After the members of the metal ability team where Luo Xun and the two of them were located heard that they would be able to eat the rice that had just been harvested, dried, and processed today, they were all excited and excited.

Luo Xun lowered his head at this time, and refused to raise his head to break his work. Yan Fei, who was beside him, had only taken a small bite after being reminded by him before, and then, like others, he froze in place in a stiff posture for a long time without moving.

"Poof—"

"What is this, this, what is this?!"

"What's the smell? Is this rice? ”

"How can there be rice fragrance here......"

"Why don't you eat nests...... Cornmeal and sorghum flour are stronger than this! ”

Luo Xun still bowed his head, with a forced smile on his face. He ate only a few grains of rice...... I have to say, human beings are really a typical representative of thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, look at other people's zombies, whether men or women, old or young, fat or thin, don't they all eat it? He hadn't tasted this in the past year, and after tasting it again today, it was already hard to swallow.

"No wonder they let everyone eat all the new food instead of the old food, this is the taste of this thing!" Captain Guo threw the bowl on the table unhappily and glared at the bowl angrily.

The others also silently stared at the seemingly crystal clear rice in the bowl before thinking about the taste...... It's not that they're picky eaters, it's really ...... The combination of mutated food and mutated vegetables is too lethal!

"It's like eating sawdust." The vice-captain finally swallowed the rice in his mouth before making a comment.

Several soldiers exchanged glances with each other for a while, and only then did one of them whisper, "That'...... We're going to have to eat enough, right...... After all, it's also a food ......"

Yes, grain, bread which is extremely precious in the last days.

Although everyone knows in their hearts, why the new grain immediately replaces the previous grain (even if it is coarse grain) as soon as it arrives, is it not because these things are too unpalatable? The big guys above don't want to eat it themselves? But what can they do? Is it possible to rebel just because it tastes bad? It's not that there's nothing to eat right now, it's just that it's not tasty. But it can still relieve satiety and replenish energy, no matter how unpalatable it is, it is better than not having to eat at all.

Everyone at the dinner table silently bowed their heads and ate their lunch, and even the usual chatting and laughing voices were gone. Including Luo Xun and Yan Fei, they also tried their best to eat their share.

In the past, eating was a kind of relaxation and enjoyment after work, but now, eating is more like fighting a big war and completing a difficult task.

Silently ate lunch, silently started work and continued to work. Silently spent until three o'clock in the afternoon to get off work. After work, the two drove back to their home and ...... Went headlong into the planting room.

"You ...... What's wrong? Xu Mei and Song Lingling felt that the state of these two people today was a little wrong, so they hurriedly followed, and saw Luo Xun and Yan Fei squatting next to the shelf, discussing something around a pile of rice that was about to ripen.

Luo Xun turned his head and said to the two of them with a slightly distorted expression: "The grain in the base has been harvested." ”

"Oh? That's a good thing. Xu Mei and the two were puzzled.

The two glanced at each other, and once again said with very tangled and solemn eyes and expressions: "The taste is very ...... Bad. ”

The two ladies were stunned and a little puzzled: "Unpalatable? ”

"Yes, mutated rice, very ...... Bad. Luo Xun nodded vigorously in confirmation.

"Are you sure that all the rice grown in our house is normal?" Yan Fei had never seen what rice looked like - a flash on TV didn't count. I didn't go into the field to look at the crops at all - and occasionally I didn't look at them when I drove past them. So he couldn't recognize the difference between normal rice and mutant rice at all. What's more, those mutated rice crops look similar to normal rice after harvesting and steaming.

Luo Xun nodded vigorously: "It's normal!" In his previous life, he saw less normal rice, but he could also distinguish the difference between normal rice and mutated rice. As for the benign variation of rice...... He wasn't sure what it smelled like yet.

Hearing that even Yan Fei didn't seem to be able to tolerate the taste of mutated rice, the two ladies were even more curious. It has to be said that curiosity kills cats. After hearing what the two ladies said, Luo Xunyan recommended that the two of them go downstairs to the food window to buy new rice, steamed rice, and taste it at home.

The two ladies were sent out to eat by Luo Xun, leaving the two men to take care of the house and watch Xiao Xinran, who was taking a nap. After going around for a while, the two of them were very clever enough to come back with a total of two taels of rice (no matter how few windows there were, they would not sell it to them at all), and after tasting it, they said that they still had some food at home that everyone had saved before and exchanged for food, and they could endure until the day of their own crops.

