Apocalyptic Tundra Age

The potatoes that had just been unearthed quickly turned into one dish after another in Cheng Yuming's hands, and the mashed potatoes in front of Xu Zhonglei were the best of them.

This mashed potato is different from what Xu Zhonglei had eaten in the company cafeteria before. The company's mashed potato is the staple food, with salt, pepper, diced radish, green beans, and what Cheng Yuming brought over is a dessert. Sweet and smooth in the mouth.

"How do you make this mashed potato? It tastes amazing, like ice cream." Xu Zhonglei couldn't help asking after taking a few mouthfuls.

Cheng Yuming was very willing to share cooking tips. He puffed up his chest and said with vague pride:

"I just saw yesterday that there are more than a dozen sacks of milk powder piled up in your basement, so I dragged a bag out to make mashed potatoes with milk. The method is simple, just mix them together. There is only one secret to making them delicious. After several times of sifting, it tastes smooth, right?"

"Milk powder? What milk powder?"

Xu Zhonglei was at a loss when he heard this. Is there such a thing in his basement?

"That pile of milk powder is in the corner, next to it is a big bag of walnuts, you bought it yourself, forgot?" Cheng Yuming gestured to the location of the milk powder pile, and then remembered something,

"By the way, milk powder and nuts can't be kept for a long time, right? Will they expire?"

Xu Zhonglei remembered that when he went to the food wholesale market in the county town to scan the goods, he bought a dozen sacks of milk powder, the kind used in milk tea shops, 25 kilograms per bag, and he bought it and threw it in the basement. Like soybeans, totally forgot.

Cheng Yuming walked back to the kitchen in a few steps, and came out again after a while, clutching his chest and said, "Is this thing imported? The shelf life is actually three years! Domestic milk powder, milk, etc., have a one-year shelf life!"

"Probably." Xu Zhonglei didn't care about the origin of the milk powder. At that time, he probably spent too much money and took all the messy things to his home. But Xu Zhonglei was a little relieved when he heard that the shelf life was so long.

Cheng Yuming said: "Brother, don't be too happy. This milk powder was produced a year and a half ago, and it will expire after another year. There are ten bags, you really think it's too much money!"

"..." Xu Zhonglei felt that something was wrong. After the two had breakfast, they pushed the bowls and chopsticks and left, saying, "I'll go and see the nuts."

He has more than 200 catties of nuts, which cannot be wasted.

There is no such thing as nuts. After they become moldy, they can be washed and eaten, and they can be fried and fried. Once Aspergillus flavus enters the stomach, it can kill Xu Zhonglei at any time!

His sealed nuts have only been in Xu Zhonglei's basement for more than half a year now, and the nuts he buys are all packaged, with a shelf life ranging from six months to eighteen months.

His twenty catties of five-flavored melon seeds have expired.

"What do you think?" Xu Zhonglei gave Cheng Yuming a few melon seeds, and took two to taste.

"I can't eat it, it doesn't feel bad, your basement is well protected against moisture..." Cheng Yuming thought about it carefully before saying.

Xu Zhonglei: "I don't know why, but I feel a musty smell when I eat it! Bah, bah, bah! Spit, spit, stop eating, I'll bury this bag in the back mountain!"

Xu Zhonglei dragged the plastic bag out the door, and shouted again: "If you want to eat, eat that bag of macadamia nuts, it's about to expire!"

He shoveled and shoveled his melon seed bag to cover it with mud. He felt like Daiyu who was burying flowers, and he wanted to cry a lot while burying them.

Don't ask, it hurts to ask.

As for whether this spoiled thing can be fed to chickens, Xu Zhonglei knows it well.His dozens of frisky old hens are much more valuable than these melon seeds, and there is no need to take such a big risk. People can't eat them, and chickens will get sick if they eat them. If something goes wrong, he will have to feel sorry for him again.

"Eat, eat, eat! Eat more, I want to eat eggs."

Xu Zhonglei was relieved that the little rooster who ate potato leaves yesterday was still alive today, and put handfuls of potato leaves into the chicken coop, encouraging them to lay eggs by the way.

Today's milk powder reminded Xu Zhonglei of one thing. When he bought the milk powder, he also bought a lot of lactic acid bacteria for fermenting yogurt. Now he can use them in Xu Zhonglei's sauerkraut jar to make sauerkraut.

The Chinese cabbage in the vegetable garden outside has grown very strong, and a large one is wrapped in dark green leaves. Xu Zhonglei originally thought that he would collect them all in the past two days, but as the saying goes, "Chinese cabbage that has been beaten by frost is the most beautiful cabbage." Sweet", he is now waiting for a round of cooling, and is ready to put the [-] Chinese cabbages into storage at any time.

But now, for the Guagua Caicai who have almost finished growing a round, the two of them have a lot to do.

Tomatoes ripen quickly and there are a lot of them. Cheng Yuming carefully selected two good-looking reserved seeds, picked all the remaining larger tomatoes, and put them in a wooden box, waiting for them to ripen together.

Xu Zhonglei cut the water spinach on the culture rack at one time, cleaned and blanched it and dried it on the rack. This is making dried vegetables.The local dried vegetables are generally made with radish leaves, but there is no radish at home, and the leaves of water spinach are barely competent.

The next round of seedlings of Chinese cabbage, Shanghai greens, white radish, lettuce, and lettuce to be planted also started at the same time. These are things that are planted on indoor planting racks.

Xu Zhonglei, the soybean, has also been soaked in water, waiting for the water to germinate, and then plant it in the newly harvested potato field.

Scientific planting means that you don’t have to focus on one piece of land to squeeze out the nutrients on that piece of land. Soybeans can fix nitrogen and improve soil fertility. Even if soybeans grow for more than five months, Xu Zhonglei thinks it’s worth it.

