Eating melons

Wei Wei found it funny to see the two of them choking. Could it be that they actually believed such nonsense?

Wei Wei: "Please empty your baskets. I'm going back to eat."

Li Zhibin: "Okay."

Li Zhibin emptied the basket and Xiao Xuemu put half a pheasant into it.

Xiao Xuemu: "This is a hen. Don't you two like to make soup? You happened to have picked a lot of mushrooms. Let's make soup with them! But remember to use the mushrooms picked by Aunt Liu."

Wei Wei: "Okay, thank you."

Wei Wei took the basket and walked home quickly, for fear that she would laugh out loud accidentally. She didn't expect that the two of them actually believed her nonsense.

As soon as she entered the room, Wei Wei quickly closed the door and leaned against it, unable to help but burst out laughing. "Hahahahaha, hiccups, I'm dying of laughter."

Jiang Qi: "What happened? Why are you laughing like this?"

Wei Wei recounted what had just happened, and Jiang Qi also laughed.

Wei Wei: "The funniest thing is that Xiao Xuemu told us not to use the mushrooms we picked ourselves when making soup, but to use the ones picked by Aunt Liu."

Jiang Qi also laughed until tears came out, "No, they really believed such nonsense?"

Wei Wei: "Yeah! I can't believe they would believe such nonsense."

Wei Wei suddenly thought of what Wu Mei had just said, and the smile on her face faded. "Wu Mei asked me if she could go with us tomorrow."

Jiang Qi frowned when he heard this, "What did you say?"

Wei Wei: "I said Aunt Liu took us there, and I didn't say anything else."

Jiang Qi: "She should go and tell Aunt Liu herself tomorrow. For example, the place Aunt Liu took us to yesterday must have been discovered by her and she didn't tell anyone else. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people there. Let's not take anyone there without permission."

Wei Wei nodded. "I know. They didn't tell us anything when they went to town today. We used to ask them every time we went to the county."

Jiang Qi: "Let them do whatever they want. We don't need to buy anything anyway, so if they don't want to, then don't bother. Besides, we don't plan on getting too close to them. Oh, I roasted some pine nuts in the stove, that should be enough, take a look."

Hearing this, Wei Wei looked into the stove and saw that Jiang Qi had roasted some pine nuts in the stove with a shovel. Wei Wei quickly took them out.

Not caring whether it was hot or not, he bit one with his iron teeth, and it burned her so much that she could only stick out her tongue.

Wei Wei: "It's very hot, very hot. The smell is okay, but not as fragrant as the ones I buy."

Jiang Qi also tried one and found it to be true.

Jiang Qi: "This thing is really hard to peel. My gloves are all stuck. Li Zhibin and the others sent back half a chicken. Why don't you give them a few pine cones? This thing is too difficult to peel. I gave up selling pine nuts and will just sell pine cones directly to save effort. As for eating, we should just buy it!"

Wei Wei: "Okay."

After saying that, he gave Xiao Xuemu and the others six pine cones.

When she came back, Jiang Qi had already cooked the dishes. Looking at the bowl of spicy fried beef, Wei Wei was really greedy. She hadn't eaten fresh beef for a long time.

Wei Wei: "This beef is delicious. I can buy it often in the future. If there is a promotion, I will buy dozens of kilograms to stock up."

Jiang Qi: "But you can't eat like this often. Today, both sides were stewing meat, so I opened the door to stir-fry it without much of a problem. But I can't do this anymore. I can't stir-fry it without opening the door. It's too choking. I can only boil it in water or steam it with rice flour."

Wei Wei: "Anything is fine. I'm not picky. I just prefer spicy ones."

After that, he poured another bowl of soup and also poured one for Jiang Qi. "Hmm~, so fresh and delicious."

Jiang Qi: "If it tastes good, eat more. Eat it all today. There's still half a pheasant left. I'll light some coal balls and stew it in a casserole tonight. I'll use it to go with rice noodles tomorrow morning."

Wei Wei: "Okay, is there any fire left in the stove?"

Jiang Qi: "There's still a lot of firewood and charcoal in there."

When Wei Wei heard this, she immediately put down the bowl and said, "I'll put some coal in there and burn it first, and then make the base coal."

Jiang Qi: "Isn't this such a waste?"

Wei Wei waved her hand nonchalantly, "I bought a thousand, but because the coal slag is difficult to handle, I only used less than ten."

Jiang Qi didn't expect her to buy so much. "Why did you buy so much?"

Wei Wei: "I saw there was a sale and they were only 50 cents each, so I bought a thousand without a second thought, thinking I could use them to heat my kang in the winter."

Jiang Qi: "I heard that they sell coal for stoves here in the winter, but they don't burn much."

Wei Wei: "I know. I asked around. Some people in the city have relatives who make some, but they use coal blocks. Ours are honeycomb balls. They're made in the south. We don't have that here."

Hearing this, Jiang Qi gave her a thumbs up. You still have to be careful when using coal.

Wei Wei couldn't stand the smell of burning coal. She would feel dizzy when she smelled it, just like when she was poisoned by carbon monoxide from burning charcoal in her hometown.

So the two of them moved the mushrooms to Wei Wei's house. After washing up, they stared at the mushrooms on the ground.

Wei Wei: "Are we being forced to eat without suffering? We can just spend a little more and buy clean ones. Why do we have to buy unprocessed ones?"

Jiang Qi paused. She didn’t understand. She had already spent money and things, so why didn’t she buy clean ones? She had to clean up by herself.

Jiang Qi: "Maybe it's to experience life! Let's do it! Don't think you'll be done in an hour or two. You have to get up early tomorrow!"

“Hey~!”

Wei Wei sighed. I'd already bought it, so how could I throw it away? I could only use it!

After cleaning for more than an hour, Wei Wei barely managed to clean a sack. She felt dizzy and just wanted to throw it away.

Looking at the mat covered with mushrooms and weeds, a light bulb went off in my head: I wonder if these uncleaned mushrooms can be sold.

Wei Wei did it as soon as she thought of it. She found a bunch of uncleaned hazel mushrooms, put them aside, and scanned them with the system.

[0.5 catties of fresh, uncleaned hazel mushrooms, 5 yuan/catties, are you selling them?]

Wei Wei’s eyes lit up when she saw this. It can be sold.

Then sweep away the clean hazel mushrooms nearby.

[5 jin of fresh hazel mushrooms, 8 yuan/jin, are you selling them?]

It was just three yuan per pound, and Wei Wei suddenly felt that she didn't need this little money, and she didn't want to do this job.