Eating melons

Chapter 337 Reading novels

Li Zhibin was stirring the water, doubting his life. Could this muddy water really turn into a paste? He really doubted it.

As Li Zhibin became numb, he slowly felt something was wrong. The turbid water in the bucket really turned into a sticky paste.

Li Zhibin said in surprise, "It's become sticky, it's become sticky, it really can become sticky."

Hearing this, Xiao Xuemu immediately came over to take a look, and it really turned into a sticky paste. Xiao Xuemu was really surprised.

He originally thought that Wei Wei was fooling them because it didn't look like it could succeed at all, but he didn't expect that it might actually succeed.

Seeing hope, Li Zhibin became more motivated.

To be honest, Li Zhibin and Xiao Xuemu were very skeptical at the beginning and didn't believe that this thing could be made into soap.

But when they saw the contents of the bucket slowly turning into a paste, they felt okay again.

I don't know how long I stirred it, but there were too many things in the bucket. Li Zhibin felt it was a bit difficult to stir, but it was still possible to insert chopsticks, so he said to Wei Wei:

"The chopsticks can now stand upright. Is that ok?"

Wei Wei touched it and felt that it was almost ready, so she used some large bowls to scoop out some in batches and put different petals in each bowl.

After making room for Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin, he said to them:

“Just mix it all together.”

After giving them the ingredients and asking them to help stir them, Wei Wei went into the house to get the mold.

Seeing the bamboo that Wei Wei took out, Li Zhibin asked in surprise, "Where did you get this bamboo?"

To be honest, Li Zhibin thinks Wei Wei is really amazing. Not only Li Zhibin, but Xiao Xuemu also thinks so.

It seemed like Wei Wei had everything, so they weren't surprised by anything she took out.

"It was sent from home. You definitely need a mold to make this."

After the petals are mixed evenly, put them into the mold, seal them tightly, and place them in the grocery room.

Li Zhibin said doubtfully, "That's good."

Wei Wei shook her head. "Not yet. It needs to be left in the mold for another week. After that, it can be removed from the mold. Then, it needs to be placed in a cool place for another month before it can be used."

Originally, Li Zhibin thought this could be a business, but now after hearing this, he gave up. It was too troublesome.

A week later, the soap could be removed from the mold. Li Zhibin was more enthusiastic than anyone else and kept urging Wei Wei to take it out and have a look.

Wei Wei satisfied his curiosity and asked them to remove the molds directly. It would be a waste to use the free labor.

Looking at the long bamboo tube, Li Zhibin was very confused, "How can this be poured out?"

Wei Wei handed him a chopping axe and said, "Just split it. Be gentle and chop it to the side. Don't split the soap inside. Chop the bamboo piece by piece."

"But won't your mold be ruined?"

Wei Wei waved her hand. "It's broken, so it is. It's just a piece of bamboo. It's disposable anyway."

Li Zhibin nodded, and he and Xiao Xuemu carefully took out the soap. It was still a little broken, but it didn't matter, so it was fine.

Li Zhibin looked at the soap on the kang mat in surprise. He was really surprised. He didn't expect that they could actually make soap.

"Oh my God, this is amazing! We actually did it."

Wei Wei took out a few thin threads and handed one to each person, "Use the threads to separate them into pieces."

Wei Wei showed them how to do it, mainly teaching Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin how to do it, because Jiang Qi already knew how to do it.

Asking them to separate the soap pieces, Wei Wei poured the soap out of the wooden mold one by one.

Seeing the soap spread out on the kang mat, Li Zhibin felt that he could do it again.

This seems to be a good deal. Although the soap is very small, it is not a problem to sell it for a few cents.

The soap on this kang mat can be sold for sixty or seventy yuan, but the cost is mainly the oil and salt, which cost only about twenty yuan, which is three times the price.

So it is still profitable, but if you do less, you might be too lazy to do it. This thing is mainly about small profits but quick turnover.

Li Zhibin and Xiao Xuemu felt that if they had not gone out of business in their current industry, they would not have made and sold soap in the future.

Thinking about Wei Wei's personality, it's no wonder that Wei Wei could tell the recipe so casually.

They asked Wei Wei to make this thing and sell it, but they thought that with Wei Wei's lazy nature, she would definitely not do it, and it was too troublesome.

