Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

There are only two hours left before the New Year's Eve dinner. Gu Tongwan starts preparing all the side dishes at noon and starts cooking at four in the afternoon, so the meal can basically be served around half past six.

Liao Yunyun and Yan Fan were busy cleaning the whole morning and afternoon, from the bedroom to the living room to the utility room, basically cleaning every place. Liao Yunyun's old waist was almost exhausted and she kept shouting, "I'm so tired, Wanwan, your house doesn't look too big, but I didn't expect it to be so hard to clean the upper and lower floors."

Gu Tongwan was preparing the sauce for cooking in the kitchen. After hearing what Liao Yunyun said, she smiled and said, "You are too serious. In fact, sweeping the floor and changing the curtains would be enough. You insisted on wiping all the windows and tables."

"No, I've been staying at your house for the past two days and I've been eating and drinking your food. I have to do something to repay you. Besides, the New Year is coming soon. Some corners of the room are covered with dust. It used to be easier with a vacuum cleaner or a robot vacuum cleaner. Now everything requires manpower and it's tiring. Ah, I really miss the robot vacuum cleaners I used to have."

Gu Tongwan didn't respond this time. In fact, she had a sweeping robot and a vacuum cleaner in her space, but she had been busy taking care of the business in the store some time ago. In addition, she had no chance to use these appliances when Yan Fan stayed at home. She originally planned to use this as an excuse to pretend to buy the sweeping robot and the vacuum cleaner after the black market was restored, but who knew that the black market would take two months. Normally, the hygiene at home is just sweeping the floor and wiping the table, so it is normal for dust to fall on some places that are not taken care of.

Although Liao Yunyun complained, she was very serious about her work. While talking, she took the tea set upstairs to wash it.

Gu Tongwan put on an apron and began to prepare tonight's New Year's Eve dinner.

After all the dishes are cooked, they can be put in the oven to keep warm. They can be preheated slightly when eaten later to keep them hot. In order to have a good New Year's Eve, I asked Yan Fan to put more charcoal in the fireplace today. Now the indoor temperature can be maintained at nearly three or four degrees. It is not too cold indoors. Wearing a sweater and a thin coat is enough. After all, there is floor heating indoors and a heater above your head that keeps blowing air.

The first dish to be made is sweet and sour pork. Because sweet and sour pork needs to be fried, the oil for this dish needs to be heated in advance.

The tenderloin used is the pork that has not mutated in the space. The last piece of tenderloin is carefully selected, cut into thin slices, and marinated with cooking wine and a little salt. Because it has been marinated in advance, pour the prepared potato starch directly at this time. After mixing evenly, put the meat slices in while the oil is hot. After the meat slices are fried until they are shaped, take them out, let them cool slightly, and after the oil temperature rises, continue to fry them over high heat. Finally, add the prepared sauce and shredded green onion and radish and stir-fry evenly.

The first dish was immediately put into the oven after it was cooked. Gu Tongwan was suddenly very glad that she had insisted on installing an oven in the kitchen on the first floor. The oven was found in an appliance store that was flooded and had no time to move goods when she was picking up junk everywhere in the empty city. A large part of the appliances in it were corroded and unusable, but there were also a few that were in better condition, such as this smart oven. At the beginning, she thought that the future might be inseparable from the oven, and this size of oven was more convenient. In addition, the degree of damage did not exceed the scope of repair by the [Repair Robot], so there were many appliances that could be repaired in this appliance store, such as LCD TVs, irons, toasters, bread machines, washing machines, etc. If it weren't for the limited space at the time, she would have wanted to put everything in.

In the next hour, she prepared steamed spareribs with rice flour, three fresh vegetables, stir-fried lamb with scallions, and pork, cabbage and vermicelli stew. Fortunately, there were two gas stoves at home, plus an induction cooker and rice cooker next to them. The spareribs could be steamed on the induction cooker, the carrot and lamb soup was stewed in the rice cooker, and the stir-fried lamb with scallions was fried on the stove. All the dishes were cooked in the order she expected.

Liao Yunyun took a break at around 5:30. She originally wanted to help in the kitchen, but when she almost kicked over the vegetable basket on the ground and broke one of the plates, she was asked to leave by Gu Tongwan.

