Chapter Forty-Seven: Uncle Potato
If Rebecca's ability to dig pits belongs to the green steel level, then Cheng Bin's level of digging pits is at least diamonds, and maybe he will be the king with a rush. So after Cheng Bin took the initiative to help Rebecca, they quickly dug a pit and buried all three bodies.
Rebecca looked at the three piles of soil rising in front of her, and said in embarrassment, "Do we want to build a monument?" ”
"Write what? Is Wu Wei slaying the enemy chieftain here? Cheng Bin said: "Let's go, no one will miss them here." ”
Then for a long time, they had been driving, and Rebecca didn't know where Cheng Bin was going, but she could feel that he had a clear goal.
Halfway through the afternoon, patches of neatly arranged greenery appeared in front of the SUV, which opened Rebecca's eyes.
"What's that?" Rebecca was surprised and said, "That's farmland? ”
"That's a potato." Cheng Bin said, and then he added: "Potatoes are a staple food. ”
The off-road vehicle passed through the road left in the field, and soon came to a wooden house built on the mountain, and when Rebecca jumped out of the car with Cheng Bin, she saw a middle-aged man walking out of the wooden house.
It was a very strong man, who weighed a hundred kilograms by eye, was more than one hundred and eighty centimeters tall, and had a similar waist circumference.
He was wearing a pair of canvas pants with holes in them, and the hem of his red and black plaid shirt, which was so dirty that it was not the original color, was scattered on the outside of the pants, and there was a ragged jacket on the outside of the shirt, which was a circle smaller than the shirt. The man had a golden beard on his chin that went down to his abdomen and a baseball cap on his head.
The man was stunned for a moment when he saw Cheng Bin standing next to the car with a bright smile on his face, put the shotgun in his hand on the fence by the door, and walked over with open arms.
"Cheng?" He laughed and said, "I didn't expect you to be alive." ”
"I think there are many people who think the same way as you." Cheng Bin smiled and hugged him. Compared with Cheng Bin's reserve, the strong man was much more enthusiastic, and after he hugged Cheng Bin, he patted Cheng Bin on the back.
Rebecca looked at the scene in front of her, and subconsciously narrowed her eyes, feeling that the dust raised on the two men was enough to grow a potato.
"This is Uncle Potato." Waiting for the strong man to let go of himself, Cheng Bin introduced Rebecca: "Don't worry, he's a good person." ”
"You're a good person, your whole family is a good person." Uncle Potato said dissatisfied. Then he looked at Rebecca curiously and said to Cheng Bin, "Is this your little girlfriend?" He said, "You're finally willing to find a companion." ”
"She's just a stupid girl who reads too many novels." Cheng Bin said: "I took her to see what the real wasteland looks like. ”
"Then you've picked a task that's more difficult than making a man." Uncle Potato said, and then he opened his arms to Rebecca, "Here, uncle, hug." ”
Rebecca is not really stupid, of course she will not be fooled, and the clothes on Uncle Potato have not been washed for many years, and the smell on her body is estimated to be no better, so not only did she not walk over, but deliberately moved in the upwind direction.
After doing all this, Rebecca suddenly realized that Cheng Bin didn't have obvious body odor, at least for so long by his side, she had never smelled anything on Cheng Bin's body, which was a miracle for a single man who was in the wasteland.
"Your name is 'Potato'?" In order to avoid the embarrassment of Uncle Potato, Rebecca took the initiative to ask, "Or is it because you grow a lot of potatoes?" ”
"Because he looks like a potato." Cheng Bin said: "Let's go, go into the house, I'm a little hungry." Do we have anything to eat? He said, "I mean except for potatoes." ”
"Then you'll have to look for it." Uncle Potato said, "At least I haven't found the corn for a long time, at least until it's ripe. ”
Seeing Cheng Bin walk into the wooden house without seeing anything, Uncle Potato turned around and said to Rebecca, "I have a question. He said, "Do you know that he is from the East?" ”
Rebecca gave him a deep look and replied, "He said the war was over." ”
Uncle Potato stared at her for a moment, nodded and said, "It looks like you're serious." ”
"That's what it takes." Rebecca said, "I have a problem, you're not an Oriental. ”
"Ugh." Uncle Potato said indifferently: "Let me tell you a secret, I am an anti-war person." ”
He threw off his arms and walked towards the hut with two thick legs, and said, "Do you like potatoes?" ”
"Do you mean real potatoes?" Rebecca said uncertainly, and then provoked Uncle Potato to laugh.
There was no doubt that the dinner was potatoes, and it was only at this time that Rebecca understood what Cheng Bin meant when he said "potatoes are the staple food", they were really eating potatoes as rice.
"You only eat potatoes every day?" Rebecca was very surprised, "Won't you get bored?" ”
"Of course not." As he spoke, Uncle Potato was using a huge wooden stick to slap an even larger wooden basin with boiled potatoes, which were the source of the mashed potatoes he made for dinner.
He said confidently: "Although they are all potatoes, the method is different." ”
"I make mashed potatoes, hash browns, potato pies, potato meatballs, potato salad......
"Potato salad?" Rebecca interrupted curiously, in fact, she had only found two dishes in Uncle Potato's recipe - not sure yet, so make sure quickly.
"Potatoes also have leaves." Uncle Potato said, "You don't think that only potatoes grow on the potato seedlings, do you?" ”
Rebecca looked back out the window in surprise, looked at the lush black-green seedlings and said, "So that's the potato?" ”
"Has this poor boy never seen a potato?" Uncle Potato turned to Cheng Bin and asked.
"She just hasn't seen potatoes growing in the ground." Cheng Bin fiddled with the player in his hand that had been dismantled, "When I gave you this, it was fine, what did you do to it?" ”
"I just dropped it in the field." Uncle Potato said, "It's going to get into the water." ”
"I don't understand when you say that." Cheng Bin said: "You grow potatoes, not rice, why does it get water when it falls on the ground?" ”
"In a bucket, to be exact." Uncle Potato shrugged his shoulders and said, "Does it make any difference?" The bucket was also in the field at the time. ”
Cheng Bin took a deep breath to calm his mood before saying to Uncle Potato: "Next time, you can just say the bucket, don't tell me where the bucket is." ”
Rebecca couldn't help laughing, she looked at Cheng Bin and said, "I didn't know if you would fix this." ”
"I'll have a lot of useful and useless things." Cheng Bin said without raising his head: "Of course, I can't be sure which ones are useful and which ones are not." ”
At dinner, Cheng Bin had been discussing with Uncle Potato about how to detoxify potatoes, and it wasn't until this time that Rebecca knew that the potatoes she often ate might contain a very powerful toxin.
"If sexual reproduction is not possible, then it must be cooked at high temperatures." Cheng Bin said to Uncle Potato: "Most biotoxins will decompose at high temperatures. ”
He told him uneasily: "Especially if you live alone, if you are poisoned, no one will come to save you." ”
Speaking of this, he looked at Uncle Potato and said, "You always persuade me to find a partner, but in my opinion, you are the one who should find a partner." ”