Act 168 Vanilla Ice Cream
The sudden change did not make Liu Ziru panic.
He has never been afraid to speculate on others with the greatest malice, and he immediately suspected that this product wanted to eat overlord meals.
But he thought about it, why should he care about her true thoughts, it would not be beneficial for him to fake it.
Imagine a girl from the wasteland, in this world where the language is not spoken and the environment is different, who else can she rely on but herself? What else can you do besides working in a store?
And the idea of having a wasteland girl work in the shop is very good.
First of all, there is a real shortage of people in the store, and secondly, she has almost no possibility of changing jobs, and it seems that she doesn't have to pay a salary, even if she wants, it is estimated that those broken bottle caps can satisfy her.
Well......
Liu Ziru groaned for a while, his face was full of kindness, and the butcher looked at the little sheep and squatted down like kindness, and helped the girl on the ground up.
He said in a sincere way, "It's rare that you have this heart and want to learn to cook." In fact, I am not skilled in cooking, and my cooking skills are limited. In this way, you can be here with me first, to see if I have real skills, after a while you think I have the ability, it is worth learning, you follow the learning, if you think I can't do it, I won't stop you. ”
It stands to reason that living in a world full of radiation, wasteland, fewer resources, and more testing of human nature, should have a stronger ability to discern routines. However, Christina didn't hear the meaning of Liu Ziru's words at all, but felt that he was very sincere.
"I'll learn!" Christina looked up, her hair tied in a ponytail tossed, her eyes full of determination. She didn't learn it because she liked it, but as a naturalist, she already had a keen sense that delicious food, compared with unpalatable green paste, can greatly improve work efficiency.
If Liu Ziru knew that Christina was thinking, he didn't know how to think about it. Is it resentment? Or is it easy? Or is it funny?
said resentment, because Christina's idea was essentially robbing Liu Ziru's business. If the wasteland has such a delicious meal, then why come to the Fallout Canteen to eat?
It's the same as between a master and an apprentice, between peers and peers. The apprentices of the church starved to death of the master, and their peers were enemies, not all of them came this way.
According to thousands of years of tradition, apprentices may work for half their lives in vain, and it is impossible to learn true skills from their masters. After all, if you learn it, you can leave, and if you learn it, you can stand on your own and become a peer to grab food.
As a result, many very precious crafts have been lost in the process of such a succession.
It is said that it is easy because Liu Ziru feels that running a radiation canteen is a burden for him. If, the food at the door is as good as he cooks. Then no one will come here to eat, and of course he is relaxed.
After all, he is working hard here, not to mention that making money is not as good as the rent he collects, but whether he can make money, it is two things.
The common currency here, the bottle cap, is simply not usable in the real world.
It's funny because Liu Ziru doesn't care about all this at all.
In this way, two people with their own thoughts stood face to face.
"You come in first, don't touch anything, just watch me do it today. Don't ask any questions yet, and ask them later when the store closes. Liu Ziru quickly switched to boss mode and made a series of orders and requirements to Christina.
"Got it." Christina nodded, her whole body tensed, and her expression was formal, as if she was not watching someone else cook, but watching someone else fight.
After Liu Zi finished the order, it was as if he had forgotten Christina. It was busy in the open kitchen, which was not too small and next to the guests.
Because he was lazy, he didn't pre-process all the raw materials that he needed. Whenever a customer orders something, he starts with the very beginning.
Washing vegetables requires care, cutting vegetables requires skill, and now Liu Ziru needs speed.
The traditional thick Chinese kitchen knife leaves a string of phantoms in the vision.
The cherry meat ordered by the guest just now is a traditional Han dish in Suzhou.
It is said that it is cherry meat, there are no cherries only meat.
Liu Ziru took out a piece of tenderloin, cut it into small cubes, added salt, old chicken broth, white pepper, grabbed the flavor, added egg yolk and then added cornstarch. Cut the carrots into small cubes the size of meat.
While Liu Ziru was warming the oil, Christina curiously picked up a few diced pieces of meat and carrots from the meat board and cutting board.
