaying her body, she also moves her hips and butt in erotic ways which make me almost jump to catch her, but I hold my urge and watch her finish her doing. After the buttons in her top already loose, she didn''t immediately take that off but swaying her breast that still covered with her bra. Watching her breast bouncing gently makes me almost drool. Slowly she releases her arms from the sleeves and after her top is off from her body, she throws her top to me. I catch her top and sniffing it, which make her smile wide.

    After her top is off, Ming Er starts to strip her skirt. She turns her back facing me, slowly drop the skirt while shaking her round butt. Her action makes my eyes widened and makes me want to spank those round butt of hers. Inch by inch, Ming Er dropping her skirt which like hours to me, After several minutes, finally the skirt dropped to her ankles. She still shaking her butt and make a movement like a drill while lowering her hips. When she raises her body, she lifts her leg from the skirt in her ankle. She raises her other leg to pick the skirt in her ankle and throw it again to me, which I sniffing too like her top.

    When she only wearing bra and panty, she not immediately strip them off but make some dance move which exposing her breast and round butt. Slowly she walks step by step toward to me while pushing her chest forward like want to say ''touch me please''. But when I stretch my hand to hold them, she pulls it back and smiles mischievously. She repeats her moves several times, which make me irritated and no longer want to touch it again. Seeing me no longer want to touch it, Ming Er walks closer to me while pushing and shaking her chest forward. I keep still and wait for her reaction if I''m not tempted to touch them. Because I''m not reacted with her temptation, she walks closer and makes her breast touch my face. I''m still not reacted which make her rub her bra covered breast in my face. Seduced with this kind of temptation, finally, my hand moves, but not to touch the breast instead hug her tightly so she can run away again like before. I buried my face in her soft and elastic breast while sniffing her body aroma.

    Ming er giggling with what I''d done to her, and while caressing my hair, she asks me

    "Hubby, why take it so long to catch me? Now show me how good you are in unhooking bra"

    "Um, I''m enjoying the catching process, wifey"

    Hearing her challenge, my hand moves to her back and search for the bra''s hook. It''s easy for me now to unhook her bra since I also the one who put it on her breast this morning. With a snap, her bra is unhooked and fell, revealing beautiful view behind it. It''s a pair of round and soft elastic breast with protruding nipples on top of it, which immediately disappear into my mouth. I suck and lick the nipple that already in my mouth while my hand gently fondle and pinching the other nipple.

    "Now you have caught them, they''re yours, hubby"

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    Ming Er says that while bite her lower lips to hold the sensation from stimulation in her breast. My other hands also not idly, it starts to rub her crotch that still covered with her panty.

    "Hubbyбн..mmmmm"

    I see Ming Er face start to show reddish color and her breath start faster, indicating she start to aroused with stimulation on her breast and crotch. I raise my stimulation level by inserting my hand into her panty that originally only rubs her crotch from outside her panty. And in there, my hand start to rub her clit which makes her start to make a soft moan.

    "Wifey, your hair start grows here, you want to keep it or shave it?"

    I ask her because I feel small hairs start to grow in her pubic area when I rub her clitoris.

    "Mmmбнwhich one hubby like? ....hahhh"

    "Um, I like it smooth. So lets we shave it for a moment"

    I stop my stimulation on her breast and crotch and lift her to sit on the table. I pull the panty that she still wearing make her crotch exposed in front of me. Before I take my Gillette shaver and shaving cream from my toiletries, I take a chance to kiss her small clitoris which makes it twitching and Ming Er moaning. After taking what I needed, I pull a chair and sit in front of her. After smearing some cream on her pubic, I start to shave the hair carefully, afraid to make a scratch on her smooth skin. I see Ming Er bite her finger while seeing me shaving her pubic hair. Sometimes when my hand accidentally touches her clitoris, she makes a moaning sound. Doesn''t take much time to clean it up, since not much hair grows there. After finish shaving her pubic hair, I clean her crotch using the towel she brings over before. She''s moaning when the towel rubs her crotch and her clitoris too.

    I return my shaving tools in my toiletries and back to the chair sit down there and examine my work result. A clean, hairless crotch now exposed in front of my eyes. The wetness left by the shaving cream makes the skin sparkling under the lamp''s light. Looking at me only watching it, Ming Er asking me shyly.

    "Hubbyбнare you going to stare at it all night?"

    "Um, I just look how the result of my work and admiring the view in front of my eyes"

    Ming Er chuckled when hearing my answer. She spread her leg wider and her hand pulls open her labia in her crotch revealing her clitoris clearer than before and also her vagina hole.

    "It''s waiting for you, hubby"

    Without waiting for her second invitation, I''m quickly buried my head in her crotch and start to ''eat'' her little clit in her vagina. This sudden act of mine makes Ming Er makes a low shriek before replaces with soft moaning when my tongue starts licking her clits. Her thigh starts to clamp my head that buried in her crotch. Ming Er uses her hands to support her from bump into the table because the table is not big enough. My hands also start fondling her nipples that become hard erected. After ten minutes, her body starts to wriggle and trembling non-stop. Her thigh''s also clamping my head tighter than before.

    "HuбнhuбнhubbyбнIбнIбнI''mбнcoming!!!"

    With a low shriek, her body shaking heavily and love juices drenched from her vagina. I lift my head from her crotch that no longer clamped with her thigh to see how Ming Er going through with her orgasm. I see her crotch twitching like being electrocuted and liquid leaks from her vagina. When I''m inserted my middle finger into her vagina, her vagina walls quickly squeezing my finger. I move my finger slowly to scratch her vagina walls which make her wriggling again. When I pull my finger from there, it already drenched with fluids from her vagina. I take some tissue papers and wipe my hand with that tissue then wipe her vagina.

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    "Hubbyбн.put yours in mine please"

    Ming Er looks at me with melancholy eyes. I nodded and put down my under pant and reveal my manhood that already erected hard since I''m doing her crotch. I put my manhood tip in front of her vagina entrance. Ming Er legs wrapped my butt and pull me toward her. Her hand also reaches my neck to hug me. Since her vagina already very wet, it''s easy for my manhood to enter it. When my manhood starts to enter, her vagina walls start to massage my manhood and something from her womb like sucking the tip of my manhood. I pull in and out my manhood gently to make Ming Er''s vagina can adapt with its size. After a few minutes finally, I can shove my manhood to its fullest in her vagina. I wrap my hand around her back and pull her from the table. My mouth kisses her small lips to prevent her moan come out. With only her butt that still on the table, I start to thrust my manhood inside her vagina.

    Since our mouth locked together, only splashing sound that made from friction between my manhood and her vagina fluids can be heard in this room, besides music that still played on the CD player. Ming er only can utter ''Hmmph'' voice when she reaches her climax again because her mouth is sealed by my lips. In fifteen minutes we had sex in this position, Ming er already reach climax twice before I lift her from the table and sit in the chair. In this new position, Ming Er can control the pace of movement within her vagina which make her easier to reach her climax again. After ten minutes in this position, together with her fifth climax, I also can''t hold any longer and release my seed into her vagina.

    Ming er also seems exhausted, she leans her head in my shoulder while hugging me tightly. I also hug her while caressing her hair and her back. When I try to pull out my manhood from her vagina, her leg clamping my waist tightly like doesn''t want to let it go from her vagina.

    "Hubbyбн don''t pull it out yetбнI''m enjoying the time when we''re connected like this"

    "Wifeyбнlet''s clean it up first. I can insert it again if you like"

    "Um, if hubby wants toбн"

    I stand up and put her on the table again. I pull out my manhood from her vagina and see how my sperm mixed with her love juices gushes from her vagina like a broken dam. I take the towel to clean my manhood first then wipe clean her vagina from those fluids. After there''re no more fluids leaks from her vagina, I re-inserting my manhood back to her vagina. Ming Er legs clamping my waist again, and her hand stretched open like want me to hug her. I hug her and put Ming Er under my embrace and pull her up from the table. I lay my body in the bed after pulling the quilt to cover our naked body. Ming Er already closes her eyes in my embrace but her lips make a sweet smile. Although Ming Er does not make any movement within my embrace, my manhood that still nesting in her vagina can feel her vagina walls massaging it gently.

    I close my eyes too and try to rest while enjoying the warm body of Ming Er in my embrace. Ming Er herself seems already sleep because her nose making a soft snore and her breath already calm and orderly.

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    When I''d wake up next morning, the day still dark. Ming Er still sleeps peacefully in my embrace, she''s not making much movement when she sleeps, besides with my hug she can''t move anywhere. My manhood already popped out from her vagina because shrinking but regains his vitality again in this morning glory. I touch Ming Er''s vagina and feel it''s still wet although we already finish making love a long time ago. Slowly I inserted my manhood again in her vagina when the tip starts penetrating her vagina, she makes a soft moan but didn''t wake up. I''m pushing my manhood slowly deeper into her vagina inch by inch without makes her wake up, only her breath feels a bit faster.

    Because I do that slowly, take several minutes before my manhood finally inserted fully in her vagina. Ming Er still sleeps although my manhood already nests in her vagina completely, her vagina muscles in its walls start twitching and massaging my manhood. I move it really slowly, afraid fast movement in her vagina will wake her up, but surprisingly it''s not. I keep moving my manhood in this pace and Ming Er vagina start leaking love juice that makes me can move it easier. I''m looking at Ming Er sleeping face, her long eyelash seems moving but her eyes still shut tight. Maybe she has a dream?

    "Hubbyбн..faster"

    Suddenly her mouth is saying that words. Did she just pretend to sleep or really talk in her sleep? But since she asks for that, I''m increasing my pace a bit. Ten minutes moving at this speed, Ming Er body suddenly shuddered and her vagina clasping my manhood tightly like want to squeeze its milk. This squeeze power even stronger than when we make love in her awaken state, make me also can''t hold anymore and release my seeds in her vagina. After that, her body seems calming although her vagina still twitching with my manhood inside. I also try to calming down my breath that becomes faster after this ejaculation. Ming Er still not awake but now there''s a smile on her face. I wonder what kind of dreams she has in her sleep. Since the day still dark, I close my eyes and try to sleep again a little longer.

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    A kiss wakes me up from my sleep. When I open my eyes, I see Ming Er''s face in front of me. She looks fully awake and very happy and still lay on her belly over my body.

    "Good morning hubby"

    "Good morning wifey"

    I kiss her back after reply to her greetings.

    "You look happy wifey, what happens?"

    "Um, nothing, just remember a nice dream that I have last night"

    "Would you tell your husband, what kind of dream you have last night?"

    "Mmm, hubby, do you know? Sometimes the dream is the reflection of our wish or desire in the day that stored in our subconsciousness?"

    "Tell me about that"

    "Well, yesterday I really want to go back to our home andбнandбн"

    "And doing like what we did last night?"

    Ming Er nodded and her face blushing.

    "Alright, and then?"

    "Um, maybe because that''s my wish when I sleep last night I dreaming we already at home and having wild love making there. It feels so real, even when I wake up, it still feels like I was just really doing it. Only when I realize I''m still in my room, I know it''s just a dream"

    I hug her and whisper in her ears

    "Then let''s go home today and make it real, wifey"

    "Um, let''s take the first bus to go home hubby"

    "Yes, we already packing yesterday, we only need to take a bath and say goodbye to father and mother"

    Suddenly there''s a knock in the door and my father in law voice behind the door

    "Ming Er, Son, wake up and get breakfast"

    "In a minute dad, we''ll get there soon"

    "Okay, don''t take too long or the food will get cold"

    "Hubby, let''s get down and have breakfast"

    "How can I get down if you still lay on my chest like this wifey?"

    Ming Er giggling and slide down from my body and leave the bed. Some liquids dripping from her crotch and wetting her thigh when she standing. Ming Er wipes it with her hand and sniffs the smell then frowned.

    "I thought hubby already wiped it last night, but why there''re still some leaks here?"

    "Maybe some residual that hasn''t come out wifey, no big deal"

    I look at Ming Er with innocent looks. Ming Er nodded as a sign she accepts the explanation and takes the towel to wipe it again. After that, she picks up her clothes that scattered on the floor and wear it. I also get down from the bed and put the clothes on. We both go to the bathroom first to wash our face before going to the dining room.

    When we arrive at the dining room, my father, mother, and brother in law already wait for us there.

    "Good morning, father, mother, brother"

    "Good morning son, please take a seat and have breakfast. Try to taste your mother cooking once a while"

    "Thank you father"

    After breakfast over, we said our wish to return to our home today and my parent in law didn''t mind. So after taking a bath and clean up Ming Er''s room, we grab our bag and prepared to go home. Today Ming Er wears causal t-shirt and jeans and braided her hair which makes her look like a teenager girl. Before we leave, my mother in law handed me an envelope.

    "What is this mother?"

    "That''s the gift from village people at your wedding feast. That''s yours, use it wisely and please take care of my daughter, son"

    "I will mother, thank you"

    After giving her a goodbye hug, me and Ming Er leave the house and go to the bus stop to take a bus that will bring us back to our home in He Xing city.

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    The bus that we ride is quite full this morning. No empty seat available after me and Ming Er boarding. Most passengers are people who will work in the city, and we lucky still got two empty seats to sit. Halfway from the destination, the bus is stopping again in the bus stop and an old woman carrying some bags that look heavy get onto the bus. I see other passengers on the bus pretend to sleep or not see who just get in, so I stand up and offer my seat to her.

    "Grandma, please take my seat. You need it more than I am"

    "Thank you, child, it''s rare today to see a youngster that still care for an elder like me"

    I take over her bag and help her to sit in my seat. Ming Er also helps her take care of her bag and put it in baggage.

    "Thanks again youngster, may I know your name?"

    "I''m You Ben, grandma and this my wife Ming Er"

    "Oh, you''re husband and wife? I thought you are brother and sisters since she looks so young. Forgive this old lady, child"

    "It''s alright, grandma. At home, my parent also still call me girl although I already married"

    Although she denied that, the happy look can be seen in Ming Er''s face because someone calls her young.

    "Um, I''m Ning Chen, you can call me grandma Ning. I like to meet interesting youngster like you two"

    After that, she and Ming Er keep talking along the way to the city. Grandma Ning is just visiting her son there and will return to her other son''s house where she currently lives with. She chooses to live there because her son and her daughter in law are working, so she can take care of her grandchild and their house when they working. Her husband already passed away, so she feels accompanied when she has people to talk to.

    When the bus already enters He Xing city, grandma Ning says she will get off at the next bus stop.

    "Child, I will get off at the next bus stop. Thank you for accompanying this elder woman talk"

    I winked to Ming Er as a sign to follow and help with her luggage.

    "Oh, we also get off at the next bus stop grandma Ning. Let us help you with your luggage"

    "Really? This old lady can only say thank you for your kindness"

    "You welcome grandma Ning, we just did what we can do, that''s all"

    So after we get off the bus at the next bus stop, we help grandma Ning carry her luggage to her son house. We stop at a big house around 200m from the bus stop. Grandma Ning knock on the house door and a little girl come up and open the door

    "Grandma!!"

    The little girl sees grandma Ning and runs to hug her. Grandma Ning laugh and hug her back

    "Child, this is my grandchild Ning Xiao Yue, little Yue, give greeting to sister Ming and brother You there"

    "Hello brother You and sister Ming"

    "Hello little Yue"

    Ming Er seems like the kid and she patted her head gently. Grandma Ning invites us to stop by in the house, but we refuse it politely and after dropping her luggage inside, we said goodbye to Grandma Ning and little Yue. We continue our return to our house by walking along the street. Although it''s still a bit far from grandma Ning house, with Ming Er walk by my side, the far distance did not feel far at all, and after walking for twenty minutes, finally, we arrived at our home.

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    After I unlock and open the front door, the dusty smell come out from inside. Although we only left it for two days, my restaurant is located on the busy roadside and many vehicles passing by. No wonder dust already collected even though only two days after we left.

    "Wow hubby, look like we need to work hard clean up again today"

    "Um, you right wifey, let''s share the job. You clean upstairs and I clean downstairs"

    "Okay, but let put our bag first hubby and change clothes"

    We go upstairs and put our bag in our room. The bed is still in a messy condition like when we left two days ago. We laugh when remembering what we''ve done in that bed which make it look messy like that.

