Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Do you want to have barbecue?
After finishing all these, Su Qing harvested another wave of vegetables. She had not had time to plant the seeds she bought at the Liehuo Base before, so now that she had time, she might as well take them out and plant them.
She planned to plant different varieties separately, so she created three more productive plots of land next to the existing fields.
One piece of land is used to grow vegetables, one piece to grow fruits, one piece to grow crops such as wheat and corn, and she plans to use the last piece to grow rice.
She first planted various vegetables. The seeds she bought contained onions, ginger, garlic and chilies. She was so happy when she saw it. As the saying goes, cooking without onions, ginger and garlic is half as tasty. She was picky about food, and the days without seasonings and side dishes were finally coming to an end.
After growing the vegetables, she also planted various fruits. She now has apples, grapes, strawberries, oranges, watermelons, melons, cherries, pears, and tangerines. The variety has increased a lot. Thanks to the boss who sells seeds, she will soon achieve fruit freedom.
She used the next piece of land to plant various grains, including wheat, corn, soybeans, mung beans, and red beans, which are all eaten daily.
Su Qing sighed that this time she had everything. She came to the last piece of land, which was intended to be used to grow rice. Rice was the foundation and the most important thing. She had already prepared the germination a few days ago.
Now she only needed to soak the land with water and level the surface before sowing the seeds. She took out the tools from her backpack and connected the water pipe. Su Qing bent over and worked in the field for several hours before she planted the seeds.
After pounding her waist which was about to break, Su Qing stood up and walked back home. She went to the bathroom to wash off the dirt and changed into home clothes. She threw the dirty clothes into the washing machine to wash them. After she had cleaned up everything, she dragged her heavy feet into the bedroom, fell on the bed, and rested for a long time.
“Awooo~Awooo~”
Su Qing was about to fall asleep when she heard Fuguier's howling. She didn't want to pay attention and pretended to be asleep without moving.
Fuguier tilted his head to look at the person on the bed, stretched his body, and was about to exert force with his limbs when he saw the person on the bed suddenly sit up.
"Su Fuguier! I heard everything. You want to crush me again? If you crush me to death, no one will take care of your food. Then you will have to go out and beg for food. You might even end up as dog meat soup, dog meat skewers, or someone else's meal!"
When Su Qing heard the sound of Fuguier stretching beside her, she had a bad feeling and quickly got up to stop him. She couldn't stand the pain of having her internal organs squeezed out.
Fuguier gave Su Qing a look of contempt, then walked up to her, bit her clothes lightly, and pulled her to leave.
"What are you doing?"
Su Qing put on her shoes and was dragged to follow it. Fuguier took her up the mountain. After walking for a while, it stopped and shouted twice at the trap she had dug before.
She walked over and looked into the trap, and found that a fawn had fallen into it. The fawn had wet eyes and was thrashing around in panic.
"Did you catch it?" Su Qing glanced at Fuguier.
Su Fugui held her head high with a proud look on her face.
She reached out and touched Fuguier's head. "Great! I'll give you a snack when we get home."
Su Qing took a lot of effort to tie up the fawn, brought it to the breeding area, put it in there and raised it.
Now her breeding area has grown in scale, and she has upgraded and expanded the place. It is no longer just a few small thatched houses, but has become a large grassland, where cows, sheep, chickens and rabbits are leisurely walking and grazing, while ducks are swimming in the pond.
Su Qing now owns cattle, sheep, chickens, rabbits, ducks, fish, crayfish, and river crabs, all of which she found bit by bit. The number of each species is also continuing to increase. Now there are more deer here, adding another species to the food chain.
Su Qing looked at these animals and suddenly felt like eating barbecue. What should he do?
Too bad she had no charcoal.
Charcoal...some images flashed through her mind, and she seemed to have a solution!
Su Qing first went to the mountain to pick up some dead tree branches, came back and cut these sticks into suitable sizes, and then placed them upright one by one in the open space next to the field. After arranging a pile, he took some hay and spread it on it. Then he dug a lot of soil next to it and mixed it with water to make mud, and then spread the mud on the hay.
After everything was done, she opened a few holes at the bottom and left a large hole at the top. She lit a fire at the top, causing it to gradually burn inside. Then she stood guard at the side, and when she saw which hole below was on fire, she would block that hole. After all the holes were sealed, she would seal the top hole.
After doing this, you need to leave it here to cool naturally for a day or two, and then open it after it is cool enough to no longer be hot to the touch. She had seen these in outdoor survival videos before, and she thought they were just fun at the time, but she never expected that they would actually be useful one day.
After finishing the charcoal, it was getting dark. She went to the kitchen to cook herself a bowl of noodles, took a piece of beef from the refrigerator, boiled it with water, put it aside to cool, and then put the used pots and pans into the dishwasher. She had collected many electrical appliances before, and now her kitchen is full. Now cooking is much more convenient, at least she no longer has to burn firewood to cook.
Society is developing and progressing. Humans invented household appliances to free their hands, and she finally began to live a modern life again.
Su Qing brought the dinner on a tray back into the house, put beef in Fuguier's bowl, and then started eating.
Su Fuguier expressed her satisfaction with the meal by using the Clean Plate Campaign.
After finishing dinner and cleaning up, Su Qing could hardly open his eyes. He was quite tired today and could not hold on any longer.
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Two days passed in a flash. Su Qing was busy arranging all the big and small things in the base. She called on her friends and recruited many more people to join the base. Now her base already had more than 30 people. After arranging the placement of the personnel, Su Qing could finally take a break. She prepared some ingredients and gave them to Fang Qing to ask them to prepare the barbecue skewers.
