After the man ran away, Qin Mi went to the back of the carriage and unloaded the supplies.
Wenxi knew that what everyone needed most at this time was food, especially in places where food could not be grown, the demand for food was even greater.
Therefore, the supplies she prepared consisted mostly of food, with other items in relatively smaller quantities.
Wenxi prepared 500 jin each of oats, buckwheat, sorghum rice, millet, and cornmeal, and 500 jin each of potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, jicama, sweet cassava, pumpkin, and winter melon.
Two hundred catties each of eggplant, loofah, cucumber, zucchini, chives, cabbage, onion, tomato, bok choy, carrot, cowpea, persimmon, apple, pear, and watermelon.
This much stuff is more than enough to exchange for over four thousand catties of seafood. As for what others want, let them come to the middleman to exchange it themselves!
Wenxi stopped worrying about these things.
When the middleman brought the seafood over and they saw so much grain, they were all extremely excited. They were finally free from eating seafood every day. They were really tired of seafood; it wasn't tasty, it didn't fill their stomachs, and most importantly, it didn't fetch a good price. They never expected to be able to exchange it for so much grain.
Wenxi checked the quality of the seafood, and it was quite good, which showed that the acquaintance Qin Mi had found was quite reliable.
After loading all the seafood onto the car, Qin Mi drove Wen Xi away. "Is that enough? If not, let's go to the port. Fishing boats come back from there every morning, and the seafood is always very fresh."
Wen Xi nodded repeatedly, thinking that she should buy more while the price was low so that she could make a profit when the price was high.
Lin Yiwan must have accumulated so many things in her space gradually in this way, right?
Surely they wouldn't have stockpiled all these things before even traveling to the 21st century!
"Should we find a place to rest and then go to the port tomorrow morning?" Wenxi asked.
Qin Mi nodded. "Let's go to the place closest to the port first, find a guesthouse to stay in, and then go to the port early tomorrow morning. If we go too late, we probably won't be able to buy any good seafood."
"We're not going to the port until tomorrow morning, that's still a long time," Wenxi said tentatively, seeing that the road was deserted and there wasn't a single car in sight. "Qin Mi, can you teach me how to drive this car?"
Once she learns to drive, she can drive around everywhere when she can do business in the future. Otherwise, if she hires a driver to accompany her, she won't be able to cheat.
Qin Mi stopped the car, then pulled Wen Xi from the passenger seat and taught her about the various parts and functions of the car.
Qin Mi personally guided Wen Xi to drive the vehicle.
After teaching her, he stopped the car and let Wenxi operate it herself. Wenxi carefully drove the car, gripping the steering wheel tightly with both hands and looking intently ahead.
After driving for a while, Wenxi became more proficient and was no longer as tense as before; instead, she relaxed a bit.
"Liangliang, if you want to drive, you'll need to go to the traffic bureau to take a driving test before you can drive yourself," Qin Mi reminded her.
"I'm not taking the test for now, and there's no car for me to drive right now," Wen Xi said seriously, staring ahead.
Even if she were to take the test, she shouldn't take it here. A driver's license obtained here wouldn't be valid if she took it back home. She's Wen Xi, not Hao Liangliang.
Everything about Hao Liangliang is fake. Even the things she did cannot be attributed to Hao Liangliang; people can only believe that it was the mountain god appearing.
After driving for a while, Wenxi felt she could drive, so she stopped the car and let Qin Mi sit in the passenger seat. She didn't need him to protect her like a driving instructor.
As she gradually became more skilled, Wenxi drove more and more smoothly, and when she arrived at places with people, she no longer felt flustered.
Once they reached a secluded spot, Wenxi parked the car, and the two of them went to the back of the vehicle to eat. Wenxi took out a small folding table, then a portable alcohol stove and a hot pot with two broths. Today, she was going to take Qin Mi out for hot pot.
She didn't know when she would leave this place, so she wanted to take Qin Mi out to eat as many delicious foods as possible in the limited time she had left, since she had received so many benefits from Qin Mi.
After lighting the alcohol stove, Wenxi put spicy seasoning on one side of the hot pot and tomato seasoning on the other, added boiling water, and then put it on the stove to cook.
Soon, the aroma filled the air, and Qin Mi couldn't help but swallow hard.
Then Wenxi brought out the hot pot ingredients, some of which she had signed up for before, and some she had made herself later: beef slices, lamb slices, pork belly slices, tripe, potato slices, lotus root slices, wood ear fungus, mushrooms, lettuce, green vegetables, yam slices, bamboo shoot slices, sweet potato slices, and quail eggs.
All the dishes were prepared and placed on the folding table, completely surrounding the alcohol stove.
Each item is in small quantities, but there are so many varieties! And several meat dishes are served in double portions because the sliced meat tastes really good when cooked like this.
Wenxi also scooped out a plate of shrimp from the seafood she had just collected. After cleaning the shrimp, she poured them into the spicy hot pot base, worried that the shrimp would be too fishy and ruin the tomato broth.
So let's try putting it in a spicy broth first.
Wenxi also prepared two dipping sauces according to the two people's tastes. Then she sat down next to the folding table and saw that some of the ingredients were already cooked. She then called Qin Mi to eat, "The hot pot is ready, you can eat now. You eat first, and if there is anything you like, just tell me and I will get it for you."
Wenxi scooped a piece of meat out of the pot, dipped it twice in the dipping sauce, and popped it into her mouth. It was so fresh and delicious.
Seeing this, Qin Mi also picked up a piece of meat from the pot, and like Wen Xi, dipped it in the sauce twice before eating it. Unexpectedly, it was quite delicious, with a unique flavor.
"Delicious," Qin Mi praised.
"Eat more if you like it." Otherwise, he won't be able to eat this kind of food when she goes back. Of course, decades later, he can spend money to eat it at a hot pot restaurant.
Qin Mi instantly grasped the meaning behind those words, feeling a sharp pain in his heart, like being pricked by a needle. He then smiled faintly, realizing that the future was beyond his control and that cherishing every moment was the only thing he should do.
Wenxi has always had a big appetite, and she didn't eat two extra bowls of rice just because there was something delicious. She quickly finished eating, then scooped up a few shrimp and put them in a bowl to cool. After that, she peeled the shrimp with her hands and ate them. She didn't expect that the fresh shrimp would taste so good, and even had a sweet flavor.
Seeing that Wenxi was about to peel a second shrimp, Qin Mi quickly took the bowl over and peeled all the shrimp in the bowl. Then she scooped out the rest from the pot, planning to wait for them to cool down before peeling them again.
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