    "Hubby, next time we leave home for days, we should leave it clean first"

    "You right, wifey, let''s open the window and make fresh air come, then start cleaning"

    "Um, the faster the better hubby, aren''t we also wanted to look for kitchen ware for the food truck?"

    "Yes, let''s search after lunch later wifey"

    I leave her in the room to unpack her bag and change clothes and go to my own room to open the window there. After putting my bag there and change clothes, I go downstairs to start cleaning there, but before start cleaning, I make some tea first to drink later and put it in the teapot. There''s nothing much to clean in downstairs only wipes some thin dust in the table and use the vacuum cleaner to remove the dust in the floor then mop it. I''m still mopping the floor when Ming Er come downstairs carrying a basket full with dirty laundry. She wants to wash it in the washing machine downstairs. Well, besides dining area, kitchen and counter, there''re some other rooms here, like restroom for the customer, storage room to keep cleaning tools, employee locker and changing room, bedroom for employee resting and bathroom to bath and wash for employee clothes because I put the washing machine there.

    "Hubby, you working hard"

    "You too, wifey"

    We kissing for a while before continuing our work. I still have to clean the restroom and employee locker and bedroom after this. Those rooms actually still locked and never opened after I inherit this previous owner body because so many things happen in a fast way. Maybe this is a suitable time to take a look what inside that room.

    That''s what I''m originally planning to do after finish mopping, but after seeing Ming Er enter the washing room, I''m changing my plan. After finish mopping the floor and return the cleaning tools to the storage, I go to the kitchen to making something for us.

    I scrutinize ingredient that I have in the kitchen to make something to drink. After taking some spices from spices shelf, I put the tea in the teapot into a pan and put it on the stove and light the fire. After that, I pour the milk into the tea, and then I put spices that I took from spices shelf, anise, ginger, and cinnamon and sugar. I boil all those ingredients for some minutes before pulling the pan from stove and turn off the fire. What I made is a drink called Chai tea.

    I pour the tea into two cups and bring it to the washing room for Ming Er, she still busy washing the dirty laundry when I arrive there.

    "Wifey, you must be tired. I bring something to drink for you"

    "Um, thank you, hubby"

    Ming Er accepts the cup from my hand and takes a sip. I also drink the chai in my cup

    "Hubby, what is this drink called?"

    "It''s called Chai tea, wifey. Do you like it?"

    "Um, I like it"

    After saying that she emptied the cup with some gulp.

    After putting the cup down, she gives her comment

    "It''s good drinks hubby, I feel my body become warm. And hubby''s care makes my heart warmer"

    After saying that, she reaches my head and gives me a kiss. We have a passionate kissed for several minutes. I can taste the flavor of chai within her mouth. When we finish kissing, I say to her

    "Wifey, I call this kiss with chai flavor kiss"

    She giggling when hears what I''m saying. I''m pointing at the basket with clothes that already washed

    "These clothes are done? I''ll take them upstairs to dried up if that so"

    "Yes, I''ve washed them, hubby, thank you"

    So I take that clothes and go upstairs to dry them up in our room balcony. After finish drying the clothes, I''m checking how the room after Ming Er cleans it up. It''s all tidy and neat now, bed sheet that we used before already replaced and the floor also already mopped too. I look at my room, it''s also having been tidied and cleaned, and then I go to other room that usually uses to relaxing and watching TV. It''s also already clean up by her, I must praise her swiftness in cleaning and tidying house. I sit on the sofa there and turn on the TV, there''s nothing interesting to see in this hour, so I turn it off. I''m still resting on the sofa when Ming Er''s head shows up at the door

    "Hubby, you''re here?"

    "Um, I''m here wifey, are you done yet with the laundry?"

    "Yup, I already hang the clothes to dry them up in the balcony"

    "You must be tired, come, take a nap and rest together"

    She smiles when hearing my offer. She walks to me and sits on my lap then lean her head in my shoulder. After moving her head several times like searching good spot for rest, finally, she not moves her head again and closes her eyes after wrap her hands around my chest. I also hug her and start caressing her hairs, Ming Er like it very much when I caressing her hair when she''s in my embrace. It proved by only takes some minutes for her to fall asleep within my embrace. I also close my eyes and take rest with her in my embrace. Ah, there''s no place like home indeed.

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    I''m awake when feeling a woman hand caressing my face. When I open my eyes, I see Ming Er in my embrace, smiling at me.

    "Hubby, it''s already afternoon. It''s almost lunchtime"

    When I look at the clock on the wall, the dials show 12.30 pm. It''s almost lunchtime like Ming Er said

    "Um, you''re right, wifey. I''ll go prepare first"

    I let go of my hug on Ming Er so she can stand up from my lap then we both go downstairs to the kitchen together.

    "Do you want to eat something wifey?"

    "I will eat anything hubby made for me"

    "Alright, I will make Dan Dan noodles then, because it can prepare in a short time"

    I start to cook the Dan Dan noodles while Ming Er sits at the counter and watch me cooking. After the noodles ready we eat together at the counter.

    "Hubby, where are we want to go to buy the kitchenware?"

    "Hmm, let''s take a look at a local store first. We go to Hongri Gas Appliance in 008 Country Road to see what kind of gas stove, and cooking equipment they have there, after that we go to Shiwang cookware near Hongri, and then we go to Guanghe electrical appliance repair to ask the technician to fix the water heater in the bathroom. So we can take a bath any time we need with warm water"

    "Um, sound good, especially with the water heather tee hee~. What kind of cooking equipment that hubby want to install in the truck?"

    "Stove, griddles, refrigerators, and dishwasher. At least I need four of this equipment installed in the truck and if possible should be in the same size for space efficiency"

    "we should also buy water dispenser and eating utensils like disposable plate or bowl too hubby"

    "Okay, we also look for that too, what else we need wifey?"

    "I need a laptop and internet connection to start making our promotional site hubby"

    "We go to buy that too"

    And after finishing our lunch, we go to the store riding the bus. Hongri Gas Appliance is the biggest store in He Xing City that sells cooking equipment that mainly using gas for fuel. There are so many choices of equipment that available there. There are also some other cooking appliances that not using gas like a refrigerator or dishwasher.

    So, after looking for quite long time and asking the detail of product that catch our interest to the salesperson, considering the price etc, finally we able to make our choice for the four equipment that I needed in the food truck later. They are:

    Stove: 52886BTU CE with Cabinet 3 Commercial Gas Range Burner TT-WE160B

    Griddles: 1 Burner 30000BTU/hr ETL Commercial Gas Manual Griddle EGG-16S

    Refrigerator: 1230 MM ETL Approved 2 Door Commercial Undercounter Freezer TT-BC364R-2

    Dishwasher: L1800XW700 MM Double Stainless Steel Compartment Commercial Sink TT-BC300C-2

    After taking their picture, Ming Er sends those pictures to her brother to installment after the food truck finishes to modified. From Hongri Gas Appliance store, we go to Shiwang CookWares Store which sells cooking wares from electronics like a blender, mixer, microwave, etc. to cutleries like fork, spoon, and knives.

    Some equipment like blender and mixer I already have in the restaurant. We just buy something like the plastic spoon, water dispenser, and food container and ask the item to be delivered to my restaurant later. From Shiwang Cookwares store, we go to Guanghe electrical appliance repair and request repair service for water heater there. they promised will send a technician to repair it tomorrow. After we left Guanghe electrical appliance repair, we take a walk to find a computer store to buy a laptop for Ming Er, we walk along the street to find computer shop around that street and we find a store that sells computer hardware near a crossroad.

    I let Ming Er choose which laptop she want to buy since I don''t know much about this computer things. Hey, I''m a man from ancient time alright, even though I inherit this body previous owner memory, but it seems the previous owner also not know much about computer. While Ming Er choosing, questioning the salesperson about the laptop she interested, I take a look at the other store around that place. I see a big store near there with sign XIAO XIAO GIFT STORE. I sneak away from the computer store and go to that gift store.

    After entering the store, I''m looking at what kind of goods sold in there. And like the sign, it sells many gift goods like goods for the wedding present, birthday present, etc. there''s also gift goods for the spouse, which catch my interest. I go to that section to take a look. I see an item that would look good for Ming Er, so I ask the salesperson about the price. It''s not too expensive, only 250 yuan, it''s affordable and the goods also in good quality. I buy that item and ask to wrapped in gift paper because I want to give it to Ming Er, as a surprise. After paying the bill and hide the gift among the goods that we buy before, I return to the computer shop to see how Ming Er dealing with the salesperson. Well, she quite persistent when coming to haggle over the price. And when I enter the computer shop, she already made up her mind for a laptop with the pink cover and still haggle the price with the shopkeeper. Finally she able to buy the laptop she wanted with a price around 625 yuan and with subscribing for internet DSL line for 75 yuan per month which total we spend 700 yuan in the computer shop.

    Ming Er looks happy when she gets what she wants and ask me to directly go home after buying that laptop. Since we have no more thing to buy and the day almost dusk, I agree with her request and go home with the bus.

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    When we arrive at home, after taking a bath and change clothes, Ming Er already makes herself busy in front of the laptop she just bought. After register an email address for internet contact address for our new business, she creates some social media account using that email address in YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Line, QQ, Baidu, WeChat and some other social media.

    When I''m preparing ingredient for dinner, she comes to the kitchen with a camera and starts taking pictures of me cooking in the kitchen. Sometimes she put the camera on a tripod and posing together with me on the camera. Even when the food is ready, she still takes pictures of the food and just stops taking the picture when we start to eat dinner.

    "Hubby, from now on, when hubby cooking I will take the picture for our business promotion. And make it look beautiful on the plates too"

    "Okay, no problem, I can put some garnish on the plate"

    "And make various dishes too, hubby"

    "Sure, that''s easy"

    "Um, since we haven''t started our business yet, I''ll put this dinner pictures on my personal account first. When we start our business officially, then I put the pictures there"

    "I leave that to you, wifey. You know what to do"

    After we finish eat dinner and clean up the dishes, Ming Er goes upstairs with her laptop to continue her work while I lock the windows and door, close the curtains, turn off the light that no longer used, before following Ming Er, go upstairs.

    When I enter our room I see Ming Er already change her clothes to one piece sleeping gown. She lay in the bed on her belly with the laptop still on in front of her. She looks like still working on something with the laptop. I feel touched by her hard work and decide to reward her hard work with some massage because we''ve walked a lot today from morning until dusk, which makes her feet tired.

    So I sit near her feet and start massaging her sole.

    "Mmmбнhubbyбнthat''s feel good"

    "You like it?"

    "Um, we walk so much today, from my parent house, escorting grandma Ning, cleaning house, shopping make my feet feel sore and hubby massage it on the right spot"

    Since she enjoys the massage, I keep my work while she also continues her work on the laptop

    Done with her sole, I move to massage her ankle and calves. After massage the calves for a while, I get out to take some massaging oil and smear some on her calf. With the oil, massaging her becomes smoother. The skin on her calves also shines under the light from the oil that I smear before.

    "Mmmбнmy calves no longer feel stiff after hubby massages it"

    "Feels good?"

    "Um, please keep massage, hubby"

    "Okay"

    I keep massaging her calves, Ming Er also still busy typing things on the laptop. Finish with the calves, I move to the upper part, her thigh. I pull her gown up till her butt so it would not be dirtied by the oil I smeared on her thigh. I can see her not wearing any underwear under the gown, which makes me smile because I already imagine we will have another hot night before sleep. But since she''s still busy with her laptop, I let her finish her work first before we have fun together after that.

    Since her thigh is bigger than her calves, I need to use both hands to massage one thigh of her. After smearing some oil, like on her calves, I start massaging it. I start it slowly like rubbing her thigh first, and then applied some power after the oil spread evenly in her thigh.

    I can her soft moan when I rub her upper thigh, it seems my massage in that area arouses her, but still, she hasn''t stopped her work in the laptop yet. So I just continue massaging her thigh until she finishes her work and we can have a romantic time together. After one thigh finishes massaged, I turn into her other thigh and massaging it again like before. Ming Er still hasn''t finished with the laptop when I finish with her other thigh, should I also massage her butt too? Well, because there''s no other part in her leg that I haven''t massaged, so I start to massage her round butt. I pull her gown up to her back, reveal her round meaty butt without any underwear covering it. I smear some oil in that part and start massaging there like kneading the dough.

    While massaging her butt, I try to peek what she doing in her laptop. And this is what I see in the laptop screen,

    ....

    <A Ming> That''s what we eat for dinner this night, look delicious right?

    <A Yun> Um, that looks delicious indeed

    <A Ming> Haha, now stop talking about my husband. Tell about you A Yun.

    <A Yun> What should I tell?

    <A Ming> My brother visit you or not, today? He said he wants to visit you last night

    <A Yun> He did, sis Ming

    <A Ming> And? Tell me the story

    <A Yun> He comes this afternoon to congratulate me on my graduation

    <A Ming> Only that?

    <A Yun> Noбн.he also bring a gift for that

    <A Ming> What gift did he give to you?

    <A Yun> .....

    <A Ming> C''mon A Yun, tell me, what''s his gift?

    <A Yun> Chocolate. See? He still thinks of me as a little girl! (angry icon)

    <A Ming> Argh! My stupid brother! I''ll scold him when I meet him later

    ....

    What! So when I''m busy massaging her, she chatting happily with her friend? I palm face myself after knowing what she doing.

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    Since she so busy chatting with her friend, I must have a way to distract her attention from her laptop to me. I''m doing it by doing more than just massaging her butt. I pour some more oils in her butt cleavage and start to rub that area, including the hole and slit in there. I can see her butt start to wriggle trying to withstand with my stimulation on that area. Her breath also starts to get heavy, but she still stubbornly keeps chatting with her friend although her mouth still moaning. Very well, since her so persistent, I can also be persistent too.

    Because her position makes me unable to lick her clit, I use my hand to stimulate her clit, while inserting my other fingers in her vagina. I rub the clit gently and scratching her vagina walls with my fingers slowly. Her body starts twitching with this stimulation and her moan start to get louder. Once a while, I stop my activities and see her reactions, her butt still twitching unconsciously like trying to keep being rubbed.

    I keep repeating doing this until Ming Er give up with her laptop, turn it off and put it on the table near our bed.

    "Hubby! You must responsible!"

    With quick moves, she already strips her clothes and pouncing at me like a hungry lioness. That''s caught me off guards, which make me fall on the bed with her crawling over my top. I''m unable to utter any words because her lips already sealed my mouth with aggressive invasion. Her tongue dancing and twisting within my mouth, make my tongue only can defend against her tongue attack. While her lips busy with my mouth, her hand is not idly and start unbuttoning my pajamas shirt one by one and after it open wide, her hands are caressing my chest.

    Finish ravaging my mouth, her lips changes her target to my neck and chest. Sometimes she also makes a little biting action, which leaves red bite marks all over my neck. If she bites my artery blood vessel I will start thinking she changes into a vampire. Like what she had done with my neck, she also does the same at my chest. She even licks and sucks the nipple in my chest which makes me wriggle because ticklish and pleasure mixed in the same time. so this is how the feeling when I lick and suck her nipple.

    After satisfied playing with my chest, Ming Er pulls down my pant, revealing my manhood that already stands hard and mighty. But she only strokes it gently for some minutes which make my manhood getting harder and harder. When she feels my manhood already in his hardest state, she stops stroking my manhood and positioning her hip over my crotch. I thought she will immediately insert it into her vagina, but it''s wrong, she only rubs her crotch over my hard manhood. She doing it for some minutes later without seem want to insert it into her vagina, although I feel some liquid start leaking from her vagina. I also can''t longer hold my desire to put my manhood in her vagina.

    "Wifeyбн.please put it inside"

    "MmmбнI haven''t satisfied yet, hubby"

    And she keeps doing that without listening to my plea to insert it in her vagina. It''s seemed she want to take revenge for what I''ve done to her before this. Finally, when my manhood already drenched with his love juices and I already begged several times, she answers my plea

    "Hubbyбнyou want me to put it inside?"

