Chapter 121, Wang Qiu’s Choice (Part 2)
Since Wang Qiu’s “Family Hydroponic Farm” produces a large amount of fruits and vegetables, there is basically a surplus every day. In order to avoid wasting these rare fresh green foods, Wang Qiu always packed and hoarded excess fruits and vegetables to support the sentries and scientific expedition team members in the fortress next door.
Therefore, unless unfortunately there is strong wind and heavy rain, in the evening every day, there will usually be scientific expedition members riding electric tricycles or driving off-road pickup trucks, coming from the fortress nearly one kilometer away to collect their daily necessities. fruits and vegetables, and take a look at the lovely green grass and leaves in Wang Qiujia's yard and greenhouse to "heal" his eyes that have been poisoned by the endless Gobi desert for a long time.
——In fact, the people in the fortress also tried to open up a vegetable garden, but they all have their own jobs and don’t have much free time to take care of the vegetable garden. They don’t have Wang Qiu’s generous hydroponic plant equipment and the freedom to grow vegetables at will. Doraemon's magical props are used, and the environment of the Tellilia Plains is too harsh. Not only is the soil as barren as the Gobi Desert, but there are often raging storms. As a result, the harvest in the vegetable fields is always pitifully small. In the end, in addition to eating canned and dehydrated vegetables, they could only hope to go to Wang Qiu's place to eat fruits and vegetables as a tooth sacrifice.
Of course, they usually don’t take Wang Qiu’s fruits and vegetables for free. Instead, they often bring some prey they caught during field trips, such as wild goats, fallow deer, hares, and unnamed large birds as rewards. , which can also be regarded as a sign of reciprocity. However, for some unknown reason today, the only person who came to pick up food from the fortress was a grey-haired old man, and he was empty-handed and did not bring any game to Wang Qiu.
"...Professor Li, why are you riding a tricycle here to pull goods today?"
While Wang Qiu was loading the boxes filled with fruits and vegetables onto the bed of the electric tricycle, and at the same time unloading the empty boxes from the previous trip, he casually said to the old man from the scientific expedition team who was driving, "...those juniors Isn’t it too disrespectful to respect the elderly and the wise?”
"...Hey, this time is also a special situation. Something big happened just now! The guys from the geological team found a large open-pit diamond mine in the west yesterday. As soon as the news came back, everyone here went crazy, except Everyone except the guys on duty ran over in a swarm.”
Professor Li, who had gray hair on his temples, smiled disapprovingly, "... Now in the entire scientific expedition team, only Lao Xu and I are still looking after the house. Lao Xu was in danger when he was climbing to inspect birds last time and broke his leg. I lost a leg, and my foot is still in a cast! Of course, I have to do it.”
"...An open-pit diamond mine? That's no wonder...Diamonds are forever, do they last forever! Eh? What is this?"
Wang Qiu curled his lips and was about to turn around when he saw Professor Li take out an envelope from his arms and stuff it into his hand.
"...This is a letter sent by Comrade Guo Jing from Torch Port. It is not convenient for him to communicate with you. Sending an email has to go through three times of review, so he asked me to bring the letter directly..." Li The professor replied, "...Okay! It's time for me to go back and cook. Goodbye!"
"...Political Commissar Guo's letter? How strange, what could it be?" Watching the electric tricycle disappear, Wang Qiu turned over the envelope in his hand and muttered to himself unconsciously, and then felt the sudden sunshine. Becoming a little bleak. When I looked up, I found a few dark clouds coming from nowhere, stretching across the horizon, covering half of the bright red sunset, and the edges of the dark clouds were dyed a gorgeous golden color by the afterglow of the setting sun.
He sighed and turned around thoughtfully, "...it looks like...it might rain tonight!"
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Since I didn’t receive any extra game from my neighbors today, the main course for dinner was the guinea pigs raised in the family hydroponic farm on the roof, which are used to process fruit and vegetable kitchen waste. They nibble on things like pea pods, potato leaves, and cucumber vines every day. .
I have to admit that this small pet, also known as guinea pig, is really plump... I grabbed the two fattest guinea pigs from the cage, slaughtered them, cut their throats, bled them, disemboweled them, and threw them into boiling water. Scald off the hair on the inside, wash it clean, and then spread a layer of starch on the outside. You can bake it directly on the stove until it's charred on the outside and tender on the inside. Of course, there are also chili peppers, cumin, refined salt and barbecue sauce, all of which are indispensable. .
Of course, two roasted guinea pigs weigh only one kilogram in total, which is definitely not enough for five people. In particular, Wang Qiu and Nan Lixiang are the types who exercise a lot and have a good appetite, while Gretel and Hansel are also in the period of youth growth, which is when they can eat the most. so. Wang Qiu took out a pack of frozen prawns from the refrigerator, opened the back, divided half of them into skewers and grilled them, and made the remaining half into custard shrimps.
Next, he used a pan to fry some small fried fish. This kind of small herring is about the length of a finger. It is golden brown after frying and is garnished with a few slices of chopped green onion. It looks very pleasing to the eye. When you bite it, it is fresh and tender but also crispy and caramelized,
Finally, he made a pot of vegetable soup stewed with cabbage, peas, potatoes and tomatoes, which completed the meat and vegetable combination for dinner.
By the time Wang Qiu finished preparing the dishes on the table, the four beauties also came back from the world in the book. While Gretel and Hansel were putting food into their mouths, they were happily talking about their adventures in the world of "Assassin's Creed", especially how they interacted with the protagonists and mixed up the main plot line. During the chaos, an urgent confidential video communication was transferred from Arnus City, announcing the following information:
According to the latest announcement from the God of Hades, Handy, the "power of the Lord God" that originally anchored the space-time gate on Arnus Hill has completely disappeared. The first minor space earthquake had just erupted. Although it did not cause any loss of life or property, it also sounded the alarm, indicating that the connection between the two planes was about to be severed. Therefore, the country is preparing to advance its evacuation schedule from the other world, and is expected to evacuate most of its personnel and research samples within four months. Wang Qiu, who was in the Talilia Plains, was also included in the evacuation list, requiring him to pack his luggage and prepare to retreat back to Earth within three weeks.
After watching the video, the five people sitting around the dining table suddenly had confused expressions on their faces: Does this mean they are... leaving?
As if feeling something in his heart, Wang Qiu took out the letter from Political Commissar Guo from his arms after being stunned for a while. After opening it, it turned out that it was political commissar Guo who was determined to stay in the fantasy world and engage in colonial conquest. He wrote a letter inviting Wang Qiu not to return to the earth, but to stay here to "work together with him in the great cause"...
As a result, a choice about future destiny was suddenly placed in front of Wang Qiu and his four cohabitants.
Should we bid farewell to adventure and return to Earth to live a peaceful life; or should we stay here and fight and build civilization with other time-travelers? Suddenly, the five people's thoughts changed rapidly, and the atmosphere at the table became silent and strange...