Wen Xi picked up the items and put them into the warehouse. She knew that Lin Yiwan was also putting them into her spatial storage, otherwise the basket wouldn't be empty yet.
After all, there are a lot of snails at this time of year, and you can quickly fill a basket.
Wenxi was afraid that Lin Yiwan would overthink things, so she filled her own basket first and then went ashore to wait for Lin Yiwan. Once Lin Yiwan's basket was also full, the two of them carried their heavy baskets and left.
They arrived at the riverbank, washed their boots clean, and cleaned the mud off the snails. Then the two of them carried the snails home.
Lin Yiwan said, "My older brother went back to Wangshu after twenty days. I guess he'll be much older when we meet again."
“They prioritize the greater good over their own families, but thankfully they have you as their good sister. You can look after your sister-in-law and niece for your older brother. Actually, my second brother is the same way. He hardly ever comes home throughout the year, sometimes only when a project is finished. If I have a sister-in-law in the future, and she's a good person, I'll definitely help my brother take care of them. But if she's the kind of troublemaker, I'll just go wherever it's cool and won't get involved at all.” Wen Xi could empathize with Lin Yiwan’s feelings.
Even if they are sisters, she will not care about Wenrou's affairs in the future, and she will not provide Wenrou's children with any financial or material support because of what Wenrou did to her.
Call her biased or whatever, she certainly wouldn't raise her enemy's child.
Therefore, whether she treats her future sister-in-law well or not depends on the sister-in-law's character, not on blindly being good to her. If the sister-in-law is not a good person, like Wenrou, she will cause harm to her or her family. If she is still good to her sister-in-law, wouldn't that be aiding and abetting evil?
Although she really wanted to bring Lin Yiwan and her second brother together, it depended on whether they were destined to be together. People who weren't meant to be together wouldn't be happy if they were forced together.
When Wenxi returned home, she kept the snails in clean water. Upon seeing this, Shen Jiaojiao said helplessly, "Xiaoxi, aren't we enough to bring back so many last night?"
Wen Xi shook her head and said with a smile, "I'm just bored. I want to go out and kill some time, is that not allowed? I'm planning to eat these snails myself. I'll make you spicy snails in a couple of days."
Afterwards, Wenxi took a basket to pick vegetables from the yard. She had planted a lot of vegetables in the yard, which was more than enough for the three of them. She could even dry the vegetables and pickle them!
Two days later, after Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue left, Wen Xi slipped into the machine room of the system warehouse.
They used a machine to process the snails and crayfish, then found a child, gave him two candies, and asked him to deliver a note to Wang Xinru.
The note simply said one sentence: asking Wang Xinru to come and help at noon.
What kind of help can I offer?
Naturally, it's to help with eating.
As soon as Wang Xinru saw the contents of the note, she understood. As a foodie, she had that kind of tacit understanding.
Wang Xinru didn't wait until noon; she went directly to Captain Qian to ask for leave. After all, it wasn't the busiest time for the double harvest yet, so it was okay to ask for leave if anything came up.
When Yao Hongbo heard the name 'Wen Xi', he knew that Wang Xinru was going to see Wen Xi, so he quickly followed her. When he saw that she was asking for leave, he also quickly asked for leave.
He didn't mean any harm by looking for Wenxi; it was just the natural urge to get closer to someone from the same hometown!
Although Shen Jiaojiao was from the same hometown, she didn't attend high school, so Yao Hongbo naturally didn't know her.
Wen Xi had just brought out a large basin of crabs when she heard a knock on the door. She saw Wang Xinru standing outside and was about to let her in when she saw Yao Hongbo following behind.
"Yao Hongbo, what brings you here?" Wen Xi asked curiously.
Yao Hongbo looked uncomfortable and didn't know how to answer.
"Come on in!" Wen Xi said helplessly. "Since you're here, help out with the work. I don't entertain idlers here."
Wenxi led Wang Xinru and Yao Hongbo to the well, taught Wang Xinru how to remove the shrimp veins and Yao Hongbo how to clean the crabs, and then handed these two tasks over to them while she went to the kitchen to busy herself.
She first washed, chopped, and plated some vegetables such as cucumbers, cowpeas, broccoli, and lettuce. When it was time to cook lunch, she started a fire to make spicy snails. Soon, the strong aroma wafted into the yard.
Yao Hongbo couldn't help but swallow hard. "It smells so good, I'm practically drooling."
Wang Xinru smiled faintly and didn't say anything. She didn't want to tell Yao Hongbo how good Wen Xi's cooking skills were, otherwise what if he kept bothering Wen Xi in the future?
Although she really wanted to have dinner with Wen Xi, she knew it was impossible.
Besides, why should anyone invite her to dinner?
Wenxi made two servings of snails: one was spicy snails with various side dishes, and the other was garlic snails with only a little chili, so that people who can't eat spicy food could enjoy the garlic version.
Wenxi left a large bowl of both portions of snails for Qin Mi. She had already cooked a big pot of both portions of snails, so leaving so many wouldn't affect whether everyone could eat to their heart's content.
As for the snail sauce, she made it in the system kitchen, and Qin Mi can help her take it to the county town and mail it tomorrow morning.
After the snails were cooked, Wenxi came out to check on the progress of the crayfish. Seeing that the shrimp veins of the crayfish had been removed, Wenxi said, "Wang Xinru, you've worked hard today. Eat more at noon."
Wang Xinru smiled shyly, "I can't compare to how hard you've worked. You've already taken care of so much this morning."
Wenxi processed the snails and the crayfish, and she was just doing the last step of processing the crayfish. She really couldn't compare to Wenxi's hard work!
Wen Xi picked up the crayfish and said to Yao Hongbo, "Yao Hongbo, bring the crabs in once they're cleaned."
Afterwards, Wenxi and Wang Xinru each carried a basin of crayfish to the kitchen. Wang Xinru helped to start the fire, and Wenxi also cooked the crayfish in two different flavors: one spicy and one garlic.
Smelling that overpowering aroma, Wang Xinru felt like she was swallowing her saliva as if it were free.
Yao Hongbo brought the cleaned crabs into the kitchen. Wen Xi took out half of the crabs to steam, and Yao Hongbo cut the other half in half, then coated the cut surfaces with flour before frying them in oil to make spicy crabs.
After all the seafood was prepared, Wenxi stir-fried water spinach, amaranth, pumpkin tips, and sweet potato tips, and also made loofah soup.
Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue had already returned, but there was no use for them in the kitchen, so Wenxi asked them to deliver a bowl of snails and crayfish to Chang Qingqing's family and Captain Qian's family next door. As for the others, they didn't deliver anything.
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