◎Happy Day 111: Desert Oasis◎

On the third day after the end of the polar day, Jiang Muyun and others climbed to the top of the mountain.

After a sandstorm, it is not so bad in places like the mountain where Jiang Muyun and others are located, where the terrain is not prone to sand accumulation and the vegetation is lush. After the sand is cleared away, everyone can go on with their lives as usual.

But the plain wasteland at the foot of the mountain has basically become a desert after this incident.

Jiang Muyun looked around from the top of the mountain. As far as the eye could see, apart from a few yellow-green hills still covered with sand and dust, there was only a barren yellow.

The city in the distance was dilapidated, with crude buildings floating in the sea of ​​sand.

If the city of the past was a dying ruin, then the city of today has become a dried-up skeleton.

An air of loneliness permeates the clusters of buildings.

Jiang Muyun didn't know whether the land at the foot of the mountain would recover after the next rainy season, but at least before the rainy season came, they had to adapt to living in the desert oasis.

Perhaps after the rainy season we will still have to live in the desert oasis.

The river channel is filled with yellow sand. Since no one has professional machines, God knows how much manpower and resources it will take to clean it up.

I have the will but not the ability.

Instead of spending time cleaning up the rivers, the major bases would find it more cost-effective to dig a few more large reservoirs.

Or we can wait for a major flood in the next rainy season, and leave the sand and sand issues to the survivors in the downstream areas.

In Jiang Muyun's opinion, the desert oasis also has its advantages. At least the temperature can drop a lot at night.

It didn't matter if it was hot during the day, since no one would go out anyway. With the bright sunshine during the day and the solar panels that Jiang Muyun and the others had brought back from the western suburbs base, everyone could even turn on the electric fans at home to enjoy the weather.

The temperature is suitable at night, and I feel better when I go out to work.

Because mosquitoes, flies, and midges were temporarily wiped out by the high temperature, people no longer had to worry about being carried away by insects when they went out at night with a light, so everyone started to stay indoors during the day and go out at night.

At first, the nights were short and the heat from the polar day had not yet dissipated. Everyone went out to clear the sand, clearing as much as possible. If they felt a little uncomfortable, they would go home and rest immediately.

When the nighttime length returned to three hours and the nighttime temperature dropped to over 30 degrees, Jiang Muyun and others dismantled the insulation room.

The dismantled materials were not wasted. Everyone took the precious materials such as insulation cotton home and kept them. The large wooden boards used as roofs were kept, as they might be used in the future. The tree trunks used as walls were chopped into firewood.

At the same time, the dead crops have to be cleared away and replanted using the seeds that were saved.

They have dug many reservoirs on the mountain and store a lot of water. At present, in addition to the remaining water stored by each household, they have a largest reservoir that has been sealed and has not been activated.

Now everyone’s water is almost used up, and water is also indispensable for growing crop seedlings. It’s time for the large reservoir that has consumed countless of their efforts to come into play.

After the large reservoir was unsealed, the first thing everyone did was to go home and take a comfortable bath with soap.

When we were trapped at home, we had to use ice every day, and the saltpeter had to evaporate and condense before it could be used repeatedly, which inevitably resulted in a large loss of water.

Therefore, people usually don’t dare to use water anywhere other than the water they use for eating and drinking. Even the water they use to brush their teeth has to be filtered and retained, not to mention using it to take a bath.

No matter how economical you are in taking a shower, there is still some water loss.

Since everyone doesn’t go out anyway, daily cleaning is just wiping it with wet wipes.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen got a lot of these daily necessities from the western suburbs base, and they could still afford one wet wipe a day for the time being.

Even if you can't afford it, you have to use it. After all, with the current dryness, if you don't open the wet wipes and leave them there, you will have to wait for them to dry out.

They all lived very cautiously at home, so after the polar day, apart from a small amount of prickly heat, no other skin disease symptoms appeared on their bodies.

But now it's different.

Nowadays, everyone has to go out every night to chop wood, plant vegetables and shovel sand. All of these are physical work. Even if the temperature is not high at night, sweating is inevitable.

