It is not a festival now, so it is not easy to get some meat in the base.

Xia Lunong offered a very low price, two kilograms of rice could be exchanged for one kilogram of fish. Most of the people who can cook in the base brought rice to exchange for fish.

After more than half an hour, except for a dozen fish left for their own family, all the fish in Xia Lunong's family were exchanged.

The supplies they exchanged for fish were also all kinds of things, rice, bacon, dried vegetables, preserved fruits... a variety of things, Xia Lunong collected them, and this part of the supplies will be collected as public supplies.

When Xia Lunong and his brother returned home after exchanging fish, almost every household in the base was filled with the smell of fish.

The rich smell was everywhere, Xia Lunong sniffed and said, "I'm so hungry."

Xia Huoqu: "We'll have food soon after we go back."

Xia Lunong Kongzhi had already steamed the rice and prepared most of the dishes.

Kong Zhi saw him walk into the kitchen and asked, "What else do you want to prepare?"

"Pickled peppers!" Xia Lunong rubbed her hands, "We're steaming pickled pepper fish fillets tonight. Would you like to slice some fish?"

"Okay." Kong Zhi went to the basin and caught a relatively delicious fish. He came back and put it on the chopping board, knocked it hard, and started to fillet the fish.

Xia Lunong stood behind him and leaned forward to take a look, "Keep the fish bone in the middle and steam it later."

"Okay."

Kong Zhi's knife skills are very good, and his control is perfect. Each piece of fish is basically the same size and thickness.

The fish meat is cut, and the light green and white fish fillets are placed on the plate, crystal clear.

Xia Lunong found a large flat plate and put the fish bones on it first. She mixed ginger, soy sauce, fermented black beans, cooking wine and cornstarch, then put the fish meat in, added the seasonings, and added chopped peppers. After mixing, she steamed the fish.

In addition to steamed fish tonight, there were also bamboo shoots fried with pork slices, stir-fried lettuce, stir-fried pumpkin and fish head loofah soup.

Xia Lunong was quick and all the dishes were on the table in half an hour.

Yan Xinian came over to serve the dishes. He first served the chopped pepper fish slices. After putting it on the table, he took a deep sniff and said, "This fish is so delicious!"

"Fresh fish that has just been sliced ​​must be delicious." Xia Lunong came out with the fried pumpkin, "Hurry up, hurry up, I'm so hungry."

The four dishes and soup were on the table.

Kong Zhi brought the rice pot up.

The rice they eat now is mostly good rice that was harvested this year. It naturally has a fresh rice aroma. It is steamed quickly with firewood, and the whole pot of rice has an indescribable fragrance.

Everyone serves their own rice.

The white porcelain bowls are filled with white rice, and paired with black long chopsticks. Under the curling steam, there is a unique warmth of home.

Xia Lunong grabbed the chopsticks and first stretched out the chopsticks to the steaming fish. While picking up the fish, he urged, "Everyone, hurry up and eat it. The fish will become fishy when it gets cold."

As he said this, he picked up a piece of fish fillet first.

The snow-white fish fillet is coated with pickled pepper and black bean sauce and put into the mouth. A fresh, sour and spicy taste spreads on the tip of the tongue. The slightly salty and spicy taste in the fragrance completely suppresses the fishy smell. The fish meat is fresh and tender, without any fish bones. Xia Lunong takes a sip lightly, and the fish meat melts on the tip of the tongue.

He tasted it carefully, his eyes sparkling, and he felt very satisfied, "This fish goes well with rice."

Yan Xinian had already tasted several pieces, and the fresh and spicy fish meat made him sweat, "I've eaten steamed fish, braised fish, and chopped pepper fish before, but this is the first time I've eaten such spicy, fresh and fishy steamed fish fillets. Where did you learn it?"

Xia Lunong said, "I forgot, I probably learned it when I was in a restaurant. Hiss, it's delicious, but it's a pity that this dish can only be made with fresh big fish."

"Can't we go fishing next time when the water rises?" Yan Xinian picked up a piece for himself and a few pieces for Xia Huoqu, "Eat it while it's hot."

With such a big plate of fish, everyone was very satisfied with the meal.

After finishing the meal, a bowl of fresh and sweet loofah soup will make the meal complete.

Yan Xinian leaned back in a chair to digest his food. "When we just changed the fish, Xiao Tang told me that they had brought back the bricks. Let's see if it rains tomorrow. If not, we can build the pig pen first?"

Xia Huoqu: "All right."

"Then I'll go and take a look tomorrow. I've talked to the people from the property management committee before. The land for building the pig pen should be approved. I also asked them to approve more space. This time, why don't we just move the chicken coop next to it?"

Xia Lunong's chicken coop is now placed next to Yan Xinian's house, with chickens, ducks and geese mixed together in it, and they can raise them casually.

It is quite convenient for them to feed the chickens now, but the fruits and vegetables in the yard are seriously damaged by the chickens, ducks and geese.

Chickens, ducks and geese are species that excrete everywhere. No matter how diligent they are, the yard will not be very clean after raising these small livestock.

