Rose is in good condition now, and has no objection to being planted in the valley.

Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi didn't bother to be polite with it, and planted it directly.

With Rose in the valley, the sheep they raised in the valley were well taken care of.

Xia Lunong didn't have to worry about whether the sheep in the valley would run away or be caught by others. The experience was much better and her sense of happiness was much higher.

Yueji helped them watch the sheep and got supernatural powers as a reward, and she was also very happy.

They didn't run outside again after returning to the base.

During this period, they sometimes went to the fields to prepare for spring farming, and sometimes went to the plains at the foot of the mountain to help build factories. Their days were not busy or idle, and they lived a fulfilling life without being too tired.

Since they started to build the plains at the foot of the mountain, people have been coming to seek refuge with them one after another.

Yan Xinian and Xia Huoqu would briefly check the identities of the people who came, and if they were sure that there were no problems with their backgrounds, they would take them in.

This kind of sheltering did not mean that they would provide supplies and directly support the people who came to seek refuge, but rather provide a place and job opportunities so that the people who came could survive.

Most of the people who came were from Yacheng, and there were also people who came from some small places.

It was also in this way that Xia Lunong knew that there were so many people living nearby.

These people generally did not live well in their original places, but after coming here, they worked very hard and helped them a lot.

Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi sighed, "I don't know how much preparation my brother and his team have done, but now they can come as soon as they say so, and the whole base is visibly thriving."

Kong Zhi drove him down the mountain, "Isn't this a good thing? More people, more supplies, and stronger ability to resist risks."

"Good things are good things, isn't this very touching?" Xia Lunong looked out the window, "You would never have thought that when I just woke up from my deep sleep at the beginning of the year, we still had to eat cabbage to survive." Kong Zhi really

couldn't have thought of it.

Once he transformed into a beast, he was a beast. Even in the most difficult times, he did not fall to the point of having to eat cabbage to survive.

Kong Zhi reached out and touched his head, "That was all in the past. It will be fine in the future. Let's look forward."

Xia Lunong smiled, "Yes, we should look forward."

They drove to the plain, and as soon as they crossed the bridge, they saw people selling roasted sweet potatoes on both sides of the road.

Xia Lunong hadn't seen roasted sweet potatoes for a long time. When he saw them, his face was full of surprise.

He sat up straight and called Kong Zhi, "Kong Zhi, look! There are people selling roasted sweet potatoes outside."

It had been a long time since they had seen people selling roasted sweet potatoes.

Kong Zhi drove over, stopped the car, and lowered the window. The person

selling roasted sweet potatoes was an old man at the base.

He wore a big hat and a coat, and stood by the stove with his hands in his sleeves. His nose was red from the cold.

Seeing them park the car, the old man raised his cloudy eyes and greeted them with a smile, "Kongzhi, you are back? Would you like some roasted sweet potatoes? They are the most delicious in winter?"

"Uncle He." Xia Lunong leaned out of the car window, "Why are you selling roasted sweet potatoes on the roadside?"

"There are more and more people in the plains below the mountain." The old man said, "You are all working here, and you have nothing to eat when you are hungry. I set up the stall so that people who want to eat can have a place to buy food, and I can also earn some supplies."

Xia Lunong asked: "Then how do you move this stall down and how do you transport it back? Is it safe here?"

"It's safe. There are so many people coming and going here. Didn't you plant mutant plants on the river bank? It couldn't be safer." The old man smiled innocently, "As for going out and coming back, I'll ask someone in Lao Liu's team to bring some back for me."

After Xia Lunong understood, she gave him a thumbs up, "Then give us two roasted sweet potatoes. We support your business. How do I exchange these roasted sweet potatoes?"

"Just give me something you have." Grandpa He smiled, "If you bring credit coins, it would be even better."

After buying the roasted sweet potatoes, Kong Zhi drove Xia Lunong to the construction site.

When they passed by, they found that there were not only big men selling sweet potatoes on the roadside, but also boys selling boxed lunches, and those selling boxed lunches were also people under Lao Liu.

Seeing Xia Lunong's car, the lunch box seller came up to greet them, "Brother Xia, Brother Kong Zhi, you guys are here!"

"Yeah, how come you're selling lunch boxes?" Xia Lunong sniffed, "What kind of meat is stewed in the pot? It smells so good, doesn't it?"

"Today it's mutton, stewed with radish and chili peppers. Come to me if you want to eat later. It's much better than the food in the cafeteria, and it's still hot."

When the boy spoke, his mouth and nose were steaming, and his cheeks were red from the cold.

He didn't care, smiled, and deliberately lifted the lid to show Xia Lunong the food stewed in his pot.

Xia Lunong looked at the big pieces of mutton in his pot and the radishes floating on top.

He had charcoal burning under the pot, which was still bubbling. The mutton and radish were stewed into a sauce color, looking very soft and rotten, with chili flakes floating in them.

The mutton and radish looked delicious, and they must taste better than beef offal.

Xia Lunong had clearly eaten breakfast before coming down, but when she smelled this smell, she felt hungry again.

He knocked on the car window and asked, "How long will you set up the stall here today? We'll come to see you at lunch time."