If they had any inflammation at this moment, they would have nowhere to find anti-inflammatory medicine.

Regular cleaning is a must, and this is not the time to save water.

However, their current range of activities is limited to the mountains, so they don't need to bathe frequently. In addition, everyone goes out at night and sleeps during the day, and electric fans relieve the pressure of ice use, so their current water storage capacity can still hold up for the time being.

A week later, Jiang Muyun really ate the sweet and sour rabbit cubes on time.

The two rabbits were very big and they couldn't finish them in one meal, so they first targeted the male rabbit.

A rabbit that is nearly one meter long, even if it is starved to death, can still weigh nearly twenty kilograms of meat.

The diced rabbit meat is half spicy and half sweet and sour.

Jiang Muyun didn't like eating rabbit heads, so Chu Buwen braised the rabbit meat according to the conventional method and made spicy rabbit heads, which attracted several people who could eat spicy food to play Landlord for five consecutive games. In the end, Zheng Xiang won the ownership of the whole spicy rabbit head with a record of five wins.

The remaining half of the skeleton is put into the pot to stew soup, and usually it is marinated and then grilled. All the ingredients of a rabbit are arranged properly, and even the internal organs are given to the cubs at home to improve the food, so nothing is wasted.

"Humans not only need to store food, but also need to enjoy delicious food occasionally." Jiang Muyun ran to Chu Buwen muttering to himself. At the moment when the sweet and sour sauce was put into the pot and made a sizzling sound, he leaned over to the pot and took a deep breath.

Wang Qingqing held the tip of her chopsticks in her mouth and moved closer to Jiang Muyun to smell the food with her. "We're like that old ghost now. Once we've smelled the food, it's like we've tasted it once. For others, it's just like plain water."

Jiang Muyun shrugged and pushed her away: "Go away, who wants to be an old ghost with you? I'm helping our chef Chu taste the aroma of the dishes."

In just a few words, Chu Buwen picked up the wok and stir-fried the diced rabbit meat. When the diced rabbit meat was evenly coated with the sweet and sour sauce, he decisively served the dish on a plate.

"Taste the saltiness?" Chu Buwen picked up a piece of diced rabbit meat with chopsticks, blew on it a few times, and handed it to Jiang Muyun's mouth.

Jiang Muyun carefully touched it with his lips, and after making sure the temperature was okay, he swallowed it in one gulp.

Otherwise, why is there a saying that sweet and sour tastes appetizing? The aroma of the mixture of sweet and sour gives you a stunning first bite. Along with the unique chewiness of rabbit meat, the eye-catching sweet and sour taste fades, and the rich and fresh fragrance explodes in your mouth.

The fishy smell of the mutant animal meat has been completely suppressed after Chu Buwen used various spices at all costs.

The chewy and tender meat lived up to the long time Chu Buwen spent marinating it.

Jiang Muyun had never thought in his life that the meat of mutant animals could be so delicious.

Jiang Muyun said sincerely, "To be honest, Brother Chu, the most glorious moment in this rabbit's life was probably the moment it landed in your pot."

Chu Buwen was so drunk by Jiang Muyun's bowl of magic soup that he couldn't suppress his smile: "It should be the moment you eat it. It doesn't matter how the dish tastes. It's a success only if the people who eat it like it."

Wang Qingqing also picked up a piece of food with chopsticks for herself.

After eating the spicy dry-fried rabbit meat, Wang Qingqing was impressed by the freshly cooked sweet and sour rabbit cubes.

After listening to their conversation, Wang Qingqing swallowed the rabbit meat in her mouth. "To be honest, the rabbit meat is cooked just right, but your words are a bit oily. I understand what you're saying, but your style really reminds me of the QQ chat records of my junior high school deskmate's online romance when he was on Idol Heroes."

Chu Buwen’s smile froze.

This was the perfect reply he came up with after racking his brains in a hurry. After saying it, he almost wanted to applaud himself.

How did Taiwanese idols fall in love online through QQ?

