80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy - Chapter 502

80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy 
Chapter 502 – Sweet talk and silly flattery (1) 

Translator : Moon Lee
Editor : Tea
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“I’ll make some lüdagun tonight, you can take it with you tomorrow.” Chu Qiao said with a smile.

-Lüdagun / Fried chop rice cake (驴打滚) : A classic Beijing snack of glutinous rice rolls coated in soybean powder, named whimsically after ‘donkeys rolling in dust’. 

She had slowly discovered that Gu Ye loved sticky rice desserts. 

Every time she made them, he’d light up with joy like a kid, and even compete with Dabao and Xiaobao over it, completely losing the trace of adult dignity.

“Great! Make a lot then.” Gu Ye grinned.

“I’ll use three catties of glutinous rice flour. That should be enough for you, silly.”

Chu Qiao shot him a playful glare as she pulled out a bag of rice flour and soybean flour from the cabinet. 

Then she opened the fridge and took out the red bean paste she had cooked earlier in the day. 

She had already planned to make lüdagun a few days ago, so she’d gotten all the ingredients ready from the market in advance.

Gu Ye chuckled and said, “Add more sugar to the bean paste. The sweeter, the better!”

“With all that much sugar, you’ll rot your teeth. Then one day you’ll need a big gold tooth, just imagine how ugly that’d be!” 

Suddenly, the image of Gu Ye grinning with a mouth full of glittering gold teeth popped into her mind. 

The thought was so absurd she couldn’t help but burst out laughing, completely amused by her own imagination.

Dabao and Xiaobao didn’t know what their aunt was laughing about, but they laughed along with her anyway, clueless and silly.

Gu Ye reached out and lightly smacked each of the boys on the back of the head. 

“Laugh, laugh, laugh! Go do your homework now!”

He was flirting with his wife, what were these two lightbulbs doing butting in?

Dabao bared his teeth in protest, then stuck out his tongue behind Gu Ye’s back before obediently heading off to do his homework. 

He even overheard Chu Qiao scolding Uncle Gu:

“Don’t hit kids on the head anymore. You’re too rough! What if you made them dumb?” 

“It’s no big deal. My old man used to smack me all the time, and I turned out fine.” Gu Ye replied casually.

“You think you’re not dumb enough?”

Chu Qiao couldn’t help but tease, rolling her eyes at him. 

Gu Ye froze for a moment, was his wife calling him stupid?

But when he saw the upward curl of Chu Qiao’s lips, he knew she was joking. 

So he shamelessly leaned in and said,

“I’m what you’d call a blessed fool. Where else could I find such a beautiful and capable wife? Xu Sanqiang’s probably dying of jealousy.”

“Get out of here! I’m working!”

Chu Qiao blushed and shoved him away, pretending to be annoyed, but her smile only grew wider. 

Dabao curled his lips and whispered into his little brother’s ear, 

“Did you hear that? What Uncle Gu just said, that’s called sweet-talking. Flowery words and honeyed phrases. Women just love that stuff.”

Xiaobao nodded blankly in half-understanding, quietly taking mental notes.

So far, he’d learned quite a few idioms just by observing Uncle Gu:

In the daytime, Uncle Gu was a daydreamer. 

At night, he was lovestruck with his tail wagging in the air. 

And whenever he wanted to eat something, he’d sweet-talk, flatter and coax Auntie to get it.

Chu Qiao poured the glutinous rice flour into a large bowl and slowly added warm water, while stirring continuously with her other hand. 

Once the flour formed into a granular dough, she wrapped it tightly in cheesecloth and steamed it in a large pot for twenty minutes until it was cooked through.

After cooling the steamed dough, she kneaded it thoroughly, sprinkled soybean flour over the counter, rolled the dough flat, spread sweet red bean paste over it, then rolled it into a tube. 

Then slicing it into pieces, she revealed the signature yellow, white, and brown layers of lüdagun. 

Since the weather was cooler now, they could be stored for a few days, they actually tasted better chilled.

Gu Ye couldn’t wait, he grabbed a piece and popped the whole thing into his mouth. One piece turned into five or six, until Chu Qiao stopped him.

“You just ate dinner, don’t eat too much. Glutinous rice is hard to digest.” Chu Qiao scolded, not letting him have any more.

“Just two more!”

Gu Ye looked at the tray like a pleading child, even licking his lips. 

Chu Qiao’s heart softened, so she gave him two more. 

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