Eating melons

After Wei Wei bought and processed everything, she saw that Jiang Qi had not returned yet, so she started to boil the soup base in a big pot.

As for why she didn't use a small pot, it was because she didn't know how to open the pot. Although I saw Liu Aiying open a few pots last time, she learned it purely in her brain, but I don't know if she could do it with her hands.

She didn't dare to mess around, fearing that the pot would rust easily if not properly maintained, which would cause trouble when she used it later, so she decided to wait for Jiang Qi to come back.

As for the soup base, just pour the soup from the big pot into the small pot later. However, the small stove can still be lit, so light the charcoal first.

Everything was ready here, but Jiang Qi hadn't come back yet and it was already dark.

Thinking that the two of them had been working in the fields all day and would definitely need to take a shower soon, he closed the door on this side, went home to get a flashlight, fetch water, and light a fire.

Fortunately, they had dug their own well, but she couldn't lift a whole bucket by herself because the wooden bucket was too heavy. It took her three attempts to fill the pot.

A pot of slightly hot water is enough for two people to wash. The stove pit is quite deep, so just put the firewood in it and burn it. If you put more firewood, you don't have to worry about it.

When the water had become warm, Wei Wei added some firewood to the stove and left. She had to go over there and take a look.

After everything was done here, Jiang Qi came back and was starting to cook.

Wei Wei: "I'm not sure if I can do this. I'm afraid I'll mess it up, so I'll leave it for you to do when you come back."

Jiang Qi: "It's okay, I know how to do this. Pick some vegetables from that basket and wash them. I can do it quickly."

Wei Wei: "Okay."

Looking at this basket of vegetables, Wei Wei couldn't name the others except coriander and spinach.

Jiang Qi boiled the pot and Wei Wei was also ready.

Looking at the dim room lit by the kerosene lamp, Wei Wei locked the door, hung the door curtain, and drew the curtains tightly. She then took out a small solar table lamp, and the room suddenly lit up.

Wei Wei bought a desk lamp for studying before. When she bought it, she was afraid of being discovered, so she specially bought some extra thick cloth to use as door curtains and curtains to block out the light.

When Liu Aiying saw the curtains, she said they were great and could even block the wind in winter!

The curtains are always hung, but the bed curtains have not been hung because I go in and out so often. I planned to hang them up in winter, but I didn't expect to use them now.

Jiang Qi started the pot, transferred all the soup base to a small pot and put it on the stove to simmer while preparing the dipping sauce. Although it was a clear soup pot, a spicy sauce could be prepared. It happened that he had made a lot of chili oil today and there were still a lot of chili peppers at home.

Wei Wei started to arrange the dishes, dragged the small stove to the table, and placed all the dishes on the table. Although it was not as convenient as a hot pot table, it was still okay.

Wei Wei also prepared a lot of dishes, both meat and vegetables.

The meat dishes included beef rolls, mutton rolls, tripe and beef balls. After all, it was a clear soup pot, and it was mainly for hot pot vegetables, and two people couldn't eat too much.

There are many vegetarian dishes, including bell rolls, enoki mushrooms, pea tips, dandelions, coriander, green onions, spinach, etc.

The table was filled with various bowls and vegetable baskets.

Jiang Qi handed the dipping saucer, no, the seasoning bowl, to Wei Wei and said, "Don't poke all the peppers at once. Poke one or two first, and then continue when you feel they're not spicy enough."

Wei Wei: "Okay."

Just smelling the fragrance in the air made Wei Wei's mouth water. Not only Wei Wei, but Jiang Qi too.

Wei Wei: "Is this enough? If not, I'll buy more. I didn't buy that much meat because I was afraid of the fishy smell."

Jiang Qi looked at the table full of dishes and nodded quickly, "That's enough, that's enough. We can't finish all of this. As for the meat dishes, we can try the seafood porridge hot pot next time. Let's eat these for now."

The two of them dipped the dishes in the hot water and tasted them. They found them fragrant and fresh. They finally believed the saying that "products produced by the system must be top-quality". The taste was indeed very strong.

Jiang Qi: "It smells so good. It must be because we've been staying in the room all the time. We're used to the smell. If we had just stepped into the room, it would have been very fragrant. By the way, did you burn the packaging?"

Wei Wei: "It's burned, what's wrong?"

Jiang Qi: "I want to take a look at the ingredient list to see if I can replicate it myself. This stuff shouldn't be cheap! And it smells so good. If we get caught, people will definitely ask us all sorts of questions. If we don't know anything by then, it's like telling everyone we're having an affair."

