Chapter 120
The next day, the group rose to a gray sky. Chu Huaiqin inexplicably recalled what the caravan had said the day before. He glanced at the director, who remained impassive. Could it be the caravan's illusion? But the desert people, having lived in the desert for years, had accumulated knowledge and experience of the desert over hundreds of years. It shouldn't be wrong.
"It's five o'clock in the morning now. Maybe the sun will come out by six o'clock." Xia Entang comforted him. Chu Huaiqin also told him about what the desert people said. Xia Entang believed in the weather forecast.
"Hmm, I hope so!" Chu Huaiqin replied, then sniffed. "It smells so good."
"It's cactus and chicken soup," Xia En replied. This dish was Lin Zhinan's idea. Yesterday afternoon, he and Chu Huaiqin found not only two chickens and a rabbit, but also quite a bit of cactus. Last night, since they had chicken and half a rabbit, neither of them cared much for the cactus.
They couldn't eat anything too greasy this morning, so Lin Zhinan stewed cactus with the leftover chicken soup from last night. Unexpectedly, the taste was unexpectedly good.
"Is the soup of the Gun Gun team different from our soup?" The people of the Maozi team were also drinking chicken soup. It was not that they liked it, but because boiling chicken is faster than roasting chicken, and they also had to hurry to get on the road.
"Well, Chinese people have always been good at making soup. Maybe they are good at it." One of the team members replied.
Audience in the live broadcast room: Because they have more salt than you.
The taste of cactus chicken soup is very special, fresh and sweet. Drinking a bowl of it in such a dry place like the desert makes me feel that all the dust I have inhaled in the past few days has disappeared.
The delicious food perked up everyone's spirits. The five of them packed up their belongings, filling their water bladders and the canteens they'd taken earlier. Standing by, they looked at the abundance of water, their smiles etched on their faces.
"Set off."
Following Chu Huaiqin's order, several people picked up their backpacks and continued to move forward according to the route map, and the other teams followed in turn. Chu Huaiqin was full of energy in the cloudy weather, which made several teams stunned. Is this guy crazy?
The barren Gobi Desert stretched to the horizon, and dust swirled beneath my feet. My boots scraped against the dry ground, making a rustling sound. The wind blew with a dry breath. At seven o'clock, the sunshine Chu Huaiqin had been waiting for hadn't arrived, and the sky remained overcast.
At this time, the program team was also urgently discussing this strange phenomenon, constantly contacting the local observatory, and finally got confirmed news.
After urgent discussions, several directors and relevant professionals decided to continue the program.
At noon, more than ten teams entered the food point range on the map again. Everyone took off their backpacks and went to look for food. Chu Huaiqin and his team were no exception. Because they still had rabbits, they could cook them first. If they could find food this time, they could accumulate it for the next meal.
This time, it was Xia En and the little monk who went out to look for food, while Chu Huaiqin stayed behind in the camp.
Due to the strong wind and sand, they used to make a circle with sand when lighting alcohol wax, but now in the Gobi Desert, it is not easy to dig a hole.
The trophy knife was inserted into the ground, making a sharp squeaking sound that made people's teeth ache. Chu Huaiqin and Su Huaichen dug again and again with two knives for more than ten minutes before they made a small hole that was just big enough to put the alcohol wax in. It can be seen how hard the soil here is.
Chu Huaiqin and his friends were stewing rabbit meat today, which they had smoked yesterday to preserve. They cut it into pieces and added water and salt. Lin Zhinan added the salt with a thief-like movement, which made Chu Huaiqin laugh and cry.
"There are a lot of vegetation here. I'll look around and you guys watch the fire." Chu Huaiqin stood up and looked around. He found a lot of shrubs and maybe he could find something to eat.
"Brother, go ahead. I'll stew it well." Lin Zhinan clenched his claws.
Most vegetation in the Gobi Desert is drought-resistant and wind-resistant, so its leaves are mostly slender and few are edible. However, when Chu Huaiqin saw the Ammopiptanthus mongolicus, he was a little surprised. This thing is edible, but it is a protected plant in China. As for whether it is edible here, Chu Huaiqin couldn't say, but he couldn't eat it.