After everything was arranged, Wei Wei shook her hands and said, "Alright, that's it. Just let it air dry for a month. If you want to carve shapes, you can trim the edges."

Li Zhibin waved his hand. "I'm using it myself, why bother worrying so much? Besides, once you use it, there won't be much of it left. There's no need to waste it."

Wei Wei thought so too, and after hearing what they said, he didn't let them carve. Before, he had thought that they could carve it in any shape they wanted.

"Just put the things away and leave them there. Okay, leave them like this for a month, and then come back to see the results."

To be honest, we are all looking forward to seeing the results in a month.

But what they didn't expect was that before the soap was ready, this group of new educated youth arrived.

The new educated youth were about to arrive. This news was brought to them by Liu Jiaojiao, or to be more precise, by Yu Xi, who heard it from the old educated youth.

Today, Weiwei and Jiang Qi had just finished their meal, Li Zhibin and Xiao Xuemu were still washing dishes, and Liu Jiaojiao and Wu Mei came in.

"Weiwei, Jiang Qi, Yu Xi heard a piece of news today. A new batch of educated youth will be arriving tomorrow. The team leader and his men will go to the county to pick them up early tomorrow morning."

Originally, Liu Jiaojiao always called Yu Xi "Brother Yu", "Brother Xi" or "Brother Yu Xi", but after being enlightened by Wei Wei and Jiang Qi, she started calling him "Yu Xi Yu Xi" every time.

For some reason, when everyone called Yu Xi, they didn’t feel anything.

But every time Liu Jiaojiao said the word "Yu Xi", Wei Wei and Jiang Qi had an illusion, as if she was calling Yu Xi Yu Xi.

Looking at Yu Xi's handsome face again, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi always had a sense of division and separation, but they dared not say it.

They were afraid that Yu Xi would beat them, so they had to follow their heart when it was time to do so.

However, since Liu Jiaojiao has not been so clingy to Yu Xi, Yu Xi and Liu Jiaojiao seem to have become even closer.

Of course, Yu Xi was the one who got close to Liu Jiaojiao earlier. For example, if it were in the past, if Liu Jiaojiao dragged Yu Xi to the mountain to pick fruits, Yu Xi would definitely not go.

But now, Yu Xi not only goes, but also goes every time.

As expected, people are like this. What you can't get is the best, and what you rush for is worthless.

But Wei Wei didn't have time to think about these things now, her attention was all on the new educated youth who would be arriving tomorrow.

He looked at Liu Jiaojiao and asked, "Are you coming tomorrow?"

Liu Jiaojiao nodded and slumped over to Wei Wei's side. "Liu Yang said he'll be here tomorrow. The captain greeted him today and asked him to make the arrangements."

Wei Wei nodded, said "Oh" and said nothing more.

Seeing Wei Wei's reaction, Liu Jiaojiao was a little surprised. "Aren't you very curious? Why are you reacting like this now?"

Wei Wei shrugged, "What's coming will eventually come. We'll know what kind of people the new educated youth are tomorrow, right?

As you said, we don't live with them and don't have much contact.

Even if they build another house, it won't bother me. After all, there is a toilet behind us, and if they want to build one, they will definitely build it next to it.

This way they will be further away from me and won't get in my way no matter what."

Liu Jiaojiao thought about it and realized that it was true. There were people all around them, so even if they were building houses, they would not be next to each other.

Not to mention that not everyone is like them, who have the conditions to build a house directly. Just look at the old educated youth over there. Among so many old educated youth, how many of them have built a house?

After chatting for a while, Liu Jiaojiao shifted her attention from the new educated youth. She sniffed and looked at Jiang Qi.

"You smell so good too, how did you do it? Why can't I make my house smell like this?"

Liu Jiaojiao has been working hard for almost a year to create this fragrance, but her home still doesn't have such a pleasant scent.

I didn't expect Jiang Qi's house to smell so good again. Aren't they cooking here? Why does it smell so good?

She really wanted to learn from him and wanted to know how Jiang Qi's family made the food smell so good.

"Weiwei made a lot of soap and put it here. How could it not smell good?"

Hearing this, Liu Jiaojiao immediately became excited, "Is the soap ready so quickly?"

