Su Keke and Grandma Qiao followed Chen Da all the way to the stone house where they now lived. Along the way, they learned from Chen Da that Lu Mei and Shi Huan had no news since the tsunami, just like them.

But Su Keke and Grandma Qiao are back!

This gave Chen Da great confidence. He believed that one day, Lu Mei and Shi Huan would suddenly return to Lingcheng like Su Keke and Grandma Qiao.

"Ah! Look at me, I've been busy talking and it's already eleven o'clock. I'll cook first, you two can sit at the table for a while, or go for a walk nearby, I'll call you when the meal is ready."

Chen Da glanced at the old mechanical watch on his hand, with some anxiety in his eyes.

It was almost time for Lei Mu and his team to get off work, so he had to prepare lunch quickly so as not to delay their work in the afternoon.

The vegetable and grain output of the base is low now, and the points given for working hours are not high. But I can't have points deducted for being late, that would be too much of a loss.

Grandma Qiao saw an earthen stove in front of the house and said, "I'm good at cooking! Chen Da, you haven't eaten my cooking for a long time. Today I'll cook, and you'll be responsible for lighting the fire for me."

As Grandma Qiao said this, she put her backpack on the wooden table and walked to the stove in two or three steps.

"How can this be possible! You just came back today, why do I have to cook?"

Chen Da hurried over and began to clean the earthen stove in a hurry. They had steamed potatoes and sweet potatoes in the morning, and the soup had not been poured out yet.

"Chen Da! Your Aunt Qiao may not be good at other things, but she is an excellent cook. If you disagree, I will be unhappy."

Grandma Qiao deliberately made her face stern, as if she was angry.

Seeing this, Su Keke quickly came over to help, "Uncle Chen! Just let Grandma Qiao cook. Grandma Qiao's cooking is delicious."

Seeing that both of them said so, Chen Da had to compromise and said, "Well...Okay, I'll go get the food out."

He quickly put down the broken pot in his hand and walked into the stone house. After a while, he brought out a large bamboo basket.

Su Keke went forward and took a look. There were a dozen potatoes, four tomatoes, two cucumbers and a large cabbage. These should be the ingredients that Chen Da's family had stockpiled.

"I'll use my points to exchange for some food!"

Chen Da felt that these few vegetables were a bit shabby. Besides, when Meng Yi woke up and Lei Mu and the other two came back, it seemed that there would not be enough food for so many people.

"Chen Da, come here and light the fire for me. We also brought some food in our backpacks, which is enough for so many people. Keke! Quickly take out the things in our bags."

Grandma Qiao washed the pot and placed it on the earthen stove. She pulled Chen Da to sit down and light the fire. She signaled Su Keke with her eyes, asking her to get some ingredients from the space.

"Okay!"

Su Keke immediately understood what he meant, and she took off her backpack, unzipped it, and took out a 20-pound box of pork belly.

"Keke, why do you still have pork belly in your bag? To be honest, we haven't smelled meat for more than half a year. You haven't even started roasting the meat yet, but I'm already imagining the sizzling smell of barbecued meat in my mind."

Chen Da looked at the large piece of fat and lean pork belly and swallowed unconsciously.

"Uncle Chen! There's not only meat in my bag, but also seafood!"

As Su Keke spoke, she took out a box of 10 hairy crabs from her bag like a magic trick.

"Oh my god! You all have hairy crabs!"

Chen Da was so shocked that he stood up from the small wooden stool, staring at the box of hairy crabs in Su Keke's hand.

If it had been before the natural disaster, he would definitely not have stared at the box of hairy crabs like this. At that time, if people wanted to eat crabs, they just had to go to the vegetable market.

But now it is three years after the natural disaster and there is basically no one in Lingcheng who can produce so many hairy crabs at this time.

Not to mention Lingcheng, even in the entire China, there may not be anyone who can come up with it.

Chen Da couldn't help but become suspicious again, "I almost forgot to ask, Keke, how did you and Grandma Qiao escape the tsunami?"

"My grandmother Qiao and I were lucky. We drove our RV away from Lingcheng on the day the tsunami hit. As a result, we didn't experience the terrible tsunami. After that, we have been traveling around the inland."

Su Keke made up this reason on the spur of the moment, but she didn't know how credible it was.

“That’s really the blessing of the Bodhisattva.”

Chen Da didn't even bother to investigate further. He just sat down and started piling firewood next to the earthen stove.

"Keke, hurry up. There are some fruits in my bag, take them out and wash them too."

Grandma Qiao was afraid that Chen Da would come to his senses and ask more questions, so she quickly asked Su Keke to get something from her bag.

"good……"

Su Keke agreed and ran to the table to get Grandma Qiao's backpack, then took out a bag of strawberries and a bag of bananas from the covering space of the backpack.

"Uncle Chen, come and have a banana first. This banana is grown by Grandma Qiao and I. It's delicious."

Su Keke broke off a banana and gave it to Chen Da, wanting him to try the bananas that she and Grandma Qiao grew in the space first.

When Chen Da heard that Su Keke and the others grew the apples themselves, he quickly peeled the skin and took a bite.

"Mmm! This banana is so sweet!"

Chen Da couldn't remember when he last ate fruit. Ever since the tsunami, their lives had been extremely difficult. Now things are actually much better, at least they can eat their fill.

Because there was only one stove, these dishes could only be cooked one by one. Su Keke cleaned the hairy crabs a little first, and Grandma Qiao planned to steam the hairy crabs first.

Because hairy crabs are not afraid of getting cold after being stored for a long time, some hot dishes will not taste good when they get cold.

When Grandma Qiao saw that there was only a small jar of coarse salt on the small table and no other seasonings, she asked Su Keke to secretly take out some commonly used seasonings and onions and ginger from her backpack.

Chen Da was busy adding firewood to the fire and didn't notice where these seasonings came from.

By the time he paid attention to these things, Grandma Qiao was already cooking the last dish.

Steamed hairy crabs, stir-fried potatoes with tomatoes, cold cucumbers, vinegar-fried Chinese cabbage, and the last dish, pan-fried pork belly, are now sizzling in the pan, and the aroma of barbecue has already drifted into the stone house at the back.

Meng Yi was awakened by the aroma of pork belly. After waking up, he first thought that he had smelled the meaty aroma in his dream.

"It seems that I haven't eaten meat for too long. I even dream about barbecue."

Meng Yi picked up the potato beside the bed. He knew that it was left for him by Chen Da. Just as he was about to take a bite, he suddenly smelled the aroma of barbecue.

"That's not right! How can I still smell the aroma of meat when I'm already awake?" Meng Yi got up quickly, rubbed his eyes, opened the door and shouted, "Uncle Chen! Are you home? Where does the aroma of meat come from?"