Chapter 52 Drunken Crab
Mo Fei is a man of his words.
She had promised to provide food and drink for five days for those who came to rescue Lin Jiyuan, so of course she would keep her word. Not only that, but she would also prepare the most delicious food.
When she was the head chef at a five-star hotel, every Chinese New Year, while workers in other industries went home to reunite happily, the catering industry was the busiest. Mo Fei was busy preparing New Year's Eve dinner for the hotel's supreme VIP guests.
The menu for the New Year's Eve dinner changes every year, and the price keeps rising.
From 18888 to 68888, and then to 88888, she already knew the names and cooking methods of those dishes by heart.
As a supreme VIP guest, the food you eat is not only delicious, but also expensive.
The ingredients used are not Italian white truffles, Spanish Iberian ham, Beluga Caspian pearl caviar, French foie gras, A5 wagyu beef, but abalone, sea cucumber, shark's fin and fish maw. Anything flying in the sky or swimming in the sea, as long as it is rare, is only available to the rich. These ingredients are rare, expensive, and have very demanding storage conditions.
Before the natural disaster, Mo Fei was a poor man. In order to save money, the meat he stockpiled was nothing more than pork, beef, mutton, chicken, duck, fish and some seafood of slightly better quality.
Even if she killed Mo Fei now, she wouldn't be able to get these precious ingredients.
However, since it was to thank everyone, Mo Fei counted the ingredients in the space, and finally decided on ten dishes, and gave them a simple name "Full Food Feast".
The ten dishes are: seasonal vegetable platter, vermicelli soup with garlic sauce, peach Earl Grey black tea cheese mousse, beer duck, preserved vegetable braised pork, egg yolk chicken wings, garlic ribs, silken tofu pig's trotters, red drunken crab, and lobster noodles. The first few dishes are pretty routine, but the latter ones are more troublesome.
But who can blame Mo Fei for wanting to do this? Besides giving back to everyone, doing this is also a bit of a show of skill.
The main ingredient of the flaming red drunken crab is the large crab that Mo Fei has raised for several days using the river water in the space.
Each one weighed two kilograms, and she took out four.
Before processing the crabs, Mo Fei opened his iPad and started playing a video.
These videos are the best ones available nowadays if you still have internet access. There are at least four or five hundred of them, and I just listen to them to entertain myself while cooking.
In today's video, people are making fried yogurt. The background music is a female voice singing the sad and resentful "The coffin is buried in the deep valley", and a passage from a novel is playing at the same time:
"I was reborn. I died the year I loved him the most. He threw away hundreds of millions of dollars in assets and buried me in the sea of fire. When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to ten years ago. At that time..."
Mo Fei nodded as he listened to the BGM of the novel: "It seems that today I'm listening to a story about a domineering president chasing his wife to a funeral. I wonder if it's as interesting as the one about the real and fake daughter I listened to last time."
Accompanied by the sadistic novels, Mo Fei cleaned and cut four large crabs into pieces neatly, then added onions, ginger, garlic, aged osmanthus wine, brandy, aged Huadiao wine, rose wine, white wine, sugar, soy sauce and oyster sauce in turn, stirred well and set aside to marinate.
After marinating for half an hour, remove the crabs from the sauce.
Pour butter into a large iron pan and fry the crabs until they are slightly golden.
Finally, add the remaining ingredients and sauté until fragrant, then add the fried crab meat, cover the pot and bake for a few minutes.
Pour a little brandy on it when it’s almost time to serve, and a big pot of red drunken crab is ready.
Zui Xiang Zui Xiang, what you enjoy is the mellow aroma of wine and the delicious crab meat.
The red drunken crabs haven't even come out of the pot yet, but the extremely strong aroma of the crabs has already spread several miles away.
The fragrance drifted all the way to the ward of the health center.
In the ward, Li Wei and Lai Zi each sat on a stool, watching over Lin Jiye and the others who were lying on the hospital beds.
They sat there bored and sleepy, even snoring.
When he smelled the aroma of wine, Li Wei suddenly woke up and could no longer hold back.
He has no other hobbies in his life, he just likes to drink a few sips.
When everyone was distributing supermarket supplies, he would rather order less of other things and wanted to take two more bottles of wine.
"Good wine, good wine, why are you using it to cook?"
Li Wei took a deep breath and couldn't help wiping his saliva.
"It's a blessing for this wine to be able to be added to the dishes by Sister Mo." Laizi said with a smile.
He is now the only fan of Mo Fei.