The four of them like to be clean, and it is very uncomfortable to live in such an environment.

Xia Huoqu said: "Well, move over first. See if you can let Aunt Zheng help feed it."

Yan Xinian said: "I will talk to her tomorrow."

After the four chatted, they lined up to wash.

Now Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi use the bathroom of the Xia family, while Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian usually carry water to Yan Xinian's house to take a bath.

Xia Lunong moved slowly, and deliberately let Kong Zhi wash first. He scooped up some water and slowly took it to brush his teeth under the eaves.

His brother went to Yan Xinian's house with hot water. When he went out, Xia Lunong deliberately stepped aside to avoid disturbing his brother.

Xia Huoqu reminded him: "Go to bed early and don't play with your phone at night."

Xia Lunong held the toothbrush in his mouth and nodded vaguely. He watched his brother's voice disappear in his brother's house next door, and he felt something strange in his heart.

Four people live together, so Kong Zhi should live next door, and he should live with his brother?

Why is it like this now?

Xia Lunong stood under the eaves, lost in thought.

While he was thinking, Kong Zhi's deep voice rang out in the room, "I'm done, hurry up."

"Hmm? OK!" Xia Lunong came back to her senses, raised her toothbrush and moved it around in her mouth like a bumper car, gargling her mouth with water, "I'll be right up."

Kong Zhi: "I've scooped out the water for you."

Xia Lunong shouted: "I want more hot water!"

"I've scooped out a full bucket for you, you can get it yourself."

Xia Lunong was afraid of cold and liked a slightly hotter bath water.

Hearing that the water had been scooped out, he hurried in, put down his toothbrush, washed his hands, went back to his room, pulled on his underwear and pajamas, and ran into the bathroom to take a bath.

After a tiring day, Xia Lunong fell asleep quickly. When brushing his teeth the next morning, he suddenly remembered the strange way the four of them lived.

A few days ago, when it rained, the people at the base called them to collect peanuts, and saw his brother living at his old brother's house, and some gossip spread.

Living separately like this is indeed a bit strange.

Xia Huoqu and Kong Zhi got up early in the morning, caught all the fish in the bucket, killed them, and neatly stacked them in the basin.

Seeing that he was brushing his teeth slowly, Xia Huoqu called him, "Come over after brushing your teeth and see how to cook the fish. Add salt and marinate it into salted fish?"

"No." Xia Lunong ran in quickly, "If we don't salt the fish, no one will like it. Just cut it into pieces, marinate it, and then send it to the bakery to bake it into dried fish."

Xia Huoqu handed him the knife, "You show me how big the pieces should be."

Xia Lunong took the knife, estimated it with his eyes, and cut it into small pieces of one centimeter wide, "That's it."

"You go to the bakery to light a fire first, and we'll cut it."

Xia Lunong was sent to light a fire.

After the fire was lit, he came back to marinate the fish pieces, dawdling here and there for a while, and it was over in the morning.

The bakery uses the heat absorbed by the kiln to bake fish, so there is no need to observe the heat, which is very convenient.

Xia Lunong stuffed the fish fillet into the bread kiln, and then he could do other things.

In the morning, he and his brother went to see the red bricks that Xiao Tang and his friends had brought back.

They just wanted to build a pigpen and a chicken coop, and they didn't need many red bricks. The bricks that Xiao Tang and his friends had brought back were enough.

The sky had just cleared up, so Yan Xinian asked Xiao Tang and his friends to help build the pigpen.

The foundation of a pigpen needs to be made of stone, and it's not easy to move the stone around. Adding cement and building the wall is also hard work, so Xia Lunong and his friends had to take care of lunch.

This meal had to be better.

Among the four, Xia Lunong was the only one who had good cooking skills, so the responsibility of cooking fell on him.

Xia Lunong took Kong Zhi to the market, intending to see if there was any meat to exchange.

No one got wild boars or bison today, only a small muntjac.

Xia Lunong looked at Kong Zhi, "Would you like to eat braised muntjac?"

Kong Zhi nodded, "Yes!"

"Then let's make braised muntjac for lunch. It shouldn't be bad if the flavor is a little stronger." Xia Lunong said, "Add some fish cubes with peppers and two more vegetarian dishes, and it will be almost done."

"Yeah."

Xia Lunong didn't know how to kill muntjacs, and neither did Kong Zhi.

The two of them sent the muntjac to the cafeteria and asked someone to help cook it.

They wanted the fur of the muntjac, and Kong Zhi continued to help in the pigpen. Xia Lunong squatted aside to watch how the people in the cafeteria did it.

People were coming and going outside the cafeteria. Many people brought things to the cafeteria to exchange, and many people also exchanged things from the cafeteria.

Xia Lunong was distracted and asked the staff in the cafeteria, "Do you collect peanut sprouts here?"

The staff in the cafeteria answered without hesitation, "Yes, do you have peanut sprouts?"

"Some of the peanuts at home were caught in the rain a few days ago, and they are about to sprout in the shell. We can't eat them all ourselves. Let's see if you want them."

"Yes, the cafeteria wants everything." The staff in the cafeteria laughed, "We haven't eaten peanut sprouts for a long time."

