Chapter 142 White and tender, just like Lin Qi

In the cafeteria hall, everyone sat on long wooden benches, peeling eggs with trembling hands.

"This egg is white and plump and looks so cute." Hongmei poked the peeled egg with her hand and laughed.

The laughter seemed a little out of place amid the depression.

Qiu Yan was confused, "What are you laughing at?"

She was still worried about the vegetables she grew and was still worrying about what to eat this winter. How could Hongmei smile?

Everyone looked at Hongmei. She felt a little embarrassed but still asked, "Don't you think this egg looks like Lin Qi?"

Qiu Yan looked at the egg with a strange expression, "It's white and plump. I've never seen such a white and plump egg. But Qi Qi is slender and tall. How can they be similar?"

The people around nodded. Yes, Lin Qi was slender and tall. How could she look like this plump white egg?

"This egg is white and tender, isn't it exactly the same as Lin Qi's?" Hongmei said as a matter of course.

Well--

Everyone was petrified.

Qiu Yan's forehead was full of black lines. In terms of their whiteness and tenderness, they were indeed exactly the same, and she couldn't refute it.

“Ahh—”

Hongmei bit off a small half of the egg and looked very happy. "This egg smells good. Linqi smells good too, but the aromas are a little different."

Everyone subconsciously smelled the eggs in their hands and found that they were indeed very fragrant, even more fragrant than the eggs laid by the chickens they raised themselves.

Is Lin Qi also fragrant?

What's that scent on her?

Because of Hongmei's remarks, everyone's depressed mood was relieved a lot.

"We are relatively lucky. Each person can get two plump white eggs. We don't know what the situation is for other teams yet." Someone sighed.

When others heard this, they immediately thought it made sense.

"Thanks to Lin Qi's reminder, I didn't dare to sleep much last night, so I woke up immediately when the hail fell. As soon as I woke up, I covered my wife and children with a quilt. The hailstones as big as half a fist hit the quilt, which scared me and made me break into a cold sweat. That could really take someone's life!"

"Yesterday everyone was repairing their houses except yours. Now yours has been smashed into briquettes."

"I wanted to fix it, but I didn't have enough thatch at home. I was planning to replace all the thatch on the roof this winter, but the hailstorm came before I could do so."

"My family planned to repair it this winter. Now the roof is broken, the quilt and clothes are wet, the pots and pans have holes, and the food is wet. I hope the rain stops soon. If things are broken, they are broken. I am afraid that people will get sick from the cold."

“........”

Bang bang bang!

There was a rapid knock on the door, "Open the door, open the door!"

Hearing the familiar voice, the people in the cafeteria hurriedly opened the door, "Why are you here again?"

"What? You don't want to see us?" Luo Dali pretended to be displeased.

"Of course not. Right now, the people we want to see most, besides Lin Qi, are you." Hongmei said with a smile.

"That's good enough." Luo Dali was satisfied and instructed everyone, "Move aside, there's boiling brown sugar ginger soup in the pot."

"Oh, there's also brown sugar ginger soup!" Everyone was pleasantly surprised.

A bowl of hot brown sugar ginger soup is the best way to drive away the cold.

"Isn't there no place to cook it and no brown sugar to be found?" someone asked.

"I cooked it at Lin Qi's place. She heard that the kitchen couldn't cook it, so she said it could be cooked at her place. The brown sugar and ginger are hers." Luo Dali said, "Oh, by the way, there is also this——"

Luo Dali untied a cloth bag wrapped in oil paper from his back. The opening of the cloth bag was tied tightly and it was filled with things, making it bulge.

"What is this?"

Luo Dali put the cloth bag on the table. "There are dried fruits in it. They are for you to eat as snacks. They are also contributed by Lin Qi. Lin Qi's original words were to give them to you to comfort the children. However, she gave a lot, so don't be polite. Eat them together. In addition to us, people in the office and school also gave them."

"We worked together to clear out most of Lin Qi's warehouse." Luo Cheng continued, smiling, "She's still cooking something, sweet potato and taro soup or something. After you guys have your meal, you should be able to drink the soup in an hour."

"And there's sugar water to drink!"

"What is sugar water?"

"Whatever it is, it tastes better if it has sugar in it."

"Lin Qi's jujube honey is delicious. Our whole family still remembers it. Later, when the jujubes were ripe, we also tried to make jujube honey, but the fragrance and sweetness were far inferior to hers."

"It's not just your family, it's the same in my family. My mother-in-law and I took turns doing it, but the result was not as good as Lin Qi's."

"Me too. I thought it was just my poor cooking skills."

“.......”

Everyone drank the ginger soup, which was sweet and spicy. After a while, their bodies warmed up and their moods improved a lot.

After lunch, everyone drank sweet soup, which was made of soft and sticky sweet potatoes and taro, paired with jujube honey and a small amount of honey.