"Wanwan, when can we have dinner? I'm so hungry that I'm about to faint." Actually, Liao Yunyun was not that hungry. She had two mushroom and pork buns and drank soy milk at noon. She even seemed to have a big belly after living here for two days. Although she ate and slept when she was at home, she basically ate compressed biscuits or cooked noodles when she was hungry in her small apartment. It was nothing like here where she could eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks every day. The days at her best friend's house were like raising pigs.

"There are still two last dishes, and Chen Yanxi hasn't arrived yet." Gu Tongwan responded while smiling and sighing.

"Then I'll call him and urge him. If he doesn't come, I'll really starve to death. I've been hungry since I sat in the living room. Wanwan, your cooking skills are so good. I can't imagine how painful it will be when I go back to my doghouse after the New Year." Liao Yunyun had a droopy face and a rather resentful tone, as if she had already anticipated her miserable days.

"You can stay for a while longer, until your company starts working. It's boring for me to be alone at home."

"Aren't you planning to continue running the store when the weather stabilizes? Didn't your clerk call you last night?"

"I guess it will be after the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. If it doesn't snow after the eighth day, I will go back to the store to check. The specific situation needs to be discussed with Chen Yanxi before making a decision. After confirming that the underground city is stable and there is no danger, it will be better for Luo Mei to come to work. After all, her home is some distance away from the store, and I have to consider the girl's safety."

"That's true. Safety is still the most important thing. But there are not many good bosses like you. This girl is really lucky to work with you." Liao Yunyun said with a smile.

"I'm learning this from you. When you opened your shop, weren't you very nice to your employees? I remember chatting with your employees privately when I went to your shop at that time. They all said that you were very nice, that the salary was reasonable and it was easy to take leave, and that there were bonuses on holidays. To be honest, if it weren't for the end of the world, you might have opened a few more branches of your shop, and you would have been on the road to wealth from then on." Gu Tongwan thought of Liao Yunyun, who ran her shop well in the previous life and was already planning to open a second branch before the end of the world.

Liao Yunyun smiled and said, "Okay, it's been so long, and you still remember it. Just focus on cooking. I have to call Chen Yanxi. How come he hasn't arrived yet? I'm starving."

Liao Yunyun was quite quick in her actions. She said she wanted to call Chen Yanxi and she actually called him.

Chen Yanxi originally planned to go over there to help in advance, but he knew Gu Tongwan's personality too well. If he went over to help in advance, he would be asked to sit in the living room. So he simply went back to the bedroom to handle some daily affairs. When Liao Yunyun called, he had just submitted a report on the recent appearance of the snow ape mutants to the Capital Hunter Headquarters.

"Got it. I'll be there right after I finish the work on hand." Chen Yanxi deliberately moved the phone a little further away from his ear. After all, Liao Yunyun's loud voice could only be described as "deafening".

After hanging up the phone, Liao Yunyun "complained" towards the kitchen with some dissatisfaction.

"Wanwan, doesn't Chen Yanxi take our first New Year's Eve party this year too lightly? He's still working from home at this time. He's such a workaholic. You have to have a good talk with him when he gets here."

Gu Tongwan shook his head and put the freshly fried vegetables into the oven with swift movements. At present, the dishes are basically almost ready, except for the radish and pork ribs soup stewed in the pot at the end. After Chen Yanxi arrives, it can be served on the table.

After finishing his work, Chen Yanxi changed into traveling clothes. The black turtleneck sweater made his upper body look strong and sturdy, and he wore simple black trousers, which fully showed off his long legs. He only wore a black tweed coat on the outside, and there was no other decoration on his body except for the watch on his wrist. When he came down from upstairs, he immediately attracted the attention of all the team members in the living room.

"Boss seems a little different today?" Xuyang lowered his voice while chewing tasteless melon seeds and looked at Xu Qingzhi beside him.

Xu Qingzhi quickly retracted his gaze and lowered his voice, "That coat seems to be newly bought, and the watch was worn once when I went to the capital to attend the Hunter High-level Meeting two years ago, and I haven't worn it since then."

Liu Hun was so dumbfounded that he casually tapped Fang Tang with his elbow, "Captain, is this... a peacock spreading its tail?"

Fang Tang ignored Liu Hun's nonsense and continued wiping his spear, but there was always a smile on his lips.

