Captain Qian didn't want anyone to misunderstand the Harvest Brigade, lest they raise their expectations of the brigade and make everyone's future life even more difficult.
After listening to Captain Qian's explanation, everyone understood what had happened.
Rural areas have large water areas, so there are naturally many aquatic products; it just depends on whether everyone has the ability to catch them.
Secretary Li picked up his chopsticks and took a piece of fish from the salted vegetable and fish slices. His eyes lit up noticeably. The tender fish absorbed the salty and savory flavor of the salted vegetables, making the dish rich in flavor, salty, fragrant, smooth and tender, truly unforgettable.
Seeing Secretary Li start eating, everyone picked up their chopsticks as well, afraid of missing out on such a delicious meal. Only after tasting it did they realize how good Comrade Wen's cooking skills were. Moreover, she could slice the fish into such thin slices, which showed that her knife skills were also excellent. No wonder the production team dared to let her cook for so many people.
After that, everyone kept eating with their chopsticks.
Wenxi was at the stove, keeping a close eye on the situation. Seeing that they had finished the stewed fish head on their table, she served them another bowl of stewed fish head and then cleared away the empty plate.
There are twenty fish in total, with only twenty fish heads. If you cut them in half, you get forty fish heads. Each person takes two bites, and there's not much left. So the fish heads are consumed the fastest.
Secretary Li looked at Wen Xi with admiration and satisfaction. She was such a clever little girl. Of course, if she wasn't clever, she wouldn't have been able to do the police and the military such a big favor.
At Captain Qian's prompting, Wen Xi came over and removed the empty plates from the table.
Secretary Li asked curiously, "Comrade Wen, did you cook all these dishes?"
"Yes, I figured them out myself by slowly combining and experimenting." Wen Xi smiled modestly. At this time, although the ingredients were available, there weren't many recipes, so there was nowhere for everyone to learn.
Moreover, she doesn't like to attribute her achievements to others. Why should she earn credit for others?
"Young people are indeed courageous and resourceful, not bad, not bad." Secretary Li nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill and left, Wenxi quickly cleaned up the table, then opened it up and put it back in its original place. Soon the bell rang for the first batch of meals, and everyone rushed to the cafeteria for dinner.
After dark, after Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue went out to earn money, Wen Xi locked the door and set off. Her main goal was to find ponds to catch fish and river shrimp. Anyway, she had an electric bicycle and could travel all over the rural areas of Kaiming County, and even go to the rural areas of other counties. She just didn't know if she could travel to so many places in one summer.
If she could, she would have really struck it rich, since in this era the countryside was free from pesticide and fertilizer pollution and had abundant aquatic resources.
However, she catches the big ones and leaves the small ones, and after catching them, she releases fish fry and crab fry, which can be considered a benefit to future generations here. It's just unknown when people will realize the importance of eating seafood.
The next morning, Wenxi appeared at the pasture as promised. Captain Qian had already arranged for people to harvest the grass there. Captain Qian had set aside a small plot for seed.
They cut some hay and took it to the pigsty and cowshed to experiment. Seeing that the pigs and cows were willing to eat the hay, they were relieved.
Wenxi was completely relieved. After all, planting pasture was her idea. If the pigs and cows didn't eat the pasture and everyone had done a lot of useless work, they would definitely complain about her.
“Uncle Qian, if there’s enough fresh hay, we can dry some hay and store it. That way, the pigs and cattle will have something to eat in the winter and spring,” Wenxi said.
Although pigs are slaughtered at the end of the year and don't require much pasture, cattle need to eat all year round, and the team can't slaughter cattle for meat if they are healthy.
Captain Qian nodded. "Xiaoxi, thank you so much."
"Uncle Qian, I'm also part of the team, so it's only right that I offer suggestions. You don't need to thank me, Uncle Qian," Wen Xi said with a smile.
Wenxi still had to cook, so she said goodbye to Captain Qian and went to the canteen. As soon as she arrived at the canteen, Wenxi immediately started a fire to boil the mint water.
Today was snake soup day again. Wen Xi was quite surprised to see Lin Yihui carrying two sacks of snakes all by himself. She hurriedly went up to him and asked, "Brother Lin, why are you alone? Where is Comrade Lin Chuyang?"
Watching Wen Xi run towards Lin Yihui, Wang Xiaoju curled her lip in disdain. What a vain and materialistic snob. She pounces on a man with good conditions like a hungry wolf seeing meat.
“Chuyang went back to work,” Lin Yihui explained.
"Oh!" Wen Xi was a little disappointed. Of course, she wasn't disappointed that she wouldn't see Lin Chuyang, but rather that no one would help her deal with the snake today.
"The fish was delicious yesterday." Seeing the disappointment on the girl's face, he awkwardly changed the subject.
"Thank you." Wen Xi was still thinking about dealing with the snake, so her reply was a bit perfunctory.
“There are so many snakes, you probably can’t handle them all by yourself. Let me help you!” Lin Yihui said.
Upon hearing this, Wen Xi's eyes lit up. She immediately went to the counter and took the basin and scissors with Lin Yihui to the river bend. Knowing that one basin was not enough, Wen Xi simply took two wooden basins and stacked them together.
Upon arriving at the river bend, Lin Yihui squatted under a tree and began quickly dealing with the snake.
Just as Wen Xi was about to check if there had been any harvest from the bamboo basket she had put in the water yesterday, Wang Xiaoju approached Lin Yihui mysteriously, looking at him with a smile. "Yihui, you're not young anymore. You should have gotten married and had children so your mother can hold her grandson. I have a niece on my family's side. She's beautiful and kind-hearted. If she marries you, she'll definitely be able to take good care of your parents in your place. Why don't I call her over so you two can meet?"
Once her niece really marries Lin Yihui, she definitely won't let her stay in the countryside to serve her in-laws. She'll make her go with Lin Yihui to his military post and have him hand over all his salary.
As the matchmaker, she's bound to get her share of the benefits.
"Auntie, I don't plan to get married for the next ten years," Lin Yihui said coldly.
“You’re already so old, how can you not get married and have children? You two only need to meet once, maybe you’ll fall for her? If you don’t, I’ll introduce you to someone else,” Wang Xiaoju said hurriedly.
As long as Lin Yihui agrees to meet, she naturally has ways to make him have no choice but to marry her.
Lin Yihui threw the scissors into the wooden basin, frowned, and looked coldly at Wang Xiaoju. "Can't you understand human language? Are you trying to make me angry? Not only will I not see your so-called niece, but I will also make all the men in our Lin family not see your so-called niece. Do you really think that just because I'm not home all year round, I don't understand your scheming little schemes? Let me tell you, you don't have the ability to scheme against our family."
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