132.Chapter 132
Captain Guo sneered when he heard this: "They have followed a long time ago...... Forget it, you don't know, anyway, their captain and the people of their team have already hugged a new thigh......" Captain Guo was silent for a moment and said in a low voice, "Someone has been asking us for trouble recently, you two ...... If you don't want to participate, just let me know if you want to leave early. "These two people are not the establishment of the military from beginning to end, and the formalities and everything are stuck in his hands, as long as he doesn't deliberately trouble the two of them, as long as the two of them change their phone numbers casually after that, no one can find them in a short time.
Yan Fei glanced at Captain Guo and nodded slightly: "Thank you." He wrote it down.
The group braved the snow and worked the wall all day, and the next morning, before Luo Xun and the others went out, they received a message - there is no need to go today, because, yesterday, there was a metal supernatural in the team who had a high fever in the middle of the night, and he was sent to the hospital overnight, and he still has a high fever, and he has not yet woken up......
After tossing and turning in the heavy snow this time, three members of the metal anomaly team fell, two of them were ordinary people and one of them were metal anomalies. The two ordinary people were fine, and they heard that they were fine after a week's rest, but the metal-based supernatural person died suddenly after a dozen hours of pneumonia caused by a long high fever. After receiving the news, the entire team fell silent.
Captain Guo's expression was also extremely ugly, and his superiors severely criticized and educated him because of this matter, and also made a demerit, and before receiving the demerit and accepting the punishment of reflection, Captain Guo contacted Luo Xun and the two alone: "The current situation is too chaotic, and it has involved the entire team's supernatural people...... I can't help people who are already in the military to get out, but you two better think about it, what are you going to do after that? ”
Luo Xun and the others had already discussed it after they got the news that the metal powerhouse was hospitalized with a high fever, and they also noticed that the top management of the base seemed to be playing a game now, and as long as they were in the team for a day, they would be pawns in their game. In the absence of external influence, of course they are willing to lean their backs against the big tree to enjoy the shade, but now......
"Then it's troublesome Captain Guo, let's quit." Yan Fei made a decision on behalf of the two of them, and shook Captain Guo's hand with a smile, "If there is anything you need help with in the future, just say it." "They may not be able to do anything else, but if they just help Captain Guo do something and solve some small troubles, it is still no problem.
Captain Guo also smiled bitterly and shook Yan Fei's hand: "Okay, I'm going to have dinner with you one day...... I'll contact you again if the situation improves, but I'm afraid I won't have much chance lately...... "The situation in the barracks has been very chaotic recently, plus the new city side...... Thinking of this, he whispered to the two of them, "Recently, the attitude towards the new city side is not good...... It's not a good thing for those supernatural beings to come together, and if you don't need to move for the time being, don't go to the new city recently, lest you be affected. As he spoke, he winked at the two, took over the identity tags of the two, and went to eliminate the relationship between the two.
"Xincheng ......" Yan Fei's sneer was hidden under the mask, "The supernatural people are all gathered together, and once the power develops, they will definitely not live in peace, even if they originally relied on the official background." So when Yan Chuangxin put forward his idea, Yan Fei was not interested at all, this is a world based on "fists", and even he has no confidence to guarantee success as an alien, how can Yan Xinxin, an ordinary person, succeed?
Luo Xun also sighed: "Isn't it?" It's just right, it's so cold now, let's go home and grow vegetables, anyway, there are many people who want to buy our vegetables now! "In the past few days, several more teams have contacted the two of them, saying that even if they only buy one or two catties every few days, it would be fine! They don't want so many vegetables, just one or two catties!!
There are some things, it is good for everyone to get out early, and now that the weather is so bad, it is not a good idea to go out to work every day, they can cat for the winter first, and then concentrate on going out to play crystal nuclei after the weather warms up...... It's still very promising to think about this day~.
It didn't take long for Captain Guo to complete the formalities for the two of them, but fortunately, because the two of them had to deliver food to the barracks once in a while, they still had a separate pass and could enter here in the future, otherwise once this formality was completed, they would have to say goodbye to this steel fortress completely.
Take your own things and ask Captain Guo to bring them to the remaining members of the team, and the two turned around and walked out of the barracks. The snow on the road is still very thick, and although there are still people in charge of sanitation work in the base, these people often only work once a week, or even half a month, and the efficiency is quite poor.
Even the garbage piled up on the street corner can be piled up into a mountain of garbage, not to mention the snow?
Breaking away from the metal ability team and no longer building walls, the biggest impact for the two of them is that they don't have to get points, and they don't get free metal crystal nuclei. But fortunately, they have had a relationship with the logistics department before, although the number of metal-based crystal nuclei that can be exchanged from the logistics department is not large, but it is not impossible to find this kind of crystal nucleus at all.
