Chapter 60
Lu Shiyu took out the largest pot she brought with her, put enough oil in the pot, washed the necessary ingredients, removed the roots of the vegetables, and blanched the meat in water.
After the oil is hot, add the onion, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then put the meat into the pot all at once. But what is different from the past is that this time Lu Shiyu did not cut the meat into small pieces, but put a large piece of meat directly into the pot.
Fry the meat in the pan for a while, and when it is golden brown, throw the vegetables with the roots removed and some miscellaneous ingredients into the pan. Then pour clean water into the pan, just enough to cover the ingredients. Then add salt, oyster sauce, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, pepper, chili sauce, and chicken essence into the pot, cover the pot and wait for it to be cooked.
After a while, Lu Shiyu opened the lid of the pot. The soup in the pot was bubbling. The vegetables on the top layer were almost cooked, but the meat at the bottom was not yet fully cooked. Lu Shiyu used a spatula to chop the large ingredients into pieces in the pot. The ingredients that were originally whole when put into the pot were now crushed by Lu Shiyu with the spatula. The cut ingredients revealed the core part, which had not yet been seasoned.
"Is the rice ready?"
"Okay, is Quan Sheng coming out?"
"Um."
Lu Shiyu took the bowl of rice handed to him by Tang Zeyu and put it directly on the iron pot. He then stirred the rice with a spatula, mixed it with the other ingredients, covered the pot and continued to simmer.
Simmer until the sauce is reduced and the ingredients and rice in the pot become sticky, and it is done.
"What is this? A big stew?"
Shaoxing Yang, who had just cleaned the sticky sweat off his body, happened to come back. Several people sat cross-legged together, waiting for Lu Shiyu to share the meal.
"It's braised rice, but you could also call it a hotpot," Lu Shiyu said, scooping out a bowl with a spoon. "I'm too tired to cook today, and I happened to have some ingredients from Professor Chen, so I just used them to make a pot of braised rice. It's more convenient to make."
"Braised rice? I've never eaten this before," Shaoxing Yang held out his bowl with both hands: "Give me a bowl! Give me more!"
"OK."
The rice and other ingredients were stewed into a paste and had blended together. When a spoon was scooped into it, steam carrying fragrance rose up.
The rice is soaked in sufficient water, becoming plump and translucent, releasing the unique sweetness of starch and a light grain aroma.
The fat part of the meat is stewed to release the oil, which quietly melts in the bubbling thick sauce, adding a layer of rich meaty aroma to the stewed rice. The meat itself is stewed until it is soft and tasty, and it falls off the bone with one bite. The fat part is fat but not greasy, and the lean meat part is stewed until it is loose and tasty. Even the bone marrow is released and intertwined with the aroma of the rice.
The vegetarian portion is more complicated, including potatoes, radishes, mushrooms, peas, wild vegetables, etc. Most of them are sponsored by Professor Chen, otherwise they really wouldn’t be able to eat so many normal vegetables.
A wide variety of vegetables injects the braised rice with a refreshing sweetness of vegetables. The potatoes and radishes are braised until they are soft and can be broken like mud with a chopstick. The mushrooms release their fresh fragrance with the help of high temperature. The peas appear and disappear in the braised rice mysteriously. No one knows whether there will be a soft and sticky pea hidden in the next bite of the braised rice.
The amber sauce binds the ingredients together, fully combining the flavors of the seasonings and ingredients. It is released layer by layer after entering the mouth. The slight spiciness causes a slight burning sensation at the root of the tongue, but it makes people unable to stop and can't help but swallow the sticky stewed rice mouthful after mouthful.
The ingredients for the braised rice are indistinguishable from each other when cooked in the same big pot, and the flavors are perfectly combined, as if they were meant to be stewed in the same pot.
Yan Hong simply gave up her chopsticks and ate directly with a spoon. The texture and taste were very complex, but the ingredients did not conflict with each other. There was still a faint salty and sweet taste of the sauce in her mouth. Yan Hong licked her lips, which were already red from the spiciness.
While eating, Tang Zeyu suddenly tugged at Lu Shiyu's sleeve. Lu Shiyu turned his head to look, and Tang Zeyu pointed upwards, asking Lu Shiyu to look at the sky.
Lu Shiyu raised his head curiously, and was stunned by the scene in front of him at first sight.
The night sky is like a pure black velvet curtain spread across the sky. Billions of broken diamonds are scattered on the curtain and turn into shining stars, flashing their light like a performance.
Suddenly, a beam of light streaked across the sky, and Lu Shiyu happened to catch the trail of its speeding wake. Then, more and more silver lines appeared on the screen. The fleeting brilliance drew its own arc in the sky, and the spectacular beauty it presented was deeply engraved in a pair of clear eyes.
"Wow! Meteor shower!" Shaoxing Yang shook Yan Hong's shoulders: "Yan Hong, look, it's a meteor shower!"
Chen Yunliang pushed up his glasses and said, "The last time I saw a meteor shower was many years ago."
Lu Shiyu raised his head and stared at the falling star fragments until the meteor shower ended and the night sky returned to calm. This short show came to an end.
The shooting stars only existed briefly in her eyes. When everyone was busy looking up at the shooting stars, Tang Zeyu was secretly looking at Lu Shiyu, watching her staring at the sky full of stars without blinking, and she couldn't withdraw her mind for a long time after the end.
