Half an hour later, Su Keke and Grandma Qiao prepared six simple home-cooked dishes.
When the Lei Mu family came out of the room, the dining table was already filled with several steaming dishes. In the middle was a large plate of beef stewed with potatoes. The aroma made the Lei family, who had been hungry all morning, drool.
Other dishes include scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried mushrooms, stir-fried cauliflower with meat, garlic spare ribs, and minced meat and egg custard.
Grandma Qiao also prepared rice for everyone, and the bowls and chopsticks for several people were neatly placed on the table.
"Keke! You guys are spending money again. We can just eat whatever we want. This amount of food must cost a lot of points!"
After the natural disaster, Lei Mu and his wife ate very frugally. Especially at the beginning, they would break a compressed biscuit into two pieces, one for each of them, and eat it as a meal.
Later, with the help of Su Keke secretly, the two of them only had one vegetable for a meal, either greens or radishes, and they didn't even dare to put in meat.
All the saved supplies were given to their son Lei Wenbin's family. Their granddaughter was still so young and had been hit by a natural disaster, so they had to save more for the child to supplement her nutrition.
"It didn't cost many points! Uncle Lei! These vegetables were grown by Grandma Qiao and I in the yard of Lanshan Villa! It doesn't cost points to grow them yourself."
Su Keke explained with a smile, "Come on, come on! I'm hungry! Grandma Qiao's cooking skills are pretty good, Uncle Lei, you guys should try some!"
Su Keke warmly invited everyone to eat. After everyone was seated, she realized that she had forgotten to include Lei Bao. The six chairs were only enough for six adults, so little Lei Bao could only eat while being held on his mother Wu Qian's lap.
"I'll go next door and borrow a chair for Lei Bao!"
Su Keke thought it was not realistic to get a chair out of thin air right now. Uncle Chen next door should be at home. She could borrow a chair. If Uncle Chen hadn't eaten yet, she could invite him to eat with her. Let them get to know each other so they can take care of each other in the future.
"No need, Coco! When Lei Bao is at home, I often hold him like this while he eats. You see, it's very convenient for me to feed him this way."
Wu Qian now has no hostility towards Su Keke. Instead, she is very grateful to Su Keke in her heart. If she hadn't met Su Keke today, she wouldn't know where to live!
"Keke! There's no need to borrow a chair. Lei Bao usually just eats a few bites of food and then goes downstairs to play by herself. Even if you give her a chair, she can't sit for a few minutes."
"Didn't you just say you were hungry? Hurry up and sit down and eat." Mu Jie also said quickly.
After being persuaded by everyone, Su Keke no longer insisted on going to the next door to borrow a chair.
"This steamed egg custard is very tender. Come! It's perfect for Lei Bao!"
Grandma Qiao placed the plate of minced meat and egg custard in front of Wu Qian. It was inconvenient for her to stand up to pick up the food while she was holding the child while eating.
"Okay! Thank you, Grandma Qiao! Mm! This egg custard tastes very fresh, so delicious!"
Wu Qian took the spoon and took a bite herself. She felt that the egg custard made by Grandma Qiao was particularly delicious.
After the natural disaster, the only seasoning left in her home was table salt; soy sauce, vinegar and MSG were long gone.
So the dishes they cook are basically only salty. I am used to eating them, but now that I have eaten the food cooked by Grandma Qiao, I really don’t want to eat those salty dishes for a moment.
After hearing what Wu Qian said, Su Keke realized that she was careless. She really forgot to add some seasoning when airdropping the supplies.
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In Lingcheng city, after an unprecedented earthquake, 70 percent of the buildings have collapsed.
Many people were crushed to death by the collapsed houses before they could escape.
The official rescue teams were sent out several times, but due to the severe collapse of the ground and houses, cars could not drive in at all.
As the commander-in-chief of the rescue team, Criminal Police Captain Fang Yong ordered people to set up military tents on the spot, and medical staff were on standby in the tents.
The special police and patrolmen were divided into ten groups of five. Everyone carried the stretcher, stepped on the rubble, and walked towards the epicenter of the earthquake with a determined look on their faces.
After the earthquake stopped, Chen Guodong immediately arranged the arduous task of searching and rescuing survivors.
No one knows whether there will be aftershocks, but time is of the essence in searching and rescuing ordinary citizens buried by the earthquake.
Therefore, the special police and patrol members of these search and rescue teams all participated voluntarily, and Chen Li and Meng Yi also signed up to join the search and rescue team.
At this moment, Fang Yong was leading the two of them, as well as two special police officers, in a team of five, to search for survivors at the landslide site.
"Everyone should first pay attention to your own safety. Check your helmets, masks, and gloves. If you encounter a place where there is a risk of secondary collapse, do not move anything easily. Everyone, spread out! Look for people separately! Do not leave the signal range of the walkie-talkie."
After Fang Yong finished speaking, several people in the team dispersed in all directions.
“Help…Help…”
"Is there... no one, please come and save me..."
In a pile of rubble not far away, a woman covered in dust and dirt had half of her body crushed by a fallen beam.
More than an hour has passed now, and her legs have gone from being in severe pain at the beginning to being almost painless now.
Before the earthquake, she had just sent her children to their grandmother's house. She and her husband carried two large baskets of freshly picked eggplants and tomatoes to sell on the streets of the city.
Ever since the official exchange point moved to Lanshan Base, it has become extremely inconvenient for people who still live in Lingcheng City to exchange supplies or buy some vegetables.
The Lanshan base is far away from the main urban area. If the average person does not have a car, they only have enough time to walk there and back in a day.
Therefore, many people who still live in the suburbs will carry the vegetables they grow and the fish and shrimps they catch from the river in bamboo baskets to sell on the streets of the city. Whether they exchange them for rice, flour, grain, and oil or sell them for points, they can make some money.
Who knew that the earthquake would come so suddenly? The couple had just set up their stall and chatted with the lady selling eggs next to them when the whole ground suddenly shook.
There were many stalls on the street at the time, and before anyone could react they were split in half by the cracked ground.
The screams and heart-wrenching cries for help from all around were all drowned out by the sound of the buildings collapsing one after another.
Many people were buried at once. Some people who were luckier and were not hit by broken beams and bricks ran for their lives.
In the entire ruins, there are many people like this woman who are still half alive. Everyone is using their last bit of consciousness to hold on and wait for official rescue.
Chen Li, who was participating in a major search and rescue mission for the first time, saw Lingcheng, which was once bustling with lights, turned into a city full of ruins in an instant. His feet trembled as he walked.
At this moment, he seemed to see a person trapped under a beam in the pile of reinforced concrete in front of him.
"Sister! Wake up! Sister! Can you hear me?"
Chen Li quickly moved away the large walls blocking his way. When he walked in front of the older sister, he was instantly worried about the situation.
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