    "Yes wifey, please. I can''t stand any more"

    "But you must keep laying there, hubby, don''t move if I''m not asking you to move"

    "Okayбнokay"

    With a sweet smile on her face, she starts to insert my manhood into her vagina. Slowly my manhood starts to enter her already wet vagina without any delay. I can feel her vagina walls twitching like welcoming my manhood inside. Ming Er do it slowly until all my manhood inserted in her vagina then she stops moving like try to adapting with my manhood

    "Mmmбнhubby''s dick is the best, it feels like fill my vagina to its fullest"

    After saying that she started to move her hip up and down in very slow motion, like enjoying every second when my manhood rubbed her vagina walls. She keeps move it in slow motion which makes me tortured with pleasure. I want to move my hips too but she already asked me not to move, so I have to follow what she wants.

    Because she''s the one who takes control of the speed movement, Ming Er can easily reach her peak several times in that position. But the most irritating me is she seems not let me come because every time I almost ejaculate, she stops her movement and grips my manhood tightly with her hand, which make my seeds that already gathered in the tip cannot be released into her womb. She keeps doing that couple times until she running out of energy to move her body. While leaning her body over my chest and panting heavily, she whispered,

    "Hubby, you can move as you like now"

    Her words like gasoline poured into my flaming body. With a move, I turn our position which makes me become over her body, I start to pump her faster because I can''t no longer hold my urge to release my seed that already halted several times. And within minutes finally, I reach my peak and ejaculate in her vagina. After being halted several times, this ejaculation feels very pleasing. Like something that being captives for years finally find its freedom. With a howl, I release my last shoot before laying down beside her. And as usual, we''re always cuddling after doing that.

 47 The Birth Marks

    While cuddling in my chest, Ming Er''s hand rubbing my cheek, then Ming Er asking me

    "Hubby, are you angry with me?"

    "No, not at all. Why should I angry?"

    "Really?"

    Her eyes stare at me like want to see if I''m saying the truth or lie

    "Alright, I''m angry a little because you chatting too long"

    Ming Er giggling when she hears my answer. She pecks my lips after that

    "Um, that''s my lovely and honest hubby"

    "Are you angry because I''m interrupting your chat?"

    "No, not at all"

    "Really? Look at me in the eyes"

    My eyes stare at Ming Er like want to see if she''s saying the truth or lie.

    She blushing when I look at her eyes sharply, with a low voice she answering

    "I''m a bit angry. But not because hubby interrupts my chatting, but because when I start feeling good, hubby suddenly stop it"

    "But you also doing that when we having sex just now"

    She giggling again when hears that.

    "Then let''s make we''re even with that hubby. Do you dislike it?"

    "Hmmбн.not really. It''s like have a new experience in sex. Let''s say it''s like spices in the cooking"

    When we have an intimate conversation, I notice something in her chest. Something that I missed to notice although I''ve already seen her bare chest many times. It''s not too clear and only can be seen faintly which make me not notice it.It''s a white mark like giant rice grain in her chest, unconsciously I rub that part in her chest.

    ''Hubby, what''s up?"

    Ming Er asks me because my eyes staring at her chest and my hand also rub it when we still have a conversation.

    "This marksбн.what is this?"

    "Um, because hubby suddenly asks, make me remember that. I don''t know what this mark, maybe like birthmark is. I already ask the doctor about that but she said that''s nothing wrong with that skin. Maybe lack some pigment or something like that in that area. When I''m still a kid that mark even clearer than today, I also wonder why it becomes faintly seen now"

    Well, I must ask that because in my memory, when Ming Er was stabbed with a sword by those royal guards, that place is where the sword piercing her chest through her back. And this birthmark looks like a sword scars in my eyes. If there''s also the same marks in her back, I will completely sure, this Ming Er in front of me is Ming Er''s reincarnation from the past me.

    "Wifey, can you turn your back? I want to hug you from behind"

    "Um okay, it''s rare hubby to ask something like that. But I don''t mind being a hug from behind thou"

    Ming Er smiles and kisses me first before turn her back. When I examine her back, there''s an also similar mark although smaller in her back. The mark located in a place where the sword piercing her back through her chest. I rub that part to make sure that''s not my illusion. After confirming that is a birthmark and not something attached to the skin, I hug Ming Er tightly like have found something that has been lost for a long time. This action makes Ming Er wriggling under my hug and asks me why I''m doing that

    "Hubby, why you suddenly hug me tightly like this? Is there anything happen?"

    "Um, no. Nothing happens, just suddenly I feel like I don''t want to let you go from my hug"

    "Mmmmбнsilly hubby, I will always by your side hubby. I''m not going anywhere"

    "StillбнI''m feeling comfortable when feeling you in my hug"

    "I''m feeling the same hubbyбнit''s so peacefulбнlike there''s nothing else I need in the world"

    "Um, then let me always hug you wifey"

    "Please do so, hubby"

    This birthmark confirms my feeling that she''s the same Ming Er that I married in the past. Although she does not remember her past, I can understand that. It''s already a couple millennium passed, maybe her memory also faded as the time goes by. The most important thing is she with me again now.

    We sleep in hugging position and still hugging each other when we wake up in the next morning.

 48 Registering Business

    Next morning when I wake up, Ming Er still lying in my embrace, I feel so refreshed and peaceful today. I kiss her back and whisper in her ears to check if she already wakes up or not.

    "Wifey, are you already awake?"

    "Um, yes hubby, but I want to stay longer under your embrace like this"

    "Okay, I also want to do the same"

    So we stay like this for a while until Ming Er start talking

    "Hubby, what''s your plan today?"

    "We have a technician to repair the water heater today, so I can''t go out before the technician come"

    "If the technician come early and we still have time, I want to go to the Department of Industry and Trade to register our new business, hubby"

    "Alright, if we had time to go there. Anything else?"

    "I''ll design the logo and layout for the food truck while waiting for the technician to come"

    "Um okay. Wifey, don''t you want to go to the doctor to check our baby?"

    I ask her while rubbing her belly gently

    "Um, I just remember that. I haven''t checked it at all after getting pregnant. Hubby, can you accompany me to the doctor?"

    "Sure, we can go in the afternoon"

    "Mmm, thanks hubby"

    "You welcome, wifey"

    After that, we get up from the bed, go to the bathroom and bath together, and do another round again in the bathroom because we get aroused when rubbing each other body. Finish taking bath and wearing clothes, I''m going downstairs to prepare breakfast while Ming Er cleans up our room from the remains of last night romance.

    Since I haven''t prepared anything for breakfast last night, I decided to use leftover from the last night. There is some rice in the rice cooker, but not other dish remains. So the only available menu for breakfast is fried rice. To make a simple fried rice is quite easy, what you need to prepare is:

    1 egg,1 tablespoon water,1 tablespoon butter,1 tablespoon vegetable oil,1 onion, chopped,2 cups cooked white rice, cold,2 tablespoons soy sauce,1 teaspoon ground black pepper,1 cup cooked, chopped chicken meat.

    The cooking direction also quite simple,

    In a small bowl, beat egg with water. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add egg and leave flat for 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from skillet and cut into shreds.

    Heat oil in the same skillet; add onion and saute until soft. Then add rice, soy sauce, pepper, and chicken. Stir fry together for about 5 minutes, then stir in egg. Serve hot.

    This simple fried rice is done with 15 minutes of cooking. When I''m still cooking, Ming Er comes from the upstairs with the laundry in her hand and go to the washing room to wash them.

    "Hubby, what you cook?"

    "Just a simple fried rice, not worthy to take pictures because everyone can make it"

    "Um, I will put this laundry in washing machine first then I''ll go to the kitchen"

    "Sure, take your time"

    When I finish cooking and move the fried rice to the plates, Ming Er comes from the washing room.

    "Hubby, you''re done?"

    "Yes, let''s eat together while it''s still hot"

    We eat breakfast together while discussing our plan again for today. At ten o''clock, a technician from Guanghe electrical appliance repairs coming and check our water heater. After he checking, there''s a part that broken and must be replaced, luckily he also brings the spare part for that broken part, so he can installed and repairing the water heater can be done within the day. Finish repairing, checking if the water heater functional, and after all was okay, the technician give the bill, we pay him and he returns to his office. The repairing water heater only took one hour, so I and Ming Er still have time to go to the Department of Industry and Trade in the city hall to register our business.

    We take a bus to go to the city hall after preparing all the necessary form that we need to register a business. With Ming Er advice to re-register my restaurant under the new name, we will register two business unit, food truck, and restaurant, although I don''t know when this restaurant will be open but at least we already have a permit to open the business.

    There''s no trouble at all when we register our business at Department of Industry and Trade. They''re very welcoming for every new business that opened in He Xing city. Well, with more business that''s mean there will be more tax income for them too. After filling the form and submit all necessary item needed to register a business, we told to wait for another day while our application processed in the Department of Industry and Trade.

    We are done with our business in the Department of Industry and Trade just when lunch time arrived. I ask Ming Er if she wants to eat outside or go home and eat at home. She prefers the later

    "After eating hubby cooking, other people cooking taste only so-so in my mouth"

    That''s what she said when refusing to eat outside. So we return to our home to eat lunch.

 49 Business logo

    After arriving at the home, we immediately prepare ingredients for lunch. Since it''s already lunch time, I will make another easy and fast to serve the dish. I already make some rice in the rice cooker before we left home to the Department of Industry and Trade, I only need to prepare some dish to accompany the rice. My choice goes to a dish called Honey Mustard Pork Chops, and to make that dish s quite simple. All I need is :

    1/4 cup honey,2 tablespoons prepared yellow mustard,1 tablespoon butter, Garlic powder for taste,1 1/2 pounds center-cut boneless pork chops - 1/2-inch thick

    The process to cook this also not too complicated, and within 30 minutes it''s all done.

    Mix honey and mustard together in a bowl until thoroughly combined.

    Heat butter in a skillet over medium-high heat and lay pork chops into the hot butter. Sprinkle chops with half the garlic powder and cook until browned, about 3 minutes. Turn chops over, sprinkle with remaining garlic powder, and pan-fry chops for 3 more minutes.

    Brush honey mustard sauce over chops, turn them over, and cook for 5 minutes; turn chops onto other side and brush with honey mustard sauce. Cook until chops are no longer pink inside and an instant-read meat, about 5 more minutes.

    Ming Er comes to the kitchen with her camera, and start to take pictures before we eat.

    "Hubby, what is this dish called?"

    "Honey Mustard Pork Chop. I make it special for you, there''s sweet flavor from honey and sour flavor from mustard"

    "Um, hubby really knows what I''m like. Let''s eat hubby, I''m already hungry"

    "Yes, here''s your bowl wifey, eat until you full for our baby too"

    Ming Er smiles sweetly when hearing the words ''our baby'', she timidly accepts the bowl and eats it neatly. After one bowl emptied, she handed her bowl for another serving

    "Hubby, one more, please. This pork chop is too delicious, the sweetness from the honey and sourness from mustard can mix elegantly with the crispiness of the pork meat"

    "Sure, here''s the second serving"

    Watch my wife eat so happily make my heart also feel happy. There''s no more happiness to see someone you love so much look happy, especially when she eats something that you made for her.

    When the lunch is over, we wash the dishes together and after that Ming Er returns to her laptop. She wants to make some logo design for our business and will be painted in our food truck too. After working on her laptop for some time, she calls me for my opinion for the logo

    "Hubby, take a look for these logos, which one do you like?"

    She turns her laptop and shows me several images on the screen. They are the good logo and I having trouble which one is suitable and good for our business. Finally, I make up my mind on a logo that resembles a child but having wings on his back carrying fork and spoon in his hand.

    "Wifey, they all good make me hard to decide, but I choose this one, little child with the wings, it looks cute"

    "That''s Cupid, hubby"

    "Cupid? What is that?"

    "A deity in Roman mythology who delivers love for a couple. In this logo, I want to give the message that we give our love in our cooking"

    "Good meaning. I like that logo"

    "Um, I also think hubby will like this one too"

    I kiss her forehead as a token of appreciation for her work.

    "Wifey, for this afternoon agenda, where will we check our baby? We go to the clinic or hospital?"

    "How about Guanghan Maternity & Children Health Hospital, hubby? It''s a big hospital and I think we can get information about how to keep our baby safe and healthy during pregnancy.

    "Okay, let''s go there when the day is not too hot later"

    "Um, I also want to send this logo to my brother. He will give to the workshop that working our food truck to paint it on the truck walls"

    "Okay, I also prepare something for dinner later"

    So, we busy with our own job. My wife busy with the business thing while I''m preparing something to cook for dinner.

 50 At the Hospital

    While preparing ingredients for dinner, I remember a dish that quite tasty but need a long time to prepare called Char Siu. So while preparing the dinner, I also prepare the ingredient to make Char Siu.

    Easy char siu with hoisin sauce

    Ingredients

    ? 600g pork butt (tenderloin and pork belly can also work)

    ? 2 tbsp. hoisin sauce

    ? 2 tbsp. light soy sauce

    ? 1 tbsp. oyster sauce

    ? 1 tbsp. Chinese cooking wine or rose wine

    ? 1 tbsp. honey

    ? ? tsp. Chinese five spice powder

    ? 2 garlic, sliced

    ? 1 thumb ginger, sliced

    Brushing ingredients:

    ? 1 tbsp. honey

    ? ? tbsp. previously made char siu sauce

    ? ? tbsp. hot water

    ? sesame oil for brushing (optional)

    Cooking Instructions:

    1. Firstly, poke some small holes in the pork butt so it can absorb the flavor better and cut into 2 cm wide and 4 cm thick long strips. Set aside and drain.

    2. In a large bowl, mix hoisin sauce, cooking wine, honey, light soy sauce, oyster sauce and Chinese five spice. Give a big stir-fry to combine well.

    3. Add garlic and ginger and pour the Char Siu sauce over the meat or you can use a bag. Turn over for 2-3 times during the marinating process. Keep in fridge for 24 to 48 hours.

    4. Pre-heat oven to 200-degree C (around 400-degrees F)

    5. Before baking, add around ? tablespoon of warm water and ? tablespoon of char siu sauce with 1 tablespoon of honey. Combine well.

    6. Place the pork on grill and with a layered baking tray. Brush the honey water on both sides.

    7. Place on middle track and back for 10 minutes. And re-brush the honey mixture on both sides again.

    8. Roast again on middle track for another 10 minutes. If you want to harden the surface, move the grill to up track and roast for another 2 minutes.

    9. Transfer out and brush some sesame oil on the surface. Cool down for 3-4 minutes and cut into slices.

    It''s the marinating process that took a long time before the dish can be served, so my preparation stops at the third step. But with this preparation, I can serve this dish two days later for my wife.

    The clock already shows the time is 3.00 pm, it''s time for us to go to the hospital for checking.

    "Wifey, it''s about time to go"

    "Yes, hubby. I''ll go to change first"

    Ming Er goes upstairs to change her dress, and after waiting for ten minutes she goes downstairs wearing a long dress, she only applies light make up on her face.

    "Hubby, let''s go"

    We take a taxi to go to the hospital. It took twenty minutes to arrive at the hospital. And after filling the registration, we''re given queue number to wait our turn get an examination. Ming Er especially asks for a female doctor to examine her. While waiting our turn, I ask her why she asks for a female doctor

    "Wifey, why you ask for a female doctor to examine you?"

    "Ehmmбнhubby, I don''t want other men to touch my body except for hubby. Moreover, if that related to my private part"

    "Um, I glad you think that way wifey, by the way, if anyone asks how long we''ve been married just say we already married for a couple months, okay?"

    "Hubby, whyбн..ah, I understand. Thanks, hubby"

    Ming Er looks at me with grateful eyes, well, she understands if she said we just married for a week but she already pregnant for two months that would make people thinking something negatives.

    "You don''t have to thank me wifey, it''s your husband duty to protect your dignity"

    "Um, I''m happy to marry you hubby. It''s still some time before our turn, want to listen to music?"

    "Okay"

    Ming Er put an earphone in her handphone and play the music that saved on her phone. She put one plug in her ear and another plug in my ear. We listen to music together and Ming er lean her head in my shoulder while listening to the music. I don''t realize there''re several envious looks from some women that also waiting their turn in there. We still listening to the music until a nurse call us for our examination turn

    "Mr. and Mrs. You, please come to the examination room"

 51 Examination

    We enter the examination room and meet with the doctor who will do the examination to my wife. The doctor is a female around 33 years old ages, with the name Lin Xia, she looks kind and friendly. And after take some record of my wife health history, taking the pulse, she invites my wife to sit at a chair that usually used by a gynecologist. She pulls the curtains so I can see what kind of examination she doing to my wife, all I can do is wait patiently until the examination over. After examination over, she opens the curtain and returns to her desk, my wife also return to sit by my side.