"Do you like it?"
Lu Shiyu turned his head, still fascinated by the scene. "What do you like?"
"Meteor shower."
"like."
Lu Shiyu glanced at the starry sky again and said, "I've heard people say before that people who haven't seen a meteor shower in person can't imagine how shocking it is."
"Now it seems that what that person said was true," Lu Shiyu smiled sweetly at Tang Zeyu: "The meteor shower is really beautiful, thank you."
Tang Zeyu: "I heard that if you make a wish under a meteor shower, it will come true. Did you make a wish just now?"
"Oh? No!" Lu Shiyu suddenly felt sorry: "I was so busy looking at it just now that I completely forgot to make a wish."
"Me, me, me!" Shaoxing Yang waved his arms and said, "I promised!"
"What did you wish for?"
Shaoxing Yang chuckled, wiped his nose and said, "I wish the captain would be exempted from this punishment."
Chen Yunliang glanced at him with disdain: "What a promising future."
Lu Shiyu smiled and said, "Shaoxing Yang, if you say your wish out loud, it won't work."
"Ah~ Stop~" Shaoxing Yang said shyly: "Just treat me as a kitten and let me go, meow meow meow."
Yan Hong pretended to vomit: "A toad lying at my feet, it doesn't bite me but it makes me feel sick."
"Hmph! You bastard!" Shaoxing Yang raised his index finger and hit Yan Hong on the shoulder with his fist, almost making Yan Hong vomit due to nausea.
The other people were amused by the two and couldn't stop laughing. Lu Shiyu laughed so hard that he fell backwards, and finally had to rely on holding Tang Zeyu's shoulders to keep his balance.
The lively dinner time passed in a flash, and everyone soon fell into a deep sleep due to fatigue.
The next day, several people continued to carry axes to clear trees. With the experience of yesterday, they had more or less mastered some skills. Today's movements were obviously much faster, and they finished cutting down all the trees by noon.
But felling trees is not the hardest part; the hardest part is digging out the stumps.
Generally, large machines such as excavators are used to dig out tree stumps. It takes a lot of effort to manually pull out the tree stumps. There are many tangled tree roots, which hold on to the soil tightly to prevent themselves from being blown away by strong winds on windy days. This means that the connection between the tree roots and the soil must be very close.
However, Tang Zeyu and his team did not need to clear all the tree roots. They only needed to clear the tree stumps protruding from the ground so that the helicopter had a place to land. As for what would happen to the roots underground, it was not within their consideration.
Dig away the soil around the stump, use a military shovel to cut the connection between the stump and the dense roots, then you can remove the stump from the pit, and finally fill the pit with enough soil to level it.
Because Lu Shiyu and Chen Yunliang were not as strong as the others, they could only be responsible for tasks that did not require much physical strength, such as digging and throwing tree stumps.
Several people divided the work and worked together, and finally finished cleaning up by dusk. Even if there were still a few left, they could just get rid of them before the helicopter arrived.
Just when everyone was about to take a break, the sound of a propeller running at high speed came from the distance.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound in some confusion, and saw a medium-sized helicopter flying towards them.
"Strange, so soon?" Shao Xingyang wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel and said, "Shouldn't the base go through the procedures or something? How come you're here today?"
Tang Zeyu narrowed his eyes and looked at the helicopter in the distance, and suddenly spoke.
"Something's wrong. That's not the base's helicopter."
"What?" Yan Hong exclaimed, "If it's not from the base? Then whose could it be?"
"The helicopters at the base all have the Shuguang Base logo printed on them, but this one doesn't. Clearly, this isn't one of the base's helicopters at all," Tang Zeyu said, a fierce look flashing in his eyes. "Who would have the guts to come and take what the Hu Base wants?"
Was it another base nearby? No, not to mention that the nearest Dawn Base was too far behind Dawn Base in terms of strength, and Dawn Base didn't dare to directly offend Dawn Base. The most obvious problem was that the helicopter was clearly coming from Dawn Base!
This also means that this helicopter is still very likely to come from the Dawn Base. Although it is also possible that a helicopter from another base turned around and pretended to be from there, the former is more likely.
"Wait, this helicopter looks familiar to me."
Chen Yunliang took off his glasses and looked at the approaching helicopter, his pupils suddenly shrinking.
"No way, those idiots are really crazy..."
"What's wrong?" Lu Shiyu asked.
Chen Yunliang looked solemn and seemed to have a headache. He said, "If I remember correctly, that helicopter came from the Chen family."
"The Chen family, isn't that your home?" Shao Xingyang asked in surprise, "Your family actually has a helicopter?!"
Yan Hong gritted her teeth and said, "Damn it, how rich is your family?"
Chen Yunliang pinched his eyebrows, seeming reluctant to face reality.
"Yes, the Chen family is not only wealthy, but also has connections with both the black and white worlds. They have hidden a lot of weapons and equipment, and helicopters are the most important of them."
"But I never thought that the idiots of the Chen family would be so stupid as to openly release it. They were simply afraid that the base would not immediately liquidate them."
"Chen Yunliang," Shaoxing Yang patted his shoulder and said, "Don't say that about yourself."
Chen Yunliang: “…”
Chen Yunliang laughed in anger and pinched Shaoxingyang's neck and shook him hard.
"Is this the time to joke with you?!"
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