Chapter 74 Why are you hiding here and eating secretly?

The rewards for the mission to destroy the green giant are generous and are paid out quickly.

There were a total of 1,000 kilograms of rice, 200 kilograms of pork, 100 kilograms of mung beans, and 1 kilogram of various vegetable seeds.

Zhao Yunduo looked at the mess on the ground, grabbed a handful of mung beans, and asked in confusion: "Mung beans? What are they used for?"

"Grow bean sprouts," the cooking auntie put away the green beans and kept muttering, "Even though there are dozens of small bags of seeds, it's hard to say whether they can grow vegetables."

The land is polluted, making it difficult not only to raise animals but also to grow vegetables and grains. Sometimes, when you finally grow vegetables, they are often the kind that will give you diarrhea if you eat them. If you are not careful, you might even grow a miniature version of the green giant - one that will bite people.

If the soil problem is not solved, no one will dare to eat rice even if it grows in the land. Last year, someone was so hungry that he ate wild vegetables and ended up eating himself to death. The next day, a melon vine grew in his stomach, which was very scary.

"Mung beans are better because they can sprout."

Auntie said this with emotion as she was packing things into the sack.

After taking a shower and changing into new clothes, Zhao Yunduo prepared to attend the celebration banquet. Before the banquet started, she was too bored to walk around and touch things, watching the uncles and aunts in the cafeteria cook, most of which were noodles.

The production of meat and grain is a big problem, so whether the nutrition is sufficient or not is secondary. Being able to eat enough is the most important thing in the last days.

Therefore, even for celebration banquets, noodles are mostly the main dish.

A lot of things are added to the flour. The brown flour is added with powder made from tree bark, and the green flour is added with powder made from a kind of wild grass.

It is said that this tree and weeds are the only plants in the apocalypse that grow in the soil without mutating. Although they are not poisonous to eat, they taste bitter.

The cooking auntie even said cheerfully: "There is a lot of flour in this celebration banquet, so we added less tree powder and grass powder to make it sweeter."

This time the leader also specially approved to make pork pie for the heroes. Zhao Yunduo also saw it. What kind of pork pie is it? There was only a tiny bit of minced meat in it.

There was also the laver soup that was being cooked. There was only a fist-sized piece of laver in the pot, and only two eggs were beaten in it, so you could hardly see the egg flowers. There were steamed buns in the pot, and the green onions on top were pitifully few.

But after the celebration banquet started, Zhao Yunduo discovered that except for the six of them, the other dozens of people who came to the banquet were all enjoying the meal.

After asking, Zhao Yunduo found out that people in the base rarely get to eat bread mixed with minced meat, and clean egg drop soup and steamed buns are extremely precious.

This was a feast for the base. Not only them and the leadership, but also many residents from Zone C and above came to join in the fun.

Everyone was eating enthusiastically. Kong Liang, who was always greedy, grabbed a pork stuffed pancake but found it tasteless. "The minced meat residue was fried several times, it's dry. And the dough is so hard when you bite it."

He complained quietly, and someone next to him heard it and said to him, "Didn't you love this pie the most before? You could eat four in one go! Why are you complaining about it now?"

Kong Liang thought, that was in the past. He had never tasted the delicacies from Zhao Yunduo before, so he mistook the minced meat pie for a treasure.

Not only him, but also Liang Tuantuan and Liang Yuanyuan felt uncomfortable drinking the seaweed soup, thinking it tasted like boiled water. Zhao Yunduo also took a bite of the flower roll and held it in his hand for a long time before taking the second bite.

"It tastes terrible, doesn't it? Is this how you reward your heroes at the base?"

Connie picked up a piece of pork pie, sniffed it, and threw it back into the wooden basket with a look of disgust. He also wiped his fingers with a piece of paper and said, "It's hard and smelly. This is what the lowest-ranking people in our base eat."

Zhao Yunduo really didn't know why Connie always followed her around. He was like a piece of sticky candy that she couldn't shake off. He would come after her as soon as he saw her. The celebration banquet was just outside Area B, and the whole place was not big. She couldn't even avoid him.

"Hey, I found out your name, Zhao Yunduo? Is that right? What a nice name."

Someone from Area B greeted Zhao Yunduo. Zhao Yunduo smiled at them, then turned around and said to Connie with gritted teeth, "Go away. I'm not in the mood to chat with you."

"Come back to Y City with me, Yun Duo."

"Can you go and pester others?" Zhao Yunduo glanced at him coldly.

"No, I think you are the one I am looking for."

Zhao Yunduo tilted her hand and poured the wine glass in her hand—who knew it was filled with wine—all over Connie's white shirt. Then she widened her eyes, covered her mouth and pretended to be surprised, "Oh, sorry, Mr. Connie, I accidentally stained your clothes."

Connie was not angry. She lowered her head and patted the water stains on her shirt. When she looked up again, the person who said "sorry" had already run away. Where was she?

"That's quite interesting." Connie smiled.

Zhao Yunduo avoided Connie, but was caught by Cui Zhende.

"That's great. Come with me."

Cui Zhende took her up to the second floor. Wow, the food there was much better than before. The noodles were all white, the flower rolls were densely covered with scallions, and there was also the pork pie—

When Zhao Yunduo broke it open, he found that there was quite a lot of meat inside. The meat in this piece of meat pie was equivalent to the five pieces downstairs.

She took a bite. Although it wasn't as delicious as the food in her own space, it was much better than the food downstairs.

"Why are you hiding here and eating secretly?" Cui Zhende leaned on a crutch with one hand and pulled Zhao Yunduo's arm with the other hand, "I brought you here to meet people, why are you eating here?"

Zhao Yunduo was really not interested in socializing, but Cui Zhende seemed to want to introduce her to all the leaders of the B City Base, and took her around the second floor.

Zhao Yunduo was confused. This person was the general manager of the residential area in Area A, and that person was the general mission issuer for the base in City B...

She turned around and found Wu An was also on the second floor, but strangely, there was no sign of Tao Jie on the second floor. And the dozen people who came with Tao Jie to welcome them back today did not seem to be there.

When the banquet was almost over, Tao Jie finally realized that she was late. She raised her glass to Cui Zhende with an apologetic look on her face, "Professor Cui, I'm really sorry that I'm late."

"Auntie Tao is a very busy person, it's not easy for her to get away."

Cui Zhende was smiling, and the two of them toasted each other for a while. Zhao Yunduo smelled something strange, and quietly approached Wu An and asked in a low voice: "What's going on? Is there a melon?"

Wu An was not a gossiper, but seeing Cui Zhende taking Zhao Yunduo everywhere to introduce her to people, he knew in his heart that Cui Zhende admired Zhao Yunduo and might want to bring Zhao Yunduo into the management level of the base. After thinking about it, he told Zhao Yunduo.

"Tao Jie and Mr. Cui had different opinions on some decisions several times. Mr. Cui was stubborn and carried out the decisions several times without telling Tao Jie. So Tao Jie always wanted to suppress Mr. Cui."

"Oh——" Zhao Yunduo suddenly realized. Zhao Yunduo had been puzzled before. Cui Zhende looked to be in his fifties and was the head of the laboratory. Why was the base willing to let him go on a mission?

I didn't expect that Sister Tao wanted to release Cui Zhende and wished he would die outside.

At this moment, the two people who seemed to be in harmony but were actually at odds with each other were holding hands and saying thank you for each other's hard work.

Zhao Yunduo was very impressed by the acting skills of both of them.