She gave Donghua nothing, because she knew that no matter what Donghua brought back, she couldn't keep it safe, and besides, her clothes were still so tattered that she couldn't hide anything.
After descending the mountain, Wenxi went directly to the brigade headquarters to find Captain Qian. Captain Qian happened to be inside, so Wenxi got straight to the point and said, "Uncle Qian, I haven't been feeling well these past two days. I'd like to go to the county hospital for a check-up. Could you please help me get a personal referral letter?"
Upon hearing this, Captain Qian's face showed concern. "Where do you feel unwell? Is it serious?"
Wen Xi is a fine young woman who has made outstanding contributions to the Fengshou Brigade, and Captain Qian doesn't want anything to happen to her.
Wenxi shook her head. "It's not serious, but I'm worried it might affect cooking for everyone during the wheat harvest, so I want to go to the hospital for a check-up and get some medicine from a doctor."
“Okay, I’ll write you a letter of introduction right away.” Captain Qian picked up a pen and began to write.
Wen Xi hurriedly instructed, "Captain Qian, I haven't asked Shen Jiaojiao or Jiang Yue yet whether they'd like to go with me, so I'd appreciate it if you could help me, Captain Qian..."
Captain Qian nodded in understanding and quickly handed the completed letter of introduction to Wen Xi. Wen Xi glanced at it and saw that it was indeed a letter of introduction for two people, except that the other person's name was blank, and Wen Xi was to fill it in herself later. That was quite good.
Just as Wen Xi was about to turn and leave, Captain Qian stood up. "Xiao Xi."
"Uncle Qian, is there something you need?" Wen Xi asked, puzzled.
"Come with me for a moment." After that, Captain Qian walked outside. Wen Xi followed him, puzzled. After walking for a while, they arrived at the newly reclaimed land of the team. Captain Qian pointed to the lush corn seedlings and said, "Xiao Xi, these are the pasture seeds you provided. How come they grew into corn?"
Wen Xi was also a little surprised. She didn't expect that this corn grass would look so much like corn. If you didn't look closely, it would be easy to mistake it for corn. "Uncle Qian, this is corn grass, a type of forage grass, but it's not the same as corn. Uncle Qian, can you count how many plants one corn grass can produce, and how many plants this corn grass can produce?"
Captain Qian counted them carefully, feeling as if he was about to stop breathing. Each corn stalk was a single plant, but each corn plant could be divided into dozens of plants. That was the difference between the two.
Moreover, when we planted it, the corn grass seeds looked like little pebbles, which were really different from corn kernels!
"Uncle Qian, this corn grass can be harvested when it is half a meter tall. It can be harvested again after 20 days. If managed properly, it can produce more than 30,000 kilograms of green fodder per acre. However, I would like to trouble you to save some for seeds. After all, I may not be able to contact that person again. In order not to affect the planting of pasture grass, it is better to save the seeds yourself."
Captain Qian was shocked. The yield of this pasture was as high as 60,000 catties per mu. They planted two mu, which is 120,000 catties. That's enough to raise the cattle and pigs in the team to be plump and strong, so that everyone can eat more meat at the end of the year.
"Xiaoxi, thank you for your contributions to the brigade," Captain Qian said gratefully. There aren't many selfless people like Wenxi.
Wen Xi smiled and said, "Uncle Qian, you're being too polite. I'm a member of the brigade too. Isn't it my duty to do things for the brigade?"
After checking the pasture, Wenxi went home. Now that she has a system kitchen, Wenxi rarely cooks outside anymore. Every day at the appointed time, she boils water to make the chimney smoke as a formality, and then after the work bell rings, she takes the food out of the system kitchen.
So whenever she had free time, she would go into the system kitchen, cook the food, and then place it on the kitchen counter. Whatever it looked like on the counter would look exactly the same when she brought it out, without even changing the temperature.
After 8 p.m., Lin Yiwan arrived as promised, and Wen Xi was already dressed and holding her equipment, waiting for Lin Yiwan to come over. As soon as Lin Yiwan arrived, Wen Xi quickly picked up her things and went out with her.
Although Wen Xi didn't know what Lin Yiwan wanted to do with her at night, she didn't ask too many questions. Instead, she held up a flashlight and followed Lin Yiwan to the edge of the rice paddy.
At this time, the rice seedlings in the paddy fields are lush and green, and their growth is very promising.
Arriving at the edge of the rice paddy, Lin Yiwan shone her flashlight into the water and saw an eel lying there. She grabbed the eel with pliers and threw it into a wooden bucket. The eel struggled in the bucket, making 'thump thump thump' sounds.
“My brother and I used to like to go out and catch eels and loaches to eat on summer nights because they come out to forage at night, making them easier to catch,” Lin Yiwan said with a smile.
Lin Yiwan's parents had four children in total: three older brothers and only one daughter, Lin Yiwan, so they doted on her as much as possible!
Even before Lin Yiwan transmigrated, the Lin family treated her very well, making her the envy of girls her age in the village.
After Lin Yiwan arrived, through her efforts, her eldest brother joined the army, her second brother went to work in a factory in the city, and her third brother and Lin Yiwan stayed at home, since they couldn't leave no children at home.
Then there are Lin Yiwan's cousins. Although they are not the closest to Lin Yiwan, they all found jobs in the city with her help. Only those who were completely unaccustomed to city life stayed in the team.
Wenxi rarely saw Lin Yiwan's brothers because she didn't work, and during the busy farming season, everyone ate in the canteen. She did see them, but everyone was busy, and Lin Yiwan didn't introduce them. She didn't know Lin Yiwan's brothers either, since in her previous life she lived in a youth settlement and didn't really have any interaction with Lin Yiwan.
Wenxi actually envied Lin Yiwan. Her family had a very good relationship. Only when the family members work together can the family get better and better.
Although Wenxi had caught many eels in the distant rice paddies using fish sedatives before everyone started spring planting, she still nodded very cooperatively as Lin Yiwan explained it to her earnestly, saying, "So eels are easy to catch at night! Yiwan, thank you for telling me this, otherwise I wouldn't have known!"
The rice paddies were not only teeming with eels and loaches, but also with all sorts of small fish lying on the mud. However, Wenxi was too lazy to catch these small fish, as they were too tiny, not even as big as half of her little finger.
When there's no meat to eat during the busy farming season, she'll have ten-year-old children help her catch small fish, since she doesn't have the time to do so anyway.
Watching Lin Yiwan pick up a large, red crayfish from the rice paddy, Wen Xi was slightly surprised, because she hadn't expected that crayfish, which had gained a foothold in more than ten provinces and cities ten years later, would be so easy to catch.
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