Selling Grilled Sausages in Another World at Night

[Four Little Ones’ “My Dao Companion Is Always Coercing Me” is now serializing~~ You’re welcome to stop by~~] Blurb: After things go poorly at work, Xia Yang goes home to inherit the convenience store at a scenic area. One late night, he loses focus for a moment and suddenly transmigrates to another world with his grilled sausage stand. Faced with drooling customers of all shapes and sizes, with long tails, wings, two mouths, four eyes, and more, Xia Yang shakily offers them grilled sausages with both hands. “Dear customer, these grilled sausages are a specialty from another world!” A rumor gradually spreads among adventurers: There’s a little shop in Silvermoon Town that only opens at night. It sells mysterious delicacies from another world, and only the bravest adventurers dare to brave the dangerous black mist of night to reach it. One day, the silver dragon sleeping in its palace opens its eyes. It catches a strange scent in the air, and its stomach rumbles. That night, a silver-haired, silver-horned brat with an insufferably smug face makes a grand entrance into Xia Yang’s shop. He politely yet imperiously eats more than twenty grilled sausages in one sitting, then refuses to pay. The silver-haired brat wipes his mouth. “I am the lord of this land. Foreigner, from today on, you are my subject.” Xia Yang: “Did you get a stomachache, or are you still asleep?” The silver-haired brat: “Could it be that you wish to become my queen? I suppose I can…” Xia Yang: “Who needs you to suppose? Pay up!” * The other world is full of danger, and raising a dragon is about to bankrupt him. Xia Yang looks at his increasingly empty wallet. “Let’s open up new land, Otherworld!” Fell trees, farm the fields, build houses, make local specialties. Roast meat with fire magic, water the fields with water magic. The big ones build walls, the little ones catch bugs. His hardworking queen spends day and night carrying goods between two worlds, determined to fill every cave with food for winter and make sure every big eater gets a full meal. The silver dragon lord, well-fed and grown, wants to cuddle with his queen. The queen, reopening his shop, wants to get down to business. The daytime convenience store stocks herbs, stones, coins, and little leather bags from the other world. At night, the convenience store trades human delicacies and specialties for them “This is instant ramen, precious as a secret treasure and easy to take on the go.” “Take a look at this: super-popular, unbeatable luosifen. Its stench can attack the sensitive noses of monsters and slay enemies without a trace, and it has a uniquely delicious flavor.” “Our shop also has beer, soft drinks, mineral water, peanuts, sunflower seeds, and ham sausages. What would you like?” … Notes: ① Xia Yang is the bottom; Herbert is the top. The top appears quite late, around chapter 20. The story mainly follows the bottom. ② This is not a typical otherworld setting. The worldbuilding is all made up on the fly, and it’s probably an animal world with an ancient Western fantasy feel (?) ③ The modern world by day, the other world by night; the characters travel back and forth between the two worlds. Most of the story takes place in the other world. ④ Cozy and healing, with a slow-paced, everyday-life feel. ⑤ A broadly defined farming novel, very broadly. The next novel is “Green Bamboo [Farming].” Blurb below: Everyone in the surrounding villages knows that Jiang Zhu was an orphan picked up at the foot of the mountain by Jiang the Bamboo Weaver. After his adoptive father passed away, he was left all alone, living on Bamboo Mountain, cutting bamboo and digging up shoots to make baskets for a living. One day, Jiang Zhu “finds” a strange man on his mountain. The man is handsome and fair, with a dignified bearing and captivating eyes. At a glance, he looks like a pampered young master from a wealthy family. It’s just that his hair is a little short. His clothes are a little strange. He’s spoiled, picky about food, and loves to lie. One moment he says he’s a mountain god; the next, he claims to be a black-and-white bear spirit who loves eating bamboo; then he says he has an incurable illness… Jiang Zhu tends his wounds, carries him to see a doctor, and provides him with food and drink. He lets himself be completely fooled by the man, and increasingly thinks he’s like the precious little dog at the town landlord’s house that’s always coming down with something. But Shen Qingyue is different from a dog. He can talk and tease people. He’s more domineering than a dog, but doesn’t bite people at random. He also has a strange bundle of belongings, including a lamp that lights up in the sun, a mirror that can draw people and sing, and all sorts of odd, magical little items… Most importantly, he protects Jiang Zhu from being bullied. Jiang Zhu thinks that maybe he really is a god who’s fallen on hard times. But who cares! Whether he’s a down-and-out young master, a deserter from a neighboring country, or a mountain spirit, Jiang Zhu found him, so he’s Jiang Zhu’s! Shen Qingyue was born with asthma and lived a pampered life. On his first hike, a mudslide made him transmigrate into an unfamiliar ancient world. He has little medicine, a broken leg, and is in so much pain he wants to cry, stranded in the wilderness. Shen Qingyue mocks himself: Everyone dies eventually, so why does he have to die twice? He’s tired. Let the world end; it’s not as if he particularly wants to live anyway. He lies down to wait for death, only for Jiang Zhu, an innocent and gullible young man, to carry him home. Jiang Zhu looks after him, comforts him, and feeds him, thinking about him every moment, yet never remembering to be kind to himself. Watching Jiang Zhu get bullied by his relatives without knowing how to fight back, scrimp and save until he can barely eat or drink, and grow thin and small, alone and helpless, Shen Qingyue thinks that before he dies, he ought to repay this child somehow. He’ll help him sort out his background, protect the bamboo grove, and teach people a lesson. He’ll trick him into eating more meat and putting on some weight, then teach him a few ways to make money. When he dies, he can sell the solar-powered flashlight, phone, tablet, and other things in his backpack. Then Jiang Zhu should be able to live without worrying about food or clothing. Notes: ① Happy ending. ② An imagined ancient setting, with a healing, everyday-life feel: household squabbles and little slice-of-life stories. ③ A gentle but strong, capable local bamboo craftsman vs. an older, asthmatic, sharp-tongued, handsome designer. ④ Tentatively bottom-focused; the pairing dynamic is undecided and may change before the official serialization begins. Feel free to add it to your favorites~~ Theme: Keeping each other warm through the cold night