Chapter 103: Harvest by the River
The convoy drove off the highway and stopped at the exit, Zeng Qiang and a few people gathered together to discuss the next move, they only knew that there was a survivor gathering place in Yongchuan, but they had never heard of where the gathering place was.
Yongchuan is located in the west of Shuangqing, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with a vast territory, towering mountains and dense water.
Yongchuan is also a modern big city, with a population of more than four million before the end of the world, and if you look for it randomly, it is estimated that you will be swallowed by zombies and there are no bones left.
It's a pity that Zeng Qiang's convoy didn't have anyone who was familiar with Yongchuan, and all the routes had to be explored slowly by themselves.
Gu Tao was the first to speak: "Brother Qiang, I think if we want to find a gathering place, we must first know which places in Yongchuan are suitable as gathering places. ”
Gu Tao was right, Zeng Qiang nodded at him to continue.
"I think there are several conditions to meet the gathering place, the first must be safe enough, preferably a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack; The second is that the area is large, after all, at least hundreds of thousands of people survive, and the space is not good; The third is food, preferably in a self-sufficient place, so many people must consume a lot of food in one day. With Zeng Qiang's encouragement, Gu Tao said more energetically, he was originally a person who was not good at words, and this time he dared to analyze in the hope of getting more attention from Zeng Qiang.
"Brother Qiang, I think this local must not be dead, why don't we go and find it? Once you've found someone, just ask where the gathering place is, right? Xia Wei saw that what Gu Tao said was affirmed by Zeng Qiang, and he was also eager to express himself at the moment.
"Well, you have a point." Zeng Qiang agreed with what everyone said, and sure enough, the three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang.
Even the bearded man spoke at this time: "Brother Qiang, I think we should avoid the city or some scenic spots now, there must be a lot of zombies in those places, and they are not suitable as gathering places." ”
Zeng Qiang nodded, now I can't think of any way just here, let's take one step at a time.
The convoy continued all the way, they did not dare to enter the city, they all took the route around the city or some relatively remote roads, walked for more than an hour, and stopped by an unknown river.
After getting out of the car, Zeng Qiang found that the climate here seemed to be different, because of the cold weather in other places, there were not many plants at all, but here the vegetation was extremely lush, and the grass and shrubs were more vivid green than before the end of the world.
In this green vegetation, Zeng Qiang found some wild vegetables, the leaves open, fresh and green seem to be called cold winter vegetables, I remember when I was a child, my family was poor, and he also ate it.
There is also that plant of shepherd's cabbage, soak it in boiling water, and it is best to mix it cold.
Of course, there are many more dishes that I once couldn't name, but I have seen them before, and they can be seen everywhere on the ridges of rural hometowns, but they are cut down and fed to cows or pigs, but they can also be eaten by humans.
Zeng Qiang squatted down, walked to a camellia, carefully uprooted it, looked at its green leaves and red rhizomes, and unconsciously began to secrete saliva.
Zeng Qiang suddenly had an idea, when he settles down, these wild vegetables are easy to grow, since they left the coal mine base, they haven't eaten fresh vegetables for a long time, and they will come to engage in greenhouse breeding in the future?
For vegetarian dishes, the temptation is always stronger than men, there are few women before the end of the world who don't like to eat vegetables, after Zeng Qiang said the news of the discovery of wild vegetables, the few women in the team are crazy about it, they are crazy to dig, all the wild vegetables that can be seen, are being uprooted by the women quickly, and Zeng Qiang has been distressed.
But fortunately, the whole river is covered with wild vegetables, and even the river has a lot of water hyacinth, which is also a plant that can be used.
Everyone was working, the men were cleaning up the zombies and setting up camp in the vicinity, the women were digging wild vegetables and cooking, and the big yellow dog was running around with the little wolf.
"Woo ......"
"Whew~"
A dog bark and a wolf barked and thought they were just joking, but instead of decreasing, the sound became louder and louder, which made Zeng Qiang quite annoyed, didn't he see that he was feasting, dealing with a bowl full of wild vegetables?
That's right, as a leader, he has the right of priority, he washed a handful of winter vegetables and cooked them in boiling water, poured a little old godmother and vinegar, and ate them with dips.
"You dead dog, what are you making a fuss about?" Zeng Qiang reluctantly put down the bowl in his hand and walked towards the place where the big yellow dog barked, and Wang Xin cared about its little wolf followed behind.
"Wangwang." The big yellow dog yelled at Zeng Qiang excitedly, "Zeng Qiang, come and see, I see that there are fish, a lot of fish." ”
"Whew~" The little wolf also spoke to Wang Xin, but Wang Xin couldn't understand.
Zeng Qiang followed the big yellow dog to a concave bend by the river, and saw many big white fish emerging in the river at a glance.
"Wow, you can still drink fish soup tonight." Wang Xin shouted excitedly, she had just eaten fresh fish when she was rescued by Zeng Qiang, but she didn't expect to have another chance today.
The big yellow dog seemed to be very powerful, fluttering in the water, biting a fish, and then gave Zeng Qiang a mouthful.
"I'll wipe it, who wants to eat your saliva, I don't know if there is rabies, Wang Xin, you hurry back and get the net." Zeng Qiang took the fish back from the big yellow dog with a disgusted face.
Big Yellow Dog: "......"
was excitedly thinking about eating fish at night, and Gu Tao called out again, but listening to his voice was not the kind of anxious, but a happy expression.
Did you find another treasure?
Zeng Qiang walked to Gu Tao's side with doubts, and found that Gu Tao was digging something under a river bank, and the bearded man was catching it with his pocket on the bank.
"What did you find?" Zeng Qiang approached curiously.
Hearing this, the bearded man handed the pocket to Zeng Qiang, and said happily: "Brother Qiang, look, we found a snail." ”
"This, are you sure this is a snail?" Zeng Qiang picked up a fist-sized snail and looked at it, and the thing in front of him was indeed very similar to a snail, but it was a little bigger.
"That's right, Brother Qiang, this is a snail, when I was a child, I used to eat this thing in the countryside, that is, when I went to drink night beer in the summer, fried a snail was delicious." Gu Tao said and took out a palm-sized snail from the water.
"Fried snails? I remember we found a car on the highway that specializes in delivering condiments, and we should be able to fry them tonight? Zeng Qiang thought that while eating grilled fish, he was eating fried snails, by the way, he should also drink some beer, although this weather is a bit out of place, but it makes people happy to think about it.
With these discoveries, Zeng Qiang felt that the river was a treasure, and he ordered the team members to come to the river to look for fresh ingredients, and sure enough, they soon found river mussels, crayfish, and even a half-sized soft-shelled turtle......
The crowd at the harvest time was joyful, the food of the convoy was not short, and now they can eat some river fresh, drink some wine, sit on a bench by the river, look at the stars together, look at the scenery by the river, this day seems to return to the pre-end times.