Zhanshan is the king of the last days

"Eat sugar cane!" Xiao Dingnan yelled happily when he came back with hundreds of catties of sugar cane. When the little guys who squatted on the ground peeling peanuts heard the word sugar cane, they jumped three feet high and ran away quickly. Come here, circle around Banban.

"Banban, you are amazing!"

"Banban, you are the best!"

"Banban, when I grow up, I will catch a lot of fish for you to eat!"

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"Okay, okay! Hurry up and call someone to unload the goods!" Xiao Dingnan wordlessly interrupted the interaction between Banban and his little admirers.

Unloaded the sugar cane brought back by Ban Ban and Xiao Er, and piled it aside. Seeing the little guys drooling, Xiao Dingnan pursed his lips and chopped it up with the sugar cane knife he brought back. Let them wash the sweetest part of the root before eating. The little ones rushed away and went to wash it by themselves with the sugar cane.After experiencing the cruel apocalypse, they are no longer the little emperors who live in ivory towers, who have to peel and even squeeze fruit to eat. They also know how to love adults, and basically do what they can do by themselves. This is why The reason why Xiao Dingnan loves them so much is because they are good and sensible kids!

Fresh sugar cane, washed and cut into sections, does not have special tools for squeezing the juice. Xiao Dingnan thought about going to the homes of those who opened online stores tomorrow. Since he wants to make brown sugar by himself, he should have these tools.It was too late today, so I simply divided out the sugar cane, one for each person, and used it as a fruit after dinner.It’s been a long time since everyone has eaten something sweet. Even big men who don’t like sweets can eat it with relish. Now everyone doesn’t have to worry about leaving good things for the elderly and children. There are still a lot of sugar cane. Just cut it after eating.

"After peeling so many peanuts, it's a pity that I can't make peanut nougat today~" Xiao Dingnan regretted.Before the end of the world, his favorite sweet was peanut nougat.I remember that when I was a child, my mother would often buy it for him, but unfortunately, after my mother passed away, no one bought it for him again.When he grew up, he made money and was able to buy candy by himself. His favorite is still the kind of milk-flavored peanut nougat that is poorly packaged.

"It's okay, I'll help you find the machine tomorrow." Chen Yifei wrapped up all the peanuts very selfishly, and planned to save them for making peanut nougat for my dear tomorrow.These foodies are idle and bored at night. If the peanuts are placed here, they will probably be gone in one night.

Seeing that Chen Yifei hid all the peanuts like a stingy local rich man, Xiao Dingnan was speechless for a while, thinking that he should not be sad about his childhood, after all, with these bastards around, life is like this every day Full of surprises (scares) and thrills.

I have been so busy these days that I have no time to take care of Ah Fu, the baby always grows fast, maybe the goat milk made by the fat chef is too delicious, Ah Fu looks fatter recently, but he is taller than babies of the same age Gao, it is said that the lover of Li Miaoyang's birth mother is a fitness trainer?It seems that the child's height should be inherited from his biological father, right?However, he is still a cute little fat man full of milk flavor...

"Is it okay for him to eat like this? Do you want to lose weight?" Xiao Dingnan's mouth twitched when he saw that the little fat man drank 200ml of goat milk in one go, and still seemed a little unfulfilled.

"It's okay for him to be fat at this age. When he grows up, he will naturally lose weight." An Yuanyuan hugged the little fat man vigorously, patted the back, and asked him to burp out the milk before letting him sit down. While practicing sitting posture, I saw that the fat winter melon swayed from side to side and couldn't sit still. His little hand was still holding An Yuanyuan's clothes tightly, but there was a bad boy next to him poking him with his fingers. It's like a tumbler!

"Hahaha~~" The two unscrupulous fathers squatted there, mocking the little fat man ruthlessly.

"Wow~~" The little fat man finally cried after being bullied.

"You guys are bored, aren't you? Go cut sugar cane!" An Yuanyuan angrily drove all these scoundrels away.

The two professional mischievous fathers touched their noses, and ran to cut sugar cane together with the brigade.

Don't ask why they are not afraid of the mutated animals hiding in the forest now, ahem, there are mutated people like Xu Yiqing, Zhang Xiaobao, Zhang Guangshui and Chen Yifei with amazing appetites, there are only enough mutated animals to eat, luckily they are in the hunt Those who escaped with their lives had already gone to hide on some mountain with their tails between their legs. How could they dare to show their faces in front of these ferocious humans?

Therefore, after everyone had dinner, some people stayed in the valley to be responsible for guarding, and others happily ran to cut sugarcane with torches. The night was long, there was no Internet, no TV, and they couldn’t even read a book. The gossip has already been chatted [-] times, everyone is in a panic, and there is something to do at night, but it can pass the time.

In the mountains at night, the temperature is getting lower and lower, but for those who work hard, such a cool temperature is just right.The chopped sugar cane will not be transported back. It will be moved directly to the empty house of the farmer's family. When the machine for squeezing the juice is found, it will be made into sugar here and brought back.Xiao Dingnan guessed right, the online store here is quite honest, the brown sugar sold in his own store is actually made by himself, and for this reason, he specially bought a machine for squeezing sugar cane juice, although it is not purely handmade , but such real materials have already moved people.Now, these dusty machines are cheaper for Xiao Dingnan and the others.

Squeeze the juice, boil the sugar, fry the prepared peanuts and peel them for later use, then beat the prepared wild egg whites, pour in the boiled syrup and stir evenly, continue to beat, and finally pour in the fried peanuts and stir Evenly, I found some rectangular flat-bottomed stainless steel plates from the owner's house, lined them with oil paper, poured the well-mixed syrup into it, spread it flat and let it cool, and finally cut it into pieces, which is a simple and delicious homemade peanut nougat.

