As expected, Wang Ziqiang arrived at the educated youth settlement that evening with the materials.

"Uncle Wang, could you help us take a look? We need to build pots in these three rooms." Zhang Jiayang hurriedly stepped forward to greet Wang Ziqiang when he arrived.

The three of them discussed it that afternoon and decided that Zhang Jiayang would be in charge of receiving guests and running errands, since he was the only boy suitable for the job.

According to local custom, those who could afford it were obliged to provide meals for the artisans. Shen Mu Ning and Lin Si Qi borrowed the kitchen at the educated youth settlement to cook, and even returned some vegetarian dishes to them. Their reward was a large bowl of stewed potatoes and cured meat.

Shen Mu Ning and Zhuang Xue, who was cooking that day, discussed it and decided that each of them would have one pot, with Lin Si Qi in charge of the cooking.

Lin Siqi first cooked the rice, then stewed potatoes with cured meat, then stir-fried a plate of minced meat and eggplant and dry-fried green beans, and then cooked a pot of vegetable soup, and that was it.

The educated youth had already started eating when Shen Mu Ning had already stewed the cured pork and potatoes, and all of them were very satisfied.

Although they didn't need to be too frugal with food, they rarely ate oily or fatty foods. Apart from the occasional meat rations sent by their families, they could only have a little meat when Chu Mingxu brought back game.

The autumn harvest is in a month, and they are saving their coupons to replenish their supplies during the harvest. They haven't bought meat for a month.

It's worth it to be able to get a bowl of stewed potatoes and meat in exchange for using the pot as an excuse to go out now. If only the educated youths could keep using their pots.

Although the days of exchanging pots and pans for meat are over, Lin Zhiqing's culinary skills are still there. From now on, whenever Lin Zhiqing cooks, they can sell meat to eat—how wonderful that would be!