So Wenxi brought a basket of beef ribs, cleaned them, blanched them in boiling water, and then stewed two pots of spicy and fragrant beef rib hot pot. After the beef ribs were stewed until tender, she added the pre-cut broccoli, potatoes, radishes, carrots, quail eggs, and other ingredients to continue stewing. She made two large pots, which smelled delicious.
After that, I stewed two more pots of lamb rib hot pot, adding various vegetables as well, making two large, full pots.
I also went to the system's fishpond and caught some giant prawns. I cut off their whiskers, cleaned them, and made three batches of boiled river prawns, salted prawns, and stir-fried prawns.
The river shrimp are plump and meaty with lots of roe. Wen Xi really likes eating river shrimp. Now that she's started raising them in her fishpond, she doesn't have to worry about them being eaten up. So she can take them out and eat them with Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue.
After finishing, Wen Xi ate ten large river shrimp directly in the system kitchen. The river shrimp were so big that they were as long as her hand. She was full after eating just ten.
Since she couldn't go to sleep right after eating, Wenxi didn't go out. Instead, she continued cooking inside. She made stir-fried potatoes, green peppers, and eggplant; stir-fried wood ear mushrooms with yam; stir-fried shiitake mushrooms with bok choy; stir-fried bitter melon with meat; and stir-fried cowpeas with meat. After cooking, she put the dishes into bowls, filling each bowl to the brim. She would cook other dishes whenever she finished eating.
After cooking in the system kitchen for a while, Wenxi returned to her room, changed into silky pajamas, and lay down to rest.
In the dim light, Wen Xi stared blankly at the ceiling, her mind and thoughts completely empty.
Wenxi didn't get out of bed to pull the light cord until her eyelids started to droop. She quickly jumped back into bed. The pitch-black room was a bit scary, but she still preferred to live alone.
The next morning, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue went out to work. As soon as they opened the courtyard gate, they saw Lin Yiwan standing outside. Shen Jiaojiao asked, "Are you here to see Xiaoxi?"
Lin Yi nodded.
Shen Jiaojiao said, "Then you can go in!"
After Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue left, Lin Yiwan stepped into the courtyard. "Xiaoxi, are you there?"
Wen Xi came out of the room. "Luckily, I didn't go up the mountain today, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to find me! Why didn't you come to find me the night before if you needed something?"
Lin Yiwan scratched her head shyly, "I'm going on a blind date today. You promised to come with me, so you can't not go."
"Today?" Wen Xi asked to confirm. "When? Where are we going?"
“Go to the mountain near my maternal grandmother’s house. There’s a temple on that mountain. We can have the blind date there. No one will see us, so no one will know about it, and it won’t affect us.” Lin Yiwan didn’t want to go on the blind date at all, but she couldn’t go too far because her parents were locals from this era and had the mindset of this time. They absolutely wouldn’t allow their daughter to stay at home forever without getting married.
Since she's going to get married, she'll choose someone she's satisfied with. She's rich, beautiful, and has everything. She doesn't need a particularly powerful man, but she needs someone who listens to her and has a kind heart, a man who, even if he accidentally discovers her secret, will only think about protecting her instead of trying to take her treasure away.
Men only have a few functions: warming the bed in winter, passing the time when bored, cultivating their character and pleasing their mood. As long as the functions work, everything else is secondary.
"Now?" Wenxi asked.
Lin Yiwan nodded. "Yes, let's set off now."
"Okay, then give me some time, I'll tidy up a bit." Wen Xi quickly went back to her room, put on some ugly makeup, and then grabbed a basket.
Seeing Wen Xi's 'safe' appearance, Lin Yiwan couldn't help but chuckle, "Xiao Xi, aren't you exaggerating a bit too much?"
"I think it's fine!" Wen Xi shrugged.
If Lin Yiwan takes a liking to that person, and that person takes a liking to her, then Lin Yiwan will be in tears. Therefore, Wen Xi wants to nip all possibilities in the bud.
Although one shouldn't be too narcissistic, Wenxi knew she was quite good-looking, because that's what everyone had said since she was little.
Even when she was young, her parents started worrying about her marriage and family.
Lin Yiwan poked the basket hanging on Wen Xi's shoulder, "What are you doing again?"
“Aren’t we going to the mountain near your grandma’s house? Since we’re going to the mountain, there must be some mountain produce there, right? If we bring a basket, we won’t miss out on any mountain produce we find, right?” Wenxi smiled mischievously.
"Yes, you're right about everything," Lin Yiwan said helplessly.
After that, the two walked together towards Lin Yiwan's house. Lin Yiwan pulled her bicycle out of the yard, and Lin's mother saw Lin Yiwan off. Seeing that Wen Xi had dressed herself up in a very ordinary way, she nodded in satisfaction.
Today is my daughter's blind date, so I can't let Wenxi steal the spotlight from her. Wenxi's disguise is actually quite good.
"Mom, we're leaving now!" Lin Yiwan waved to her mother, then patted the back of the bicycle, signaling Wen Xi to get on. Wen Xi supported Lin Yiwan's waist and sat sideways on the back of the bicycle. Lin Yiwan then straddled the bicycle and rode away with Wen Xi on the back.
Turning right at the village entrance leads to the town, while Lin Yiwan turns left from the village entrance. To be honest, in both her past and present lives, Wen Xi has been here for almost three years, and she has never gone to the left side during the day!
In the summer before, she went to the left side at night to look for ponds to catch fish and shrimp. She had traveled to almost all the rural areas here, and even some wilderness areas that even locals had never been.
After riding a bicycle for more than half an hour, passing through several production teams, they finally arrived at the production team where Lin Yiwan's maternal grandmother lived. Lin Yiwan rode the bicycle directly to her grandmother's house, left the bicycle there, said a few words, and then took Wenxi and ran up the mountain.
I didn't tell many people about the blind date. It's okay that this one failed; it won't affect our future blind dates.
So Lin Yiwan's maternal grandmother didn't know that Lin Yiwan was going on a blind date today. She thought that Lin Yiwan was in a hurry to go up the mountain to pick wild fruits. It is autumn now, the harvest season, and there are indeed many wild fruits on the mountain.
The mountain near Lin Yiwan's maternal grandmother's house in the river area is quite easy to climb because there are actually layers of steps dug out, but they are not paved with bricks. As long as it doesn't rain, it's easy to go up the mountain and you won't slip.
The two climbed for about half an hour and reached the temple. Wenxi saw that there were already people there. The two looked at each other and continued walking forward.
Hearing the voice, the man turned around and saw two girls walking towards him. He quickly stepped forward and introduced himself to Lin Yiwan, "Hello, my name is Liu Jianhua. Are you Comrade Lin Yiwan?"
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