Chapter 153: Dinner Together
"Fungi are not highly dependent on the land, dark and damp places are suitable for fungi to grow, now there are very few people in Manhattan, there are many skyscrapers, they are all empty, create an environment in it, cultivate fungi with a short growth cycle, soil can be obtained from Central Park, as for nutrients and the like, I don't understand very well, in fact, the last days are now said to be scarce resources, but from another aspect, some things are still very easy to obtain."
Don Ji looked at Hillary and didn't say much, because he didn't understand, he was a master of medicine, not agriculture, but he believed that Hillary would find a way to do it well, the number of survivors in Manhattan was not much, but it was not a lot, she might find some people who could plant, it could be some older survivors, just need to find a survivor who could grow mushrooms, and under his guidance, let the other survivors move, and it was not difficult to cultivate mushrooms at all.
Of course, this is only a question of whether it can be planted, and it has nothing to do with the yield, and it is completely difficult to say how much the yield is, and it has a lot to do with the materials that can be collected, the environment and climate.
After Don Ji finished speaking, Hillary kept her head down and scribbled things in the folder, except for what Tang Ji mentioned, and some of the things she thought of, all of which were quickly written in the notebook.
Fungi, which is commonly known as mushrooms, like shade and cannot photosynthesize, so the general artificially cultivated mushrooms are cultivated in a fully enclosed room, and now Manhattan can say that there is no shortage of rooms, just as Tang Ji said, mushrooms can be grown in those skyscrapers, and only those skyscrapers need to be slightly remodeled, and the windows are blocked with things, so that light does not enter the room, and an environment that is very conducive to the growth of mushrooms can be created.
Nowadays, due to the decrease in human activities, the phenomenon of the city returning to nature is very serious, and it is time to go outside, on the road, in the store, on the outer wall of the skyscraper...... In these places, you can see some green moss-like plants.
Wild mushrooms in nature, a heavy rain, can grow in a few days, because nature creates the best environment for the growth of mycelium, but artificially not artificially, artificially cultivated mushrooms usually have a much longer growth cycle than in nature, but ...... This is only relatively speaking, mushrooms have different growth cycles because of different types, such as shiitake mushrooms, the growth cycle is half a year, and straw mushrooms, the growth cycle is only one month.
All in all, if the mushroom planting plan is successful, this alone can completely solve the problem of food sources, of course, if you only eat mushrooms, it will definitely not work, people will eat until they vomit, and they must think of other ways.
Hillary looked down and wrote quickly, the corners of her mouth turned up, and the more she wrote, the more she smiled, and she seemed to have seen a bright future for growing mushrooms.
"Actually, we can also consider building a mushroom processing plant." Tang Ji looked at Hillary who lowered his head and wrote on the brush, and suddenly said: "The shelf life of the mushrooms is not long, if the yield is high enough to be consumed in time, we can make those mushrooms into canned food, or dehydrate them, and reserve them as food for the winter, and there will be a problem with electricity when the equipment is running, you have to figure out how to do it yourself, but I don't think the problem should be big, the power plant in Manhattan doesn't know if you have sent someone to it, if there is no explosion there, you can transport the equipment and raw materials back." β
Hillary still lowered her head, and after Tang Ji finished speaking, she quickly wrote in the folder for a long time before she raised her head to look at Tang Ji, with a smile on her face, she didn't praise Tang Ji again, and said directly: "Stay here for dinner!" β
"Okay, thanks." Tang Ji raised his hand and glanced at his watch, and saw that it was very late, and they must have finished eating when they went back, so he did not refuse.
"Frodo!" Hillary put down the folder and shouted in the direction of the door.
Click!
The door was opened almost immediately, and a black man with a backpack stood at the door, Don Ji remembered him, it was the black young man who commanded the escort door to go out in room 316 of the Secretariat Building during the day, it was strange that there was no such person at the regular meeting of the core layer not long ago, and Tang Ji estimated that the position of this black young man should be a senior guard, only responsible for Hillary's safety, and not interfering in construction affairs.
"Dinner, two ......" Hillary Clinton sat on the couch and gestured to the black man, then turned to Don Guy and asked, "Do you have anything in particular that you would like to eat, steak, macaroni, potato salad, and some porridge for dinner...... Do you want to ......?"
Tang Ji raised his palm and sent it forward, signaling Hillary to be casual.
"That's it...... Make two servings according to yesterday's dinner, and go for it! Hillary Clinton turned her gaze to the black youth at the door.
"Okay boss, wait a minute!" The young black man opened his mouth in response, bowed and exited the room, and closed the door.
"What to drink...... Hillary sat up straight, turned around and walked to the corner, where there was a refrigerator, this is Hillary's room, so there is no doubt that this place is powered 24 hours a day, and there is a wine cabinet next to the refrigerator, which is full of all kinds of alcohol, she opened the refrigerator and looked inside, and then looked at the wine cabinet, and said, "What do you want...... Champagne and wine ...... Whiskey, and beer...... What do you drink? Hillary straightened up and turned her head to look at Tanguy next to the couch.
"Coke or juice...... I have injuries on my body, and I have to take medicine when I go back, and I can't drink alcohol. Tang Ji said.
"Oh, I'm sorry I forgot." Clinton said as she took out the juice from the refrigerator, closed the refrigerator door, took out a bottle of red wine and two clean glasses from the wine cabinet, turned around and walked back to the coffee table, and handed the juice and quilt to Donji.
