After eating dumplings at noon, Yang Qing took out a rabbit and some vegetables from the space.
"The rabbits we raised before have grown up. Let's kill one today for the New Year." Yang Qing picked up the rabbit with a smile.
"The rabbit is still there? I thought they were all dead." Li Shengnan was very surprised. After experiencing extreme cold and heat, many people would have died, but the rabbit was still alive. It was really a miracle.
"We have a generator. We turn on the electric heater when it's cold and the air conditioner when it's hot, so we all survive. We're still growing vegetables, so it's just right for us to eat them together today!" Yang Qing said with a smile.
"Yang Qing still knows how to live." Wang Min sighed. Unlike them, he was living in a miserable state at the end of the world.
Leng Yi took the rabbit over to help kill it. Lu Lin took out the fish she had caught before, some shrimp, and the leftover duck, beef, and pork from the refrigerator.
Li Shengnan and Wang Min helped wash and chop the vegetables and prepare to stew them.
"You still have some meat here with me. Do you want to take it this time?" Yang Qing asked.
"It's so hot now, it will probably go bad before it gets to the destination. Forget it, I'll leave it to you. There are only a few pounds left." Li Shengnan shook her head.
"Don't be in such a hurry to leave. Eat first, then go. It won't take a few days anyway." Yang Qing said, "But how are you going to get the food?"
The last time we went fishing together, each of us was given over 100 kilograms of food, and we haven’t eaten it yet. It’s not easy to carry it since the base is so far away.
"We have been thinking about this problem too. It would be great if we had a car, but where can we get one now?" Li Shengnan sighed.
Yang Qing thought for a moment and said, "You can take our pickup truck. It's just the right size for the cargo. The four of you have quite a bit of luggage, plus food, so you'll definitely need a truck."
"Is the car still there?" Jiang Hao was surprised.
He hadn't seen the pickup truck since the ice started to melt and thought it was lost.
Yang Qing smiled and said, "It's still there. We drove out that day, and when we came back, we could clearly feel the temperature rising, so we didn't dare to drive back and hid the car."
"Luckily I didn't drive the car. The ice would have melted at night. If I had driven back, the car would have sunk into the water and would have been unusable."
"But you guys are going to use it too, right?" Li Shengnan hesitated.
"It's okay, we can just get another one. You know, we have connections." Yang Qing smiled, "You need it more now."
"Yang Qing..." Li Shengnan didn't know what to say. She was so moved.
"But loading the truck is too obvious, so you need to cover it with a tarp. Besides, it's a 300-kilometer journey, and you don't know what you might encounter along the way, so be careful."
"The guns I gave you are still there, right? Be sure to take them with you!"
Li Shengnan nodded, "It's here, I didn't even dare to use it."
"We will definitely encounter some bandits on the road, so we should use our strength when necessary. Of course, if we can solve the problem with food, don't be reluctant to use it, and don't lose the big picture for the small one." Yang Qing said.
"Yeah!" Li Shengnan nodded. She felt that Yang Qing seemed to have experienced it all and knew everything.
Several people worked together and the New Year's Eve dinner was ready by four o'clock.
When it was served on the table, there were steamed fish, braised shrimp, stewed ox nan with radish, stewed rabbit, ginger duck, braised pork, a bowl of fish balls, a bowl of stir-fried vegetables, and a bowl of dried mushrooms and vermicelli.
There are nine dishes in total.
"Wow, this is so sumptuous. We never had so many dishes during Chinese New Year in the past!" Jiang Hao exclaimed.
Leng Yi brought out another plate of dry-fried dumplings, "Perfect!"
"It's really good." Gao Yang swallowed his saliva after seeing it. He had worked in the camp for so long and the food was very hard. He could hardly see any meat. He couldn't even imagine such a sumptuous meal.
"It's a pity there are no firecrackers, otherwise we would have set off at least a string on New Year's Eve." Yang Qing felt a little regretful.
"We have so many dishes, and it's great that we can spend the New Year together." Wang Min said with some emotion, "How many people have nothing to eat."
"Yes, it's all thanks to Yang Qing that we can have this New Year." Li Shengnan also said.
"Come, let's toast to Yang Qing." Jiang Hao picked up the glass, "I wish everyone a happy new year!"
"Happy New Year!" Everyone raised their glasses together.
"Come on, eat the food quickly, eat more, it's best if you can finish it all." Yang Qing said with a smile.
"Isn't it to have some left over so that we can have surplus every year?" Wang Min said jokingly.
"Just leave some of the fish. If we don't finish all the dishes, we three won't know how many days it will take for them to eat." Yang Qing said.
"I remember when I celebrated the Chinese New Year at home, there would always be a lot of leftovers. My parents wouldn't let us eat too much, saying they wanted to leave them for the guests. But the guests didn't like them either and only picked the fresh ones. So, those dishes weren't finished throughout the entire first month of the lunar year," Jiang Hao smiled.
"It's the same in our family." Wang Min agreed.
"It's the same in my family. My parents' generation is used to being frugal and they can't bear to eat it," said Li Shengnan.
At this point, everyone fell silent. Almost everyone present had lost their parents.
I can't hear them nagging anymore.
Leng Yi quickly tried to smooth things over, "So everyone, eat as much as you can today, and don't leave any leftovers!"
Everyone started laughing again and started eating happily.
A few days later, Li Shengnan and the others were about to leave, and Yang Qing took the pickup truck out of the space in the middle of the night and parked it downstairs.
The next morning, they began to pack up.
Yang Qing walked over and said, "The car is already parked downstairs. Just carry your things down. I'll let Linlin go down and help you watch it!"
"Okay!" Li Shengnan nodded.
Jiang Hao and Gao Yang were moving food, which weighed several hundred kilograms and was quite heavy.
There are also some snacks, mineral water, clothes, bedding, etc.
The solar generator was returned to Yang Qing. They probably wouldn't need it when they went to the base, as the base would have a unified power supply.
"I won't take these gas and gas stoves with me either," said Li Shengnan.
"Take the gas stove with you. You'll need to cook when you get there. What if they don't have it? You'll have to buy some. Forget about the gas tank. It's not safe to leave it in the car in such hot weather." Yang Qing said.
He then took out a small car refrigerator from the room and said, "This refrigerator is for you. You can put the leftover meat in it. There is electricity in the car."
"Yang Qing..." Li Shengnan felt embarrassed. This was too expensive.
"I still have some. This little one is useless at home." Yang Qing smiled and took out some dried goods and vegetables for them. "These vegetables can be preserved even in hot weather. Take them with you. When you don't have any vegetables to eat, soak them in water and they will taste good."
"Thank you so much!" Several people didn't know what to say.
"And these medicines." Yang Qing took out another bag of medicine. "I found these when I was sweeping the building earlier. I said I was going to exchange them for supplies, but I forgot. You guys take them with you. Medicines are precious nowadays. You can exchange them for anything you need in the future."
"We can't take this," Li Shengnan said quickly. "We already shared the anti-inflammatory and cold medicines. These are for you."
"We don't have any use for it either. You guys are more useful," Yang Qing said. "Let's take a few boxes and split it up."
Yang Qing casually grabbed a few boxes of medicine and stuffed the rest at Li Shengnan, "These medicines are more useful than money and food. Keep them!"
Several people's eyes were red, they were both moved and sad.
Before going downstairs, Yang Qing took out another rifle and gave it to Li Shengnan, "Take this too!"
"You've already given us two guns, we really can't take this one." Li Shengnan quickly declined.
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