Xia Lunong said, "Then I'll get them for you."

The peanuts at the base are precious, and no one is willing to eat them, let alone use them to sprout peanuts.

This is too wasteful.

Xia Lunong took advantage of the fact that the deer had not been processed yet, went home and used some special powers to stimulate the sprouting, and then took the peanut sprouts to the cafeteria.

His peanut sprouts were white, tender and thick. The staff in the cafeteria gently pinched a piece and put it in his mouth, and a sweet taste spread in his mouth.

After the people in the cafeteria tasted it, they exchanged it for a small altar meat for him without saying a word.

Xia Lunong took the altar meat and deer back.

The small deer weighed only more than 20 pounds of pure meat. Xia Lunong chopped off half of it, braised it in a big pot, and then stewed it. When the bones were crisp and the meat was rotten

, he cut half of the winter melon into it. The deer meat has a strong flavor, and the addition of winter melon makes it more sweet.

The winter melon and meat are stewed together, full of meat flavor, soft and tender, and the taste is no worse than meat.

At noon, the people who helped build the pig pen came back together, drinking big bowls of wine and eating big mouthfuls of meat, and everyone had a satisfied expression on their face.

It only took them one day to build the pig pen and chicken coop, but the cement was not dry yet, so the roof would have to be poured in a few days.

It happened that Xiao Tang and his friends brought back a lot of bricks, so Xia Huoqu replaced them with another batch of bricks, cement and steel bars, and asked them to help add a floor.

Xiao Tang and his friends had no objection. Working in the base was safer and easier than collecting outside. The supplies Xia Huoqu provided were not much less than going out, and his family's food was delicious, so Xiao Tang and his friends were very happy.

Xia Lunong was not in good health, so she did not participate in the construction.

This work was too tiring, and he did it himself. If he got sick from exhaustion, the supplies for medical treatment would be much more than the supplies for hiring someone, so they did not count.

Xia Lunong has been cooking these past two days and going out to the fields to check on the crops.

The effects of the rainstorm have faded. Xia Lunong found that his carrots, radishes, mustard greens, etc. have grown to an inch tall, while eggplants, tomatoes and peppers have basically recovered.

The wheat is still lying on the ground, but it seems to be slowly growing back.

Xia Lunong carefully checked and found that the wheat has begun to ear. It seems that the rainstorm did not cause much impact.

As for the empty rice fields, the rainstorm did not cause much impact on the rice fields when it first fell, and it has even less impact now.

Xia Lunong walked around the field for a few times, quietly used some supernatural powers, and looked at the growth of the fish in the field. After confirming that there was no problem, she returned home with the basket of vegetables. Xia Huoqu and

his friends spent four days to build the pigpen, chicken coop and the second floor of their home.

When Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian first chose a house, they chose a house connected together. Now they are adding a floor together.

Looking down from the middle of the mountain, apart from the white building, the two buildings of Xia Lunong's house and Yan Xinian's house are the second floors, which look the most beautiful and the most eye-catching.

Xia Lunong likes the added floor of her home very much.

With an extra floor above their heads, the sun could not directly shine on the roof, and the house became much cooler and more comfortable.

And because there was an extra floor in the house, the rice and other sundries that had no place to be piled in the house finally found a place to pile up. Xia Lunong pulled the three of them to clean up, and the house was finally tidy.

Now the house is bright and tidy, and Xia Lunong feels refreshed just by looking at it.

"That's comfortable now." Xia Lunong looked at the peanuts piled in the corner, "Let them dry in the sun for two more days, then send them to be pressed for oil. Without these debris, the house won't be so messy."

"It's all right." Xia Huo said, "I'll go ask tomorrow to see if I have to queue."

"No need." Yan Xinian said, "I've informed them in advance, just send them directly to be pressed for oil."

Speaking of this, Xia Lunong was curious, "There was no electricity last year, so we definitely couldn't use the oil press. How could we press oil?"

"The base wasn't even built at this time last year, so there was no need for oil pressing." Xia Huo said, "All the city walls were built and the land was divided last winter. In fact, the base only started large-scale crop planting this year. Didn't you notice that the food in the cafeteria is different?"

Xia Lunong shook her head. He really didn't notice.

Their family hasn't eaten in the cafeteria recently, and when he goes to the cafeteria, he doesn't pay special attention to what basic meals the cafeteria provides now.

Xia Huoqu was just about to talk to him in detail.

Kong Zhi interrupted and said, "When I first came, the mixed grain rice in the cafeteria was mainly made of sweet potatoes, but now it is mainly made of rice. Everyone eats a lot better."

Xia Huoqu nodded, "Yes, you observe more carefully. After the summer grain in the base was harvested, the basic meal in the cafeteria changed. In the past, there were more vegetables, and now there is more starch, and occasionally meat is added."

Xia Lunong didn't expect this, he was stunned, "If we are given a few more years, won't everyone in the base be able to eat white rice?"

Will everyone not have to go hungry in the future?

Yan Xinian casually interjected, "Isn't this the right thing to do?"