Wei Wei nodded. "Almost done, but it still needs to air out for a month. It will take a month to heal."

Liu Jiaojiao asked curiously, "Can I take a look?"

Wei Wei pointed at the kang and said, "The ones on the kang are all covered with cloth. There are also some in the storage room, but the ones in the storage room are all on the shelves, so it's not easy to get them. You can just go to the kang and lift the cloth to take a look."

Hearing this, Liu Jiaojiao immediately stood up and went to check on the soap. Wu Mei followed as she was also very curious about how the soap was made.

When they first came in, they were so focused on sharing gossip that they didn't even notice the cloth covering the kang.

When Liu Jiaojiao saw the soap on the kang, her eyes lit up.

"There are so many, you have to leave a few for me. The price is negotiable. I want to send a few back home."

Wei Wei said nonchalantly, "Sure, there are several kinds of flowers with several different scents. You've worked hard picking those flowers. Just take two yuan for each one and you don't need to pay."

Hearing this, Liu Jiaojiao's mouth corners grinned to the back of her ears.

"Okay, thank you Weiwei, but you still have to pay. If you have any left, can you leave some for me? I want to stock up."

Wei Wei nodded, "Okay."

There are so many, and she can't use it all anyway, so just give it to her. Besides, Liu Jiaojiao will also give her money.

When it comes to giving money, Liu Jiaojiao has always been very clear. Each time, the amount she gives will only be more than the value of the item itself, never less.

Li Zhibin and Xiao Xuemu, who had just finished washing the dishes, were heartbroken when they saw Liu Jiaojiao and Wu Mei coming. Their time for sticking together was gone.

Li Zhibin and Xiao Xuemu were both about to break down, as they had originally wanted to spend less time alone together.

Because they usually have to work during the day, when they are not working, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi are like conjoined twins and always like to stick together.

There were also Liu Jiaojiao and Wu Mei who always liked to come over, which greatly reduced the time they spent alone together, and it kept decreasing.

If people in Beijing knew that they were in such a relationship, they would be laughed to death.

But Wei Wei and Jiang Qi didn't care about all this. Now they just wanted to drive everyone out so that they could go back to continue their great cause, the great cause of reading novels.

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi were already fans of novels. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to read novels before, but they looked down on them.

They read very fast. If they have nothing to do, they can read one or two books a day. But now they have to work during the day and can only read at night, which means they can read two books in three days.

The novels you read at that time were not online novels, but physical books, which were not cheap, costing twenty or thirty yuan per book.

Before, the two of them were not rich and did not have the conditions, so this hobby was put aside for the time being.

Now with Xiao Xuemu's cooperation, the cooperation between Jiang Qi and the Jiang family is also proceeding in an orderly manner. The cooperation between Wei Wei and Zhang Guodong is also good and stable, so the two of them are not short of money now.

As for studying, there is no need to worry too much with two top teachers, Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin.

Therefore, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi picked up their little hobbies again.

Now, after every meal, I send everyone away and go back to read novels.

Of course, I still practice yoga for more than half an hour, and then read novels after taking a shower.

Because the things purchased in the system mall can be put into the system backpack.

Now if they took out the novels that the two of them had finished reading from the system backpack, they could be stacked up into a dozen and would be as high as a table.

It can be seen how much effort the two of them have put into this during this period.

Looking at the duo chasing people away, Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin were both numb, and they couldn't help it.

"My two ancestors, have you discovered anything interesting recently?"

Wei Wei opened the door of her house and shook her head. "Not really, I just discovered the joy of learning recently."

Li Zhibin and Xiao Xuemu both had expressions of disbelief on their faces.

"Don't tell me that you two have been staying home studying since before dark all this time."

"It's about the same. I haven't been studying, but I'm reading."

Li Zhibin said in disbelief, "You're kidding me! Are you two always reading until midnight every day?"

Wei Wei nodded, "Yes."

She didn't lie about this. Reading novels is also reading books.

Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin were a little confused. "Then why do I feel like your academic performance hasn't improved much?"

Xiao Xuemu is quite strict when it comes to academic performance. He checks Wei Wei and Jiang Qi once a week, but it seems that these two have not made any particularly obvious progress.

Judging from the enthusiasm of these two people in studying, it is obviously a bit unreasonable.