    After taking a note of the examination that she just conduct to my wife, Dr. Lin explains to us the result.

    "Mr. and Mrs. You, how long you''ve been married?"

    "Couple months, doc"

    "So this is your first child, right? Congratulation"

    "Thanks, doc, and what is the result from the examination?"

    "Mr. You, your wife in healthy condition, nothing to worry about. Actually, it would better if she had MR vaccine to prevent meningitis and rubella disease before her pregnancy, but as long as you both can keep life in healthy conditions, that should not be worried"

    "Did she need any vaccine during her pregnancy doc?"

    "You can take Tdap vaccine when her pregnancy reaches 7-8 months. Another kind of vaccine is not necessary and if possible should be avoided to prevent any bad effect for the fetus"

    "Is there any medicine she can''t take during pregnancy doc?"

    "I suggest your wife did not take any chemical medicine during pregnancy Mr. You because more or less that medicine will cause an effect for the fetus. Medicine with amoxicillin substance, for example, will make your child''s teeth have yellow colors"

    "Is there any other advice to keep our baby healthy doc?"

    "Do you have a pet in the house, Mr. You?"

    "No, we didn''t doc"

    "That''s better if you have a cat as a pet and it not always kept at homes, I suggest to keep it away until your child born because the cat can spread Toxoplasma virus to your wife, which can cause a miscarriage"

    "I understand doc, lucky we don''t have any pet at home. How about the diet?"

    "For the fetus development, it would require protein and amino acids and DHA in sufficient amount to make the baby develop well during pregnancy. Just eat a balanced diet with meat, vegetables, and fruits in the daily meal"

    I feel satisfied with the thing that Dr. Lin explain to us, but Ming Er seems to want to ask more to her without me around

    "Hubby, I have something to consult with Dr. Lin alone, can you wait for me outside?"

    "Oh, okay. I already ask what I want to know anyway"

    So I left Ming Er alone with Dr. Lin to consult her problem. Seeing me leave Ming Er, make Dr. Lin smile because she understand my wife want to talk something personal, and after I left the examination room, she asks Ming Er

    "Mrs. You, you have something to ask to me without your husband present?"

    "Yes, Dr. Lin, I feel shy if my husband hear what I''m going to ask"

    Dr. Lin only smile hearing what Ming Er said, she already becomes a doctor for six years and has meeting patient with various attitude, she not surprised with Ming Er request

    "Don''t worry Mrs. You, your husband will not know what we talking here, please say what''s in your mind"

    "Um, Dr. Linбн.during my pregnancyбнI think my body become easily aroused latelyбнis that normal?"

    Dr. Lin chuckled when hearing what Ming Er ask, it''s not unusual things that happen during pregnancy, and she already faces this problem asked by a young woman many times.

    "It''s normal Mrs. You, for three first month of pregnancy, your body makes preparation to make your body ready to carry a baby. There''re changes in hormones within your body, especially female hormones. There''s nothing to worried about that unless your husband feel not comfortable with that and that will cause a phycological burden for the wife. Did your husband complains about that?"

    "No, doc. He''s not complaining at all, on the contrary, he also enjoys it"

    Ming Er explains it with a blushing face. Dr. Lin smiles when looking at it.

    "So, in other words, you and your husband have regular sex, right?"

    "Um, every night doc. Is that alright for my baby? Is it not harming my pregnancy?"

    "If it''s normal sex, that it''s alright Mrs. You, but when your pregnancy getting older, I suggest you reduce the sex activity"

    "Um, I understand doc, I also want to ask about my husband ''thing''"

    "Oh? What''s about him? Need some medicine to make him last longer?"

    Dr. Lin chuckled, this thing is also not something new for her. Many of her female patients ask her medicine to make their husband last longer when having sex with them.

    "Not like that Dr. Lin, My husband quite strong in the bed. It''s about his size, I''m afraid when he''s shoved his thing deep inside my vagina that would cause harm for my baby"

    Dr. Lin eyebrow twitching, this is the first time she encounters such issue.

    "Mrs. You, may I know what your husband thing''s size is?"

    "Um, I never measure it doc, but maybe this long without the tip"

    Ming Er stacked her fist together to give a rough measurement for doctor Lin. Doctor Lin when seeing the rough size gulped her saliva and lick her lips before saying something.

    "ErrбнMrs. You, do you feel any pain when he shoves his thing deep inside your?"

    "Ehm, no doc, actually it''s feels very good"

    Ming Er face become blushing again when answering that

    Dr. Lin gulped her saliva again before speaking

    "As long as you do not feel pain or experiencing bleeding, I guess it''s alright Mrs. You, but like I said before when your pregnancy getting older, besides reduces the activity, also try not shove it too deep inside. Just for precautions only. I''ll prescribe you some vitamins to strengthen your womb"

    "Um, thanks for the explanation doc, I guess I don''t have a question any more"

    After receiving the medicine prescription from Dr. Lin, Ming Er left the examination room and meet me outside. Leave Dr. Lin in her room with a bit dazed look

    "Two fists stacked, how long is that?"

    Dr. Lin takes a ruler from her desk and grips the ruler with two hands stacked on the ruler. When she looks at the numberбн

    "Gosh! At least 7 inches long! What a lucky girl to have such a husband, I wonder how it feels"

    Dr. Lin still dazed after knowing the size and unconsciously rubbed her crotch until one of the nurses come in and ask her

    "Doctor Lin, can I call the next patient?"

    "Ah? Yes, please call the next patient"

    With this nurse awaken her, Dr. Lin returns to her former condition as a doctor and start taking another patient after us.

 52 Helper

    I see Ming Er come out from the examination room with a happy face. It looks like the consultation with Dr. Lin goes well and nothing bothers her mind again.

    "Wifey, are you done with the doctor?"

    "Yes, let''s go home hubby. I just want to get home quickly"

    "Oh? Okay. Let take a taxi then to go home"

    Although I''m a bit confused with her behavior since she only wants to get home, I don''t think that as something out of ordinary. So we take a taxi and go home ride the taxi. Along the way to home, Ming Er did not say much but she clinging at me like doesn''t want to separate even an inch away.

    When we arrive at our home, we get off from the taxi, pay the bill and get into the house. The taxi driver only smiling when he sees Ming Er clinging at me, he raises his thumb at me when receiving the money. I just smile wryly as the response, because Ming Er rarely clings to me like this outside the house.

    After we get into the house and lock the door, the first thing she does is grab my head and give me a passionate kiss.

    "Wifey, what happens? You look so excited after we return from the hospital. Any good news?"

    "No, I just feel happy everything is fine. I only want to eat right now"

    "If you let loose your hug at me, I can start cook for dinner right now"

    Ming Er closing her lips to my ears and whispering,

    "I want to eat hubby"

    I''m grinning when hearing what Ming Er said. It''s a code for us to have love activity.

    "Okay, let''s go upstairs and to our room"

    "Hubby, I just change the bed sheet"

    "Thenбнwhere you want to do wifey"

    "I also want to test the water heater"

    Ming Er speaks that while blinking her beautiful eyes.

    "Good idea, we can also take a bath too"

    So we go to upstairs and directly enter the bathroom. While waiting for the bathtub to fill with water, we take a shower first while doing kissing, rubbing, and petting. One of my favorites is fondling her breast when we take a bath together

    "Wifey, your breast seems larger than usual?"

    "Um, Dr. Lin said it was related with my body preparing for the baby"

    "Do you need to buy a new bra?"

    "Not, for now, hubby, I guess the old one still fit in my breast"

    "Hmm, alright. Just let me know if you need to buy a new one"

    "hubby, let''s enter the bathtub, it almost full with water"

    Ming Er drag me to immediately enter the bath up. Laying in the bathtub full with warm water really relaxing, it''s like my muscles become no longer stiff. Ming Er following enter the bathtub after that and start to ride me. It''s quite different doing it on the cold water and warm water, because more relaxing, we can do it longer than usual. While we doing that, I ask Ming Er what make her so excited like this

    "Wifey, what dr. Lin did to you? You look excited"

    With blushing face, Ming Er answer it

    "She put something like duck beak in my vagina and that tool makes her can see inside the vagina. When it inserted it feels like hubby thing inserted in my, so I want to feel the real one right away"

    "Which one feel better? That tool or mine?"

    "Of course hubby''s thing!"

    After that, we no longer speaking because Ming Er already kisses my lips that make me can speak anymore. When we finish doing that while leaning in my chest Ming Er asking something that I never thought before

    "Hubby, do you have someone you can count on to help you cooking?"

    "It''s you, wifey, aren''t you always help me right now?"

    "Um, I mean before hubby meets me. You know when my belly getting bigger I might not be able to help hubby effectively like right now"

    I''m speechless when hearing that. That''s right, I should start thinking about that from now because 5 - 6 months later, it''s impossible for Ming Er to moves freely with her belly bulging big.

    "You right wifey, I should think about that. Thanks for reminding me about that"

    "Do you have anyone in your mind hubby?"

    I try to dig the memory of the previous owner of this body. He has restaurant must also have some people help him running this restaurant, it''s impossible to run the restaurant alone. Finally, some names come up and I pick the most familiar with the previous owner

    "I have some, wifey, do you want to contact them now?"

    "Um, who is he?"

    "That man name is Zhao Yan, he''s my assistant when my restaurant still running. He also the last person who left the restaurant when it became rundown"

    "Looks like loyal and reliable person. Contact him when our food truck finish hubby, if he interesting work again with you, offer him to help us running the food truck together"

    "Alright, I''ll do that"

    "Hubby, I''m hungry nowбнCan we eat?"

    "Aren''t you just eat me?"

    "Hubby! this time eat something real for our baby"

    "HahahaбнI''m just joking. Alright, let get out from the bathtub, it''s already getting cold anyway"

    We get out of the bathroom and go downstairs to eat dinner after dried up our body and put some clothes on. Ming Er''s reminder to find a helper also becomes my priority before start operating the food truck business.

 53 Documentation

    When I arrive at the kitchen, I open the refrigerator to see if my Char Sui ready to serve or not, unfortunately, it still some more times before it can be served. That''s tonight I must cook something else for dinner. I remember Dr. Lin advice to give my wife enough nutrients for her baby development. I remember the source for omega-3 which will become DHA mostly found in fish fats. So for tonight dinner menu, I decided to cook some fish dish.

    "Wifey, do you like the fish dish?"

    "Um, I like fish. The first fish dish that hubby cook when we married I also still remember the taste"

    "Ah, right but this time I will cook something different"

    "Okay, I believe in hubby''s hand all fish can turn into delicious dish"

    "Um, just wait for a while. It''s simple and easy to make the fish dish"

    I take some salmon fillet from the refrigerator and melt it before I can cook them. I already have something in my mind on how to cook them. It''s a dish that I called Crispy Salmon with Ginger Soy Sauce

    Ingredients for this dish is not much and easy to get at the nearby supermarket

    ? 2 pieces SizzleFish salmon fillet

    ? Sea salt

    ? 3 tablespoons olive oil

    ? 4 cloves garlic

    ? 2 teaspoons minced ginger

    ? 2 green onion, chopped

    ? 2 teaspoons light soy sauce, or tamari for gluten-free (or to taste)

    Cooking Instructions :

    1. Check salmon carefully. Use a paring knife to scale the salmon (if any scales remain) and use a pair of fish tweezers to remove pin bones (if necessary). Thoroughly pat dry salmon with the paper towel.

    2. Lightly season the skin side of the salmon with sea salt.

    3. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot.

    4. Place one piece of salmon into the skillet, skin side down. Immediately use a spatula to push the salmon against the skillet and turn to medium-low heat. Let cook for 1 minute without moving your spatula. Continue cooking and move spatula around the salmon to press the fillet firmly and thoroughly, 2 to 3 minutes. When the shape of the skin is set, you can add the second piece of salmon and cook with the same method. Cook salmon until the skin is nicely browned and crispy, and the flesh is mostly cooked through. It takes 6 to 8 minutes, depending on the thickness of the salmon. Flip and cook the other side until just cooked, 1 minute or less.

    5. Transfer fish to serving plate, skin side up.

    6. Add 1 teaspoon minced ginger and half the chopped green onion onto each piece of fish.

    7. Return the skillet to the stove. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil and garlic. Cook over medium heat until the oil is hot and the garlic is slightly charred on the edges.

    8. Remove the skillet from stove and drizzle half of the hot oil and garlic onto each piece of fish. You should hear a nice sizzling. Immediately drizzle 1 teaspoon light soy sauce onto each piece of fish while the oil is still hot.

    9. Serve immediately as a main dish.

    With only 10-15 minutes to cook this dish, I don''t make Ming Er waiting too long.

    "Wifey, here''s the dish for dinner"

    "Um, it looks delicious hubby, let''s eat"

    After praying we start to eat our dinner, of course, Ming Er takes the pictures of the dish first as usual for her social media account. Ming Er eats this fish dish like a glutton, only take a few minutes to empty her bowl and ask for the second serving.

    "Is this dish taste good wifey?"

    "Um, delicious. Crispiness from the fish''s skin mixed the sweetness of soy sauce combined with the warm feeling from the ginger make a good composition. Hubby, I like this fish dish very much"

    "I''ll make another fish dish tomorrow night if you like it. Fish also good for our baby too"

    "Mmm, my hubby is the best"

    After finish eats our dinner, wash the utensils, and lock the door, windows then close the curtains, and we go upstairs for rest. Before sleep, Ming Er uploading our dinner picture first in her social media account. After finish with her social media account, as usual, she changes her dress into a sleeping gown. But after taking off her clothes, she didn''t wear the sleeping gown, instead, she asking me that already laying on the bed waiting for her

    "Hubby, when my belly will start getting bigger?"

    She asking me while rubbing her still flat belly. I, who never have children before can''t answer her question.

    "I don''t know wifey, 3 or 4 months of pregnancy maybe?

    "Um, I also don''t know. Hubby, I decided to make documentation of my pregnancy. Help me posing hubby"

    After asking me that, Ming Er is preparing the camera on the tripod. I rise up from the bed and approaching her.

    "What should I help?"

    "Help me cover my breast hubby. I want to make my naked picture to compare my belly from month to month. Maybe when our child grow up later I can show her when I''m carrying her in my belly"

    "Hmm, okay, that''s sound good"

    "Stand here hubby, I want to make sure the angle is right"

    After saying that Ming Er goes to the camera and set the camera''s angle by using me as the object. After setting the timer, she runs toward me and asks me to be ready

    "Hubby, cover my breast while I cover my crotch"

    I cupped my hand over her breast to make it covered from the camera while Ming Er''s hand covers her lower part. After that, she asks me to do the same but the picture will be taken from the right and left side. The picture taking already over after taking the picture from the front left and right side, but my hand still in Ming Er''s breast and fondle it.

    "Mmmбнhubby, let me take care the camera fist, okay"

    I let go of my hand from her breast and let Ming Er take care of the camera and return it to its place in the drawer. After that Ming Er, still wearing nothing, goes to the bed and laying there.

    "Hubbyбнwhat do you waiting for? Your dish is ready here"

    I''m grinning hearing her invitation, without waiting her say twice I jump to the bed to eat my ''special'' dish. That night ended with special supper as usual like the previous night.

 54 Waitress Uniform

    Next morning, when I wake up, I see Ming Er still sleep and cuddling in my chest as usual. Her face show satisfied smile on her lips. Well, with ''special supper'' last night I guess she feels happy and comfortable with her current condition. It''s quite different from when I first time sees her in my restaurant. She looks desperate, tired, hopeless and shows no vitality. But now, seeing her smile make she looks opposite different from our first meet. With that smile, I can''t help but give her a gentle kiss on her forehead.

    Today I have no special plan to do. I only wait for the food truck ready and after that, I will start to busy. So maybe today is only to practice and choosing what menu I should use in the food truck. I already set my mind for two dishes. One dish with rice and one dish of noodles menu, the other two dish is a side dish for meat and vegetables. Fried rice is one dish I prepared for the menu, it''s easy to make and many people like it, as the noodles too. I just try to think any variations for this fried rice and noodles menu. People will get bored if they eat the same menu every day, a variation is a must if I want to get many customers later.

    When I''m still thinking about the menu, Ming Er is wake up and open her eyes.