As long as it is related to Mo Fei, it is good.
Only things that can be used by Mo Fei have value.
"It smells so good." Lan Chengyin and Lin Jiye also shouted from their hospital beds.
Lin Jiye had only been lying in bed for two days when he felt that his limbs were almost degenerated. He wanted to get out of bed immediately: "When is the meal? I can eat two bowls."
"Forget about it, you two. Sister Mo said that the full-scale feast is for us, and you guys will have to eat the sick meal. She will make something else for you."
The beggar chuckled, feeling quite proud.
If they want their injuries to heal quickly, they must avoid eating spicy, irritating, or greasy food.
Murphy even specially prepared a menu for sick meals for them.
It's nothing more than some vegetables, fruits, and simply processed meat, eggs, and milk, without any chili.
"What are you arguing about?" Lin Jiyuan walked in from outside.
He must have gone somewhere to wash his face after waking up, as there were still some water drops on his face that had not been wiped off.
If he had come in later, the water droplets might have turned into ice beads.
"We're not noisy, we're quiet."
Lin Jiye smiled at his brother.
"Brother, please sit down. Tell me what happened after you fell down? Did that deep well ice really save your life?" Lin Jiye automatically gave combustible ice a nickname.
Lan Chengyin, Li Wei and Laizi all pricked up their ears to gossip.
Even Peng Yuan, who hadn't woken up yet, seemed to be breathing a little faster.
In their eyes, Lin Jiyuan is the strongest man and the ceiling of combat power in this small town.
It was hard for them to imagine that the combustible ice that looked like an idiot would become Lin Jiyuan's lifesaver.
Lin Jiyuan didn't sit down or speak.
He took the wound medicine from the cart outside the door and changed the medicine in the order of the beds. Finally, he walked to Peng Yuan's bed, leaned over, and put his hand close to the surgical incision.
He let out an almost inaudible sigh of relief: "It's okay."
Peng Yuan's physical condition is more stable than he expected.
"What's okay?" The people who were waiting to hear gossip were confused.
"I said he's fine."
Lin Jiyuan pointed at Peng Yuan and looked coldly at the people in the ward.
Peng Yuan (Close your eyes and you are out of danger version) inner thoughts:
Brother Yuan, thank you for speaking up for me.
Lin Jiyuan liked quietness, so he sat alone at the hospital entrance, touched the pocket of his black goose down jacket, and pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.
The cigarettes were stockpiled from the warehouse of the town's supermarket, and Laizi secretly stuffed a few cartons into his trunk.
The dark purple packaging is matched with gold-stamped images of Baisha and Tianxia.
Before the natural disaster, the retail price was 100 yuan per box.
He lit a cigarette and took a deep breath. As the smoke rings floated, he silently looked at the snow in front of the door, with no extra expression on his face.
In addition to clearing the snow in front of their own houses, the survivors in the town also cleared the snow on the main roads and some important places in the town. However, the speed of clearing was far slower than the speed of snow falling.
There was now a layer of snow piled up at the entrance of the clinic, which had just been swept in the morning.
Looking into the distance along this layer of snow, there is endless white.
It has been snowing intermittently for more than a month, and now the whole world is silver-white.
In the cold smoke, Lin Jiyuan recalled that one year he had a field training on the snow-capped mountains of the Kunlun Mountains.
The Kunlun Mountains are known as the "ancestor of all mountains". They are covered with snow all year round and have 7,612 glaciers alone.
After the 100 of them were dropped into the permafrost area by helicopter, they were divided into ten teams and set out together to a place in the Kunlun Mountains known as the "Land of Death."
There was no one living there, no sign of life, only the occasional skeleton of an animal or a human being. In the end, only their team was left. And there were only three people left in their team.
Each of them had numb limbs, black eyes, and only had their last breath left. But no one gave up hope of survival.
Finally, we reached a place where we could send out a rescue signal.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is the Peach Garden Oath of Brotherhood, and these are the Snow Mountain Oath of Brotherhood.
Since that year, their three-man team has become the team with the strongest individual and comprehensive combat capabilities. They have achieved countless victories and everyone has made a lot of money.
Lin Jiyuan learned about the natural disaster from Su Cong, one of his teammates.
Su Cong was different from the other two materialists. He believed in theology and knew the Book of Changes by heart.
He always carried three copper coins with him, called himself Master Su Xuan, and would tell fortunes before every important mission.
