Chapter 512 Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival arrived when the first batch of grafted seedlings began to bloom.
China has many traditional festivals, but after the end of the world, everyone tacitly agrees not to celebrate them.
After all, festivals are all about eating, drinking, having fun and being together as a family.
But nowadays most families are incomplete and can’t even get enough food, let alone eating, drinking and having fun.
Even if we celebrate a festival, it’s only the Spring Festival. If we can eat more than usual, it’s considered a festival.
So whether it’s the Dragon Boat Festival or not, for people in the end times who just want to have enough food to eat, it’s no different from any other time.
Moreover, most people don’t even know what day it is. At most they can just write it down on paper.
This way you will know when to get paid.
Remembering when you get paid is much more useful than remembering those holidays.
The Dragon Boat Festival happens to be on Monday, which is also the day when last week’s wages are paid.
On Sunday afternoon, the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, the ranch slaughtered a pig, a batch of rabbits, and some chickens, ducks, and geese that could not lay eggs.
As for cattle and sheep, they are very precious and are only slaughtered during the Chinese New Year.
The weather was so cold that the animals froze solid after being slaughtered and cut into pieces.
Two-thirds of all the frozen meat was sent to the base shopping mall, and Han Ying planned to ask the canteen to provide extra meals on the Dragon Boat Festival for the rest.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, eating rice dumplings is the best snack.
Han Ying took the rice dumplings leaves out of the space, so no one thought it was strange that the farm owner could get the rice dumplings leaves.
After slaughtering the pig, Han Ying borrowed more than 30 soldiers from Liu Hefeng's company who knew how to make rice dumplings.
In fact, many soldiers are good at cooking. They often have group activities when they are in the army, and it is very common for them to make dumplings and rice dumplings during festivals.
Therefore, many soldiers are good at making dumplings, rice dumplings, and even steamed buns.
There are more than 3,000 people on the entire farm. Even if each person makes one, we would have to make at least 3,000 dumplings.
When Jiang Chengye, the manager of the base shopping mall, learned that Han Ying and her friends were planning to make rice dumplings, he asked them to make more and sell them to the mall.
So in the end Han Ying decided to make 7,000 dumplings.
I hadn’t originally planned to wrap so many, so the rice dumplings leaves I took out were not enough to wrap 7,000, leaving me with a shortfall of two or three thousand.
But we have just harvested a batch of corn, and the corn leaves can also be used to make rice dumplings.
Although it is not as fragrant as those wrapped in rice dumplings leaves, it also has its own unique fragrance.
Although there is a debate about whether rice dumplings should be sweet or salty, no one cares so much about it after the end of the world.
Whether it's sweet or salty, it's delicious and I haven't eaten it for a long time.
Han Ying decided to make salty rice dumplings.
Glutinous rice is made with some red beans as the base, and the filling is made with an egg and a piece of meat. Of course, the meat is not limited to pork, but also chicken, duck, goose or rabbit meat.
Add some dried mushrooms and dried seafood, such as dried oysters or dried shrimps.
Although simple, it is a rare delicacy in the apocalypse.
The glutinous rice and red beans had just been soaked after work in the evening. All the employees in the cafeteria, more than 30 soldiers, as well as the two base commanders Han Ying and Lu Yuan, Gu Yuanping and Ke Qin, and the two families of Lei Minghu and Qin Qinghai were there.
There were more than fifty people in total, and we hadn't made zongzi for a long time, so everyone was a little unfamiliar with it.
It took several hours to wrap all 7,000 dumplings.
As the dumplings were being wrapped and cooked, when the aroma of the dumplings wafted from the pot, everyone raised their heads and sniffed the unique aroma of the dumplings in the air.
After all the dumplings were wrapped, the first pot of hot dumplings came out of the oven.
There were more than fifty people, and each of them ate one first.
The two base commanders did not hide the fact that they came to help make the dumplings just to get some free food.
I can’t wait for the Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow, so I can buy a few in advance to bring back for my family.
This is also the benefit for these people who work overtime to make rice dumplings.
In addition to the one that each person ate on the spot, Han Ying also allowed them to take one home for free.
