Zhong Wanwan felt a warm glow in her heart. Aunt Wei was genuinely thinking of her, even considering the mats she made for repairing things.
After receiving their belongings, Wei Erge and Wei Sange helped Zhong Wanwan and Xiao Baiyang take the wild game home.
Aunt Wei and Mai Sui, Aunt Zheng and Zheng Nannan also came over.
The four of them had a clear division of labor. Wei Maisui, who was not very good at work, was assigned to boil water, while Zheng Nannan and Aunt Zheng plucked the feathers from the pheasants.
Aunt Wei was the daughter of a hunter, and she was incredibly fast and skilled at skinning rabbits and roe deer.
Looking at this and then that, Zhong Wanwan felt that plucking feathers was what she was good at. She followed Aunt Zheng for less than five minutes before Aunt Zheng chased her away, clearly disgusted.
"No need for you, Master Zhong, Nan Nan and I can handle this!"
Zhong Wanwan has a complete lack of self-awareness:
"It's alright, I won't skin the rabbit. Plucking its fur is more suitable for you!"
Zheng Nannan had been holding back her laughter. If she had pulled the pheasant like that, her mother would have already lost her temper.
If it weren't for respecting her mentor, her mother really wouldn't have been able to stand it for 5 minutes.
Aunt Zheng's face turned a little ugly at this moment. She was searching her mind for words that would neither hurt anyone nor be offensive.
Wei Maisui came out to deliver hot water and saw the pheasant that Zhong Wanwan had pulled up, and laughed loudly:
"Master, you're really frugal. Look how you plucked this pheasant. Are you planning to stew it with the feathers on?"
Zheng Nannan couldn't hold back any longer and laughed along, saying:
"Master, stop pulling it out! If you do, we'll have to redo the work!"
Wei Maisui joked:
"There are also jobs that my master can't do. I thought my master was omnipotent!"
After thinking about it for a moment, and feeling that something was amiss, Wei Maisui slapped her forehead and added:
"No, no, Master doesn't know how to cook. So, Master, you're only related to cooking, you're good at nothing!"
Zhong Wanwan retorted, unconvinced:
"Who said that? My fire-making skills are superb! No, come out and help me, I'll go boil some water!"
Wei Maisui blocked Zhong Wanwan's way and said:
"You can't just steal my job like that! I don't know how to do anything else!"
Seeing the two of them like this, Aunt Wei waved her hand and said:
"Alright, alright, you two, master and apprentice, go boil some water together!"
The master and apprentice were both disliked, so they had no choice but to boil water together.
The wild game had just been processed, and Aunt Wei was helping to cut the meat while Aunt Zheng chopped it, preparing to make dumplings later.
Then we saw Granny Wang come in carrying a basket, which was covered with a mat.
Zhong Wanwan quickly got up to greet him:
"Aunt Wang is here! Come and warm yourself by the fire. You and Wang Erlaizi will come over for dinner later. We're making dumplings today!"
If it were anyone else, Zhong Wanwan definitely wouldn't have stayed home to eat dumplings, but because Aunt Wang had protected her so much just now, Zhong Wanwan was genuinely grateful and willing to visit her more often.
Aunt Wang waved her hand and said:
"What are we eating? If I'm not home keeping an eye on things, Erlaizi could get his dad to cook a huge pot of meat tonight. I can't let him be so wasteful!"
"Here are two bunches of chives for you. I overheard you saying you wanted to make dumplings with roe deer meat, so chive filling would definitely be the freshest!"
Zhong Wanwan was a little confused. Leeks? In this day and age, leeks are available in Heilongjiang Province in winter?
Was this stored in a greenhouse? Or was it for winter storage? Are chives that easy to store?
Zhong Wanwan asked, puzzled:
"Auntie, did you grow these in a greenhouse in your garden? Or did you store them from the fall? That's amazing!"
Aunt Wei, who knew the details, helped explain for Aunt Wang:
"What kind of greenhouse? How much would that cost? Your Aunt Wang's family is small. She nailed two big wooden boxes to the window on the kang in Er Laizi's room and grew the crops in those boxes! There aren't many of them in total, but they're a rare treat for her family!"
As for how Aunt Wei knew the details, it was because that shameless person saw the chives that Aunt Wang had planted and tried to ask for them. Aunt Wang chased him out of the house and complained to Farm Manager Wei, which is how Aunt Wei found out.
These two large wooden boxes of chives are truly a rare find; I never expected that Aunt Wang would be willing to send them to Master Zhong.
Putting everything else aside, if you sneak into the city's residential compound and sell this thing two days before the Lunar New Year, you can make a lot of money!
Zhong Wanwan naturally knew how precious the chives on the kang (heated brick bed) were in the dead of winter, and she said rather embarrassedly:
"Aunt Wang, chives are so precious at this time of year, I can't take them..."
Aunt Wang glared and said:
"What season is it? It's all homegrown. There's nothing precious about it, and we didn't spend a single penny!"
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