Jiang Muyun nodded in agreement: "I can tell from the looks of it that you've been completely captivated by the Little White Flower heroine. I can't even respond to her words."

As Jiang Muyun spoke, he recalled the days in his previous life when he had to hold the 108 treasures and look at them 1,800 times.

She patted Chu Buwen's shoulder sympathetically and said, "How about this? I've downloaded the entire Wilderness Survival series and I'll make a copy for you later. We have the means now, so be nice to yourself and stop reading those."

Chu Buwen stopped talking.

Chu Buwen's tears were welling up in his stomach.

For Chu Buwen, this meal was extremely salty, and every extra grain of salt was a tear that he swallowed silently.

For those who had been locked up for several months and whose daily food consisted of boiled food and roasted potatoes and sweet potatoes, this meal of rabbit meat was a delicacy that they would savor for the rest of their lives.

At least that's what they think now.

If the world returns to normal in the future, or if they become rich and have all the rabbit spices and seasonings they want, that would be another matter.

The side dishes were a bit bland. Apart from bamboo grass, there were only potatoes and ostrich-flavored eggs laid by the two older cubs. No one wanted to eat the eggs laid by the three younger cubs if they had a choice.

The three-month-long extreme high temperature caused almost all the leafy vegetables they had planted to die, with only weeds such as bamboo grass still surviving.

Root vegetables such as potatoes and sweet potatoes do bear fruit, but the fruits are very small. However, it is better to have them than nothing.

Most of the Chinese herbal medicines that were transplanted to the mountain were lost. Fortunately, they were all mutant plants with extremely strong vitality and amazing durability.

Even more astonishing is the original vegetation on the mountain.

After experiencing such a sandstorm, although many of them were burned to death, more survived.

The tall trees have only lost a few branches and leaves. After the night comes and the temperature drops, they bury their heads and start to sprout new buds, regardless of whether it is spring or not.

The low shrubs and grasses on the ground suffered greater losses.

Their roots are not as deep as those of tall trees. In addition to burning their branches and leaves, the hot sand and dust also cause certain damage to their roots.

However, some insects that cannot settle too deep in their homes, as well as mosquitoes, flies and midges that usually cause trouble everywhere, all suffered this time and disappeared collectively for a while.

Jiang Muyun's family's five chickens officially moved back to their hometown yesterday.

When the temperature drops at night, they will also go out for a walk to look for food. Unfortunately, they often search for a long time but cannot find any snacks that suit their taste, and finally have to run to Jiang Muyun to ask for dried insects to feed them.

In the first week after the polar day ended, Jiang Muyun successfully ate sweet and sour rabbit cubes and happily burned three incense sticks on the calendar.

But her family's calendar has never been praised, so Jiang Muyun failed to take La Jiao to see a doctor in the second week.

Because the sand at the foot of the mountain is so loose that you can sink a foot deep when you step on it.

Anyone who travels far away at this time will have some idea that they don't want to live anymore.

Jiang Muyun and others felt that they were living a good life and had a healthy mentality, so there was no need to deliberately seek excitement for themselves.

So they chose to wait another half month.

When all the crops they had replanted had sprouted, the night length had returned to eight hours, and the sand had settled to a hardness and softness that Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen were very familiar with, Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen, carrying bags on their backs, holding Xiaobai by the hand, Dabai in their pockets, and holding a pot of green and yellow peppers in their arms, went to the South One Base to seek medical treatment and medicine.

By the way, find out about the construction progress of the Xijiao Transfer Station.

The temperature remains high after the polar day, but this slight increase in temperature is not enough to scare the humans who have been tortured by the blue planet for a long time.

Months of confinement were enough to deplete the supplies of most survivors.

As the sand in and around Nanshi settles, local survivors need to go out to find supplies that will allow them to survive the next disaster. Caravans with more capital are also planning long journeys.

Everyone has to work hard for more survival supplies.

At the same time, the caravans that were stopped halfway by sandstorms and high temperatures also began to pack up their goods, waiting for the pathfinders in the team to find out the current specific situation of Nanshi before setting off again, trying to become the pioneers of a new trade route.