"Don't you really want to come?" Hillary sat down and shook the red wine in her hand at Don Guy and asked with a smile.
"No, thank you." Tang Ji waved his hand and said, immediately changed the topic again, and asked in a casual tone: "Who was that young man just now, and why did he always carry that bag?" He was twenty-seven years old, and he was very old, so he didn't look younger than Hillary, but certainly older than the black young man he had just had, and that black young man was twenty-five years old at most.
"Frodo, take care of my security...... People are very strange, don't ask him, he never speaks, that bag should be a weapon...... I don't know very well, I haven't seen it. Hillary said with a strange smile, and frowned inadvertently when she said that Frodo was weird, it seemed that this Frodo was not an ordinary weird.
"But he's ...... He was very loyal, he was close to my father, and after my father died, he came to me with some other people, and I don't know what my father did to him...... In a word...... It's just weird! Clinton gestured with her hand, and at last she seemed to be unable to speak, she couldn't seem to find a good adjective to describe Frodo.
"He's very skilled? Still is...... Marksmanship? Don Ji looked at Hillary and asked casually, in a very casual gesture, the two needed a topic, anything could be done, so he started from this aspect.
"It's all right!" Hillary said, took out the wine opener from the coffee table, and was about to open the red wine as she spoke, Don Ji stretched out his hand to signal if he wanted to help, Hillary waved his hand and refused, and continued while twisting the wine opener: "Skill...... He can fight on par with my instructors, and there are few better marksmanship here than him, and he says to himself that he is a retired soldier of the Marine Corps and has received full training. β
Bang!
Hilary opened the wine, poured herself a glass, set it aside, corked the bottle and set it aside, Hillary took the glass and tilted it slightly towards Tanji.
"It's weird." Don Ji smiled and whispered, picking up the cup containing the juice and touching Hillary's cup lightly.
"You just said your instructor? Who is he? After taking a sip of the juice, Tanji asked in continuation of Hillary's previous words.
He ...... Arthur, who is English, taught me a lot of things, like you saw the other day, martial arts...... And firearms...... He's dead! After Hillary finished the last sentence, her mood suddenly became much lower, as if she was missing her instructor and feeling sad for his death, or maybe it was because she remembered David, who had just died today, and it was sad enough for her.
There are still some traces of crying on Hillary's face, but as a workaholic, she can easily adjust her emotions, and after talking to Don Guy for so long, she has a smile on her face most of the time.
"I'm sorry!" Tang Ji said.
"It's okay, it's all over!" Hillary shook her head slightly, took a deep breath, smiled again, looked at Tang Ji and said: "Tell me about you, I always thought you were a capable person, I didn't expect you to be even better than I thought, since you came here, we haven't talked in detail, now talk about yourself." β
"Me? There's nothing to say, in the two years in the company, you should know about my daily work, and then disaster happened, and the Eastern Hiding Province hid from the zombies, until it was here, it was temporarily settled, in fact, it was nothing, no different from most of the survivors in this city. "Don Guy was lying, but apparently Hillary had no way of knowing.
The two talked about some very ordinary topics again, nothing sensitive, and soon after, the food was delivered from outside, and it was still Frodo, a young black man, pushing the food cart, and after setting up the food, he went out without saying anything.
The dinner was much more hearty than Tanguy had imagined, and Hillary had only said a few of the main things, and some of the side dishes had not been mentioned, and there were two identical portions of the same food, almost filling the coffee table.
Hillary took out the remote control on the sofa she was sitting on, pressed the button a few times, half of the room suddenly darkened, it was the half of the bedroom, and the half of the living room was still bright, Hillary and Don Guy were chatting while eating, and it didn't take long for Hillary to suddenly be silent for no reason, a little stunned, and a sad look flashed on her face.
"What's wrong?" Tang Ji asked a little dazedly, he didn't realize that he had said anything wrong.
"Huh?" Hillary came back to her senses and looked at Don Guy, under the influence of alcohol, her state became a little wrong, she first said nothing, then looked down at the food on her plate, held the knife and fork in both hands and was silent for a while, and said: "It's David, it's always been him ...... before"
Hillary didn't finish her words, but Don Guy understood what she meant, David was her fiancΓ©, and he would definitely accompany her to dinner often before he died, and it was night, in her room, it is estimated that only David would be like this before, and at other times, unless necessary, Hillary would not invite her cronies to eat together, and she was now in love.
"I'm sorry, are you okay?" Tang Ji asked with concern.
"I'm fine...... Eat. Clinton hid the embarrassment on her face with the words "eating", and she shouldn't have shown such emotions in front of Don Ji.
Before the end of the world, Don Ji and Hillary, and after the end of the world, the relationship between the two sides has obviously changed greatly, before Tang Ji was just an employee under her, if Tang Ji is not serious, she can immediately resign and replace, so she can maintain the state of "boss", and now, it is obviously not the case, although Tang Ji is still her assistant, but Tang Ji does not need to look at Hillary's face at all, because Hillary has a place to ask for Tang Ji, and the relationship between the two is developing in the direction of equality. in becoming more harmonious.
If before the end of the world, the two were just bosses and employees, now they are more like friends.
Dinner lasted for a full hour and a half as they chatted and ate, and Hillary Clinton drank a bottle of red wine, her face flushed, and a hint of drunkenness appeared on her face.
Hillary didn't drink much, she was drunk. (To be continued.) )