Wenxi planned to go to the waterfall early tomorrow morning, since she had planted a lot of fruits and vegetables there, such as water spinach and red amaranth, which were ready to be harvested. However, she did not expect that Lin Yiwan would come over and invite Wenxi to go to the rice paddies to pick snails when it was cooler tomorrow morning.
Many people are off tomorrow, so no one will say anything if they go to the rice paddies to pick snails. Otherwise, people will definitely say that they have time to pick snails but no time to work.
Seeing Wen Xi's bewildered look, Lin Yiwan asked with amusement, "Xiao Xi, you don't even know what a snail is? You city people are really so ignorant!"
"Nonsense! Who said I don't know what a snail is? Not only do I know, I also know what a conch is!" Wen Xi denied.
Although she had never seen it, she lived to the late 1980s in her previous life, so she must have some knowledge. Besides, she graduated from high school, so how could she not know these things?
Lin Yiwan giggled and nudged Wen Xi's shoulder. "Let's go pick snails together tomorrow morning. By the way, it seems like leeches have already started to appear this season, so you'd better wear boots."
"Leech?" The thought of that soft, blood-sucking creature sent a shiver down Wenxi's spine. It was because of this thing that she didn't want to go to work.
In her past life, when she was planting rice seedlings, several leeches crawled onto her legs and sucked her blood. Terrified, she screamed and broke down in the field. Lin Qing pulled up a handful of grass and swatted the leeches away for her.
Because of that incident, she mistakenly believed that Lin Qing liked her. Only after being reborn did she realize that Lin Qing did not like her. If a man truly likes a woman, he would not let her go without confessing for a year or two.
Wen Xi snapped out of her daze and nodded. "I understand, thank you! Please let me know when you leave tomorrow morning!"
The next morning, Lin Yiwan came early to call Wenxi to pick snails. Wenxi picked up a basket and set off with Lin Yiwan. Although the morning sun was bright, it was still gentle and there was a light breeze, making it very cool.
Arriving at the edge of the rice paddy, I saw that the rice was growing lush and green. Since it hadn't rained recently, the water in the paddy was not murky at all, but crystal clear. I could see wild little fish that I couldn't name and couldn't catch, as well as tiny river shrimp. Snails were also clearly visible on the mud.
Both of them were wearing boots and carrying baskets as they walked into the rice paddy and bent down to pick up snails.
When transplanting rice seedlings, they are planted in rows with gaps in between. They walk through the gaps, making sure not to step on the seedlings.
The two walked in different directions, so they went further and further apart, but the snails in the basket kept increasing, and the basket became heavier and heavier. Wen Xi looked up at Lin Yiwan and saw that the snails in Lin Yiwan's basket did not seem to be growing very fast. She realized that Lin Yiwan had a cheat code and should keep half of them.
After all, Lin Yiwan has a large family, and a basket of snails doesn't actually contain much meat, so it's definitely not enough for the whole family. She probably put most of them into her spatial storage.
So Wenxi did the same, putting two-thirds into the system warehouse and one-third into the basket.
The two of them spent more than an hour picking snails in the rice paddy before coming ashore. It was only a little past seven o'clock, and there was still plenty of time. The two walked back side by side. Lin Yiwan shared with Wenxi how to cook snails. Although Wenxi knew how to cook them, she didn't spoil the fun and listened attentively.
They parted ways once they entered the village, as their houses were not in the same row.
When Wenxi returned home, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue were still asleep. Wenxi put down the snails and went to the kitchen to make breakfast. The weather was getting hotter and hotter, which was perfect for eating mung bean porridge. Paired with flatbread, it was incredibly comforting.
Wenxi used the large iron pot inside to cook mung bean porridge, mixing cornmeal, wheat flour, and eggs into the dough. Then she made a plate of egg and corn pancakes, which were soft and fluffy, with a fresh egg flavor, and very delicious.
Wenxi didn't call Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue. After eating breakfast, she carried a basket on her back and went up the mountain to the waterfall. She not only wanted to pick the vegetables she could, but also to release the crab seedlings.
That's right, she has signed up for crab seedlings again, and they are still hairy crab seedlings. It's not even May yet, so it's time to release the crab seedlings.
Furthermore, these crab seedlings are not the particularly small kind of crabs, but rather crabs about the size of quail eggs, which makes them less likely to die. If they are released this year, we can harvest and eat hairy crabs next autumn.
Wenxi didn't linger on the road and walked briskly towards her destination. The leaves overhead blocked the glaring sunlight, so she rarely got any sun exposure, but her whole body was still burning hot. However, it was still much better than those people working under the scorching sun.
She didn't stop along the way, so Wenxi quickly arrived at the waterfall. She placed the bamboo basket containing dozens of kilograms of large snails in the shallow water to let the snails expel the sand.
After releasing fifteen catties of crab seedlings, Wenxi went to pick vegetables nearby: water spinach, red amaranth, pumpkin tips, sweet potato vines... she picked everything she could. Since the female lead had such a powerful planting ability, there was no shortage of vegetables on the black market, meaning that her vegetables would have no market. Therefore, Wenxi decided not to sell the vegetables and put them in the system warehouse to eat slowly later.
I'll dry some more vegetables, and once I get back in touch with my family, I'll send them home to show my filial piety.
The orange seeds that Wenxi planted before have already sprouted, and the saplings are now ten or twenty centimeters tall. Wenxi decided to let them continue to grow here, and when she is about to return to the city, she will come back to dig up a few more to take with her, whichever one she lives in afterward.
The strawberries that were planted from strawberry seeds have now blossomed and borne fruit. Wenxi was worried that the strawberries would rot if they were stuck to the ground, so she used a fruit insect net to protect them so that she could eat them.
Strawberries will reproduce on their own. Once they produce seedlings, you can simply dig them up.
Once the task was completed, Wenxi went back. As for the snails, they were released into the shallow water to expel the mud and sand, and she would bring them back in a couple of days.
When they were almost at the foot of the mountain, Wenxi took out a basket of pig feed from the system warehouse. Sometimes it was good to gather extra pig feed and keep it, so that she could hand it in directly when she didn't have time to gather pig feed.
After Captain Qian assigned tasks to everyone in the morning, Qian Qiusheng went to the place where the children often went to cut pig feed to look for Wenxi. However, he couldn't find her after searching for a long time, which wasted more than 20 minutes. Fortunately, his job today was to clear land, which earned him a high number of work points, so the delay was not a big deal.
No one knows where Wenxi is gathering pig feed, so Qian Qiusheng's plan to create a chance encounter with Wenxi and help her gather pig feed is simply not going to work.
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