Chapter 346 - 358 Shocking 'Spices'
After I figured out the recipe and moved all the ingredients out of the supermarket, I called Xue Li, who was still taking care of the sick Rao, and then instructed him to help chop wood and make a fire and prepare to cook!
Why chop wood for a fire! Because now I don't have any charcoal here! In addition, this place is still in the desert, and it is difficult to check and chop firewood, and the food that needs to be cooked is the food that twenty-six strong men have to eat! It is definitely not possible to use an electric stove, and there are no other materials that can be used to burn the fire, so I can only find some log furniture from the mall, and then endure the distressed feeling, and let Xue Li help chop these log furniture into wood one by one, and use it for cooking!
"Eh~ It's really distressing to look at!" And when I think about it, all this furniture consumes my body to get out of the mall!
But now is not the time to feel distressed, I'd better feed these people first! Now that you've got all the food ready, don't worry about the rest!
So after Xue Li chopped the wood, I also set up the stove here, this time because it was in the middle of the desert, there was no loess around me for me to use and mud to build the stove, so I had to use all the 'bricks' taken out of the mall to pile up a stove, and then use the yellow mud dug out of the jade site outside the mall to paste it, this is the stove is built! As for those 'bricks', I actually turned them out of Nie Qian's territory, which were originally the bricks used to build houses in their underground base.
Looking at the stove I had built, I suddenly realized that even if it was loess, bricks and stones, it seemed that I could be self-sufficient! Tiger jade was brought to the large grass outside the mall, but there was a lot of loess! In Nie Qian's territory~ that is, in the secret stronghold that I used as a 'warehouse', including the Lanruo Temple above the stronghold, there are actually a lot of bricks and stones that can be used, and those stones taken out of the stronghold are all smooth stones and a lot of goose warm stones unique to the cave. In addition, the new desert demon city-like building outside my mall and the territory of the Mandarin Duck girl there, it seems that there is also an inexhaustible supply of yellow sand to use!
"Hey, hey! When I think about it, it seems like I'm completely self-sufficient to the point where I'm horrible now! It's okay to even build a city on your own! "I looked at the stove I had just built, and suddenly I had this idea, and I felt more and more that the 'resources' I brought with me now seemed to be very rich! Even if you just leave me on a desert island, it seems that I can survive forever! Not to mention that it's just in the desert now!
"Hmmm! I don't know how to do it~ I actually have a desert island survival game~ or the feeling of a 'Minecraft' game! ”
I began to think crankily again, and Xue Li held all the firewood to me, looking at the stove that I had just piled up, although it was very large but ugly, and then he suddenly said, "Lord Li? You~ Is this a stove? ”
His words pulled me back from my cranky mind, and then I looked at him, then at the stove, and "yes! So that's it? Isn't it like? Or ~ do you hate the ugliness of my pile? I'll tell you, man! Don't look at this thing, it's not good-looking, but he's sturdy enough~ The most important thing is that it's big enough! So we can use him to cook a big enough dinner! I said angrily to Xue Li.
In fact, when I look at it again, it seems that the big stove built this time is really not good-looking! Although I even used bricks, after all, those yellow mud are not particularly easy to use, and I don't know why, the yellow mud I got from jade has a lot of sand, and it is not so easy to mix with mud! The use of pasted cooktops is particularly unsightly and crude.
"No, no, no! Master Li, I'm not ugly! Xue Li hurriedly waved his hands and explained: "I~ I just thought: We didn't bring the pot out!" ”
"Hah! You're here! You wait! "I quickly ran to the back of the garbage truck and let the body block me, and then I pressed the red mark on my chest again and went back to the mall again! Actually, I really forgot to take out the pot first!
But when I ran to the kitchenware area, I was worried again, when I used to travel with my maids, although I occasionally cooked a big pot of rice for everyone to eat, but after all, there were few of us! In addition, in fact, my maids have long been accustomed to snacks in my hand, so every time I use it for cooking, the largest pot used is just a 32cm cooking pot, and the rest is either to use a pressure cooker, or directly use a fried scoop or something, so I really haven't carefully checked the kitchenware area of the mall. As a result, I now need to use a large pot to cook, and I realized that the largest pot in the kitchenware counter of my mall is only a 36cm steamer!
But this largest pot is used to cook for more than 20 adult strong men, how many pots of rice do you have to make! If that's the case, maybe after midnight when the meal is ready!
"Huh! No, I~ I have to think about it! Although there are indeed a lot of pots, it's too much! If I take out several of them at the same time to cook, wouldn't I have to pile up a few more stoves? Don't tire me out yet! I shook my head.
But fortunately, I quickly remembered that there was actually a restaurant upstairs in this mall, and when I ran to the back kitchen of the hotel to take a look, I found several cauldrons from there, and even found a real big black pot with a stove! It's a gas stove, but if I just take the pot off and use it, it should be fine?
"Hey, hey! That's it, I'll take it out and put it on the stove I just built, it should be fine! I nodded in satisfaction.
As I expected, when I took out the cauldron and went back, I put it on the stove I had built. It seems that when I built the stove, I built it according to the standard of this cauldron! Hey! How can I be so smart......
