Boundless benevolence

Li Shixi followed behind Han Yujun, wondering as he walked: Isn't this the way to the living area?What's interesting here?

The two stopped outside the largest tent in the living area.Through the open curtain, one can see that the lights inside have been lit, and the voices of many people can also be heard.Han Yujun obviously heard it too, and he said, "It seems that it's about to start. Let's go, let's go in quickly!"

After speaking, he dragged Li Shixi into the tent.

"Ah! Han, you're here so late!" Before Li Shixi entered the tent, he heard laughter from inside.Soon there was another cry: "Han, why did you bring Dr. Li here?! Didn't you agree to give them a surprise?"

"I'm sorry, sorry, I wanted to say that the time is almost up, so I brought him here." Han Yujun replied with a smile.

As he turned sideways, Li Shixi finally saw the inside clearly: in the center of the room were two large dining tables made of desks, on which were already placed many dinner plates of various sizes and shapes, each of which contained with different foods.Surrounded by MSF staff wearing MSF T-shirts, they served food or set the tableware. Seeing Li Shixi appearing, everyone smiled kindly at him.

"This..." Li Shixi was stunned again.

"Han Yujun, you are disorganized and disciplined, and you don't obey the organization's orders. I'll punish you to help out in the back kitchen—Tracy has been busy by herself for a long time." Du Rusong deliberately put on a straight face and issued orders to Han Yujun, who raised his hands in a sign of surrender, Smiling at Li Shixi, he turned around and left the tent.

Du Rusong put down the plate in his hand, walked to Li Shixi's side, and said with a smile, "We can start the reception banquet later. I wanted to give you and Dr. Chu a surprise."

"This..." Li Shixi looked at the food on the table in front of him, feeling a little uneasy, "It doesn't need to be so grand."

"Hehe, everyone is giving yourself an excuse to have a good meal. After all, after a while, you won't have the time and mood when you get busy." Du Rusong looked at his watch and then at Li Shixi, "It's almost time, since You are here, let's not hide it from the other one. Ron, how about calling Dr. Chu for me?"

Ron responded, turned and walked out of the tent.

Soon, Dr. Chu Xiao was invited here.Seeing the situation inside the house, Chu Xiao also opened his eyes wide in surprise.But what was even more surprising was the people in the room—including Li Shixi—because there was a very obvious big bump on Chu Xiao's left cheek, which was red and swollen, and it was obviously bitten by something.The huge bag made Chu Xiao's handsome face suddenly look rather awkward and funny.

"Oh! Why did you lose the lottery after only a few hours?!" Du Rusong asked with concern, "What did you do?"

"Don't mention it, I was cheated by a little girl." Chu Xiao pouted, the expression on his face seemed to be pained and aggrieved.

Du Rusong was even more puzzled: "Tricked? By whom?"

Just as Chu Xiao opened his mouth to answer, he heard a girl's voice from the door: "Be careful, the food is here!"

Accompanied by the cries, a girl came into the room with a large plate of steaming dishes. She quickly put the dishes on the table, and then couldn't help pinching her ears with her red hands to cool down.It wasn't until this moment that Chu Xiao finally realized the appearance of the person who came, and he yelled: "Ah! It's you stinky girl!"

The girl was startled when she heard the sudden yell, and when she turned her head to see Chu Xiao's face, she burst out laughing, "Yo, I was really stung!"

"How dare you say that?!" Chu Xiao jumped angrily, "If you hadn't let me see the shower head, how could I have been stung by a bee?!"

"Ah? I just wanted to remind you to be careful. There may be bees in the shower head. Maybe my English is not very good, so I didn't express clearly?" The girl blinked innocently.The people next to him didn't know the cause and effect, and thought it was Chu Xiao's misunderstanding. Du Rusong even smiled and explained: "The shower head is relatively humid, and there are easy bees hiding there. Fortunately, it's not a wasp. The swelling will subside." After speaking, he patted his shoulder comfortingly, making Chu Xiao unable to express his pain.

"By the way, you don't know each other yet, do you? Come on, let me introduce you, Tracy, this is our new Dr. Chu Xiao, from Thailand. Chu Xiao, this is our camp anesthetist Li Qian, from Sichuan, China , you can call her Tracy." At this point Du Rusong added.

"Hello." Li Qian stretched out her hand, smiling innocently and officially.Chu Xiao silently said "A good man does not fight a woman" in his heart, holding out his breath and stretching out his hand.

All the people gathered around the table. At this point, all the staff in the camp have arrived. They are: Du Rusong (Johnson), 39 years old, from Hong Kong, China, engineer, general manager of the camp; Han Yujun (Han), 32 Aged, from northeast China, surgeon; Li Shixi, 30, from Taiwan, cardiac surgeon; Shawn, 28, Thai, pediatrician; Li Qian, 27, from China Qingdao, nurse and item management; Massa, 35 years old, Dudan, nurse and midwife; Mia, 34, Dudan, nurse and midwife; Ron, 20, Kenyan Dudan, logistics and translator; Sam, 40 years old, from Dudan, logistics and driver.Nine people, from four countries, sitting together, it's an amazing feeling.

So this meal is quite rich.On the table are Chinese-style sauced beef, boiled pork slices, Hong Kong-style egg minced beef soup, Taiwanese oyster omelette, Thai-style green curry chicken, fish sauce mixed vegetables, as well as African-style hodgepodge and local staple food. , a mashed potato-like thing called Ogali.It can be said that the special dishes of each staff member's country are gathered on this table.

As new arrivals, Li Shixi and Chu Xiao were naturally curious about the two African delicacies.Massa and others from Africa also enthusiastically encouraged.So, under the eyes of everyone's anticipation, Chu Xiao took the first step and tasted the hodgepodge——

The expression is very subtle...

