Wang Xinru waved her hand dismissively, "I don't care about any merits or anything, I just care about whether I can eat good food."
“Okay, then I’ll go to the butcher shop early tomorrow morning to queue up for pork offal. You can come to my house for braised food tomorrow night…” Wenxi originally wanted Wang Xinru to come over for braised food after work tomorrow night, but she was worried that it wouldn’t be safe for her to walk alone at night, so she changed her mind and said, “Then before the first batch of meals tomorrow, find an excuse to come over and I’ll bring you the braised food.”
"Then I'll trouble you." Wang Xinru nodded, turned and left without delaying Wen Xi's work.
Wenxi hadn't expected Wang Xinru to be so generous. She must be quite well-off herself, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to take out five yuan to buy pig offal and treat the whole village to braised food.
However, we certainly can't let Wang Xinru's efforts go to waste. The villagers can't know about this, but can't the village officials know about it either?
If the village officials find out, they'll have a better impression of this pampered young lady from the city.
After cleaning up the kitchen and finishing work, Wenxi went to find Captain Qian and told him that Wang Xinru was treating everyone to braised food the next day. She asked Captain Qian whether he should publicly praise Wang Xinru or offer her some kind of compensation. She decided to let Captain Qian and Wang Xinru discuss it themselves, since she was only in charge of cooking.
The next day, when everyone saw Wenxi bring back another set of pig offal, they all started drooling again, thinking about the delicious food they had eaten the day before.
Wen Xi had actually packed all the braised food and vegetables for Wang Xinru before going to bed that night, because Sun Mei and Wang Xiaoju were also in the cafeteria, and it would be difficult to handle with them there.
If they saw Wenxi packing braised food in a lunchbox, who knows what kind of commotion those two would cause? They're not bad people, but they're both quite calculating.
Seeing Wang Xinru eat two large lunchboxes of braised food by herself, she'd probably be furious.
Wenxi calculated the time and waited under the tree outside the cafeteria. When she saw Wang Xinru running towards her, she waved to her. After Wang Xinru followed her to the river bend, Wenxi handed the basket to Wang Xinru and said, "Go find a place to eat. I'll go in and keep an eye on them."
"Thank you." After thanking him, Wang Xinru walked into the woods, walked behind a big tree, squatted down, removed the cloth from the basket, and took out the lunchbox inside.
One box contains braised pork offal, and the other contains braised vegetables.
After taking a bite, Wang Xinru's eyes lit up. It was clearly tastier than yesterday's, and the variety was also richer, as the braised vegetables included lotus root slices, broccoli, and quail eggs...
It looks like Wenxi made this for her separately.
She didn't know when Wenxi made it for her. She hadn't given Wenxi anything; she had paid for the pig offal herself. The bowl that Wenxi received was far from enough to compensate for Wenxi's hard work. Buying pig offal takes a long time, cleaning it takes a long time, and then there's the cooking...
It can be described as both time-consuming and laborious.
Wang Xinru ate the braised food bite by bite, and before she knew it, she had finished both boxes. Not only did she finish them, but she also felt that she was still not satisfied and that her stomach was not full.
Wang Xinru herself was surprised. When did her appetite become so big? Sure enough, delicious food can whet one's appetite. Fortunately, dinner will be served soon, and she can have another bowl of braised food.
After finishing her meal, Wang Xinru placed her basket under a tree outside the dining hall, gave Wen Xi a wink, and left. The young adults were the second group to eat, so she would have to wait a while before coming over to eat.
Having just finished a day's work and returned home, Captain Qian hadn't even had a chance to sit down and have a drink of water when there was a knock on the gate. Aunt Mei opened the gate and saw Xu Mengying, Zuo Qiuyi, and Yang Li standing outside. She was a little surprised. "You just finished work, why didn't you go home to rest? Aren't you tired?"
It seems that the workload assigned to them was too light. But now, apart from harvesting the late rice, there is nothing else important to do, because it is not yet time to transplant winter rapeseed, and even if they were to transplant, it would not be as rushed as harvesting the late rice.
“Auntie, we’re here to see Captain Qian,” Xu Mengying said.
"Come in!" Since they had come to her door, Aunt Meihua couldn't turn them away, so she opened the courtyard gate and let them in.
Upon approaching Captain Qian, Xu Mengying said, "Captain Qian, we heard that Fengshou Brigade has a primary school. We came to the countryside to support rural development. We're not very good at farming, so we can't contribute much. Therefore, we want to apply to go to a suitable place to shine. We are all junior high or high school graduates, so we are more than qualified to be primary school teachers and educate children. That's why we want to become primary school teachers."
"Do you think becoming a teacher is an easy thing?" Captain Qian looked them over expressionlessly. "If it were that easy, why can't everyone become a teacher?"
"The teachers at Fengshou Elementary School are all recruited through the commune's teacher assessment. If you want to be teachers, come and register for the exam when teachers are recruited next time. If you can get good scores, the commune will naturally hire you."
All you do is daydream. So what if you graduated from junior high or high school? Only a handful of top students can get good grades.
After leaving Captain Qian's house, Xu Mengying pouted unhappily. She thought she could go directly to the primary school to become a teacher and would no longer have to work in the fields!
Yang Li pouted, looking unhappy. If she couldn't be a teacher, she wouldn't be able to meet men who would be more beneficial to her.
Zuo Qiuyi's mood wasn't greatly affected. Since someone was sending her things, she could slack off a little while working so that she wouldn't be so tired.
A few days later, before starting work in the morning, Team Leader Qian held a meeting and said, "I'll take a minute of your time to say one thing: if you want to drink bone broth or eat braised food, you can pool your money to buy it together, or you can pool your money and give it to Wenxi so she can buy it. It's only a few yuan, and each family only needs to contribute a few cents. You can discuss it yourselves! The village won't force you. If you're willing, come to me to pay, and I'll give the money to Wenxi."
After Captain Qian finished speaking, he waved his hand, signaling everyone to go to work.
Perhaps it was because Wenxi's cooking skills were too good, or perhaps it was because everyone was just too hungry, but a few days later, Captain Qian actually came to find Wenxi with a stack of small bills.
There were some one-cent and some one-cent notes in the stack of bills, and there were quite a lot of them. Wenxi counted them in front of Captain Qian and they were indeed five yuan. Considering that there wasn't much meat on the ribs and that the braising broth could be made lightly and drunk directly as soup, Wenxi decided to buy some offal as well.
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