As for what if the two of them want more metal-based crystal nuclei? Although the name of their otaku squad is a bit wasted, it is not wasted at all when it comes to playing crystal nuclei, and the harvest every time they go out is quite gratifying.
The two walked all the way back to their home in the snow, Xu Mei and the others were very surprised to see them come back early, and the two ladies all widened their eyes: "Why did you come back so early?" ”
"Got fired." Luo Xun smiled at the two.
Xu Mei rolled her eyes very unladylikely: "Think we're fools? Who believes this! "No one will fry Yan Fei at the base, okay? How many metal-based abilities are there in the base? Fired him...... Who will repair the city walls?
"Well, we fired them." Luo Xun could only helplessly spread his hands.
"It's possible." Song Lingling said with a smile on the side.
Luo Xun reluctantly turned his head to look at Yan Fei, who had a faint smile on his face: "Let's go change clothes first, you guys will be busy first, and we will discuss the rest later." ”
Xu Mei and the two saw off the two downstairs, and after they went up, the two ladies secretly began to discuss in a low voice: "Do you think they will go back to make up for sleep?" ”
"And then our dear captain won't be able to get out of bed!"
"It's no wonder, we get up early and return late every day, and we still have so many things to do when we come back, and even if we are on vacation, we have to go out at least once to shoot crystal nuclei!"
"Little don't win the newlywed~"
Xiao Xinran raised her little head and looked at her two adoptive mothers with innocent watery eyes, although she couldn't understand, she was a good child who loved to learn! Write it down and you'll understand it when you're older!
The little guy who also looked up at the two "nannies" with a stupid look, it couldn't understand and couldn't remember, just now he wanted to go upstairs with his master but was stopped by these two "nannies...... Then let's continue to play games with this little girl!
Luo Xun and Yan Fei are both very upright and good young people, at least the two of them are not prepared to make daylight announcements today...... What's that. So after changing my clothes, I went downstairs and came back.
Xu Mei and Song Lingling arranged for Xiao Xinran to copy the big characters to be copied today, and asked her to go to the small table to write her homework. Song Lingling washed a pot of fresh, freshly picked strawberries and put them on the table, and everyone ate strawberries together and chatted.
"There's been some trouble on the metal team's side lately." Yan Fei made a simple explanation, "Recently, there has been something wrong with the wind direction in the base, so we decided to withdraw temporarily. ”
Luo Xun nodded on the side and stuffed a strawberry into his mouth - sweet and sour, the acidity of this strawberry is higher than before the end of the world, but after the end of the world, this kind of fresh fruit that can be eaten in winter is definitely the best delicacy! "We're going to go home and farm."
Luo Xun's words sounded vague because of eating, but the few people sitting understood it.
Xu Mei and Song Lingling nodded and said, "It's okay to come back, the two of us take care of these things at home during the day - it's usually fine, but if you need to harvest and plant new crops, you really can't take care of it, and you have to wait until you get home from work every time." "In fact, once you plant something, it is usually quite leisurely, but the problem is that the things they want to plant are too miscellaneous, and there are many short-term crops in order to stagger the harvest period and let the vegetables and crops mature, so the cultivation time is separated, so it is usually much busier.
This is not like a real farmer, as long as people plant vegetables and grain at a designated time every year, they usually don't have to worry about it except for regular medicine and fertilization, which is much more leisurely than them.
Luo Xun said with a smile: "We have a lot of things stored at home after the harvest a while ago, and I was going to take time to make some things before, but now it's just right to be idle and do it slowly." As he spoke, he stuffed a strawberry with the stem removed into Yan Fei's mouth.
Ignoring the two dog men on the opposite side who showed affection, Song Lingling asked curiously, "What are you going to do?" ”
"Tofu."
Salt brine and gypsum brine are not available at home, and they don't bother to look for them in the base. Fortunately, there is still white vinegar that was bought before the end of the world and has not been used up until now, just use this thing to make some tofu, anyway, the taste is not too much, and it is natural, non-toxic and pollution-free.
The soy sauce and vinegar they have stored at home can't last too long, but fortunately, they have made some yellow sauce that is fermenting and pickling before, and it is estimated that it will not take long to eat, so these non-staple food seasonings don't have to worry about it for the time being.
In order to make it delicious, Luo Xun and the others soaked two pots of soybeans on the spot after they finished talking-even if they couldn't eat it for a while, they could freeze it and eat it slowly, anyway, the weather is cold enough now, they don't need a refrigerator, just put it in the iron railing outside the window for a few hours.