Wei Wei: "It's definitely not cheap. A small bag like this costs over ten yuan! But it does have a list of ingredients on it, so I'll just buy another bag."

As for whether Jiang Qi can be replicated, Wei Wei has an inexplicable confidence in Jiang Qi in these aspects.

The clear soup pot hot pot is indeed not as delicious as the spicy hot pot, but it is okay with the seasoning dish.

But the hot pot vegetables are really a must-try, very fresh.

The pea tips are fresh and tender, with a fresh bean fragrance, and are very delicious.

Although the dandelions cooked directly in this way have a bit of bitterness, they have a unique fragrance. Combined with the sweetness of the mushroom soup base, it is simply unforgettable.

Both of them felt refreshed after the meal. It had been a long time since they had such a good meal. Of course, it would have been even better if there was a spicy hot pot.

However, the system's clear soup base was so fragrant that the two were even more looking forward to the spicy hot pot.

They all say that this is to satisfy one’s cravings. Now the food is delicious and tasty, but the cravings are not satisfied at all, and one becomes even more greedy.

After dinner, they cleaned up and dealt with everything that needed to be dealt with. When the two of them ate, they started with the dishes they bought from the system.

Wei Wei didn’t buy a lot, so she ate it all. The rest were the vegetables bought by motherwort and Jiang Qi today.

It’s okay to leave this in the fridge and save it for making noodles tomorrow morning. The soup base is still there! At this temperature, it won’t go bad until tomorrow.

After Wei Wei washed the pot, she put it into the system backpack. This was something she bought from the system, so she could keep it.

The two of them had been in the house and hadn't felt anything, but when Jiang Qi went to Wei Wei's house to get hot water and entered the house, he immediately smelled the rich fragrance.

She was very glad that she closed the door as soon as she went out, and most people were in bed now, otherwise the fragrance would have spread out. Liu Jiaojiao's room was next to hers.

After taking a shower, Jiang Qi couldn't fall asleep because of the fragrance in the room, so he went straight to Wei Wei's house with his pillow.

Jiang Qi: "It smells too good over there. I can't sleep. I'm coming to sleep over here."

Wei Wei: "Come in quickly, it's still quite cold at night. I feel like we'll have to heat the kang soon."

After Jiang Qi came in and locked the door, Wei Wei turned on the night light again, which she had just turned off when she heard the knock on the door. This light was not particularly bright, and even if someone outside saw a little light through the crack in the door, they would only think it was a flashlight.

There won't be any problem if they keep a flashlight on at home except that they will be accused of being a spendthrift.

Jiang Qi huddled under the quilt and said, "It's better to be on your side. When this little light turns on, I feel like I'm not in ancient times anymore. It doesn't feel so awkward."

The two of them had discussed that things like this that were obviously not of this era would only be used at Wei Wei's house and not at Jiang Qi's. For example, Jiang Qi didn't use the desk lamp, but a flashlight that Wei Wei bought.

After all, when it comes to Wei Wei, she always reminds herself to put it away after use, but when it comes to Jiang Qi, that sense of vigilance is always a little relaxed.

At Wei Wei's house, if someone saw something and forgot to put it away, Wei Wei would just put it away.

If she were at Jiang Qi's house and Wei Wei wasn't there, there wouldn't even be a place to hide.

So when she was not with Wei Wei, she always felt that she was a little out of place in that little house and very uncomfortable, as if she was living in ancient times.

Jiang Qi sighed when talking about this, "This is such a terrible journey. If I hadn't met you, I don't know how I would have gotten through this life."

If I hadn't met Wei Wei and hadn't had the system, I would have had a long night.

Kerosene lamps cannot be kept lit all the time, as there are safety hazards. For example, if you close the windows and doors when sleeping at night, you may get poisoned if you light them too much. If the doors and windows are not closed tightly, it is not safe even in the 21st century, let alone now.

Although we have a flashlight, we can’t keep it on all the time like we do now. After all, flashlight batteries are not that easy to buy.

If Wei Wei hadn't provided her with batteries and a flashlight, she really wouldn't have dared to use it this way, and if the flashlight broke, she would be completely helpless.

The most serious problem is sanitary napkins. Although we have to burn them secretly now, at least they are useful. If we keep using red paper, she will get annoyed.

Not to mention that the buffs are stacked up as soon as I arrive, and I haven't adapted to the work yet, and I haven't adapted to my period yet. Not long after, it's the autumn harvest at my period's house. Without sanitary napkins + menstruation + autumn harvest, it would be really terrible.

