Apocalyptic Tundra Age

Xu Zhonglei has drunk Guang'an-style herbal tea, each family has its own taste, and drinking it is very healthy.There is also a custom of drinking herbal tea in the local area. The recipes of each family are different. Xu Zhonglei’s grandmother collects honeysuckle, plantain and various herbs that Xu Zhonglei has no impression of at all in spring and summer. The herbs have their own dialect pronunciations. It has been a long time Without the language environment, Xu Zhonglei also forgot that there are so many herbs that can be boiled locally.

But Xu Zhonglei doesn't like to drink herbal medicine made by grandma himself, because the old man always thinks that herbal tea should not be added with sugar, and once sugar is added, the effect of herbal tea will be lost, so grandma's herbal tea tastes slightly bitter and Xu Zhonglei feels nauseous.

The locals believe that drinking herbal tea in summer can prevent heatstroke, so when my grandfather came back from farm work, he could drink an enamel cup with a puff and a big pot of herbal tea in a day.

After picking the herbs that are in good season, put them in the sun for a few days, and they will become without a trace of moisture, and the appearance will become dark.The unattractive ones are placed in baskets hanging from the girders in the kitchen to maintain a year's supply of herbal tea.

But Xu Zhonglei prepared the sky and the earth, so he wouldn't prepare hot herbal tea in the cold apocalypse!

This day, Xu Zhonglei played a single-player game all morning on the sofa, the heater was on, drinking happy water, digging the soil and so on, we will talk about it tomorrow.

Cheng Yuming limped back and forth in and out of the house, and from time to time provided game guides remotely.

"Taste it~" Cheng Yuming was busy in the kitchen for a while, and when he came out, he handed Xu Zhonglei a cup of boiling water soaked with a few green leaves and motioned him to drink it.

Xu Zhonglei doesn't like to drink herbal tea, but he has tasted many herbal teas, but he has never seen herbal tea with green leaves. It doesn't smell strange, but has a sweet taste.

Taking a sip in doubt, Xu Zhonglei almost spit it out. This has nothing to do with herbal tea. It's just looking for some green leaves and mixing them with boiling water and adding some sugar.

The taste is not bad, a bit sweet, and there is a faint fragrance of grass and trees that cannot be named clearly. According to Xu Zhonglei's taste: this tea is better than many herbal teas that Xu Zhonglei has drunk.

This is how Xu Zhonglei once saw it in some wilderness survival programs that the British participated in. After the hungry and thirsty British explorers found a water source and made a bonfire, the first thing they did was to make a cup of tea. That tea The approach is the same.At that time, the expression of the Englishman with his eyes closed and intoxicated enjoying the leaf water really made Xu Zhonglei unable to complain.

"It's not bad, the taste is good, where did you learn this method?" Xu Zhonglei didn't want to steal a teacher, he was just curious.

"You don't have anything here, so you can just find something to cook." Cheng Yuming also took a cup and drank it slowly.

"I thought you watched the videos of Mr. Pei and Mr. De, and learned how to cook from the British." Xu Zhonglei teased him.

Cheng Yuming quickly picked up the stalk: "That's it, someday you try my fish and chips, it's guaranteed to be at the level of a British state banquet chef, you are lucky, now you can enjoy the top skills and services of a British chef .”

"Hahaha... Seriously, what are these?" Xu Zhonglei asked him as he spat out a finger-long green unknown plant.

"That's grass, right? It was picked up on the ridge of the field, or the rice that fell from others has sprouted. I think wheat and barley are all the same." Cheng Yuming took out a whole leaf from the cup, "Anyway, these I don’t think the stuff is poisonous, let’s drink it this time, no one will die hahaha..."

"You can do whatever you want," Xu Zhonglei complained, but he still drank the water boiled with green leaves. After all, there has never been any incident of people dying after eating grass in the local area for more than ten years. Xiao Cheng couldn't refuse with all his heart. If he refuses, it will be difficult to instruct him to cook next time.

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After eating and drinking enough, and having rested all day, Xu Zhonglei felt that he could take advantage of this rainy day to finish building the house.

Building a house is not an easy job. In the current post-earthquake situation, the most difficult thing is not the technology and working hours, but the materials for building the house, the tiles and the wooden beams used to build the house. The tiles need to be kneaded and fired by Xu Zhonglei from the soil , the wooden beam still needs to go to the mountain to cut trees, only one girder is needed, but it is best to choose a straight, tall tree. The wood in the mountain allocated by his family has not been harvested for more than ten years, so I just took this opportunity to harvest a wave .

Although it was still raining in the afternoon, Xu Zhonglei went to his mountain with an ax and a saw. Could it be that the trees in his house had been chopped down by the villagers?

The assigned forest of Xu Zhonglei's family is in the back mountain. It is said to be a forest, but it is actually a small hill. It may be a small dot on the map, and it does not take much effort to climb the mountain.Xu Zhonglei inspected the back mountain, and after only half an hour, he found that several trees had been cut down in a fir forest near the road.The remaining five or six wooden stakes show that the logging marks are still very new, just a few days ago.

Xu Zhonglei knew that someone was secretly cutting down his tree!

He didn't make a sound, and carefully looked at the situation of other fir trees, and another big tree was cut down!This tree grows in the fir forest, very close to Xu Zhonglei's house. The thief probably didn't want to disturb him, or something happened to him. It just fell straight into the mountain like this. This fir tree is very thick, with a diameter of [-] centimeters, and it is straight as a whole. The material for the girder has been selected.

First use an ax to clean up the residual branches on the wood, Xu Zhonglei also peeled off some bark of the wood, lifted the thickest end of the fir tree, and dragged the wood back in a mighty way, ah, cool !

When the thief comes back and sees this good piece of wood being taken away, he will definitely be exasperated.

The wood that is cut directly cannot be used. There are also procedures such as cleaning, drying, soaking, and oiling. These can ensure that the wood will not be deformed or moldy, and it can be used for decades after treatment.But now Xu Zhonglei feels that all he can do is to dry the wood, which is not an easy task. Xu Zhonglei decided to clean up the hydroponic room, and when the kang is heated, it can be dried directly.

Xu Zhonglei gave the wood to Cheng Yuming, and asked him to help clean the bark on the surface of the fir to reveal the hard wood layer, and also asked him to clean the house, while Xu Zhonglei himself continued to go up the mountain and cut down trees... Xu Zhonglei calculated and saved At least 30 logs are needed to use it. Calculated, for such a big house, 15 fir logs must be cut, plus load-bearing logs, and a few more logs will be cut.

The fir forest was planted by Xu Zhonglei's grandfather. When Xu Zhonglei was a child, he saw these small trees not as tall as himself, but now, as an economic forest, these fir trees fell one by one, and Xu Zhonglei dragged them back to his home one by one. .