After a moment of pride, I commanded Xue Li to start cutting the meat, using the board and catch that I took out of the mall. Since I took out a large piece of half-fan pork, I still had to cut it into pieces before I wanted to use it for the broth! But when I instructed Xue Li to use the catch I took out to cut the meat, this guy actually held the catch and shouted, such a good steel, it was used to make kitchen utensils, and he shouted that he had to ask me for a hand, and this was better than his original weapon~
Hearing this guy's words, I couldn't help but slap the back of his head again, and then I held my hands that were starting to become red and swollen again, and almost screamed in pain~ I forgot how hard this head's head is! As a result, I let my hand be beaten in vain!
"Huh! I have to get rid of the stinky problem I learned from the award and like to hit people in the back of the head! Maybe I don't know how hard it will be when I touch the back of Rao's head in the future! I held back the tears that almost flowed out, and said silently in my heart.
Then I took the opportunity to scold Xue Li, mainly because he was rare and weird! And I was pestered by him for a long time, so I promised to go back and send him a few more catches to use~ If you don't really open your eyes, you won't use this catch as a good weapon! I remember when I used to talk to the prize, the prize had explained to me about weapons, but she had told me that a good weapon is not judged by the strength of the material and the amount of steel used.
I clearly remember that she also deliberately used the steel catch I took out to make a comparison with the iron catcher, oh yes, in the middle she also took out her personal dagger and compared it, and found that the strongest steel catch could not win the award of the personal dagger at all, and even the sharpness was not as good as the iron catcher! So I remember that the award was proud, and the catch I took out, except for cooking, I thought that it couldn't be compared with her weapons at all! In particular, she added: "Good steel must be used on the blade!" And the whole body is a weapon made of good steel, but it can't be considered a good weapon! "Although I don't really understand the words of the award at that time, these words can be used by me to educate this Xue Li! Anyway, he didn't know that I had heard all these words from the award, and the effect of fooling him was very good anyway! Fooling this Xue Li~ I just treat me as an almighty master!
Finally sent this away, and then asked him to throw the cut meat pieces into the cauldron and start cooking, especially when I took out the cooked meat that had already been adjusted and wrapped it in gauze, and was just about to throw it into the pot, this Xue Li and those who were not seriously injured, and who were able to get out of bed and walk around after being dealt with by Xue Li and me, and the wounded soldiers who were attracted by the boiled meat, let out an exclamation together: "Wow! This~ This is a spice! I even smell pepper! Look, the adults actually put spices in the soup we cooked! ”
"Huh? Is it that unusual? It's just a bag! I looked at them a little puzzled, and I exclaimed, and looked at my people with amazement, and then I didn't pay much attention to their expressions, and threw the wrapped bag into the pot, and then I took out the salt and pepper, and put it together.
Although the meat will become hard if you put salt before it is fully cooked, I am going to cook it for a while so that the meat in this large pot will completely rot into the pot, because I am going to let these people drink the broth, and I will not let them eat the meat directly. So I just threw all of this into the pot, and then I didn't have anything to do, and I could let Xue Lilai take care of the cauldron and add water to it from time to time to ensure that the soup in the pot would not be too little.
But when I put in the salt and pepper again, the people who were all around me and watching me cook almost knocked me out!
"As for it? Isn't it just a little pepper? I said helplessly.
As a result, these wounded soldiers, even Xue Li looked at me like a loser, and then Xue Li also pulled me aside with a heart, and then asked me quietly, am I too extravagant? Or maybe I didn't misplace the flow. According to him, these spices, especially pepper, are very expensive luxuries! These ordinary soldiers, only after the victory on the battlefield, on the celebration banquet given by the emperor, may only eat some mutton with a little 'spice'. And judging from the fact that I just put so many 'spices' directly into the lowest pork, especially the 'pepper' that is more precious than gold at the end, I am simply a tyrannical! The most precious 'spices', such as pepper, are only used in special diets or delicate beef and mutton.
"Huh! Isn't that the pepper? Forget it, it's all for you! I was speechless when I heard this, and then I casually stuffed the remaining pepper bottle that I had just poured into the broth to Xue Li, and then under his extremely shocked expression, I left directly.
Although I have long known the precious value of pepper from Dugumou, I have never taken it seriously! Even several times when I was short of money to go to the pawnshop, I didn't think that I could actually exchange pepper for money directly, because in my eyes, these things that they used as 'spices' were inexhaustible for me! In my mall, these are worthless goods!
That's why I directly gave the glass bottle to that Xue Li's, I was here to save the wordiness of listening to this! Where do I spend so much time listening to his nonsense! I might as well take the opportunity to build a new stove, I still have to cook rice and porridge!
"Eat early, finish early, live early! I've got something to deal with yet! I said as I boiled porridge. I'm still waiting to get rid of all these appetites, and then go to the mall and go to the mandarin duck girl to have a look! After all, since I found out that the mandarin duck girl took the initiative to show up and attacked a team of people, I haven't had time to go to her to see the situation! Who knows how this guy learned that trick of the extreme middle two!
"Hmmm! Where did this girl get the name of the 'Sandstorm Funeral'? Is it just a coincidence? "I was boiling porridge and pondering at the same time! I want to talk with more like-minded people about "Mixed with the Early Tang Dynasty in the Shopping Mall", pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~