Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

Chapter 112

There was no meat at home, so Xia Lunong carried rice to the cafeteria to exchange for meat.

The person in the cafeteria said: "Rice can still be exchanged now, but after a while, credit coins will be exchanged."

Xia Lunong smiled, "I know."

"That's right, you guys jointly issued it, you must know." The canteen said humanely, "There are only two pieces of rabbit meat and one wild bird left today, which one do you want?"

"Wild birds." Xia Lunong asked, "I see a lot of bird meat in the cafeteria recently?"

"It's okay? The main reason is that there are a large group of birds flying back from Changhe Marsh. If you are skilled, you can go there to catch birds. The risk is low and the rewards are great. Many people are willing to try."

Only then did Xia Lunong know that there were birds flying south for the winter passing by their vicinity, and some of them became rare meat for the base people.

He changed two birds and two onions, took them back to pickle and kneaded them, added onions, tomatoes, beans, etc., stuffed them into the bread kiln and baked them.

Kong Zhi was at the side to help him, and the bird meat was stuffed into the bread kiln, so he could leave it alone for a while, freeing up his hands to cook other dishes.

When Xia Huoqu and the others came back, Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi had almost finished the meal.

Xia Lunong looked out, "Brother, have you sent the fodder to Aunt Zheng?"

"Yes." Xia Huoqu put on a T-shirt, came in and said, "Aunt Zheng's son is taking care of so many calves, but the snapshots are too unpredictable. Kong Zhi, how many children did you have in your original base? Ask them if they would like to help take care of the calves, and we will give supplies on a monthly basis.”

Kong Zhi asked: "Do you need to herd cattle?"

"Basically, I don't need it. I mainly feed the cattle with grass and water, clean up the cow dung, and cut some forage in my spare time." Xia Huo channeled, "There is basically no place to graze cattle in the base. If we go outside, we will temporarily There is no way to guarantee the safety of the personnel and calves, we have to wait for them to grow up a bit."

Kong Zhi nodded, "Then I will go and tell them later, how much supplies will be given a month? What supplies?"

"Rice is still given at this stage." Xia Huo channeled, "Try this year first, and the calf is still young. According to the current standard of the base, [-] catties of rice will be given a month. After the trial period, it will be the same as Aunt Zheng. After becoming a regular Tentatively, fifty catties of rice per month."

Yan Xiannian pointed his head and reminded, "Ask if anyone is willing. If you can't ask anyone, we can just send this job to the base, don't force it."

Kong Zhi: "I know."

Xia Lunong brought out the dishes, "Get ready to eat first."

"to make."

Several people put the food on the table and distributed the bowls and chopsticks to eat.

Xia Huoqu only took a bite of the bird meat on the table, and he tasted it. He held up a piece in front of his eyes, "This is not chicken, duck, goose, what kind of meat?"

"Bird meat." Xia Lunong answered his brother while gnawing on the meat with his black and white eyes open, "I don't know exactly what kind of bird it is, it's all exchanged in the cafeteria."

Xia Huoqu also said: "Recently there has been a lot of bird meat in the base."

Yan Xi knew this before, "A lot of migratory birds go back to the south for the winter, and they will settle down on the Changhe Marsh. Many people in the base set up traps and used slingshots to catch a lot of them. Especially Liao Quannan's gang, Liao Quannan's animal shape is a crocodile. If you catch birds in the swamp, you can catch them one at a time."

"No wonder." Xia Huoqu nodded, "Will this affect the nearby ecology?"

Yan Xinian smiled, "No, it's just catching some birds. Our base is not that big. Now that there are few human activities, the scale of animals and plants has recovered quite well. If we go to catch them, it can barely be regarded as a natural selection." part."

After Yan Xiannian finished speaking, he took a bite of the bird leg in his hand. The sauce was rich in aroma, the bird meat was firm, and the taste was very good.

He couldn't help holding the bird meat in front of his eyes curiously, "This tastes very good."

"It's okay." Xia Lunong said, "The heavy ingredients have been marinated and grilled to suppress the smell of mutton inside."

"It's also delicious. It's fat but not greasy, thin but not sticky, and the taste is really good." After Yan Xinian finished speaking, he took a bite vigorously, "Delicious!"

