Chapter 47 will be shared again.
Fang Nianxiang couldn't finish the four dishes and one soup served on the table.
After feeling full, she called over Sister Zhou and asked for three takeout boxes to pack up the leftover sweet and sour pork, cola chicken wings, and mashed potato and cucumber rolls.
The winter melon, kelp, and old duck soup was plentiful, with plenty of soup and duck meat. Fang Nian wanted to finish all the soup and eat most of the duck meat. She also finished off all the winter melon and kelp, since this soup was the hardest to pack away besides sweet potato leaves.
If it weren't for the inconvenience of bringing food on the plane, she would have even ordered another meat dish from today's menu to take back for her parents to try.
Before leaving, Fang Nian glanced one last time at the purple-haired girl who was enthusiastically livestreaming. She had a feeling that next time she came to Jiang City, Gu's Private Kitchen would be in high demand and difficult to book, and it wouldn't be as easy as just queuing up.
She picked up the takeout bag, went to the cashier to pay, smiled and said goodbye to Sister Zhou, and then left the restaurant and walked towards the end of Suli Street.
When she got to the roadside, she simply waved and hailed a taxi to go back to the hotel.
Back at the hotel, Fang Nian wanted to take a nap as soon as possible. After waking up, she drank a glass of water, then called the hotel's internal line to ask where there was a microwave so she could heat up the food she had packed for lunch. She then went back to her room and ate.
Actually, there wasn't much left, and Fang Nian wasn't hungry at the moment, but after tasting the sweet and sour pork, her appetite instantly improved, and she felt better while eating.
She ate her afternoon tea while checking her phone and replying to text messages. Twenty minutes later, she finished all the meat and vegetables in the three takeout boxes.
Fang Nianxiang felt a bit full, so she stood up and moved around a bit. She thought to herself that she had really enjoyed eating at Gu's Private Kitchen during her trip to Jiang City, and that the trip was worthwhile.
She checked and packed some odds and ends again, filling her suitcase and backpack to the brim. Then she went to the restroom to fix her hair, picked up her luggage, went downstairs to the front desk to check out, and took a taxi to the airport.
As the plane took off in the evening, looking down at the buildings on the ground in Jiang City, everything and everyone became small and blurry, but the local customs and traditions he had once felt remained in his heart. Fang Nianxiang would always remember the Gu family's private kitchen on Suli Street.
She took out her phone and looked through the before-and-after photos of her face taken over the past week, becoming happier with each look.
Fang Nian had taken so many photos that she decided to choose photos taken after washing her face each morning, as the lighting was better and the contrast would be clearer for creating a collage.
When she took the first photo, she specifically turned on the time watermark in the camera settings. Now she doesn't need to add text to mark the date anymore; she can just create a collage with one click. Then she blurred her eyes in each photo to ensure that most people wouldn't recognize her.
Fang Nianxiang logged onto the QQ group again after more than a week. If it weren't for the acne-fighting group on the platform where she had chatted with some netizens late at night to comfort each other about their acne problems, she would have deleted the group long ago.
She first opened the chat window with Ren Pingyixiao, edited a message, and sent it to him.
[Want to go back to my teenage years and protect my face: Yi Xiao, I'm sorry for only telling you now, but I took annual leave a week ago and came to Jiang City to eat at Gu's Private Kitchen for a whole week, and the effect was amazing!]
[Want to go back to my teenage years and protect my face: I really feel like I wake up every morning with anticipation, seeing my acne scars fading, like opening a blind box. I have relatively deep acne scars, and after the first time I ate there, I could see a slight change the next morning. Although I don't know the mechanism, I'm sure the ingredients at Gu's Private Kitchen are very fresh and there are no problems.]
[Want to go back to my teenage years and protect my face: A week later, some of the lighter acne scars on my face are no longer visible under social distancing, the darker brown acne scars have faded a bit, and some acne pits have smoothed out considerably.]
[Want to go back to my teenage years and protect my face: This change really excited me. My acne problem, which has bothered me for so many years, has finally been effectively relieved. Thank you so much for sharing Gu's Private Kitchen recipes with us, thank you (heart heart heart)]
After sending the message, Fang Nian waited for a while but didn't see a reply. Thinking that the other party might still be at work at this time, she simply exited the chat window, clicked into the acne group, edited the message, and sent it.