"Don't worry, we won't finish work until five or six in the afternoon and will go back with the main force." The young man laughed, "If you are hungry and want to eat, just call me from a distance. I have very sharp ears. When I hear you calling me, I will push the cart and run over."

After Xia Lunong greeted him, she closed the car window and continued to set off.

He saw many stalls along the way.

He didn't know when these stalls appeared, and whether they could earn supplies?

But after these snack stalls appeared, this place at the foot of the mountain became visibly prosperous.

In a blink of an eye, it was the 28th day of the lunar year.

As the old saying goes, if you are too cold, your chin will freeze off. It is too cold outside. Xia Lunong is no longer willing to go out.

He is staying at home now, making some preparations for the New Year.

The family has enough supplies now.

He plans to fry some meat for the New Year.

Kong Zhi helps him.

Their house was filled with the aroma of meat all day.

Xia Lunong stood in front of the stove, and her whole body was covered with all kinds of meat aroma.

Xia Lunong looked at the meat paste in the plate, then looked at the lotus root next to it, and said, "We can call it

a day after frying the lotus root." They harvested the lotus roots in the fall.

At that time, they also encountered a big snake, which was particularly scary. Thinking back now, it feels like a lifetime ago.

After the lotus roots were transported back, they were buried in the mud of the rice fields. Now they are still fresh.

In the fall and winter, they ate countless meals of fried lotus roots, stir-fried lotus roots, cold lotus roots, lotus roots stewed with pork ribs, and lotus roots stewed with bacon, and they are not tired of it yet.

Xia Lunong looked at the golden fried lotus root and pork in the pot and felt hungry again.

This meat

was also the pork that was newly slaughtered this morning. They asked Zheng Linguang to raise the pig.

Logically, the pig has not grown up yet, and it would be better to wait a year before eating it, but they couldn't help it. Looking at the big pink and white fat pig, they finally decided to slaughter one for the New Year. The meat

was particularly plump and now it was frozen outside, frozen hard.

In the next half month, they can eat meat to their heart's content.

This is all meat from pigs raised by themselves. The meat is very delicious, fat and lean, and has a special fragrance.

Compared with the local pork before the disaster, this meat is many times more delicious.

The only flaw is that the pig's mutation is rather strange - it has grown an extra nose.

Xia Lunong wanted to laugh when she thought of the extra pig nose in the morning.

Kong Zhi was burning a fire under the stove. Seeing his smiling face, her heart skipped a beat. Just when she was about to ask him what he was laughing at, she suddenly felt an unusual smell.

Kong Zhi looked up at the kitchen window.

The glass installed in their kitchen is only a single layer of glass, so it is very clear to see outside, but there is nothing outside.

Xia Lunong took a step back and looked outside along his line of sight and asked, "What's wrong?"

Kong Zhi said, "I felt a strange smell."

Xia Lunong's animal form is a cat.

His sense of smell is similar to Kong Zhi's. Even now, even in human form, his sense of smell is very sharp.

Previously, his nose was filled with the smell of fried meat, and the strong smell of meat covered up other smells, so he didn't smell it for a while.

Now, after hearing Kong Zhi's reminder, he immediately smelled a chaotic smell.

This smell was not the smell of one person, as if many people were walking towards them.

Xia Lunong's face showed confusion. He put down the long chopsticks and colander in his hand, "How to go back? I'll go out and take a look. You watch me light the fire."

Kong Zhi said, "I'll go with you."

Kong Zhi said as he put the firewood in the stove into the ash pile, put out the fire, and pulled him out.

Xia Lunong grabbed the apron she took off, and her heart became more and more confused.

The two walked out the door side by side.

There were pepper trees and roses planted in front of their yard.

The prickly ash trees have grown quite tall now, and there are roses interspersed among them, wrapping up the whole yard tightly, like a high fence.

They can't see what's going on outside the yard, and people outside the yard can't see them.

In order to see what's going on, they have to go outside the yard to see.

At this glance, Xia Lunong quickly found that there were more than ten figures walking side by side.

The weather is not very good today. It is a cloudy day without sunshine.

His eyesight is not good, and he can't tell who they are. He can only tell his brother and Xi Nian brother from the familiar walking posture.

But just looking at the way his brothers walked together, he could tell that the people were definitely not simple.

Xia Lunong thought about it and couldn't figure out who needed his brother to accompany him.

Besides, his brother was not the type who liked socializing.

Xia Lunong glanced at Kong Zhi, her eyes clearly showing what was going on

. Kong Zhi didn't know, and shook his head gently at him.

Kong Zhi pulled Xia Lunong, "Let's go up and greet them."

Xia Lunong was really curious, and didn't care about anything else, so she quickly pulled Kong Zhi over to see.

When the two of them got closer, they found that there was an acquaintance in the crowd.

This acquaintance was an acquaintance of both of them - Mai Dong from the Black Gold Base!

Xia Lunong was shocked. The Black Gold Base was too far away from their base. Why did Mai Dong come here, and he came here in such a leisurely manner. It felt like his whole temperament was different.

Xia Lunong felt that his brain was a little stuck. He didn't understand why, but he seemed to have touched something, and he always felt that something was wrong.

Mai Dong wouldn't really bring people to join their base, would he?