That night, after Li Tie and Zhang Su came back, they all unanimously said that they couldn't eat this meal, and they couldn't live their lives, even if their uncle could bear it, their aunt couldn't bear it!

"God, is this rice? How can it have such a taste? Li Tie made a bitter face and expressed his dissatisfaction with great pain and hardship.

"I thought they were as unpalatable as mutant plants, but I didn't expect them to chew into my mouth like slag of wood, dry and mushy! My lunch today was all delivered with water! He Qiankun's resentment against food is the biggest and the most unbearable, otherwise his body before the end of the world would not have been eaten so strong and plump by him.

Zhang Su frowned and stared at the plate placed in the middle of the table in front of everyone—the plate contained two taels of rice that Xu Mei and the others had brought back from downstairs before. "I think it's better to develop the skills to cook at home than practically." As he spoke, he glanced at Wang Duo, who was sitting beside him.

Wang Duo immediately straightened his waist and raised his chest and head: "Guarantee to complete the chief's order!" ”

Han Li and Wu Xin also got together to discuss, "Let's try to fire at home too, right?" ”

"Okay, but ...... I'll make scrambled eggs with tomatoes. ”

Xu Mei and Song Lingling discussed a few words in a low voice and smiled at everyone: "Why don't you do this, let's learn to cook with the two of us when we come back?" We don't have much, but the home-cooked food, these vegetables grown at home, can still be cooked. "It's definitely not okay to let the two of them cook specially, after all, they have a lot of things to do during the day, and the two ladies are also responsible for taking care of Xiao Xinran, so they really don't have time to prepare too much.

But when Li Tie and the others go home, it is still no problem to instruct them and teach them some ordinary meals.

Luo Xun also said: "Actually, stir-frying is quite simple, and it is not difficult to learn, when you want to cook, we will take a look and do it a few more times." ”

Everyone finally agreed to clean up the kitchen in room 1601, and Li Tie and the others learned cooking skills and tasted the finished products there after work.

As for the materials consumed, of course, that should have been allocated to them.

In the past, when Li Tie ate in the army's cafeteria, unless they ate some cold dishes to change their taste, they didn't need to eat these vegetables at home at all. Therefore, among the vegetables harvested before, the share that belonged to a few of them was directly entrusted to Luo Xun and Yan Fei to take to the army and sell it.

And now, they can only give up this outer block and directly produce crops to survive.

In fact, after really calculating, the crops they harvest are still rich, and a few of them can't eat them at all, and the rest can still be sold by the military, but the income is not as much as before.

If you have to cook, you can prepare your lunch for the next day. After everyone agreed, they went to Li Tie's house on the 16th floor together and taught them how to stir-fry and cook.

Fortunately, most of the vegetables we grow are green leaves, ripening relatively fast, and have a short cycle. These vegetables are very easy to handle, and even if you simply stir-fry them and add some salt, you can keep the original crisp taste of the vegetables, and you can eat them with anything.

Coupled with the various pickles, pickles, and pickles that Luo Xun taught everyone to pickle before, this time finally has a place to use.

"It's a pity that there isn't much powder in the house...... Brother Luo, should we go back and plant some wheat? As soon as he mentioned pickles, he suddenly remembered steamed buns, and He Qiankun hurriedly asked.

"Okay, when this wave of harvest is over, let's plant it too." The home is also a greenhouse, which can adjust the temperature, which is much stronger than those fields planted outside to see God's face every day in the field, and many things that are not easy to grow outside can be grown relatively simply at home.

"And corn! The corn planted at home this time is about to be harvested, right? It doesn't seem like a lot. ”

"Well, I'll continue planting when I've harvested this batch." Some things they have to wait for this wave to be harvested and plant the next wave quickly, especially these short-term crops that only grow for a few months.

The otaku team's cooking class is quite successful, at least the food they cook is not dead, and the taste is acceptable. To be honest, since the days when all the ingredients at the base were replaced with mutated vegetables and mutated grains for every meal, Li Tie and the others suddenly felt that even the green vegetables they boiled in white water with a little salt and eating them with rice instantly became a luxurious meal!

Looking at the five college students who were slightly handicapped and couldn't learn advanced cooking skills every day, Luo Xun, who couldn't stand it, thought about it for a while, and finally taught them a way to prepare dipping sauce to eat soaked vegetables and fresh cucumbers, lettuce and other small ingredients that can be eaten raw. This ingredient also tastes good with rice and bibimbap – unfortunately their rice is running out.

