Lin Yiwan had already tied the rabbit up tightly, so even if the rabbit was released, it wouldn't be able to escape. Lin Yiwan took a rabbit and put it in Wenxi's basket, saying with a smile, "You gave me lotus roots, so I'll give you a rabbit too!"
“Okay.” Wen Xi readily agreed. A rabbit weighing more than ten pounds, after removing the fur, still had more than half meat left, enough for several good meals. Why would she refuse?
Afterwards, Wenxi also gave Lin Yiwan five lotus roots, which weighed at least twenty or thirty pounds. Wenxi tore off the lotus root stalks, and since five lotus root stalks weren't enough to make one dish, she didn't give any to Lin Yiwan.
Afterwards, the two of them carried their heavy baskets back home. Wenxi said, "Yiwan, if you want to eat lotus root next time, just tell me and I'll come back and get some."
"Okay, thank you." Lin Yiwan thought of the boots Wen Xi wore before going into the water. These were obviously high-quality items, and the style was clearly not something the supply and marketing cooperative had. Wen Xi must have spent a lot of money and effort to buy these boots. She couldn't bring herself to say it.
Because it was damaged, she had no way to compensate for it.
However, since there are so many lotus roots today, she can keep two to plant later, and soon she should have an endless supply of lotus roots, so Wenxi won't have to work so hard.
However, Lin Yiwan still smiled and nodded in agreement. As a friend, she naturally couldn't spoil the fun.
Back home, it was still early. Wenxi put the lotus root and rabbit into the system warehouse, cooked breakfast, and then went up the mountain to the waterfall. The lotus root was covered in mud, so she had to wash it clean. She also had to collect the snails, which had been soaking in the stream for two days and had probably expelled all the sand.
Wenxi brought up a total of fifteen lotus roots. She gave five to Lin Yiwan and kept ten for herself. She washed the ten lotus roots clean in the stream and the fifteen lotus shoots as well. Then she broke off the ten tenderest sections and kept them for stir-frying. The remaining old lotus roots could be used to make soup or lotus root porridge.
After that, Wenxi began to process the snails. She took out scissors, removed the snail tails one by one, washed the snails again, and then went down the mountain to return home.
Wenxi can cook many dishes, but that doesn't mean she can handle everything. For example, she can't handle rabbit. So when Shen Jiaojiao came back from work at noon, Wenxi asked Shen Jiaojiao to handle the rabbit so that she could process it directly in the afternoon.
At noon, Wenxi stir-fried lotus root shoots. Although there were only fifteen shoots, it made a whole plateful. The lotus root shoots were crisp and refreshing, and very delicious.
After processing a large rabbit weighing about ten pounds, nearly nine pounds of meat remained. When Wenxi cooked the rabbit meat in the afternoon, she also added lotus root, potatoes, and cucumbers, making a large pot full of it.
Wenxi also went to the yard to pick a few small green peppers, which she sprinkled on top as a garnish when the rabbit meat was almost done cooking, making it look and smell delicious.
After cooking the rabbit meat, Wen Xi packed it up and stored it in the system warehouse, keeping only one plate and also packing another lunchbox, intending to bring it to He Chen'an next time they met.
While the rabbit meat was stewing in the pot, Wenxi used the iron pot on the tripod to stir-fry snails. Over two mornings, she collected over a hundred pounds of snails and blanched them three times.
After blanching the snails and letting them cool, Wenxi used a toothpick to pick out the plump snail meat. Picking out snail meat is a very time-consuming task, and she can't pick out many by herself.
Then I thought of that high-tech smartphone, which can even peel bamboo shoots, so it should be able to extract snail meat too, right?
So Wenxi opened the inlet and outlet, then put all the snails in. Sure enough, she saw the words "Remove snail meat" appear on the screen, and then she reached out and clicked on it.
After a while, only the snail meat remained in the smartphone. As for where the snail shells went, Wenxi didn't know; they must have been disposed of by the system!
She couldn't find the bamboo shoot husks when she was peeling bamboo shoots before.
Then Wenxi clicked on 'clean snail meat', and the snail meat that was taken out was quickly washed clean, and even the muddy smell was not so strong.
No matter how powerful this smartphone is, it can only process things to this extent and cannot be processed any further. But it's fine as it is, as it allows Wenxi to have more free time.
Snails have a very low meat yield; one pound of snails can only yield four ounces of meat. If they are dried, they may only yield two ounces of meat.
Wenxi collected over 100 jin of snails, but now only has about 50 jin of snail meat left. There's not enough meat to cook in one pot, so Wenxi divided it in half, spread it on a winnowing basket, and then took it to the yard to dry. The sun was still quite strong at this time, and it was almost half-dry by evening.
As for the remaining half of the snail meat, after the rabbit meat was stewed, Wenxi started to make spicy snails. When the time was almost up, she added two bowls of water, covered the pot, and simmered it.
There are too many to cook completely, so the only way is to simmer them. No matter what cooking method you choose, as long as it tastes good in the end, that's all that matters.
For dinner, we had rabbit meat and spicy snails, as well as stir-fried water spinach.
The three of them enjoyed an absolutely delicious meal.
After finishing her meal, Shen Jiaojiao sat there, not wanting to move. "I never thought snails could be so delicious. Next time I go to the rice paddies to weed, I'll pick up any snails I see."
When she was assigned to weed the rice paddies, she saw snails there. They were big and plentiful. If she had known they were so delicious, she would have picked them up long ago.
"Don't rush to pick them up. Let's start picking them up when there are no more bamboo shoots left. We'll pay you then, so you don't get nothing for nothing," Wenxi advised.
The three of them couldn't possibly eat that many snails, so she wanted so many to exchange for money. In any case, she needed to save enough money for several courtyard houses before returning to the city.
After all, she has three sons in her family, and they only have one house. If she doesn't prepare a house in advance, she, as the sister-in-law, will probably not even have a place to live when her sister-in-law and brother's wife come along.
When Zhao Yuanyuan and Zhao Huihui came to class in the evening, they brought not only the eels that Zhao Zhiping had caught, but also bamboo shoots that they had picked themselves. Wenxi told them to give the money for the eels to Chang Qingqing, and keep the money for the bamboo shoots for themselves.
The saying "men with money go bad" remains true to all time. If she needed to make money by selling eels and Zhao Zhiping made money, and his heart became unsettled and he found other women in the team, she would feel guilty to death.
Therefore, the money should be in the woman's hands.
Now, people in Wenxi no longer go to the waterfall to catch small fish; they just occasionally go to harvest the fruits and vegetables they grow themselves.
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