Qin Rou silently ate breakfast with tears in her eyes. The stack of sausages made her feel heartbroken. This, this, this... turned out to be steamed sausages. It would be much better if it was steamed on rice. The fat and fragrance of the sausages would all blend into the rice grains.

Instead of...

wasting food!

Qin Rou looked at Lu Yan and said coldly, "What do you want to eat for lunch?"

Now it was her turn to ask this soul-searching question.

Lu Yan answered without thinking, "Let's make dumplings."

He loved dumplings since he was a child. Today he had time, so he had to make dumplings. He ate dumplings during festivals and even when it wasn't.

Qin Rou: "I don't know how to make dumplings!!"

Qin Rou seldom cooks pasta. Usually, if she wants to eat steamed buns or dumplings, she goes to the breakfast shop early in the morning to buy them. Who can make dumplings by herself? Only when the school or work unit organizes team-building activities, she will buy some dumpling skins, make her own stuffing, and symbolically make a few dumplings to comfort herself.

If you want to make dumplings, the stuffing is easy to solve, but where do you get the dumpling skins?

No one is selling dumpling skins at this time.

Lu Yan was shocked: "Is there anyone who doesn't know how to make dumplings?!"

Is there anyone in this world who doesn't know how to make dumplings?

Qin Rou: "..."

Is it a big deal to know how to make dumplings? Qin Rou grabbed a rolling pin from the kitchen and wanted to hit him!

She looked down at the rolling pin in her hand. When did she buy it?

Before he was almost hit by her hammer, Lu Yan went out for a trip. There are always many things to buy on the first day of moving into the family compound. Although he bought a lot in Guangcheng, he still needs to buy some belongings when he arrives in Lucheng.

Lu Yan had just arrived at the base and had two days to settle the family house, which was considered a two-day vacation.

Qin Rou took out a few hundred yuan and gave it to him. Lu Yan drove a military transport vehicle to find fellow villagers to pull a batch of furniture, simple tables, chairs, benches, wardrobes and bookshelves. He also found an old carpenter in the village, bought wood, and asked the carpenter to help him make a dressing table.

Qin Rou asked him to make some rectangular and square wooden troughs for growing vegetables on the second-floor terrace. She explained the size and depth, and Lu Yan said he would get some wood to make it himself in the afternoon.

He couldn't handle complex furniture, but he could make simple wooden troughs.

Qin Rou was quite surprised that he could drive.

After Lu Yan brought back a batch of furniture, he also brought back a Phoenix brand bicycle and a shabby small freezer. Qin Rou was not surprised to see the bicycle. She had discussed with Lu Yan before that the family must have a bicycle, and she could ride a bicycle.

Qin Rou had also taken a driving test before. Although she had a four-wheeled driver's license, she chose shared bicycles and Didi Taxi for daily travel.

"This is... a freezer?!"

Qin Rou was not surprised to see the bicycle, but she was really surprised to see the shabby little freezer. Although this little freezer with a green exterior is a bit shabby and the paint on the shell is peeling, it is a freezer!

The little broken freezer is very small, only about one-third of a cubic meter. Unlike modern refrigerators, it has no refrigeration and preservation part, it can only freeze. Once you put it in, everything will be frozen into ice.

"Well, be careful when using it. Don't power it on when it rains or has a typhoon."

"It used to store medicines. It may still smell a bit like medicine. I asked someone to disinfect and clean it. Don't mind it."

This freezer used to be a medical device and was semi-obsolete. Lu Yan spent money to find someone to buy it.

"Yeah." Qin Rou expressed her understanding. It was good to have a use for it. At least this was a freezer used to store medicinal materials, not a freezer in the forensic room. It had never frozen anything strange.

If you throw some salted fish in it, you won't be able to smell any medicine.

In this era, it was good to have a freezer. Refrigeration equipment was not yet popular for civilian use, let alone refrigerators. Refrigeration was mostly used in medical equipment. It was not until the economy was liberalized that medical factories switched to selling refrigerators for civilian use.

This freezer could not keep things refrigerated for a long time, so you had to be prepared for frequent power outages.

Qin Rou was very curious about how Lu Yan thought of bringing back a small freezer, so she asked, "Do you have a freezer on your ship?"

"Yes."

After a month at sea, you naturally need a refrigerator to store some frozen vegetables. After eating the fresh ones, you have to eat the rest later.

Qin Rou was also surprised to learn that some boats actually have ovens? ! !

Oven? ! ! !

How strange!

Later, I thought about it. Living and eating on the boat, there must be a kitchen on the boat. Now many are imitations of the Su style. Their eating habits are to have an oven. Here, I copied the homework, and copied it.

With an oven, you can eat toast, but a steamed bun lover like Lu Yan definitely doesn't like bread.

Qin Rou decided to eat dumplings at noon because Lu Yan brought back a bicycle and a small refrigerator.