The first signs of high temperature changes appeared in February this year. For most areas, it was still the end of winter and the beginning of spring, but the climate in many low-latitude areas began to heat up. Even though the temperature was still within the normal range at that time, Su Cong, who noticed something was wrong, made a special divination for this matter.
The hexagram made the usually calm Su Cong's face change drastically. He pulled Lin Jiyuan and another teammate Yin Dian without saying anything and asked them to return home immediately.
The three of them all have their own things to do in China.
Lin Jiyuan’s hometown, Baishi, belongs to the middle area.
So they agreed to come to Bai City to meet Lin Jiyuan after finishing their business.
Three men, once brothers, are brothers for life.
If the high temperature of 40 degrees in May is regarded as the beginning of the natural disaster, then it has been more than five months since the disaster, and everything is just as Su Cong said that day.
Everything dies and everything lives.
Su Cong and Yin Dian have not come to see him yet. Lin Jiyuan's social relationships are simple, and his younger brother is his only relative. Su Cong and Yin Dian are also relatives to Lin Jiyuan.
Lin Jiyuan didn’t know what their current situation was, but he believed that with their abilities, they would be able to live well.
If they really came to find him, according to the route, Hexi Town was a must-pass place.
He just needs to wait patiently here.
Lin Jiyuan's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of footsteps on the snow, followed by a scent.
But this fragrance is still inferior to the "wine crab" fragrance that everyone smelled just now.
I guess Mo Fei made these hospital meals specifically for them.
Lin Jiyuan's stomach was empty, but people with special abilities could not tolerate hunger, so he would not feel hungry even if he did not eat for three or four days. But now, when he smelled the fragrance, he could not help but feel hungry.
When Lin Jiyuan looked up, he saw Mo Jiayue and Mo Jianian coming over.
The brother and sister each carried a bag containing a heat-insulating lunch bucket.
"Uncle Lin!" Mo Jiayue ran over happily.
Mo Jianian followed closely behind: "My mother asked us to bring you food."
"Why are you stealing my lines?" Mo Jiayue glared. She finally had the chance to say a few more words to Uncle Lin.
"Whoever speaks fastest can speak first." Mo Jianian looked up.
"Eat." Lin Jiyuan took the bags from the children and brought them to the ward.
Lin Jiye and a few others immediately rushed to cheer.
The patient meal Mo Fei prepared for them was yam and pork tripe porridge.
Soak the rice in space river water for half an hour.
Wash the pig's stomach, cut it into shreds, and marinate it with salt and cooking wine.
Peel the yam and cut it into dice, and remove the core of the lotus seeds.
Put rice grains and lotus seeds into the pot and cook them into porridge. Add a small amount of salt and a little bit of oil. After the porridge is cooked, add pork tripe and yam and continue to cook.
Sprinkle some chopped green onions when serving, and the yam and pork belly porridge is ready.
"It smells so good." Li Wei stood up and kept glancing into the thermos.
"Uncle Li, Uncle Lai, my mother asked us to deliver the meal and take over your shift. You can go over to eat now." Mo Jianian said politely.
Li Wei and Laizi immediately smiled happily and disappeared from sight like riding a rocket.
After eating two large bowls of pork tripe porridge, everyone in the ward couldn't help but burp.
Poor Peng Yuan can only rely on intravenous drips for a while. If he wants to have a proper meal, he has to lie down for at least a week.
While eating, Lin Jiye chatted with the Mo brothers and sisters.
"Is Shenjingbing in your place?"
When it comes to combustible ice, Mo Jiayue has something to say.
"He's really going too far!"
"What do you mean?" Lin Jiye became interested
But Ran Bing sneaked out of the kitchen when Mo Fei was cooking the red drunken crab. When Mo Fei was out of the kitchen to do other things, he took the opportunity to sneak in, picked up a big crab and left.
When he was leaving, he was caught by Mo Fei, which made Mo Fei very angry.
Mo Fei picked up a rolling pin and started hitting the combustible ice.
Ran Bing dared not say anything to his "parents who provided him with food and clothing". He ate crabs while being beaten and licked the juice off his ten fingers very devoutly.
"How shameless!" Lin Jiye and Lan Chengyin cursed angrily.
"Then my mother punished him by making him sweep the snow," Mo Jiayue added.
"He really went?" Several people were surprised that Methane Bleach could be so flexible just for a bite of food.
"He really went. But he's really awesome." Mo Jianian also said, "His ability is very powerful. He only needs to stand on the road and wave his hand, and the snow will automatically split into two sides."
