But the temperature was still very high this season. After walking for a while, her whole body started to feel hot and sweaty, which made her very uncomfortable. However, she couldn't take out her electric bicycle, so she had to walk to the town.
She arrived in town early, so she went to queue at the pork stall first. Wenxi had tickets, some from the black market and some sent to her by Jin Changfeng, so she could buy whatever she wanted without hesitation.
Wenxi arrived quite early today. The line at the pork stall wasn't long. When it was Wenxi's turn, there was still plenty of good meat left. Wenxi ordered five catties of pork fat, two catties of pork belly, two catties of tenderloin, two pig trotters, ten catties of spare ribs, and a whole set of offal.
Wenxi comes to buy often and is already quite familiar with this uncle, so when he sees that she buys a lot, he doesn't say much. Besides, Wenxi has money and tickets, and she doesn't need his money or tickets, so why wouldn't he sell to her?
After buying the items, Wenxi carried them to a secluded corner and stored them in the system warehouse. Then, she went to the post office to mail the items for Jin Changfeng. Next, she went to the supply and marketing cooperative, bought two bottles of Moutai liquor, and then returned to the brigade.
She needs to save the remaining tickets for daily necessities to trade with the team for mushrooms. Although mushrooms are not worth much now, they will definitely be worth twice as much in a few years.
Moreover, once she returns to the city, she is unlikely to come to the Harvest Brigade again. After all, it's so far away, and it takes several days to get there by train. By then, she won't be able to eat wild mushrooms anymore, so she might as well harvest more now!
Wenxi left early in the morning, so she returned quite early as well. She got home before nine o'clock, which was the best time of day.
After resting for a while, Wenxi put on a straw hat and gloves, picked up the shovel she had signed, and began to work on the vegetable garden in the yard. She pulled up the old cucumber, tomato, and cowpea vines and laid them out in the yard to dry. Then she removed the trellises used for climbing the vines, and then started weeding, turning over the soil, and preparing the land so that she could plant autumn vegetables.
Others need to work hard to cultivate seedlings, but she doesn't, because she has signed up for some vegetable seedlings, including winter cabbage, radish, carrot, cauliflower, Chinese cabbage, celery, spinach, garland chrysanthemum, coriander, garlic... dozens of kinds in total. She can just choose a few common vegetables to plant in the yard.
She doesn't make money from vegetables. The three of them, sisters, grow vegetables in two yards, and they can't even finish eating them all.
On this day, Li Wei and Qian Chunxing got married. Everyone went to Qian Chunxing's house for lunch, so there was no need to cook at home. Therefore, Wen Xi did not cook at home for lunch either.
After Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue returned from work, they tidied up briefly and then went to Qian Chunxing's house to attend the wedding.
Qian Chunxing's family really did build them thatched huts. People only lived in houses like that ten or twenty years ago. It seems that Qian Chunxing's family didn't treat her very well. They didn't even build her a house. This perfectly illustrates the saying that once a daughter is married, she is no longer considered a daughter.
Wenxi and her two friends found the person collecting money and each paid 50 cents. None of them were short of money, so they didn't make things too awkward.
After giving the gift money and receiving a handful of fruit candies, they went to find an empty table to sit down. Later, Tian Shengnan and her two companions, along with Gu Huai'an and his two companions, came over, and the nine of them squeezed around a table that could only seat eight people.
Wenxi and the other two were sitting on one side.
The group of them are going to plant watermelons together next year, so they're all in the same boat and don't want to sit with anyone else.
Lu Xiaoyun, Liang Zhaodi, Xia Minglei, Tian Xiaoke, Wang Caiyun, Wu Guoqiang, Jiang Mo, and Cheng Yu sat together, but they didn't see Tang Xiaoyun and didn't know where she had gone.
Liang Zhaodi's belly was already very big, and she was probably about to give birth. Lu Xiaoyun, who was sitting next to her, did not take any care of her. Wen Xi didn't know how someone like Lu Xiaoyun could have caused everyone to fight over him.
Anyway, as long as no one comes to provoke Shen Jiaojiao, it's fine. But they've been in the countryside for more than half a year now, so Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue shouldn't be so easy to fool, right?
Wang Caiyun always secretly glanced at Gu Huai'an, who was sitting at Wenxi's table. Although Gu Huai'an arrived late and was not qualified to be a teacher, he was good-looking, had a good figure, and dressed well. His family background should be quite good. If she could be with Gu Huai'an, her life in the countryside should be better.
When Gu Huai'an saw Wang Caiyun looking at him with her eyes blinking like she was having a spasm, he thought the woman was crazy. He cursed inwardly and then looked down at the bowl and chopsticks in front of him.
When the food was served, a chorus of complaints arose. It turned out that Qian Chunxing's family didn't have a single dish with pork, not even cheap offal.
There were small snails and fish, but not much seasoning was added; it was all white and looked unappetizing.
These two ingredients are inherently fishy and require a lot of seasoning to remove the fishiness. However, Qian Chunxing's family just made them so casually, no wonder they didn't taste good.
Wenxi didn't touch it at all; she only ate some vegetables. The 50 cents she spent today was completely wasted.
Even Liang Zhaodi, a pregnant woman, almost vomited from the smell of the snails. She had thought that attending the wedding would mean a good meal and a chance to improve her diet, but she never expected that Qian Chunxing's family would serve such a poor meal.
Li Wei felt uncomfortable because the banquet was not very presentable. His family had sent Qian Chunxing a dowry of fifty yuan and a new set of clothes, but he did not expect that Qian Chunxing's family would use such a poor banquet to entertain everyone.
Today is Li Wei's wedding day, and everyone will be talking about him. His reputation has been ruined by Qian Chunxing's family. Fortunately, the teacher exam is over and the positions have been decided. Otherwise, the gossip might have cost him his easy job.
Anyway, everyone who came to the wedding today shook their heads at Qian Chunxing's family's banquet.
Before the banquet was over, some people got up and left. Wenxi and the others didn't want to waste any more time there, so they ate a few bites of vegetables and then got up and left.
The group walked back together, and as they walked, they suddenly saw a house surrounded by a crowd of people. Several women were pointing and gesturing, spitting as they spoke, while arguments could be heard from inside the house from time to time.
Everyone's eyes lit up immediately; this was going to be interesting!
So everyone quickly gathered around. Wenxi felt helpless and followed along. After all, rural life was so dull and boring that even the slightest breeze could pique people's interest.
"Auntie, what's going on here? Weren't we all having a banquet at Qian Chunxing's house? Why did everyone rush here to watch the commotion? And if I remember correctly, this should be Widow Shen's house, right?" Wenxi asked the aunt next to her curiously.
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