Traveling into the era: I messed with Dr. Xie and got turned on

"We're not catching fish, we're catching snails." Tang Man handed the snails in her hand to Xie Yan to see. "Some educated youth in the educated youth camp caught this secretly before. I've eaten it, and it's delicious."

"It's all mud, very dirty." Seeing the mud stuck on the snails, Xie Yan frowned even more.

"Then just brush it with a toothbrush!" Tang Man pushed Xie Yan and said, "Go get it for me, the snails are really delicious."

Xie Yan was helpless, but still walked towards the clinic obediently.

Is she afraid that he can't support her, so she always wants to find food outside?

Tang Man rolled up her trousers. Fearing that there might be glass or something in the stream, she walked into the water with her shoes on, and bent down to pick up snails in the water.

The noise from her side quickly attracted all the children. The little ones ran over and the surrounding water immediately became turbid. Tang Man could not see the snails in the water, so she could only stop and wait until the water became clear before continuing to catch them.

A child picked up the snail that Tang Man had placed by the stream and asked, "Sister Tang, what are you catching it for?"

Tang Man replied, "Take it and eat it."

"How do you eat this?"

"The shell on its body is very hard and cannot be eaten."

"It's edible, and it tastes better than small fish." After hearing what Tang Man said, the little guy's eyes lit up, and someone asked excitedly, "Really? But how do you eat it?"

"This one……"

Tang Man was a little embarrassed. She wanted to stir-fry the snails, but before stir-frying, the snails had to be cut off the butt and the sand had to be spit out. Even if she told them these, they still wouldn't know how to do it.

If they brought the snails back and had the adults fry them, and they tasted a mouthful of mud or ate them with feces and intestines, wouldn't they blame her for corrupting the child by letting the child bring such disgusting food back home?

After thinking for a while, Tang Man said, "This is quite troublesome to make. If you want to eat it, you can help me catch it. When the snails are ready, I will give some to each of you."

"Okay! Okay! I'll help you catch it." A child immediately bent down and groped in the water.

Seeing this, the others also bent down and groped in the water.

When Xie Yan came out, he saw Tang Man and a group of children bending over and groping in the water.

What a little girl! She actually plays with a group of other kids.

Xie Yan shook his head helplessly and walked over quickly.

Seeing Xie Yan coming over, Tang Man said, "Brother Yan, fill the bucket with water and put the snails in it."

"Hmm!" Although it was very childish, Xie Yan worked hard to catch the snails by the stream and put them into the bucket.

The two adults and six children were laughing and catching snails all the time. It was not until dark that the villagers who were working in the fields started to walk towards the village. Only then did Tang Man bring the children ashore.

Tang Man washed her hands and touched the little ones' heads.

"Okay, that's all for today. I'll keep the snails for a while and fry them tomorrow night. When the time comes, you can bring your own bowls to the clinic and I'll serve you the snails."

"Great!" Everyone agreed happily, waved to Tang Man and Xie Yan, and ran towards the village laughing.

Tang Man took a look at the half-full bucket of snails, smiled with satisfaction, and urged Xie Yan to go home quickly.

Along the way, the two met many villagers who had just returned from working in the fields. They greeted Xie Yan and Tang Man enthusiastically, and Xie Yan and Tang Man responded with a smile. But in fact, the only ones they knew among these people were the young men who had helped them move their luggage yesterday.

When the two returned to the clinic, Tang Ling had already prepared dinner. After dinner, Tang Ling walked to the yard and looked at the snails in the bucket. He couldn't help but frowned, "Is this thing really edible?"

"It tastes better than crabs." Tang Man walked to the well, drew a bucket of water from the well, and waited for Tang Ling to bring the large basin over before she poured the water into the basin.

"I'll do it." Tang Ling took the bucket, drew water from the well and poured it into the basin.

Tang Man was not idle either. She washed the snails in the bucket first, then went to the kitchen to get a chopping board and a machete, and chopped off the butts of the snails one by one and threw them into the basin that was already filled with water.

Seeing Tang Man's operation, Tang Ling frowned again, "It's so troublesome. No one will want to eat it even if it tastes good."

"Brother, I'm waiting to see you slap your face." Tang Man was too lazy to continue explaining. Anyway, she insisted on eating it, and even if Tang Ling said it was troublesome, he would make it for her. After she ate it, he would not say it was troublesome, let alone say that no one wanted to eat it.

Tang Ling snorted coldly, "Do you think I'm as greedy as you?"

It's strange. My sister wasn't so greedy before. How come she has become such a glutton after two years? It's understandable that she likes to eat braised pork and other things usually, but she comes up with new ideas from time to time and eats crabs and snails that others don't eat. It's hard to understand.

The crab is okay, the taste is still amazing, but is this snail really delicious?

But just as Tang Man thought, she wanted to eat it. Even though Tang Ling didn't believe that snails were delicious, he still went to Zhou Yonglin's house next door to borrow a machete and helped Tang Ling to process the snails.

The next day, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, a few little guys walked into the clinic holding bowls.

As soon as the little ones entered the clinic, they shouted, "Sister Tang, are the snails ready?"

"It's still early!" Tang Man replied. Seeing that several people were holding bowls in their hands, she said to them, "Put your bowls on the table first, go out and play for a while, and come back after the sun sets."

"Okay!" They ran into the clinic with happy faces and left with disappointed faces.

Tang Ling smiled and joked, "Only the third day since you came here, you've become the leader of the kids."

"I call this infiltrating the enemy."

Tang Man closed the book in his hand and said seriously.

"Brother Yan and I will still be living here for several months. We must first integrate into the villagers so that the problems of Litang Brigade will not happen again. Xie Yan and I do not work in the fields, and we do not have much contact with the villagers. If we want to integrate with them, we have to find another way."

"Children are one of the most important members of every family. If I get along well with them, the children will often talk about me in front of their parents. In this way, even if they rarely interact with us, they will think we are very nice and may even be grateful to us for sharing our food with the children."

"Being nice to them doesn't necessarily mean you'll be grateful to them. You can see this from the people in Litang Brigade."

Even though Xie Yan felt that the people here were very nice, he was not willing to make close friends with anyone. He was still very concerned about what those people in the Litang Brigade did.

Tang Man could understand Xie Yan's feelings, but still couldn't help but speak out.

"Brother Yan, humans are like the stars in the night sky, some are bright and some are dark. You can't shut yourself off from others just because you've been let down or bullied by some people. We humans are a typical social animal. If we stay away from people and socializing, we'll be lonely and feel that life has no meaning."

Xie Yan lowered his head and looked at the book in his hand without responding, but Tang Man's words stirred up quite a stir in his heart.