She went home to get the charcoal she had burned a few days ago. Su Qing came to the big mound, took out two large bamboo baskets from her backpack and put them aside. These bamboo baskets were woven by a new grandfather in the base. Su Qing thought they were good and bought them.
There are several craftsmen in her base. Perhaps she can do some research and build a small trading market for everyone to do some small business. People in the base are always short of things, and the supplies sold in the store display cabinets are limited. There are always some things that cannot be bought. This will give people with skills a development space and solve everyone's needs.
Well, it seems that she needs to bring this to the forefront as soon as possible.
After thinking about it, Su Qing came to his senses, put on gloves and dug up the mound of earth in front of him, revealing the charcoal that had been burned inside. The charcoal made a crisp sound, was hard and shiny, and was burned very successfully.
She put the charcoal into the bamboo basket little by little, and took it out to fill two large baskets. Then she put the bamboo basket into her backpack. After cleaning up the remnants on the ground, Su Qing returned to the yard and went to the base through the transmission channel.
This amount of charcoal would last for a while. She remembered that there seemed to be a few copper pots in her backpack, so it seemed that hot pot could be arranged.
Su Qing took out a basket of charcoal from his backpack and dragged it into the base. There were many people busy in the open space in the center. Some were setting up tables, some were putting chairs in, and some were setting up stoves. It was very lively.
"The charcoal is here!" Su Qing dragged the charcoal towards the stove.
"Su Qing, you're back."
"Sister Su Qing, you're finally back. I've been waiting anxiously."
"Xiao Su'a, do you think it's okay to put the table and chairs here?"
The busy people saw Su Qing coming and greeted her with a smile.
"It's all fine. You guys can arrange them as you like. Brother Lu, get some people to get some firewood, and we can light a few bonfires. That way, it will be more interesting tonight. Come on, Uncle Chen, light the charcoal first. I'll go see how Sister Fang Qing and the others are doing with their string clothes."
"Okay, come over here, let's go out and collect some firewood." After hearing Su Qing's words, Jiang Lu called a few people to go out and collect firewood.
Chen Jianjun looked at Su Qing dragging a large basket of charcoal, and quickly stood up to help her get it. "Okay, Xiao Su, you go ahead and leave this to me. I, your uncle Chen, have been running a barbecue restaurant for five years, and business is booming. My skills are definitely not exaggerated."
"That's fine, Uncle Chen, you've worked hard. I'll be waiting to eat." Su said with a chuckle.
When they arrived at the multi-functional activity center, Fang Qing and her friends temporarily used a room to prepare barbecue skewers.
"Are the skewers ready?" Su Qing came closer to Fang Qing.
Fang Qing, holding a skewer of meat in her hand, glanced at Su Qing and said, "It's almost done. Have you got the charcoal? Let's get someone to light it first."
"Uncle Chen is already working on it."
"Xiao Su, aren't we being a bit extravagant? Vegetables are so precious, and we're just roasting them like this?"
"That's right. Just a few days ago, I couldn't even dig up some wild vegetables to satisfy my cravings, let alone eat so many fresh vegetables. We're taking out so many vegetables at once and grilling them. It's like a dream."
"Oh, what are you guys worried about? Our base is well-stocked. We have everything you need. Stay a while longer and you'll get used to it."
Several aunties who were helping to string the skewers said this with emotion while they were busy.
"Auntie, isn't this to celebrate the arrival of our new member? There are not many people in the base now, so we should organize an event for us to get to know each other and enhance our friendship." Su replied with a chuckle.
Fang Qing finished what she was doing and went over to help a few other women with the remaining supplies. "Thanks to everyone's careful care, the fields at our base have produced a large output, more than enough for daily needs, and even more. Don't worry, I dare say our base's security is absolutely the best in China."
"Oh, you don't know. When I first came here, I thought I was being scammed. The environment looked so shabby from the outside. I turned around and wanted to leave, but my daughter held me back and insisted I take another look. As a result, after looking for a while, I completely changed my mind. What kind of paradise is this?"
"In the future, we will only be better."
Su Qing and Fang Qing picked up the trays and said to the aunts, "Let's go, everyone is waiting outside."
Several people came to the oven with several large trays of skewers and placed them on the table. Then they asked someone to bring out the remaining ones, making a total of ten plates.
There were four grills on the ground. Chen Jianjun also found a few people who knew how to grill skewers. It would be faster if several people worked together. When they saw the skewers coming, they started grilling them one after another.
Not far behind the oven were several long tables filled with fruits, snacks, candies, and drinks.
The children were happily running and playing around while grabbing candies.
Su Qing took these things out and gave them to everyone for free.
People who come here have a very hard life in the end times. Everyone is pale and thin, and looks worried. Su Qing wants to take this opportunity to let everyone relax, get to know each other and communicate, which can also be regarded as a way to relieve stress.
Everyone stood at the table, eating, drinking, talking and laughing, and the atmosphere was very lively.
Su Qing was chatting with Fang Qing and the others when he caught a glimpse of a few people standing at the base gate.
She hurried over and found Lu Chen and the other two standing outside.
"Let us in for a while." Lu Chen looked at Su Qing walking towards her and said to her.
"Hey, girl, it's quite lively here, what's going on?" Li Yi smelled the barbecue smell wafting from inside and looked at it with some envy.
"Why are you here? Come in, do you want to have some barbecue?"
Su Qing authorized Li Yi and Gu Yan in the system and invited them in.
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The author has something to say: Ah~
I'm so hungry after typing in the middle of the night...
Why torture yourself by writing about food...
I want to order some barbecue takeout...
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