Dumplings are dumplings, so she let him roll out the dough himself. Qin Rou really didn't know how to make dumpling wrappers.

While Lu Yan was kneading the dough, he told her that there was a special unit in the base responsible for fishing at sea. Every time, they would go to get large quantities. Each team would go to get supplies, and a small part of it would be supplied to the family. The price was cheap, and they would charge a symbolic amount of money.

"Pay attention to the tide time. You can go to the beach with your sisters-in-law in the morning and evening to catch oysters and pick up the big ones..."

"By the way, be careful when you pass by coconut trees with your children, so as not to be hit by falling coconuts."

There are really people who have been killed by coconuts in this world. Coconut trees grow tall one by one. Coconuts grow on trees. If no one picks them, they will fall down by themselves after a long time. If people passing by are not careful, they will be hit on the head, which may endanger their lives.

"Okay, I know."

Lu Yan kneaded the dough, while Qin Rou was preparing the filling for dumplings. When Lu Yan brought back the freezer, he also brought some seafood. In this place, you can live by the mountains and by the sea. Their family doesn't grow vegetables, so now they can only eat seafood.

A while ago, we were hit by a typhoon and many vegetables were damaged by insects. No one has much to eat these days.

Qin Rou found some green beans and prepared to hatch bean sprouts, but she found that Lu Yan had already soaked soybeans yesterday. It seems that he is also experienced.

In a few days, we can eat bean sprouts!

Lu Yan also shared his experience with her and taught her how to accelerate bean sprouts. Qin Rou hummed in her heart, thinking that when I taught children to hatch bean sprouts, I monitored and observed in real time and read hundreds of experience posts. I have been through many battles.

Qin Rou prepared two kinds of fillings, one with tilapia and the other with squid. She simply added some oyster sauce and marinated with ginger and garlic, and finally cracked two eggs into the dumplings.

After Lu Yan had let the dough rise, he began to roll out the dumpling skins. Qin Rou brought the two children over curiously, and the four of them made dumplings together.

Lu Yan gave her a Xiuyan jade rolling pin, but Qin Rou thought it was too heavy, so she changed it for a wooden one.

Lu Yan: "..."

In the end, he still used it himself.

Qin Rou saw him take a small piece of dough, sprinkle some flour on it, and roll the rolling pin on it, and a dumpling skin appeared.

It looks simple too!

It was Qin Rou's turn to do it herself. She put flour on her hands, picked up the rolling pin and rubbed the dough. The final product turned out to be...

It seemed that the rolling pin was not very obedient.

How did it roll out a polygon? ? ! ! It was like an excavator leaving countless tire tracks on a muddy road after the rain.

The dumpling skin is not round. There are lumps here and there. It's obviously a rolling pin, so why is it not flexible at all when she kneads it.

Lu Yan raised her eyes and saw her finished product: "..."

It turns out that there are people in this world who don't know how to make dumplings.

Qin Rou: "..."

"Look at my movements."

"Do you want to roll while rotating?"

Rotating the rolled dough?

Qin Rou imagined herself as a chef who threw flying pancakes in a hot pot restaurant. She tried hard to rotate and knead the rolling pin. After great efforts, she finally made a piece of oval dough. Although its corners were still gear-shaped, it could at least serve as dumpling skin.

It was just that the thickness was a bit strange, too thin around the edges.

Lu Yan: "... Let me do it."

Qin Rou: "???!!!"

He actually gave up on her!!

Well, it was indeed not rolled very well, but life can't be just dumplings.

Qin Rou gave up. Lu Yan rolled the dumpling skin, and she took the two children to make dumplings. Of course, these two kids could only be the atmosphere group and could not be child laborers.

After spending the past few days with the talkative and optimistic little fat boy, Chen Jingyi's relationship has improved a lot. It is more fun to be with playmates of the same age.

Although Chen Jingyi often stares blankly and is unwilling to speak, and does not respond to others' calls, the fat boy Xia Mingxi is a social expert who does not bear grudges. If you don't respond to me, I will insist on calling you to respond to me.

These two children are also interesting. One doesn't like to respond to others, and the other has a social ceiling and will do something with you even if there is nothing to do.

Qin Rou is relieved to put the two of them together. Chen Jingyi can't shut himself off even if he wants to.

The two never quarreled. Chen Jingyi didn't look like the kind of person who would lose his temper and quarrel with others. The fat boy was kind-hearted and fat, and was especially good at comforting himself. He complained every day that his uncle bullied him, but he was very attached to his uncle, and didn't bear grudges. He was always cheerful.

One person rolled out the dough, and the other made dumplings. The couple made dumplings very quickly, and soon they made hundreds of big dumplings.

Qin Rou looked at the big dumplings that looked like gold ingots in front of her, and suddenly found that making dumplings was really an easy job.

This made her, who was used to making Cantonese cuisine, a little uncomfortable.

