Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 182 Zhou Ji actually likes her
This way the summer cicadas have no way to add water to the remaining rice fields.

Seeing the rice seedlings in the remaining rice fields becoming increasingly withered, Xia Chan felt a little bit sorry for them. She had to wait until the children had gone home before adding water to the rice fields. She spent another 90 yuan. After watering all the rice fields in Yong'an Production Team, Xia Chan spent a total of 360 yuan.

But now the weather is very hot and the temperature is very high. Even if water is added to the rice fields, it will not last for a few days. If it still doesn’t rain, the summer cicadas will have to continue buying water, which is like a bottomless pit for them.

Fortunately, we can harvest it in two more months.

However, the time when rice needs water the most is when it is filling with grains. If there is sufficient water at this time and the grains are filled well, the rice yield will be high and the rice will be fuller and more delicious.

On this day, Xia Chan planned to cook snails for everyone in the evening. She cleaned and processed the snails that she had raised for a few days, then put them into a pot with warm water, added onions, ginger, garlic and cooking wine, and blanched them for five minutes to remove the fishy smell. Then she made spicy snails, spicy snails, fried snails with perilla, fried snails with green peppers, and braised snails.

She cooked a whole wooden basin of snails into five different flavors.

Afterwards, I mixed corn flour with white flour and made steamed corn bread with spicy snails, which was very delicious.

However, there are plenty of vegetables in summer, so Xia Chan still stir-fried two vegetables and made a pot of loofah soup.

She planted all the summer vegetables and cicadas, and even planted lentils. The vines clung to the thorn bushes, but it did not affect their growth at all.

"It's because you have strong adaptability. What does it have to do with me?" Xia Chan smiled embarrassedly.

"I never thought snails would be so delicious. I have seen this thing when I was weeding in the fields, but I didn't expect it to be so delicious after being processed." Xiao Tiantian almost sucked her hands, it tasted so good.

"Xia Chan, you have been a great help to us. 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.

When everyone was eating snails in the evening, they all ate them directly with their hands. Their hands and mouths were covered with oil. With the delicious food in front of them, no one cared about these things.

She had never eaten anything so delicious.

She really didn't help them with anything, she just invited them over for dinner occasionally!

After everyone finished eating the snails, they started eating other dishes. Seeing Xiao Tiantian still not satisfied, Xia Chan smiled and said, "Don't eat too much of anything delicious. Eat in moderation. I'll ask you to come over next time I cook. I can't help you much, so I can only let you eat something delicious occasionally. As for whether it's nutritious, I can't guarantee it."

What's more, the food they eat is all cheap. The crayfish and snails are all picked up by themselves without spending any money. The staple food is coarse grains. How can it be better than the food they eat 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 bathroom, and then whispered to Xia Chan, "Xia Chan, I heard that in winter, people from the city bring old clothes and quilts to the countryside to exchange for food. I have a lot of clothes at home, but my clothes are quite new, not as old as others'. And some of them I don't like to wear and have hardly worn. Can I bring them to you to exchange for something? No matter what it is, as long as you give it to me, I'll take it."

When the time comes, if you add some new things into it, Xia Chan won't notice it, because Xia Chan will think that those are things she doesn't like, so Xia Chan will accept them without any psychological pressure.

Xia Chan smiled and nodded, "Of course, but I want men's clothes too. After all, I have four brothers!" Seeing that Xia Chan agreed, Xiao Tiantian was very happy. After going to the toilet, she went back to the educated youth point with Xiao Fengfeng and Yuan Bingbing.

Xia Chan moved his arms and shoulders. He had processed dozens of kilograms of snails today, and his shoulders and arms were almost sore. It was really not easy to eat delicious food. No matter whether it was snails, crayfish or clams, they were all too difficult to handle.

But it's worth it.

When Xiao Fengfeng and the other two returned to the educated youth center, they saw Zhou Ji wandering outside the door. Zhou Ji was living 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 from the local county town and the other from the local provincial capital. The two families can be separated by a train in just a few hours, so they have a feeling of mutual understanding like fellow villagers meeting each other.

Yuan Bingbing was not as cold to Zhou Ji as she was to other male educated youth.

Zhou Ji nodded, "It's a bit stuffy in the room, so I came out to get some fresh air." Seeing that Yuan Bingbing was about to enter the room, 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 something to Xiao Tiantian who had already entered the house, and then left the educated youth site with Zhou Ji and walked to the open space near the educated youth site. The moonlight was shining on the ground, and everything was hazy, covered with a layer of mystery.

"Zhou Zhiqing, what do you want to tell me?" Yuan Bingbing looked at Zhou Ji and asked in confusion.

"Yuan Zhiqing, in fact, when we sat next to each other on the tractor on the day we went to the countryside, I had a good impression of you. After spending some time together, this good impression did not dissipate, but became stronger and stronger. I realized that I had fallen in love with you. Are you willing to become my revolutionary partner with the premise of marriage?"

Zhou Jiqiang suppressed his shyness, controlled his emotions, and quickly finished speaking. After that, he fell into a nervous wait.

Yuan Bingbing was a little surprised to hear this, she didn't expect that Zhou Ji would like her. When others knew that she was still unmarried at the age of 22, they would more or less suspect that there was something wrong with her and she couldn't get married, but Zhou Ji didn't have such thoughts or doubts, and he even liked her.

Zhou Ji was very tall, over 1.8 meters, with a strong body and a good-looking face. Many unmarried girls in the production team liked to look at him secretly, but they probably knew that he would not be able to stay in the countryside for long, so no one was stupid enough to come to find Zhou Ji.

After all, even if he returns to the city, he can't be found. Doesn't that mean he has been abandoned?

Yuan Bingbing didn't hate Zhou Ji, but she didn't like him either. They were just like ordinary friends. But at her age, she wasn't pursuing love. What mattered most was whether they were suitable for each other and whether she could live comfortably with him. This was the most important thing.

So Yuan Bingbing did not express her attitude immediately. She planned to ask her mother or brother to secretly inquire about Zhou Ji's family to see what kind of character they were and whether they were easy to get along with. If they were trying to plot against her like her mother did to Xia Chan, then she would definitely not agree.