[Want to go back to my teenage years and protect my face: I've been a member of this group for eight years, but I haven't spoken much in the last two years, though I still follow the group's updates. This time, I mainly want to share the changes in my acne and to defend @任凭逸萧.]
[Want to go back to my teenage years and protect my face: Last time, @Renpingyixiao shared in the group that her acne scars faded after eating at Gu's Private Kitchen in Jiang City, and she even shared before-and-after photos. I was very excited after seeing that, and even privately confirmed with @Renpingyixiao. After that, I took some annual leave and flew to Jiang City last week to start eating at Gu's Private Kitchen every day, lunch and dinner, basically making Gu's Private Kitchen my canteen.]
[Want to go back to my teenage years and protect my face: First of all, I'm not a shill, I just thought that since we're all fellow group members suffering from acne, I should share Ren Pingyixiao's method with everyone after my acne scars improved; secondly, the meat dishes at Gu's Private Kitchen are really delicious, even better than many big restaurants, and definitely worth trying if you travel to Jiang City.]
[Want to go back to my teenage years and protect my face: Let me also talk about the changes in my acne scars after eating at Gu's Private Kitchen for a week. Some acne scars that had faded significantly over the years are now completely invisible at social distance. Dark brown acne scars have faded considerably, and some acne pits have become slightly smoother. I usually get acne very easily in the summer, but during this week of eating at Gu's Private Kitchen in Jiang City, I didn't have a single breakout, and my skin condition was exceptionally stable.]
[Want to go back to my teenage years and protect my face: Below are before-and-after photos of my face after washing it every morning this week. You can take a look. If you believe me, you can go to Gu's Private Kitchen in Jiang City and eat meat dishes every day, since everyone is probably just as anxious about their acne as I am; if you don't believe me, then just pretend you didn't see this message.]
[Want to go back to puberty and protect your face: Face comparison photos.jpg×3]
Fang Nianxiang spent nearly ten minutes just editing the message. To express herself clearly in one go, she edited a long text and then sent it out in segments to make it easier for people in the group to read.
To make the comparison photos clearer, she didn't combine the seven-day comparison photos into one image, but instead presented them as three separate photos.
There were many people in the acne group, and after a short while, people started replying one after another.
[Any pimple is a paper tiger: Seriously! Your face has changed a lot this week. I can see that the acne scars have really faded, and the acne pits are smoothing out. So, did Ren Pingyi's suggestion of eating meat dishes at Gu's Private Kitchen really work for treating acne scars? Oh my god, I almost cried reading that.]
[Acne and knees have to get better at least once: I remember the last time a member in the group shared this story. It seemed like a fantasy, but I can't believe that you, @WantToGoBackToYouthAndProtectYourFace, actually went to Jiang City to try it and saw results. Is this true? We've chatted so many times before, I believe you. If it's true, I'll immediately find time to go to Jiang City to try Gu's Private Kitchen.]
[Blue Basket Doesn't Show Acne: How can someone still be advertising Gu's Private Kitchen in the group? This is too much! @Group Owner, I suggest kicking this person out of the group.]
[Hope on the Face: I thought the method someone posted about fading acne scars by eating meat dishes from a certain restaurant was outrageous, but this person is a long-time member, and I'm willing to believe you after being in the group for so long. That's great! I'm taking my daughter to Jiang City to eat at Gu's Private Kitchen during the holidays; her face was covered in acne, it broke my heart to see her like that. Finally, there's hope!]
[Drink more chrysanthemum tea to reduce acne: After seeing two before-and-after photos of my face, I couldn't resist anymore. Even if it's a scam, I'll accept it. I'm packing up and getting ready to go to Jiang City for Gu's Private Kitchen. If it doesn't work, I'll just consider it a relaxing vacation.]
[Stay Away from Acne: I was quite angry when I saw this kind of message last time. I felt like the group members and the restaurant were messing with us, stabbing us in the heart. Now that I think about it, my words were a bit harsh. @任凭逸萧, I sincerely apologize to you, I'm so sorry.]
