Living with everyone, under the watchful eyes of all, that's the downside.
She clearly has everything in her spatial storage, but she can't just openly take it out to eat!
Are we going to eat water peanuts?
She strongly refused—no, the twins refused even more strongly. Ever since they learned that water peanuts were used as feed for pigs and chickens, but were eaten as vegetables by the people in the camp, they had been extremely resistant. Every day when she cooked, they would watch her closely and resolutely refuse to allow her to use water peanuts in her cooking.
However, the vegetables she brought from home were almost all gone, and she had no appetite for the wilted vegetables that Yu Tongguang sent. So she had Yu Yuan take them to the camp's cookhouse to cook and improve everyone's meals.
So, her most important task right now is to go to the countryside and dig up some wild vegetables!
Cheng Zhen hadn't expected her to have such a request, but when she heard that water peanuts were for pigs, she couldn't help but twitch her lips: "Expert, so you're joking that water peanuts are edible for humans?"
“No.” Jiang Wan nodded solemnly at him. “People can eat it, it’s just that we don’t like to eat it.”
Fine, you're the expert, you can do whatever you want!
Cheng Zhen had no choice but to admit defeat!
He relayed Jiang Wan's words to Lao Liu. At first, Lao Liu disagreed, but after hearing that she was going out to dig for wild vegetables, he hesitated for a moment and finally agreed.
But there are conditions: "She can't go too far. Just wander around outside the protective shield and dig up a little bit. It's normal for her to be a little pampered with food, since she's a woman with two kids. Let's not join in the fuss. I think those water peanuts taste pretty good!"
Cheng Zhen nodded indifferently: "That's right, even pigs think it tastes great!"
"Hey! You brat!" Old Liu was so angry he wanted to punch him, but then he remembered he couldn't beat him, so he gave up and huffed, "Be careful and protect the experts! Look at that kid surnamed Yu in the inner city camp, he's always running around here, he's obviously up to no good!"
At this point, he couldn't help but tease, "Those twins, are they really yours?"
This guy has always been aloof from women. That incident back then caused a sensation throughout the military, and Xiangcheng became the talk of the military for a long time.
He truly couldn't imagine that this kid would quietly produce a pair of twins!
Cheng Zhen pursed her lips and coolly retorted, "Do you think it looks like it?"
Old Liu thought it seemed so, but according to his observation, Comrade Jiang Wan and he didn't seem to be very close.
Tsk, young people's affairs are hard to understand!
He's too old, he doesn't care anymore!
So he waved his hand and said, "Go on, go on, get back to your business!"
Jiang Wan used the last handful of scallions in the refrigerator to stir-fry an egg, then cooked beef and vermicelli, fed the twins, and immediately urged Cheng Zhen to set off.
Cheng Zhen was actually quite curious, and couldn't help but ask on the way: "If you want to eat fresh vegetables, you can actually grow your own. Didn't you encourage everyone to grow water hyacinth?"
Jiang Wan gave him a look like that of a poor student: "Do you know why it's called the Oxygen-Deficient Apocalypse right now?"
"Because of the lack of oxygen!" Cheng Zhen asked as she drove her RV. "What's wrong?"
He really couldn't understand why she insisted on driving a motorhome everywhere. It was difficult to drive, and she would feel bad if she broke it. Wasn't their military off-road vehicle better?
Jiang Wan gave him a hopeless look, and didn't really want to say anything.
Jiang Xiaoshu looked up from the comic book encyclopedia and said in a small but cool voice, "All life needs to breathe oxygen."
Cheng Zhen's mind went blank for a moment, then it dawned on her: "Oh, you mean these plants are also competing with us for oxygen?"
No way?
His expression and tone both conveyed disbelief.
"Even elementary school students know that plants, in addition to producing oxygen through photosynthesis, also absorb oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide through respiration." Jiang Wan had just finished speaking.
Jiang Xiaoshu added unhurriedly, "I know, I'm not a primary school student yet."
Therefore, Cheng Zhen understood that he was being despised by the mother and son together.
He was so angry he almost laughed: "Why don't you just say that growing vegetables also consumes a lot of oxygen? Why beat around the bush like that!"
The more he muttered, the softer his voice became, but he quickly realized, "Wait a minute, isn't there photosynthesis? Photosynthesis can produce oxygen!"
Jiang Wan gave him a look that was utterly hopeless: "Do you think that if these plants were still photosynthesizing, our world would still lack oxygen?"
Cheng Zhen shut up completely. Fine, she's an expert, she's amazing, he admits it!
With Jiang Wan's safety as the top priority, Cheng Zhen did not take her outside the protective shield. Instead, he found a place outside the city with relatively more greenery, which was also a place where everyone usually dug for crystals.
Because of the mining of crystals, the ground has been dug up so badly that there isn't a single intact spot left. Where could you possibly find any wild vegetables?
Jiang Wan couldn't help but get angry: "Excuse me, do you have some misunderstanding about wild vegetables?"
Cheng Zhen pointed around and said, "There are so many green plants here, surely some of them are edible?"
Jiang Wan stared at him expressionlessly.
Jiang Xiaoxin said in her childish voice, "Mommy, he wants us to eat tree bark! He's so mean!"
Cheng Zhen instinctively wanted to explain, but Jiang Wan pointed directly outside: "Go over there, do you see that? Yellow purslane, there's a big patch of it, that's the real wild vegetable!"
Cheng Zhen looked out the way she was pointing, disbelieving: "Pshaw, don't be ridiculous, this is clearly a dandelion!"
"Oh."
Jiang Wan chuckled softly, "I didn't expect you to know about dandelions."
"That was me..."
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Wan's cold voice interrupted him.
"Dandelions are also a type of wild vegetable, but what we are seeing now is *Gnaphalium affine*, an annual or biennial herbaceous plant belonging to the genus *Gnaphalium* in the Asteraceae family. It is very similar to dandelions, but there are also differences. For example, the leaves and petioles of *Gnaphalium affine* have long or short hairs, and its capitulum has many small flowers, while dandelions only have one."
Cheng Zhen has excellent eyesight, but I didn't expect her eyesight to be so amazing as well, able to see so clearly from such a distance.
After listening to the plant lesson for a while, he finally nodded in agreement: "Okay, however many you want, I'll have them dig them up."
Jiang Wan made a rough estimate: "Let's dig them all up."
Yellow celery has a strong reproductive and growth ability, so there's no worry about it being eaten up.
So Yu Yuan led a small team, fully equipped, out of the protective shield to dig for yellow quail.
Seeing that they were all wearing protective suits and oxygen masks, Jiang Wan's gaze lingered on the large trees outside, and she asked, "Is the environment outside very bad?"
“It’s terrible.” Cheng Zhen nodded. “It’s almost impossible for a person to survive in there.”
Therefore, in the oxygen-deficient apocalypse, if it weren't for the protective shield erected by the superhumans among them, all of humanity would have faced direct extinction.
Jiang Xiaoxin stared longingly at the yellow quail with her round eyes, her mouth watering, and asked, "Mom, is this delicious?"
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