lcionline Chapter 584: No Idle People
Chapter 584: No Idle People
Wen Xi picked up the items and put them into the warehouse. She knew that Lin Yiwan was also putting them into the space, otherwise the basket would not be full yet.
After all, there are really a lot of snails at this time, and a basket can be filled up quickly.
Wen Xi was afraid that Lin Yiwan would think too much, so he filled his own basket first, and then went ashore to wait for Lin Yiwan. When Lin Yiwan's basket was also full, the two of them left carrying the heavy baskets.
They came to the river, washed their boots and the mud off the snails, and then the two of them carried the snails home.
Lin Yiwan said, "My eldest brother went back after being in Wangshu for twenty days. I guess Wangshu will be older when we meet next time."
"They are so busy taking care of the whole family that they have no time to take care of their own. But luckily, I have a good sister like you. In the future, you can take care of your sister-in-law and niece for your eldest brother. In fact, my second brother is the same. He doesn't have much time to go home all year round, and he can only go home after the project is completed. If I have a second sister-in-law in the future, if my second sister-in-law is a good person, I will definitely help take care of her for my second brother. But if she is the kind of troublemaker, I will go wherever it is cooler and will never get involved at all." Wen Xi could empathize with Lin Yiwan's feelings.
Wenrou did these things to her. Even if they were sisters, she would not care about Wenrou's affairs in the future, and she would not provide financial or material support to Wenrou's children.
Call her biased or whatever, she would definitely not help her enemy raise a child.
Therefore, whether she treats her future sister-in-law well or not depends on her character, rather than being nice to her blindly. If her sister-in-law is a bad person, just like Wenrou, it will cause harm to her or her family. If she still treats her sister-in-law well, wouldn't that be aiding and abetting evil?
Although she really wanted to bring Lin Yiwan and her second brother together, it required that they were destined to be together. People without destiny would not be happy if they were forced to be together.
Wenxi returned home and kept the snails in clean water. Seeing this, Shen Jiaojiao said helplessly, "Xiaoxi, we picked up so many tonight, isn't that enough?"
Wen Xi shook her head and said with a smile, "I'm just too bored. I want to go out and kill some time. Is that not okay? I picked up these snails to eat myself. I'll make spicy snails for you in a couple of days."
Afterwards, Wenxi took a basket and went to pick vegetables from the yard. She planted a lot of vegetables in the yard, which was more than enough for the three of them to eat. They could even dry the vegetables and make pickled cabbage!
Two days later, after Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue went out, Wen Xi slipped into the machine room of the system warehouse.
He used a machine to process the snails and crayfish, then found a child, gave him two candies, and asked him to help deliver a note to Wang Xinru.
There was only one sentence on the note, asking Wang Xinru to come over to help at noon.
What help?
Of course, it is to help with eating.
As soon as Wang Xinru saw the contents of the note, she understood. As a foodie, she had some tacit understanding with him.
Wang Xinru didn't wait until noon. She went straight to ask Captain Qian for leave. After all, it was not the busiest time for the double harvest yet, so if there was anything, she could ask for leave.
When Yao Hongbo heard the name "Wenxi", he knew that Wang Xinru was going to find Wenxi, so he hurried to follow her. When he saw her asking for leave, he also hurried to ask for leave.
He really had no ill intentions in looking for Wen Xi. It was just the feeling of fellow villagers meeting and wanting to get closer!
Although Shen Jiaojiao is also a fellow villager, Shen Jiaojiao did not go to high school, so Yao Hongbo naturally did not know her.
Wen Xi had just brought out a large basin of crabs when he heard a knock on the door. He saw Wang Xinru standing outside the door. He was about to let Wang Xinru in, but saw Yao Hongbo following behind.
"Yao Hongbo, why are you here?" Wen Xi asked curiously.
Yao Hongbo looked uncomfortable and didn't know how to answer.
"Come on, come in!" Wen Xi said helplessly, "Since you're here, help me with the work. I don't accept idlers here."
Wen Xi led Wang Xinru and Yao Hongbo to the well, taught Wang Xinru how to remove shrimp threads and Yao Hongbo how to clean crabs, and then left these two tasks to them while she went to the kitchen to busy herself.
She first washed, cut, and arranged the cucumbers, cowpeas, broccoli, lettuce, and other vegetables on a plate. When the time came, she cooked lunch, then lit a fire and started making spicy snails. Soon the overbearing aroma drifted into the yard.
Yao Hongbo couldn't help swallowing, "It smells so good, I'm almost drooling."
Wang Xinru smiled faintly and said nothing. She didn't want to tell Yao Hongbo how good Wen Xi's cooking skills were, otherwise what if he came to disturb Wen Xi often in the future?
Although she really wanted to have dinner with Wen Xi, she also knew that it was impossible.
Besides, why should others take her out to eat?
Wenxi made two servings of snails, one was spicy snails with various side dishes added, and the other was garlic snails with only a little bit of chili so that people who can't eat spicy food can eat the garlic snails.
Wen Xi left a large bowl of snails for Qin Mi. She had made a large pot of snails for both portions, so leaving so much would not affect whether everyone could enjoy the meal.
As for the snail sauce, she had prepared it in the system kitchen and would ask Qin Mi to take it to the county town and mail it tomorrow morning.
After the snails were done, Wen Xi came out to check on the progress of the crayfish. Seeing that the crayfish's shrimp threads had been removed, Wen Xi said, "Wang Xinru, you've worked hard today. Eat more at noon."
Wang Xinru smiled shyly, "I can't compare to how hard you work. You've already dealt with so many things this morning."
Wenxi processed the snails and crayfish, and she was just doing the final step of processing the crayfish. She was really not as hard-working as Wenxi!
Wen Xi picked up the crayfish and said to Yao Hongbo, "Yao Hongbo, bring in the crabs once you've cleaned them."
Afterwards, Wen Xi and Wang Xinru each took a pot of crayfish to the kitchen. Wang Xinru helped to light the fire. Wen Xi also made the crayfish in two flavors, one spicy and the other garlic.
Smelling the overbearing fragrance, Wang Xinru felt like she was swallowing her saliva as if it was free.
Yao Hongbo brought the cleaned crabs into the kitchen. Wen Xi took out half of the crabs to steam, and asked Yao Hongbo to cut the remaining half into two, then dip the cut into some flour, and then fry the crabs in a pan to make spicy crabs.
After all the seafood was prepared, Wenxi stir-fried water spinach, amaranth, pumpkin tips and sweet potato tips, and also made loofah soup.
Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue had returned a long time ago, but there was no use for them in the kitchen, so Wen Xi asked them to deliver a bowl of snails and crayfish to Chang Qingqing's house and Captain Qian's house next door, but no deliveries were made for other people.