Her short, glossy black hair, clear and bright eyes, swan-like neck, two towering breasts, and slender waist all speak of her perfection.

Lou Xiao'e picked up some food for the fat man, hoping to ease the awkwardness from before. But when she looked up, she found the fat man staring at her boldly!

Feeling a little embarrassed and annoyed, she said, "Fatty, where are you looking!"

"I'm looking at the navigation."

"navigation?"

"..."

The fat man scratched his head awkwardly, forgetting that Lou Xiao'e wouldn't understand. So he couldn't continue flirting.

Because if Lou Xiao'e asked him "Where to?" he could then casually reply, "Navigate to your heart."

Having been bombarded with flirting techniques from another world, the fat guy certainly wouldn't act like a naive and honest young boy who had never been in a relationship.

Lou Xiao'e glared at him: "You're not a good person!"

A lady from a respectable family is still a lady from a respectable family; she hasn't even learned a few swear words. No wonder she gets so angry with Sha Zhu every time they clash.

"Looks are something you're born with. If I had a choice, I'd want to be a good-looking person too."

Lou Xiao'e, caught off guard, burst out laughing. This moth has a pretty low threshold for laughter...

To ease the awkwardness, the fat man simply poured himself a glass of wine: "Hey, sister-in-law, let me toast you..."

Lou Xiao'e glared at her angrily: "I don't drink!"

This made the fat man realize what a verb is.

The fat man drank a glass of wine, and Lou Xiao'e, remembering the fish from last time, reached for the bottle and poured him another glass.

Her sleeves were wide, revealing a section of her snow-white wrist as she poured the wine. The fat man suddenly said, "Sister Xiao'e, why is your cup yellow?"

Lou Xiao'e clearly remembered that the wine cups in her home were all made of Dehua white porcelain, genuine white-glazed porcelain from the Dehua kilns in Fujian during the Ming Dynasty, with a smooth and bright luster, milky white like solidified fat...

How come it turned yellow in the fat man's eyes?

The fat man chuckled inwardly when he saw her subconsciously pick up a cup to examine it. He pretended to rub his eyes and said, "So it's not that the cup turned yellow, it's just that your skin is too fair, Sister Xiao'e."

Lou Xiao'e's mind went blank for a second, and she could even hear tinnitus in her ears. This fat man was incredibly bold!

Xu Damao was sleeping in the house, and he actually used a scene from a classic novel to flirt with her! Did he really think she was some illiterate village woman?

Lou Xiao'e's face instantly turned cold. She glared at the fat man and was about to tell him to leave. The fat man had drunk a few cups and the stove in Xu Damao's house was burning brightly, so he was a little hot and couldn't help but pull down his collar to wipe the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

His round face was covered with a layer of fine down, like a peach that was about to ripen, and a few soft mustaches had quietly grown out of his lips.

Lou Xiao'e was furious. She was clearly still a novice, why was she pretending to be a big shot?

Lou Xiao'e grabbed the fat man's chubby cheeks and said, "Believe it or not, I'll tear your mouth off!!"

The menacing threat had no effect whatsoever. The fat man blinked sadly, "Sister Xiao'e, how can you use a 36C mouth to say such cold things..."

Lou Xiao'e burst into laughter again, laughing so hard she couldn't even pinch the fat man anymore; she has such a low threshold for laughter.

After she had finished laughing, she asked the fat man, "What is your level of education?"

"Me? I only graduated from junior high school."

Lou Xiao'e suddenly asked him, "What is the chemical formula for alcohol?"

After a pause, Pang said, "c2h5oh... Sister Xiao'e, you studied chemistry?"

Lou Xiao'e didn't answer but asked in return, "Why didn't you study further?"

“My family was poor and had a lot of members. My three older sisters only graduated from primary school. It was already a great achievement for my parents to support me through junior high school. You know, people in this era don’t generally value education that much.”

Lou Xiao'e sighed, took Xu Damao's wine glass, poured herself a small half-glass of wine, downed it in one gulp, and then was quite choked by the spiciness...

After a while, she calmed down and took out a handkerchief. While wiping her eyes, she said to the fat man, "Yes, we can't even meet our basic material needs, so how can we talk about our spiritual needs?"

The fat man thought to himself, "Good heavens, no wonder she's the daughter of a big capitalist." He added, "She's only saying this to me; if it got back to other people, it would be another piece of evidence against her."

Lou Xiao'e was completely unaware: "My mother told me, what's wrong with girls? Girls should be more educated, and a educated mother will have a huge influence on her children in the future!"

After saying that, she probably thought of her sad story again. She and Xu Damao had been married for almost three years, but she couldn't conceive, and this had become a source of great distress for her.

People in the courtyard often make fun of her, especially Sha Zhu! That bastard never forgets to drag her into every argument with Xu Damao! He calls her a hen that can't lay eggs, that scoundrel!

Lou Xiao'e asked the fat man, "Have you read Hegel? Beauty is the sensuous manifestation of the idea."

The fat man almost blurted out, "It's the foundation of the entire aesthetic theory framework," but thankfully he stopped himself in time.

It's normal for Lou Xiao'e to be able to see Hegel; it would be abnormal if he had seen him too!

Seeing the fat man shake his head, Lou Xiao'e couldn't help but feel a little regretful, and a sense of loneliness and isolation arose spontaneously.

She stood up and said to the fat man, "Alright, I'm a little tired too. Let's call it a day. Read more books when you have time. The more you read, the more you'll discover what true beauty is."

Seeing Lou Xiao'e get up to see the guest off, the fat man had no choice but to take his leave as well.

As she reached the door, she turned back for one last, reluctant look, and said, "Sister Xiao'e, are you that down-on-her-luck, down-on-her-luck chicken? I feel sorry for you!"

Am I a chicken? Or a down-on-his-luck chicken?

Lou Xiao'e roared, "Get out!"

"..."

26. Go buy meat. 27. Slaughter the rooster. 28. Prepare the dough. 29. Steam the buns.

This year is the first New Year that Fatty earns a salary. Although Zhou Haiqin couldn't bear to slaughter the rooster, she still bought two pounds of meat.

All the meat coupons, oil coupons, and other coupons that I had saved up throughout the year were spent like water before the New Year.

We can't do without spending money. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, we visit relatives and friends. On that day, his family will go to Yu Li's house to propose marriage. How can we not prepare some things?

That evening, on Qianmen Street, the fat man was alone, watching over two large iron pots at the same time.

One pot is stewing cabbage with pork belly, vermicelli, and frozen tofu; the other pot is stir-frying green peppers and potato shreds.

While Zhao Lao Er was busy slicing cabbage, Chen Yan lifted the lid of an aluminum pot, ignoring the steam pouring down her face, and used a long hook to scoop out the cooked meat.