So that Hemudu-style house will be completely opened up to grow potatoes.Then planting lights, connecting frames, wind turbines, and bucket water pipes should also be arranged.

The temperature is getting lower day by day, and the north wind is blowing again. Xu Zhonglei feels that he must cherish every day without snow and prepare for the next extreme weather.

***

"Bang bang bang!"

The big iron gate of Xu Zhonglei's house is always closed, and if there is any visitor, he will knock hard and make a dull sound. Xu Zhonglei put down the long wooden stick in his hand, "Come here! Come! Don't knock!"

"Stone, what are you doing with wood and plastic cloth?" Xu Zhiping saw a lot of things beside the concrete floor as soon as he entered the door. Stone always likes to make things that look strange but are useful. Curious, couldn't help asking.

"I'm setting up a tent. There is still an open space next to my forest. I'll try how to set up this cold tent." Xu Zhonglei replied casually, while pulling Xu Zhiping into the house.

Xu Zhiping didn't know what the tent was for, but he could only nod his head in approval, and went straight to the point.

"In this way, I won't drink tea. I have two large sheds at home, and the potatoes can be harvested in a few days. Your wind turbine has a share, so you have a share in digging potatoes and dividing them. I must come to inform Tell me, after ten days, everyone in the village will go to dig potatoes, if you are busy, I will save your portion for you, if you are not busy, come and help collect together."

"I know, after ten days, Xiao Cheng and I will definitely go to see the fruits of our villagers' hard work together, we promise to come!" Xu Zhonglei promised with a row of chests.

Xu Zhiping snorted coldly and said, "Stone, brother, I won't hide it from you. If you don't come, I'll drag you over. Now the villagers' rice jars have bottomed out, and eating bamboo shoots and wild vegetables is delicious." People's faces are turning green, all ghosts and snakes are staring at my shed of potato eggs, if you don't go, you can get a big basket of potatoes and go home, and even the spit will drown you!"

"No food? So fast!" Xu Zhonglei grasped the point.

Xu Zhiping's rice tanks in his own house are all clean, so there is nothing to hide from this, so he just said:

"My house is alright, your sister-in-law has a hard time, and she used to take Yinyin to look for something to eat whenever she had free time, but now I have two big baskets of dried wild vegetables and dried bamboo shoots at home, which are just for later eating. Now I eat lettuce, water spinach, Chinese cabbage, and amaranth in the vegetable garden. I rely on these things every day. My family is also waiting to have a good meal of potatoes... The people in the village are in the same situation as my family, and they are not good. The amount of a few cabbage."

"..." Xu Zhonglei has no say in this matter, he just buried twenty catties of expired melon seeds a few days ago.

The more Xu Zhiping talked, the more excited he became, and he also imparted experience, saying: "It's easy to get hungry if you only eat vegetables, so you must find something that can fill your stomach. Bamboo shoots are better than green leafy vegetables, so Liu Rou also traveled all over us. All the bamboo groves near the village, small bamboo poles, big bamboo shoots, and other messy things are taken to the house. Hey, let’s not talk about it, I really don’t feel so hungry after eating.”

"Also, picking vegetables from the ground is not as good as digging them from the ground. Xu Laohe's family, do you know that? There is a large piece of Jerusalem artichoke in the backyard of his family. In the past, those things had to be marinated with salt and chili to make them delicious, but Who is willing to use salt these days! Just boil it in water, add some salt and it’s done, not to mention, it’s delicious, but it’s a bit harsh..."

"Brother, let me get you a glass of water..."

Xu Zhonglei interrupted Xu Zhiping's reminiscence of Xu Laohe's backyard Jerusalem artichoke, and the water escaped.

Hunger is the best diet pill, even though Xu Zhiping said it with a smile, he still lost weight.It is completely different from the weight loss that girls are talking about. This passive weight loss does not improve the appearance at all.Now Xu Zhiping's face is full of sallowness, his collarbone is protruding, and there is no flesh on his hands and face.

But Xu Zhonglei also felt that he couldn't stand it any longer. He poured out a glass of water, finally calmed down a little, and asked, "Brother, do you have any vegetables in flowerpots at home?"

"Why not?" Xu Zhiping drank the cup in one gulp, a wonderful sweetness came from his mouth, he smacked his mouth cherishingly, and smiled gratefully at Xu Zhonglei.

It was sugar water, and he hadn't tasted it in seven months.

The energy-filled sucrose molecules went down his throat directly to his stomach, and then scattered into the blood. The dried-up energy pool was surrounded by a warm current, and Xu Zhiping felt that he was fine again.

"Brother Zhiping, I met my sister-in-law and Yin Yin some time ago. They didn't lose weight as fast as you. Just look at your own shadow, right? If you overdraw your vitality like this, what happens to you? What are the two of them going to do?"

Xu Zhonglei also saw the little girl from Xu Zhiping's family the day before yesterday. Although she also lost weight, her face was still a little fleshy and her spirit was good. Why is she so thin and out of shape like brother Zhiping?Probably out of pity for the world's parents, Xu Zhiping saves food for himself, and is reluctant to let the children in the family go hungry.

"You... oh! I'm leaving first! Remember to come when the time comes!" Xu Zhiping didn't say anything, put down his glass and said goodbye.

With this cup of sugar water, he can go up the mountain to pick up more branches as firewood, or go down the river with a broken fishing net to gather a few small crucian carp to nourish his family.Xu Zhiping naturally knew what Shi Shi said, but sometimes, he couldn't help but want to leave everything to his relatives.

Sometimes survival requires people to do their best, and there is no time to think about the future.