If you want to buy a few more when you leave, you can.
Liu Hefeng intended to buy more and give one to each of his soldiers.
But the people in their company were now working for Han Ying, so after Han Ying saw what he was thinking, she directly counted out 240 and asked him to take them back and give two to each person.
Even the thirty or so people who helped make the rice dumplings just now got a share.
Liu Hefeng, the Erhua brothers, and Han Ying secretly gave 10 more to each of them, and asked them to help deliver a few to Chen Feihu and several other soldiers they had contact with.
When the two base commanders left, they each bought 300 more, probably to reward their subordinates.
However, Han Ying gave them 100 extra each.
The two base commanders are really dedicated and hardworking in managing this base, and there must be many people who need to be rewarded.
Several employees in the cafeteria stayed to continue cooking the rice dumplings, while the others went back one after another.
After returning to Hongmei Village, before going up to the third floor, Han Ying gave 10 each to Qin Qinghai and Lei Minghu.
Although a lot of rice dumplings were made, Han Ying gave away many of them, so the number that could be given to the base shopping mall was limited.
There are quite a lot of people in the entire Penglai base, so it is impossible to have one for each person.
I'm afraid there will be a lot of snatching at the mall tomorrow.
But there is no way around it, this is how things are in the end times with material scarcity.
The next day, many people on the farm had heard the rumor that there would be extra meals in the cafeteria at noon.
Some people also know that the extra meal is rice dumplings, so they start drooling when they think of rice dumplings in the morning.
Even those who didn't like eating rice dumplings before the end of the world secreted no less saliva than anyone else.
After all, not eating something because you don't like it and not having anything to eat are two completely different concepts.
As soon as the bell rang for the end of work at noon, everyone rushed to the cafeteria.
We have rice dumplings to eat today, so we have to hurry. What if they are in limited supply and will be gone while stocks last? What if we go a little late and there are no more?
When receiving the rice dumplings, most people were reluctant to eat them, but instead put them under their noses and smelled the fragrance.
When I had smelled enough, I hid it in my arms, planning to eat it with my family after work in the evening.
I couldn't bear to eat any of it, so I could only watch the people at the next table eating the big, delicious rice dumplings. Then I swallowed my saliva wildly at the aroma of the rice dumplings and ate the pancake in my hand fiercely.
After finishing their meal, most people continued to work in the fields carrying the rice dumplings in their arms.
After working for a while, I would feel the rice dumplings in my arms to see if they were there.
After everyone started working again, Han Ying and Lu Yuan came to their ice house.
This ice house was rebuilt by Lu Yuan and Han Ying themselves. It is smaller than the one Liu Hefeng helped build before.
The lifespan of an igloo is only two or three months, so a backup one must be built in advance before it breaks down.
Han Ying covered the inner walls of this ice house with pure white rabbit skin, which looked warm.
After entering the ice house, the two of them slipped into the space.
Two cows are about to give birth these days, so we have to pay more attention.
The two have been raising livestock for so many years that they have become skilled in delivering babies.
The mare's delivery process a while ago was not very smooth because she was pregnant with twins.
Most horses only give birth to one baby at a time. Of course, there are cases where two are born, which is a bit more dangerous.
Fortunately, she gave birth to two foals successfully in the end.
There are now more than twenty cows of all sizes in the livestock pen.
Lu Yuan would take out a bull for slaughter every once in a while, so most of the twenty or so cows in the cowshed now were cows and calves.
And in the next two days, new members will join.
I came to the livestock pen and observed for a while, but there seemed to be no signs of movement.
So Han Ying drove to the top of the mountain to collect the spiritual liquid, while Lu Yuan stayed behind to work in the livestock pen.
This way, if the two cows start to attack, we will know it at the first time.
The road on the mountain has been opened, so if you want to go up the mountain, you can drive directly up.
Although the road is not paved with cement, it is very flat.
During this period of time, not only did he open a road on the mountain, Lu Yuan also built a small bridge on the other side of Tianhu Lake.
A small bridge leads directly from the lake to the high platform where the stone bowl is placed, making it more convenient to take the spiritual liquid.
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