The people in the live broadcast room followed Chu Huaiqin around, wondering what he was doing. All they saw were shrubs with thorns that were not edible!
"Ah, I see, it's a sand onion."
Someone in the livestream room yelled. Most Chinese people are quite familiar with plants, and when they hear the word "sand allium," they immediately think of eating it. However, foreign viewers didn't understand. They were shocked when they saw Chu Huaiqin walk over to the sand allium, squat down, and pluck a leaf from it and put it in his mouth.
Why eat grass when there is rabbit meat?
Chinese audience: "Class representative, please come out!"
"I don't want to explain."
Foreign audience: Why do we hear contempt in these two sentences?
After Chu Huaiqin tasted it, his mouth opened wide.
Live broadcast room: It’s so rare to see my brother so happy.
Chu Huaiqin pressed the talk button on his watch. A few seconds later, Xia Entang and Su Huaichen's voices rang out simultaneously. Xia Entang sounded a little anxious; this was his first time using a talk button. Still searching for food, Xia Entang's first reaction was that something had happened. The latter was much calmer. Although Su Huaichen was some distance away from Chu Huaiqin, this was a plain, and he could see where Chu Huaiqin was.
"I'm looking for a senior," Chu Huaiqin first specified the target, and then said, "You ask your sister to bring a trophy pot over."
The tone was light and cheerful, and you could tell at a glance that something good was going to happen.
When I heard him say the word "trophy" in the live broadcast room, I was speechless and looked up at the sky. Every time he said this word, it was like he was sacrificing the people of the Cuttlefish Country to the heavens! There are still Cuttlefish fans here!
"I'll be right there." Lin Zhinan also guessed that Chu Huaiqin might have found something. He held the pot in his arms, looked left and right, and while no one was paying attention, he ran towards Chu Huaiqin.
Two minutes later, Lin Zhinan was also happy when he saw the shallots. "Brother, brother, you can use them to stew rabbits. But there are too many. It's a pity. If you pull them out, they will become dry shallots."
Lin Zhinan felt very sorry.
"So that's why I asked you to bring the pot over." Chu Huaiqin said with a smile.
Lin Zhinan blinked, confused. The people in the live studio didn't understand either. Everyone stared intently at Chu Huaiqin, waiting to see what tricks he could pull off.
"Let's dig it up along with the roots and soil and take it away." Chu Huaiqin said seriously, not sounding like he was joking at all.
"Brother, it will be very heavy." Lin Zhinan reminded.
"Let Xia Entang carry it." Chu Huaiqin said as a matter of course.
Live broadcast room:
"Are you treating Xia En as labor?"
"Will Xia agree? Why doesn't Chu Huaiqin carry it? Isn't this group bullying?"
This one is obviously a foreign audience, and it's clear at a glance that they might be Xia Entropy's fans who are about to rise. Domestic audiences all know what Xia Entropy feels about Chu Huaiqin, and they also say, "Xia Entropy will definitely be very happy, you guys blow it!"
"Yes, let Brother Xia En carry it."
Lin Zhinan nodded, and happily squatted down to dig sand onions with Chu Huaiqin. Thinking that he would use onions as seasoning later, he felt like he had grown little wings in his heart.
Sand onion is a clumping plant. As long as it is well cultivated, it can grow indefinitely in a season. It will grow again after each mowing. If this sand onion is really kept alive, they will have seasoning for the next two months.
Carefully digging the shallots along with the soil into the pot, Lin Zhinan held them like gold, and Chu Huaiqin refused to help. On the way back, passing by other camps, a group of men who were not very good at cooking were a little puzzled by the shallots in Lin Zhinan's hands, and some even couldn't help asking Chu Huaiqin what they were.
"Oh, I was afraid that I wouldn't see any plants while walking, so I transplanted one and took it with me. It made me feel better." Chu Huaiqin said it sincerely, while the others had the expression of meeting someone. Who was he trying to fool?