After getting ready, Luo Xun and Yan Fei went downstairs again - dismantling the metal in the carport.
There are not many places in Luo Xun's house for real planting, and they don't make full use of all the spare places, but now that both of them are unemployed at home, it is not bad to renovate their homes and bring out a variety of vegetables.
Yan Fei didn't do any more three-layer push-pull planting racks this time, he just made rows of metal shelves hanging on the wall directly on the empty wall, which are used to grow vegetables and fruits, which can not only have a variety of things at home, but also will not affect the original furniture and furnishings at home, which is really a good way to kill multiple birds with one stone.
The two of them then picked out a lot of small, elongated, moist wood, processed them and placed them in metal boxes near these shelves to grow mushrooms and absorb toxic substances.
In other words, there are more and more poisonous mushroom juices in their homes, if it weren't for Song Lingling's water system ability level to be upgraded to the third level, they could easily absorb the juice in the mushrooms, saving everyone's time, plus the cold weather outside and the temperature plummeted, they could freeze a lot of mushroom juice outside, their freezers would have no place to store these murderous "corpse water".
The two of them worked all day, and that night, after Li Tie and the others went home, they heard that Luo Xun and Yan Fei no longer had to go to work, and they were envious and hesitant: "How good is it to be at home...... But when I go to work, I can get points......"
After all, the five of them are ordinary people, and although they can support themselves by farming at home, the values and world views that have been formed since before the end of the world are not so easy to reverse -- "public meals are glorious", "it is shameful to be unemployed and squatting at home", "you must have a stable job when you become an adult, otherwise it will be a failed life", "even if you earn less, at least the work that has the advantage of stability is the real job"......
Luo Xun understood the mentality of the five of them very well, and said to them with a smile: "Our situation is special, mainly because of the metal abilities of Yan Fei and them......" said and pointed to the direction of the military camp with a wry smile, "Someone wants to play, and we have no background." You don't have to follow in, as long as your leader doesn't say that he won't let you go for a day, then you can continue to work, after all, you are all technical talents, and these things generally won't affect you. ”
And Li Tie and they are still a small miscellaneous until now, if they have been working in a relatively large computer company since the end of the world, or they are hackers who have achieved a little success or something, see if anyone is trying to win them over now?
The five of them breathed a sigh of relief and happily said that unless someone fired them for squid, they would still obediently stay in the old place and go to work.
Zhang Su on the other side looked out the window a little distractedly, not knowing what he was thinking. He Qiankun suddenly said to Luo Xun and the others: "Are those soybeans enough to make tofu?" Do you want to soak some more?
Luo Xun said with a smile: "For the time being, it's enough to make a lot, we still grow soybeans, and we will continue to make tofu after those harvests." "Soybeans are a good thing, you need to use it to make tofu, you need to use it to make soybean sauce, you need to use it to make soy sauce, you can eat it directly, sprout it, and there are many varieties of soy products before the end of the world, all made of this product! So...... It's also a headache if it's too versatile.
There is no way to make tofu on the same day, so Luo Xun and the others changed the water once before going to bed at night and climbed back to their house safely.
Just like Xu Mei and Song Lingling had the morning before, the two of them fully enjoyed the treatment of a holiday after they went back - they don't have to get up too early tomorrow, and there are not too many things waiting for them to work, so as a pair of lovers who really love each other, they must learn to enjoy this long vacation~.
Luo Xun didn't get up from bed until half past nine the next morning, and secretly rejoiced that it was winter, even if his home and corridor were transformed to be very warm, he could wear high-necked clothes at home to cover the traces left by someone last night.
After crawling out of bed and washing up, the thing to be busy with is naturally what everyone said last night - tofu.
Grinding the beans - there are grinding discs at home, but there are also juicers that Luo Xun bought before the end of the world and gave away some electrical appliances, anyway, they don't lack electricity now, and it is very efficient to do this kind of work with a juicer.
Break the beans and water in proportion, and filter the okara in the soy milk with gauze. Leave some soy milk behind - I heard last night that Luo Xun was going to make tofu, and all the members of the otaku squad said they wanted to drink soy milk.
After heating the soy milk and removing the foam, add about a quarter of the water according to the proportion to cool down to about 80 degrees, and slowly add the diluted white vinegar.
After about a few minutes, the bean curd appears, heat it again, make the bean curd more condensed, and wait for the water to completely separate from the bean curd, and then slowly filter out the water and put it in a clean glass bottle - this thing can be used as a brine for the next tofu making after fermentation, and the effect is better than using white vinegar directly.
The bean curd is poured into a wooden mold and compacted, waiting for it to take shape and the moisture in the tofu is pressed out, and then it is ready to eat!
