Xu Manman nodded. She heard that Liu Laizi was related to the village chief's family. She couldn't just watch them starve to death.
"Someone came directly this afternoon to exchange the bride?"
"That's right. I went over to see her. The girl from the Wang family is tall and strong, and looks like she's good at work. Her older brother looks to be almost 40, with a big beard, and he looks very fierce."
"What about Liu Xiaoya?"
At this point, Liu Hua's expression was a bit hard to describe. "She cried so hard, clinging to the doorframe and refusing to leave. Even when Liu Laizi and his mother beat her with sticks, she wouldn't let go. Finally, Miss Wang came up and pried her hands off, and had her brother pull her away."
After Liu Hua returned with the melon seeds and peanuts sent by Xu Manman, Xu Manman was still a little unmotivated. When she first learned about the marriage exchange, today's situation was foreseeable.
What a powerful girl from the Wang family, and what a pitiful girl from the Liu family.
Xu Manman felt sympathy for the girl who had no choice but to do what she wanted, but she was more grateful.
Born in this era, although she only awakened her past life memories and obtained the system on the train to the countryside, she has a happy family, a family that loves her and protects her, so that she has no worries about food and clothing. She has never suffered from hardship since she was a child, and can do what she wants to do to the greatest extent possible.
During these days in the countryside, because of the golden finger, life has become more comfortable, and she has gradually adapted to the farm work. All this has made Xu Manman slowly ignore the cruelty of the times and the tragedy that poverty can bring.
She knows herself well. She can never live like the heroine in a cool novel. She can only be a person who is content with a small fortune. When she has spare capacity, she can share some with others, provided that it does not harm her own interests. She cannot save others, cannot save this era, cannot be a saint, and nothing is more important than herself.
Thinking of the big event two years later, Xu Manman began to feel lost again. Even if she signed in every day and collected food from the space, what would it really change? Could she save so many people without exposing the space? She? Could she?
That night, Xu Manman returned to the space and suffered from insomnia for the first time since she went to the countryside. As a result, she had no motivation to harvest and plant crops the next day.
I have been looking at the high school Chinese textbook on the table for half an hour, but not a single word has entered my mind.
This cannot go on. After all, it is someone else's business. Even if the times are difficult, she has so many advantages and can live a good life. Why bother herself with trivial matters?
After figuring it out, Xu Manman cheered up and prepared to go to the kitchen to make something delicious.
The system had previously rewarded me with a lot of beef and mutton for signing in, and two days ago it had also rewarded me with sesame paste. Now, I should—eat hot pot!!!
There is no trouble that cannot be solved by a hotpot meal. If there is, then two meals will do.
Without ready-made hot pot base, it is not easy to have a meal. You have to start by frying the hot pot base.
Fortunately, when the system rewarded meat, it also gave a lot of lard and butter, otherwise I would have to start from making butter.
Several pots were working at the same time. Xu Manman not only made classic beef hot pot ingredients, but also spicy hot pot ingredients and tomato hot pot ingredients. She took out some of the spicy hot pot ingredients to use directly later and put the rest in the refrigerator to cool down. By the way, she also froze a large pot of fruit tea and mung bean soup.
Next, I prepared the side dishes. How can we have hot pot without meatballs? I spent an hour making pork meatballs, beef meatballs, egg dumplings, fried crispy pork, fried eggs, fried bean curd sheets, fried tofu, etc.
These are quite troublesome to make, so Xu Manman always makes a lot at one time, enough to last for a long time.
There were 5 large plates of beef, 3 large plates of mutton, as well as beef tripe and pork belly as meat dishes. The vegetarian dishes included lettuce, bean sprouts, potatoes, spinach, frozen tofu, fried dough sticks, water spinach, coriander, lettuce... There were so many varieties.
The portions of each dish were quite large, but except for the beef and mutton slices, only a small amount was put on the plate, and the rest were put in bowls and placed on the shelf in the storage room.
Next time you want to eat it, you can just take it directly, just like eating a buffet hot pot.
After everything was ready, half a day had passed.
The table was filled with side dishes. Xu Manman also prepared 5 kinds of dipping sauces, both dry and wet. Smelling the aroma coming out of the pot, I felt particularly happy before I even put it in my mouth.
Blanche a large chopstick of beef and dip it in sesame paste. Ah, what a full sense of happiness.
The meatballs I make myself are also very delicious. They are made with real ingredients, without any additives, and taste great.
If the food is too spicy, drink a sip of iced fruit tea and you will feel as happy as a god.
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