Chapter 38 Carbohydrate Feast
On this day, the cavemen were ordered to have a day off.
Let them watch "A Bite of China" in the classroom.
Watching TV is the favorite entertainment activity of the cavemen. They were shown "Into the Wild" and "Soldier Assault" before, and they can almost recite them by heart.
Bell and Xu Sanduo became "celebrities" frequently discussed among the cavemen.
There was even a time when they spoke with a dubbed accent. Datian's second brother came to Luo Jiu to ask how to join the army.
He said he had a dream, that he wanted to join the 7th Steel Company like Xu Sanduo and become a member of the People's Liberation Army.
Luo Jiu looked at the vast barren land and wondered where to liberate? At that time, slavery had not even been born.
She said, "Just wait and exercise well. There will be a day when you will be needed."
This time, Cheng Yaoyao told them that she wanted to watch a movie about food.
This group of cavemen thought they had eaten countless delicacies from land and sea and mastered all the cooking secrets, so they didn't take it seriously at first.
Each of them brought a hemp rope, a ball of yarn, and a knitting needle (iron skewer), and they knitted sweaters, twisted the hemp rope, and leisurely watched the big screen.
The first episode is called "Gifts from Nature", which talks about how to cook and eat Matsutake mushrooms picked in the mountains.
The excellent production level makes the food look so vivid and delicious that it makes people drool through the screen, as if they can smell the aroma of the food.
Everyone stared with their eyes wide open, and their hands' movements gradually slowed down.
The second episode is called "The Story of Staple Food". The cavemen who have not yet experienced the power of carbohydrates suddenly felt their eyes opened. They leaned forward one by one, wishing they could get into the screen to watch.
What is this? I want to eat it!
What is this? Look at it, it smells good!
These are traditional Chinese delicacies? Why didn’t my second and third aunts ever tell us about them?
Just as everyone was anxiously wondering and drooling, Zhong Jialing shouted from outside, "Move the projection outside so we can watch while we eat!"
Is there anything to eat? Datian's second brother was the first to run out, but Datian's mother grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back.
Datianma: "Didn't you understand? Move the projection!"
Datian's second brother went to get the machine angrily, but Datian took it away first, "You move the stool."
Outside the cave, four people had set up a modern food exhibition hall with the theme of a carbohydrate feast.
They selected more than ninety kinds of food from the modern carefully selected and stockpiled food, and placed them on the long table in plates, which was a dazzling array.
Dumplings with various fillings, such as leeks and eggs, pork and sauerkraut, shrimp and squash, beef and celery, lamb and green onions...
There are many ways to cook dumplings, such as steamed dumplings, boiled dumplings, and fried dumplings. Various sauces are placed next to them, including garlic sauce, chili oil, and vinegar. The combination is so complete.
Next to the dumplings were noodles, braised noodles with pork ribs and green beans, noodles with fried soybean paste, noodles with stewed sauce, noodles with scallion oil, cold noodles with shredded chicken, noodles with臊子, noodles with oil... Anyway, they had stocked up on many varieties and put two servings of each on the table.
There are also potato noodles, rice noodles, hot and sour noodles, spicy hot pot, snail noodles, mixed noodles, fried noodles, rice rolls, cold noodles, rice dumplings, moon cakes...
There are also many kinds of rice. The pure white rice cooked with Wuchang rice from Northeast China can be cooked in an electric rice cooker. Just take the inner pot and put it directly on the table.
There are also egg fried rice, rice with toppings, rice with sea cucumber, rice with soup, Northeastern rice buns, crab roe bibimbap, stone pot bibimbap...
In addition, there are many modern fruits and vegetables.
Apples, bananas, oranges, tangerines, grapes, cherries, durian, cucumbers, bok choy, tomatoes, etc., these things that are commonplace in modern times were rare in ancient times.
If Luo Jiu and the others had not brought these things from the future, primitive people would not be able to eat them until at least several thousand years later.
Luo Jiu stood in front of the long table and said to everyone, "Today I will tell you a new way of eating, it's called a buffet. Come and take as much as you want. No leftovers or waste, but you will get as much as you want."
"Okay!" Everyone cheered. Some people had already trotted back to get their plates, eager to eat at the buffet.
Cheng Yaoyao and Zhong Jialing supervised from the side, "Take less and take more, try to try everything, don't rush, don't overeat, there will definitely be enough."
The cavemen ate a lot and wished they had two stomachs.
“This is delicious!”
“This is delicious too!”
Datian: "This is the most delicious, Second Mom, what is this called?"
Luo Jiu took a look and said, "Egg fried rice."
Datian stuffed his mouth full and shouted, "Egg fried rice is so delicious!"
Luo Jiu smiled and shook his head. The four of them drank milk tea leisurely, but they felt as if they were in a pigsty, with the sound of people wolfing down their food all around them.
For a long time, the cavemen didn't say much and just concentrated on eating.
It wasn't until they were almost full that someone asked, "Second Mom, rice is so delicious, can we eat it every day?"
Luo Jiu had been waiting for a long time, waiting for this sentence.
She stood up, pulled a chair, and sat down in front of everyone, “We can’t eat this every day now, because these things are made of rice or noodles.
If we want to eat every day, we have to farm.
Wheat and rice seeds are sown in the soil, and the fruits are harvested after a period of time. After processing, they become the pasta and rice that you eat today.
Those vegetables and fruits are also grown through sowing and watering.
If we want to eat every day, we have to become farmers and do farm work. Are you willing?"
"Yes!" everyone shouted in unison.
Luo Jiu smiled, "If you want to farm, you have to choose a place suitable for farming. You have to leave here, leave Dragon Bone Mountain, are you willing?"
The people below were stunned, and Datian stood up, "Second Mom, where can we go if we leave here?"
Luo Jiu picked up a branch and drew a big "几" character on the ground.
“This is the Yellow River, this is where we are now, and this is where we are going.”
She pointed at the center left of the character "几" and drew a line between Zhoukou in Beijing and Lantian in Shaanxi. That was the direction in which they would migrate.
China's ancient civilization revolved around the entire Yellow River Basin. For the long term, we must choose the most suitable place to build a village.
Luo Jiu chose this location between Luoyang and Xi'an after taking into consideration various factors including population, arable land, and hydrology.
Luo Jiu pointed at that spot and said, "If we settle here, we will have a large area of arable land suitable for planting and a stable water source. The winter there will be warmer.
We built warm houses here, constructed earthen kangs, and dug cellars to store prey.
In spring, we sow seeds; in summer, we irrigate; in autumn, we harvest; in winter, we watch the snow and the moon in the warm house.”
Everyone couldn't help but feel fascinated by the scene described by Luo Jiu.
Datian asked her, "What is the name of this place?"
Luo Jiu hesitated for a moment and used the historical name of this place, "Chang'an."
"Chang'an?" Datian's eyes sparkled with longing. "When are we going to Chang'an?"
Luo Jiu looked at her and stared into her eyes, "Aren't you afraid?"
Datian: “What are you afraid of?”
Luo Jiu: "Unknown, challenge, adventure, the path you are going to take, the things you are going to do, are all things you have never done before. You may fail, fail again and again, and you may regret it, regret that you were impulsive today and followed us to leave Dragon Bone Mountain."
Datian shook his head and answered firmly: "I will follow you till death and never regret it."
"Okay!" Luo Jiu showed a look of satisfaction to her. She held Datian's hand and raised it high. "Are you willing to follow us to Chang'an like her?"
They all looked at each other and shouted in unison: "I will follow you till death! I will never regret it! I will follow you till death! I will never regret it!"
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