Wenxi also asked an old carpenter to weave a cylindrical fish basket for her using bamboo strips. The fish basket is one meter high and one meter in diameter, but it is wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, with very small holes. Several holes are left at the top edge to make it easy to thread ropes through.

Wenxi also wants this cylindrical fish basket, mainly for catching fish and small snails. When the time comes, a bamboo pole will be tied to the fish basket, and the basket can be placed a little forward so that more fish can be caught.

After all, her job is cooking, and she takes her work very seriously.

On the day of the double harvest, everyone arrived at the threshing ground at five o'clock. Captain Qian delivered a passionate speech, and then assigned tasks to each group. After everyone went to the fields, the group leaders assigned tasks to each group.

Apart from Wenxi, Shen Jiaojiao, and Jiang Yue, who were responsible for cooking, the rest of the educated youth went to the fields to harvest rice.

The rice paddies were filled with the 'snap' sound of sickles rubbing against the rice. After harvesting a large bunch, the rice was spread out on the rice stalks to dry. Once dry, it could be bundled and transported to the threshing ground for threshing.

This is early rice, which is easy to thresh. You just need to spread the rice on the ground and use an ox to pull a stone roller to roll it in circles.

Because the rice needs to be harvested as soon as possible; if it rains...

Wenxi went to the waterfall in the morning to pick fruits and vegetables. After coming down the mountain and returning home, she put several large watermelons in her basket and then carried the watermelons to the canteen.

It's not that she's foolishly giving away the watermelon; it's that she's preparing for next year. Next year, there won't be anyone to gather pig feed, and then it won't be possible to avoid work. So she's starting to pave the way for next year now.

When they arrived at the cafeteria, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue were quite surprised to see Wen Xi carrying a large watermelon. However, with Wang Xiaoju and Sun Mei present, they didn't say much.

Wang Xiaoju and Sun Mei, however, noticed the large green watermelon and curiously gathered around. "Wenxi, what is this green thing? How come it's so big?"

Wen Xi sighed, "You'll all find out soon enough."

She didn't know how these people could have such bad memories. Wang Xiaoju had glared at Wen Xi fiercely a while ago because Lin Yihui refused to go on a blind date with her relatives. Who would have thought they would forget so quickly?

Wenxi boiled the mint water, then went to the river bend to fetch water and soaked the watermelon in it, so that it would taste cool and refreshing.

At ten o'clock, Wenxi and Shen Jiaojiao covered themselves up tightly and went to the field to deliver mint water to everyone. The two of them had just arrived in the field and hadn't even had time to arrange for everyone to come and collect the mint water when they heard the sound of arguing and arguing coming from the front.

"What are they doing? Don't they know that every second counts in the double-cropping season?" Wen Xi was very surprised, so she walked forward a little more out of curiosity.

Once she got a little closer, she recognized who was arguing. Unexpectedly, it was Li Wei from the educated youth settlement. To be honest, among the educated youth at the settlement, apart from those few oddballs, only Lu Xiaoyun and Xia Minglei had a real presence. After all, one was the male lead and the other was the male lead's brother, while the remaining male educated youth didn't have much of a presence.

Wen Xi didn't know anything about this Li Wei, and the article didn't describe Li Wei in detail either. He didn't even have a name in the article, only the title "Comrade Li".

The person arguing with Li Wei was a young man in the team, but Wen Xi didn't know him. After all, there are hundreds of people in a team, and even if you see someone every day, you might not recognize them.

Li Wei and the other man started arguing, and then they began to fight. The two of them ended up in a brawl.

"Auntie, what's going on over there? Why are Comrade Li and that man fighting?" Wen Xi asked her aunt with a frown.

Li Wei was an educated youth sent to the countryside, and now he's fighting with villagers. That will definitely affect the reputation of the educated youth as a whole.

Fortunately, I lived outside, so the people in the educated youth settlement couldn't affect me.

"What else could it be? He's seducing someone!" the aunt said, pointing at Li Wei. "I never expected that this Comrade Li, who looks so fair and clean, would be such a black-hearted person. He knew that Qian Chunxing and Zhao Mingzhu were already engaged, but he still tried to steal Qian Chunxing from Zhao Mingzhu. Don't you think he did it on purpose? There are so many single young women in the team, but he didn't pursue them. Instead, he pursued Qian Chunxing, who was already engaged."

"What?" Wen Xi stared wide-eyed in disbelief. Li Wei had actually stolen Qian Chunxing, who was already engaged?

Qian Chunxing is a close relative of Captain Qian, and should be considered Captain Qian's niece. Zhao Mingzhu is the child of Zhao Zhiping's cousin, and is a few years older than Zhao Yuanyuan.

Zhao Mingzhu and Qian Chunxing should have been engaged before Wenxi went to the countryside, because Wenxi and the others usually attended their weddings after they went to the countryside.

Wenxi was very puzzled by Li Wei's actions. Just like her aunt said, if he wanted to find a girlfriend, why didn't he pursue the unmarried girls in the team?

Why pursue Qian Chunxing, who is already engaged?

Considering she needed to rush back to make lunch, Wenxi decided not to watch the commotion. She figured she'd find out everything when everyone went to the cafeteria.

So Wenxi and Shen Jiaojiao went over to get mint water for everyone.

Zhao Mingzhu and Li Wei were still locked in a fierce battle, but how could the city lad be a match for the rough countryman? Before long, Zhao Mingzhu gained the upper hand and was on top of Li Wei, beating him.

He looked at Li Wei's face and started working on both sides.

"I told you not to seduce my fiancée."

"We've already set a wedding date; we'll be getting married at the end of the year."

"An educated youth from the city? I think all your education has gone to waste."

"Since you're going to act like a jerk, then I'll grant your wish..."

Many people were unaware of the truth, but after hearing Zhao Mingzhu's words, they learned the truth: it turned out that Li Wei had seduced Zhao Mingzhu, so everyone started pointing fingers at Li Wei.

Previously, because of what happened to Nie Xiulan and the others, people didn't have a good impression of the educated youth. It was only after Wen Xi and Gu Huai'an, two groups with decent character, arrived that people's opinions gradually changed. Unexpectedly, the people at this educated youth settlement have caused trouble again.

At this moment, a girl rushed over and pushed Zhao Mingzhu, who was pinning Li Wei down, away, causing Zhao Mingzhu to fall to the ground.

Qian Chunxing helped Li Wei up and glared angrily at Zhao Mingzhu, who was furious. "Zhao Mingzhu, I don't like you, and I don't want to marry you. It was my family that forced me to marry you, which is why I got engaged to you. Now, the person I like is Li Wei, and I hope you will grant me my wish."

Zhao Mingzhu sneered, "Qian Chunxing, have you forgotten how you schemed against me back then? Didn't you deliberately twist your ankle in front of me and then blackmail me into getting engaged to you? Now that you've climbed up the social ladder, you want to kick me aside? How can you be so shameless?"