When she began to compare them, she was stunned again. The diced meat and carrots in her hands were exactly the same size, as if they had been measured with a ruler.
Christina asked herself if she couldn't cut out such diced meat and vegetables. However, you need to use a ruler and take time to get it slowly. And just now, the shopkeeper didn't seem to look at it, and he cut everything into this way.
Awesome is great, but what's the use of that? Just good-looking?
Christina had a question, she wanted to ask, but she remembered what Liu Ziru said just now. I had to hold back and not ask, pretending to be a stuffy gourd, and kept silent.
Liu Ziru noticed all this, his psychology fluctuated slightly, he felt that this cheap waiter was quite diligent and studious, even if he was stupid, there was still educational value.
However, he did not start teaching immediately, but threw the diced meat with cornstarch hanging into the oil pan. Wait until the diced meat is six or seven mature, switch to low heat, fry until golden brown, and take it out.
Control the oil slightly, then throw it into the pan for re-frying.
After the re-frying is completed, the oil control is served again.
Pour the hot oil into the pan next to it, leaving a little oil at the bottom of the pan. Pour in the tomato paste and stir-fry over low heat.
When the tomato sauce thickens, pour in the diced carrots and fry the diced meat.
Set the plate and remove from the pan. A plate of cherry meat is done.
It's all in one go, and it's very beautiful.
The fried cherry flesh is cherry red in color, bright and pleasing to the eye, and looks very delicious and attractive.
Just looking at it, Christina felt like she was hungry, even though she had just finished eating a large plate of fried rice.
Liu Ziru brought the cherry meat to the guests. The guests picked it up with chopsticks, and although they were in a lame position, they still had a satisfied smile on their faces.
The cherry red shiny pieces of meat are round and small, and the skin is soft and salty and sweet, crispy and fat, making it an excellent appetizer.
Since time immemorial, food has been a source of happiness, and it hasn't changed to this day.
"Compared with the old store manager, your craftsmanship has not regressed at all!" The slightly drunk cowboy uncle blushed, and while holding the cherry meat with chopsticks and sending it to his mouth, he poured the red star two pot head, with his outfit, not to mention how beautiful the picture was.
Liu Ziru answered with a smile, then returned to the kitchen and continued to cook.
Time passes imperceptibly, except for the occasional chat with the guests, and the barter when collecting the money to talk about the price. Liu Ziru didn't talk much anymore.
Although most of the wasteland visitors in the store come by themselves. However, when they got together, they also talked and laughed.
One thing to mention here is that the door to the radiant cafeteria is a bit strange, although there is only this one door. But it seemed to correspond to the countless doors over there.
Christina came through the door in the Fallout Sandstorm, and Uncle Cowboy was from New Las Vegas.
Even if you go out on the front and back feet, those from the radiation sandstorm will still return to the radiation sandstorm, and those from New Las Vegas will still return to New Las Vegas.
The sun sets into the building, and it gets dark.
After the diners finished eating and chatting, they walked through the door one after another and returned to the place where they had come.
The nightlife in the big city seems to be just about to begin, and the Radiant Canteen is already open for today.
Before Liu Ziru put down the roller shutter, he asked Christina, "Are you sure you want to learn to cook?" ”
"Hmm." Christina nodded.
Liu Ziru touched his chin and looked at Christina, who was half a head shorter than him, and after a while he asked, "Where are you from?" ”
"The New California Republic."
"The New California Republic?" Liu Ziru asked rhetorically as if confirmed.
"Hmm."
Liu Ziru rummaged through the cabinet for a while and found a thick piece of folded parchment.
He unfolded the parchment, pointed to the coordinates on the parchment and asked, "Here?" ”
"Hmm."
Although the map surprised her again, her expression remained calm.
As an explorer, you have a very important task, and that is to draw a map.
The map she saw now was more detailed than any map she had ever seen. There are not only contour lines, markers. There are even many military ones that need to be marked.
This is a military map, a high-precision military map.
This map is incredibly precious to any faction in the wasteland.