    "Hubbyбн.good morning"

    "Good morning wifey, how are you today?"

    "Um, I feel good. I always have good sleep in hubby embrace"

    After saying that she kisses me as usually we give each other a good morning kiss.

    "Hubby, what''s your plan today?"

    "Nothing special, I just preparing the dish for food truck I guess. How about you? Do you need to go somewhere?"

    "Umбнlet me seeбн.we have registered our businessбнwe already pick the truck for our businessбнI already make the socmed account to support our businessбнwe already see the doctor for the babyбн.we also already shopping for the food truck equipmentбнhmmmбнbasically, we already did what we need to do hubby unless you want to go to the market, I guess I will accompany hubby thereбнif not I guess I just want to cuddle in hubby''s chest like this for the whole day"

    "Hahahaбн Don''t you need to take a bath and eat?"

    I laugh with Ming Er wishful thinking while poking her nose. If I can, I will choose like her too, but we have life, need something and that won''t come with we only lying in the bed like this.

    "Um, but that can be done later"

    After saying that, Ming Er tightening her hugs in my chest. If she already like this, it''s hard to remove her hand from there, so I just let her hug me and hug her back while caressing her hair.

    "At least you can say what you want to eat for breakfast wifey"

    "I want to eat hubby"

    She said that while giggling.

    "Hahaбнseriously. Aren''t you eat me enough last night?"

    "Um, didn''t I always eat whatever hubby cook for me? And I''m serious want to eat hubby"

    She looks at me with a mischievous smile.

    "Alright, let''s take a bath first. We smell with our sweat"

    "Um, carry me there"

    Ming Er wrapping her hands around my neck and ask me to carry her to the bathroom, and I know she won''t let her hand go from there. So I have to carry her to the bathroom to take a bath. After a long bath, with eating episode inside, finally, I can start the day. After wearing a polo shirt and casual pants I go downstairs to prepare breakfast. I check the refrigerator and take some char siu from there to make a side dish. I plan to make a fried rice with char siu as the side dish. After wearing the apron, I start to cook.

    The first thing to do is pre-heat oven to 200-degree C (around 400-degree F)

    Before baking, add around ? tablespoon of warm water and ? tablespoon of char siu sauce with 1 tablespoon of honey. Combine well.

    Place the pork on grill and with a layered baking tray. Brush the honey water on both sides.

    Place on middle track and back for 10 minutes. And re-brush the honey mixture on both sides again.

    Roast again on middle track for another 10 minutes. If you want to harden the surface, move the grill to up track and roast for another 2 minutes.

    Transfer out and brush some sesame oil on the surface. Cool down for 3-4 minutes and cut into slices.

    When I''m still busy cooking, Ming Er comes from upstairs. She wearing the bathrobe and carrying some laundry in the basket. She directly goes to the washing room to do some laundry and after that accompany me in the kitchen

    "Hubby, what do you cook?"

    "Fried rice with char siu"

    "Mmmбнsmell goods"

    "Wifey, why you still wearing the bathrobe?"

    "Oh, there''s nobody else in here right? At least I''m not naked in here hihihi"

    I''m just shaking my head with her carefree attitude. Ming Er herself not worry about that why should I''m the one who worries. She just sits leisurely at the counter, eating some dumpling that I''ve fried before, but she suddenly asks me something.

    "Hubby, what is that room?"

    She''s pointing at the employee changing room that still locked.

    "Oh, that changing room for the employee. Since I don''t have any employee, I lock it"

    "Can I see what inside?"

    "Sure, the keys in the cashier drawer"

    Ming Er leaves her seat and goes to cashier table to take the key. With that key, she opens the door and looks inside. When she comes out, she''s already wearing my restaurant''s waitress uniform that I kept in there. By walking while swaying her hips like a model, she shows me her body in that uniform.

    "Hubby! How do I look?"

    I stunned when looking at her with that uniform. She looks cute with that and if I don''t know that''s my restaurant uniform, maybe I already think she''s a cosplayer instead.

    "Youбн.You look great"

    "Tee hee~ I''m lucky I find a set that fits with my size. Hubby, can I wear this when our food truck start on the business?"

    "Um okay. You look good on that uniform. Come to eat, it''s ready"

    Ming Er returns to the counter to have breakfast together with me.

 55 Unexpected Gues

    We having breakfast in a good mood while talking about the uniform that Ming Er currently wears.

    "Hubby, your waitress uniform is good and nice to wear. Where do you buy it?"

    "Ah, I''m not buying that. It''s my ex-wife who designs it for me"

    According to previous owner memory, it''s his wife who designs and makes that uniform. It seems his ex-wife have some talents in fashion. I also must praise her good work, her design looks good on Ming Er.

    "UmбнHubbyбнdid she still even contact you after your divorce?"

    "No, we have no contact after that. Why? Are you jealous of her?"

    Ming Er only blushing and her hand starts to pinching my body. Wow, she''s jealous!

    "But you also have talent in drawing wifey, I like your logo for our business"

    "Really?"

    "Of course, why should I lie to you?"

    Ming Er look happy with my praise and stop her pinching, instead, she handed me her empty bowl

    "One more please hubby, with white rice, please. I want to taste this char siu with white rice"

    "Okay, don''t worry, I still have more in the fridge"

    Watching my wife eat a lot and happily like that make me happy too.

    "So, is it good with white rice?"

    "Um, yes. But if this char siu marinated a little longer the taste will be stronger"

    "I just test how it tastes if marinated for one day. Just as you said, it will be better if marinated for two days"

    "But this is good enough hubby, it''s tasty, people will still like it even though only marinated for one day"

    "Do you think this can be sold in the food truck?"

    "I think we can hubby, the aroma from the grilled meat will attract people too"

    "Um, you got a point there. Okay, I will add char siu as a special dish"

    We talking about the dish for the food truck until we finish eating breakfast. When we''re washing eating utensils, there''s bell sound from the front door.

    "Who is that hubby? Do you have an appointment with someone?"

    "No, I don''t. Lets me see who coming, wifey"

    We walk to the front door and open it to see who comes, and our guest isбн.

    "Brother He!...and Sister Yun?"

    The one who comes to visit is my brother in law Shao He and he coming with Ming Er''s friend I meet in her village, Yun Xie.

    "Hahahaбнsorry, we visiting without notice you first"

    "No, it''s okay. I''m glad brother He comes to visit us, please come inside"

    I invite them to come into my house. When Ming Er see who''s coming, she looks happy

    "Brother! A Yun!"

    She runs to them and gives A Yun a hug. Both girls do as most girls doing when meeting their old friend like kiss their cheek.

    "Please take a seat brother He, you''re really a surprise for us. What brings you here with sister Yun?"

    My brother in law takes a seat at the nearest table and we follow him to sit in there and after that our conversation begins.

    "I just want to go to the city to buy the kitchen equipment, Yun Xie want to come along to see your place, so I take her together"

    "Um, when I hear brother He wants to go to the city I ask him to take me too"

    "A Yun, you should tell me before so we can prepare something to you"

    "Ah right, brother He, Sister Yun, did you have breakfast already? If you haven''t get breakfast, please eat here"

    "I already take breakfast but only a little because I''m in hurry"

    "I haven''t, brother You. Brother He tells me he will go in the morning and I just hurriedly follow him"

    "So, let''s eat breakfast here. I will cook something for you two. Wifey, accompany them okay"

    I go to the kitchen and open the refrigerator to take more char siu from there. Since it''s already prepared, not take a long time to make it ready and served for my brother in law and A Yun.

    "Here''s the breakfast, we also just eat this menu for breakfast just now"

    "Hmm, smells good"

    "Brother You, is this char siu?"

    "Um, yes. This is char siu, please take a taste of it, or do you want to eat this with fried rice? I still have some"

    "Um, just let me finish this bowl first brother You"

    They both eat my cooking happily just like when Ming Er eat that this morning. Seeing this view, I feel my pride as a chef raise a bit.

 56 Our food truck

    After they finish having breakfast, Ming Er served them with tea and we have a talk again

    "Brother He, you come here to buy cooking equipment?"

    "Yes that''s right"

    "Is that mean the truck ready?"

    "Not really, I just take the truck from the workshop after checking the condition and maintenance of the engine. That''s used truck, so I need to check if there''s something wrong with the truck"

    "Um, I understand brother"

    "The reason I buy the equipment is when the truck finishes modified, that equipment can be directly installed on the truck. I even bring the truck for a test drive here and saving delivery expenses... hehehe"

    "The truck is here?"

    "Yup. I park that on the other side of the road. You can see it from the window over there"

    "Wow, let''s see our truck, hubby"

    I and Ming Er going to the window to see the truck my brother in law mention. Across the street, there''s a truck parking there.

    "Brother He, is that the truck?"

    "Yes, there she is. Want to see from the closer look? Father also has me to deliver fresh vegetables to you. They at the truck cargo box"

    "Really? Let get the goods and see the truck"

    We leave the restaurant and go to where the truck parked. Brother He opens the cargo box and starts unloading vegetables from there.

    "Whoaбнthat a lot of vegetable bro!"

    "HahaбнIt''s already what can''t be kept in our storage. The harvest is good recently"

    "Alright, when you finish buying equipment, stop by again brother. I''ll cook some of this vegetables for father and mother"

    "Okay, why not. They will love it"

    We unloading the vegetables and moved to the restaurant. After the vegetables finished moving into my restaurant, my brother in law says goodbye to go to the cooking equipment shop to buy equipment that will installed in the food truck. He said after he finished buying the stuff, he will stop by in my restaurant and also to pick up A Yun that stay in here to talk with my wife.

    "Okay brother You, I leave A Yun here and will pick her up later when I''m done with shopping"

    "Alright, take your time brother, don''t worry, you''ll return with delicious food from my kitchen later"

    "HahahaбнI''m waiting for that"

    After that my brother in law, get into the truck and drive it to the equipment shop. I return to the restaurant while thinking about what kind of dish I should make with so many vegetables there. After looking the vegetables that available there and see so many tomatoes, I decide to make two dishes with them, the first dish is Tomato and egg stir-fry (xi hong shi chao ji dan) and the other is Stir-Fried Cauliflower with Tomato Sauce

    The first dish is quite simple, easy and fast to make. The ingredients I need to make that dish are:

    INGREDIENTS (FOR 2 SERVINGS)

    ? 1 and 1/2 tablespoons peanut oil (or vegetable oil)

    ? 4 eggs, beaten

    ? 2 big tomatoes, chopped

    ? 3 cloves garlic, chopped (about 1 tablespoon)

    ? 1 teaspoon salt

    ? 1 tablespoon granular sugar

    ? (optional) chopped green onion for garnish

    ? Steamed rice to serve with

    COOKING INSTRUCTIONS

    1. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a medium-sized skillet over medium-high heat. When the oil is ready, add egg and cook until the bottom side is done, but the top is still raw about 30 seconds. Stir with a spatula, chopping the egg into bite-sized pieces, until egg is just cooked. Turn to lowest heat, transfer egg to a plate, and set aside.

    2. Add the remaining 1/2 tablespoon of oil and the garlic and turn back to medium-high heat. Stir the garlic a few times until fragrant. Add tomato and stir-fry until the edges are slightly charred and texture becomes soft about 1 minute. Add egg back into skillet and spread salt and sugar on top of it. Quickly mix everything together will a spatula until evenly seasoned.

    3. Serve warm over steamed rice.

    And for the second dish, the ingredients I need to make it are:

    INGREDIENTS (FOR TWO SERVING)

    ? 300 grams long stem cauliflower florets (from 1/2 large cauliflower)

    ? 1 tablespoon peanut oil (or vegetable oil)

    ? 1 tomato, chopped

    ? 2 cloves garlic, sliced

    ? 2 tablespoons tomato paste

    ? 2 teaspoons sugar

    ? 1/2 teaspoon salt

    ? Prepare a large bowl of water and set aside.

    ? Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add cauliflower and boil for 2 minutes, until the stem is half cooked, without getting too tender. Turn off heat and immediately transfer cauliflower to the bowl of water to cool down. This will stop the cauliflower from continuing to cook and help it stay crisp. Drain cauliflower with a colander.

    ? Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until warm, about 1 minute. Add tomato and garlic, stirring constantly. Chop tomato with a spatula while stirring, until tomato turns into a paste and the liquid is evaporated about 5 minutes. Add tomato paste and mix well. Add sugar accordingly to adjust the flavor of the sauce

    ? Add cauliflower back into skillet and carefully use a spatula to scoop sauce from the bottom over cauliflower. Keep mixing everything together, until cauliflower is soaked with tomato sauce, and extra liquid from cauliflower is evaporated about 5 minutes. Sprinkle salt on top and mix well with the spatula again. Adjust flavor by adding more sugar if needed.

    ? Transfer cauliflower with sauce to a plate and serve warm.

    After cook this two dishes, I''m going to the storage room to take some food containers to pack them for my parents in law. What makes me surprised, when I return to the kitchen that dishes already gone!

 57 Recruiting

    When I looking at the table where Ming Er and A Yun seating, I see those dishes already moved there and Ming Er smile mischievously to me.

    "Sorry hubbyбнthe smells are too good. We can''t hold our appetite to taste it first"

    After saying that, she uses the fork to pick some of the tomatoes in the dish and put into her mouth. A Yun also following her action and they keep talking about their stuff. I just shake my head and start to cook again to replace the dishes that already taken by Ming Er. While cooking, of course, I can hear what they talking about although not entirely clear

    "So, how''s my brother relation with you now, A Yun?"

    "Mmmбнis getting better. After that visit with chocolate, he also visits me again with a different gift"

    "Heheбнif I''m not scolding him, he''ll never learn how to give a gift to a woman. So, what he brings as a gift after that?"

    "Errrбн.he give me some snacks"

    "What!?!? Can''t he bring flowers or perfume or something that girls like? I need to scold him again later"

    "It''s okay sister Ming. That snacks he brought is something he bought when he''s on the road, driving the truck. That makes me happy enough that he thinks about me when working"

    "Hmmpбнalright if you don''t mind with that"

    "Sister Ming, what clothes you''re wearing now? Is this your husband''s restaurant uniform?"

    "Um, that''s right. How am I look?"

    "Looks good. I see this kind of uniform only at some maid cafиж in Japan from the internet"

    "Tee hee~ really?"

    "Um, that uniform will attract many male customers if they see you"

    "Ughбнlower your voice. If my husband heard, he maybe will not let me wear this when working"

    "Wowбн.really? He''s a jealous person?"

    "OF course, he really loves me. How can he let other men look at me with lustful eyes?"

    "Oh, I so envy at you sister Ming. To have such a loving and caring husband"

    "Heheбн.that''s true. He''s like someone that Godsend to me. I will never let any women steal him from me"

    "Aw, that''s so rare to see sister Ming so protective over someone"

    "Um, I never really love someone like I love my husband now"

    "Aren''t you ever having a boyfriend when you were at high school?"

    "Meh, they far below if compared with my husband now"

    "TskбнI hope your brother can be as good as him, sister Ming"

    "HahahaбнI can''t guarantee that A Yun, but I can guarantee that he''s a good man"

    "Yea rightбнhe''s your brother after all"

    "Isn''t he ask you to come along with him today? That''s already a good sign"

    "Um, if he''s not asking me to come along, I can''t eat this delicious dish here"

    "Ah right, if you like my husband cooking, why not you work with us, A Yun?"

    "Huh, me? But I don''t know much about cooking, sister Ming"

    "Leave the cooking thing for my husband. You help us in advertising and serving the customer. You know, if I''m pregnant and my belly gets bigger, it''s hard to help my husband doing his business. I need someone I can trust to help my husband doing the business. With you, I can rest easy because I know you will not steal my husband"

    "Can I think about that first?"

    "Sure, you still have not given up looking for a job, aren''t you?"

    "Well, I don''t want to waste my education for nothing, besides my parents will happy if I''m working on a company"

    "Um, I understand that, but I tell you, our business will be flourish and give you better pay later than what an advertising company can give. I believe my husband can do that"

    "Oh, don''t misunderstand sister Ming. The salary is not the main issue for work, if possible I''m looking for a job in a place that gave me comfortable feeling"

    "I see. My brother will also work with us thouбнare you sure you need time to think?"

    "Errбн.really?"