Live broadcast room:
"A man's mouth is a lie."
"Haha, I suddenly feel that the atmosphere among the participating teams has improved a lot after those people were eliminated."
"Same as above."
Rabbit stewed with onions, even when food is plentiful, such a dish would make people salivate, let alone in the desert where food is scarce. When the aroma came out, everyone swallowed unconsciously, looking at Chu Huaiqin's camp, from hunger at first to envy.
"I wonder if they are still hiring." Someone said eagerly.
When Xia En and his companions came back, they also smelled the smell from afar. They exchanged a glance with the little monk and rushed towards the camp. The other teams also ran all the way.
"It must have come from our camp." Team Maozi said confidently.
"No, no, it must be the food from our camp. My third brother's cooking skills are famous in our hometown." This is what the Mali team said.
"Oh, this is the smell of rabbit meat, we must be stewing rabbit." This is what the Double Eagles said.
Whose team is it?
So everyone hoped that their team would be the one to be picked up. However, when they ran back to the camp, they were stunned to see the burnt food. After thinking for three seconds, those who went to look for food all slapped the camp guards on the head and asked, "Where's my delicious food?"
"Hahaha, it's ours, it's ours, hahaha." The little monk's laughter filled the entire camp, revealing pride and contempt, making the people in other camps so angry that they gritted their teeth.
"It smells so good, what did you put in it?" Xia En was also very curious. Before he even opened the lid of the pot, the aroma was gurgling, and waves of fragrance came up, making people drool unconsciously.
"Brother Xia En, guess what." Lin Zhinan smiled mysteriously.
"I can't guess." Xia Entang shook his head. He could cook, but just averagely, and didn't know much about how to use seasonings.
"Tap, tap, tap, look," Lin Zhinan took out a pot of sand onions from the back, "Brother found this, isn't it amazing!"
"Awesome." Xia En smiled and turned to look at Chu Huaiqin, his dark eyes shining.
"You carry it on your back." Chu Huaiqin sat cross-legged on the ground with his hands supporting his chin.
"I'll carry it." Xia En nodded. He didn't mind at all and was very happy to do it.
The rabbit meat stewed with shallots was a delicacy for those who were currently short of food. Even the director crew couldn't help but want to come over and get a piece of the rabbit meat, but in order to avoid gossip, they had to hold back.
"Delicious, delicious, smells good, delicious, it's stewed so well and smells good." The little monk devoured the food in no time and kept making similar noises from his mouth, which made the people in the neighboring camp drool.
"Huaiqin, it's amazing. The rabbit meat stewed with shallots is amazing. The meat is so tender and fresh." Su Huaichen was also very happy with the meal and praised it repeatedly.
The people in the nearby camp glared at Chu Huaiqin and the others angrily, and looked at each other, clearly saying: Let's just eat it with this taste! It can be considered as stewed by ourselves.
People in the distant camp: This smell is so faint, I really want to move camp, at least to get a taste of it!
"Without salt, even with shallots, we won't be able to stew rabbit meat to taste good!" The Maozi team was puzzled again, "Could it be that the Chinese people's cooking skills have reached such a level that they can stew rabbit meat without salt?"
Live broadcast room: ...
After lunch, the group began sorting through the food Xia En and his companions had brought back. They'd spent about an hour searching the food point, finding nothing but some berries and a few cacti. With so little to share between ten or so teams, there really wasn't much to go around.
"The director team is so stingy!" Chu Huaiqin sighed lightly.
There was no other way out as there was no food, so the group packed up and set off. After walking for about half an hour, someone noticed something was wrong. The wind was howling and the pungent smell of dust was getting stronger and stronger.
"Is the wind getting stronger?"
"It seems so. What's going on?"
For a moment, people were a little uneasy and looked around.
"There."
Someone shouted and everyone turned around, only to see a huge shadow covering the sky and the sun appearing in the distant desert area. It was like a monster with bared fangs and claws, rolling towards this side, as if to devour everything in the world.
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