There are many side dishes in the stewed pork dish. Wenxi poured everyone's stewed pork dish into the pot, and added potatoes, radishes and cabbage, stewing a big pot full of it. It smelled very good.

The people in charge of making the pork stew are the aunties in the team. They are responsible for making the pork stew every year, and their skills have long been perfected. Although there are not many seasonings, it is so fragrant that it makes people's mouths water.

Wenxi also made braised pork with potatoes from the meat that Tian Shengnan brought over, and also stir-fried a dish of yellow heart cabbage and a dish of wild vegetables.

She goes up the mountain every morning and brings back a basket of wild vegetables. Now, she has plenty of wild vegetables, though not much else.

The food was served, and the six people sat around the table. Each person ate a large bowl of hot stewed pork, finishing most of the stew in the pot, and then began to eat.

Wen Xi, holding her bowl and chopsticks, said as she ate, "Tian Shengnan, with so many of you eating together for New Year's Eve dinner, some trouble is bound to happen. After all, there are too many troublemakers among you. If the three of you are willing, you can have New Year's Eve dinner with us and stay away from their conflicts."

Nie Xiulan and Liang Zhaodi have both married and moved out, but Xu Huaying and Chu Wan'er are still living there. Who knows what they will do to impress the men?

If you can't fight them, can't you at least avoid them?

"Is it okay?" Tian Shengnan looked at Wen Xi excitedly.

Wen Xi nodded. "As long as everyone works together to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner, just like today, that's fine. If you push all the work onto me, that won't work. After all, I'm not your nanny, and you're not paying me a salary."

Tian Shengnan nodded happily, "Then I'll see if I can buy meat, chicken, duck, or goose when I go to the market, so I can add a dish to the New Year's Eve dinner."

Song Lan and Zhou Bai nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, we'll go and take a look too, and we'll lend a hand."

Wenxi said, "Give it a try, do your best, don't force it. Even without these things, we can still have a good New Year."

Anyway, I have things that don't cost money, like fish and wild vegetables, which I can eat as much as I want. Then, I can easily put together a New Year's Eve dinner by adding radishes, cabbage, potatoes, and the like.

In this era, the most important thing is to be full, not to eat well. Even city dwellers don't eat well. Most people mainly eat vegetables, and they can only eat meat a few times a month, and even then, it's not enough. After all, a pound of meat is shared by the whole family, and it's already quite difficult for each person to eat two pieces.

Before, when Wenxi was at home, every time they cooked meat, they would divide it equally among everyone, so that everyone could eat about the same amount of meat. Unlike other families, where any meat was reserved for the men and boys, as if women and girls didn't need to grow.

Wenxi felt very happy to be born into such a loving family, but she didn't know why her eldest sister was such an oddball.

In other families, the eldest sibling is responsible for taking care of the younger siblings, but Wenxi was taken care of by her second brother. Her eldest sister wasn't involved at all. In other words, her eldest sister didn't actually take on much responsibility. So it's unclear why her eldest sister would be so hostile towards her, especially since there's no throne to inherit in the family.

Today, the team slaughtered a pig for the New Year and made a "pig-killing stew." The whole Fengshou Brigade was filled with the aroma of meat. After everyone took the stew home, they mixed it together, added some side dishes, and cooked it again. Everyone ate it with great relish.

Even those who are not entitled to eat meat can be very satisfied if they can eat vegetables with a meaty flavor and drink meat soup.

In her previous life, when Wenxi first came to the countryside, she was somewhat disgusted by the pork offal stew. It wasn't just her who was disgusted; everyone who hadn't tried it before was disgusted, since pork offal does have a very strong smell, which is something everyone knows. However, she didn't expect that after trying a bite, Wenxi would be so surprised.

She was surprised that the pork stew not only didn't have any of the stench of pig offal, but was also incredibly delicious. Each part of the stew had a different texture, providing a delightful culinary experience during a time of food shortages.

In her previous life, she spent two years in the countryside and only ate pig-killing feast twice. When she visited other people's homes, the heavy responsibility of washing clothes and cooking fell on her shoulders. People would order whatever they wanted to eat in advance and ask her to buy it and cook it. She had been cooking for more than ten years. Unless it was a dish she had never seen before, there was no dish that she couldn't cook.

However, after reading the original text, she also learned how to cook many new dishes based on it. Because authors of historical fiction would write detailed descriptions of the female protagonist's cooking process in order to reach a certain word count, the female protagonist could write about a thousand words for cooking a single meal, so it was impossible not to learn.

After finishing a bowl of pork stew, Wenxi felt warm and cozy all over. Satisfied, she got up to get more rice from the pot, then sat down to continue eating.

The six of them worked together and finished the meal completely.

Song Lan and the other two helped clean up the kitchen and then went back satisfied. Every time they ate at Wenxi's place, they were always very happy.

As they walked, the three of them carefully discussed what to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner. Since everyone was celebrating the New Year together, it was unfair to Wenxi and the other two to bear the burden alone, and it would also be detrimental to maintaining their relationship.

Song Lan and Zhou Bai couldn't fit in with the older educated youth, and they didn't want to fit in with the group of women with questionable character. So they could only try to integrate with Wen Xi and the others, otherwise, the two of them, being newcomers, would seem a bit weak and isolated.

Wen Xi returned to her room and took out ten oranges that Lin Yiwan had given her. She gave five to each of Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue, saying, "Jiaojiao, Xiaoyue, when you eat the oranges, remember to save the seeds for me."

Shen Jiaojiao brought the orange to her nose and sniffed it carefully. The fresh scent made her mouth water. Then she couldn't wait to peel the orange, asking as she did so, "Xiaoxi, what do you need the seeds for? Are you going to plant them?"

Wenxi nodded. "There's some land in the yard. I plan to give it a try. If it doesn't bear fruit, I'll just cut it down and use it as firewood."

This orange was grown in Lin Yiwan's incredibly powerful space, so it's definitely different from oranges outside. It might actually bear fruit!

However, she had already returned to the city by then, and she didn't have time to wait here to eat oranges. So Wenxi planned to dig up the orange seedlings when she returned to the city, put them in the system warehouse for safekeeping, and plant them wherever she lived in the future, so that she would always have oranges to eat.

“Okay, then I’ll save the seeds for you,” Shen Jiaojiao said.

"Just put them on the windowsill to dry, so they don't rot and become unusable," Wenxi instructed.