Chapter 367 369 Birthday Celebration
In addition to the three captains Feng Xingjia, Xiao Gan, and Feng Bao, Rong Xianxian plans to invite five other people. These five people are now being trained by Cui Lie, who now has more than 30 people under him, aged between 20 and 30. They have all been carefully selected from various teams, and their character, personality, temperament, and past deeds have all been investigated one by one. They are all loyal and passionate people, without any cunning or deceitful ones, and these five people are the best among them and are reserve talents who have passed Rong Xianxian's assessment.
There were eight of them plus Rong Xianxian's team, a total of six adults and two children. The large round table in the living room could still accommodate everyone if they squeezed together. Since they were only inviting one table, Rong Xianxian could handle it alone. The night before, Rong Xianxian had already made a menu, and the meal was scheduled to start at 11:30 am.
At this time in her previous life, Xuanxuan fell seriously ill due to hunger and cold, long-term displacement, and malnutrition. She had a high fever and was unconscious. If it weren't for her excellent medical skills and good luck in finding a vital energy-replenishing elixir under the ice and snow, Xuanxuan would probably have left her that time.
After Xuanxuan recovered from her illness, her birthday and New Year had already passed.
Early the next morning, Rong Xianxian started to get busy. How could she celebrate her birthday without birthday cake and longevity noodles?
The sun has been shining brightly these past few days, and Rong Xianxian has pushed the RV outside to bask in the sun for several days in a row, hoping that the solar panels will be more powerful and at least generate enough electricity to power the oven so that she can bake cakes for her children. Steamed cakes always taste a little worse after all.
She had been preparing for Xuanxuan's birthday several days in advance. She found many colorful balloons in the market to decorate the house. She had boxes of milk with a shelf life of up to one year in her space, as well as wild duck eggs, white sugar, condensed milk, and baked a cake. Rong Xianxian started making cream.
Cui Lie and Jiang Jie were decorating the room. Xuanxuan and Xiaoluo were taken to the refining room by Ming Tianlei early in the morning to learn about refining. Rong Xianxian whipped the cream and went to make longevity noodles. She had a lot of dried noodles and hand-rolled noodles stored in her space, so she only needed to prepare the amount for Xuanxuan and Xiaoluo.
As for the dishes for the banquet, they were prepared one by one according to the menu that had been listed yesterday.
At noon, Feng Xingjia and others arrived on time. They were dazzled by the dazzling array of plates and dishes on the table. In front of each of them was a small gas stove with a single-person pot on top. The soup base in the pot had already been boiled, bubbling with steam. There were wolfberries, angelica, and dried dates floating in the soup. This was a common nourishing pot base in the winter before the end of the world.
On the table, there were various plates with fresh potatoes and sweet potatoes cut into long and thick strips, soaked dried goods such as mushrooms, bean curd sheets, and bean skin, and various green and juicy wild vegetables that they had picked under the snow a while ago, as well as sausages, bacon, and seasoned and pickled fresh meat. On the plates were some light pickled vegetables such as century eggs, pickled cucumbers, and kimchi.
Ever since Feng Xingjia and his companions took refuge with Rong Xianxian, they had been well fed and warmly clothed. But when they smelled the aroma of food, they felt rumbling in their stomachs and wished they could sit at the table and enjoy the meal right away.
Next to the big round table was a long table with a row of round white porcelain jars on it and a porcelain spoon at the mouth of the jar. Feng Xingjia stretched his head to look over there and saw that those white porcelain jars were filled with various condiments of different colors, including bright red chili oil, fragrant peanut crumbs, golden and clear sesame oil, strong-smelling mushroom sauce, sweet and spicy sauce, sesame sauce, oil, salt, sugar and vinegar.
It seems that you can mix the seasoning yourself according to your own taste.
After Xia Kai welcomed them in, he said, "Sit anywhere you want," and then he ran away. There was no one else in the living room except them. How could Feng Xingjia and the others really sit anywhere they wanted? They didn't dare to walk around. They stood there and looked around. They had come to this living room many times when they reported on their work. The living room, which was originally simply furnished and had a dignified and solemn style, was now filled with clusters of colorful balloons. On the wall opposite, many small pink balloons were arranged into seven large characters, "Happy Birthday, Xuanxuan."
There are also several cartoon animals made of balloons standing under the wall, which look cute and adorable. Even the sofa cushions and backrests on the living room sofa, which originally had light and elegant patterns and were solemn and majestic, have been replaced with bright and lively yet warm bright yellow and lotus root pink colors.
The whole living room was filled with an atmosphere of joy and happiness, which made people relax unconsciously.
Feng Xingjia felt a little emotional in his heart. This little girl was so lucky to be able to celebrate such a birthday in this world!
"Wow, it's so beautiful!" Feng Xingjia was just thinking about it when he heard a little girl exclaim in surprise.
"Sister, sister, look at the words on the wall." Xiao Luo excitedly pulled Xuanxuan and said.
"Sister, today is your birthday!" Rong Xianxian had already told Xiao Luo that today would be Xuan Xuan's birthday, so Xiao Luo cooperated with Xuan Xuan and spent the whole morning studying, practicing, and playing together.
Xuanxuan's little face was flushed. Although the child didn't know what surprise was, she knew that the room was decorated like this for her and it was decorated so beautifully. She was very happy in her heart.
"Xuanxuan, little birthday girl, come and sit on the little chairs, we are going to serve the main course!" Jiang Jie was holding a tray with a big bowl with a lid on it. He put the big bowl on the table and took the lid off it. The snow-white fish meat was covered with a layer of bright red peppers, it was boiled fish.
Following closely behind Jiang Jie, Cui Lie brought out a large plate of braised pork, Xia Kai brought out a large plate of fried river shrimps, Ming Tianlei brought out a large plate of stir-fried river clam meat, and Wang Lin brought out a deep and large soup bowl, with hot and sour seafood soup, river clam meat slices, dried shrimp, dried shrimps, mushrooms, shredded ham, and bamboo shoots omelette. The rising hot steam was filled with the aroma of hot pepper, which was fresh and tempting.
Rong Xianxian finally brought out a large plate of spicy river clam slices. She cooked it according to the method of spicy flower clams. I just took a bite and it was very successful and tasted great.
Originally, this thing looked very much like a river clam. The meat of river clams has a strong fishy smell, so it needs to be marinated with ginger slices, peppercorns and various seasonings to remove the fishy smell. She was also worried that the meat of such a large thing would be relatively tough and might not taste good. As a result, when she killed the clam and took out the pearl early this morning and took out the meat in the middle, she found that the meat was clean and soft, and had no strong fishy smell at all.
The outer shell of this thing is so hard, but the body inside is a bit like a jellyfish and can store a lot of water.
(End of this chapter)
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