After Zhao Xian came to rest, he didn't look at anyone else. He walked straight to Qiao Xuejun, lowered his eyes to look at her, and asked softly, "Why are you here?"
Qiao Xuejun said, "I finished my work today. On the way back to the base, I met Uncle Zhang. Uncle Zhang said he wanted to come over, so I came to take a look. How is it? Is everything going well?"
Zhao Xian said: "It goes well, we will set off tomorrow."
The weather has been showing a trend of cooling down recently. Zhao Xian wants to seize the opportunity and bring supplies back from the city before the temperature drops significantly.
In the past two days, under his arrangement, the Great White Shark has been intensively strengthening inspections and maintenance to ensure that there will be no problems.
Qiao Xuejun: "As long as everything goes well, let's go eat."
Zhao Xian asked her, "What are you eating today?" He thought Qiao Xuejun had already eaten.
Qiao Xuejun shook her head: "I don't know. I didn't eat it either. I was caught on my way back to the base after finishing work."
Zhao Xian frowned: "Eat your meal first next time."
Qiao Xuejun: "You're still blaming me? Uncle Zhang just said that you were so busy that you didn't even have time to eat!"
Zhao Xian turned his eyes away and denied it: "No, I brought dry food with me, and I ate it when I didn't have time to eat. I won't be hungry."
Qiao Xuejun nodded: "That's fine."
The survivors who were breaking ice to clear a path over there temporarily put down their work and came over to line up for food.
Today's food is mainly mashed potatoes, pumpkin soup, and fish.
Uncle Zhang took the military lunch box and served them food one by one. He gave them a big spoonful of mashed potatoes, two pieces of fish, and asked them to come back for pumpkin soup after they finished their meals.
After giving the mashed potatoes and fish, Uncle Zhang would also put two compressed biscuits in the bowls of the survivors.
Qiao Xuejun also got a bowl.
Compressed biscuits on top of mashed potatoes was quite normal in the First Base. They had always eaten this way, mainly military rations or compressed biscuits, supplemented by pumpkin and corn.
Qiao Xuejun held the bowl and exclaimed to Uncle Zhang: "What a big bowl. There are also compressed biscuits."
She thought potatoes were already a staple food, so there were two staple foods, but they were both not too little. She had a very good appetite, so she thought it was already a lot, the bowl itself was very big, and it was piled high.
Zhao Xian next to him said: "Working in the snow, you have to eat a lot."
Uncle Zhang agreed: "Yes, the weather is too cold, and this provides fat and calories, so that we have the strength to work, otherwise we will freeze to death."
He added: "Compressed biscuits are oily, but they have little nutrition and are not chewy. You will still feel empty after eating them. Mashed potatoes are hot and fragrant, and you can eat them in big mouthfuls. If rapeseed oil is available, you can make fried potato cakes. That is even more satisfying and much more delicious than compressed biscuits."
Qiao Xuejun smiled and said, "I see. Are you asking me to get the rapeseed oil out as soon as possible? I'm already working on it."
Zhao Xian finally got a bowl. He and Qiao Xuejun also got on the boat and sat on the steps on the deck to eat.
Qiao Xuejun didn't like the compressed biscuits because they were too dry and choking, so she just ate the mashed potatoes and put the compressed biscuits aside, thinking of leaving the ones she didn't like for last.
Moreover, Qiao Xuejun and her friends in the shelter can now eat eggs and chicken, so they don't really need the fat calories provided by the compressed biscuits.
If you don’t like the food during normal times, you can just give it up, but if you do, you’d seem too picky.
The two chatted while eating. Qiao Xuejun mentioned that Haibao had come to see the construction of the greenhouse, and also asked about the cooperation between Zhao Xian and Haibao.
The two of them asked each other questions, which was very natural.
As he was talking, Zhao Xian said, "You don't like the cookies? You can throw them in my bowl."
Qiao Xuejun was immediately moved and turned to ask him, "Really?"
Zhao Xian raised his lips and handed the bowl over.
Qiao Xuejun didn't say much, she just picked up the compressed biscuits and carefully put them into his bowl, still refusing to admit that she didn't like them: "Lord Zhao works in the snow all day, he needs to eat more."
Zhao Xian: "Thank you?"
Qiao Xuejun: “You’re welcome.”
Zhao Xian took the bowl back and told Qiao Xuejun about the fishing team's itinerary and when they would return.
The system suddenly spoke: "Host, there are many individual survivors in the city. Do you want to go with us? Win them over? Bring them back?"
Qiao Xuejun: "Are there a lot?"
System: "A lot. In the original plot, the hero and heroine also went to the city to meet retail investors and used some conditions to win them over."
Qiao Xuejun hesitated: "Just tell Zhao Xian about this? This is his job."
System: "Host, there are about 3,500 people in the base now, and it will soon reach 5,000. If it exceeds 5,000, the system will have a generous reward!"
Qiao Xuejun: "But I have a lot of things to do in the field, I can't afford to delay. I'll think about it."
Then Qiao Xuejun turned around and asked Zhao Xian, "Are you going to the city this time and will you be back in 7 days?"
This was the travel time that Zhao Xian had just told her; they were going to be there for 7 days.
Before leaving, I asked when I would be back.
Zhao Xian smiled and said, "Not necessarily. If we fill up the cargo ship in advance, we can come back early. The latest is 7 days."
Qiao Xuejun still didn't tell Zhao Xian that she wanted to go, and Zhao Xian just thought that she asked this question because she wanted him to come back quickly.
Although they were chatting, it did not slow down their eating at all. After they finished eating in less than ten minutes, Uncle Zhang collected the dishes and left.
Zhao Xian and his colleagues were also ready to continue working.
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Qiao Xuejun went back to the shelter at night to take care of the cotton field. After the last intervention, the problem of the cotton growing too long had been solved.
It is growing well at the moment, and once it grows a little taller we can start topping and pruning it.
She was walking back from the planting area, passing the breeding area in the middle. Her nose moved and she frowned: "System, is the smell a bit strong?"
There are rabbits, chickens, and sheep in the breeding area. If it were a normal sealed space, the smell would be unimaginable, especially for such a large nest of rabbits. The creativity of rabbit manure is very strong.
It should all smell bad.
The shelter is equipped with an air circulation system that can exchange gases with the outside world at any time and filter and purify the air, so there is actually not much smell.
But today it seems a little different. The taste is a little strong.
The system hesitated: "Host, it seems... I feel my energy is getting weaker again."
Qiao Xuejun was stunned for a moment: "Weaker? How could that be? Is it because the First Base's production efficiency has dropped and has not been resolved that you have become weaker?"
System: "No. I think it's because the other system has become stronger that I have become weaker."
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