What is the biggest piece of good news when "all the grain outside is so unpalatable that I can't swallow it anymore, and I will eat up all my own grain and rice jars as soon as they are at the bottom"? Of course, the rice you have grown is fully ripe and ready for harvesting!!

On the day of October 10th, Luo Xun and Yan Fei, who went home early after work, didn't bother to go back to their homes to change clothes, wash and prepare dinner, and came directly to room 1501, and Xu Mei and Song Lingling, plus Xiao Xinran, who woke up early and took a nap with a curious look on the back of the little guy - ready to harvest!!

To be honest, they really made full use of almost all the space in the empty house to grow food when they planned it, so the harvest was really good. There were no pests and diseases, no natural disasters, and high-quality varieties of rice seedlings appeared in the rice fields, which made everyone have great confidence and expectation for this harvest.

A few people took the sickle that Yan Fei made according to Luo Xun's request to harvest, fortunately, because they planted all the rice in the shelf, and there was a layer of mushroom wood under the shelf, so they didn't even have to bend down to harvest it when they were harvesting!

By this time, all the water in the fields has been released, and as long as this batch of rice is harvested and the wheat seedlings grown in the nursery are planted, they can wait for the next spring to receive another batch of wheat.

When a few people were busy, they didn't deliberately pay attention to the time, and it didn't take long for Li Tie and them to go home from work and join the harvesting army.

The crowd moved quickly, and it didn't take long to get a room done. Luo Xun commanded everyone to tie up the rice and dry it together in the iron rack outside.

Yan Fei also added some metal baffles to the cracks in the iron mesh at the bottom, so that no ears of rice would accidentally fall and be discovered—now, every grain of grain is extremely precious.

When the seedlings were first raised, they were brought in one by one, so there was some difference in the date of ripening of the rice in each room - of course not much. But in addition, the area that can be dried outside the window is really limited, so everyone has to harvest a part of it in batches and allocate every two days, and it took a full week to completely complete and dry.

Of course, during this period, Luo Xun and his family began to process rice while planting the wheat seedlings they had bred into the planting box--Luo Xun had the foresight to get a household shelling machine before the end of the world, although it was a second-hand one, but look, don't you use it now!

The movement of the shelling machine was a bit loud, and everyone pondered for a while and finally decided to be busy with the shelling and peeling work in 1603. After a few days of intermittent busywork, everyone weighed the new rice and were excited to find that they had harvested nearly 600 kilograms of rice!

On two floors, with the exception of the house where they lived, almost all of the remaining houses were planted with as much crop as they could. Of course, the largest of them, that is, Luo Xun's house, did not deal with it in this way (his family only planted some vegetables, fruits and strange mutated plants on the balcony and terrace in the room), but the remaining space and room that were completely utilized, almost all the products were maximized to the extreme......

"So much rice......" He Qiankun held a bag of fragrant bags, his face full of intoxication, "That's the taste!" This is the right taste! This is the real rice! ”

"The new rice is the most fragrant, let's stew the rice tonight, and we'll use duck meat to stir-fry a few dishes in a while!" Xu Mei's face was also full of excitement, they and Song Lingling were walking around these rooms every day, taking care of these crops, and their feelings for these harvests were undoubtedly the highest among everyone.

Luo Xun smiled and said to everyone: "Let's go together later, let's divide these crops first." As he spoke, he looked at everyone, "We have already negotiated the distribution of products, and everyone has no opinion on the distribution agreement." ”

Everyone shook their heads again and again, rice, wheat and other food are necessary for everyone's life, so when the negotiations were first made, they were distributed to everyone according to a certain proportion. And Luo Xun was worried that the crops harvested by everyone were not enough for the team to eat on weekdays, so he did not ask for the public share from the grain, but distributed all the harvest evenly among everyone, but everyone needed to pay Xu Mei and Song Lingling some points and crystal nuclei as income for them to take care of the crops at home.

After the grain was weighed, the part that was left for seed, and the part except the benign mutated rice was divided equally among the people. Although Xiao Xinran is young, in order to take care of the little girl and the two ladies, naturally no one will grab rations from others.

Packed with cloth bags that had been prepared before, collected before and during the last days, each person had more than 100 catties of food in their hands. This is everyone's ration for half a year, and it will be held out until next year's wheat harvest.

In fact, these grains should not be enough for everyone to eat, but fortunately, the production of various vegetables at home is abundant, and the potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn that can fill their stomachs have recently reached the harvest season, and other crops usually have their own outputs, so they don't have to worry about not having to eat.

