Next, they prepared for the New Year's Eve dinner. With Shen Xingmian around, they never lacked anything and always ate very well.
But the soldiers in the army were different. There were too many people, and at first, the supply couldn't keep up. It was already a good thing if they could be guaranteed to have enough to eat.
Later, thanks to Shen Xingmian's efforts and the upgrade of the space, things gradually improved.
Now, at least we don't have to worry about anyone in the barracks going hungry.
Thinking about this, Shen Xingmian felt a great sense of accomplishment; it was as if she had done something very great.
She didn't have many plans for the future; she only wanted to start with Yong'an Town, work hard to develop the area, and strive to ensure that more places would be free from famine and displaced people.
This goal is great, and it gives her a lot of motivation.
Cooking in a large pot is not easy, but fortunately, they are not needed. There are many cooks in the barracks, and since the soldiers are on leave today, many of them have gone to help.
Shen Xingmian discussed it with her maternal grandfather and aunt and decided not to make too much, just four dishes, enough to satisfy everyone.
Making too many varieties is simply putting a strain on the chefs in the kitchen.
Braised pork with potatoes, chicken stew with mushrooms, sweet and sour fish, and beef stew with radish are all dishes that combine meat and vegetables, with fish being the only exception.
In Shen Xingmian's mind, eating fish is a must during the Chinese New Year, as it symbolizes good fortune and abundance.
Who wouldn't like that?
It is a must.
So here's the problem: with so many fish, where do you get them? And you can't force animals to reproduce.
The number of fish in the space is a lot for our own people, but it's not enough for more than 30,000 people.
Just then, Shen Yunqi came over to look at the menu and noticed the problem. He suggested, "Why don't we go fish in the river? Break the ice, throw some food in, and we can catch a lot in one net."
Shen Xingmian's eyes lit up. She had seen videos of ice fishing before and found them very interesting. Why hadn't she thought of it when she came here?
She immediately nodded: "Okay, let's set off now. We should be able to get back in time. I'll take out all the big fish from the space and have the chefs prepare them. If we don't have enough, we'll use new ones."
The river they were heading to wasn't far from the military camp. After putting everyone back into their spatial dimension, Shen Xingmian and her uncle drove there together.
My grandfather stayed in the military camp. After he returned to the North, he was no longer as free as before.
After driving for less than half an hour, Shen Yunqi found a place to stop. Shen Xingmian looked around and saw that everything was covered with thick snow, and she couldn't see any river at all.
After getting out of the car, Shen Yunqi asked Shen Xingmian for a shovel and cleared away the snow nearby, revealing the solid ice surface.
If you weren't familiar enough with the location, you probably would have stood on the ice without knowing what was underneath.
Shen Xingmian squatted down and looked carefully through the ice, but still couldn't see how thick the ice was.
Even knowing that the ice was definitely solid enough, Shen Xingmian still couldn't help but feel a little scared as she walked on it, always feeling a sense of caution.
She set up a tent on the cleared ice so that everyone could freely enter and exit and escape the cold wind.
Although she can return to the space at any time, as the "gatekeeper" of the space, anyone who wants to enter or leave must pass through her, which becomes quite troublesome if it happens too often.
She herself didn't mind the trouble, but she worried that people would feel embarrassed to go back because they thought it was a bother to her, and would have to stay outside in the cold.
So in the end, they set up a tent on the ice and put up a stove.
This way, everyone can enjoy the fun of ice fishing, and also have a place to warm up when it gets cold.
Shen Xingmian really hoped that the space could develop a new function, so that anyone she had granted permission could freely enter and exit the space at any time within a few meters of her.
It was as if she had sent out a spare key.
However, this feature is not yet implemented, and we don't know if it will be added as the game evolves.
After the tent was set up, she let everyone out and started a fire to light the stove.
Shen Xingmian knew about the electric drills that northerners used for ice fishing, but she didn't have any. After all, in the apocalypse, no one would be idle enough to specifically look for such things to collect.
She went to a hardware store and tried a regular drill bit, but it was too short to drill through such a thick layer of ice.
Using a pickaxe or shovel didn't work; there was no way to remove such a thick layer of ice. In the end, Luo Qi'an came up with another solution.
“Mianmian, can’t you modify metal? Then add a long handle to the back of the drill bit, and it can gradually go deeper into the ice.”
"ah!"
Shen Xingmian thought this was indeed a good idea, and modifying metal was not difficult for her. She put an iron brick behind the drill bit and used her supernatural ability to shape it into a very sturdy long handle.
This allows the drill bit to go indefinitely until it reaches the bottom of the ice layer and breaks through the ice surface.
Before coming here, Shen Yunqi thought that the parts of the river with particularly rapid currents should not be frozen.
As a result, whether it was because the weather was too cold this year or for some other reason, we couldn't find such a river basin at all; the entire river surface was frozen solid.
If it weren't for the drill bit that my niece had, they would have had to put in a lot of effort just to break through the ice.
This is also why no one in the military camp came to fish.
It's cold, and the ice is really thick.
However, this drill bit can only drill one hole, allowing you to put in fishing line and bait, but it cannot be used for large-scale fishing, so the efficiency is still a bit slow.
It took them a long time to crawl out four holes, and each of them guarded a spot, slowly fishing with their lines.
This was a task that really tested one's patience, and it was far from what Shen Xingmian had originally planned to do—catching dozens of fish in one go.
However, she quickly came to terms with reality. Those people who go ice fishing might only catch a few fish after a long day of work, but they are very happy.
She then covered the four holes with the tent, and the four of them took turns fishing.
Sitting by the stove, wearing thick cotton-padded coats, they didn't feel too cold, but they couldn't speak for fear of scaring the fish away.
Sitting there like this was really boring, and Shen Xingmian was worried that the ice under the stove would melt, so she would take a look at it every now and then.
It was later discovered that the heat seemed to rise upwards, warming the tent, but the ice surface didn't melt much, so there was no need to worry at all.
Shen Xingmian was getting a little bored. He couldn't quite understand the feelings of those modern anglers. Why were they so obsessed with fishing?
I don't understand.
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