In this kind of weather, you don’t even need a refrigerator. The best peanut nougat is placed outside, and it takes a while to form. Time is tight and materials are limited. Xiao Dingnan only made about a dozen catties, and everyone who came came divided it. Taste two pieces, pack the rest and take them home, ready to surprise those greedy little ones tomorrow morning.

"Wow~~ This peanut nougat is so delicious! It's much better than the ones sold in the supermarket!"

"Yeah! It tastes like the kind we got when we were kids."

"Hey~~ Your family is so poor? Do you still have money to buy candy?"

"You don't know that. I have an aunt who married out of town and sends us things every Chinese New Year. But these peanut nougats are really expensive, so we can only eat them during the Chinese New Year..."

Everyone gathered around the fire, chewing on the strong peanut nougat in their mouths, chatting happily.The outside has been dripping into ice. In this kind of weather, they can't take the risk of going back. They can only wait for the next morning when the weather warms up before going back. However, fortunately, they lit a fire in the house, and Xiao Dingnan did it himself to give them the help of villagers. Some peppers, bean paste and spices found at home, plus some big bones, boiled a pot of simple hot pot soup base, this kind of cold night, throwing the unfinished wild pork outside at night, after a while It was frozen into a large piece of frozen meat, cut into meat rolls with a clean plane, thrown into the soup base, fished out, no need to dip in any sauce, the taste is also very delicious, and they dug it out from the farm cellar Potato slices cut from high-quality potatoes. Although the ingredients are a bit monotonous, everyone is very satisfied.Especially those who have been in prison before. When they were very hungry, they even wanted to eat rat meat with the skin. When they woke up in the middle of the night, they all felt as if they had had a beautiful dream...

Xiao Dingnan accidentally found some old sweaters in the bedroom of this family. He took Chen Yifei together to dismantle these old sweaters. The scattered ones were knotted together into a big ball of brightly colored yarn, ready to make a new toy for Banban.

"Sometimes I really want to know what else you can't do..." Chen Yifei said with emotion when he saw Xiao Dingnan curling up the wool ball skillfully.

"If you are poor, you have to learn to do everything by yourself." Xiao Dingnan replied casually, "Do you think we are like high-income earners like you, buying, buying, and buying when we disagree? Let me tell you, those toys and The cat climbing frame is all made by myself. How expensive is it? Anyway, it looks the same, so I picked up some materials on the road and made a copy of it myself.”

"Hahaha~~ Then I really married a virtuous and good wife!"

"Get out~~ You are the wife! Come on, husband!"

"Wow~~"

It was rare that the two sons were not around, the couple closed the door and played a little game shamelessly.

On the third morning, everyone went back with the finished brown sugar and nougat. The rest of the sugar cane had to wait until the time when it was not busy. However, they were worried that these sugar canes would be frostbitten outdoors. It took a day to harvest all the sugar cane near here and store them in the cellar of the farmer's home, ready to make brown sugar again when there is time.

"Fortunately, these sugar canes were discovered early, and if they are a few days later, they will probably be frozen." Looking at the melting ice hanging outside, everyone said with lingering fear.

In fact, it doesn't matter if they don't eat sugar, but there are old people and children in the base, and it's really pitiful to follow them to eat those few monotonous things all day long, especially those old people, maybe because they feel that they are dragging everyone down, At the beginning, I didn't even dare to eat enough, and I only ate a little bit every day. Everyone thought it was because the old man had a bad appetite when he was old. Until later, the fat chef accidentally discovered that there was an old man who was cleaning up the dishes. , secretly gnawed on the meat and bones left over from their meal, and then wiped away tears and went to find Xiao Dingnan, who came forward and changed the base's original rule of "eat as much as you eat" into a "rationed supply", without saying a word The "mandatory" increase in food supply for the elderly.

Perhaps sensing everyone's good intentions, after the old people quietly finished their share of food, they put more effort into the construction of the base, wishing to pass on the common sense of life accumulated all their lives to these young people. People, they are already old, and there are really not many who can help them...

"It would be great if the weather could be a little bit more normal, otherwise these vegetables will not survive if they are planted? The old lady blesses the weather to be normal soon. My Chinese cabbage, small green vegetables, eggplant, cucumber, lettuce... all have to come back~~" The white tea girl clasped her hands in prayer.

Maybe it was the piousness of the white tea girl who moved the heavens, or maybe it was really bad luck. When they set off the next day, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the freezing conditions outside seemed to be much better than the day before. The most notable change was , the ice hanging under the eaves has changed from the usual adult thigh length to the baby's arm length, and everyone intuitively felt that the temperature of the sun in the morning was much warmer than usual.

but--

"Should there be no more dry weather?"

Everyone looked expectantly at the "Emperor of Prophecy" Baicha girl.

The corner of Baicha's mouth twitched, but a group of big men stared at her as if they were cute and fat, which was really overwhelming, so she thought about it carefully, tilted her head and said tentatively: "Probably~ no way." ?

Everyone was relieved!

Seeing these guys' unprincipled trust in her, which can be called "superstition", Baicha girl couldn't help but blacked out, but she held back her words.She knows that what everyone wants is not a guarantee, they just want to seek comfort, just like the ancients liked to pray to gods and worship Buddha. When people's wishes cannot be satisfied in reality, they can't help but want to seek more mysterious The blessing of faith... that's all!

Being able to make up for everyone's shortcomings in belief, Baicha felt that he should continue to be the role of this "magic stick".