After sending Hu Siyu and the three children away, everyone finally had time to re-examine the situation on Foguang Island.

The typhoon that has just passed through the country has caused a certain amount of damage to the island, and the park that has been flooded with seawater needs to be drained and desalination; The goods in the warehouse must be counted and sorted; In addition, planting giant sequoia also consumes a large amount of corpse fluid, which needs to be replenished urgently...... There was little respite, and the busy work began quickly.

Before you know it, the thrilling August has finally turned over. The heavy September is beckoning to everyone.

It is said that the golden nine and silver ten, and the beginning of September is the harvest season. Nearly seventy percent of the plants on Foguang Island have begun to slowly enter the harvest stage.

Whether you eat it or not, the fruits of the rainforest greenhouses are ripening in large areas. Soursops, avocados, dragon fruits, and a variety of ficus fruits hang high on the branches like gems.

The corn sown by Suhe is ripe. Plants that are more than one person tall are cut down whole, the straw is crushed and fed to ducks or composted, some corn is used to distill alcohol, and the excess is put directly into cold storage with the outer skin for low temperature storage.

The cold storage was full of supplies, and the small rooms in the basement that were unused were put to good use, gradually piling up with harvested potatoes, pumpkins, cabbage and early-ripening apples.

Even the man-made lake had a bumper harvest - Su He dug up a small wooden boat from somewhere and rowed all the way into the aquatic plant area. Turn over the clumps of leaves and rhododium, and harvest the berries and water chestnuts. The harvested berries are cut open one by one, and the lotus seeds are taken out. Fresh and tender lings can be eaten fresh, and old lings are cooked and cut open and ground into a flour-like powder.

Just as an injured person will slowly heal himself, Foguang Island, which has experienced the impact of typhoons and zombies, is slowly regaining its vigorous vitality.

September 15th, a special day.

At four o'clock in the morning, the lights were not yet on in the villa. Lu Rulan and Haichen drove the sailboat out of the dock, all the way south, and sailed for more than half an hour against the bottom of the headland, and came to an estuary.

Haichen docked the boat and walked on foot with Lu Rulan, going upriver along the river bank of the delta.

On both sides are low green hills, in the middle is a river that flows slowly into the sea, and on the banks is a large area of lush green taro.

After about 100 meters along the river, the river became narrower and narrower, and soon, a row of dams made of bamboo scorn appeared at the bend of the river.

Lu Rulan grabbed Haichen's arm and slowly walked into the river. The river was not deep, only half of his calf.

When Haichen also followed him into the water, the two of them walked towards the river dam with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Lu Rulan was in charge of lighting, and Haichen groped under the dam with gloves, and soon had a harvest.

He lifted an old bamboo basket from under the water, and when the river drained, he shook it vigorously. There was a sound of Kuang Kuang colliding in the bamboo basket.

"There's a play!"

Lu Rulan hurriedly shone the flashlight in, and saw a hairy crab crawling in the bamboo basket, waving its fluffy crab claws.

The two of them hurriedly put away the other bamboo baskets set up along the bamboo dam and checked them one by one. One by one, the hairy crabs that fell into the bamboo basket were poured into the large bamboo basket they carried with them. Then he listened to the movement of Suosuo in the bamboo basket with satisfaction, and returned with a full load.

By the time the sailboat regained ground on the shore of Foguang Island, the sun was just outcropping on the eastern skyline. They stood by the sea and quietly admired for a while, and then some childishly held hands and headed towards the villa together.

And the four adults in the villa have all gotten up, and today seems destined to be a busy day.

In the kitchen, Duan Whale and Lin Youqing had already started to get busy. In the adjacent restaurant, Su Hezheng, who had not yet completely woken up, yawned one after another, and half of them were leaning on Du Yunfei.

Worried about Su He's low blood sugar, Du Yunfei did not resist. He just listened to Su He whispering in his ear, and occasionally responded with a few words.

On the table in front of them, there is a pile of ingredients waiting to be processed and combined.

Du Yunfei finished the preparations at hand, and then whispered a few words to Su He. Su He reluctantly straightened up and began to get down to business.

The pumpkins that were picked only yesterday afternoon were simply and crudely cut into eight pieces, the gourds were taken away and dried, and the flesh was sent to the kitchen to be steamed.

When delivering the pumpkin, Su He took the three cups of vegetable juice that had just been baked from Lin Youqing's hand. The red ones are amaranth, the green ones are spinach, and the orange-yellow ones are carrots.

At the same time, in the restaurant, Du Yunfei has already fried the flour, starch and glutinous rice flour made from water chestnut, as well as the sun-dried minced sea radius in an induction cooker. The powder soon gave off a warm aroma and the color changed from snow-white to yellow. Du Yunfei reduced the flame, threw the olive oil and sugar into it, and stirred slowly.

Under the combination of heat, the mixture of powder and oil and sugar quickly becomes viscous, and finally half-solidifies into a white jade-like dough.

Du Yunfei took out the cooked dough, divided it evenly into three parts, and put it on a board sprinkled with cornstarch.

At this time, Su He also walked back with vegetable juice. The two men poured three colors of vegetable juice on top of the dough and stirred and kneaded it constantly, and soon the dough was dyed in bright colors.