Xia Lunong said: "It's really fragrant. The wild environment is good now, these birds are very fat, and they are naturally fragrant when roasted."

The four ate two birds, and then swept away the other dishes on the table.

Yan Xiannian and Xia Huoqu went to boil water, while Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi peeled garlic in the living room.

After Xia Huoqu boiled the water, he called his brother first, "Xiao Nong, you go take a bath first, and we will continue to cook the second pot."

"Brother, you guys wash it first, I have to cook a hot pot base later, I'll come back after frying the hot pot base."

Xia Huoqu forgot about it for a while.

After they killed the two cows on the campus of N University, the beef was basically gone, and there were two large pieces of beef suet left.

Xia Lunong didn't let anyone move, took out the beef suet and boiled it once a day, and tried every means to bring the beef suet back.

Xia Huoqu asked: "What should I prepare for the hot pot base?"

"That's all, dried chili, Chinese prickly ash, star anise, onion and garlic..." Xia Lunong said, "Anyway, we can put whatever ingredients we have in it, and we don't care too much about eating it ourselves."

After peeling the garlic, Xia Lunong picked up the dustpan and said, "I went out to pick peppercorns."

Kong Zhi said: "I will go with you."

Xia Huoqu sat down at the table, "Then I'll sort out the dried peppers for you. In the past, you washed them first."

"Alright, then I'll come out to help after I take a shower."

Xia Lunong poked her head from the yard and shouted, "Brother, stop busy after you take a shower, so as not to smell like hot pot."

Xia Huo channeled: "Then let's scoop out the water first and wash it later."

Seeing that Xia Lunong couldn't persuade her, she didn't try to persuade her much.

There are more than a dozen prickly ash trees in their yard, all of which have prickly ash, but some are still green, and some are already red, with cracks on the prickly ash.

Xia Lunong commanded Kong Zhi, "Today we pick the red ones."

Kong Zhi is a master, he doesn't even use a ladder, he can point and hit, and pick off the red peppercorns one by one.

The prickly ash planted in the yard was nourished by Xia Lunong's abilities. The prickly ash has a particularly strong aroma, with a delicate balance between fragrance and numbness.

Xia Lunong took a deep breath while holding the pepper, with a happy expression on her face.

That night, a strong fragrance came from Xia Lunong's house.

The aroma wafted far away, and almost the entire base knew that his family had fried hot pot bottoms tonight.

Now that the weather is relatively cool, put the fried hot pot base on the table, open the window, and blow it half night, and the hot pot base will condense.

The next morning, when Xia Lunong woke up, she cut the hot pot base into pieces with a knife, put it in a small jar, and put it in a cool place.

In the future, when they want to eat hot pot, they can take it at any time. If they go out someday, they can also bring these hot pot ingredients with them. If they get some fresh ingredients outside, it will be much more convenient for them to eat delicious food.

After breakfast, Yan Xiannian and Xia Huoqu went to the field to weed and fertilize.

Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi went to the plains outside the base to open up wasteland where the honeysuckle body was planted yesterday.

When the two of them went alone, they didn't have to go over so much trouble, but directly changed from Kong Zhi to a beast shape, and flew over with him on their backs.

Xia Lunong sat on Kong Zhi's back, carrying food and water in a basket, and they stayed there at noon and did not come back for the time being.

When they got to the place, the grass they mowed yesterday had already grown out, directly submerging the honeysuckle vines. If there were not a few traces left, they couldn't find where the honeysuckle was planted yesterday.

Xia Lu said gloomily, "It's growing too fast."

Kong Zhi changed back into a human form and put on his clothes, "It's a good thing too, at least the calves don't have to worry about feeding the calves for the time being."

"That's the same." Xia Lunong said, "We just need to grow some other beans and give them some nutrition."

After careful observation, Kong Zhi said, "It happens that the grass that grows today is relatively tender, so we cut it off and feed it to the cows."

"If you don't cut it, you have to cut it." Xia Lunong bent down to check the situation of the honeysuckle and said, "If you don't cut the honeysuckle, you will be submerged."

Kong Zhi took out the sickle from the back basket, "Then shall we start?"

"Okay, you go this way, I'll go there."

