CH 65

The eyes of Tang San Yuan drifted up, his fingers unconsciously opened the milk candy and threw it into his mouth, then squinted his eyes in deliciousness, instantly forgetting the blush he felt just now.

Gu An already gave him milk candies to eat, such a good person will certainly also keep his pheromones a secret.

He couldn’t help but smile and looked up to ask Gu An, “What are we going to do next? Peddle like the others?”

The other two groups had already made so much money, they would have to work even harder.

Gu An looked around, around them were green hills and blue water, stone bricks on the shore, there were leisurely old uncles and old aunts, the breeze was blowing from time to time, laughter continued endlessly.

“Would the uncles and aunts want to eat lotus roots?” Tang San Yuan couldn’t help but ask a question as he watched the uncles and aunts dancing with swords with great interest.

Gu An hooked his lips, looked down and took out his phone to search for it. After a while, he looked at his phone without raising his head and said, “Xiao San Ge, go and ask the programme team for a wooden sign just like Ji Mei’s group, one that can be written on, and a marker.”

Tang San Yuan nodded and immediately went to the programme team and asked for the things Gu An said.

Gu An took the pen, and wrote on the wooden board while looking at his phone.

[Nourishes blood and replenishes Qi, promoting salivation and quenching thirst, clearing heat and cooling blood, lowering blood sugar and blood pressure, beautifying and nourishing the skin……]

Tang San Yuan stood beside him for a while, only to find that he was writing about the nutritional value and efficacy of lotus roots.

Tang San Yuan: “……” really wants to sell to the uncles and aunts around ah.

What elderly are most concerned about keeping in good health. The nutritional value of lotus roots was written out by Gu An, which attracted everyone’s attention, and the uncles and aunts gradually gathered around.

An uncle wearing glasses came over and looked at it carefully, then asked, “Young man, is what you wrote true?”

Gu An was not a medical student after all, so he just said truthfully, “It is written in the medical book.”

A young aunt with a folding fan for dancing in her hand in a red dress laughed: “You two are so handsome, did you eat lotus roots?”

The little sisters next to her couldn’t help but all laugh.

Gu An and Tang San Yuan knew they meant no harm and just laughed cooperatively.

The older woman asked again, “Can you give us a taste of the lotus roots you sell?”

“Of course you can.” Tang San Yuan took out the tasting bag they had prepared in advance and handed it to her with a small fork inserted. Since she was an old person, Tang San Yuan took the glutinous rice lotus root and not the spicy one.

But the red-clothed aunt pushed back and said in a sharp voice, “I want to eat spicy food, don’t look down on us old people, we are better at eating spicy food than you all.”

Tang San Yuan laughed at the proud look of the aunty and took out the spicy lotus root slices and gave them to everyone to try.

The aunts and uncles shared among themselves piece by piece. After tasting it, the aunty couldn’t help but exclaim, “It tastes really good, these two young men have such a good attitude, we have to buy more for them.”

The uncle wearing glasses nodded, “The most important thing is that it is good for your health, this effect is right for my symptoms, I want to buy some more to eat.”

“I’ll buy some too, so I can get a good beauty treatment.”

……

Under the initiative of the red-clothed aunt, the other uncles and aunts started buying, and for a while their stall was bustling like never before. Gu An received the money and put it into Tang San Yuan’s hands, and Tang San Yuan could hardly count the money.

As Cai Ke Ke watched from afar, he was so angry that he forgot to pretend to be soft and shouted even louder in a fit of rage: “Lotus roots are for sale! Lotus roots for sale! Big, sweet lotus roots! Buy them and you’ll won’t lose out!”

……

“Which one of you made these lotus roots?” The aunt in red had nothing else to do and squatted at the side and continued talking to Tang San Yuan, asking with a very cheerful smile.

While busy collecting money, Tang San Yuan pointed at Gu An and smiled, “He made them.”

The aunt looked Gu An up and down with an admiring gaze, the more she saw, the more satisfied she was, “I didn’t expect this young man to be such a good cook at such a young age, he’s handsome too, is he seeing anyone?”

At their age, they didn’t listen to many pop songs, so no one recognised Gu An, they just thought he was an ordinary lotus root seller.

Gu An glanced at Tang San Yuan, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and replied to the old lady, “I’m close to having one.”

The aunt was enthused, “Then you don’t have one yet. Young man, when you are young you should give yourself more choices, how about I introduce you to a few?”

Gu An shook his head and smiled lightly, “No need, I have someone I like.”

“That’s a pity……,” the aunt sighed regretfully and moved her eyes back to Tang San Yuan’s face, “What about you young man? Although you are not as good a cook as this young man, but you are as handsome as this young man, how about I introduce you to a few too? I don’t know about others, but I know exactly who has good girls and boys within a hundred miles of here.”

Tang San Yuan quickly waved his hand, “No need, no need, you can just buy more lotus roots for us.”

“We have to buy lotus roots, but introducing someone can’t be rejected1. Young man, what kind of partner do you want to find ah? Don’t think that it is no hurry now because you are young, it will be too late to regret later.” The aunt squatted for a long time, her legs may have some numbness and she moved out a hand to pound it while still not giving up on talking.

The good sister next to her looked at Tang San Yuan for a while and suddenly let out an ai yo: “I say why does this look so familiar, isn’t this the young man from that TV drama being broadcast on TV? His name is……called Tang San Yuan!”

