Actually, Quan Jinghuai and Feiyan were thinking that the big crab should be delicious, but could that long worm with the hard shell be delicious? And they even bought a whole bucket of it?

Feeling satisfied that she had finally achieved seafood freedom, Hong Xiaoduo sat back down at the table and continued eating breakfast.

If we don't hurry up and eat, Tianxuan and the others will start making lunch soon.

As Hong Xiaoduo ate, she thought about the seasonings in the exchange system. It seemed like there was salt and pepper seasoning, right? Two energy points could be exchanged for one can, so she would exchange for one can and have Tianxuan cook some salt and pepper mantis shrimp.

Thinking back to my modern days, my favorite food was salt and pepper mantis shrimp. After peeling and eating one, I couldn't help but lick my fingers, which were covered in salt and pepper powder. It was just too delicious.

After having a good breakfast, Hong Xiaoduo tried to enter the space, gritted her teeth and exchanged for a can of salt and pepper powder. She also left a message for Old Man Luo, asking for recipes, specifically seafood recipes.

She only knows how to eat but not how to cook, so she couldn't get Tianxuan to make the dishes she wanted to eat!

After leaving the space, hand the salt and pepper sauce to Tianxuan and tell him to boil some of the mantis shrimp that look like worms, fry some, and sprinkle this seasoning on them after frying.

Tianxuan took the salt and pepper shaker, agreeing as she did so, while wondering to herself when the seasoning vendor had bought it. She had no recollection of it.

In order to enjoy a delicious lunch of king crab and mantis shrimp, Hong Xiaoduo, who rarely gets exercise, started jogging on the beach about half an hour after breakfast.

Feeling that I had exhausted myself, I went back to the recliner, pulled the straw hat over my face, and rested for a while.

She heard the sound of rapid hoofbeats. She lifted her straw hat and looked in the direction of the sound. She saw a group of soldiers in military robes. The first few hundred soldiers were on horseback, and the last few hundred were on foot.

Hong Xiaoduo covered herself with her straw hat and continued to close her eyes to rest.

Even in times of great turmoil, these soldiers, with their orderly ranks, should be well-disciplined and unlikely to harm the common people.

Tian Shu and the others looked at the group with curiosity. Similarly, the people in the group also saw the tents and people here and looked over as well.

"General, should we send someone over to investigate?" the lieutenant asked the man beside him.

The general, who was nearly fifty years old, shook his head and said, "Most of them are children there, no need. If they were coming from the other side, they certainly wouldn't dare to be so conspicuous." After saying that, he urged his horse to continue on its way.

Lunch was ready when the sun was directly overhead.

Hong Xiaoduo looked at the king crab in a bowl, a bowl of boiled mantis shrimp, and a bowl of salt and pepper mantis shrimp on the table. She immediately rolled up her sleeves, picked up the prepared scissors, and demonstrated to everyone how to eat them.

However, the king crab wasn't as delicious as she had imagined. Although it looked very big, the meat wasn't very fatty, which made Hong Xiaoduo a little disappointed. She thought that it was the time of year when the king crabs had laid their eggs, which was why they weren't plump.

However, the mantis shrimp brought a pleasant surprise. The meat was very plump. After cutting off the edges on both sides of the shrimp tail with scissors, you could tear out the shrimp meat inside and dip it in the sauce. It was absolutely delicious.

Not to mention the salt and pepper mantis shrimp, she had only mentioned it briefly, but Tianxuan actually made exactly what she had expected.

"Mom, these bugs are so delicious!" Kaiyang ate several in a row, unable to stop eating them.

After glancing at his older brother subconsciously, he swallowed back the words he was about to say: "I'll buy more of these bugs tomorrow."

Quan Jinghuai enjoyed his drinks with mantis shrimp, and he seemed to be having a wonderful time.

While drinking and eating, she observed her disciples' mother, who seemed to have eaten these seafood delicacies many times before.

Around noon, the old man who had gone to Haixia Town to deliver seafood to his son returned. He stopped his donkey cart here, put down the vegetables he had brought for Hong Xiaoduo, gave her the remaining money, and took his two wooden buckets with him.

"Uncle, if there are still shrimp tomorrow, please give us another bucket." Hong Xiaoduo made a reservation.

We've come all this way, so if we don't eat our fill, we don't know if we'll ever have the chance to come to the beach again.

The old man said that they don't go out to sea every day; they go out roughly every two days.

In this way, the time was agreed upon, and the mantis shrimp were happily ordered.

Now, the time between dinner and the start of the evening is arranged by Gui Hong Xiaoduo. Because there's no rush, there's plenty of time to teach the children. She's already starting to teach them simple everyday conversations, including math, poetry, and English.

While on the way, Quan Jinghuai already knew that she was teaching her disciples a foreign language that she couldn't understand.

He was shocked; she could actually speak a foreign language!

"Xiao Duo, I see that your handwriting is also very good. Do you know how to play the zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting?" Quan Jinghuai couldn't help but ask.

Hong Xiaoduo smiled and shook her head, saying, "Brother Quan, of the four you mentioned, I'm only good at calligraphy; I can't do the others." Then, she looked at Fei Yan and said, "As for the four arts, Fei Yan should be good at them all."

Seeing that everyone was looking at her, Fei Yan said a little shyly, "I'm fine."

"Feiyan, when you have time, could you teach them to play chess and paint? As for the zither, Tian Shu, who among you wants to learn?" Hong Xiaoduo asked earnestly.

Upon hearing this, Quan Jinghuai opened his mouth as if to say something, but then thought better of it and remained silent.

Tian Shu and the others, along with Fei Yan, all looked at Hong Xiaoduo. Seeing that she seemed very serious, it didn't seem like she was just saying it casually.

"Mother, is it useful for us to learn those things?" Tianji asked in a very soft voice.

"What you learn is yours to keep. Even if you can't use it to make a living, it's good to treat it as a hobby. It's good for self-cultivation." Hong Xiaoduo naturally encouraged the children to learn, since there were teachers available.

However, she also didn't force them to learn it.

She added that anyone who wants to learn can learn, and she would buy chess. She also asked what kind of instrument the Flying Swallow Qin was, whether it was a guqin or a zheng.

Feiyan was taken aback. She hadn't expected that she could teach Tian Shu and the others these things. She felt quite proud and thought that she was still useful to this big family.

So, she told Hong Xiaoduo that it was a zither.

Hong Xiaoduo agreed, saying that when they arrived at a shop selling musical instruments, she could choose for herself.

"Xiao Duo, since you can speak foreign languages, does that mean you can also travel to foreign countries?" Quan Jinghuai asked.

“Yeah, Brother Quan, if there’s a chance in the future, how about we all go on a trip to foreign countries?” Hong Xiaoduo said, half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Quan Jinghuai smiled and shook his head, saying, "That's good. I've been thinking about going there for a while, but I gave up because of the language barrier. There's another thing: if you go to a foreign country, you need to get those transit documents, which are said to be very complicated."

Upon hearing this, Hong Xiaoduo immediately smiled.

"What are you laughing at? I'm serious." Quan Jinghuai thought she wasn't taking his words seriously; after all, she was young and naive...