Chapter 111 Opening the Space Sea
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Xia Mi went to the supply and marketing cooperative and happened to encounter beef today. There were few people buying beef, and there were still many when she arrived.
She bought six pounds at once, ate one pound, and made the rest into beef jerky.
Making beef jerky requires an oven. After Xia Mi left the supply and marketing cooperative, she realized where to get an oven. Soon, she came up with a solution, which was to make a homemade oven, also called an earthen kiln.
In her previous life, she had seen the recipe from a lifestyle blogger.
If you have an earthen kiln, you can make not only beef jerky but also cakes and other things. It is very convenient to have one.
The construction is not complicated. It only requires yellow mud and bricks, and the necessary materials can be found.
It would be difficult for her to accomplish it alone, so Xia Mi decided to wait for Huo Jingchen to come back and ask him.
Xia Mi had just put the fire into the stove when Huo Jingchen came back.
He was holding a lunch box and a thermos bucket with rice in his hands. "Your hand injury hasn't healed yet, so you don't have to cook for a while."
Xia Mi glanced at the wound on the back of her hand and felt that it was not a big deal.
"My hands won't affect me. I've prepared the food. Otherwise, I'd fry it first. It's hot now and things can go bad easily."
Xia Mi looked at him and then turned her gaze back to the stove. The fire had gone out, leaving only red sparks.
Huo Jingchen put the food on the table, returned to the kitchen, naturally took the fire tongs and sat in front of the stove.
"I heard from Erqiao that there are snake eggs at home. Are you scared?"
Xia Mi hummed, "A little bit, but fortunately Erqiao has moved the snake eggs and sprinkled realgar around them, so I guess there won't be any more snakes coming here in the future."
When the word snake eggs was mentioned, an oval lump of eggs appeared in Xia Mi's mind again, and her scalp went numb.
She shook her head quickly, trying to get it out of her mind.
"I asked someone to bring back an electric fan, so we don't have to open the window in the future. We will rest in the study recently." Huo Jingchen was worried that Xia Mi would be traumatized, so he decided to go back after a while.
The study is smaller than the master bedroom, and the sun shines directly on the room at night when it sets, so the temperature in the room is higher than that in the master bedroom.
"Considering that the weather is too hot, most people will use electric fans, so the troops will adjust the time for pulling electricity."
In addition to the tasks today, we also talked about electricity usage time.
Xia Mi must be happy to be able to use the electric fan. At least she doesn’t have to wake up covered in sweat after sleeping. She wishes she could take two showers a day.
"Great. By the way, Jingchen, I want to build a kiln in the yard. Can you help me get some bricks or slate?"
As for Huang Ni, she planned to ask Jiang Shengmei, Huo Jingchen probably didn't know this.
"What do you want bricks for?"
Xia Mi explained, "I bought some beef today and want to make beef jerky. I need to roast or bake it. If I have a kiln at home, I can make other things to eat later, and I can also enjoy it whenever I want."
"You can also bring some with you when you go on missions in the future. Dried meat can be stored for a long time and doesn't spoil easily."
Xia Mi took into consideration that Huo Jingchen usually ate poorly when on missions. She heard that on field missions, people would bring rice mixed with wild vegetables and cook them into a pot of porridge, so that they could just make do with it.
If you have dried meat and can eat meat, it will also help to restore your physical strength.
"If you're busy lately, there's no rush."
In fact, the sun is strong now, so you can pickle it first and then hang it up to dry in the sun, then steam it in a pot, and then take it out to dry in the sun and you can eat it.
The only problem is that the process is more complicated and not as convenient as an oven.
Moreover, with the kiln, you can also make kiln chicken and cakes.
"Okay, I'll go ask. If there is any, I'll have Daqiang bring it over. Do you know how to do it?"
"I know. If possible, call Daqiang to help after get off work." Xia Mi likes to stay with Daqiang. She is not a talkative person.
Every time he was with Shi Daqiang, he would never let anything slip and was a master at livening up the atmosphere.
