[Journey to the West] The Fox Spirit Only Wants to Farm

[Next Book: The House-Raised Little Cook] Please add it to your favorites! Fresh, crisp lettuce in oyster sauce, rabbit stir-fried with chili, savory and spicy Freshly made caramel pudding and double-skin milk, rich with the taste of milk Ice cream pizza, grilled cold noodles, one modern recipe after another is brought to the table Picking mushrooms, making honey, slacking off to fish and catch shrimp Given a second life, Hongyu, the jade-faced fox spirit, wants only to stay away from conflict, farm, cook, and raise a little one. Who knew things would turn out so differently from what she imagined? The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord becomes her lackey, the Bull Demon King pursues her relentlessly, The White Bone Spirit becomes her best friend, and Sun Wukong becomes her most loyal customer. Before she knows it, she even marries the king of all demons... Hongyu: I just want to farm, really. A little scene: Just when Hongyu thinks she can spend the rest of her life in peaceful simplicity, she suddenly finds an injured kitten. Its fur is silvery white, and its beautiful gray-blue eyes seem to glow. Hongyu heals its injuries and keeps it by her side every day, unable to bear being apart from it. One night, Hongyu wakes with a start from a dream and discovers a handsome man lying beside her pillow. Hongyu is stunned. "Who are you?" Looking at her surprised expression, the handsome man’s gray-blue eyes brim with displeasure and a hint of hurt. "You hug me to sleep every night. How can you not recognize me now?" Reader's Guide: 1. A cozy farming and food story, with no angst. 2. The career storyline takes the lead, with romance as a subplot. Original male lead, who appears later in the story. 3. This is a spin-off of Journey to the West, with plenty of original settings, including but not limited to the timeline and crop varieties. Please don't overanalyze the details! The House-Raised Little Cook After transmigrating, Lin Shuangjiang becomes a seven-year-old kitchen helper who tends the fire in the kitchen of an official's household during the Song dynasty. As a hereditary servant, his daily meals consist of fermented-rice-water porridge, bean rice, raw salted fish, salted vegetables, and rice crust. That means porridge cooked with sour pickle brine, rice made with hard beans and brown rice, salted fish eaten raw, bitterly salty pickled greens and radishes, and the rice crust left at the bottom of the pot after the head chef steams the rice. Everyone else: What a lavish spread! Lin Shuangjiang: ...Could you stop mistreating children? For the sake of his own appetite, Lin Shuangjiang has no choice but to fend for himself. Soon, delicious aromas begin wafting through the kitchen: Steaming soup dumplings, Dongpo pork braised until tender, Longjing shrimp, glossy as jade, and savory bamboo-shoot soup with cured pork, As well as sweet fermented-rice dumplings and osmanthus-scented lotus root drizzled with honey... Before long, Lin Shuangjiang becomes the youngest head chef in the history of the marquis's household, and even picks up a husband along the way. * Li Xiuran is the notoriously hard-to-please second son of the Li family. Spoiled since childhood, he fears nothing and no one, until he meets Lin Shuangjiang at the age of nine. The new kitchen helper is fair and tender, with big eyes like grapes, and is even prettier than the New Year paintings in storybooks. At their first meeting, Li Xiuran can't resist teasing him. "You look clumsy to me." The seven-year-old kitchen helper says nothing, but quietly clenches his tiny fists. Li Xiuran thinks: Tsk, he's like a little glutinous-rice dumpling that jumps at the slightest poke. One evening, he catches Lin Shuangjiang sneaking a bun. The other boy is so startled that he offers him one. "Second Young Master, I bought the ingredients with my monthly allowance and made these myself. I'll share one with you. Please don't tell anyone, okay?" Almost without thinking, Li Xiuran takes it and bites into it. ...It's delicious! From then on, Li Xiuran becomes Lin Shuangjiang's loyal little shadow. Lin Shuangjiang takes him to taste every delicacy under the sun, and Li Xiuran shows him the vastness of the world. They spend more than a decade growing up together, always by each other's side. Later, everyone in Bianjing knows that the Li family's unruly young master has one untouchable weakness: Lin Shuangjiang. Touch him and Li Xiuran flies into a rage. He treasures him like a priceless gem. Theme: Knowledge changes one's fate.