Li Xiao took out rice, flour, oil, sugar, soybeans, yellow soybeans, mung beans, red beans, red dates, millet, peanuts...
Potatoes, onions, bamboo shoots, yams, pumpkins, winter melons, eggplants, chili peppers, dried chili peppers, ribbonfish, dried scallops, frozen meat, frozen chicken, dried mushrooms, dried vegetables, pickled vegetables...
Seeing the dried fruit I had collected, I felt like eating some. I took out a few pounds of pine nuts, walnuts, and sunflower seeds.
If you have it, why not eat it?
"Xiaoxiao, you still have sunflower seeds? I haven't had any in ages."
Seeing Tian Tian's greedy look, Xiao Xiao smiled. "Let's eat together later."
"Mmm." Tian Tian's eyes lit up instantly.
Xiao Peng had already come in and saw that Li Xiao had brought out a lot of beans, so he asked, "Xiao Xiao, are you making porridge with so many beans?"
"Hmm, how about making some porridge for breakfast?" Li Xiao still thought porridge was a good choice for breakfast, along with steamed buns, dumplings, and pickled vegetables.
"Great! That's wonderful. We can make a lot with so many beans." Xiao Peng was excited; there were three or four pounds of each type of bean.
"Xiaoxiao, we can't cook all of this. We can use half of it first."
"You can do it yourself; you're good at this."
Xiao Peng didn't refuse anymore; he could decide for himself.
The kitchen is very large, and they can all work in it without any problems.
Now everyone has really come in to help.
There are three stoves, two for cooking porridge and one for stir-frying vegetables.
Li Xiao found many of those large stainless steel buckets later, which she intended to use in situations like this.
We found quite a few basins; we used the basins to hold the vegetables, and the buckets to hold the porridge and rice.
Four buckets of porridge were cooked, the kind that are almost as tall as a person's thigh.
The smaller bucket contained two buckets of mung bean soup. The mung beans were saved for later use, but Xiao Peng was reluctant to use them all at once.
Li Xiao didn't care about all that; she just took it out and used it, and she didn't care when she finished using it.
We used a lot of basins, mostly the size of washbasins. Pumpkin, winter melon, eggplant, ribbonfish, braised chicken with potatoes, stir-fried yam with meat, stir-fried bamboo shoots with meat…
Although there was meat, there wasn't much; Xiao Peng saved some for steamed buns.
Yes, Xiao Peng ended up kneading the dough to make steamed buns and mantou.
I soaked shiitake mushrooms and dried scallops, chopped bamboo shoots, and also made some pickled vegetables.
It actually took more than two hours to prepare all this, but everyone had a smile on their face.
With so much delicious food, who could resist being happy?
"Thank you for your hard work, Brother Peng," Li Xiao said with a smile.
Xiao Peng looked amusedly at the young woman beside him, her face covered in sweat. She had been busy all this time, without a moment's rest, yet she was still so polite.
"Xiaoxiao, that's not right. What's so hard about it? Everyone says we're all in this together. We're family now, so there's no such thing as hardship."
Li Xiao was stunned when she heard this. A family.
Is it possible to have a family now?
Then I thought about it, and yes. Who doesn't have pain these days? How many people don't have pain?
Of all these people, Cheng Shaolin is probably the happiest, as his parents are still alive.
To meet, team up, and fight side by side in the apocalypse—can't that be called fate?
Yes, family.
What a harmonious and united family!
Suddenly, Li Xiao felt a warm feeling in her heart, and her eyes became warm.
If she could, she hoped this truly was a family, an inseparable family. Harmonious, long-lasting, sharing joys and sorrows, living together.
"Yes, Brother Peng, you're right. We're family, no need to be so polite. Then I won't stand on ceremony. Brother Peng, you'd better cook something delicious."
She stopped worrying, let go of her thoughts, and smiled.
Xiao Peng smiled at this moment, "That's right, don't be so polite with Brother Peng. Don't worry, Brother Peng will definitely cook it well, just wait."
"Uh-huh."
Cheng Shaolin stood outside the kitchen door, watching the two chatting and laughing, his face full of satisfaction.
He had heard what Xiao Peng said earlier, and seeing that Li Xiao was deep in thought, he stopped in his tracks.
He greatly approves of Xiaoxiao's ability to get along so well with everyone.
He didn't want Li Xiao to always be alone, without any friends.
He still hoped that Li Xiao could make some friends, people she could chat and laugh with, people she could rely on.
In the apocalypse, it is truly rare to find friends who can entrust their backs to each other and trust each other completely.
He also hoped that Li Xiao could be protected by others, and that it would be best if everyone except himself cared for Xiao Xiao.
"Don't worry, she's fine." Yu Yanbin walked to his side and looked in the same direction.
Cheng Shaolin lowered his head and smiled, "Yes, she's very good. I've always known that."
"Tch, are you afraid of me or what?" she said, glancing sideways at Cheng Shaolin.
"Of course, everyone knows who else."
"Hey, you're hilarious. What did I do wrong?" Yu Yanbin retorted, wondering what this guy meant.
Cheng Shaolin glanced at him; this guy was cunning and shrewd, no one could trust him.
"Hey, what kind of look is that?" Yu Yanbin was a little annoyed. They're really getting more and more arrogant, aren't they?
"No, that's it."
"What? Are you still keeping us in suspense, only telling us half the story?"
Cheng Shaolin chuckled lightly, "You're just a refined scoundrel." He then grinned widely.
"Hey, what's wrong with me? When have I ever been a scoundrel? I accept being called civilized, but who are you calling a scoundrel? You want to fight? You're no better than me, and you're still talking about me like that." Enraged, Yu Yanbin chased after Cheng Shaolin as they left.
...
The others were unaware that their captain was actually like this.
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