Chen Yanxi ignored the curious or surprised looks of the team members and walked out of the villa very calmly.

After making sure that the other person had really left, Fang Tang winked at Ye Ziqiu and said, "It seems that Miss Gu will take over the New Year's Eve dinner this time."

Ye Ziqiu was sitting at the table picking vegetables. Hearing this, she just smiled and said, "Isn't this obvious? Besides... I think the captain has been taken down a long time ago. After all, it's unrequited love."

"Unrequited love? Sister Zi Qiu, it turns out that our captain has always had a crush on Miss Gu. To be able to make the captain have a crush on her, this Miss Gu must be extraordinary." Xuyang even forgot to continue eating melon seeds when he heard this.

"Haven't you met Miss Gu too? She's beautiful, rich, has a house, a car, and a dog. I think the captain has made a profit this time." Xu Qingzhi only dared to complain behind Chen Yanxi's back when he was not around.

With Chen Yanxi's psychic ability, he could know the different emotional reactions of the team members at this moment as long as he used it. However, even if he knew it, he would probably just laugh it off at this moment. After all, rushing to the party was the most important thing.

In fact, it only takes three minutes to walk from the villa to Gu Tongwan's yard. It would be even faster if you climb over the wall.

This was not the first time that Chen Yanxi visited Gu Tongwan's self-built cottage, but he was a little rushed when he came last time, and several times he just sent her to the door.

The gate of the yard was ajar. After entering the yard, I found that it was very clean. The snow that had accumulated in the past two days had also been cleared away, and only some unmelted snow remained in the corners.

On one side of the yard, you can see the vegetable shed built in the back. In fact, looking down from the balcony on the second floor of the villa, you can get a more comprehensive view of her yard. You will know that not only does she have a piece of land in the front yard for growing vegetables, but there is also a vegetable shed made from a utility room in the backyard, as well as a temporary car shed.

The footsteps coming from the house were extremely hurried, and it was obviously from my good friend Liao Yunyun.

As soon as Liao Yunyun opened the door, she was "stunned". Although she knew that Chen Yanxi was a very handsome man from any angle, after all, some people's good looks can last forever. In Liao Yunyun's impression, Chen Yanxi seemed to have been frequently written love letters by girls since he was in junior high school. Even when he was in an orphanage as a child, many sisters liked to stick to this handsome brother. When he was in high school, she would occasionally see female classmates secretly taking pictures of him on the same way to school or asking for his QQ number.

Even until he was admitted to a university in another place, he could occasionally see messages from various female classmates to him on QQ space. What's even more outrageous is that Liao Yunyun once saw a post on a forum that commented on the most handsome boys in colleges and universities across the country. Chen Yanxi's photo was posted on the post, and he was ranked first on the voting list for three consecutive days. Unfortunately, when Liao Yunyun finished her exams and went to the forum to check the posts, she found that the post had been deleted, and she couldn't even find any posts or messages about Chen Yanxi on the forum.

When they met before, everyone was in a tense situation. How could Liao Yunyun have the mind to focus on her friend's face? But today, she knew that Chen Yanxi had dressed up specially before coming. It seems that everyone will subconsciously pay attention to their appearance in front of the person they like.

It's just that after Chen Yanxi dressed up like this today, his originally superior appearance and cold temperament complement each other very well. If he stands with Gu Tongwan, it will definitely be a pleasing "visual feast".

"Not bad, I'm not late." Since everyone was so familiar with each other, Liao Yunyun joked naturally.

"This is a New Year's gift. This one is for you and the other one is for Wanwan." Chen Yanxi handed over two boxes. Both were royal blue jewelry boxes, but Gu Tongwan's was tied with a bow. Liao Yunyun opened it and took a look. Inside was a pair of pink gemstone earrings. Liao Yunyun was surprised and said, "A-grade crystal core, you are really generous."

Liao Yunyun sighed inwardly, this New Year gift was really generous. God knew how rare an A-level crystal core was. Some medium-sized guilds had to send out at least one-third of their manpower to form a team to kill an A-level mutant beast.

This gift for myself is so precious, so shouldn’t this one for Wanwan be even more precious?

Although Liao Yunyun was a little envious, she also felt that Chen Yanxi was determined to win this night.