🤔Since she literally just sold the recipe for Candied Hawthorn to the restaurant; it seems to me that it would be more showy and ostentatious to gift that, than gifting a little meat. Also, since noone has had candied Hawthorn before they might be slow to try the dish or even understand her intentions. That being said, giving the candies hawthorn is a good idea even if the logic she is using is flawed. Really, there was no reason to mention meat at all.

Yes, sugar is a luxury product. You can process sugar from things other than sugar cane; such as sugar beets. However, I'm not aware of which plants grow wild in China that would be suitable for sugar processing.

One day I will be able to remember the monetary system in these novels. But that day is not today. Maybe I should try to make a chart.. err.. An egg = 4 wen; 500 wen= a tael of silver; N tael of silver = an ingot of silver.. and still there is gold... and land should be remembered in the same way that in middle school all my money was equated to books. I could get popcorn and soda at the movies or 2 books at the bookstore.

maybe a pharmacy, an import company, or a privately owned for profit hospital

I really like that the author keeps reminding us of who these people are. Sure it might be wordy but it helps keep all the characters straight.

It seems that the missing content from the repetition is only the parts where the main characters have any intent of physical intimacy. It interferes with the flow of the story a great deal. I'm not totally against the idea of content repetition if it is done well and if there is a reason for it. Having physical intimacy at the end of a chapter, to then remove it at the beginning of the next chapter, could meet the second requirement. However, the key is that there doesn't need to be that much repetition; perhaps one or two lines, and there should be an agreeded upon symbol used to denote the beginning of an end of the physical intimacy in the story. In this way readers who get embarrassed reading about more than holding hands can skip those sections. That would make the repetition meet my first requirement of being done well. On the other hand by skipping those sections the reader does miss some of the main characters' development in their personal character growth and relationship. Mainly, my take away is that the content repetition in this story is about as well done as Fat Fat and Fatty's hair cut.

Is that a thing that works? 🤔 somehow I feel like you would end up with burnt ginger .. but maybe that layer of burnt ginger keeps the fish from sticking. My fish cooking skills are limited to one recipe; so I really wouldn't know.

It's a very focused comic of sweet love. It made a perfect pick me up during breakfast over a couple of days.

"Only around.." the time when the fireflies start their mating light show, "did she go to bed."Is that when she went to sleep? or maybe she went to sleep, "when the bats returned to their colonies;" if she went to sleep later. Or perhaps it's something like "when the constellation of the (some made up constellation; perhaps called The Great Merchant) descended below the horizon."

in the sentence "... check if there are alive..." "there," should be changed to "they are," or the contraction "they're." "There" is a word that refers to a place, such as "not here but over there." "They are" refers to a group's state of being. Be careful of your autocorrect thinking it knows better than you.

Invited to work in a Chinese kitchen in America; this sounds exhausting.

There is a tense issue in this paragraph. The word "bind," should be the word "bound."

Usually I'm against changing names in translations, but these names are madness inducing. There's the mother-in-law; Wang Clan, the daughter-in-law; Little Wang Clan, and the grandson (a.k.a. Little Wang Clan's son), Little Wang Clan. There has to be a better way to go about translating their names so when we have all three characters interacting with eachother it isn't a confusing mess of "Little Wang Clan," yanking her own ears or a confusion on who committed the offense. Maybe the grandson could be called "Xiao Wang Clan," "Child Wang Clan," or "Wang Clan Baby." Or maybe they can all three just be renamed "Alan" with a different spelling; mother-in-law; Allan, daughter-in-law; Alen, grandson; Allen.

That's a nice euphemism.

Is it a new form of Polio? Sorry, I keep seeing documentaries about polio when I turn on my TV. I didn't quite understand the speed at which polio incapacitates a person. Truthfully, I didn't have much concept about the realities of polio. So, while my brain is assimilating and ruminating over the knowledge; it's easily brought to mind.

I am at least thankful that in this sentence she wasn't called "Eldest Maid." "Eldest girl," might not be the best translation connotation wise, but Daohua is only 9 years old. So, at least it makes sense. ~ Also, your comment's obvious emotions made me happy. 😀

New senior maid? Shouldn't Ping Tong be "sizing up this" New eldest daughter? I'm pretty sure our Female Lead didn't move into her father's house to become Cinderella.

Family members just keep showing up in this story. It's so exciting. At first I thought there was only 2 daughters. Then the third daughter shower up to make trouble. And now there is a brother hinted at. Is there a real brother or a hypothetical not yet born brother? I don't know but we'll find out sometime.

If she had used her real name her husband probably would have found her by now. I'm sure he left orders to look for someone with her name. 🙄

Spanish Flu in the 20th century. There is also the Swine flu and the avian flu. Those two had less global effects but had impacts in certain locations. Frankly a more virulent variant of tuberculosis is just as frightening to me as a flu pandemic. Tuberculosis was a huge problem in the 19th century. RSV; while not a global problem, is also not a fun virus. .. the feeling of drowning while coughing almost nonstop is not something I hope to repeat.