Soon Qiao Xuejun knew who had the flash of inspiration.
Five days later, it was the 10th day after the pea seedlings were planted, and they were ready to be harvested.
Qiao Xuejun, along with Xiao Feng and a few others, picked the pea sprouts with scissors.
I weighed it and it was 267 kilograms in total.
It's not much, but it's enough for people who are moderately malnourished and those who are severely malnourished to have some.
Uncle Zhang came to the greenhouse early in the morning pushing a cart to receive the sprouts.
Looking at the fresh, dripping sprouts on the truck bed, he smiled and said, "What a great thing! They'll be ready to be served today!"
Qiao Xuejun said, "The next crop will be in another 10 days. But the yield won't be as high as this time."
For hydroponic pea sprouts like this, the yield is highest in the first batch and then gradually decreases.
Uncle Zhang said, "It's pretty good. I'll make a soup. Even someone who's malnourished can eat it for two days."
Uncle Zhang added, "Besides, will the spinach be edible after 10 days?"
Qiao Xuejun nodded: "There will be other things in a few days, such as bok choy and kale."
When Uncle Zhang heard the word "kale", his expression froze for a moment.
Qiao Xuejun noticed it and asked, "What's wrong, Uncle Zhang? Is there something wrong?"
Uncle Zhang frowned. "That kale is a test of culinary skills. It's hard to make delicious. It tastes weird."
Qiao Xuejun: "It doesn't taste good when I make it. But it's nutritious, so I plant a lot." It's a leafy green, so it's easy to grow hydroponically. Because it's so nutritious, kale is even called a super vegetable.
At this time, being able to supplement nutrition is the most important thing, so who cares whether it tastes good or not.
Uncle Zhang nodded: "Okay. I'll go back and cook first. Come on time this afternoon!"
Uncle Zhang came with his men in a hurry and left in a hurry.
At lunchtime, Qiao Xuejun finished work on time as usual.
Because she had to record the conditions of rye and rapeseed in the experimental fields, she was always the last one to leave.
She checked the time, packed her things, put on her bag, and went to the cafeteria.
As she reached the entrance of the base, her system began to broadcast: "Congratulations, host. The base has added nutritious dishes. The rate of deterioration of moderately and severely malnourished survivors has been reduced by 25%."
Qiao Xuejun: "25%?"
System: "Yes, at this rate of deterioration, moderate patients will become severe patients in one month. All severe patients will die."
Qiao Xuejun: "It has now been reduced by 25%, which means it has gone from 30 days to 40 days."
Only by continuing to introduce new dishes within these 40 days can the rate of deterioration be slowed down.
There are very few people in the cafeteria now.
Because she didn't like to waste time queuing, Qiao Xuejun was always the last one to arrive, arriving just before the cafeteria closed.
After a while, the kitchen knew her meal time and would prepare her meals in advance and serve them directly to her hot.
"Come and try it, this is a new dish!" Uncle Zhang personally brought the dish out to Qiao Xuejun and put it on the table.
Scrambled eggs with sprouts.
Pea sprouts with jade-white stems, verdant leaves, and fried golden eggs.
Qiao Xuejun sat in the cafeteria, looking at the food in front of her, her eyes shining.
Stir-fry!
She asked Uncle Zhang, "Can the canteen serve stir-fried dishes now?"
Uncle Zhang said mysteriously: "Eat it first and see how it tastes."
Qiao Xuejun picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it in her mouth.
The sprouts are crisp and juicy, and the golden eggs are soft and filling. The most important thing is that they are cooked in a stir-fried way, and the aroma of the oil blends the flavors of the rutin eggs and sprouts together.
All the cooking oil at the base has been eaten up and is gone.
Or rather, there is, but not much. Qiao Xuejun heard Uncle Zhang's apprentice Xiao Zheng say while chatting in the cafeteria that there were only 2 kilograms of oil left in their kitchen.
His master had already placed the remaining 2 kilograms of oil on the incense table and was reluctant to eat it.
The usual dishes are either boiled or steamed, or they are eaten in the newly invented “freeze-dried” method.
Stir-fry? Not happening.
How can you bear to take it out now?
Unfortunately there was no rice, the staple food was mashed potatoes.
Otherwise, Qiao Xuejun could eat three bowls of rice with just this one bowl of food. Of course, even without rice, she would still eat quite a lot.
Even the system was excited: "Host, cooking oil is a very important resource. It can replenish fat and increase cold resistance during extreme cold periods. The probability of freezing to death or frostbite will be directly reduced by 70%!"
Qiao Xuejun: "It's a pity that rapeseed will have to wait until next year."
Normally, this is a crop that takes nine months to harvest. But with all her efforts and tricks, she could only shorten it by two months at most.
After eating several mouthfuls of food, Qiao Xuejun looked up and asked Uncle Zhang, "Uncle Zhang, how did you do that? Did you use the oil that's been passed down from our ancestors in the kitchen?"
Uncle Zhang laughed: "No need, just keep that! This is pumpkin seed oil!"
Qiao Xuejun: "Pumpkin seed oil?"
She was not very sensitive to food, so she took another chopstick and tasted it. This time it seemed that there was indeed a faint aroma of pumpkin seeds.
It's more of a special aroma of oil.
Uncle Zhang said, "We've tried to use pumpkin seeds to extract oil before, but we've always failed. The seeds have a weird smell when cooked. If you overcook them, they tend to turn bitter."
Qiao Xuejun asked, "The smoke point of pumpkin seed oil is only a little over 100 degrees, right?"
Pumpkin seed oil is not suitable for cooking, so just eat it cold.
Uncle Zhang nodded. "120 degrees. The oil we squeezed before didn't even reach 120 degrees for cooking. If the temperature got even slightly higher, it would start to smoke and taste bitter."
"Before, we used the hot pressing method, which involves heating first, then stir-frying, and finally pressing."
"The smoke point is too low. I can't eat it. Failure."
Uncle Zhang recalled, "It was a few days ago when I was having dinner and listening to a song in the cafeteria, the lyrics of which were about hot and cold, that I suddenly thought of freeze-drying the oil before pressing it." Uncle Zhang smiled and said, "It really works well. Freeze-dried oil has fewer impurities, so it's easy to press the oil."
Qiao Xuejun nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "So that's how it is."
[A flash of inspiration] I have a master, it’s Uncle Zhang.
Uncle Zhang added, "But now this pumpkin seed oil can only be used for quick stir-fries. If you use a higher heat and cook for a longer time, it will become bitter. It's better to use it for more cooking."
Qiao Xuejun: "Then cook it. It's good to have oil to eat."
Uncle Zhang said, "We still have several thousand kilograms of pumpkin seeds in the warehouse. We plan to use them to make oil. We'll be able to make up for it when the time comes!"
Qiao Xuejun finished her meal and put away her dishes. "Just let me know if you need any help. I still have some pumpkins in my warehouse. They can be shipped over anytime."
Uncle Zhang agreed immediately: "Okay! It's a deal then."
He turned around again: "But it's not needed yet. It's good enough to squeeze out those thousands of kilograms now."
After dinner, Qiao Xuejun and Uncle Zhang wore masks and went to the mushroom house to see the newly cultivated oyster mushrooms, which were growing well.
Successfully expanded.
Uncle Zhang sighed, "It's really not easy. Before, we could only eat it occasionally, and not everyone could have it. But now it's different! We can eat it every day, and everyone can have a bite!"
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