    "Of course. My husband can''t drive the truck yet. Who else will drive the truck? Besides, you can eat delicious food every dayбн..where else can give their employee such delicious food every day?"

    "Hahahaбнyou got me there sister Ming. Alright, I''ve sent some application for work before, if none called me to work there, I will work with you then"

    "Deal. Let''s eat more A Yun, there''s plenty of food there if you want for more"

    Both girls are toasting their glass to celebrate their cooperation in the future. I just shake my head when knowing how smart my wife in convincing other people to work for her. Well, at least we have an employee for the business in the future.

 58 Vegetables Tempura

    Besides the two dishes which I already cook before, I also add one more dish to my brother in law to carry when he returns later. Since we have a lot of vegetables, I decide to make a vegan dish today. This time I want to try something that not from China cuisine, my choice go for a dish from Japan, vegetables tempura. It''s the same with tempura which using fish or other seafood, I just replace the filling with vegetables. Because the vegetables are ready, all I need to do is preparing the batter for tempura.

    For the tempura batter (8-10 servings), I mix 100 g plain flour, a bit salt, and 2 tablespoon potato starch together. After those ingredient mixed, I separated from the rest. Then I crack the egg into the bowl and beat the egg roughly until the white of egg and yolk mixed after that I add one cup water into the egg bowl and stir the mixture until they mixed evenly. Then I put one-third of the mixed flour into egg mixture and stir it gently using a fork. After all mix together, I add another one-third mixed flour again and stir until mixed with egg mixture. When it already mixed together, I add the last one-third mixed flour and mixed it again until between egg and flour all mixed together.

    For the vegetables, I use mix sliced vegetables (zucchini, onions, eggplants, carrots, bell peppers, sweet potatoes, string beans, broccoli, wild mushrooms, fresh herbs, and bok choy). After all prepared, I start to cook them.

    Deep fry vegetables in a wok or deep fat fryer until the batter is light golden in color and crisp. Turn the vegetables at intervals to ensure that both sides are cooked equally and then fish them out with a slotted spoon, shaking off any excess oil.

    After putting all the dishes that I already cook in the food container, my cooking work is over. I take the leftover tempura on the plate and bring it to the table where Ming Er and A Yun still talking

    "Ladies, this is another dish I just make, please have a taste"

    "Hubby, what is this?"

    "It''s vegetable tempura"

    "Um, look delicious. Hubby, come to sit with us. I can''t make my hubby left alone when I''m with my friend"

    I take a seat and sit beside Ming Er. Just when I put my butt on the chair, Ming Er already grabs my arm and show her intimacy in front of her friend. Well, she seems to like to show off her husband in front of her friend.

    "Sister Yun, don''t just look, please take a bite of this tempura"

    I offer A Yun to taste the tempura since she looks a bit hesitate with I''m around Ming Er. Before A Yun takes a bite, Ming Er already uses her fork to pick one piece of tempura and put it on her mouth. Did she jealous because I offer her friend first?

    "Hubbyбн.this is good, so crispy in my mouth"

    After hearing what Ming Er said, A Yun also immediately take one piece of tempura and bite it.

    "Umбнtrue, brother You, this is good. If you sell this to the vegetarian people, this going to be hot sales"

    "Really? I''ll think about that"

    After that the conversation no longer stiff and flow smoothly until my brother in law return from buying cooking equipment. When he enters the restaurant I offer him to stay a while and have something to eat or drink first.

    "Brother He, would you like something to eat or drink first?"

    "Ah, sorry brother You, I must get that truck to modification workshop so they can start changing the truck into the food truck and install the equipment. I just pick up A Yun and back to the village after that"

    "I see. Then please bring this food that I already cook for father and mother"

    "Wow, this much?"

    I give brother He a lot of food container. He seems surprised when knowing the amount.

    "I also cook for A Yun and her parent too"

    "For me too? Thanks, brother You"

    A Yun looks happy when I also give her some of my cooking. After putting those foods into the truck, my brother in law and A Yun bid goodbye to us and enter the truck to going back to the village. I and Ming Er watch the truck until they no longer in our sight and then we return to our house.

 59 Deciding menu and selling poin

    After the truck that driven by my brother in law disappears from our sight, we return to our house. We clean the utensils that used to cook the dish and also plates that I used to serve Ming Er and A Yun.

    "Hubby, after our food truck done from its modification, we''re ready for business"

    "Yes, wifey. You happy about that?"

    "Um, working together with the person I love always make me happy"

    "How sweet is thatбнhere''s the rewards"

    I grab her slim waist and give her a passionate kiss. We kissed for several minutes before letting go each other lips.

    "Wifey, are you taking A Yun to work with us too?"

    "Um, if she always closes with my brother I hope they will marry one day later. Besides, I want people I can trust to work with my beloved husband"

    "Hahahaбнare you jealous if I work with other women, hmm?"

    "Of course I will jealous, my husband is my only man in the world. I will not any other woman steal you from me"

    "Mmmбнyou should not worry about that my beloved wife, you''re the only woman I love in this world. I''m willing to wait a thousand years only to be with you"

    Well, I really wait thousand years before I can be with her again, so basically I''m not lying to her right?

    "Oh, hubbyбн.that really touch my heart. When you say you willing to wait thousand years, somehow my heart feel warm when hearing it"

    I give her a hug to confirm her my feeling, Ming Er also hugs me tightly like won''t let me go from her arms. We hugging each other for couple minutes before Ming Er start talking again

    "Hubbyбн."

    "Yes, wifey?"

    "Do you believe reincarnation?"

    "I don''t knowбнhow about you?"

    "I don''t believe that. I believe after people die their soul goes to heaven. But I''m starting to think and feel that if that reincarnation really happens, maybe in the past we also husband and wife"

    "Hmmбнwhat in the past, let it be the past. Even we are husband and wife in the past, aren''t we also husband and wife now? And our happiness in the future, isn''t that what are we looking for?"

    "Um, hubby rightбнour happiness in the futureбнit should we fighting for from now"

    "Yes, that''s right. Let''s work hard for our future and our child too, wifey"

    "Thanks, hubby. Until our food truck is done, what are we going to do from now?"

    "Ah, let''s decide on the menu first then thinking the sales area. We need to plan where we will going to sell our food to the people"

    "Wait, I get my laptop and check on the internet about the place around here that has many people gathering"

    "Okay"

    Ming Er goes upstairs to take her laptop and after she returns with her laptop, we start to search any places that have a potential customer for our food truck.

    "Hubby, if we just sell our food in our town, there are not many places where people gathering. We should also think to sell in nearby town too"

    "Um, but aren''t we should also see the customer response first for our food truck?"

    "Right, but if we are not spread our coverage, only people around He Xing town know about our food truck"

    "Any good place to get customer around here?"

    "Oh, there''s some good place around here. Sanxingdui Museum, for example, there must be a lot visitor there especially in weekend and holidays"

    "Hmm, that''s good. And that place still around here, in Guanghan not far from He Xing"

    "If necessary we can sell our food in Chengdu city hubby, is not far from Guanghan, only 40 kilometers away"

    "HmmбнBaoguang Temple and Chengdu panda base also a good place to sell our food"

    "Yes, hubby right. There''s 1st ring road that connected that places with our city. Isn''t that great hubby?"

    "Um, but can we sell food there? Are we not get trouble with authorities there?"

    "Hihi...hubby, we have the permit from the department of trade and industry, there''s should be no problem with that"

    "We should copy that permit and bring along with the food truck just in case"

    "Ah yes, hubby right. If we bring that it would lessen any trouble later"

    "And how about the menu? Are we going with a fixed menu or change the menu every day?"

    "If we change the menu every day, the customer who impressed with yesterday menu and wants to buy again will be disappointed, but if we not changing the menu, the customer will be bored"

    "Let''s change the fixed menu every 2 days, and special menu change every day"

    "Um, that''s sound good. How many menus that hubby already made for this food truck?"

    "Let''s see. I''ve made Sweet Sour chicken when we just married, Dan Dan noodles, Beijing Kouya roll, xiaolongbao, fuqi feipian, Crispy Salmon with Ginger Soy Sauce, Gan Bian Si Ji Dou, meringues for your friends, the one I just made now, and what else?"

    "Hubby, let''s make with something regular first, like fried rice and noodles first, with some special dish on certain days"

    "Alright, we can change the fried rice ingredient somehow, like Monday is chicken fried rice, Tuesday is seafood fried rice etc"

    "That''s good too hubby until our food truck done, let me see your other creation then. Something that you haven''t made before. Something that cheap but delicious"

    "No problem. So, how much we going to sell our food?"

    "Mmmбн.as long as we sell cheaper than that Bao chain restaurant, I''m sure we will have many customers, hubby. How about promotion price for the first time? we can adjust the price later?"

    "Sure, but how much?"

    "Regular menu 30 yuan each and special menu 40 yuan, on promotion price we give 5 yuan discount. How about that?"

    "Good! That''s an affordable price I guess. I can''t wait until our truck is done"

    "Mmmбн.i can see hubby passion in cooking. When I saw hubby cooking in the kitchen, somehow my heart feel warm. It''s a lovely view in my eyes"

    Hearing what Ming Er said is make my heart also feel warm. In my previous life, my wife also always accompany me in the kitchen when I''m cooking, sometimes she also helps me prepare the ingredient. I feel grateful to have the second chance to be with my wife again in the second life of mine.

 60 The truck is done

    For several days later, all I have to do is cooking the dish that will be sold in the food truck. Ming Er always becomes the taste tester. I tried some new recipes and some combination of fried rice like what I''ve suggested before. The result is not disappointing, Ming Er said that my cooking is good, just like what served in the five-star restaurant.

    Besides cooking for our restaurant menu, my time is spent checking places that potential for our selling point. Tourism object, places where people gathering, checking how other food business doing in that places, try to have the relationship with food seller in that places too. Well, I don''t want to see as a person who takes other people income thou. With that checking, I can compare how much food they give for one serving, the price and of course, the taste too.

    Since we get married the next day after we met the first time, these activities can be considered as having a date with Ming Er. Walking together on the pedestrian walk, holding each other hand, buy food on the peddler and eat it together, and discussing the food that we just eat together, about the taste, the price, the serving, the looks, etc.

    I also learn in this era, usually, people who just get married go on honeymoon to exotic places. But when I ask Ming Er if she wants to have honeymoon like other people, she gives me a sweet answer,

    "Hubby, each minute that I spend with you is already like a honeymoon. I don''t need to go anywhere, all I need is to be on your side"

    After hearing her answer, my heart feels warm and I secretly promise to take her on vacation to some exotic place when our business is steady and prosperous.

    Exactly one week after my brother in law bring the truck to our place, in the morning, he called Ming Er on the phone and tell that he about to take the truck from the modification workshop today. He asking if he should deliver the truck directly to our restaurant or we want to see the truck in the village

    "Hubby! Brother He said that the food truck will finish today. He asks if the truck should send here or we wait in my parent village?"

    "Let''s wait in your parent village, besides it''s been a while after our visit to your parent. We can also take fresh vegetables from there and I can learn how to drive a truck in there too"

    "Um, I''m preparing our bag then"

    "Don''t bring too many clothes. We only spend one or two days there"

    "No, I won''t. We still have some clothes left there, hubby"

    So, we take the bus and go to Ming Er''s parent village once again and wait the food truck arrive there. My parent in law looks happy when see us coming, especially my father in law who demand me to cook for lunch today.

    "Son, I''m glad you visit us again. The taste of that food that Shao He brought from your house is still lingering in my mouth. Today I want to feel that taste again, it''s not a hard request, right?"

    "No problem father, I''ll make that for today''s lunch"

    "Very goodбнyou can use any vegetables in the storage. You know the place, right?"

    "Sure, don''t worry father, I will not get lost in here"

    "Hahahaбнyou know how to make jokes too, son"

    Since my father in law wants to eat the dish that I''d send here last week, I just take the ingredient I need from storage and start cooking, while Ming Er takes the time to talk with her mother. Maybe she wants to tell her mother about her pregnancy progress. Well, I let them have their own private times together, besides, the dish that I prepared is not too complicated to make.

    Our lunch is merry as usual like when we visit Ming Er parent last time, only brother Shao He is not back at lunchtime. Maybe he still in the workshop, checking our food truck before brings it back to the village. And just when we finish our lunch, there''s a honking sound from outside the house. We all go outside to see what happened there.

    In front of the house, a white truck is parking there. Brother Shao He sits on the driver seat with a wide smile on his face.

    "Hey, brother You! Your food truck is done. I could bring it back sooner but I must check it first before taking it back to the village. Check it out, tell me if there''s something that not suit you"

    "Thanks, bro, why don''t you get some lunch first? There''s still some food left for you on the dining room"

    "Really? Then I go eat first. You take time looking on your truck"

    "Hubby! Let''s see it!"

    Ming Er seems to get impatient to see our food truck. Brother Shao left the truck cabin and handed me the truck keys. Besides the ignition key, there are some other keys on the key holder. Maybe those keys are keys for the cargo box.

    "Alright wifey, let''s take a look the outer part first"

    We walk circling the truck to see it looks. On both sides of the cargo box, there are written in the big letter ''Youming Delicious food'' with our logo attached there.

    "Wifey, our truck looks good"

    "Um. Looks sturdy and able to go for thousand miles. Please help us make a living, truck san"

    Ming Er said while patting the truck body. I smile when hearing what she said. Well, she not saying something wrong thou. This truck will be our mean to get income, we will depend on him to bring us selling the food everywhere. I have a great expectation with this truck for our future, my future, my wife future, and my child future.

 61 Inspecting the truck

    Satisfied with the exterior looks of our food truck, we start to look at the interior of the truck. The front cabin is like an ordinary truck with steering, brake, gas and transmission gears. It also equipped it radio and disc player to play music. When Ming Er tries the horn, there''s another tone available in the truck. Like what usually installed on an ice cream truck, it also makes melodious sounds.

    "Hubby, the horn is good"

    "Hahaбнyeah. It''s can use for the reminder that our food truck is coming and ready to sell the food"

    "Brother He is great, he knows what the truck needed"

    "Um, we must thank him for that"

    My brother in law come out from the house, he seems already finish eating his lunch. With a wide smile, he looks on us

    "Sister, do you like that horn sound?"

    "Um, I like it very much. It''s really cool bro"

    "HahaбнI''m glad you like it. I special order it and customize the sound. Alright, let me show the other part of this food truck then"

    We follow brother He to the back part of the truck cabin. In there, brother He explains something for us

    "Behind this truck cabin is where the water tank stored. It has 100l water capacity for cooking or washing. Is that enough?"

    "Oh, that is more than enough brother, we use disposable plates so maybe we will not need much water for washing. Only to cleaning the cooking utensil maybe"

    "Sure, now let me show the interior part in the cargo box"

    We follow brother He that acts as a guide and show us how this food truck has been changed after the modification.

    "Now, this side part of the cargo box will become the front side of your shop"

    Brother He opens the cover on the right side part of the truck, put the holder and take a plate down.Revealing a counter type storefront.

    "Do you like it, brother You?"

    "Wow, it looks like a mini store. Perfect!"

    "Yup, you can put the finished order in this counter and also put additional sauces bottles too, like ketchup sauce, chili sauce or vinegar. People''s taste is very various, right?"

    "Yes, you''re right brother He. You remind me of something important"

    "Okay, let''s see another place"

    We move to the rear part where the entrance of the cargo box located

    "Look what happens when I open this door"

    Brother He opens the back door slowly while giving a clue that there''s something coming when the door is open. And a folded foot stepper is slowly coming out from the truck chassis like a ladder.

    "This cargo box is a little high, so I put this folded ladder that coming out when the door is open and fold back to the truck chassis when the door is closed"

    Brother Shao He closes the door slowly and the foot stepper is retracted back to its previous place.

    "That''s really convenient brother He, you really have knowledge about truck after all"

    "Hahaбн.that''s the exterior modification. Now let''s look on the interior"

    He opens the door again, and foot stepper coming out again. We use that to enter the cargo box. When I see the interior part of this cargo box, I almost hold my breath because surprised. It''s really like a small kitchen with cooking equipment placed in a neat row within the cargo box. I''m checking the cooking equipment one by one, start for the stove by trying to ignite the fire and see the blue fire coming out from the stove, until to the washer sink. When I turn on the water tap on the sink, there''s water flowing from there. Also, all the cooking equipment already reinforced with bolt on their legs, makes them fixed on the floor and not moving around following the truck movement

    "Is there anything else that you still needed on this part, brother You?"