Everyone could come together to participate, it was so lively, Qin Rou had never made dumplings with anyone before, not to mention that the people around her were all her "family".

Qin Rou, who has lived alone for more than ten years, still has so many family members for the first time. She kind of likes this atmosphere of making dumplings together.

"Just boil the dumplings in water after wrapping them?" No soup or anything like that?

"Yes."

"Will the filling be cooked? I should have steamed the filling first, otherwise it will keep rolling, the dumpling skin will break, and the filling will not be cooked."

"Add cold water."

"Oh."

So you have to add cold water in the middle.

Qin Rou watched him cook dumplings and found that boiling dumplings in water is quite a science, add some cold water, open the lid and simmer the dumplings, anyway, she has never cooked dumplings before.

Not really. She had cooked dumplings in community activities, but their skills were not very good. They used dumpling skins bought from outside. Once boiled in boiling water, the dumplings fell apart and were not very tasty. They ate the skin soup.

Lu Yan cooked big dumplings without broken skins!

Of course, she also contributed to it, after all, they were all dumplings made by her! Although Qin Rou didn't know how to roll out dough, the dumplings she made by hand were very beautiful. There was nothing fancy about them, just fat gold ingot dumplings.

A total of four large pots were cooked. Yes, eating dumplings is so generous. Lu Yan ate a super large pot, Qin Rou a small pot, and the two kids had small pots.

There were some dumplings left over, so Qin Rou put them in the freezer.

Two layers of sauce were placed in the middle.

Qin Rou picked up a large dumpling with squid filling and found it tasted good. The dumpling skin was delicious. The squid inside was smooth, fresh and sweet, and chewy. There was a slight egg fragrance, so delicious that the tongue was dancing with joy.

She ate one dumpling in one bite.

It was delicious even without sauce. Qin Rou liked the delicious soup inside gushing out when she bit through the dumpling skin. The delicious fish meat had long been melted into the soup, moist, and extremely fresh without MSG.

The dumplings tasted good. Of course, it would be even better if they were eaten in the morning.

She must save the frozen dumplings in the freezer for tomorrow morning!

After a short rest in the afternoon, two umbrellas were set up in the yard. They were military umbrellas, very large. Four people could hide under one umbrella. With two umbrellas, it was like two small sheds. Although the weather on Qiongzhou Island was hot, as long as the sunlight was blocked, the gentle sea breeze blowing on the body was like a natural fan, which was extremely comfortable and not annoying.

Lu Yan helped her make a wooden trough under the umbrella. Qin Rou rode a bicycle and went to the location indicated by Yang's sister-in-law to buy vegetable seeds, an adult hen and seven or eight chicks.

Qin Rou built a small garden for them with bamboos and a simple bamboo shed for shade. She was good at handicrafts and had a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder. She used to be a kindergarten teacher and was busy creating environments all day long. She couldn't help but turn the chicken coop into a hobby area.

She was still not satisfied. It really drove her obsessive-compulsive disorder crazy. These bamboos didn't look good when inserted.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of wood on Qiongzhou Island. Qin Rou drew a design and asked Lu Yan, who was doing carpentry and making wooden troughs, to help her make wooden fences.

The wooden fences are not complicated. The vertical rails and two horizontal rails look like countless "well" characters. The small wooden fences can't block anything except chickens, and they are also a bit childish.

Qin Rou: "In the future, we will also surround the outside of our house with a layer of wooden fences."

How can the environment creation not be beautiful! ! ! ! ! ! Too ugly will affect the aesthetic taste of the cute kids at home.

Fortunately, Lu Yan, who came from a military background, also has a bit of neatness obsession. She nailed the wooden boards neatly, and the wooden troughs she made are very beautiful.

Lu Yan: "..." Will he have to learn carpentry in the future?

Lu Yan found that his wife's carpentry work was also good. The couple made a wooden fence together, you passed the nails and I used the hammer, and the two children were playing with the chickens in the yard.

The coconut shells eaten yesterday have been cut open, and the snow-white coconut meat is spread out in the yard to dry. After drying, it can be used as fertilizer and can also be fed to chickens.

Of course, chickens cannot be fed too much coconut meat, as coconut meat is high in fat.

The couple finished the small fence, and Qin Rou asked Lu Yan to help her turn a small piece of land in the yard, while she helped the finished wooden troughs upstairs, brought buckets of soil, and put the crushed coconut shells underneath, ready to sow vegetable seeds.

She planned to plant vegetables and fruits such as lettuce, leeks, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, ginger and garlic on the terrace.

These are more suitable for planting on the balcony, and are also relatively simple and homely. Qin Rou knew how to plant them.

If they are planted on the second-floor terrace, if there is a strong wind or heavy rain, they can still be rescued into the house. Qin Rou has considered it very carefully.

Lu Yan picked up the hoe and looked at the land in front of him in a daze: "..."

Building fences and turning the soil, when have army officers ever done these?

——Is this the trouble after owning a family house?