"Oh my god! Oh my god! Steak! Prawns! And swimming crabs!"
"Coco! Grandma Qiao! I love you guys so much!"
Chen Li and Meng Yi had opened the box of seafood without knowing when.
When Chen Da and Su Keke moved the box into the house, he saw the boxed shrimps inside. He didn't expect that in addition to shrimps, there were also beef and swimming crabs in the box.
Especially the swimming crab, which was his favorite. Before the apocalypse, he could eat it every now and then, but now, except for the one Coco gave him last time, he has never eaten crab again.
"Wow! Watermelon! Two more watermelons!"
Shi Huan picked up a big watermelon and his eyes narrowed into slits with joy. In the past, the trading point occasionally sold watermelons, but they were too expensive and they were reluctant to buy them.
"I'm going to make some midnight snacks, and cut a watermelon for everyone to eat together."
Lu Mei couldn't help swallowing as she saw the children staring at the watermelons. She picked up another watermelon on the ground and said.
"Let me do it with you!"
Grandma Qiao said this and went into the kitchen with Lu Mei.
In the past, Lu Mei and her friends would cook some potatoes and sweet potatoes as midnight snacks after get off work.
That’s not possible today. It’s rare for Su Keke and Grandma Qiao to come and see them, so everyone must have a good meal.
When the extreme heat first started, people on the 20th floor had no awareness of prevention, and all their vegetables were dried up in the sun. Except for one chicken that was eaten during the Chinese New Year, the other nine chickens could not survive the extreme heat.
Basically, a chicken would die every few days, until yesterday when the last chicken they raised also died. Lu Mei originally wanted to smear soy sauce on the chicken and dry it in the sun for a few days before eating it during the New Year or other festivals.
I’m so happy today, I must stew this chicken!
In addition to this old hen, Lu Mei also plans to cook a pot of mung bean soup, which can help clear away heat and relieve internal heat in hot weather.
Grandma Qiao took out a few swimming crabs from the box of seafood she brought and steamed them. She had just heard Lu Mei joke that Chen Da dreamed of eating crabs, so she had to arrange that.
It was during the subsequent conversation that Shi Huan and Lu Mei learned about the major event that had just occurred in their building.
Lu Mei was so angry that she picked up a kitchen knife and rushed to 304 next door. Halfway through her run, she remembered that everyone had been arrested.
Shi Huan kept sighing, she never thought that one day there would be a prostitution den next door to her, the thought made her feel sick.
We talked and laughed together until late at night without feeling sleepy at all. The midnight snack was not ready until three in the morning.
The main reason is that stewing chicken takes too much time, and the battery of the solar panel can only provide electricity for an electric fan and an induction cooker.
But now the temperature has dropped to 30 degrees, and with all the kitchen windows open, there's an occasional breeze blowing in, so it's not too hot.
Su Keke, Shi Huan and others sat in the living room around the coffee table. A small electric fan was turning back and forth to blow air for everyone.
In the end times, if you still have electricity and can afford a small fan, you can be considered rich and powerful.
Therefore, Lu Mei, Shi Huan and others are very satisfied with their current lives. Although it cannot be compared with the life before the apocalypse, they are already much better off than the ordinary people around them.
When Grandma Qiao and Lu Mei brought the chicken and crabs to the living room, five people and ten pairs of eyes all looked over at them.
Meng Yi and Chen Li, the two older boys, immediately attacked the old hen's drumsticks. Since they were all family members, they didn't hesitate.
"Delicious! This old hen is really delicious!" Meng Yi took a bite and tore off a large piece of chicken.
"My mother couldn't bear to eat all the chickens that died of heat before, so she pickled them with salt and ate them for several days in a row. In the end, they went bad!"
Chen Li held up another big chicken leg and while eating it he complained that his mother Lu Mei was too stingy.
Chen Da had already prepared a dish of vinegar. He used his hands to pry open the golden crab shell, revealing the full crab roe inside.
"Wow..." Chen Da swallowed his saliva. He started eating without caring about his image, like a kid who hadn't eaten snacks for a long time.
"Aunt Qiao! Keke! Please don't laugh at me. We haven't had a good meal in a long time!"
Looking at her husband and son like that, Lu Mei really wanted to say that she didn't know them.
"What's the big deal! Who can be polite when encountering delicious food? Hahaha! We are all the same! I want to try this chicken too."
Grandma Qiao smiled and tore off a piece of chicken wing with chopsticks. The chicken had been stewed for such a long time that the meat was already very soft and rotten, and except for the bones, the rest of the meat basically melted in the mouth.
Lu Mei calmly distributed the crabs to each person, as she was afraid that Chen Da would get addicted and eat everyone's share.
We cooked seven crabs today, one for each person.
Seeing that Chen Da had eaten even the smallest crab legs clean, Lu Mei secretly gave her crab to Chen Da.
"I'm giving this to you. I'm a little allergic and can't eat seafood lately!"
Grandma Qiao put the crab from her bowl into Lu Mei's bowl and said.
This was not something she made up because she wanted to give the crabs to Lu Mei. Maybe it was because of the hot weather or because she ate too much seafood these days, but Grandma Qiao actually had several pimples on her forehead.
When Su Keke found a tube of acne-removing ointment from the space and applied it to her, she joked that it was acne and that Grandma Qiao was still young.
"Aunt Qiao! Are you really allergic? Does it matter?" Lu Mei asked with concern.
"It's okay, it's okay! I just got a few pimples! Coco said I'm still young and I have acne! Hahaha..."
Grandma Qiao burst into laughter as she spoke. It must have been very happy to hear someone say she was young when she was sixty years old.
While they were chatting, Su Keke and Shi Huan had already eaten several slices of watermelon in silence. They wanted to be the melon-eaters tonight.
This midnight snack lasted until dawn, and all the chicken soup in the big stew pot was drunk up.
Not to mention crabs, Chen Da ate two in a row and still felt unsatisfied. He wondered when he could have free access to seafood again.
They cooked a lot of mung bean soup today, and when Su Keke and the others were about to go back, Lu Mei asked them to take two bottles back.
When it is extremely hot, the day breaks very early. It was already bright outside at around five o'clock. Su Keke drove all the way, and when he arrived at the foot of Arashiyama, the sun was about to come out.
The temperature began to rise slowly again. At this time, most people were asleep, and the night shift security personnel in the Arashiyama Villa District were handing over their shifts.
Now the security guards and doormen on day shift only need to stay indoors, which are equipped with electric fans and the drinking water is chilled.
"Morning, Miss Su!"
When the guard opened the door, he nodded and greeted Su Keke at the window. Ever since Du Huairen didn't make any progress in tracking Su Keke last time, the Du family and their security team have been very polite to Su Keke.
Du Yichen started to visit Villa No. 5 every few days again, and Grandma Qiao was happily chatting with him in the living room.
Su Keke didn't say anything anyway. She just held Tangyuan and watched the show and didn't pay much attention to him.
Du Yichen was not angry, because his grandfather had told him to have a good relationship with Su Keke. In the future, maybe Su Keke would be the only one who could help the Du family.
Mr. Du has a very accurate eye for people. No wonder he was able to start from scratch and become the richest man in Lingcheng.
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