Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

Xia Lunong woke up the next day and found that the sun had risen.

He scratched his head, put on his clothes and opened the door to go out, only to find that his brother was not at home.

The water tank was filled to the brim, the sausages and bacon were hung out to dry, the floor was swept, and the house was in perfect order.

Xia Lunong turned around, feeling a little ashamed.

His brother left him a note on the table: Your brother and I went out to cut firewood, remember to make our breakfast.

Xia Lunong hurried back to the kitchen to prepare for cooking.

Today's meat is ample, he didn't think about any special dishes for breakfast, so he made a large fried egg with leeks and braised pork, and steamed a large pot of white rice.

Solid hard food, to make up for the two elder brothers.

After cooking, the two of them still haven't come back.

Xia Lunong took out the leek roots from her backpack, tidied them up, and took a small hoe to the back of the house to plant leeks.

These leeks are all very large. He divided the original six leeks into fifteen plants. Eight plants were planted behind his house, and seven plants were planted behind Yan Xinian's house.

Leek grows fast, fifteen plants should be enough.

I'm afraid I'll get tired of eating more.

After planting, he thumped his lower back and turned his head to look in the direction of the back mountain.

The figures of his brother and Yan Xiannian have not yet appeared.

After thinking about it, he simply carried the food and water on his back in a basket, and walked to the back mountain with a cane.

The place where everyone receives firewood is relatively fixed, and he knows where it is.

When he reached the city wall, he looked around and saw some dead wood thrown on the city wall, which should be the fruit of his brother and Yan Xi's labor this morning.

He put down the basket, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and was about to call someone, when his brother and Yan Xiannian appeared outside the city wall one after the other carrying firewood, walking very fast.

"Brother! Old Brother!" Xia Lunong waved at them in surprise, "I was just about to call you."

Xia Huoqu: "I know. Get out of the way, and we will throw the firewood on it."

Xia Lunong hurriedly put on the pannier to get out of the way.

Yan Xiannian walked to the side, held the firewood in both hands, the muscles in his arms bulged out beautifully, and threw it upwards, forcing the firewood onto the wall more than two meters high.

Xia Lunong quietly looked at her skinny arms with envy in her eyes.

After Yan Xiannian finished throwing the bundle on his back, he took the bundle on Xia Huoqu's back and threw it up together. From the corner of his eyes, he saw the small expression on Xia Lunong's face, and smiled, "Eat more, exercise more. Work out, and soon you will be like us."

Xia Lunong nodded vigorously, "Definitely."

Xia Huoqu also had a smile in his eyes, "Put down the ladder and let us go up."

Xia Lunong hurriedly found a wooden ladder not far away, put down the basket, put the wooden ladder down along the city wall, and handed it to his brother.

His elder brother set up the wooden ladder, climbed up with Yan Xinian one after the other, and put the wooden ladder back up again.

Xia Huoqu: "Ask us to go back for dinner?"

"No, I'll bring you food." Xia Lunong put the food on the table, and poured water for them with a clean bowl, "Brother, aren't you hungry?"

"I forgot when I was busy." Xia Huoqu drank the water in one gulp, and poured another bowl. "I found a lot of dry wood today. I originally wanted to carry them all back before going back to eat."

Xia Lunong took Yan Xiannian's bowl of clean water and served him rice, "How can I finish my work? What if I get stomach problems from hunger?"

"Once or twice, I won't—" Seeing his younger brother staring at him, Xia Huoqu changed his words, "I'm ready to go back."

"I think if I don't come, you will continue to carry firewood." Xia Lunong took his brother's bowl and filled the rice, "It's not such an urgent matter, why is there such a rush?"

Xia Huoqu looked at Yan Xiannian who was eating with chopsticks.

Yan Xiannian was tasting braised pork, met Shang Xia Huoqu's gaze, swallowed the meat and smiled, praised Xia Lunong and said: "Xiao Nong's braised pork is authentic."

"It also happens that there is rock candy at home, or I can't help it."

