After the braised river prawns were cooked, Wenxi waited until they weren't so hot before peeling them with her hands. She removed the hard shell from the head and was surprised to find it full of prawn roe. She removed the black stuff inside the roe and ate it, feeling incredibly satisfied and happy.

The shrimp meat was also smooth and elastic. The meat of a single large shrimp was too big to fit in one bite, so it had to be eaten in two bites. Wenxi felt full after eating only a few shrimp, which shows how big the shrimp must be.

She didn't eat the remaining shrimp, but put them directly in the system kitchen, because they wouldn't change in the system kitchen and she could eat them anytime.

There were too few large river shrimp; less than 300 jin were caught from the two lotus ponds, so Wenxi didn't plan to sell them; she wanted to keep them for her family to eat slowly.

When Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue returned, Wen Xi served each of them four large river shrimp in a bowl, because she herself had felt full after eating the fourth shrimp.

After washing their hands and faces, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue came over to eat the shrimp. "What kind of shrimp is this? It tastes even better than crayfish! And the shrimp meat is so big!"

"I don't know what kind of shrimp it is, it should be a kind of river shrimp, anyway, as long as it's edible." At this time, no one knew what kind of shrimp it was, so Wenxi just pretended not to know.

However, since there are large river shrimp here, she can take advantage of this season to collect more large river shrimp, because this is the season when large river shrimp are the fattest and tastiest.

"I'm going to town to buy meat tomorrow morning, but I'll be back before I make lunch. You guys deliver the mint water to everyone, and then wash and chop the vegetables and wait for me to come back to cook." The three of them sat under the eaves, and Wenxi instructed, "No matter what happens, someone in the canteen must stay and watch our food, understand?"

Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue nodded as they ate shrimp. "Xiaoxi, don't worry, we will never give anyone a chance to frame us."

The next morning, after getting up, Wenxi first put the things that everyone had collected into the system warehouse, weighed them, registered them, cooked breakfast, and then went up the mountain with her basket on her back.

She bought the meat yesterday, so there's no need to go today. She just went to the waterfall to harvest the vegetables and pick the ripe wild fruits, creating the illusion that she was going to town to buy meat!

Because she arrived late, some of the peaches had already fallen to the ground and rotted, so she quickly picked the peaches that were already turning red. Peaches taste good even if they are a little firm.

Because she needed to get back before noon to cook, Wenxi didn't linger there. She put the pig offal in a bamboo basket in the stream and quickly picked the vegetables she could. She also looked at the watermelons, which had grown quite a bit and the vines could no longer cover them. However, Wenxi remembered the time when the watermelons were ripe and knew they weren't ready yet, so she didn't touch them.

The hyacinth beans are blooming too, and I didn't expect hyacinth bean flowers to be so pretty!

After picking all the fruits and vegetables, Wenxi went to the stream to wash the pig offal. She rolled up her trouser legs, took off her shoes, and went into the water, standing above the pig offal so that the oil stains on the offal wouldn't float onto her legs.

After washing away the filth from the pig offal, Wenxi collected it and went back down the mountain. She walked in the direction of the pigsty, carrying the ten jin of second-grade meat she had bought yesterday in a basket on her back, heading towards the main canteen.

When they saw that Wenxi had actually bought meat, Wang Xiaoju and Sun Mei's faces lit up with joy. They hadn't seen Wenxi for a while and were quite upset, always thinking that she was slacking off. They didn't really believe Shen Jiaojiao when she said that Wenxi had gone to buy meat, after all, who would be so foolish as to buy meat for everyone to eat!

But now that they saw Wenxi had actually brought back meat, they were naturally happy. Although there were many people and they wouldn't get much, they could at least have a few bites, right?

Wenxi called Shen Jiaojiao, and the two of them went to the river bend to wash the meat. Wenxi asked Shen Jiaojiao to use the meat to catch small fish, while she went to the riverbank to pick small celery stalks. She was going to make a dish of stir-fried celery and meat for everyone at noon today.

Second-class meat is scraps, which contain all sorts of things, but Wenxi knows how to cook it, so even scraps are no worse than meat in her eyes, after all, she can make pig offal taste so good.

Wenxi picked enough celery and took it to the water's edge to process it carefully. First, she removed the large leaves, then washed the celery thoroughly. Back in the canteen, Wenxi used pork skin and pork fat to render oil. The rendered oil could be used for stir-frying, and the cracklings could be eaten directly or used for stir-frying.

The remaining meat was chopped into minced meat and used to stir-fry with celery. The reason for chopping it into minced meat was to prevent people who were too particular from feeling that they had less meat than others, or that others had more meat. Meat cannot be counted like bones.

Before we even entered the canteen, the aroma of meat filled the air, making everyone's mouths water. Although harvesting wheat was hard work, life was truly wonderful these days!

Captain Qian's decision to have Wenxi cook was absolutely right, because they never received such treatment during the busy farming season. Who else would cook delicious meals for everyone every day like Wenxi does!

When Captain Qian came to her turn, Wen Xi said to him, "Uncle Qian, could you please arrange for someone to bring a few pounds of pickled vegetables or pickled cucumbers tomorrow after work? I'll cook a delicious dish for everyone."

Because the cafeteria was crowded, Captain Qian didn't ask too many questions. He just nodded to Wenxi. Everyone was quite curious when they heard that Wenxi wanted pickled vegetables. They wondered what delicious food Wenxi planned to make for everyone. Everyone was quite looking forward to Wenxi's cooking skills.

Because of the discovery of large river shrimp in the waters of Kaiming County, Wenxi went out every night after the discovery to find ponds and catch fish, crayfish, and large river shrimp. From Fengshou Brigade towards the town, Wenxi gradually became very familiar with how many ponds, lotus ponds, and small ditches there were along the way, even more so than the locals.

Later, she ran in the opposite direction, and then ran towards the front of the Fengshou Brigade. Originally, she would only work on two lotus ponds in one night, but later she was afraid that after summer, she would not be able to catch anything, so she would go out on nights when it did not rain and would not come back until she was sleepy.

Wenxi encountered water chestnuts and water caltrops when she went out at night. She wore waders to pick them in the shallow ponds, while she used a net to catch fish and shrimp in the deeper ponds. She did not go into the water, after all, life is only once, and she dared not risk her life.

Of course, that's a story for another time.

Soon it was He Chen'an's day off. During this time, the team was harvesting wheat and he couldn't take leave, so Wen Xi had to come back before 10 a.m. so as not to affect cooking.