Qiao Xuejun looked at the dehydrated vegetables and the stored rice.
Let's have something hot to eat? I picked up some firewood today!
Qiao Xuejun put down the bread, took a small bag of dehydrated vegetables and canned luncheon meat, and walked to the small living room. In the corner of the living room stood a brand new wood stove, which was bought at a farm tool store for 300 yuan. It was short and enough for daily cooking and boiling water.
Electricity is also fine. Just start the fuel engine and use the small rice cooker she bought for 46 yuan to cook rice in 20 minutes.
But she didn't have much diesel in stock, so she tried to save as much as possible and use diesel more efficiently.
The ventilation of the wood stove is connected to the ventilation system of the shelter through a system, so there is no need to worry about smoke exhaust.
She soaked the dehydrated vegetables and placed them on the wood stove along with canned luncheon meat. She then filled the steamer with water, put the tripod on it, and took a small steel basin from the cupboard and scooped a bowl of white rice from the rice box.
After washing, add appropriate amount of water. The water for steaming rice should be slightly more than that for the rice cooker.
When they were young, their family was relatively frugal and they didn’t buy an electric rice cooker at first. They just had a small steamer on the wood stove, and a small steel basin on a tripod inside the steamer. The three people in their family could usually steam two large bowls of rice.
After placing the steamer on the wood stove, Qiao Xuejun started to make a fire.
It takes some skill to make a fire, but her family used to be from the countryside, and every household in the country used a wood stove, so making a fire was not difficult for her.
First, use some waste paper and packaging paper to light them, then split the branches into the size of chopsticks and throw them into the burning paper pile, and then split the branches in the middle and throw them in.
She used an axe to chop wood. She originally wanted to buy a hatchet, but in order to save money she only bought an axe. After carrying so much wood home today, her hands were so sore and she had no strength to do it. But the axe was new and the firewood was dried in the sun, so she chopped the wood without much effort.
After the branches are burning, you can throw in slightly thicker firewood.
She picked hardwoods on purpose, such as jujube and birch, but there were more cycads on the mountain, which produced a lot of smoke but were very durable. She picked pine and fir, which were relatively soft but easier to burn.
Soon, the fire in the wood stove was burning brightly. Qiao Xuejun had just taken a cold shower, so her body and hair were wet. After all, the underground shelter was already cold and gloomy.
The fire from the stove shone on my body, driving away the cold and damp moisture on my body, and my whole body suddenly felt warm.
Qiao Xuejun couldn't help but yawn.
She also threw a small potato into the oven and ate it while waiting for the rice to cook.
The outer layer of the potato is completely roasted into a black layer of charcoal, but after peeling off this layer of black charcoal, the yellow heart mashed potato inside is revealed. The potato is shiny and hot, emitting white heat. When you take a bite, your mouth is filled with rich potato aroma. Sprinkle a little salt and you will be very satisfied.
Because she soaked the rice in advance before steaming it, she had to wait more than twenty minutes. The rice was cooked just after she finished eating the potato.
Qiao Xuejun picked up the steamer, put the pre-soaked dehydrated vegetables and cut luncheon meat into the wok, added seasonings, and soon a dish of braised pork with broccoli was ready.
The steamed rice is also distinct grain by grain, steaming, soft, glutinous and translucent.
Qiao Xuejun suddenly became even hungrier. She hadn't had anything hot to eat for more than half a month.
A mouthful of rice and meat went down my stomach, and I felt the whole world. The sense of power that hot food brings to humans is really quite strong.
A whole can of luncheon meat, a large plate of broccoli, and three bowls of rice. Normally, Qiao Xuejun could finish two-thirds of it, but today she finished it all without leaving any.
She even ate voraciously.
I feel full and refreshed.
People still have to eat meat to have dreams!
Before eating, Qiao Xuejun filled a pot of tap water and placed it on the wood stove. The fire in the stove was still burning. She used hardwood, which would burn longer. In order not to waste the fuel, she boiled a pot of water. By the time she finished her meal, the water had just finished boiling.
After the water cooled down, she poured it into the mineral water bottles that she had drunk up in the past half month. She boiled a few more pots of water and filled them up after they were all boiled.
The amount of tap water in the pipes is getting smaller and smaller, and one can feel the instability and tension in the water supply.
When the tap water supply is completely cut off, you will need to fetch water from outside.
A hot meal completely soothed Qiao Xuejun's tiredness and tension.
After filling the water and placing it neatly on the water rack, Qiao Xuejun looked at the time. It was already 10 o'clock in the evening, so it was time to go to bed.
She had originally planned to chop today's firewood and then rest after finishing it, but she was so full that she felt lazy and soon lay down on the bed.
She also considered turning the firewood into charcoal, but this requires a professional kiln, so she put it on hold for now and wait until there is a chance to burn it into charcoal.
In the next few days, after taking care of the potato fields at home, Qiao Xuejun went out to the mountain to collect firewood almost every day.
One day, she was lucky enough to find a wild tomato seedling on the shady slope of the mountain that had not been exposed to the sun. After recognizing it, she transplanted the tomato seedling to her home and planted it in a small corner in the potato field.
When she was at the farm tool store, in addition to buying farm tools, she also bought some crop seeds and pesticides. However, the money she had was really limited, so she only bought items worth a few hundred yuan, all of which were very economical. For example, radish seeds, leek and asparagus seeds, which can either be propagated by division or can be kept for personal use. She chose the green and beautiful cabbage variety, which is resistant to high temperatures and has a short growing period, and she also chose the cold-resistant white cabbage. She didn't care about the others.
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