Liu Ziru didn't know and didn't care about this, this map was obtained by his grandfather, that is, the old store manager, from an old drunkard who didn't have a bottle cap to pay the bill.
"You're not going back, do you really want to learn how to cook?" Liu Ziru asked, "If the shutter is closed, you won't be able to go back." ”
"Hmm!"
Liu Ziru closed the roller shutter, and the dim light in the store pulled him out of a long shadow, he sat on the chair, and said seriously, "What I say next may be a little difficult for you to accept, but you have to accept it, because it is your choice......"
Christina didn't say a word and nodded.
Liu Ziru looked at her and said, "This is not the world you are in, it is another world." There is no New California Republic here, only California. There are many things here that will surprise you, but don't panic......
Wasteland Visitor, welcome to the ...... of civilization"
Liu Ziru made a hugging gesture in the void, and Christina, opposite her, stood there dumbfounded, unresponsive.
"Okay, now that we're done, let's go shopping for clothes!" Liu Ziru said to himself, when he took off his work clothes and changed into civilian clothes, he suddenly remembered that although he asked her where she was from, he didn't ask her name, "By the way, what's your name?" ”
"Christina."
"Christina?"
"Christina."
"Got it, Christina, let's go out and buy clothes." Liu Ziru picked up a coat and put it on.
"Is this really another world?" Christina asked.
"Otherwise, think I'm lying to you? See for yourself. Liu Ziru grabbed the remote control, turned on the TV that had just been turned off, cut off the old movie that was played by default, and switched to the TV station. At this point, it happened to be the time when the local evening news was broadcast, and the municipal TV station broadcast short news from parents.
Christina watched silently, although she could not understand Chinese, but as a naturalist, she could know from the pronunciation rules of the language that this was really a language and not gibberish.
In addition, she also found that it was very similar to what the store manager had just said, and it was probably the same language.
Watching the news on TV, at the slightly outdated residential buildings inside, and at the residents foaming at the microphone and complaining, Christina was a little convinced.
However, she did not believe it all. You know, the radiation world on the other side of the door is full of all kinds of strange things that seem like a joke. Even if any region pretends to be here before the war, it is not particularly strange.
Is this a refuge? A refuge to experiment with the effects of the pre-war environment on humans?
Christina asked, not sure.
Liu Ziru looked at Christina's suspicious appearance, simply pulled her up, and walked out of the back door of the radiation cafeteria.
The cramped dark alley stretches forward, and at the end of the alley is connected to a patch of light. In the vast night sky, there are several tall buildings that seem to be about to reach into the sky, which makes people feel majestic.
A huge amount of information rushed into Christina's mind in an instant, she had never seen such a majestic complex, never. Even if she had seen all the problematic images of the old times in the New California Republic.
"Where is this?" Christina asked.
"This is China." Liu Ziru replied.
"China?" Christina muttered, flipped through the information in her head, and she knew that this was the country of war with the old America.
China? How could I be in China. Christina couldn't figure it out, and she couldn't figure it out.
Liu Ziru pulled Christina back into the house, and he said to her, "Now you believe that I didn't lie to you." Dig out the metal gadgets on your body, guns, grenades, nuclear bombs, and put them all in the store. Otherwise, it will be troublesome to take the subway security check for a while. ”
"Subway? Security? Christina, though a little confused by the words, took out all the guns, bullets, and pills she had with her and laid them on the table.
In fact, when talking about the words subway and security check, Liu Ziru also had some difficulties. Because, Christina doesn't necessarily understand. Although, he speaks English, Christina also speaks English. However, the English spoken in the wasteland is still very different from that on this side.
Words like the subway, which are not used in most areas over there, have long been lost.
"The subway is a train that runs in a hole in the ground. The security check is that when you do the train in the field, you are not allowed to bring guns, knives, and tools. Liu Ziru explained simply and rudely.
Christina nodded, and continued to dig through the mess from her pocket.
Liu Ziru has always been very skeptical that the people of the wasteland all bring their own pockets from another dimension.