Xia Lunong didn't notice that the topic was changed, "Brother, brother in the past, eat more meat."

All three of them were hungry, and Xia Lunong's dishes tasted really good.

In the end, two large portions of vegetables and a large pot of rice were eaten, and the dishes were placed in the basket, which was more than half lighter than when we went up the mountain.

Xia Lunong stayed to collect the firewood, and found that his brother and Yan Xiannian had chopped at least two thousand catties of firewood this morning.

"Why so many?"

"I also happened to see a pile of fallen logs. I don't know what kind of beast has harmed them. It is much easier to clean them up than to wet the firewood." Xia Huo said, "I have free time these two days. Can burn until autumn."

"I guess it's okay, the firewood is more durable." Xia Lunong looked at it, "At that time, we can exchange some straw or other kindling in the base."

"No, there are fallen leaves everywhere outside, just collect a few baskets of fallen leaves later."

Xia Huoqu and Yan Xiannian were both quick and easy.

Before the sun rose to the middle, all the firewood was moved to the wall.

Xia Lunong threw the firewood down and carried it home.

He wasn't used to doing similar work, and after carrying it out for a while, his shoulders ached and itched, and his face was flushed with mud marks one after another.

Xia Huoqu drove him to make lunch, "I didn't call Liao Cheng in the morning, let him come over for lunch at noon."

Yan Xiannian smiled and suggested, "There are scallions in the cafeteria, you can take some meat to exchange, and add fried scallions at noon."

Xia Lunong asked: "Will it be too late? It's already so late?"

"No, most people don't order small stir-fried scallions." Yan Xiannian said with a smile, "You can change it to more, your brother likes to eat this."

Xia Lunong immediately said: "No problem, I'll change it right away."

Xia Lunong took the meat to the cafeteria in exchange for onions.

The people in the cafeteria looked at the meat in his back basket and asked with a smile: "There is still beef today, do you want to change it?"

Xia Lunong paused, "Where did you get the beef?"

"When the collection team came back, they grabbed half of the fan. Everyone changed it, and there were about ten catties left."

Xia Lunong heard it, and immediately said: "Change! I'll go home and get the meat, how can I change the beef?"

"A catty and a half of pork is exchanged for a catty of beef. There are wild boars everywhere outside now, and beef is very rare. If you miss this time, you don't know when it will be eaten next time. I like to change a little more. Cooked pork is also fine. "

"Then I'll go home and get some meat."

In the end, Xia Lunong exchanged four and a half catties of pork for three catties of beef, as well as tofu, pickled peppers and other things.

Lunch is also very simple, beef with pickled peppers, stir-fried pork with scallions, and a dish of mapo tofu. These are all hard dishes, which are more suitable for rice. Xia Lunong estimated the appetite of the brothers, and steamed an extra pot of rice , A total of two pots were steamed.

After he was done, he asked Liao Cheng to eat.

Liao Cheng didn't expect that he just said yesterday that he would come over to ask him to eat today, "How can you be so embarrassing?"

Xia Lunong reported the name of the dish, "Today I made fried pork with scallions, beef with pickled peppers and mapo tofu,"

Liao Cheng's saliva was about to drip down, and he wiped his chin, "Let's go, let's go quickly, so that the dishes don't get cold."

Xia Lunong was amused by him, "I have to wait for my brother and the others, they are still carrying firewood."

"Are you planning to cook by yourself in the future?"

Xia Lunong raised her head, "Ang!"

Liao Cheng smacked his lips enviously, "It's good to cook by yourself, much better than eating in the cafeteria every day."

Charon felt the same way.

When they went back, Xia Lunong purposely went around to the bamboo forest, intending to see how much firewood was left, so they held hands to recite together.

As soon as they reached the foot of the mountain behind the house, Xia Huoqu and Yan Xiannian had already come down with firewood on their backs.

Xia Lunong went over to pick up his brother's firewood, Xia Huoqu stretched out his hand to block it, "You don't need it, I've already finished memorizing it, don't get your clothes dirty."

