Chapter 24: Male Lead Part 2 - Enchantress Translations

Enchantress4-5 minutes 05.02.2022

He is estimated to be 5’9” tall and wears a liberation suit,1解放装 – Liberation Clothing or People’s Volunteers Liberation Clothing – From the 1960s to the 1980s, the colors and styles of Chinese people’s clothing were very monotonous. Everyone was wearing the same green military uniform, gray tunic suit, and blue liberation suit, which was described as “the blue ocean”. which makes him even more tall and upright. The outline of his face is clear, especially his eyebrows and eyes, which look more heroic than the other man with a Chinese character-like face! His main facial features are very good-looking! It is very manly, which is different from the celebrity stars that some young girls like in the 21st century.

Liberation Suits

Zhao Xiulan still prefers this kind of mature and manly man, so she couldn’t help but gaze at him for a while.

It seems that he felt her gaze, so the man also looked in Zhao Xiulan’s direction.

Ahem ahem… Zhao Xiulan was a little embarrassed and turned her head away!

She stared at some other man so eagerly that she could have probably frightened him. After all, this era is still very conservative, and the relationship between men and women is relatively pure.

The man also retracted his gaze, found an empty table, and sat down with the man that has a Chinese character-like face.

The name of the man with a Chinese character-like face is Lu Qingguo, and the man that Zhao Xiulan thinks is handsome is Jiang Cheng.

After sitting down, Lu Qingguo told Jiang Cheng, “Ah Cheng, I’ll treat you today, you should eat more, so don’t be polite to me!”

Jiang Cheng hurriedly waved his hand and said, “No, Qingguo, I should treat you today instead!”

Lu Qingguo had a stern face and was a little unhappy, then said, “How can this work? You came all the way to Anxian County, so I am the host and I invite you to this meal! How can there be any reason for you to be the host here?”

Jiang Cheng also said solemnly, “Qingguo, don’t be polite to me. I ran all the way here to bother you with something. If you don’t let me buy you this first meal, I will be embarrassed to ask you for help in the future!

So, I’ll treat you this time! You can invite me for a meal next time, what do you think?

If you don’t agree, then I won’t ask you for help anymore!”

Lu Qingguo was helpless, so he nodded and said, “All right, you can pay for today, but only this time. I must invite you next time and treat you to a meal.”

Jiang Cheng nodded in agreement, “Okay, next time, it’s your treat!”

The waiter walked up to these two men and asked, “Comrades, what do you want to eat?”

It’s probably because he saw that Lu Qingguo and Jiang Cheng were dressed a little better than Zhao Xiulan, so the waiter’s attitude towards them is obviously much more polite.

Zhao Xiulan snorted softly in her heart, Heh~ Isn’t he a snob?

Jiang Cheng asked, “Do you have any meat here?”

Since he was there to treat his friend, Jiang Cheng wanted to get him some delicious food.

If you can eat meat, then you must eat meat!

The waiter shook his head, “None, whether it’s pork, beef, or mutton, they are all sold out already!”

“Then what else do you have here?” Jiang Cheng, like Zhao Xiulan, asked with some disappointment.

“Rice, flour-based, and some vegetables dishes.”

“That’s all? Nothing else?”

“Comrade, I’m sorry, our state-owned restaurant has limited ingredients. We haven’t gotten any good ingredients in the past two days and the supply is not enough for the restaurant, so these are the only dishes we can offer!”

Lu Guoqing from the side hurriedly said, “Ah Cheng, there is shortage of foodstuff everywhere, and state-owned restaurants often lack ingredients. Let’s just eat whatever they have, it’s fine as long as we can fill our stomachs, don’t be too particular about it!”

Jiang Cheng thought he could invite him to eat some delicious food, but they only have these things here, so he just ordered some dishes from the state-owned restaurant.

Jiang Cheng ordered two bowls of noodles and he deliberately asked the waiter to add more into the bowls. Two grown men eat a little more. In addition, he ordered a bowl of stewed vermicelli with cabbage, a plate of stir-fried shredded potatoes, and a bowl of cabbage and egg drop soup.