Honey is also produced in the planting area. Two years ago, Lin Qi discovered bees in the planting area. Now, more than two years have passed, and the number of bees has increased several times. If you want to say what is the most abundant thing in the planting area, it is not mice, pheasants, or rabbits, but bees. There are so many that Lin Qi can't count them even if she counts them seriously.

As there are more bees, there is also more honey. The honey in the Linqi planting area is made by bees collecting nectar from various fruits, vegetables and crops. The fragrance is stronger than the honey outside the planting area and it smells very good.

The honey from the Linqi planting area was also sold by Brother Tan at a high price of five yuan per pound, and it has been in short supply.

If these team members knew that they had to eat honey that cost five yuan per pound, they would probably be heartbroken.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the rain began to subside. At four o'clock, the rain stopped completely and everyone left the cafeteria.

"In addition to Uncle Twelve, two rooms in Aliang's house also collapsed. Fortunately, no one was inside at the time and no one was injured."

“My kitchen collapsed, too.”

"There's a big hole in the roof of our room. If we don't fix it tonight, we won't be able to sleep."

"My mother asked me to collect the vegetables that were damaged by the hail first, so that they wouldn't rot in the fields. She felt bad for them."

"My chickens were killed by hail, and the rotten vegetables are useless for the chickens to eat. You can come to my vegetable garden and pick up some rotten leaves."

“........”

After Lin Qi cooked the brown sugar water, she went out and into the mountains. In less than ten minutes, she appeared in the planting area.

In the past few years, Lin Qi has reinforced the houses in the planting area every year. Not to mention the hail last night, even if it was bricks, the houses she made with vines would not be damaged. Lin Qi still has confidence in this.

The weather is cold now, the wind is strong and the frost is heavy in the mountains at night, so the animals will spend the night in the houses, and very few will stay outside. So even though she knew it was going to hail, Lin Qi was not worried about the animals in the planting area, and she only came to the planting area when she had time.

As she expected, none of the dozens of houses, large and small, built with vines, were damaged.

But two chickens died.

Maybe he was naughty and didn't go back to the house. Or maybe he was frightened by the sound of the hailstones and ran out of the house.

Lin Qi looked at the two pheasants killed by hail, wrapped them with vines, and threw them out of the planting area.

There were also dead fish in the fish pond, so Lin Qi fished them out and threw them away. After confirming that there were no dead animals, she started to stimulate the growth of plants in the planting area.

She didn't stay in the planting area for long. After finishing her work, she caught a duck and a chicken, and then left the planting area.

When Lin Qi returned home, Xu Hexiao had not returned yet.

When she killed the duck, plucked its feathers, chopped the duck meat and put it in the pan to fry, someone outside the door called Xu Hexiao's name.

Lin Qi poured some wine into the duck meat, covered it with the pot lid, and then walked towards the courtyard gate.

"What a nice smell, it's the scent of wine." Lao Bi praised while swallowing his saliva.

Lao Yi and Lao Fu were also drooling. Lao Yi looked intoxicated. "This taste is really killing me. The glutton in my stomach is coming out."

"Are you looking for Xu Hexiao?" Lin Qi looked at the three people outside the door. She knew that these three people would find ways to teach Xu Hexiao almost every day. Lin Qi quite appreciated their "forceful" approach of being Xu Hexiao's teacher.

It's a good thing that you don't steal or rob, but rely on your own abilities to get what you want.

It just so happened that Xu Hexiao wanted to learn, and they and Xu Hexiao complemented each other. In fact, Lin Qi was quite grateful for the appearance of these three people. Having them as Xu Hexiao's teachers made up for Xu Hexiao's regret of not being able to go to school.

"Yes, we're here to find Xu Hexiao. He hasn't come back for a day, and now we're going to cook dinner. We wanted to ask him if he wants to come back for dinner. If he does, we'll cook his share as well." Old Yi said, looking closely at Lin Qi. He couldn't help but marvel in his heart. What a beautiful girl! All the spiritual energy within a hundred miles might be concentrated on her alone.

Old Fu and Old Bi were also a little surprised. They had lived for most of their lives and had countless students, but this was the first time they had seen someone so pure, flawless, clean and translucent.

After listening to the three of them, Lin Qi could easily guess that they had stayed in the house all day, so they didn't know what was happening outside. So she explained, "Today, a team member broke his leg when a house collapsed, and he rode his bicycle to help take him to the hospital. As for when he will be back, it's not known yet. But you don't have to cook for him, I've prepared his meals here."

The three of Lao Yi looked at each other. Lao Yi was poked on the back by the two people next to him. He considered his words and asked, "Will he come back tonight?"

Lin Qi shook her head, "I don't know."

"It's like this, our house is broken down, the things on the bed are wet, and we don't know where to sleep tonight." Old Yi said, if Xu Hexiao didn't come back, would the three old people have to sit by the fire all night?

At their age, it would take them several days to recover after sitting by the fire all night.

Lin Qi remembered that there were some unused wooden boards in her warehouse, so it should be no problem to build a bed. "Wait a moment, I'll build a bed for you."