The faces of the people in the ward changed.
Just by listening to the description, this combustible ice's ability to control ice and snow can be said to have reached the level of perfection. It's as if he was born to be the master of ice and snow.
Perhaps if he wanted to, under such unique natural conditions, it would be easy for him to create a few blizzards or avalanches.
Fortunately, people like this are still "friends" for the time being.
Fortunately, I still have the weakness of greed.
Mo Jiayue listened to her brother's praise for combustible ice and felt a little unconvinced: "If I transform, who knows who will be the better one."
Since Lin Jiye comforted her from time to time, she could now retain her self-awareness even when she turned into a flame bear. Although the duration of the frenzy was not long due to her physical condition, her strength was unquestionable.
She relied on this ability to provide fire and burn the piles of garbage for free. Everyone liked her. How could she be compared with combustible ice!
"Yes, you are great. Do your homework first."
Mo Jianian took out a paper and a pen from his pocket expressionlessly.
"???" Mo Jiayue, who was originally proud, was shocked. "Are you a devil? I'm just an eight-year-old child."
"Mom said, you're just sitting around doing nothing here, so finish the test paper and you can go back." Mo Jianian issued an imperial decree from Mo Fei, "These are all basic questions."
Hearing that it was her mother's request, Mo Jiayue took the test paper with dark eyes, glanced up and immediately shouted: "How would I know what the story of "Two Children Arguing About the Sun" tells us? I haven't learned it!"
"You learned it. I taught you word for word last week."
“…”
Amid Mo Jiayue's wailing, the people in the ward happily finished their pig stomach porridge.
At Murphy's house, the survivors of the town filled the living room.
Each person held a large bowl in his hand, which was filled with greasy shrimps, crabs, pig's trotters and chicken wings, which looked very appetizing.
If you are tired of eating meat, you can pick up some lettuce to cleanse your stomach, and have a bowl of vermicelli soup to warm your body. After the meal, each person can have a piece of peach Earl Grey black tea cheese mousse.
It’s so wonderful to live like this.
Song Yi and Mo Zhicheng both like lively occasions. Seeing so many guests at home, they were happy. They sat in the middle of the crowd, eating and chatting with everyone.
What people talked about most were the events before the natural disaster.
The things that happen to everyone in their life are enough to be made into movies or books, but no one has ever paid attention to the lives of ordinary people.
Mo Fei made sure everyone had good food and drink, and if that wasn’t enough, there was more.
Then he went out with a box of pig's trotters and a box of chicken wings.
As he walked out of the door, Mo Fei's eyes were shocked.
She just wanted to give Combustible Ice something to do so that he wouldn't bother her, so she asked him to shovel the snow. Who would have thought that all the main roads starting from her house were clean, with ice and snow piled up on both sides.
She walked all the way but didn't see the figure of the combustible ice, so she had to open the lid of the meat and fan it with her hands to let the smell spread out: "Such delicious meat is still warm. It's a pity that no one eats it, or should I throw it away?"
As soon as she finished speaking, a dense pile of snow next to her suddenly collapsed.
Methane hydrate rolled out from inside.
He shook off the snow foam on his body and snatched the box from Mo Fei's hand: "You are such a waste of food! Please pour it into my mouth."
Looking at the combustible ice wolfing down, Mo Fei lowered his head and smiled, then squatted aside and watched him eat.
"Hey, where are you from? How old are you?"
Mo Fei seemed to be chatting, but in fact he was checking the household registration.
"I am from this...bajibaji...this town. Bah, bah, bah, why did you put ginger in it?! Don't put it in next time. I am eighty-eight years old."
The combustible ice chewed up the pig's trotter bones and swallowed them all, but spat out the ginger.
Good fellow, he's a picky eater, Mo Fei thought to himself.
"If you don't want to talk about it, forget it. What do you mean by eighty-eight years old? I'm still sixty years old." Mo Fei said. What she said was not wrong. If you add up her age and the original owner's age, she is almost sixty years old.
"Really?" Ran Bing's eyes lit up when he heard that. He stopped eating and sniffed around Mo Fei. After sniffing for a long time, he lowered his head and said, "You lied to me."
Seeing that he was inexplicably depressed, Mo Fei couldn't help but want to touch his head. But the combustible ice looked like a puppy sniffing around. Fortunately, Mo Fei took his hand back in time after he had extended it. He felt that he must have been bewitched just now.
Then an absurd thought popped into Mo Fei's mind. Maybe Methane Explosion was not lying. He was really eighty-eight years old.
