Bai Jiu: "Miss, do all the people in the neighborhood go to the base?"
Bai Shuang: "Most people will go, but there should be some people with financial means who are taking a wait-and-see approach."
Bai Chang: "So when are we going to stockpile coal?"
"Stay for a while, stock up on food, then you won't need to cook on the road."
In the afternoon, the three of them started digging potatoes. Bai Shuang did not put the cold-resistant potatoes planted in the express box into her space because she was worried that the potatoes grown in her space would no longer be cold-resistant when used as seeds.
Most of them are planted on Bai Jiu's balcony, while Bai Shuang has more vegetables there.
With better lighting and soil fertility than others, the yield should be good.
Bai Jiu dug a hole first, and the snow leopard rushed to another basin to dig, but Bai Shuang stopped him, not expecting that the guy to make a mess of soil everywhere.
Bai Jiu quickly dug up a mound of potatoes. "Wow, what a bountiful harvest! Look, they're bigger than Wang Xiu's! Miss, we've had a great harvest!"
Bai Shuang looked at the bunch of potatoes in Bai Jiu's hand. There were quite a few. Those scientists were really capable. After such a short time of extreme cold, they were able to develop such cold-resistant potatoes.
To be honest, I didn't take care of these potatoes much after planting them. For a while, I was busy with papermaking at the military plantation. I just put a fluorescent light above the planting pots and watered them every few days.
The three of them worked quickly and finished digging in no time, harvesting over 100 jin (50 kg).
For dinner, the three of us and the dog had steamed potatoes, which were also quite good with congee made with preserved egg and lean pork.
Bai Jiu dipped the peeled potato in a sauce made of salt and pepper, cumin powder, and chili powder, took a bite, and said, "Hmm, not bad, not bad at all, better than the steamed ones from the research institute."
Bai Shuang laughed and said, "Why didn't you say the research institute didn't have the materials?"
Actually, these potatoes are tastier than others because they are bigger and have a better texture.
The next day, the government sent cars to pick up people at Yichen Tianfu, taking them away from building to building. Someone nearby introduced the situation of the base to everyone, and Bai Shuang and the others also went to listen.
I heard that to enter the base, each person has to pay five jin of grain, cold-resistant potatoes will do. People without grain can also enter, but each person has to work as a free laborer for half a month, and meals will be provided.
Those who have delivered grain will earn points for their work, and these points are like currency, which can be exchanged for various supplies at the base supermarket.
Food can also be exchanged for points.
If you want to stay in a nicer place, you need to use points to rent or buy a house. If you don't have points, you can only stay in a dormitory-style room.
These conditions are already quite good. In other words, people without food can enter and survive. As long as they work hard and make ends meet, they can earn points after paying the entrance fee.
They even provide meals; you won't be full, but you won't starve. But if you don't go to the base, you'll definitely starve.
As for those with ability and resources, it's normal that they live better than others no matter where they are.
Except for Bai Shuang and a few others, everyone in Building C went to the base. Because once this opportunity is gone, it's gone forever. If you go now, the government will provide transportation, but if you want to go again later, you'll have to find your own way.
It's freezing cold, and every family has their belongings and such. Without a car, they're really in a bind.
Everyone downstairs and upstairs has left, even the entire neighborhood has left. Now I can cook without worrying about others smelling the food and causing trouble.
Every morning, the three people and their dog, besides practicing kung fu for an hour without fail, start cooking.
While the three were busy, the snow leopard was also busy darting around, and sometimes it could even lend a hand.
Every night after Bai Jiu and the others leave, Bai Shuang does some farm work in the space to train her mental strength. Her mental strength is now strong enough to control fruits outside the space.
The group started by making their favorite dumplings.
Mushroom and pork filling, chive and egg filling, three-delicacy filling, mutton filling, chive filling, lettuce and egg filling, cucumber and egg filling, carrot and pork filling, corn and pork filling, carrot and beef filling, as well as various fish fillings, shrimp fillings, etc.
I made dumplings for 10 days in total. They were all cooked, packed in boxes, and stored in my virtual space.
Next, I made steamed buns for another 10 days.
Ground pork, ground lamb, ground beef, ground shrimp, ground vegetables...
Take advantage of the opportunity to secure space.
Next, I cooked vegetables for another 10 days, and also made rice.
I made noodles for 10 days: hand-pulled noodles, pulled noodles, hand-stretched noodles, leek leaf noodles, plain noodles, cat's ear noodles, sesame noodles, and the famous biangbiang noodles from Shaanxi Province.
Complete the storage space.
I also baked pancakes for five days, made steamed buns and twisted rolls for five days, and stewed meat for five days...
Bai Jiu: "Miss, we could eat all this in a year."
Bai Shuang: "It'll be quick to eat. Once we get the coal back, we'll keep making more. We'll make as much as we can while we have time and no one's bothering us, so we can eat until the disaster is over."
They say no one bothers them, but actually, someone does bother them; it's just that the person can't affect them.
In another building in their neighborhood, there lived a man with a little girl.
With the other residents of the neighborhood gone, Bai Shuang and her two friends rolled up their sleeves and started cooking without any inhibitions.
Because of the recent crackdown, things are relatively peaceful, and there shouldn't be any criminal gangs for the time being. Even if there are a few petty thieves, they are not a threat given their fighting skills.
The father and daughter could smell the aroma of Bai Shuang's cooking every day, but they couldn't eat it. The adults could understand, but the little girl would look at the man with pitiful eyes every day when she smelled it.
They had no shortage of food, but the men weren't very good at cooking. At best, they could only cook raw food into cooked food, and whether it tasted good or not was another matter.
In the apocalypse, having enough to eat is already a blessing, but the contrast can change people's feelings.
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