"It's that simple!" Song Lingling's eyes lit up as she looked at the tofu that had been put into the mold and pressed into the weight, and her mind was all about how to eat them at noon for a while.
Luo Xun smiled: "The steps are indeed not complicated. "Before the end of the world, there were a lot of searches on the Internet about how to make tofu, but after the end of the world, there were very few people who actually made this thing - who would have the heart to make tofu when there was not enough food to eat? He only did it once in his previous life until he died, okay?
"I want to eat tofu brain...... Xu Mei looked at the tofu in front of her, but what she was thinking about was the bean curd she had just seen...... That thing is tender and soft, and it looks like tofu brain!!
"Sister Xu, do you like sweet or salty?" Song Lingling suddenly asked.
"Salty!" Xu Mei's eyes lit up, and she burst out with an amazing light, "Can you eat sweet?!" Breakfast is of course salty! ”
Song Lingling's expression froze for a moment: "Sister Xu, you haven't eaten sweet tofu brain, have you?" Why don't you try the sweet one the next time you make it, and after eating it, you'll never want to eat it again! ”
"Lingling, you are still young, the taste of ordinary children is sweet, and after you really experience the bitterness and spicy of life, you will know that it is actually salty and delicious."
"Sister Xu, you haven't eaten the sweet tofu brain in my hometown, just the one at my doorstep, the time-honored brand and how far away people all take a taxi to my door early in the morning to eat......"
The two women began to persuade each other, making Luo Xun and Yan Fei subconsciously take two steps back and secretly exchange glances.
"You...... What do you like to eat? Luo Xun asked Yan Fei quietly.
"I'm from the north." Yan Fei looked calm, he did eat sweet when he went to some cities in the south, but I have to say that the taste developed by geography and habits is not so easy to change, especially when tofu brain is the same taste in his memory since he was a child. So it's okay to eat it as a snack once in a while, but if you eat it often......
Luo Xun breathed a sigh of relief, he had never been to a place that sold sweet tofu brains, so he couldn't imagine what it would taste like, and he was relieved when he heard Yan Fei say this-if he also argued with himself about it...... He didn't want the two of them to have such a weird dispute because of the difference in taste, even though they could live a good life.
But the flames of war still burned on the two of them, and the two ladies suddenly turned their heads and glared at the two of them with blazing eyes - "Which one do you like to eat?!" ”
Luo Xun's lips trembled: "Sweet, salty!" ”
The two ladies looked at them with great disdain: "How can you eat sweet and salty?" ”
Luo Xun almost buried his head in Yan Fei's arms - women are terrible! It's good that I like men!
The quarrels and tastes of the ladies Luo Xun didn't want to care, and he couldn't care about it. When the tofu was almost pressed, he hurriedly changed the topic, dividing the tofu into pieces, cutting and cutting, except for leaving a part aside to wait for lunch and evening cooking, the rest was frozen out of the window.
Thanks to the recent sudden drop in temperature, Luo Xun put the tofu in the iron bar outside the window of the back sun, but the tofu blocks became hard in a few hours.
The two of them took a small piece of the tofu left behind and took it home to eat at home, because there were no other ingredients, Luo Xun thought about it, and simply burned a braised tofu with some soy sauce, and finally added some garlic sprouts to decorate.
Sitting at the dinner table, Luo Xun looked at the plate of tofu on the table and sighed: "Hey...... It would be nice if there was minced meat. ”
Yan Fei smiled and gave him a pair of chopsticks: "This is very delicious, wait a few days and see if we can catch any animals when we go out again." "Duck meat can't be eaten with garlic, and adding some onions and garlic when burning tofu will enhance the flavor, so today Luo Xun didn't use his own duck meat, in addition to this tofu, he made a separate stir-fried snow peas.
"Sure enough, it's the most comfortable to eat all three meals at home, and I finally don't have to eat that weird-tasting big pot of rice." Luo Xun complained vaguely while eating. He wasn't afraid to eat mutated vegetables, and although it didn't taste good, at least it wasn't particularly unpalatable, but the texture of the mutated rice was really touching.
In fact, after the end of the world, ordinary people will not buy the mutated rice in the base without buying it, although the steamed buns and flatbread made of coarse grains and mutated wheat flour are also not very good and very choking, but the thing will be sent down with more water. But the mutated rice ......
Anyway, except for the official harvest in the first year, when the wheat produced by the base and the steamed buns made from miscellaneous grains were born, the market sales of mutated rice suddenly fell to a record low. Except for some people who buy rice and go back to their homes to make porridge and drink (most of these people can't even afford to eat mutated steamed buns), the sales of these mutated rice are almost zero.