Chapter 9: A slice of tomatoes

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Huo told Li Jie that the base was now ready to eat, and invited Li Jie's family to go to the canteen for dinner.

Li Jie's family, who were already a little tired of the beef and mutton, potatoes and carrots in the game, had already salivated after seeing the lush green vegetables and red tomatoes in the morning.

The canteen of the base is divided into several time periods, and everyone eats in batches, and before eating, it is also necessary to count the number of people to determine the dynamics of everyone and their physical condition. Food is not allowed to be taken out of the cafeteria.

Li Jie and others, under the leadership of Mr. Huo, came to the cafeteria.

The food in the cafeteria is not like the university cafeteria, where everyone queues up to eat and chooses the food they like to eat, in fact, there are no such conditions.

In order to avoid cross-infection and avoid food waste, the canteen here implements a separate meal system, and the dishes and chopsticks are also shared, used centrally, and cleaned and disinfected centrally.

"Lucky enough to get a slice of tomato today!" Teacher Huo said a few words to a canteen staff, pointed out to Li Jie and the others, and then came back with a smile to announce the good news.

"This is taking your light, otherwise I wouldn't have tomatoes to eat today! Haha~" Teacher Huo said bluntly that this was because of Li Jie's family, and he added food.

"A piece?" Xiao Lin and a few other girls listened to Teacher Huo's words and whispered in disappointment.

"One piece is good, it's hard for people to plant, and there are so many people who need to share!" When Zeng Pei heard this, he hurriedly rounded the field and motioned for Xiao Lin to say a few words. Xiao Lin smiled embarrassedly and stopped talking.

Waiting for the meal to come up, looking at the food in the bowl, Li Jie's eyes suddenly kept looking!

The refreshing stir-fry and fragrant rice that I was expecting did not appear. What appeared in the bowl was a bowl of paste like oil tea.

In this bowl of yellow paste like oil tea, you can vaguely see chopped vegetables, as well as some scattered rice grains, and on the top, there is a very thinly sliced tomato.

Forehead...... That's a refresher?

"Try! This is a new way of eating invented by the canteen masters, compressed biscuits are eaten like this, the taste is much better, vegetables and rice are added, and they are full and chewy! Eat all, you're welcome, it's not easy to make a living outside now, although we are simple here, it can't be compared with the past, but at least we can eat enough! If it's not enough, you can add more! Teacher Huo said as he motioned for everyone to try it, and at the same time, secretly paid attention to everyone's performance.

Li Jie and the others looked at each other, and at the other table, Professor Shang and others also sat around a table, and under the politeness of the other escorts, they took this bowl of paste and tried to eat it, Shang Xiaoxing, the driver Xiao Wang, and Lao Han were all in one meal, and several of the young people frowned, but Professor Shang, Lao Han and a few people were older, but there was nothing abnormal, and they continued to eat mush......

Similarly, Li Jie, who took a bite, felt the strange taste in his mouth, couldn't help frowning, pursed his lips, to be honest, this thing is not very delicious, sweet, sweet and salty taste, mixed with the unique smell of biscuits, coupled with the grassy smell of vegetables, it is definitely not delicious, compared with this, his family drinks wheat kernel porridge every day (wheat is not ground, wheat kernels can be boiled porridge directly, many people have not seen it, special note), pumpkin porridge, occasionally you can open a small stove to eat rice, now think about it, it is not so difficult to accept.

Teacher Huo smiled on his face, and kept digging with a spoon to eat paste, but his eyes kept observing the behavior of Li Jie and his party, and silently analyzed in his heart:

When they first arrived at the base, these people did not have too much thirst for fresh water, indicating that they had the ability to collect clean fresh water outside;

The clothes are still clean and neat, indicating that these people are living in good condition;

Seeing the food, no one could wait to eat, and it can be judged that there is no shortage of food in the team, which is very different from the previous survivors;

Eating the compressed biscuit paste and frowning, it means that their food must be better than the current paste, not only can they eat full, but even eat better than the people in the base;

Based on their morning visit to the farm, these people are clearly resistant to potatoes and even rarer to leafy greens such as greens and less satisfying vegetables such as tomatoes.

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All of this shows that these people still maintain quite good behavior habits, almost no different from before the end of the world, and the food may not be diverse enough, but what is lacking is only fresh vegetables. But the potato stuff should have some in this gang. Well, this thing is shelf-stable, maybe a lot of it has been found before...... Teacher Huo thought to himself.

You must know that Mr. Huo himself has received other survivors before, and most of them are already on the verge of collapse, struggling to survive outside, and when they first arrived at the base, they were absolutely very embarrassed, many of them overeaten, and even had mental problems; is also a person with strong ability and good luck, and he obtained a certain amount of food by chance, but he has never been in such a good state as Li Jie.

If nothing else, fresh water alone is extremely difficult to replenish! It's even harder than food!

Most modern cities have water sources, but the vast majority of these open-air surface water sources are contaminated by infected people and human corpses, and many people can't find them at all without the navigation map. Not to mention the groundwater, where the well is not clear to ordinary people! If you don't have electricity, you can't pull it out! The only addition, is the rain. Or find a large amount of filled water.

But these uncles in front of him are obviously not short of water......

Thinking of the tasks assigned by the two principals, Mr. Huo said that he had a headache, and he was a little minion in charge of administration, but now he had to do this kind of work to usher in, which was not good at it...... The best means to attract survivors to stay, to put it bluntly, at this stage are a safe environment, adequate drinking water, necessary food, and appropriate mental comfort.

All this, except for the relatively safe environment of the base, the rest is not touched!

These people drive cars and even live in RVs; Dressed cleanly and neatly groomed; There seems to be no shortage of food and water; Li Jie and his family are even a complete family! In this way, it is not very difficult to convince these people to stay!

A headache is a headache, and the hard one is a hard one, but you still have to try. Perhaps, from the stability and security of the base, these people can be impressed...... Teacher Huo was silently calculating in his heart.

However, he didn't know the advantages of Tucker Base's special environment to reduce the infection rate, and the two principals didn't tell him about it, and the asymmetry of information led to the doom of his idea.