Orphaned and working tirelessly for three years, I finally bought my own house only to face the apocalypse. For the second time, I must endure the same catastrophic disaster.
But this time I ...
Prepare all the ingredients: dried abalone, dried sea cucumber, fish maw, and tendons. Soak them in clean water for 48 hours, changing the water 3 times in between. Put the tendons in a pot and cook for 8 hours. Xu Lin thought cooking for eight hours was a waste of time, so she took out ten pressure cookers and asked Zhou Pin to make ten servings at once.
Boil the pigeon eggs in advance and peel them. Soak the dried scallops, fish maw, cordyceps flowers, and shiitake mushrooms until slightly softened. Use chicken, pork, abalone, and pork bones to make the broth. Simmer for 6 hours and let it soak overnight in a clay pot for a richer flavor. Add scallions, ginger, 100 ml of Shaoxing wine, and 500 ml of water to the prepared seafood ingredients and bring to a boil. Blanch the seafood to remove any fishy smell.
Place a slice of ham at the bottom of the stewing pot, then add shark fin, cordyceps flowers, chicken, and Sichuan peppercorns. Finally, add other ingredients such as sea cucumber, tendon, cooked pigeon eggs, dried scallops, and abalone.
Pour the mixed abalone sauce, Shaoxing wine, and scallop and chicken broth into a stew pot, and cover the pot after preparing all the ingredients.
Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, then cover the stewing pot with plastic wrap and place it in the steamer to steam.
When the steaming time is almost up, turn off the heat and take out the stewing pot. The delicious Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is ready. The two of us ate one serving in one meal.
While making Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, Zhou Pin also slaughtered 10 chickens and 10 ducks, and made chicken stew with mushrooms, spicy chicken, Sichuan-style chicken, roast chicken, braised duck, roast duck, and braised chicken feet and duck parts.
"Homemade duck products taste better. The ones sold outside all have chili extract added, so they only taste spicy and not fragrant." Xu Lin said, gnawing on a duck neck with relish.
"I like making more next time, the chickens and ducks in the space are multiplying more and more."
"It reminds me of the chicken and the egg, which came first? What is the purpose of a chicken's existence? Is it just to lay eggs or be cooked?"
"When we can't even afford to eat, who cares which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
"That makes sense, eat more." Xu Lin put a spicy duck head on Zhou Pin's plate and then left.
After lunch, Xu Lin dragged Zhou Pin to work in the space, hoping to make up for the chickens and ducks they had eaten.
The food planted in the space wasn't fully ripe yet, so the two decided to plant some flowers next to the beehives in the space.
The first choice was rapeseed flowers, which bees collect pollen from and can also be pressed for oil. Of course, Xu Lin herself doesn't like rapeseed oil, so this was just something she decided on a whim, and she can also use it to exchange for supplies later.
Several days have passed. Busy times always seem to fly by. In the blink of an eye, we already have four hours of darkness each day. Everyone is taking advantage of this time to get plenty of sleep so that their eyes can get enough rest.
Perhaps after a long period of darkness, the ambitions of these people have begun to stir again.
That day, Sun Wei suddenly sent a message in the group.
Sun Wei: Everyone be careful, there might be another situation! @Everyone
Zheng Ming: I just asked the base for leave and I won't be going to work tonight.
At 10 p.m., as night fell, a massacre was quietly taking place. This time, it targeted the wealthy neighborhood.
Sun Wei: It's a mess, this time it's the villa area.
Li Jingjing: Let's pack our things and be ready to run away at any time.
Wang Jing: Natural disasters are global; where can we hide?
Xu Lin: If we can't outrun them, we'll fight them. This place was built brick by brick by us.
Zheng Ming: Xu Lin is right, I agree with fighting back.
The group took out their communicators and began to discuss countermeasures. Some wanted to use a feint attack, while others wanted to borrow arrows with straw boats.
Finally, everyone decided that Sun Wei would be the commander-in-chief, with Xu Lin and Zhou Pin as assistants. They would kill one if one came, and attack two if two came.