No matter how much more they carry than they seem, they will always carry more than they seem.
If the wasteland is really a game in the "Fallout" series, Liu Ziru can still understand. After all, it's a game, and the protagonist can stuff parts of the power armor into his backpack, so why can't anyone else.
However, in the normal world, this is a bit unreasonable.
He had asked the guests before, but they couldn't come up with a reason. Basically, you can only take a bunch of things out of your pocket, stuff them back in, and ask you, do you understand?
See the ghost!
Maybe it's like air on both sides, for most people, you don't have to think about it, you are born with it.
After a while, Christina was done, and the table was almost full.
Liu Ziru looked at Christina, who was still dressed as a wasteland, and nodded, "There are no flaws." ”
He looked at Christina and said to her, "If you still don't believe me, you can use the Geiger counter to see if the radiation here is exceeded." ”
"No need." In fact, Christina said, without Liu Ziru reminding her, she had already discovered that there was almost no ionizing radiation here. It is simply a "clean place" in myths and legends.
If not, she wouldn't have believed Liu Ziru's words so easily.
"Take it, keep up, don't get lost." Liu Ziru said.
Don't look at the location of the radiation canteen is very inconspicuous, but the land price is definitely not low, not to mention the city center, and it is close to the subway station. If no one had demolished it, it would have been demolished a long time ago.
Christina walked on the street, only to realize how ridiculous Liu Ziru said "There is no flaw".
Everyone she saw was dressed very cleanly, and the clothes they wore were similar to the casual clothes on Liu Ziru's body. And her outfit, which has good concealment in most parts of the wasteland, is so conspicuous on the bright streets.
The eyes of passers-by from time to time made her feel very embarrassed, and if there was a gap in the ground, she wanted to get in and never come out.
"Is it okay for me to dress like this?" Christina hid behind Liu Ziru and asked in a low voice.
"Of course there is a problem, otherwise why would I take you to buy clothes." Liu Ziru said, she looked back at the restrained Christina, and said with a smile, "Don't be afraid, they don't have malicious intentions." There's nothing wrong with you wearing this outfit for the time being. ”
Just as Liu Ziru was talking, two young people walked over, they saw Christina, stopped, one took out his mobile phone, and the other came running towards Christina.
Christina wanted to fight back the moment she was grabbed by the arm, but fortunately she was blocked by the faster Liu Ziru.
Liu Ziru has good intentions, if she really wants to play out at that time, it will be too much fun, the unlucky child who pulled her, not to mention that she can't get out of bed and walk for the rest of her life, at least she has to lie in bed for a month.
"Don't be nervous, he just wants to take a picture with you without malice, relax." Liu Ziru comforted.
Christina also reacted at this time. She observed all the way, in fact, she had found that most of the people here lacked a sense of vigilance, not to mention loose muscles, and even less awareness of preventing attacks.
What she had just done was purely instinctive. Now, realizing it, she has tried to take it easy.
About ten seconds later, the first youth finished taking a photo with her, and the second youth also came to take a picture with her.
After the two of them finished taking the photo, they looked at the photos on their phones with satisfaction. One of them asked, "Who is this COS?" ”
"I don't know, but it's stylish."
"Well, it doesn't matter." The voices of the two young men grew farther and farther apart.
Liu Ziru rubbed the arm that blocked Christina's movement just now and felt very painful, he rolled up his sleeves with bared teeth and found a large piece of green.
"Why did you do it all of a sudden?" Liu Ziru asked.
"He dragged me." Christina said.
"You can't be so ruthless when you drag you."
"He dragged me first." Christina repeated.
Liu Ziru looked at Christina, sighed, and shook his head, this was the first time he had eaten deflated at her.
"You won, you won. But don't be so ruthless in the future, the people here can't help it. They don't mean anything and just want to take a picture with you. They treat you like the kind of person who plays the role of a movie and plays with performance art, without malice. ”
"Got it." Christina said.
Liu Ziru continued to knead and walk, passed by a cold drink shop and walked in, and asked for two large cups of vanilla ice cream.