Everyone looked over at once, and the lady in red took a closer look and stood up with a clap of her leg, “That’s right, I didn’t recognise him until you told me.”

“A star ah!”

“No wonder he’s so good looking, I was just saying it’s a pity that such a handsome guy is selling lotus roots here, but it turns out he’s really a star.”

“Isn’t that the cameraman standing next to him? Look at him, we were so focused on the two handsome guys that we didn’t even see him.”

Even though Tang San Yuan was used to the attention of the crowd, he was surrounded by this group of uncles and aunts and could not help but feel a little embarrassed.

The lady in red’s eyes got brighter and patted Tang San Yuan’s shoulder, saying, “Are you stars not worried about finding a partner? But you also have to cast a wide net and focus on selection. The girls and boys I introduced to you are all good, you can add friends and get to know each other.”

Tang San Yuan was defeated by the aunt’s persistence and was at a loss as to what to do when Gu An suddenly stood up after selling the lotus roots in his hand and came up to lean into the aunt’s ear, not sure what he said, the surroundings were too noisy, Tang San Yuan didn’t hear what he said.

The aunt’s eyes changed, her line of sight ambiguously shuttled back and forth between Tang San Yuan and Gu An and finally slapped Gu An on the back, with a face of understanding2, “Young man, go for it! Aunt was young before too, I understand, I understand.”

Tang San Yuan was a little surprised and looked at them, opened his mouth to try to answer the aunt’s previous question, “Aunt, the matter you just mentioned of introducing partners……”

“Introduce what partner introduce partner3!” The aunt’s face looked disapproving of the accusation, “Young man, you need to know how to cherish the person in front of you, you can not be so philandering at a young age, no matter who introduces a partner you also can’t look, do you understand?”

Tang San Yuan: “……” How did you change so fast?

The aunt’s good sisters came over with their mobile phones and smiled at Tang San Yuan, “Young man, you can take a photo with us, it’s a rare encounter with a star, we want to take the photo and show off to the other sisters.”

“Ok.” Tang San Yuan smiled politely and walked over to take a picture with them.

After they took a picture, they pulled him and didn’t want to let go of him. A few of the older women even held his arm enthusiastically, “Ai yo, young man, you have really good skin, what kind of maintenance products do you usually use?”

Tang San Yuan shook his head a little embarrassed, “I don’t use any special supplements, just some soup my daddy makes for me occasionally.”

“It’s good to be young, look at this tender skin, it looks hydrated……” said an older woman who wanted to reach out and touch Tang San Yuan’s face, after all it was the first time she had seen a star so close up, it was rare.

Gu An suddenly came over and pulled Tang San Yuan back from the crowd, successfully stopping the aunt from approaching.

The aunts glared at Gu An, “Young man, don’t be so stingy ma, what’s wrong with just letting us touch for a while.”

The aunt in red smiled and spoke for Gu An, “Young peoples affairs, you don’t understand.”

Gu An blocked in front of Tang San Yuan, a perfect smile raised on his cold face, “Actually I am also a star, you guys can’t be so biased and only like Xiao San Ge ah.”

The smile on Gu An’s face that had once set the highest sales record of a famous magazine, immediately charmed the aunts and successfully drew everyone’s attention to him.

Tang San Yuan was relieved, everyone was too enthusiastic and he was a bit overwhelmed.

The crowd first exclaimed in amazement, and after the surprise, they asked the same question to Gu An, “Young man, would you like to take a photo with us?”

Gu An nodded with a smile and whispered to Tang San Yuan, “Xiao San Ge, you go back and watch the stall.”

“Ok.” Tang San Yuan returned to his stall and continued to sell lotus roots, but because of the presence of these grandparents, more and more people gathered in front of the stall, and the lotus roots were almost sold out.

Gu An was dragged to take pictures after pictures. Everyone was enthusiastic, Gu An cooperated one by one with a smile on his face. When they finally let him go, all the lotus roots in front of the stall had already been sold out, and Tang San Yuan counted the money and put it away carefully.

Before she left, the lady in red did not forget to tell Tang San Yuan, “Young man, cherish the person in front of you!”

Tang San Yuan nodded with a smile and waved goodbye to everyone together with Gu An, looking at the uncles and aunts who were walking away, they couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief at the same time.

Gu An and Tang San Yuan smiled at each other, and Tang San Yuan asked in a whisper, avoiding the camera, “What did you say to the aunt just now ah?”

He was very curious about what method Gu An used to make the aunt stop thinking about introducing someone in an instant, and he wanted to learn so that he could use the same method the next time he encountered something like this.

Gu An gave him a lofty look, “I said I’m going to pursue you.”

“…… “Tang San Yuan froze for a moment, then showed an expression of understanding and lowered his voice, “You’re so smart to think of this method to make the aunt retreat knowing difficulty4.”

“……” Gu An did not speak again for half a day and fell into some sort of silence alone.

Tang San Yuan packed up the things in the stall and gave him a puzzled look, “What’s wrong with you?”

Gu An looked at him speechlessly, peeled a piece of milk candy and threw it into his mouth.

Tbh idk if this is correct, the Chinese raws doesn’t quite make sense to me so I changed it a bit. Raw: 但是介绍对象也不能当

心照不宣 (xīn zhào bù xuān): an idiom, means to understand each other in the heart but not say it publicly.

I know it doesn’t quite make sense but this is exactly what she said.

知难而退 (zhī nán ér tuì): an idiom, means to retreat in time when encountering unfavourable situations.