Dragon and Phoenix soup was stewing outside, so Zhou Ziwen stayed with the Chen sisters.

Chen Zhaodi and Zhou Chaoyang from next door didn't feel fun staying in the house, so they came over to visit.

Chen Qiaoyi took out the dried fruits that Zhou Ziwen had found from the mountains to treat them.

The melon seeds and peanuts at home have been eaten, but there are still some pine nuts.

Speaking of which, fried pine nuts are quite delicious, but it is a bit troublesome to peel them. However, precisely because of the trouble, it is very suitable for killing time.

Zhou Ziwen doesn't like this thing, but the Chen sisters and Shen Zhaodi like to eat it very much.

"Let's play cards!"

Zhou Chaoyang was a little bored and made a suggestion.

"Sure, but I don't have any cards here. Do you have any?" Zhou Ziwen was not bored at all. He thought it was quite interesting to listen to a few girls chattering.

Although they are all about family matters, they are still quite interesting to listen to when you are bored.

"Hehe, I bought a box when I went to the county town last time." Zhou Chaoyang smiled and praised his own wit.

"Go get it quickly, why are you still standing here?" Shen Zhaodi urged from the side.

I don’t know when it started, but Shen Zhaodi became more and more rude to Zhou Chaoyang.

Well, it seems to have started when Zhou Chaoyang asked her to be his partner.

What do you call this? This means people who can't cook have no human rights...

"I'll go right away."

Zhou Chaoyang was quite obedient. When urged by Shen Zhaodi, he immediately went to get the cards.

Zhou Ziwen watched the interaction between the two with deep meaning, and always felt that something was amiss.

Coming to this strange place in the countryside, two people, a man and a woman, have to eat together. Even if there is nothing wrong at the beginning, problems will arise after being together for a long time.

He felt that the two of them had some signs in this regard.

However, Zhou Ziwen and Shen Zhaodi both had many concerns, one was identity and the other was distance.

They are not like Zhou Ziwen, who doesn't care how far the distance is, he just wants to get married first.

Chen Qiaoyi is also a love-brained person. Once she sets her mind on someone, she will be with him for the rest of her life regardless of anything else.

Not everyone has the courage of Zhou Ziwen and Chen Qiaoyi, who can be together and get married as soon as they say they want to.

Many of the educated youth who went to the countryside had dates, but not many of them got married. Most of them were just in a different place and couldn't resist the restlessness in their hearts, so they found someone to date.

When they regain their senses, they feel regretful and then separate. This situation is very common among educated youth who went to the countryside.

After a while, Zhou Chaoyang came back with the cards.

"What are you playing? Knock three houses? Throw eggs? Go up to the next level?"

Zhou Chaoyang opened the cards and asked as he shuffled them.

"What does it mean to knock on three houses?" The Chen sisters and Shen Zhaodi were a little confused.

"Knocking three houses is a way of playing over here." Zhou Ziwen explained briefly.

Although he doesn't play cards often, he knows some ways to play.

"That sounds interesting." Shen Zhaodi listened carefully for a while and quickly understood the rules of the game.

"What to lose?" Chen Shiying asked a key question.

"Don't play for money. If you lose, just do squats!" Zhou Ziwen said simply.

He doesn't like playing cards, and he doesn't like playing for money even more.

If he wins, others will be unhappy, and if he loses, he will be unhappy too. It is better not to gamble in the first place.

"Well, we can play without paying." Chen Shiying nodded in agreement.

Just now she was thinking that if she was asked to pay, she would not play anymore.

In the following time, the five people played cards and chatted at the same time, which was much more interesting than just chatting.

As time passed, the smell of dragon and phoenix soup from outside wafted in.

"Brother Zhou, how come your cooking skills are so good? Just smelling it makes people drool." Zhou Chaoyang was a little puzzled.

They are actually about the same age, both having just graduated from high school, but Zhou Ziwen seems to know everything, while he is like a loser.

If his family wasn't rich, he might have been like those people in the Youth League Home, living one meal a day and going hungry the next.

"It must be a gifted talent!" Zhou Ziwen explained lightly.

It’s hard for him to explain this thing. He can’t tell him that he has an auto-attack panel!

This was a secret he planned to keep for the rest of his life, one he couldn't even tell his wife.

"Brother Zhou, do you cook at home?" Shen Zhaodi asked curiously.

"Not much." Zhou Ziwen shook his head.

When he is at home, he just sits there and does everything. There are his mother, older sisters, younger sisters and younger sister at home, so how could he have a chance to cook?

Before he traveled through time, his original self didn't know how to cook at all.

"Brother Zhou is awesome." Zhou Chaoyang gave a thumbs up.

He doesn’t cook much, but the dishes he makes are so delicious. He really has a natural talent!

"I also learned it from books." Zhou Ziwen explained.

Although there is an auto-switch panel to help him improve after learning, the learning process is inevitable.

At the very least, he has seen the cooking methods of some recipes.

Seeing is equivalent to learning, and there is nothing wrong with this statement.

"That's amazing too!" Shen Zhaodi was very envious of Zhou Ziwen's learning ability.

This is simply a case of learning everything!

Everyone present knew that Zhou Ziwen didn't know how to grow mushrooms before he went to the countryside.

He managed to grow mushrooms by teaching himself, and now he's the team leader. He doesn't have to work every day. How can this be considered suffering in the countryside? It's more like enjoying life.

After playing cards for a while, the dragon and phoenix soup outside was almost done.

It just so happened that it had been snowing outside for so long that the temperature in the house was slowly dropping.

Being able to drink a sip of hot soup at this time is like living in heaven.

But there are a lot of people today, so just one dragon and phoenix soup is definitely not enough.

Chen Shiying went to the kitchen and fried two dishes, one shredded potatoes and the other stir-fried sweet potatoes.

Because Zhou Ziwen and Zhou Chaoyang wanted to drink, I specially fried some peanuts for them.

“It feels so good not to have to work!”

At the dinner table, Zhou Chaoyang raised his wine glass and clinked it with Zhou Ziwen, then said with some emotion.

Although he had only been in the countryside for two months, he felt like a long time had passed.

Especially during the first period of time when I went to the countryside, I was exhausted.

"Haha, we are relatively well off here in Heijiang. At least we don't have to work in the winter. If we went to the south, we would have no time to rest all year round." Zhou Ziwen said with a smile.

The south and the north each have their own advantages. At least the south is not so cold in winter.

Sometimes being too idle is not a good thing, especially on a snowy day like this when you can't even go out.

I can only stay at home and do nothing.

If you can't go to work, you won't have work points, and if you don't have work points, you won't have income.

If possible, I believe many people would be willing to work in winter.

People of this era are relatively simple. They don’t care whether they are tired or not, they only care about whether they have food to eat.

If they can earn work points, they can work all year round without rest. (End of this chapter)