Once they reached their own doorstep, they quickly moved out, then knocked on the door and weakly called out, "Jiaojiao, Xiaoyue, quick... quick, open the door for me..."
Shen Jiaojiao quickly came over to open the door. Seeing that Wen Xi was almost bent over by the weight, she hurriedly took the basket off her back. The heavy basket almost made her stumble.
"Xiaoxi, how much stuff did you buy?" Shen Jiaojiao asked in surprise.
"Actually, there aren't many things, it's just a bit heavy." Two big grass carp plus big river shrimp weigh 120 jin, not to mention the big crucian carp, ten big crucian carp weigh about 20 jin!
Even if she only carried the heavy load, weighing over 100 pounds, for a few seconds at the door, it was still exhausting.
Shen Jiaojiao pulled Wen Xi inside and quickly closed the door. When she saw the huge bluefish in the basket, which was even longer than a child, she stared in shock, "This...this fish is too big!"
"What? What?" Jiang Yue ran over excitedly, and when she saw the basket on the back, her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. In the countryside, even a ten-year-old child might not weigh as much as this fish!
Wen Xi smiled helplessly, "I'm tired. I'll leave these things to you. You guys take care of the fish and shrimp. I'm going back to my room to rest for a while."
Wenxi only took the fried dough twists, malted milk powder, and milk powder from the basket, leaving the remaining fish and shrimp to Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue to handle. The two of them quickly fetched water and then carried the fish into a basin.
The fish was so slippery and heavy, it was really hard to move. I don't know how Wenxi managed to bring such a heavy thing back by herself.
As soon as the fish were put into the water, they splashed around, soaking the floor of the storage room. Fortunately, there was nothing urgent for them to do, so they didn't need to come to the storage room.
The prawns were also swimming around in the water, showing great vitality.
Jiang Yue then compared the size of the river shrimp to the shrimp, saying, "This shrimp is huge! It's almost as long as my hand."
"More than that, some of them feel longer than your hand, one of them is enough to fill you up." Shen Jiaojiao said without exaggeration. Today, Wen Xi caught these shrimp from the shrimp pond. They were raised with system energy and were indeed much bigger than the ones Wen Xi used to catch from the lotus pond.
Five large river shrimp caught from the lotus pond would be enough to fill you up, but the shrimp I brought back today would probably only be enough to fill you up with one or two, because they are really big.
This model is estimated to be the largest even in the 21st century.
Wen Xi went back to her room to rest for a while, then took out a can of malted milk powder and put it in the cupboard. "Jiaojiao, Xiaoyue, I brought back some malted milk powder today. Remember to drink it every day!"
Shen Jiaojiao said, "Xiaoxi, you don't need to buy these things anymore, we will buy them for you."
The meat and vegetables at home are all provided by Wenxi. We can't expect Wenxi to provide everything!
Malted milk powder isn't expensive, and one can lasts a long time, unlike meat and vegetables which are consumed in much larger quantities.
Wen Xi nodded, "I know, I just found it at the market, that's why I brought it back."
Wenxi went to the kitchen, grabbed a handful of grapes from the fruit plate and ate them. After finishing, she started preparing to cook.
She first went to the kitchen to get a plate of lamb ribs and two white radishes, then went to the kitchen to cook the lamb ribs and radishes stew. After that, she started preparing the other dishes.
For lunch, I made braised lamb chops with radish, water spinach with garlic, stir-fried amaranth, and crucian carp and tofu soup.
The freshest crucian carp paired with pure, handmade tofu without any additives makes for an incredibly delicious soup. On a day when the temperature is only a few degrees Celsius, a bowl of hot soup is simply wonderful. Wenxi couldn't help but have an extra bowl.
Lunar New Year's Eve arrived quickly. Qin Mi had to work today, so he left early, but he was able to return early in the afternoon so that they could have their own New Year's Eve dinner.
After getting up, Wenxi went to the kitchen to boil water, washed up, and tidied herself up. Then she brought out three servings of dumplings. After breakfast, Wenxi asked Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue to go to the village cadres' house to invite a few village cadres to come over for New Year's Eve dinner. She also asked Zhou Bai and Donghua to come over, because the two of them, one a boy and the other a child, probably wouldn't eat New Year's Eve dinner.
Wenxi brought the ingredients needed for the New Year's Eve dinner to the well, preparing to process them in a little while, otherwise they wouldn't be able to eat the New Year's Eve dinner until noon!
When Wenxi last went to the mission world to rescue Zhai Xueyan and Gao Jingwen, she spent a long time in the system kitchen. Because she was bored, she kept cooking there and made a lot of dishes.
So she took out six main dishes from inside: stewed chicken with chestnuts, duck with ginger, stewed goose in an iron pot, stir-fried shrimp, stewed lamb chops with radish, and beef steak hot pot, and put them in the cupboard.
If it gets cold later, you can just reheat it while cooking.
Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue went out after breakfast and didn't see anything in the cupboard. She said she got up before dawn to make it, so they wouldn't suspect anything.
After settling the dishes, Wenxi went to the well to process the large bluefish. Wang Xinru said she would come to help soon, so she had to hurry up and process the fish. She couldn't let Wang Xinru know that she had such a big fish, since Wang Xinru wasn't really one of her own.
Wenxi processed both large bluefish, chopping off their heads and splitting them in two. She sliced the fish meat from one fish into pieces and chopped the fish meat from the other into chunks.
Even the fish offal from such a large fish can be made into a dish, so Wenxi kept the fish offal, cleaned it, and plated it for later use. The rest of the unwanted parts were thrown into the chicken coop.
Wenxi prepared the fish and sent it to the kitchen, leaving half outside and storing the other half in the system warehouse.
Just as she finished dealing with the fish, she heard a knock on the door. Knowing it wasn't Shen Jiaojiao or Jiang Yue, Wenxi went to open it. "Why are you here so early?"
"Didn't I promise you that I'd come over early to help you?" Wang Xinru handed the food and fruit to Wen Xi. You can't come empty-handed when you come to someone's house for a meal, after all, food is precious.
Wen Xi didn't refuse and took it from her. "Okay, then you help me wash the vegetables. I'll go to the kitchen to cook. Some of the main dishes need to be prepared in advance, otherwise we won't be able to eat lunch at all."
Let Wang Xinru wash vegetables by the well so she can cheat in the kitchen.
Although the temperature was low, the well water was still a few degrees Celsius, so washing vegetables with freshly drawn well water didn't make your hands feel cold.
Wenxi went to the kitchen and started rinsing the rice and putting it in the pot. There were quite a few people eating lunch today, so she had to cook a big pot of rice. Wenxi cooked sweet potato rice, with a rice to sweet potato ratio of three to one, more rice and less sweet potato.
However, she also steamed potatoes and pumpkin in a steamer, so if the sweet potato rice wasn't enough, there would be potatoes and sweet potatoes too!
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