Xia Lunong bent down and took the sickle, and was about to walk to the other side.

Kong Zhi grabbed his wrist, "There are only two of us, there is no need to separate."

Xia Lunong smiled, "That's fine."

Mowing grass is a hard job, similar to cutting rice and wheat. You bend down and cut straight forward, with your face facing the loess and your back facing the sky, and you can't stop for a moment.

Sweat ran down their cheeks, down their chins, and onto the grass.

The two did not propose to rest.

This is how you work, you have to work hard, and if you let go of that energy, you won't want to work anymore.

The two worked together for more than two hours.

Xia Lunong felt that her waist was about to break, "Forget it, let's not do it, let's take a rest, the grass is enough for calves to eat for three or four days, let's do it after they finish eating."

Kong Zhi said: "Didn't He Shuhui agree to help raise cattle last night, let him mow the grass in his spare time, and the rest can be exchanged at the base. There are so many children in the base, let out the news, we want to collect grass to feed the cows, and we are willing to send grass There should be quite a few people."

"That's right." Xia Lunong let out a long breath, and thumped her lower back, "Don't rush around when you can solve it with supplies."

The two of them found a place to sit on the field ridge, and ate the rice balls they made in the morning.

The rice balls are stuffed with cucumber and dried meat, and there is a thin layer of salted egg yolk. They are very enjoyable to eat, and it feels even better when served with honey water.

The wind in autumn is not hot, even if the sun is basking in the sky, it will be cool again when the wind blows.

Xia Lunong wiped her face with her sleeve, and leaned lazily on Kong Zhi's body, "It's too troublesome to mow and pull weeds, let's take a rest, and I will use my ability directly in the afternoon."

"Okay." Kong Zhi said, "It's time to avoid honeysuckle."

"Sure." Xia Lunong said, "Let's go, let's find a shady tree and take a nap."

The two were on the plain, and they could take in the surrounding scenery at a glance.

Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi found a tree that could only be hugged by at least three people. After checking the surrounding situation, they moved a stone and sat under the tree to take a nap.

Xia Lunong slept for about half an hour, then woke up naturally, poked Kong Zhi, and let Kong Zhi take a nap.

Sitting next to Kong Zhi, bored, he began to observe the surrounding scenery.

The nearby grass was knee-high, and they could hardly see anything when they were sitting, the most conspicuous being the big trees scattered on the plain and the tufts of bamboo by the river.

After Kong Zhi woke up, Xia Lunong said: "It's still early, we haven't eaten bamboo shoots for a long time, why don't we go to the bamboo forest to see if we can dig any bamboo shoots?"

Kong Zhi agreed, "Take the hatchet with you."

"Okay, I'll look for it." Xia Lunong took out the hatchet from the back basket, "I found it, let's go."

Kong Zhi held his hand and walked ahead to explore the way.

The two quickly reached the bamboo forest.

The bamboo by the river grows very well, green and beautiful, and when the wind blows, it is full of rustling.

The two got into the bamboo forest and soon dug up a basket of bamboo shoots.

Xia Lunong wiped off her sweat when she came out, "It doesn't rain much now, if it rains, there will be more bamboo shoots."

"We can't handle any more. If we want to eat, we will dig again. Anyway, there are bamboo shoots in any season in spring, summer, autumn and winter."

"That's true." Xia Lunong followed Kong Zhi forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, "Then let's go back first, wait for me to kill the weeds near the honeysuckle with my supernatural power, and then come back to replant soybeans in two days .”

Xia Lunong rested for several days, and now she has enough abilities in her body.

He turned the ability of nourishing plants into the ability of killing plants, and spread it around the honeysuckle, which was equivalent to spraying herbicide around the honeysuckle.

However, the effect of his ability is much stronger than the herbicide. As soon as it is sprayed on, the surrounding grass leaves start to wither and turn yellow.

Xia Lunong stood up straight, crossed her hips and said, "How about the specific effect? ​​I won't be able to see until tomorrow. Let's go back today."

"Okay." Kong Zhi said, "I'll fly back with you on my back."

"Okay." Xia Lunong's eyes sparkled, "In animal shape?"

"See if you like it."

"It's better to use the animal form, the human form is too heavy."