He is efficient in doing things, and the key is that he gives enough emotional value.
Every time I cook for her, the feedback is the best.
"Do you like him very much?" Huo Jingchen spoke slowly and without any emotion.
He raised his eyelashes and looked at Xia Mi. The doting in his eyes just now disappeared, and his stare made people feel cold on the back.
Xia Mi stopped shoveling the vegetables and said, "Not really. When I went to pick up my aunt some time ago, Daqiang's family took good care of me. I thought he could come over to lend a hand, and I could give him some of the food I made later, as a way of repaying the favor."
After saying that, she observed Huo Jingchen's expression out of the corner of her eye.
"He's not as idle as you think. After a day of training, he has to do hard labor after work. The cows in the commune also need to rest."
Huo Jingchen continued to put firewood into the stove.
"Okay, you don't need to burn this one anymore. Wash your hands and get ready to eat."
Xia Mi only prepared two dishes. The earthen stove cooked very quickly, and the two dishes were ready in about ten minutes.
Huo Jingchen stood up, fetched water without saying a word, then washed the dishes and put them on the dining table.
Xia Mi held the sweet and sour pork tenderloin and put it on the table.
"By the way, as for the dog you mentioned this morning, I have already designed the doghouse and sent it to Carpenter Wei."
"So fast, it seems you really like it. Then I'll go to the kennel and get you one as soon as possible." Huo Jingchen was surprised and amazed at Xia Mi's speed.
Xia Mi picked up a piece of sweet and sour pork with chopsticks and put it in his bowl. "Don't worry, it will take two or three days to be ready. Try this."
Huo Jingchen ate sweet and sour pork tenderloin, which was a bit similar to the fish-flavored shredded pork she made last time, but that one was salty and sweet.
This is sweet and sour, both are delicious.
"Delicious." Huo Jingchen seldom compliments others, and most of the words that come out of his mouth are derogatory.
He is not the kind of person who praises people to the skies.
Xia Mi curled the corners of her lips, surprised that Huo Jingchen would say this today. Usually, his most direct response was to eat without paying attention, and she would judge whether he liked it or not based on the speed and frequency of picking up food.
After dinner, Huo Jingchen was washing the dishes.
Xia Mi was observing where in the yard would be suitable for a doghouse and where would be suitable for an earthen kiln. -The sun was too strong in the afternoon, and it was blinding. Xia Mi had originally planned to go fishing.
She stood at the door, squinting at the yard, and decided to give up.
[It is detected that the host has the intention to go to the sea, and the mall has opened the sea area contract. 】
Xia Mi's squinting eyes suddenly widened, she closed the door, and quickly entered the space. She immediately saw a new function: sea area contracting.
There are two types, freshwater and deep sea.
The area is divided into 100 square meters, 500 square meters, one acre, two acres...
And so on.
Xia Mi took a look at the trading panel that was shining with golden light. Fresh water was cheaper than deep sea. One hundred square meters of fresh water cost eight hundred yuan, while deep sea cost one thousand yuan.
Xia Mi found that she was still a little short of the 5,000 achievements the system had mentioned last time, and she didn't know what she would be given if she achieved it.
Not counting Huo Jingchen's, Xia Mi now has 4,300 yuan in savings, so she can directly contract an area of 500 square meters.
In the end, she only chose one hundred square meters, one hundred square meters each for fresh water and deep sea.
She still had a lot left, so she went to the mall to buy fish fry, worried that if she bought too many, the fish would not survive.
So Xia Mi bought five kinds of freshwater fish and five kinds of marine fish.
For freshwater fish, I bought the most common ones on the market, including mandarin fish, black carp, grass carp, crucian carp and sturgeon.
I bought seawater, yellow croaker, redwood fish, extra large golden pomfret, small white pomfret, and octopus.
Worried that they would fight, Xia Mi bought a book on fish farming at the mall and read it while she was resting at home when the sun was strong outside.
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