"How is it?" Li Shixi asked Chu Xiao softly.

Chu Xiao swallowed the dishes in his mouth, and then showed a big smile to Sam who was looking at him expectantly, and Sam and others immediately laughed happily.

At this time, Chu Xiao turned his head and whispered to Li Shixi: "Well... you can try it, it's very individual..."

For some reason, Li Shixi felt that Chu Xiao's already asymmetrical face seemed to be a little more asymmetrical now...

After Chu Xiao finished making the mouse, everyone's eyes naturally turned to Li Shixi.Li Shixi hesitated for a moment, but decided to try another way.He scooped up a piece of Ogali with a spoon, raised his eyes, and unconsciously looked at Han Yujun.

Han Yujun was also looking at him like everyone else. Seeing Li Shixi's gaze, he nodded slightly, showing an encouraging expression.

Li Shixi looked at the piece of "mashed potatoes" in the spoon again, and slowly put it into his mouth——

Rusty, not as soft as mashed potatoes, a bit like uncooked yam, with a bit of astringent taste, but it is still acceptable, there is no strange taste, but it also has a starchy fragrance.

Li Shixi chewed and swallowed with confidence, then gave a thumbs up to several African staff members, and said "delicious" several times in the local dialect. Ron clapped his hands happily, and the dinner table immediately became lively.

I have to say that things like taste are really regional. Although the dishes on the table are said to be the signature dishes of various countries, the dishes of their own country are actually delicious.Soon, there was a clear differentiation in the food that everyone chose. Several African staff members ate food from their own country, and Li Shixi, Chu Xiao and others also began to look for their own food.Li Shixi picked up a piece of oyster omelet and put it in his mouth. It tasted delicious, and it looked like that.

"Ah, this fish sauce dish tastes very authentic! Also, this curry chicken is also very delicious!" Chu Xiao was full of praise. He looked at Du Rusong and asked, "Johnson, who made this Yeah? I didn't expect the chefs in our camp to be so good!"

Hearing this, Du Rusong burst out laughing: "How could we have a dedicated chef?! These are all thanks to Han and Tracy!"

Chu Xiao was shocked again. He looked at Han Yujun with admiration in his eyes: "My God, Han, your cooking is so delicious! Besides, where did you buy the fish sauce? You can buy fish sauce here in Du Dan Is it?"

"No, no, no," Han Yujun quickly waved his hand, "I only made curry chicken and oyster omelette here. The rest are all thanks to Tracy. The fish sauce you ate is also the result of her hearing that there are Thais in our group this time." , I bought it and brought it here.”

Chu Xiao was stunned, he turned his head to look at Li Qian, but Li Qian deliberately didn't look at him, and just ate there quietly.

"That, Tracy, thank you." Chu Xiao said.

"It's nothing." Li Qian still didn't look at him.

The small episode did not interrupt the excitement of the meal, and everyone else was already chatting while eating.While eating, Chu Xiao glanced at Li Qian, wanting to express his thanks but was too embarrassed to say so.After watching a lot, he noticed that Li Qian seemed to want to eat the boiled pork slices, but probably because the distance was too far away she was too embarrassed to get up to pick them up.So Chu Xiao got up and took a large spoonful of boiled pork slices, put them on Li Qian's plate, and said sincerely, "Thank you for your hard work."

Li Qian didn't look at him before, but seeing Chu Xiao's move now, she raised her eyes unexpectedly.But seeing Chu Xiao looking at him with sincerity on his face.The cheek where he was stung was facing her. Li Qian felt a little guilty when she saw it—this person was probably just making a joke casually, and what she did seems to have gone too far...

After silently eating the food in the bowl, Li Qian didn't raise her eyes, she just said very quickly in a low voice: "After the meal, I'll get you some ointment, rub it on and it will reduce the swelling tomorrow."

"Well, thank you." A gentle smile appeared on Chu Xiao's face.

On the other side, Li Shixi was also asking Han Yujun, "Did you make this oyster omelette?"

"Well, I heard that you came here, and I learned it from the Internet temporarily. In fact, this thing is not difficult to make, but the materials are not easy to find. Pibor is not close to the sea, and sea oysters are bought in the city by car. There is also sweet potato powder, which I found after searching several Chinese supermarkets. I guess the taste must not be as good as the ones you eat in Taiwan, but at least it means that.” Han Yujun said with a smile, “It’s your first time on a mission. There are a lot of things I’m not used to, and it would be much better to eat some local dishes.”

"Well, thank you." Li Shixi thanked him sincerely.Han Yujun smiled and touched his shoulder with his arm as an answer.

Du Rusong raised the drink cup in his hand: "Today we are all here. From the day after tomorrow, we will devote ourselves to intense work. In the next six months, everyone will work hard together. I hope we will have a happy cooperation and complete the project smoothly." This mission!"

Everyone raised their cups together: "Cheers!"

The author has something to say: (Some content was added in the previous chapter, if you haven’t seen it, you can read it again)

Originally, I wanted to set Chu Xiao as an American, but later I found out that there is no classic dish in the United States (I can’t put hamburger 2333), so I had to change my nationality.Oyster omelet is my personal favorite, delicious~~~

The English name is also based on the actual situation. Du Rusong assumes that he can speak Cantonese, and he mainly communicates with the team members in English on weekdays.Han Yujun, Li Qian and Li Shixi communicate in Mandarin. Chu Xiao has studied in the United States, so he mainly speaks English on weekdays, and his Chinese is not very good.They communicated with the African staff and spoke English. Because Han and Du had been to Africa, they knew a little bit of the local language.

Cough cough, each to CP, please eat well, don't flirt~~