"Do you have any family or friends?" Mo Fei asked again.
She wanted to find out indirectly where the combustible ice came from.
A person always has a trace in human society. After all, before a natural disaster, a person has to register, get an ID card, go to school, and find a job. In the process, you will always make friends. The kind of friends you make and the environment you live in will be similar to that of the person.
"No more. I'm the only one in my family. Don't you know that I'm a lonely star? So no one comes to find me." Ke Ran Bing burped, "I'm still hungry, I want to eat more, is there anything else?"
"..." Mo Fei was speechless, "Brother, I packed two kilograms for you."
"You call me big brother? Wow, this is the first time someone calls me big brother. How about we call each other brother and sister from now on? You call me brother and I call you sister. Big brother is hungry now, give me another two pounds. Remember to pick out the ginger." Ke Ranbing wiped his mouth and handed over the empty box.
"Go away. I can't afford to support you." Mo Fei stood up. Well, he didn't ask anything and still paid with two kilograms of meat.
She dragged the combustible ice all the way to the health center and threw it to Lin Jiyuan.
"You insisted on bringing back the Taotie, so keep it for yourself."
Several pairs of eyes in the ward focused on the combustible ice.
But Ran Bing was not at all shy. He sniffed the remaining aroma in the ward and said, "Pig tripe?! Why are you eating alone here? You didn't leave any for me. This is really too much. I'm very angry."
Perhaps he wanted to express that he was really angry, so he punched the door.
The entire iron door instantly turned into an ice door, emitting bursts of cold air, and it swayed as if it was about to fall down.
The sound woke up Peng Yuanzhen who was sleeping. He opened his eyes and looked at the people in the ward in shock: "Is there...an earthquake?"
Lin Jiyuan: "..."
He looked at the speechless Mo Fei with a complicated expression, and slowly said: "I plan to take him to the city to find supplies in a few days. What do you think of this idea?"
This guy's stomach is like a bottomless pit. Others eat by the bowl, but he eats by the pound.
Even if Mo Fei had something in the space, he couldn't let the combustible ice eat and drink for free all day long.
"Looking for supplies? Why do we need to look for them? Where should we look for them? What kinds of things are there? Is there any meat? Will you give me all the food after we find it? When are we going? How about going now? Look, the sun hasn't set yet." Methane hydrate kept asking questions like a machine gun.
Lin Jiye couldn't stand it any longer: "Because you eat and drink for free."
All the facial features on Ran Bing's face were almost wrinkled together. He looked a little aggrieved. He first walked up to Lin Jiyuan and said, "I saved you. Did I eat it for nothing?"
Then he walked up to Mo Fei and said, "I swept the snow. Did I eat it for nothing?"
Lin Jiyuan and Mo Fei looked at each other and sighed almost inaudibly: "No."
We still haven’t figured out the details of combustible ice, so we still have to keep him calm.
Methane hydrate was immediately delighted and proudly announced to Lin Jiye:
"Look. What do you know? You still want to frame me. You are really inhuman."
The inhuman Lin Jiye: "..."
I really want to hit someone with my cane. It seems that it is not long enough to reach that guy, so I might as well throw it at him as a hidden weapon.
After a few days, Lin Jiyuan had almost recovered.
He decided to drive to Baishi with the combustible ice to see if there were any available supplies in the city. This time, Mo Fei was also going with him. He needed Mo Fei's spatial ability.
We have already searched all the villages and two small processing plants near Hexi Town.
But the situation in Baishi is unclear, and it is not easy to go there because of how many zombies and mutant animals there are. This time they are exploring the way for other survivors in the town.
Anyway, Lin Jiyuan knew that Mo Fei had a space, and if she could find a large amount of supplies, she could use the space to bring them back so that they would not be wasted. Moreover, her space law could definitely protect them from being wasted at a critical moment. So Lin Jiyuan offered Mo Fei very good conditions. This time, no matter what supplies they found in the city or how many energy crystal cores they got, Mo Fei would pick them first and take the lion's share.
Mo Fei was very satisfied with this distribution method.
Mo Jianian and Mo Jiayue originally wanted to go, but after being fooled by Mo Fei, they finally felt that it was more important to stay and protect their grandparents.
Lin Jiyuan's original black RV had been modified by a mechanic among the survivors. The serious Lin Jiyuan drove this old partner, took the tweeter, combustible ice, and the chef Mo Fei, who was visibly getting more and more irritable, and set off.
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