[Get rid of acne: Now, seeing the before-and-after photos of my face shared by @想回青春期保护脸 (Want to go back to puberty and protect my face), and recalling the before-and-after photos of my face posted by @任凭逸萧 (Ren Ping Yi Xiao) back then, I just couldn't believe it—the changes in acne scars were so obvious and unedited.]
[Acne Away From Me: I'm so excited looking at the pictures in the group chat that I'm almost in tears. My acne problem, which has plagued me for so many years, finally has a new solution! Whether it works or not, I'm planning to go to Jiang City to try Gu's Private Kitchen. I've tried so many topical and oral medications from various hospitals before, why not give it a try when I'm going to Jiang City to eat what's supposedly delicious meat dishes?]
[All pimples are paper tigers: I just searched for Gu's Private Kitchen on various platforms, and everyone is praising the restaurant for its fresh and delicious meat and dishes. It seems to be very popular, so they don't need to advertise in our acne group to ruin its reputation. Therefore, the claim that eating Gu's Private Kitchen can alleviate our acne should be true. Whether you believe it or not, I'm planning to give it a try.]
Fang Nianxiang looked at the messages popping up in the group, each one quite long, showing that the group members who sent the messages were emotionally agitated.
At first, she was quite worried that if she posted about how eating Gu's Private Kitchen dishes could fade acne scars, the people in the group would be as indignant as Ren Pingyixiao had been last time.
Fang Nian had thought it all through. She shared this to clear Ren Pingyi's name and to repay her for sharing this method that saved her.
Secondly, I thought that we had been in the group for eight years, and had spent countless nights together, supporting each other and confiding in one another. If I could share some good methods to help someone, that would be the best way to do so and be true to myself.
If people in the group react strongly or say hurtful things, she will never say another word in the group again.
Fortunately, it seems that everyone has the same expectations that Ren Pingyixiao shared last time. Sharing it again just confirms the truth of what Ren Pingyixiao shared last time, and most people are still willing to accept and try it.
Fang Nian typed on her phone, replying that either her acne or her knees needed to get better, confirming that it was true, absolutely true. She couldn't be bothered with the person who demanded the group admin kick her out of the group.
Messages kept popping up in the group chat, pushing the previous discussions to the top, and she saw the latest message.
[My face is the most important thing: Since someone shared their experience, I'll chime in and share mine too. Previously, @任凭逸萧 shared that eating Gu's Private Kitchen dishes could fade acne scars, but nobody in the group believed it, and I didn't dare say anything. Because my acne was really bad, and I was really anxious, I thought it wouldn't hurt to try a local restaurant in Jiang City.]
[My face is the most important thing: First of all, I want to sincerely thank @任凭逸萧. Thank you for sharing, which gave me timely information on how to treat acne. It was very effective and greatly relieved my anxiety.]
[My face is the most important thing: I'm busy with work and live far from Gu's Private Kitchen, so I can't go there for lunch every day. I only go for dinner after work. The meat dishes at Gu's Private Kitchen are really delicious, fresh and flavorful; you'll have to queue if you go even a little late. Getting back to the point, eating their meat dishes really works for clearing up acne and fading acne scars!!!]
[My face is the most important thing: I used to get pimples every day, and I had quite a few acne scars and pits from previous pimples. After eating at Gu's Private Kitchen, I saw results the next morning. No new pimples appeared, and some immature pimples either healed or seemed to ripen and burst. They didn't leave any dark acne scars like usual; they basically all disappeared in two or three days. Also, the previous acne scars faded to some extent, and the acne pits became smoother.]
[My face is the most important thing: I've been eating at Gu's Private Kitchen for about half a month, mostly in the evenings. Sometimes I had to cancel, so it was sporadic, but my acne has been steadily improving, and I'm very satisfied. If you have the opportunity, you're welcome to come to Jiang City to try Gu's Private Kitchen!]
[Your face is the most important thing: Without further ado, let me show you my face before and after photos. I don't take photos every day, but these should be enough to provide a reference.]
[The face is the most important thing: Face comparison photos.jpg×2]
This group member sent a lot of messages in a row. The group members who were originally having a heated discussion probably realized that she sent important messages, so they all wisely fell silent, allowing her messages to continue one after another on the group chat page.
