Mom, the Kid, and Kindhearted Liu Chang'an

Bai Hui took out the camera. The OTUS 85 is a high-quality manual lens with Zeiss components, so it's naturally expensive. It feels heavy and substantial in your hand, a quality that gear enthusiasts and those who love to touch things love.

Bai Hui just wanted to try out the feel of a manual lens. Generally, these second-hand lenses hold their value well; you can basically buy them for the same price and sell them for the same price, so even if you lose money, you won't lose much.

The 85mm focal length is very suitable for shooting half-body portraits. In fact, on a full-frame camera, an 85mm lens can be used very well in rooms of 50 square meters or more. Most high-end hotel rooms are about this size, or even larger, and if they are smaller, they won't be much smaller.

"I've compared them. Actually, this lens doesn't use the same materials as the 50mm one, but its optical quality is probably even better," Bai Hui said with great ambition. Her thinking was simple: she was so beautiful, of course she needed good equipment to express her beauty and bring out her lovely temperament.

Even girls who know photography have this kind of thinking, so it's no wonder that many photographers like to use seemingly professional equipment to seduce girls and take photos.

Girls should take note: a photographer who commissions shoots everywhere, has a long shooting history, and has good equipment, but rarely publishes his work, or publishes very few, of mediocre quality, and mainly focuses on photos of girls, is likely not very interested in photography. A little thought will reveal where his interests lie.

"Don't you think it's too heavy?" Liu Chang'an took it and held it in his hand. The camera and lens both exuded a clumsy and rough feel.

"It's alright. I've noticed that most female photographers rarely complain about the weight of their equipment, while some male enthusiasts like to nitpick and haggle over a few tens or hundreds of grams of weight. It's so embarrassing." Bai Hui held the lens, touched it, and rotated it around. Girls like these thick lenses; they look impressive and have a lot of light transmission. When shooting, looking at those big, eye-like lenses gives them a great feeling.

"Then try it out on me. I don't need to change clothes. I'm pretty good-looking, with a good temperament and figure. I look good in any clothes," Liu Chang'an stated truthfully.

Bai Hui glanced at Liu Chang'an. His words sounded like boasting, but they were actually true... So this person wasn't exaggerating after all? Did he really think she was just average-looking when he always said that?

Bai Hui really wanted to ask him if he really thought she was just average-looking? But she couldn't bring herself to ask, as if all her courage had been used up in her previous confession.

The thought that she had actually confessed to him made Bai Hui's cheeks flush. She quickly raised her camera to cover her face, glanced at him through the lens, and her heart was pounding.

When Liu Chang'an returned home, Shangguan Dandan had not yet come back. Liu Chang'an took out his phone and glanced at Shangguan Dandan's WeChat Moments, and found that she had posted a photo five minutes earlier, showing that she had drawn a good hand of cards.

Liu Chang'an casually swiped her phone; she had already posted ten updates on her WeChat Moments today, all about how she had gotten a great hand and won again.

It seems Qin Yanan and Zhu Juntang have Shangguan Dandan very happy... Liu Chang'an just doesn't understand, this is clearly a game where others are giving away cards, what's the point of playing?

Perhaps Shangguan Dandan simply enjoys this kind of harmonious scene between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, as she perceives it? Liu Chang'an shook his head, then went upstairs to Zhou Shuling's house to see what they had for dinner.

Zhou Shuling was busy in the kitchen. She was squatting next to the sink, revealing a small section of her fair skin on her lower back. Her clean, white hands were gripping a brush and scrubbing a pig's trotter with great effort. A strand of sweaty hair hung down beside her face, swaying with the movement of her arms. A housewife may not be so refined, but her virtuous temperament was very pleasing to the eye.

"When did you arrive?" Zhou Shuling raised her hand to wipe her forehead and noticed Liu Chang'an standing by the door. Seeing him leaning there, she wondered when he had gotten there. Zhou Shuling quickly tugged at her clothes, feeling a little embarrassed.

"You don't need to prepare any meals for Shangguan Dandan tonight. Do you want it stewed, braised, or stir-fried?" Liu Chang'an still really likes to eat pig's feet. In the past, everyone couldn't afford meat, but later everyone could afford meat, and now many people have started to look down on pork... One day, pork will definitely become noble again.