The fragrant rice was steamed out after everyone had collected their own food, and the aroma of the boiling pot was really touching to everyone, especially after eating the terrible rice in the army.

"Woo woo, I finally know what is compared to know what is really delicious, and sure enough, it is still homemade......

"That's it, I'll bring food from tomorrow onwards, and I'll no longer buy food from the cafeteria!" Several people nodded their heads one after another.

Not to mention them, even Luo Xun was thinking about whether to bring food to work the next day. Li Tie and his family have been busy lately, and they have to dry grain and sow new seedlings together after work every day, so they occasionally don't have time to cook these days, and they have to eat in the canteen the next day. One can imagine their tragic situation.

As for the military, although many soldiers have complained to their superiors that the current food is too unpalatable, the logistics department said that there is no more stale grain left in the warehouse, so everyone should eat it...... Who allowed rice to be planted in the open air, and when it rains, the rice will be polluted and mutated? I can't help it.

Unless the rice is carefully cultivated in greenhouses and planting buildings, the cost and efficiency are ...... It's okay to plant one and a half acres less, but I really can't take care of it if I have more.

These grains were harvested by the soldiers in the army with their own hands, and the grain they collected with their own hands had to be eaten while kneeling! Isn't it just a bit unpalatable? Anyway, it's just something to fill your stomach, and you can get used to it.

Regarding the mutated food, it is not only the soldiers in the army who are scolded, but those who try their best to earn points every day, and the crystal nucleus buys food and food from the external window, and their hearts are even more broken. Even if the price of food rose rapidly before, they could eat a bite relatively smoothly. But lately, not only has the food become unpalatable and tasteless, but even the rice has become so unpalatable, which makes people not live?!

If you don't buy this kind of food, what else can you eat? It wasn't until this point that some people regretted why they couldn't stick to it and insist on planting some vegetables and grains in the open space at home and in front of the house.

But now, what's the use of regretting these things? Go out and see, is there still a full open space outside? It's all filled with makeshift buildings! There is no place to put even some miscellaneous items (and if they do, they will often be stolen). These days, I really don't have more and more hope.

It was obviously the harvest season, but the base looked gloomy. Fortunately, Chinese people may not have any other great skills, but their adaptability is first-class, and once these unpalatable foods become habitual, everyone will no longer have too many opinions on some things.

Luo Xun and Yan Fei saw Li Tie and they were excited to pack the food to prepare for tomorrow, and the two discussed it in a low voice, but they still felt that they should not bring the food for the time being.

The situation of the two of them is not quite the same as Li Tie and them, whether it is Li Tie and the five of them, or Zhang Su, they all act alone when they eat at noon, maybe there will be colleagues not far away, but as long as they want to eat alone, others will generally not bother.

But Luo Xun and the two are different, they are still building the exaggerated bridge, and the daily meals are directly delivered to them at the work site by the car from the base canteen. Everyone eats together, and if they bring food alone, others can see it at a glance.

If from the very beginning of the end of the world, they brought their own rice and never ate the big pot of rice unified by the military. Now after the big pot of rice suddenly became extremely unpalatable, began to eat small stoves? Isn't this the place where there are three hundred taels of silver?

And they are so familiar with Captain Guo and the team members, people know that you still have good rice at home, why don't you "share" it?

In order to avoid trouble, the two made a straightforward decision - they would eat with the team at noon! Isn't it just unpalatable? They can eat more breakfast, fill their stomachs with some bread in their backpacks, and then get home in the afternoon with some food before they are busy at home!

In the autumn of October, the walls outside the house and the metal shelves of the otaku team are almost never idle, and all kinds of things are dried on them almost every day.

In order to make it convenient for Xu Mei and the two ladies to take care of them during the day, they generally concentrated these things on the outer walls of the 15th and 16th floors of the house, leaving only the walls outside the 1604 two-story duplex of Luo Xun's house still covered with solar panels to collect energy, so as not to cut off the power at home.

From this point of view, it reflects that the large area of the home and the large external walls are good.

Well, by the way, although Luo Xun and the others really didn't want to go and didn't occupy the common area on the roof, they still hung a lot of solar panels on their own roofs (single-finger duplex roofs) when their own household appliances were too expensive, at least for a few days.

I was busy until the end of the month, and basically all the crops of the bumper harvest at home were all completed and stored. Luo Xun: As long as they finish today's shift, they can go home tomorrow and prepare to leave the base early tomorrow morning.