After the dough was prepared, Du Yunfei asked Su He to fetch the pumpkin and the other ingredients that Lin Youqing had prepared.

It was carefully fried bean paste and jujube paste, pine nuts and night dates that Su He had collected from the wild, and even fruit preserves and other strange fillings.

Under Du Yunfei's demonstration, Su He began to knead the colored dough into small pieces and slowly stuff it into a small round iron box prepared in advance.

This tin box and the heart-shaped box next to it are candy boxes found in the living area of the construction site, and the inside has been pre-brushed with a layer of vegetable oil.

The soft dough is pressed to the bottom and walls of the box little by little, with various fillings in the center and then compacted tightly with the dough. After confirming that there are no gaps in the box, pour the pie out of the mold - a round "mooncake" is ready.

Different from the traditional tan baked mooncakes. This mooncake mixed with water chestnut powder is moist and lovely, like carved white jade. The two of them made mooncakes slowly and methodically, and then lined them up and sent them to the refrigerator for refrigeration.

At this time, Duan Xingze, who was entrusted with the important task, also led a cat and a dog back. He held a large bundle of osmanthus branches in his hand, and the small golden flowers were exuding a refreshing fragrance.

"That's right." Su He said with a smile: "As soon as the osmanthus comes, I will immediately feel like I am going to celebrate the festival." ”

Indeed, today is the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In addition to these flower branches for vasing, Duan Xingze also collected some scattered osmanthus flowers, which were all handed over to Lin Youqing at this moment. As a reward, Lin Youqing stuffed a piece of plum ribs stained with sesame seeds into his mouth.

Duan Xingze happily ran away, while his father picked up the cloth bag containing the osmanthus and walked to the pool.

Lin Youqing stopped him: "Just let me wash it." ”

Duan Whale smiled: "I'll do this kind of trivial thing, and you will have to work hard later." ”

As he spoke, he had already put the osmanthus into the pot, carefully removed the impurities and stale parts, and then poured it into the bowl. Lin Youqing was about to reach out to take the bowl, but he stopped him.

"Wait, where's my reward?"

“…… Why are you still compared to Xiaoxing. ”

Lin Youqing smiled dumbly, but still turned around and grabbed a chopstick and fed the ribs.

"Is it delicious?"

"Taste it for yourself." Duan Whale pressed the back of Lin Youqing's head and kissed it.

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Pick the freshest fruits and vegetables, catch live seafood, thaw meat, prepare sauces...... Time is slowly passing in methodical preparations. At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Haichen and Lu Rulan, who went to the artificial lake to fish, came back with fish buckets, and the cooking of hot dishes officially began.

There are a total of nine hot dishes on the menu, and three groups of people are responsible for three of them.

Su He and Du Yunfei claimed three dishes: celery lily, ham stewed cabbage and egg buns. Overall, it wasn't too difficult – perhaps considering that one of them was bad enough to pull down the average for everyone.

But it's obviously unfair to look at Su He in this way, at least now he no longer has the superpower to turn food into □□. Even under Du Yunfei's patient guidance, he was able to try to shake the handle of the pan and spread out a fairly complete egg cake crust.

Of course, considering the work efficiency, Du Yunfei is solely responsible for all the remaining work.

Compared with them, the combination of Haichen and Lu Rulan is obviously much more harmonious.

Hairy crabs caught early in the morning from the mouth of the sea are simply washed and brushed and put into a steamer to be heated. On another stove, the prawns skewered with bamboo skewers are marinated in garlic and various seasonings, and then brought to the fire to be quickly burned. The aroma rises, and the shrimp shells quickly turn crispy golden red. The grilled shrimp are kept warm in small wooden barrels with hot pebbles.

When the prawns were baked, under the verbal guidance of Lu Rulan, Haichen's mushrooms and vegetables were already out of the pot. Like a relay race, they gave up the kitchen to Duan Whale and Lin Youqing.

The task of this pair is much easier - the plum ribs are ready this morning, the dessert does not have to be made so early, and the most important task at the moment is to cook a pot of soup.

But it's not a simple soup.

Set up an oil pot, stir-fry the onions, ginger, garlic and other seasonings until fragrant, and then put the small fish caught in the artificial lake, one by one from the inside to the outside to fry them crispy, and then add three chopped hairy crabs, a handful of clams, and a few shrimps. Add water to simmer, then pour in shiitake mushrooms, tofu and cabbage, and a pot of fragrant seafood soup is slowly taking shape.

Taking advantage of the time when the other groups took turns cooking, the people in the free group began to set up the dining venue.

This afternoon, after a short discussion and consultation, it has been decided that the venue will be arranged in a small hill stone pavilion at the highest point of the Botanical Garden. All the chopsticks and food are pushed up the hill by bicycle, and in order to avoid mosquitoes, they even light mosquito coils in advance and hang mosquito repellent mugwort leaves on each side of the pavilion.

At half past six in the evening, the early autumn sky is magnificent, and the twilight is four. The breeze came slowly, blowing the laurel trees outside the pavilion, and the dark fragrance floated. 166 Reading Network