"Xiaoxi, you..." Mother Yan looked at Wenxi embarrassedly. This fish must have weighed at least twenty pounds. How hard it must have been for her to carry it all this way! "Xiaoxi, you've been so good to Lili. We don't know how to thank you enough."
"Aunt Yan, it's almost Chinese New Year, and I have a lot of things to take care of, so I won't stay here any longer. I'll come to visit you and Lili again after the New Year when I have more free time." Wenxi handed the fish and dried mushrooms from her basket to Aunt Yan's mother, waved to Yan Lili, and then turned and left with the empty basket.
It was almost noon, and she didn't want to stay at the Yan family's house for lunch, otherwise people would really think she was a poor relative who came to freeload!
Mother Yan wanted Wenxi to stay for lunch so that she and Yan Zheng could meet, but Wenxi said she had something to do. Mother Yan didn't want to keep her from doing her business, so she could only wait until Yan Zheng was free and have him go to the countryside to find Wenxi.
This girl is excellent and beautiful. Most importantly, Yan Lili likes her very much. She will definitely be able to take good care of Yan Lili in the future. If her eldest son and daughter-in-law have a second child, she can also send the child back to Wenxi to help raise and care for. She can enjoy the blessings of her younger daughter-in-law, even if she can't enjoy the blessings of her eldest daughter-in-law.
Once her daughter-in-law entered the family, she abandoned all responsibilities and settled down to enjoy her retirement.
The eldest son and his wife have demanding and dangerous jobs, leaving them no time to raise their child themselves, and their circumstances are not suitable for raising a child.
Therefore, the children can only be raised by the Yan family. So, the wife that Yan Zheng finds must be kind-hearted, able to tolerate his nephews and nieces, and treat them as his own children.
Wen Xi had no idea that someone she had only met a few times would want to entrust her with such a difficult task. She was a frail young girl who was not yet seventeen years old and could not bear such a heavy burden.
She was destined to disappoint those who had designs on her.
On the evening of the 29th of the lunar year, Wenxi, Shen Jiaojiao, and Jiang Yue took turns taking a hot and fragrant bath in the tent. They also used the soap that Wenxi had brought back. The soap had a light floral scent that smelled very nice and refreshing, and they loved it.
After taking a shower, each of them had a rosy complexion, looking like peach blossoms in full bloom. Looking at these rosy little faces, Wenxi couldn't help but sigh, "Youth is wonderful! Their faces are full of collagen, unlike her in her previous life, when she was not even thirty years old, but had been wasted and looked like she was forty or fifty."
Of course, all of this was thanks to her older sister and brother-in-law. As soon as she got off the train, her older sister and brother-in-law took her back to their home. She lost consciousness as soon as she entered the door, and when she woke up, she was already at that old man's house.
Her wonderful life was ruined, how could she not hate it?
Wen Xi quickly composed herself because Zhao Yuanyuan and Zhao Huihui had come. Even though it was almost Chinese New Year, they didn't want to give up the opportunity to learn.
When their grandparents were alive, they didn't allow them to go to school. After their grandparents passed away, they got older and started working at home to earn work points to ease the burden. Now that they have the opportunity to study, they are naturally making the most of every minute to learn.
Once, when Wenxi was signing in, she actually signed in all the exam papers for elementary, middle and high school subjects, and even the college entrance exam papers for all subjects before the suspension of the college entrance exam. So after Wenxi finished teaching each unit, she would give them a test to see how well they were learning.
Elementary school is a foundational and very important subject. Wenxi will only move on to the next unit of the curriculum if Zhao Yuanyuan and Zhao Huihui get a perfect score. Otherwise, she won't move on until they fully understand the problems they haven't grasped.
Only if they lay a solid foundation can Wenxi progress faster later on, because the college entrance examination will be reinstated soon. She also needs to help Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue review high school knowledge, and she can't let the Zhao Yuanyuan sisters delay their own important matters.
The first college entrance examination after the resumption of the college entrance examination was said to be very simple. She was told that if she scored more than 200 points, she could go to junior college. Of course she wanted to try it. She didn't believe that the three sisters could not even score 200 points even though they studied hard in advance.
On the morning of Lunar New Year's Eve, after having breakfast, Wenxi and the other two started preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner. Wenxi decided to steam some buns and steamed bread herself so that she wouldn't have to cook for the next few days and could just heat up the buns and bread.
Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue used to be the ones who cooked at home all the time, so they could make steamed buns, mantou, and dumplings. It's just that their cooking skills weren't as good as Wen Xi's. After all, Wen Xi had cooked for more than ten years in her previous life. So Wen Xi let them knead the dough, while she was in charge of preparing the fillings to make them taste better.
After much effort, the three sisters made sixty steamed buns, with two kinds of fillings: pork and cabbage, and chives and eggs. They also made dumplings with these two flavors, totaling more than two hundred. They also made more than forty steamed buns. Wenxi secretly added some milk and sugar to them, so the steamed buns had a milky aroma and a hint of sweetness.
Around 10 a.m., all the steamed buns and mantou were ready. The kitchen was filled with the aroma of fine grains, which was very tempting. Wenxi ate a hot steamed bun with pork and cabbage filling. She put the remaining buns and mantou in a basket, then took them to her room and locked them away. In fact, she stored them in the system's warehouse.
She was afraid the aroma would attract mice, which would then ruin the basket of buns and steamed bread.
Actually, while Wenxi and the other two were preparing food in the kitchen, Zhu Jiawen came over and invited them to have New Year's Eve dinner together.
Wen Xi looked at Zhu Jiawen with surprise, "Comrade Zhu, have you forgotten what happened at the welcome banquet that night? Or do you want to see me or us framed again?"
"Comrade Wen, if you hadn't shamelessly seduced Lu Xiaoyun in front of Nie Xiulan, how could Nie Xiulan have framed you? Nie Xiulan framed you, don't you know how to reflect on yourself?" Zhu Jiawen looked somewhat displeased. He couldn't even control the newcomer.
"You men are really good at shirking responsibility. You say I seduced Lu Xiaoyun? I just arrived, this is the first time I've met you all. Do you think I know who's who? Do you think I know who's good and who's bad? How could I seduce you? You say I seduced Lu Xiaoyun, but look at yourself! How many girls in the team did you work for, brought you food? You messed up, didn't you? You capsized in the gutter, didn't you? If you're so capable, why don't you not marry Comrade Xu Xiaohong, and let the Xu family report it? Do you dare?"
After Wenxi finished speaking, she slammed the courtyard gate shut.
I don't know who gave him the nerve to try and take advantage of her. Did he think she would serve three dishes to everyone like she did at the welcome banquet?
Have they gotten along so well with everyone that they can freeload off each other?
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