    "No, all I need is already here. Brother He, you do the incredible thing on this truck. I can start doing business right away with this truck!"

    "Glad to hear that. Oh right, do you see the truck''s floor?"

    When brother He is asking that, I take a look on the truck floor that I stepped have small holes like a sieve.

    "Oh? What is this brother?"

    "I order special floor type that if you accidentally spill water or broth on the floor, the water will immediately go to disposal channel. You don''t have to worry that water will remains on the floor. Make you easier to clean up things"

    "Thank s brother, you really full of consideration. Right, what is that disposal channel? Is there where the water from washer sink goes?"

    "That''s right, it goes to certain disposal tube that attached to the truck. Let''s go out, and I show you that tube. You need water hose to connected the disposal tube to a sewer or drainage hole"

    We get out from the cargo box and brother He shows me a tube on the corner of the truck that leaking some water. That water must be from the water on the sink that I just test a moment ago.

    "That''s the tube, brother You. You see the water that leaks from there? To keep your truck surrounding clean you need to attach a hose to that tube and connect the other side of the hose on the sewer or drainage. Or put a bucket over there"

    "I get that brother He, you already think about the cleanliness aspect of this food truck, that''s great"

    "HahaбнI don''t want you to get trouble for littering later, brother You"

    "Hahaбнthank you"

    Ming Er that leave us a moment ago already return with her camera. She handed the camera to brother He and said

    "Brother, take our picture together with this truck as background please?"

    "Sure, no problem"

    We make many pictures together with the food truck as the background. In front of the truck, on the side truck, in the rear side and also inside the cabin and cargo box. We also make many poses on each place, holding the hand, hold each other shoulder, hugging each other and many more. The last picture taken is using a tripod with me, Ming Er, brother Shao He, and her parent together in front of the truck.

 62 Learn how to drive

    In the afternoon, me, Ming Er and brother Shao He, ride the truck to the open clearing ground in the outskirt of the village. Why are we going there? It''s to let me learn how to drive a truck of course. Compared with the traffic in the city and the village, there are fewer vehicles and people in the village, that make safer for me to learn how to drive. It would be funny if when I''m learning to drive a truck and accidentally hit other car or people. I wouldn''t be able to use my food truck and must be dealing with the police.

    Driving a truck is something that completely new to me. Even when I''m searching on the memories of the previous owner of the body, I still can''t find any recollection about him driving a car. So basically, I learn how to drive from zero. It''s obviously different with horse cart in the ancient time that only need to hold the reins and whip if need to accelerate the cart speed. Luckily, my brother in law is patient enough to explain from the beginning.

    He''s showing me first parts that involved in driving a truck, the steering, the brake, the gas, transmission clutch, light button, sign lamp button, wiper, etc. After explaining one by one the function of each part and make sure I remember it well, he goes the next step, which is how to ignite the engine and how to keep the engine running. His lecture goes together with the demonstration, but he prohibits me to touch anything yet. This somehow makes me how already itchy to try driving a little bit irritating.

    "Hubby, don''t be hasty. You need to learn the basics first. Driving truck is different from driving a car, the difficulty and risk also higher than driving a car. Pay attention to what my brother said, okay?"

    It seems Ming Er notice me getting impatient, what an attentive wife she is.

    "Huh? How do you know?"

    "I love to look at your face hubby, to the extent that I can read your feeling that showed on your expressionбнhihihi"

    "Oh really? Tell me, what I feel right now when I look at you?"

    I look at her with full of compassion, I look at her red lips that always wet which always make me want to kiss it.

    "I thinkбнhubby wants to kiss meбн"

    "Ugh, how do you know?"

    "Easyбн.your eyes stare on my lips. And if hubby looks my lips with that kind of look, usually hubby will end with kissing me"

    "Correct, let me finish it then"

    After saying that, I peck her red lips which make my brother in law only can shake his head

    "You twoбнget a room please?"

    "Hihihiбнbrother, you can do that with A Yun. Marry her if you want to do more than that"

    "You silly girlбнI''m in the middle of teaching your husband how to drive a truck. Maybe it would better if you not in here"

    "No! Don''t do that that bro. I will quiet now"

    After that short intermezzo, my brother in law continues to teach me how to drive a truck until he gives me chance to practice.

    "Alright, now it''s time to get the feeling how to drive a truck. You sit on the driver seat now, start from beginning slowly. Sis put your seat belt on"

    So I start my practice in driving a truck after that. It begins with igniting the engine, get accustomed with the truck vibrations before my brother in law give me the order, to begin with, transmission gear and the gas pedal.

    Don''t expect it will go smoothly, it was my first time driving experience. The truck goes forward slowly in the stiffly way.

    "Easyбн.use your feeling on your feet when to step on the gas pedal"

    My brother in law keeps supervise me during my driving truck and always give the advice to do driving correctly. The practice continues until dusk come and time for us to return home. This time it''s my brother in law who drive the truck on the way back

    After parking the truck on the yard, we enter the house to take a bath and preparing dinner. Tomorrow we will be practicing again until I can understand the basic skill to drive a truck.

 63 A night in village again

    For tonight dinner, I cook fish as a request from my mother in law. Maybe she wants to eat fish after hearing what Ming Er eat at our wedding night. She already buys a big fish for that purpose. Since Ming Er also want to eat that dish again, so I make that dish for dinner menu tonight.

    It''s mandarin fish that I made once in our wedding night, but this time I want to make a variation of this dish. Also, the fish that I used this time is different from my previous squirrel mandarin fish. Also, this time I use more spices and ingredients compared with when I cook the previous mandarin fish.

    The ingredient that I used are:

    2 lbs whole pickerel

    salt and pepper, to taste

    2 Tbsp + 1 tsp potato starch

    2 eggs

    2 tsp flour

    3 tsp canola oil

    1/2 tsp minced garlic

    2 tsp chopped onion

    2 tsp chopped red and green pepper

    2 tsp salt

    1 tsp cooking wine

    1/2 cup chicken broth

    1 tsp white vinegar

    3 tsp sugar

    2 tsp ketchup

    a few drops of sesame oil

    2 tsp pine nuts

    The cooking method is :

    1. Clean off fish scales and guts. Fillet the fish with skin on, leaving the collarbone attached.

    2. Place the fillets skin side down. Crosscut the fillets in a diamond pattern, without cutting through the skin.

    3. Rub the fillets with 1 1/2 tsp salt and a dash of pepper. Lightly dust with potato starch. Beat together eggs and flour. Make sure slices do not stick to each other, then evenly coat with the mixture.

    4. Heat canola oil in a deep pot or deep fryer to 200буC. Holding one of the fillets at each end, slowly lower into the hot oil. Gently shake if meat sticks together. Fry until crispy. Repeat with the second fillet and arrange on a serving plate.

    5. Heat 3 tsp oil in a pan. Add minced garlic, onion, and green and red pepper. Add cooking wine, stirring until fragrant. Add chicken broth, bring to a boil, and add vinegar, sugar, ketchup, and 1/2 tsp salt.

    6. Add potato starch and cook until sauce has thickened. Add sesame oil, then pour the sauce over the fried fish, sprinkling pine nuts on top to garnish.

    Although the cooking process is a bit complicated, the result is quite satisfying. When I''m bringing the finished dish to the dining room, Ming Er''s family almost drooling seeing that big fish already turn into something delicious.

    "It looks beautiful yet delicious son"

    "Thanks, father. Let''s eat thenбн.it would taste better when still warm"

    "Hahaбнyou''re right. Take a seat and let''s start our dinner"

    I take a seat beside Ming Er and we start our dinner after praying. That big fish which supposed for ten servings already only left its bones when we finish eating dinner.

    "Hubbyбн.this mandarin fish tonight seems a bit different than before?"

    "Oh yeah, I try to make a modification to that dish because your parent home has so many fresh ingredients available. How about the taste? Is it better or worse?"

    "Umбнboth taste great. I even have my second"

    "Not just you Ming Er, your mother also have her second serving too hahahaбн."

    After dinner over, we all sit together in the family room, watching television while chatting. After changing several channels, Ming Er stops choosing and stay on Dragon TV channel. The program that currently aired is a variety show called ''Master Chef''.

    "Hubby, why don''t you try to register in that contest? You can show your cooking skill to million people and that will good advertising for our business"

    "Me? Join that cooking contest? It looks not easy to enter as contestant there"

    "Um, but at least you can try it first, hubby. Doesn''t matter if you are selected or not"

    "Hmmбнokay, but I want to focus to our business first, and after that our child. This kind of show is not just held one or two seasons only, right? Is not too late if I try on the later season"

    "Um, if hubby can be the winner, I will become the proudest woman in this village"

    "SisбнDon''t forget, if your husband becomes the winner, he may be will be swarming with female fans. Are you ready for that?"

    "Bro! don''t tease me like that! What if your words become jinx"

    Ming Er pretends to be angry while pouting her mouth and throw a pillow to her brother

    "Hahahaбн.Don''t you trust your husband? If he becomes celebrities that''s one risk that you must face"

    "I know my hubby will not see other women, right hubby?"

    "Right, I only have you in my heart"

    I said that while hugging her waist and pull her closer to me

    "See brother? My husband is the best husband in the world"

    All family members that gather in there laughing when hearing Ming Er words.

    "Son, I guess your wife is right. If you can be known through that variety show, and become famous, your enemies can''t do anything to you because you''re already a public figure. They won''t dare to mess with you"

    "I''ll think about that father. If I can get many benefits from there, why not? But of course, not in this short time, but I will try to join that cooking contest"

    "Good! That''s the spirit. Don''t give up before you even have a try"

    "Yes father"

    We still talking about some other topic before my mother in law yawn as sign of sleepy and we turn off the television and go to our own room to sleep.

 64 Something Hillarious

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    Warning! Mature content in this chapter. Not suitable for underage.

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    Life going fast in the village, not like in the big city where life still continues until late at night, because we can see many night activities still going on in the city. No wonder there''s many night entertainment place take place in big cities like the nightclub, karaoke club, bar, restaurant, mall, cinemas. In the village on rural area, where all kind of that night entertainment hardly found, television is the only means for entertainment for relaxation. The other means for relaxation is dinner, where every family member gathered together at the dining table, chatting, gossiping, and laughing together in there.

    And if there''s nothing to see on television, the having romantic time is another means to spend time for those who already married. That also what we do after we enter our room (Ming Er''s room to be precise). The condition is still the same as when we left it weeks ago. The bed also stills the same small bed that we used previously. When Ming Er see the bed, she looks at me with apologetic looks on her face.

    "Hubbyбнsorry, I forget to ask father to replace the bed with the bigger one"

    "It''s alright wifey, we can repeat the way we sleep like we did that time"

    "Is that includingбн..?"

    Ming Er did not finish her words and only smile mischievously but I understand what she meant to. I hug her and whisper on her ears

    "If you want it, why don''t you say directly, wifey?"

    "Aaaahhh hubby, how could a woman say something like thatбнyou should more aware the signбн"

    "Hahaбнalrightбнwifey, shall we continue what we start at the truck?"

    "Hubbyбнyou know the answer even without I say it, right?"

    We smile at each other and start kissing as we did before when practice driving truck. While kissing, our hands also not idle. My hands start unbuttoning Ming Er''s shirt while Ming Er''s hands start to unbelt my trouser and not for too long, Ming Er''s shirt already opened and reveal her breast that still covered with her bra and my trouser already dropped to my ankle. Since I''ve already trained to unhook her bra, her breast also immediately exposed to my eyes after her bra dropped. Ming Er''s hands also pull my t-shirt to reveal my abdomen muscles and my chest. We''re still kissing each other but our exploring each other body. Ming Er''s hand caressing my junior while my hand rub her crotch and fondle her round buttock. We doing this for several minutes before finally, we stop kissing and I hug and carry her to the table and make her sit there. After she sits there, I pull down the pant and underwear that she wears, reveal her hairless pubic area.

    "Wifey, you remember I take you here to shave your pubic hairs?"

    Ming Er nodded with shy looks on her face

    "Since I already shave it this morning in our romantic timebefore we go to your parent''s house, I think we just skip that part and continue to the next part"

    Without waiting for her answer, I just do want I meant with continuing to the next part which isбнeating her pussy. I''m quickly buried my head in her crotch and start to ''eat'' her little clit in her vagina. This sudden act of mine makes Ming Er makes a low shriek.

    "Hubby!...you''re naughty!"

    "Didn''t I also do like this before?"

    Her protesting voice immediately vanished replaces with soft moaning when my tongue starts licking her clits. Her thigh starts to clamp my head that buried in her crotch. Ming Er uses her hands to support her from bump into the table because the table is not big enough. My hands also start fondling her nipples that become hard erected. After ten minutes, her body starts to wriggle and trembling non-stop. Her thigh''s also clamping my head tighter than before.

    "HuбнhuбнhubbyбнIбнIбнI''mбнcoming!!!"

    With a low shriek, her body shaking heavily and love juices drenched from her vagina. I lift my head from her crotch that no longer clamped with her thigh to see how Ming Er going through with her orgasm. I see her crotch twitching like being electrocuted and liquid leaks from her vagina. When I''m inserted my middle finger into her vagina, her vagina walls quickly squeezing my finger. I move my finger slowly to scratch her vagina walls which make her wriggling again. When I pull my finger from there, it already drenched with fluids from her vagina. I take some tissue papers and wipe my hand with that tissue then wipe her vagina.

    "Hubbyбн.let''s continue"

    Ming Er stares at me with her eyes half open and looks melancholic, her face also getting reddish with panting breathing sound comes from her nose. I dropped my pants and aiming my manhood to enter her vagina slowly. What happened after that is just repetition from my first visit at Ming Er''s parent home. The difference with this time is, Ming Er forgets to put the music on from the player to cover the sounds we make while doing sex.

    Meanwhile, in the next room, Ming Er''s parent''s room.

    "Husband, what are you doing there?"

    Mrs. Li ask her husband who standing and put his ear on the wall

    "Nothing wifeбн.nothing heheheh"

    "Are you eavesdropping your daughter again? She will hate you if she knows you eavesdropping her, you know?"

    "Who said I''m eavesdroppingбнI just want to make sure they are fine"

    "Do you think I will believe such a lousy excuse?"

    "Noбнno...you''re misunderstanding, wifeбнI really concern about our daughter. Sometimes things that look calm outside hide the ripples inside"

    "Oh reallyбнthen tell me how are they doing?"

    "They did just fine wifeбнremind me how we used to be when we were youngбн.wife, let''s do it"

    "Do what?.....aaaahhh"

    Mrs. Li didn''t have a chance to finish her question. Her mouth already sealed with her husband lips which make her can''t utter any words.

    "Husband, we''re no longer young anymore"

    "But didn''t means we unable to do that anymore, am I right, wife?"

    "Umбнjust continueбн"

    "Haбнthat''s my wifeбн.*smooch*бн"

    Mr. Li continues to give his kiss to Mrs. Li while his hands start to strip Mrs. Li''s pajamas and then his own pajamas. And the next moment, Mr. and Mrs. Li are already naked and involved in hot and passionate intercourse in that room.

    "Husbandбн.not too roughбн"

    "I love you, wife, I will gentle on you.."

    Although on the surface she looks against it, within her heart, Mrs. Li secretly feels excited. It''s been a long time ago since she experienced this passionate and intimate moment with her husband again. And minutes later, if someone stands in front of these rooms, he can hear moaning sounds comes from both rooms.

    Unfortunately, there''s someone who very unlucky that night. Shao He that feels thirsty and want to take a glass of water in the kitchen passing by his parent''s room and Ming Er''s room and he eventually heard that sounds

    "Damn!...they really know how to having fun this night. They even forget there are still other people in this houseбнsigh..."

    After standing for a while in front of both rooms, finally, Shao He walk away from that place. His destination is no longer to the kitchen to take a drinkбн.бнbut directly go to the bathroom.

 65 What left from last nigh

    Next morning when I wake up and go to the bathroom, I met my father in law that just comes out from the bathroom.

