Those Years Teaching and Raising My Husband in Qingshui Village [Farming]

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A slow-burn, everyday farming story, with both plot and romance

A slow-burn, slow-burn, slow-burn everyday story

Synopsis:

Xie Yu, a teacher in a small town, is born into the body of a frail county magistrate's legitimate son. His parents keep urging him to study for the imperial examinations, turning him into a puppet whose sole purpose is to win honors for the family.

When he's sixteen, a flood strikes the territory governed by his adoptive father, and everyone in the county town flees north. Xie Yu, a sickly boy running a fever, is abandoned as a burden.

Misfortune can be a blessing in disguise.

Xie Yu is rescued by the hunter Lin An, and memories of his previous life awaken!

For ordinary people, the end of the road is a secure government job, and the end of that road is retirement!

Xie Yu skips straight to a semi-retired life, free to do whatever he wants!

Poor family, weighed down by debt?

With the knowledge he gained from more than a decade of studying, Xie Yu takes a job as the village schoolteacher and earns enough to tide them over.

The family lives on wild greens alone?

Xie Yu gets started on a grand vegetable garden plan.

Cucumbers, bitter melons, luffas, pumpkins, Chinese cabbage, chives, lettuce, Chinese flowering cabbage, radishes, scallions, okra, and chili peppers all grow like crazy!

In just three months, the weed-choked garden is full of lush green vegetables.

No matter the era, nothing wins hearts like money!

Xie Yu turns his attention to food.

Mulberry-leaf tofu, jelly made from Chinese mesona, mint drinks, hot osmanthus and Cherokee rose drinks, pumpkin sweetened with Cherokee rose syrup!

Oil-braised chives and shrimp, fiery pepperleaf shrimp, river snails seared with bird's eye chilies, and spicy stir-fried river crabs with chives!

Bamboo shoot casserole, sweet-and-sour-spicy pickled cucumbers, candied cucumber sticks, and salted dried peaches!

Xie Yu transforms ordinary foods into something special.

The customers eat until their mouths glisten with oil, then pull out handfuls of copper coins and clatter them into Xie Yu's money jar.

Xie Yu makes a fortune!

He and his husband, Lin An, build a wonderful life together as a family!

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When one gets rich, they help others get rich too.

Xie Yu leads the villagers in opening a casserole shop and a silk-fan workshop...

Year after year, the villagers earn more and more money, and Qingshui Village becomes the top village in the Southern Region!

Plenty of young men and women want to marry into Qingshui Village!

Extra scene:

Lin An's fingers twitch. Leaning against the wall, he slowly raises his eyes and looks innocently at Xie Yu, his voice low and enticing. "My arms and legs are weak. I have no strength. Ah Yu, you were so impressive just now..."

"Stop being silly!"

Who praises someone like that? One sentence sends his thoughts running wild.

It was only a kiss, but the way Lin An describes it makes it sound as if they'd spent the whole night making love...

A mouth that speaks at thirty degrees, yet says things that are a hundred degrees hot. No one else could do it.

Xie Yu's ears redden, and he glares at Lin An again.

But his feet move forward of their own accord, carrying him to Lin An's side. "Can you stand straight? I still can't carry you."

Lin An's lips curve in triumph. He stretches out one arm and drapes it over Xie Yu's shoulder, then takes Xie Yu's wrist with his other hand and places it around his waist.

"You don't have to carry me. Just give me a hand."

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