Liao Cheng leaned over, "Then I'll do it, my clothes are dirty, share with me."

"It's not heavy." Xia Huo said, "I'm too lazy."

Yan Xiannian laughed behind his back.

Back home, Xia Lunong and Liao Cheng took the initiative to serve dishes and meals.

Xia Huoqu came over after washing his hands, and was a little surprised to see Xia Lunong steaming two pots of rice.

Xia Lunong whispered: "Today's food is good, maybe eat more."

Xia Huoqu looked up with admiration on his face.

Yan Xianian came in behind, and asked as soon as he entered the room: "What did you do today? You can smell the fragrance from a long way away."

"A dish of stir-fried pork with scallions that you named, a dish of beef with pickled peppers, and a dish of mapo tofu."

"So rich?" Yan Xiannian smiled, "I have a good meal at noon today."

Xia Lunong served him a plate of rice, and smiled courteously, "Brother in the past, you worked hard this morning."

Yan Xiannian fell onto the job bowl in his hands.

This is the second bowl of rice, and the first bowl of rice was served to Xia Huoqu.

Every time Xia Lunong puts on a meal, he always passes it to his brother first, no matter who he is at the same table with.

Yan Xinian frowned.

"Eat." Liao Cheng served the meal by himself, without feeling the undercurrent on the table, he greeted impatiently, "This fragrance is really strong!"

The three dishes at noon today are all of the strong flavor type, especially the beef with pickled peppers, the sour smell wafts all over the room.

The chopsticks of the four reached for the pickled pepper beef almost at the same time, and each picked up a large piece of beef and stuffed it into their mouths.

The heat of the beef is just right, the tender part is not cooked, the old part is stuffy, the fat and juicy slices of meat are wrapped in golden soup, when stuffed into the mouth, the overbearing aroma of pickled peppers awakens the taste first, and then it is full of beef flavor , Once chewed, the gravy overflowed, and the mouth was full of fragrance.

Xia Lunong herself did not expect that this pickled pepper beef would be so delicious.

The beef flavor is too much!

One bite, the mouth is full of meat.

Even before the catastrophe, when supplies were still plentiful, he had never eaten such delicious beef, and eight hundred steaks were not so satisfying!

After eating the beef, Xia Lunong couldn't wait to reach for the mapo tofu.

He specially used a pinch of precious Chinese prickly ash, and the meat in it is also from beef, and finally thickened it three times before it came out of the pot.

The pickled pepper beef has become warm, but the mapo tofu is wrapped in a layer of sauce that wraps the temperature firmly inside, gently pinching it, and immediately steaming.

Take another sip, hot, spicy, numb, fragrant, tender and other flavors are all temporarily placed on the tip of the tongue, making people can't help squinting their eyes and savoring it slowly.

Logically speaking, hot and tender are not taste, but touch, but Xia Lunong felt the unique taste of hot and tender.

He savored it for a few seconds, couldn't help but pick up another piece, and tasted it again.

The same is true for Xia Huoqu and the others. When they put their chopsticks in the mapo tofu, they eat one piece and can't wait to pick up the second piece, including Yan Xinian who asked to eat scallions.

Yan Xiannian gave Xia Lunong a thumbs up, "This mapo tofu is really amazing, this is the first time I feel happy this year."

Xia Lunong said: "Shredded chicken, braised pork, pickled pepper beef, etc. are also delicious."

"It's delicious, but I don't have such a clear sense of the existence of life." Yan Xiannian glanced at Xia Huoqu next to him, and said with a chuckle, "I didn't feel much like home before."

Xia Lunong felt it for two seconds, but still couldn't understand, "Is it that exaggerated?"

Yan Xiannian picked up another piece of mapo tofu, and smiled lightly, "It's not an exaggeration, it tastes like home cooking."

Liao Cheng next to him nodded vigorously in agreement, his eyes were a little red again.

Xia Lunong looked at his brother again, and his brother also had an expression of approval on his face.