"Tonight we're having stir-fried pig's trotters, and I'm planning to make Germany poached pork knuckle," Zhou Shuling said somewhat boastfully. She felt that adding a foreign name would make the dish sound much more sophisticated. This was a new dish she had learned, not one she had invented herself, so she confidently told Liu Chang'an directly, rather than anxiously awaiting his comments after she had finished making it.

"Stewed pig's feet is stewed pig's feet, why bother with Germany boiled pork knuckle?" Liu Chang'an scoffed dismissively. This young wife of his only thought was to prove her cooking skills. Now it seems she hasn't made any progress in technique, so she's just trying to impress Western restaurants by focusing on the name.

"A girl in the restaurant had a relative who came back from Germany and brought her Germany sauerkraut. She said it's meant to be eaten with Germany boiled pork knuckle, and she gave me a packet. So I found a recipe, learned how to make it, and specially bought pig's feet from our Ningxiang Black Pig to prepare," Zhou Shuling said, patting the plump pig's hind leg.

Ningxiang Black Pig are considered a high-end pork brand, costing thirty or forty yuan per jin in supermarkets now. Liu Chang'an said admiringly, "Someone gave you a bag of pickled cabbage that cost a few yuan, and you bought a large pig's trotter that cost over a hundred yuan to go with it."

"Who... who said it only costs a few dollars? Maybe it's expensive?" Zhou Shuling thought for a moment and realized something seemed off, so she insisted somewhat guiltily.

"Germany do like to eat pork knuckle with sauerkraut, and the smoked pork knuckle from Bavaria is quite distinctive... Overall, Germany cuisine isn't that great. You should just make a proper sauerkraut stew with pork knuckle; it'll taste about the same," Liu Chang'an suggested.

Zhou Shuling muttered something under her breath, not even knowing what she was saying. She looked up at Liu Chang'an with a sullen expression. All she wanted to do was cook something new for everyone, so why didn't he support her?

"Go ahead and do it. You still have those two big cases of discounted beer you bought last time. Germany beer with your Germany sauerkraut and Germany boiled pork knuckle, how ceremonial!" Liu Chang'an shook his head when he saw the look in her eyes that seemed to indicate he was bullying her, and walked out of the kitchen.

Zhou Shuling made up her mind to make it taste really good, and with that thought, she scrubbed the pig's feet even harder.

When Liu Chang'an came in, he saw Zhou Dongdong eating a watermelon while watching TV. After staying in the kitchen for a while, Zhou Dongdong finished eating the watermelon and was using a Phillips screwdriver to make holes in the remaining watermelon rind.

"She'll definitely wear the watermelon rind on her head," Liu Chang'an thought, sitting down on the sofa without disturbing Zhou Dongdong, who was intently drilling holes in the watermelon rind.

Soon, Zhou Dongdong successfully dug two holes in the watermelon rind. Just as Liu Chang'an expected, the clever child took her mother's scarf, stuffed it into the watermelon, sucked out the juice, wiped it clean, and then stuck her head in, covering her head with the entire watermelon rind.

"Oh no, I can't see." Zhou Dongdong's original plan was to make a helmet out of the watermelon rind, just like the helmets worn by ancient generals in TV dramas, but when she put it on, the two holes she cut out were not aligned with her eyes.

Zhou Dongdong grabbed the watermelon rind and twisted around a few times, only to find his head stuck. For a moment, he was at a loss and stood there motionless.

"You can't see anything, so you're afraid to move, worried you might fall, right?" Liu Chang'an said after taking a picture with his phone.

"Brother Chang'an!" Zhou Dongdong heard Liu Chang'an's voice and realized that her savior had arrived, so she quickly ran towards the direction from which Liu Chang'an had spoken.

Liu Chang'an quickly reached out and caught her. This silly child, who was just afraid of falling and knew to stand still, is now rushing forward without seeing anything.

Liu Chang'an helped her peel the watermelon rind. Seeing that her hair was wet and her face was covered in watermelon pulp and juice, he couldn't help but laugh. He took two more photos to send to Zhou Shuling later. If he sent them to Zhou Shuling today, Zhou Dongdong would get a beating... Liu Chang'an was kind-hearted today.