After all, Chen Dahua has three sons and two daughters. Her third son will get married in the first month of the lunar calendar, and then there will be three daughters-in-law with different temperaments and personalities. There will be a lot of fighting over this big house in the future.
“Oh right, when Jin Changfeng told me about moving houses, he said he might not be home and asked me to give you the keys. Since you’re here, I’ll give you the keys!” Chen Dahua said, taking out a bunch of keys from the pocket of her cotton coat and handing them to Wen Xi. “Xiao Xi, when Jin Changfeng comes back, please give the keys to him for me.”
Wen Xi took the key. "Auntie Da Hua, don't worry, I'll give the key to Comrade Jin as soon as he comes back."
As Wenxi spoke, she glanced into the yard. All the vegetables that had been planted in the yard had been harvested and taken away, leaving only some rotten vegetable leaves in the yard.
However, Chen Dahua's yard is quite large, and Jin Changfeng rarely has time to come back. When Jin Changfeng is discharged from the hospital and comes back to recuperate, ask him if he would be willing to lend her the land in the yard to grow vegetables, as payment for taking care of his house in the future!
After all, she'll be living in the countryside for a few more years, so it's fine for her to look after the house for Jin Changfeng!
Chen Dahua's eldest grandson quickly finished the fruit candy, rushed over and hugged Chen Dahua's legs with both hands, looked up at Chen Dahua and shouted, "Grandma, I want to eat more fruit candy."
Chen Dahua slapped her eldest grandson on the shoulder and scolded, "Why did you eat a piece of fruit candy so quickly? There's none left. Go play at the new house first! You'll get candy when your uncle gets married."
Wen Xi took out another piece of fruit candy and handed it to Chen Dahua's eldest grandson, saying, "Kang Kang, go play with your friends. Don't disturb your parents' move."
Kang Kang is the first child of Chen Dahua's eldest son and daughter-in-law. Her second son's family doesn't have any children yet. Her third son will be getting married in January. If her second and third daughters-in-law get pregnant at the same time, Chen Dahua will be very busy.
"Auntie Dahua, then I won't disturb your move." Wenxi said goodbye to Chen Dahua, went home to get her basket, and went to the rice paddy to find Chen Jiaojiao and the others.
The five of them were catching fish together. With so many of them, it was hard for the villagers not to notice them. When they saw them catching rice paddy fish in the paddy fields, and actually catching some that were much bigger than the small fish, they thought that these fish could be considered a dish no matter what. So, the diligent people also came to the paddy fields to catch fish.
Looking at the scene, Tian Shengnan sighed helplessly. Fortunately, not many villagers came to catch rice paddy fish, otherwise they wouldn't have caught many fish either.
She also wanted to dry more salted fish so she could send them home after the New Year when the post office reopened, since there really wouldn't be much food to eat after the New Year.
Wenxi had a fishing net that could catch more and bigger fish, so she didn't compete with them. Wenxi waved to Shen Jiaojiao and then turned back.
Tian Shengnan and the others are going to her house to pickle salted fish later, and they will definitely be eating lunch at her house. She needs to go back and arrange lunch.
When Wenxi returned home, she first took the used paper from the toilet basket and put it in the kitchen, then stuffed it into the stove. After that, she washed the rice and put it in the pot to cook the sweet potato rice.
This is the central plains region, where the staple food is rice with coarse grains, unlike the Northeast where there are so many different dishes. So, we either cook sweet potato porridge or sweet potato rice.
Actually, both sweet potato porridge and sweet potato rice are quite delicious, because sweet potatoes have a smooth texture and a unique sweet flavor.
Wenxi has the means to support the three sisters, so they don't need to eat porridge three times a day.
Wenxi started cooking the rice, then went to Chang Qingqing's house next door and bought a basket of vegetables for three cents. She gave Chang Qingqing the one yuan she had earned from buying eels, and told Zhao Yuanyuan and Zhao Huihui that starting tonight, class time would be changed to six to eight o'clock in the evening so they could go home and rest earlier.
Wenxi returned home, took six large silver carp from the wooden tub in the bathroom, cleaned them, and then started stewing them. She prepared side dishes such as potato chunks and Chinese cabbage, and added them in when the fish was almost cooked.
Wenxi had eaten grilled fish in her previous life. Although the old man didn't take her out to social gatherings, he would occasionally invite his friends over for parties, so she had eaten a few bites of grilled fish with him. She remembered that there were many side dishes in the grilled fish, such as onions, potato chunks, lotus root slices, bean sprouts, cucumbers, and a kind of tofu, but she didn't know what kind of tofu it was.
Many dishes can be stewed with fish, so in order to ensure that everyone can have a good and filling lunch, we naturally need to add more side dishes.
Hearing the knock, Wenxi knew it wasn't Shen Jiaojiao. She quickly checked the kitchen to make sure there was nothing out of the ordinary before going to open the door.
Unexpectedly, it was the female lead, Lin Yiwan.
When Wen Xi was first reborn, she didn't want to have any involvement with the male and female leads because she was afraid of being backfired by the female lead's halo. However, after interacting with the female lead a few times, nothing bad happened. Moreover, Lin Yiwan was a good girl who dared to love and hate and had a positive outlook on life, so it was possible for Wen Xi to get along with her. Naturally, Wen Xi was willing to associate with Lin Yiwan.
Wen Xi invited Lin Yiwan in and then made her a cup of malted milk powder. As for peach lemon tea, she didn't dare to make it for Lin Yiwan because she had never seen such a thing in her previous life in the 1980s. In other words, it might be something that only came into existence after the 1980s. If Lin Yiwan saw it, she would inevitably overthink it.
"It smells so good, Xiaoxi, have you started making lunch yet?" Lin Yiwan wrinkled her nose and asked with a smile.
She looked as innocent as a teenage girl. Of course, like Wen Xi, she was about to turn seventeen, so she was still a little girl.
Wen Xi smiled and said, "Yes, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue went out to catch rice paddy fish. I didn't have anything to do, so I cooked the rice first."
Many people in the village already knew they were catching fish in the rice paddies, so there was no need to hide it, and in fact, there was no need to hide it at all. Otherwise, if Lin Yiwan found out about it from others, they might think she wasn't being honest.
"I'm planning to go to town on Friday night. Do you want to come with me?" Lin Yiwan gestured with her chin towards the direction of the educated youth settlement, afraid that Wenxi wouldn't understand.
With such obvious hints, how could Wenxi not understand her meaning?
This was an invitation for her to follow Lu Xiaoyun and Xia Minglei together on Friday night, so Wen Xi readily agreed. She also wanted to see just how shameless and unscrupulous Lu Xiaoyun and Xia Minglei really were.
While pursuing them, they were also with other people. Wen Xi avoided being hurt by them because she didn't like them. If Lin Yiwan hadn't happened to find out about their affair, she would definitely have been deceived.
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