Fang Nianxiang was a little surprised when she saw it. After she posted the before-and-after photos of her face, she couldn't help but click to take a closer look. Indeed, there was a big change, and the acne on her face was visibly improving.
If she hasn't been to Jiang City or tried Gu's Private Kitchen before, she'll definitely be willing to give it a try after seeing this group member's sharing.
Fang Nian smiled. It turned out that she wasn't the only one in the acne group who was willing to believe and trust Yi Xiao to go to Gu's Private Kitchen. The silent ones were always a minority. Maybe there were several other people in the group who were willing to believe and secretly took action to try it for the sake of their faces?
Ren Yixiao will probably be happy to see the group message later.
She wondered if, since this friend in the group would occasionally come to Gu's Private Kitchen for dinner, perhaps at some point when neither of them knew it, they had met at Gu's Private Kitchen, sitting in the dining room no more than ten meters apart, enjoying the same delicious meat dishes.
After the group member who thought seeing the face was the most important thing shared their thoughts, other people in the group started to speak up one after another, and gradually everyone got excited and entered a new round of discussion.
Fang Nian thought for a while and was happy that the problem of acne that would soon be a major concern for countless people in the group would be alleviated or even solved.
She left the acne group chat window, ignoring that Yi Xiao hadn't replied yet. She simply left the QQ group, not even thinking about playing on her phone, and leaned back in her chair to rest with her eyes closed.
After landing in Huai City around 8 p.m., Fang Nianxiang carried her suitcase out of the airport to the parking lot and searched for her light gray car.
Before I could even find it, I heard my dad's voice: "Xiao Nian, I'm over here, over at the three-lane parking space."
The area around the airport was noisy, but Fang Nianxiang quickly determined the direction by following the sound and saw his father waving frantically at him and the light gray car behind him.
"dad!"
Fang Nian waved in response and quickly walked over, pulling her suitcase.
Nian's father was happy to see his daughter return, but when she got closer and he saw her face, he was astonished: "Xiao Nian, your face is all better!"
"Yes, the acne scars on my face have improved a lot. Let's get in the car first, and we'll talk more later."
"Yes, yes, let's get in the car first." Nian's father nodded quickly, as the car couldn't stay at the airport for too long.
He took his daughter's suitcase and put it in the trunk, then walked back to the driver's side, opened the door, got in, started the car, and drove out of the airport parking lot.
After merging onto the main road, while waiting at a red light, Nian's father turned to look at his daughter sitting in the passenger seat. Her face was visibly smoother, and he said happily, "So that Gu's Private Kitchen really works? Goodness, you've been keeping it from me and your mother all this time."
Fang Nianxiang flashed a bright smile: "I was thinking of giving you a surprise. You saw how surprised and happy you were when you first saw me, right? I'll surprise my mom too later."
The red light turned green, and Nian's dad started the car: "Great, your mom will be so happy to see you. You haven't mentioned your acne at all these past few days, and your mom hasn't dared to ask. She's been talking to me a lot about how things are going on your end. She made this special trip with such high hopes, and she'll be so disappointed if it doesn't work out."
"But we saw you posting those food photos in the group every day, and you seemed quite happy in your messages, so we guessed that either it was somewhat effective but you didn't say anything, or it wasn't effective but the food smelled so good that you just treated it as a trip to relax."
He and his wife didn't really believe that eating meat dishes from a certain restaurant could improve their acne scars. They had tried to dissuade their daughter, fearing she would get too carried away and be disappointed. But Xiao Nian insisted on going, and they couldn't stop her.
The couple preferred the latter. Every time Xiao Nian posted pictures of meat and vegetables in the group chat, they looked so tempting that they made their mouths water countless times.
They won't be able to go to Jiang City to eat Gu's private cuisine anytime soon; they can only look at the photos Xiao Nian posted in the group chat to satisfy their cravings.
Because of this, the couple's meals improved a bit this week. Since they couldn't eat Gu's private dishes, they tried to buy some good ingredients and cook some good dishes themselves.
Dad couldn't help but ask, "Tell me quickly, how did you notice the changes in your face this week?"
Fang Nian thought, "Let's talk about it when we get home. Mom will definitely ask me about it too."
While happy, Nian's father was also very curious: "Then tell your mother again when you get home. Tell me now, it's still at least half an hour before we get home."