You have to know that in the first month of her period, she had not yet recognized Wei Wei, and she used red paper to pad her period.

She cried every night during those few days, and because there were so many people living together, she didn't dare cry out loud and could only shed tears secretly under the quilt.

When I have my period, I have to go to the fields to work. The red paper and the sanitary pad are ineffective. I have to change them every hour during the day.

The same thing happened at night. I couldn't sleep all night because I was thinking about this. Even so, the sheets were still stained. Later I found an old piece of clothing to pad them.

On the second day of my period, I couldn't hold it anymore because the flow was too much, so I took a day off. During those two days, I was often bullied by those old educated youth.

She thought that she didn't want to go through it a second time, luckily she had Wei Wei's sanitary napkins when she was busy later.

You have to know that you can't take leave during the autumn harvest, and there are no toilets in the fields. If it's the same as the first time, she really doesn't know if she can hold on.

Also, there is no nightlife at night, no mobile phones, no computers, and no novels.

It's getting dark earlier and earlier here. In a while, it will be dark around three or four in the afternoon. She will really go crazy if she stays at home alone day and night.

Now that Wei Wei is here, the two of them can at least chat and have common topics.

Anyway, she was very glad to have met Wei Wei, who had also traveled through time. It just so happened that Wei Wei and she had the same values, and the two got along very well.

After traveling through time, she met Wei Wei, who had also traveled through time. They got along very well, and Wei Wei also had a golden finger like the system mall. Jiang Qi felt that all the good luck in her life should be here.

Wei Wei also recalled those bad things. "If it weren't for this system, I would have been doomed from the start. If I hadn't gone to the countryside, I might have had some options, but I had no choice but to go to the countryside at that time."

If she didn't have the system, she really wouldn't be able to support herself in the countryside. Although Wei Wei would give her some help, she was not the original owner after all, and she couldn't accept Wei Wei's endless support with peace of mind.

So if she didn't have the system as a golden finger, she really wouldn't be able to hold on.

Not to mention the living conditions, even adapting to the eating and living habits here is a big problem.

It was because of the system at that time that she had the confidence to go to the countryside. If there was no system, she would not even dare to think about going to the countryside.

Although her hometown is in the countryside, she only returns to the countryside occasionally during the winter and summer vacations. As for doing farm work, she can't even tell the difference between grass and vegetables.

If there was no system, she would have faced the dilemma of having no money, no belongings, and no connections when she went to the countryside. Moreover, she did not know the difference between grains, and it would have been impossible for her to support herself by earning work points in the countryside.

If she didn't have the golden finger, she wouldn't dare to come to the Northeast. Living habits and eating habits are a big problem. You know, she was almost traumatized by just eating at the captain's house for half a month, and that was when she secretly added meals.

Without the system, she would have no money and nothing. For her, a native of Hunan who loves spicy food, the eating habits here are simply torture.

You have to know that the Northeast at that time was not the Northeast of the 21st century, where people could buy anything.

This was in the 1970s, a time of food and clothing shortages. Not to mention that she had no money, even if she had money, she might not be able to buy things because she needed tickets.

Without a ticket, you can only go to the black market. Not to mention that the prices in the black market will be several times higher, there are also great risks. If you are caught, you will be sent to a farm at best, and at worst you will have to eat peanuts.

Even if she was not in the Northeast, but in Hunan Province, she could not get used to this kind of life with little oil and water and not enough food.

Also, the winter here is so long and so cold, she has no idea how to survive. She doesn't have enough cotton to buy cotton clothes, so she has to rely on firewood, and she doesn't have that much money.

She thought that if she didn't have the golden finger system, she might have emptied the Wei family's house when she went to the countryside.

But if she really did that, she would definitely get into trouble. Luo Zhen and Wei Jiefang would definitely not let it go like this and would force them into a dead end.

They will definitely get to the bottom of this and try every possible means to find out her whereabouts. Then they will definitely go to Wei Wei's house every day to make trouble, leaving Wei Wei with no peace at all.

It was impossible for her to leave such a big mess to Wei Wei, so it was only a matter of time before she found out where she went to the countryside.

But if she really took all the Wei family's things, they would come looking for her no matter how far away they were, and it would be an endless stream of trouble.

Now that I think about it, she was also very lucky. She didn't die in the flood and mudslide, she traveled through time, and she also had a golden finger.

As for Jiang Qi, that was truly a pleasant surprise.

As for the uncertainty factor of encountering Jiang Qi, I was accidentally exposed at that time because I knew that Jiang Qi was not a bad person, so I was less guarded and was accidentally exposed.