    "Good morning father. You wake up early"

    "Good morning son, you also early and looks energetic. Sleep well last night? I always wake up early to check the farmland"

    "Yes, I sleep well last night. Father, you also look fresh this morning. When I still running my restaurant, I always wake up early and going to the market so I can get the best quality ingredients that available in the market"

    "Hahahaбнeat well, sleep well, and calm mindбнthat make people look fresh. You don''t have to worry about not get the best quality ingredients again son, you get it right from the source now"

    "You''re right, father, I agree with that"

    "Agree with which one? Sleep well or best quality ingredients?"

    "Both of them, father. I''ve with my own eyes the quality of the agricultural product in this area. They really the best"

    "Hahahaбнof course!"

    Our conversation interrupted with the appearance of brother Shao He. Different with his father, he looks lack of sleep, there''s even eye bag in the bottom of his eyes

    "Oh, father, brother Youбнgood morning"

    "Good morning sonбнwhat happens to you? You look still sleepyбнthere''re eye bags on your eyes"

    "I sleep late, chatting with A Yun til late night" (Damn it. Actually this is because of you twoбнI can''t sleep well last night иC that was Shao He thought)

    "Ah, then get some more sleep son, it''s dangerous to driving in such condition"

    "Yes, brotherбнI also not in rush to practice driving"

    I try to help my father in law persuade him. I know it''s dangerous to drive in such sleepy condition.

    "OkayбнI''ll try to get some sleep after wash my face" (Who''s the fault is that? иC Shao He thought)

    "Goodбнoh, also can you clean the bathroom after use it? There''s funny smell in the bathroom"

    "Huh? Why me?" (Damn itбнI forget to flush that thing last night иC Shao He thought)

    "Of course it''s you. You''re the only one available here, your mother and sister still sleeping. Your brother little Ben must make breakfast for us. Or do you want to be the one who makes breakfast and little Ben cleaning bathroom?"

    "I''ll doбнI''ll do, just don''t ask me to make breakfast, just give the cooking things to the expert here"

    "Hahahaбн.so it''s settled. Little Ben, please make a delicious breakfast again for us, okay?"

    "Yes father"

    After saying that my father in law going to his room to change clothes before going out to check his farmland while I enter the bathroom. I offered my brother in law to use it first but he refuses it

    "I came later and should use it later, besides I still have to clean it, brother You. But thanks for the offer. And we''ll practice driving truck again after 10 a.m. is that alright?"

    "No problem, brother"

    So I use the bathroom first and after finish doing my matter there, I return to Ming Er''s room to change clothes. When I enter the room, Ming Er still sleeps peacefully in the bed. Maybe she was too tired after last night. Well, we do a couple rounds last night so no wonder if she feels exhausted. I just kiss her forehead and fix the blanket to cover her naked body and let her sleep a little longer. After changing the clothes with the new one, I go to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the family.

    In the kitchen, I take a look for something that I can use immediately to make breakfast. Unfortunately, there''s nothing much left from last night dinner, including the rice. So I take some rice, wash it and put in the rice cooker before going to the storage room to take ingredients for breakfast.

 66 Breakfas

    In the storage room, I realize that I forget something important to my business. There''s no problem with vegetables and spices, they can be provided by my father in law, but I still need a supply for meat and fish. Fortunately, I aware this matter early, not before when our business about to open. From the previous body owner memory, I recalled that the one usually in charge to provide meat is his employee, brother Zhang, the one that I should call but I still have not done until now. Oh well, I should call him and ask him about his current condition. If he still free, I should offer him to join my food truck business and handle the meat and fish matter.

    But that''s something to do later, right now I have to make breakfast for my family with the ingredients that available here. My brain is thinking hard to find a dish that suitable for this condition. I want to make breakfast that have enough carbohydrates for daily activities and have good taste. I already discard idea to make salads. Finally, I get something nice to make for breakfast.

    I take the ingredient that I need from the storage. They are not much, only potatoes, green onion, pepper, and some eggs. After taking the ingredients that I need, I go to the kitchen to start making breakfast. First, I boiled some potatoes first to make mashed potatoes, while preparing the others ingredients. For this dish, I will need :

    2 tablespoons milk

    Salt

    1/2 teaspoon pepper

    1/2 teaspoon chopped green onion

    2 egg yolks, beaten

    3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

    4 cups mashed potatoes

    1 egg, beaten

    Sifted dried bread crumbs

    Peanut oil, enough to fill pan 1/2-inch

    After the potatoes done and made into mashed potato, I start to make that dish. It''s a dish called croquette, something that already widely known. The directions to make this dish is quite simple

    Add milk, salt, pepper, chopped onion, beaten egg yolks and flour to mashed potatoes. Chill and then shape using an ice cream scoop. Dip in the beaten egg then rolls through breadcrumbs. Fry each croquette in shallow oil until brown on all sides.

    With those ingredients, from the recipe, I can make into 15 servings but since my family has a big appetite, I make more than that. And for the time I needed to make this croquette, I only need a time less than one hour to make.

    When I''m about to finish making the breakfast, Ming Er come in from kitchen doors and greet me,

    "Good morning hubby"

    "Morning wifey"

    I greet her back while giving her something that always I give her every morning, good morning kisses.

    "Mmm..that''s smell goodбн.what you make for breakfast, hubby?"

    "It''s called croquette, and I almost finish. Help me bring to the dining room, okay"

    "Sure"

    With Ming Er help, I bring the croquette that I just made to the dining room. The other family members are already waiting there for breakfast. Besides my brother in law, Shao He, that looks still sleepy, the other family members look fresh and full with vitality, I wonder what makes them look like that.

    "Finally! Breakfast readyбнwhat is that son?"

    "This dish called croquette, father"

    "Huh, not Chinese food? No problem, sometimes we need a variation for breakfast. Can this croquette eat with rice?"

    "Yes, add with some sauces if you fill necessary, father"

    "Good! Put that in the table and take a seat son"

    I put the plates with croquette on the table and take a seat beside Ming Er. After praying, we start to eat breakfast together. Since this is their first time eating croquette, they not talking during eating, trying to feel the taste of the new dish on their tongue. But when they end the breakfast, there''s no single croquette left on the table, all moved to our stomach.

    "Hmmбнnot bad, it''s quite tasty too. Son, thanks for this delicious breakfast"

    "You welcome, father"

    "While waiting for Shao He sleeps for a while, why not you accompany me to the field? You can see our vegetables in the farmland"

    "May I, father? I would glad to accompany you there"

    "I also want to go there, father"

    "Huh? You too, Ming Er? You want to go to farmland because you don''t want to separate from your beloved husband?"

    Everyone in the dining room is laughing when hearing my father in law question.

    "Hmph! Father, I want to go there to take pictures. It will be a good advertisement to show how the food in our food truck comes from"

    Ming Er explaining while pouting her little mouth.

    "Hahahaбнalright, you two can come along with me, but you also should help with the works on there"

    After changing the clothes with something that fit to works in the farmland, I and Ming Er follow my father in law to go to their farmland. I wonder how their farmland looks alike, it also my first time see the real agricultural system in this world, which makes me feel excited.

 67 Fresh vegetable

    We take a walk to my father in law''s farmland while sightseeing the village landmarks. The air feels fresh, different from the air in the city. There are people who go to their farmland like what my father in law did. We exchange greetings each time we meet other village residents.

    After walk for around fifteen minutes finally, we arrive at the farmland. It''s vast farmland with several vegetables planted there. There''s also a small greenhouse in the middle of the farmland.

    "Wow father, your farm really big"

    "Hahahaбнyou wouldn''t believe if I say I start only with a plot of land in the beginning"

    "No, I believe you, father. You''re a person who not scared to work hard and stubborn to give up. This vast land is your achievement after years of work hard"

    "Hahahaбнyou really know how to talk with your father, son. I''m getting like you more"

    "Is that means you not like my hubby, father"

    "NoooбнI don''t mean that. I already like your husband since he willing to marry you, it''s just my likeness level is increased"

    "Hihihiбнof course, he''s my hubby that I proud of"

    Ming Er said that while hugging my waist and lean her head on my arms. My father in law only laughing when hearing that and saw what Ming Er did.

    "Alrightбнyou come here not to picnic, right? Give me a hand and help me"

    "Ah right, what should we help father?"

    "Just pull any wild weeds that you see and remove any worms if you accidentally saw it on the leaves"

    "You''re not using pesticide or insecticide, father?"

    "Pesticide? Insecticide? That''s poison. Do you like to smear poison on your food then eat it? No! I prefer to remove it manually. Only if there''s a pest epidemic I''m willing to use pesticide. Fortunately, it never happens before"

    "That''s good, father. I also agree with that"

    "Okay, stop chatter and move your feet son. You still have to practice driving with A He, right? Take a basket from greenhouse to put the weeds that you just pulled in there"

    "Yes, father. let''s go wifey"

    "Okay hubby"

    Me and Ming Er go to the greenhouse to take the basket and start to pick any wild weeds that we found in the field. I wonder how my father in law manages to take care of this vast farmland alone.

    "Wifey, did your father taking care of this farmland, alone?"

    Ming Er giggling when hears my question.

    "Of course not, hubby. My mother and I and brother also help him sometimes, but mostly my mother did. There''re also people that paid to help during the harvest time to pick the crops"

    We crossing the field that planted with tomatoes. Its almost time to harvest the tomatoes. There''re some tomatoes that already ripe and look delicious.

    "Wifey, can I take one tomato there and taste it?"

    "Sure, hubby. You can pick not just one, if you need it for cooking, you can take it as much as you needed"

    "No need, I just want to try the taste"

    "Umбнokayбн.hubby! waitбнwait"

    Ming Er stop me when I about to pick a tomato.

    "What''s up wifey?"

    "Let me take your pictures when you pick and eat that tomato"

    "Ohбнokay"

    Ming Er takes the camera from her pocket and prepares to take the picture.

    "Okay hubby, I''m ready to take pictures"

    I take off the gloves that I wear when pulling the wild weeds and use my hand to pick and eat the tomato. The morning dews already washed the dust from the tomato which makes me not hesitate to eat it. I take a bite while look at Ming Er who hold her camera and give a smile. The tomato which I just bite gives a fresh and sweet taste in my mouth. I raise my thumb on my other hand to say ''it''s a good tomato'' before I eat them all. Well, because my father in law already said he not using pesticide or insecticide on his plants, I don''t hesitate to eat it on the spot.

    "Very good hubbyбнyou look natural, maybe you can become a model or actor too. I get lots of good pictures hereбнI can''t wait until we get home to upload this picture on my social media account"

    "Hahahaбнyou really know how to make your hubby happy, wifey"

    "I''m not lyingбнsee yourself hubby"

    I come closer to Ming Er to see the pictures she just takes in the camera.

    "Lookбнyou look great especially when you smile like that hubby"

    "Is that really me?"

    "Are you kidding hubby, who else in here except us and father"

    "Maybe that because you take the picture on the right moment, maybe you can become a photographer too, wifey"

    "Aaahhбнhubby, you teasing me again. Take this!"

    Ming Er bashfully tries to pinching my waist while I try to evade her hand. It ends with she chase me to pinch me all the way along the field. My father in law who saw it only shakes his head while smiling.

 68 Chicken curry

    We only spend some hours in my father in law farmland and return before the sun get high. There''re three reasons why we can back early. First, because I had to practice driving the truck with brother Shao He at ten o''clock. Second, my father-in-law prohibits Ming Er works too hard there because her early pregnancy still in frail condition and my father in law doesn''t want she had experience miscarriage. Third, my mother in law already comes to the farmland to help her husband, so we can leave my father in law with ease.

    We return to home while carrying some fresh vegetables that just pick up from the field. Ming Er looks cheerful during our walk back to home. Well, can be said, half of our time in there spends not to help my father in law, instead, we flirting, joking, taking pictures and playing. We did not cross with many people during our return, probably they still in their own field and farm, which makes Ming Er didn''t hesitate to hold my arms and lean over it all way back.

    When we arrive at home, brother Shao He still sleeping, which make me decide to wait he wake up before we go for driving practice, while Ming Er immediately sits down on her desk and operate her laptop to upload the pictures we just take this morning to her social media account.

    "Wifey, are you come with me to practice driving?"

    "Mmmбнnot this time hubbyбн.I want to visit A Yun"

    "Oh, it''s not fun if you''re not around, wifey"

    "Hubby, you need to concentrate and focus when driving. I only become a nuisance if I come with you. Ah right, can you cook something for me to bring when I go to A Yun house? I don''t want to go there empty handed"

    "Sure, no problemбнany kind of dish is fine?"

    "Yup, your cooking is always delicious. They will glad to eat it"

    "Okay, I will start cooking right away and make preparation for lunch too"

    "Thanks, hubby"

    "You welcome, wifey"

    I go to the kitchen to make some food for Ming Er bring along when she goes to A Yun House. I don''t want to make another dish again and cook some croquette again like what we have for breakfast. After that, I go to storage to take some ingredients for lunch preparation. If I already prepared before, when I return from driving practice, I can immediately cook it without do preparation like peeling, cutting, or slicing.

    In the storage, I see there''re some meats stored there. It seems my mother in law already buy some meats before she follow us to farmland. There''re chicken meat and pork meat, that''s great! At least I don''t have to make vegetarian food again. I''m thinking about the menu for lunch later, if possible I want it can be eaten at dinner too, so I will not spend my time too much in kitchen. I start thinking about a dish that combined well between vegetables with the meat and can be eaten with rice.Doesn''t take a long time before I decide to make: CURRY.

    Curry is a famous dish that originated from India. Have a strong flavor which suit with the taste of Sichuan people. Some people say the taste will get stronger after being re-heated many times, but I''m not sure about that. Since I already decide what I will make for lunch, I take ingredients that needed to make curry.

    INGREDIENTS :

    2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil

    1 medium yellow onion, chopped

    2 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1" pieces

    3 cloves garlic, minced

    1 tbsp. minced ginger

    1 tsp. paprika

    1 tsp. ground turmeric

    1 tsp. ground coriander

    1/2 tsp. ground cumin

    15-oz crushed tomatoes

    1 1/2 cup. low-sodium chicken broth

    1/2 cup. heavy cream

    Kosher salt

    Freshly ground black pepper

    Rice for serving

    1 tbsp. freshly chopped cilantro, f0r garnish

    Since this menu is not too complicated, I decided to cook it right away and will re-heated again later on lunch.

    COOKING DIRECTIONS

    1. In a large pot over medium-high heat, heat oil. Add onion and cook until soft, 5 minutes. Add chicken and sear until no pink remains, 5 minutes. Stir in garlic and ginger and cook until fragrant, 1 minute.

    2. Add spices and cook until very fragrant, 1 minute. Add tomatoes and broth and bring to a simmer. Stir in heavy cream, and season with salt and pepper. Simmer until chicken pieces are cooked through and tender, about 10 minutes.

    3. Serve over rice or with naan, garnished with cilantro.

    This recipe can be made in 35-40 minutes for 6 servings. When I finish make this chicken curry, Ming Er appears in the kitchen, she already dressed neatly like what she did when about to going out.

    "Hubbyбнwhat do you make this time? The smell is so fragrant"

    "I make chicken curry for lunch. Are you going to A Yun place now?"

    "Um. Is the present for A Yun ready?"

    "Yup. Already packed and wrapped only wait to carry"

    I pointed at a box with croquette inside that I already prepare for Ming Er.

    "Thanks, hubbyбнugh, your curry makes me want to go home already and eat lunch"

    "Hahahaбнit''s still a couple hours before lunch. If we return late, just re-heat the curry and eat first"

    "Okay, I take the gift and go to A Yun house now"

    Ming Er takes the box and leaves the kitchen, I escort her to the front door.

    "Hubby, please be careful when practice driving"

    "I will don''t worry, brother He also with me"

    "Okay, I''m going"

    Ming Er kiss me first before she steps out from the front door. She just walks several steps when she turns her back and talks to me that still standing in the front door.

    "Hubby, if your practice is not going smooth, don''t get depressed. Even though you not good in ride the truck I know you''re good at riding something else"

    "Huh? Riding what?"

    Since I come to this world I never ride anything else except the food truck that I just learn how to drive it yesterday. Ming Er''s words make me confuse.

    "Riding бн.. "

    Ming Er didn''t say the last word only pointing at herself and make an unspoken word with her mouth, ME''. After that, she''s laughing and hurriedly walks away while waving her hands.

    I also only can laugh with her naughty jokes while waving her back.