A Home Beneath Peach Blossom Mountain

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At the foot of Peach Blossom Mountain lived a family named Mo. The second Mo brother had studied for several years and earned the title of xiucai. He returned to his hometown and opened a private school, where he spent each day teaching a bunch of little kids to recite poetry and books.

The second Mo brother seemed stern and old-fashioned, but he wasn't even twenty yet. He got married this year, and his husband was the young man from the Fang family at the entrance to Peach Blossom Village.

The Fang family's young man was lively and amusing, often making his serious, old-fashioned husband blush with embarrassment and anger.

Whenever he annoyed his husband, the Fang family's young man would pull out all the stops to make his husband a bowl of bitter melon, soybean, and pork rib soup to cool him down.

The freshly picked bitter melon was sweet, the soybeans soft and mealy, and the ribs tender enough to fall off the bone at a poke with chopsticks. One bowl of hot soup was enough to put out even the fiercest temper.

The young couple had been childhood friends. They bickered and played around, making their plain days fun.

Through the four seasons, clouds drifted by and the skies changed.

In spring, rain soaked the earth, and they carried hoes to till the land halfway up Peach Blossom Mountain;

In summer, gentle breezes blew as they took long sticks to herd ducks by Peach Blossom Creek;

In autumn, under clear skies, they carried bamboo baskets up Peach Blossom Mountain to pick fruit;

In winter, with the mountain asleep, they held hand warmers beneath a peach tree and gazed at the moon.

Late at night, when all was quiet, the Fang family's young man deliberately tugged open his husband's robe, saying he wanted to read something a little improper that day.

The second Mo brother flushed with anger. "Stop fooling around! Have you no shame?"

"There, I've annoyed him again. Time to make soup."

[Teaching, chopping wood, farming, eating, and drinking soup]

*A peaceful, cozy slice-of-life story, focused on good food and drink and the gentle passage of time.

*Everyone in the village is a good person. There are no awful characters, just some mischievous little kids who make up after getting their bottoms spanked.

*No big plot, just notes from the countryside.

Theme: Reaping a rich harvest