Zhao Gang ladled out the stewed duck meat.
The duck meat, after being deep-fried, has crispy skin and tender meat. After simmering over low heat for half an hour and then reducing the sauce over high heat for ten minutes, the rich and fragrant broth is absorbed into the meat, making it incredibly aromatic.
Zhao Xiaoxiu swallowed hard, then quickly moved the bowls and chopsticks to the dining table.
A huge bowl of braised duck in soy sauce, all for her alone.
Just thinking about this made Zhao Xiaoxiu so moved she almost cried.
"Dad, are you really not going to eat?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked enthusiastically.
Zhao Gang waved his hand, "I won't eat."
He picked up the golden autumn pear she had specially saved, saying, "Dad, have this."
"Aren't you hungry?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked with some concern, since it had been almost two months since her father last ate.
Zhao Gang smiled slightly, indicating that she could rest assured, "There will be food soon, I'm not very hungry yet."
What does it mean to say "not very hungry, just a little hungry" and "there will be food soon"?
Just as Zhao Xiaoxiu was about to ask, Zhao Gang scooped a full bowl of meat for her and handed it to her, saying, "Xiaoxiu, eat quickly, eat lots of it."
The aroma is irresistible. The stewed duck meat looks dark, but the texture is clear, and you can tell it will taste great even before you taste it.
With such a bowl of meat placed in front of her, Zhao Xiaoxiu simply couldn't resist.
"Then I'll just eat it myself?"
Zhao Gang looked at his cub with doting eyes, "Eat."
Children who love to eat are the cutest.
Zhao Xiaoxiu stopped being polite and started eating as soon as she picked up her rice bowl.
However, the taste of the mutated black duck meat was not as good as she had imagined. The meat had a strange taste when she ate it. Although Zhao Gang had covered most of it with seasoning, she could still smell it when she ate it.
But that doesn't change the fact that it's a pretty good dish.
Zhao Xiaoxiu usually can't keep up for a day with just one bottle of nutritional supplement, and her appetite has increased a lot.
She ate most of the large pot of meat in front of her before she felt satisfied.
Zhao Gang scooped out the remaining meat and put it in the cupboard, so he could reheat it and have another meal tomorrow morning.
In the afternoon, Zhao Xiaoxiu carried the mutated wild duck all the way back, her body filthy and her clothes covered in bloodstains that were difficult to wash.
After dinner, the firewood left in the stove boiled the water.
With the front door closed, Zhao Gang mobilized seven or eight tentacles at once. One was used as a showerhead to clean the cubs, two were responsible for washing dirty clothes, one was responsible for spinning and drying them, one went upstairs to the bedroom to bring down clean pajamas, and the rest were washing the floor in the living room.
Looking at the tentacles flying all over the room, Zhao Xiaoxiu, the instigator, felt very sorry.
"Next time, I'll definitely put the mutated wild ducks in a bag first," she earnestly promised the tentacles that were spitting water in front of her.
As soon as she finished speaking, all the tentacles flew to her and opened their bloodshot eyes to attack her.
It was just a scare tactic, and Zhao Xiaoxiu, who had already figured out their tricks, smiled broadly and successfully got away with it.
Zhao Gang sat on the living room sofa, holding his planting notes. A silent smile played on his lips, and his eyes turned into vertical pupils as he excitedly darted around, sensing the pleasure emanating from the cub.
After finishing their work, around 8 p.m., the father and daughter went upstairs to prepare for bed.
As usual, she used horror stories as her bedtime reading. After carefully learning the ten characters, Zhao Xiaoxiu reviewed the characters she had learned a few days ago. At nine o'clock in the evening, she turned off the lights and went to sleep.
Within the quiet territory, only the gentle flow of the river can be heard, creating natural white noise that makes it easier to sleep peacefully.
In the darkness, countless crimson fleshy tentacles filled the entire house, enveloping the tiny cub inside.
Seeing her sleeping soundly, the tentacles that had been flying around wildly unconsciously quieted down, like a serene mountain, wholeheartedly protecting the little person in their arms.
Suddenly, the father and daughter were awakened by a series of urgent car horn sounds.
As the bloodstains subsided, Zhao Xiaoxiu sat up abruptly from the bed, and the father and daughter both looked in the direction of the patrol station.
Car headlights flashed past the window, and patrol cars sped by one after another, quickly quieting down the area around the territory.
Zhao Xiaoxiu and her father exchanged a glance. "Dad, has something happened?"
Zhao Gang: "We went towards plot number 2."
Zhao Xiaoxiu turned on the phone on the bedside table, but received no notifications or alarms from the patrol station.
"Are you sleeping?" Zhao Gang asked.
“…Go to sleep,” Zhao Xiaoxiu said after thinking for a moment.
So the father and daughter covered themselves with the blanket and went back to sleep.
Around 5 a.m., the patrol car siren sounded again, and this time there was a knock on the door of the apartment downstairs.
The father and daughter weren't fast asleep, and as soon as there was a knock on the door, Zhao Gang immediately got up and went downstairs to open it.
Aji stood outside the door, looking travel-worn, his clothes soaked with morning dew, clearly having been to the mountains.
"The female lord of Territory No. 2 is dead!"
Aji's opening remarks were always packed with bombshell news.
"Intruders have entered our B-zone territory. Lord No. 2 was shot and killed during a robbery. Be careful these next few nights, keep your doors and windows locked, and pay close attention to any activity outside. If anything seems amiss, contact the patrol station immediately."
After giving his instructions in a hurry, Aji turned around and drove away.
Thirteen years after the catastrophe, countless people have died every day, yet the death of one person does not elicit a particularly strong reaction from people.
However, the entry of intruders into the territory is a very bad sign.
It took the base a lot of effort to persuade so many lords to participate in the lord program.
The plan has only been going on for less than a month, and a lord has already died unexpectedly. This will likely cause panic among lords in other regions.
Soon, the lords of Zone B all received this unfortunate news.
Before dawn, the group gathered outside the patrol station to inquire about the specific details.
"Wasn't it said that there were patrols? Why didn't anyone hear the Second Lord's cries for help immediately?"
"Your patrol cars patrol the territory every day, how come you haven't noticed any outsiders randomly coming in to rob and kill!"
"They made such nice promises when they came, saying there would be patrolling soldiers protecting everyone's safety, so how come the Second Lord is dead now!"
"What do we do next? Have we found the intruders? And what are we going to do about the increasing number of mutated animals lately?"
Zhang Lijun's voice was the loudest, and the other lords echoed him, demanding that the station chief come out and give an explanation.
The lords bombarded Aji and the others with questions, which they couldn't handle. They tried their best to stop the crowd from entering.
He shouted, "Everyone, calm down!"
Lord Wenfei, number 15, sneered: "How can we stay calm? My territory is on the edge, and the barren mountains and piles of rocks next to it are the easiest places to hide people. I was lucky last night that I wasn't chosen by them. If I hadn't been so lucky, I don't know who would be the one dying today!"
"And there's Bai Cailing, number 6!" Wenfei suddenly pulled the female TCM doctor from the periphery of the crowd in and pushed her in front of everyone.
“Her territory is on the very edge, and she’s a girl. She looks even easier to bully than Number Two. If you don’t find and kill the intruder today, she’s definitely going to suffer tonight!”
Bai Cailing was speechless when she heard this.
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