80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy - Chapter 270

80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy
Chapter 270 – Treasure map (1)

Translator : Moon Lee
Editor : Tea
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Pumpkin cake was easy to make. Chu Qiao quickly kneaded the dough, let it rise, and then fried it. 

-Chinese Pumpkin Cake

Dabao and Xiaobao went to play with their friends, so she was alone at home. 

Taking advantage of waiting for the dough to rise, Chu Qiao flipped out the medicinal diet book. 

Although there were many bug holes on the cover, the paper inside was well kept. 

However, Chu Qiao intended to copy the recipe in this book. The paper was frail, so it would be better not to turn it over often. 

She carefully turned the pages, looking for those aphrodisiac medicinal dishes, but after half a day of searching, she still couldn’t find it. 

When Chu Qiao was occupied in research, Xiaobao came back sweating heavily. He drank three cups of herbal tea as soon as he entered the house. 

Seeing Chu Qiao was reading a book, he came over and looked at it next to her. 

But the little guy couldn’t read and couldn’t understand them even after seeing them for a long time. 

So he began to study the bug hole on the cover and dig it with his little finger. 

”Xiaobao, don’t do that!” 

Chu Qiao grabbed Xiaobao’s hand and didn’t let him do it, but this little guy had already dug a big hole and made a new discovery. 

He said, “Auntie, there’s something in the hole.” 

Xiaobao pointed at the big hole, his eyes shining brightly, as if he had discovered a treasure, “Auntie, is there a treasure map in here? Like Alibaba and the forty thieves, recite ‘open sesame’ and you can go in?”  

-Alibaba and the forty thieves, is a folk tale in Arabic added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century.

”Who said that to you? How could there be a treasure map.” 

Chu Qiao didn’t know whether to laugh or cry*. Xiaobao was very imaginative and had strange ideas in his mind. Even if he didn’t become an actor in the future, he could also be a good writer. 

*not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom) : both funny and extremely embarrassing; it’s not good to cry, nor is it good to laugh. 

“That’s what brother Hongbin said. Auntie, there is really something there.” 

Xiaobao couldn’t help but stretch out his finger again and continued to dig, making the hole become even bigger. 

Chu Qiao was also interested in what he said, and turned the book to sunlight. There was indeed something inside the hole, but it could also be the cover. 

Chu Qiao thought for a moment and made up her mind to dig the hole even larger. She found that the cover had an inner layer, separated by a thin golden thread as thin as hair. 

She couldn’t help but get excited, could it be really a treasure map? 

The ancestors of the Chu family were the imperial physicians in the palace. They had been passed down for so many generations, and their wealth must be considerably plenty. 

Perhaps the ancestors of the Chu family had really hidden their treasures and created a treasure map to put in this book. 

The more Chu Qiao thought about it, the more excited she became. She forcefully opened the surface layer of the book cover, revealing the truth of the book. 

The glittering gold was a layer of gold wire mesh. No wonder the cover was so thick and hard, the back cover was also the same. 

Chu Qiao pinched the thickness of the cover. It was at least two millimeters. There must be something hidden inside. 

“Auntie, is it a treasure map?” 

Xiaobao went to close the door. His older brother had taught him that the good things should not be known to others. 

Just like at their previous home, when he and his older brother had anything delicious, they would secretly eat it. 

Otherwise it would be snatched away, he and his older brother would have to go hungry. 

”I don’t know, let’s take it out to find out.” 

Chu Qiao was also very excited. She took scissors and carefully twisted a hole in the golden wire mesh. The contents inside became clearer and clearer, like paper. 

Chu Qiao twisted the hole larger and slowly pulled out a thin silk sheet as thin as cicada wings. 

When it was spread out, it was as big as a table, and when it was twisted into a ball, it was only the size of a baby’s fist. No wonder it could be hidden inside the cover. 

The silk was covered in densely packed words. Chu Qiao only glanced at it once and knew that it was definitely not a treasure map, but a prescription. 

“Kidney strengthening pills, heart-protection prescription, hair-growing prescription, whitening……”

These characters were all in small regular script, as if they were written with a fountain pen. Chu Qiao recognized them one by one, there were ten prescriptions and there were also a few lines of characters at the end. The signature was Chu Changqing. 

-Small regular script

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