Fang Nianxiang smiled helplessly, knowing that her father was concerned about her, so she started by talking about the changes she noticed the morning after she went to Jiang City to eat at Gu's Private Kitchen.
When they got home, Nian's mother was so surprised to see her daughter's face that she burst into tears, repeatedly saying, "She's better! Much better! That's wonderful!"
Fang Nianxiang hugged her mother and laughed heartily: "Mom, my face is much better, you don't need to worry anymore."
From puberty until now, her mother has taken her to see many doctors and inquired about ways to treat acne. Her mother is the person who can empathize with her the most.
Nian's mother hugged her daughter back, tears still streaming down her face, but a smile gradually spread across her face.
"Okay, I'm not worried anymore. I won't worry anymore. Tell me quickly, when did the acne scars on your face start to fade? I haven't dared to ask you these past few days."
After saying that, Nian's mother remembered something, "Wait, I made a lot of your favorite meat dishes, let's eat first."
Fang Nianxiang ate the meat and vegetables she had packed from Gu's Private Kitchen after waking up from her afternoon nap, so she wasn't hungry yet.
She was looking forward to eating her mother's cooking, so she smiled and agreed, washed her hands first, and then sat back down at the table.
Nian's mother served her daughter a bowl of white rice: "I made steamed pork patties with preserved mustard greens, steamed turbot, scrambled eggs with toon leaves, and braised winter melon with minced meat. Eat more."
"Okay, Mom, you've worked hard," Fang Nian said. These were all her favorite meat dishes.
Nian's parents had already eaten, but they were still sitting at the table with her, watching the woman they hadn't seen in a long time eat, and asking her about things in Jiang City.
Fang Nian wanted to taste the meat dishes her mother made. The taste was definitely not as good as Gu's private kitchen, but it had the taste of home and was very fragrant.
She ate while chatting with her parents, mentioning the things she had shared with her father on the way home, and sharing the changes in her acne with her mother.
That night, the Fang family of three was very happy, and the atmosphere was extremely joyful.
The streets of Suli in Jiang City are still quite lively at night. The lights from the shops that are still open shine on the road, with white, yellow, and neon lights, making it even brighter than the streetlights.
At Old Wang's Home-Style Restaurant on the street, several tables of customers were eating, drinking, and chatting. At the end of the street, the barbecue stalls were emitting thick smoke. Even if there were no customers, the noodle shop in the middle of the street insisted on staying open until 10 o'clock.
The wooden door to Gu's Private Kitchen, which is diagonally opposite the noodle shop, has been closed for a long time, and some light can be vaguely seen from the second-floor windows.
After taking a shower, Gu Qingqiu lay on the bed in her room and played on her phone for a while, relaxing her body after a busy day.
Seeing that it was almost 10 o'clock, she reluctantly put down her phone, got up again, and sat down at her desk, intending to first roughly determine tomorrow's menu in her notebook.
Besides the book "Dietary Therapy for All Diseases," there are four other books on the desk called "Daily Diet," divided into four series for spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
This was a recommendation from the big data system when she was browsing shopping apps last night. Gu Qingqiu thought it wouldn't be good to rely on "Food Therapy for All Diseases" for every dish, so it would be good to buy a few more books for reference.
She clicked in to look at the product details and felt that the content was quite good and suitable for the store's situation, so she placed an order for a set of four books.
She received the package today, and only had time to unpack it and bring it upstairs while Sister Zhou was washing dishes and cleaning the restaurant.
Gu Qingqiu picked up "Summer Daily Diet" and started reading. This book was a set of health-preserving recipes compiled and published by the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. When she opened the table of contents, she found that the recipes were divided according to the twenty-four solar terms.
She glanced at the dishes for each solar term of summer in the catalog, and some of them were quite novel and interesting, so she flipped through them to take a look.
Finally, let's return to the present moment, the Lesser Fullness solar term, and pick out one or two suitable dishes.
Before we knew it, it was the end of May. Wang Bai had completed a high number of errands this month, and even achieved the platform's target reward of 266 errands in May.
He took a day off on the weekend and brought his parents and sister to Gu's Private Kitchen, a restaurant he had been looking forward to for a long time.
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