Chapter 182 Zhou Ji actually likes her
In this way, Xia Chan has no way to add water to the remaining rice fields.
Seeing that the rice seedlings in the remaining rice fields were getting more and more dry, Xia Chan couldn't bear it. She had to wait until the children had gone back before adding water to the rice fields. She spent another ninety yuan and finished watering. Xia Chan spent a total of 360 yuan on the rice fields owned by the Yong'an production team.
But now the weather is very hot and the temperature is very high. Even if you add water to the rice field, it will not last for a few days. If it still doesn't rain, Xia Chan will still have to buy water. For Xia Chan, this is like a bottomless pit. of.
Fortunately, if it lasts for another two months, it can be harvested.
However, the time when rice needs water the most is during grain filling. At this time, there is sufficient water and good grain filling, so the rice yield will be high, and the rice will be plumper and more delicious.
On this day, Xia Chan planned to make snails for everyone in the evening. She cleaned and processed the snails that had been raised for a few days, then put them in a pot with warm water, added onions, ginger, garlic and cooking wine, blanched them for five minutes to remove the fishy smell, and then made them fragrant. Spicy escargot, spicy escargot, fried escargot with perilla, fried escargot with green pepper, braised escargot.
She made a whole tub of snails into five flavors.
After that, I mixed cornmeal with white flour and made steamed buns with two-fold noodles, including spicy snails, so I didn’t need to eat more.
However, there are a lot of vegetables in summer, so Xia Chan still fried two vegetables and made a pot of loofah soup.
Xia Chan planted all the vegetables available in the summer. She even planted lentils. The vines clung to the thorn bushes, which did not affect the growth at all.
"This is because you have strong adaptability. What does it have to do with me?" Xia Chan smiled sheepishly.
"I really didn't expect snails to be so delicious. I also saw this thing when I was pulling weeds in the field, but I didn't expect it to be so delicious after being properly processed." Xiao Tiantian almost scolded herself. Got it, it tastes so good.
"Xia Chan, you have helped us a lot. Without you, we might not have been able to adapt so quickly." Xiao Tiantian said gratefully. She is not the kind of person who takes other people's kindness for granted. people.
When everyone ate snails in the evening, they all ate them directly with their hands, and their hands and mouths were full of oil. After the delicious food, no one cared about these things.
She had never eaten anything so delicious.
She really didn't do anything to help them, she just asked them to come over for a meal occasionally!
After everyone finished eating the snails, they started to eat other dishes. Looking at Xiao Tiantian's still unfinished expression, Xia Chan said with a smile, "Don't eat too much of anything delicious, just in moderation. I'll call you next time I make it." Come here, I can’t help you with anything, I can only let you eat delicious food occasionally. As for whether it is nutritious, I can’t guarantee it.”
Moreover, the food they ate was all worthless things. They picked crayfish and snails all by themselves without spending any money. Their staple food was only whole grains. How could it be as good as the food they had in the city?
The three of them had dinner, and when they were about to leave, Xiao Tiantian asked Xia Chan to take her to the toilet, and then quietly said to Xia Chan, "Xia Chan, I heard that in the winter there are people from the city bringing old clothes and quilts here. I have a lot of clothes at home to exchange for food in the countryside, but my clothes are quite new, not as old as others, and some of them I don’t like to wear and have almost never worn them. Can I bring them over to exchange with you? No matter what you give me, I want it.”
When the time comes to add some new things to it, Xia Chan won't notice, because Xia Chan will think that she doesn't like those things, so Xia Chan will accept them without any psychological pressure.
Xia Chan smiled and nodded, "Of course, but I also want men's clothes. After all, I still have four brothers!" Seeing Xia Chan agreed, Xiao Tiantian was very happy. After going to the toilet, she followed Xiao Fengfeng and Yuan Bingbing went back to the educated youth spot together.
Xia Chan moved her arms and shoulders. She handled dozens of kilograms of snails today, and her shoulders and arms were almost sore. It was not easy to eat delicious food, whether it was snails, crayfish or river mussels. , it’s too difficult to handle.
But it's worth it.
When Xiao Fengfeng and the three of them returned to the educated youth point, they saw Zhou Ji wandering outside the door. Zhou Ji lived in a double room with another male educated youth, in the same row as Xiao Tiantian and Yuan Bingbing.
Yuan Bingbing couldn't help but ask, "Zhou Zhiqing, why aren't you sleeping yet?"
The two of them are fellow villagers, one is from the local county town and the other is from the local provincial capital. The two families can be reached by train in a few hours, so they have a feeling of sympathy for each other as fellow villagers see fellow villagers.
Yuan Bingbing was not as cold towards Zhou Ji as she was towards other male educated youths.
Zhou Ji nodded, "The room is a bit stuffy, so I came out for some air." Seeing Yuan Bingbing was about to enter, Zhou Ji asked cautiously, "Yuan Zhiqing, I have something to say to you. I wonder if Yuan Zhiqing can Give me a few minutes?”
Yuan Bingbing said to Xiao Tiantian who had already entered the house, and then left the educated youth point with Zhou Ji and walked to the open space near the educated youth point. The moonlight shone on the ground, and everything was hazy and covered with a cloud. A veil of mystery.
"Zhou Zhiqing, what do you want to say to me?" Yuan Bingbing looked at Zhou Ji and asked in confusion.
"Yuan Zhiqing, I actually had a good impression of you when I sat next to you on the tractor on the day I went to the countryside. After getting along with each other for this period of time, this good impression did not dissipate, but became stronger and stronger. Only then did I know, I already like you, are you willing to become a revolutionary partner with me on the condition of marriage?”
Zhou Ji suppressed his shyness, controlled his emotions, finished this sentence quickly, and then fell into nervous waiting.
Yuan Bingbing was a little surprised when she heard this. She didn't expect that Zhou Ji would like her. Others knew that she was still unmarried at the age of twenty-two, so they would more or less doubt whether there was something wrong with her that prevented her from getting married, but Zhou Ji Surprisingly, he had no such thoughts or doubts, and even liked her.
Zhou Ji is very tall, over 1.8 meters tall, with a strong body and a good-looking face. There are many unmarried girls in the production team who like to look at him secretly. They probably know that he is in the countryside. He probably wouldn't be able to stay long, so no one came to look for Zhou Ji.
After all, I couldn't find him when I returned to the city. Wasn't he just abandoned like this?
Yuan Bingbing doesn't hate Zhou Ji, but she doesn't like her either. They are just ordinary friends. But at her age, she doesn't pursue love or not. The main thing is to see if she is suitable and how she can live her life with him. If you can't live comfortably, that's the most important thing.
So Yuan Bingbing did not express her attitude immediately. She planned to ask her mother or brother to quietly inquire about Zhou Ji's family to see what their character was like and whether they were easy to get along with. If she plotted against her like her mother plotted against Xia Chan, then she would definitely Wouldn't agree.