Wen Xi raised her hand and immediately promised, "I promise I won't stand you up again."
Lin Yiwan then asked, "And what about you? How's your situation going?"
Wen Xi shook her head. "It's nothing."
"That's good." Lin Yiwan nodded, and then shared some gossip she knew with Wen Xi, "Did you know that Liang Zhaodi is pregnant?"
Wen Xi stared in surprise, then shook her head. "I don't have much contact with the villagers, so I really don't know anything about this!"
Lu Xiaoyun and Xia Minglei were so frightened by what happened on New Year's Eve that neither of them dared to go out and find female companions in the city anymore. Lu Xiaoyun then obediently settled down and lived with Liang Zhaodi.
Wen Xi didn't care about Lu Xiaoyun and Liang Zhaodi, as long as Lu Xiaoyun didn't try to seduce Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue.
"When Zhu Jiawen's wife from the city came to visit, Xu Xiaohong was already pregnant. After Zhu Jiawen was arrested, Xu Xiaohong planned to give birth to the child and raise it herself, but her family secretly gave her an abortion pill, and the child was lost. Now her family is looking for a new partner for her, planning to marry her off..."
Wen Xi sighed helplessly. Zhu Jiawen, that scumbag, really ruined himself and others. He was already married before he went to the countryside, and his wife often wrote him letters and sent him things. He knew about the existence of a son, but he never mentioned these things. He charmed all the girls in the team to fawn over him, helping him with chores and bringing him food. Xu Xiaohong even stood out from a group of girls who admired him and successfully married him, but this led to her painful life.
Hopefully, this time the Xu family can find Xu Xiaohong a good partner, and she won't run into another scumbag.
However, after Zhu Jiawen's affair became public, the girls who used to fawn over the male educated youth were strongly instructed by their elders to stop having any contact with them.
On the contrary, it reduced a lot of troubles for the male educated youth. In the past, they were afraid that a single glance would be misunderstood, and then they would be stuck with the problem and unable to get rid of it.
After chatting with Lin Yiwan for a while and giving her half of the chocolate, Wenxi went back home. She saw Lin Yiwan's mother planting vegetables in the yard and knew that the temperature was now warm enough to plant vegetables. Wenxi decided to plant some vegetables so that she could have vegetables to eat in a while.
She had previously signed off on hoes, shovels, and other farming tools, so now she no longer needs to borrow them from the tool room.
After returning home, Wen Xi did not go home immediately. Instead, she went directly to Jin Changfeng's house next door, took out a hoe, and tidied up the vegetable garden in the yard. Chen Dahua's family had always grown vegetables, so the vegetable garden in the yard was quite easy to manage.
Wenxi quickly tidied up the vegetable garden and then planted water spinach, green peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, zucchini, sweet potatoes, potatoes, watermelons, pumpkins, winter melons, cantaloupes... all the fruits and vegetables that didn't need trellises in Jin Changfeng's yard.
They planted only ten of each kind, and the three sisters couldn't finish the yield from just ten plants.
Cucumbers, bitter melons, loofahs, cantaloupes, cucumbers, flat beans, cowpeas... all the plants that need trellises are planted in my own yard.
After planting and watering the fruit and vegetable seedlings, Wenxi was too tired to move. She quickly fetched water to wash the mud off her hands and between her fingers, and then went back to her room to rest.
She planted ten of each type of fruit and vegetable today, leaving twenty. Wenxi didn't want to meddle and give them away to others, since these were things that every household had, just not as complete as hers. But if she wanted vegetable seeds, she could exchange them with other people.
She decided to find a place near the waterfall to plant it another day, and check on it every few days.
The next day at noon, Wenxi returned from the waterfall and saw Aunt Meihua standing outside the courtyard gate. Wenxi quickly went to open the gate, invited Aunt Meihua in, and made her a bowl of sugar water. "Aunt Meihua, is there something you need from me?"
Aunt Mei looked around the neatly tidied yard and nodded approvingly. Wenxi and the other two girls were really good. If everyone could be as honest, dutiful and capable as them, her husband would suffer less and have fewer gray hairs.
She still remembered when Nie Xiulan and the others came over, they made a ruckus every day. At that time, she felt that they would definitely make a big mistake, and she didn't expect that it would actually come true.
"Xiaoxi, I'm here to tell you that the team will officially start spring plowing tomorrow. You need to cook. You need to go to the canteen this afternoon to clean it up. We can't delay cooking tomorrow," Aunt Meihua reminded her.
"Thank you for reminding me, Aunt Meihua. I understand. I'll take Jiaojiao and Xiaoyue over to clean up the canteen after lunch," Wenxi said with a smile.
Wenxi lived here for two years in her previous life. She knew about the large canteen of the Harvest Brigade. It was not the canteen built for the communal meals of the past, but a bamboo house built by the Harvest Brigade itself using bamboo from the mountain. It was located near the river bend, only a few dozen meters away from where everyone washed their clothes.
The reason for choosing to build the large canteen there is that it is convenient to get water there, and it is also convenient for everyone to wash up after work when they come to eat.
Especially now during spring plowing, people are covered in mud from head to toe. It's a hassle to go home and wash, so they just go to the river bend to wash. They can simply stand in the shallow water and bend over to wash.
When it's hot, you can go to the river bend to wash and cool off before eating, and then you can eat a few more bites of food.
When Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue returned at noon, Wen Xi told them that they wouldn't have to work starting that afternoon because the three of them would be responsible for cooking for everyone starting tomorrow.
In the afternoon, the three of them carried buckets and rags to the large canteen near the river bend. The canteen was a long bamboo house with some tables, chairs and benches inside.
When they arrived, there were already two aunties inside. They were also in charge of cooking. After all, there were hundreds of people in the harvest brigade. If only the three of them cooked, everyone might not be able to eat even if they cooked all day.
Wen Xi led Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue to the two aunts and politely said, "Hello, aunts, I am Wen Xi, the one in charge of cooking."
"Hello, Auntie, I'm Shen Jiaojiao."
Jiang Yue smiled and said, "I am Jiang Yue."
The two women smiled and nodded. "Hello, we know about your situation. From now on, please work hard here. If you have any questions, just ask us. Now let's start cleaning!"
Afterwards, the two aunts swept the floor in the bamboo house, while Wenxi and the other two went to the river bend to fetch water. Once the floor was swept clean and there was no more dust, the three of them began to wipe the tables, chairs, and benches.
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