Chapter 111 Opening the Space Sea
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Xia Mi went to the supply and marketing cooperative, and it happened that there was beef today. There were few people buying beef, but there was still a lot when she arrived.
She bought six kilograms at once, ate one kilogram and made the rest into beef jerky.
Making beef jerky requires an oven. Xia Mi realized it only after he left the supply and marketing cooperative. Where can he get an oven now?
Soon, she came up with a solution, which was to make a homemade oven, also called a clay kiln.
In her previous life, she saw the production method from a lifestyle blogger.
If you have an earthen kiln, you can make cakes and other things, not to mention baking beef jerky. It would be convenient to have one.
The construction is not complicated and requires the use of yellow mud and bricks, and the required materials can also be found.
It was indeed difficult for her to complete it alone, so Xia Mi decided to wait for Huo Jingchen to come back and ask.
Xia Mi put the fire into the stove when Huo Jingchen came back.
He was holding a lunch box and a thermos bucket containing rice in his hands. "The injury on your hand is not healed yet, so you don't need to cook during this period."
Xia Mi took a look at the injury on the back of his hand and thought it was not a problem.
"My hands are not affected. I have prepared all the dishes. Otherwise, I have to fry them first. It is hot now and things are easy to spoil."
Xia Mi looked at him and then turned his attention to the stove again. The fire just now had been extinguished, leaving only red sparks burning.
Huo Jingchen put the food on the table, returned to the kitchen, naturally took the tongs and sat in front of the stove.
"I heard from Erqiao that there are snake eggs at home. Are you scared?"
Xia Mi hummed, "A bit, but fortunately Erqiao has moved the snake eggs and sprinkled realgar around them. It is estimated that no snakes will come in the future."
When Xia Mi mentioned snake eggs, an oval egg appeared in his mind again, and his scalp felt numb.
She quickly shook her head, trying to get it out of her mind.
"I asked someone to bring an electric fan back, so there is no need to open the window in the future. We have been resting in the study recently." Huo Jingchen was worried that Xia Mi would be shadowed, so she decided to go back after a while.
The study room is smaller than the master bedroom, and as the sun sets at night, the temperature of the room is higher than that of the master bedroom.
"Considering that the weather is too hot, most people will use electric fans, and the army will adjust the time of powering on."
Today, in addition to focusing on tasks, we also talked about power usage time.
Xia Mi must be happy to be able to blow the electric fan. At least she doesn't have to wake up covered in sweat after sleeping. She can't wait to take a shower twice a day.
"Great, by the way, Jingchen, I want to build a kiln in the yard. Can you help me get some bricks or slates?"
As for Huang Ni, she was going to ask Jiang Shengmei. Huo Jingchen probably didn't know this.
"What do you want bricks for?"
Xia Mi explained, "I bought some beef today. If I want to make beef jerky, I need to roast or bake it. If there is a kiln at home, I can make other things to eat in the future. I can also make toothpaste when I want to eat."
"You can take some with you when you go on missions in the future. The dried meat can be stored for a long time and is not easy to spoil."
Xia Mi considered that Huo Jingchen was not well fed when he was on a mission. He heard that for field missions, he would bring rice mixed with wild vegetables and cook it into a pot of porridge, so he could deal with it.
If you have dried meat, you can still eat meat, which will also help to increase your physical strength.
"If you've been busy lately, you're not in a hurry."
In fact, now that the sun is strong, you can marinate it first and then hang it to dry, then steam it in a pot, and then take it out to dry it before eating it.
It’s just that the process is cumbersome, and it’s not as convenient as an oven.
And with a kiln, you can also make kiln chicken and cakes.
"Okay, I'll ask. If there is any, I'll ask Daqiang to send it to you. Do you know what to do?"
"I know. If possible, call Daqiang to come and help. Please do it after get off work." Xia Mi likes to stay with Daqiang very much. She is not a talkative person.
Every time I stay with Shi Daqiang, he never lets up on his words and is a great person to liven up the atmosphere.
He is also quick with his hands and feet, but the key is to give him enough emotional value.
Every time I cook her meals, the feedback is the best. "You like him very much?" Huo Jingchen spoke slowly and without any emotion.
He raised his eyelashes and looked at Xia Mi. The fondness in his eyes just now dissipated, and a chill ran down his back.
Xia Mi stopped shoveling vegetables, "No, when I went to pick up my aunt some time ago, Daqiang's family took good care of me. I thought he would come over to help me, and I could give him some of the food I made later. That's it. Return the favor.”
After saying that, she looked at Huo Jingchen's face from the corner of her eye.
"He is not as free as you think. After training for a day, he still has to do hard work after work. The cattle in the commune also need to rest."
Huo Jingchen continued to stuff firewood into the stove.
"Okay, there's no need to burn this one. Wash your hands and get ready to eat."
Xia Mi only prepared two dishes. The cooking speed of the earthen stove was very fast, and the two dishes were ready in about ten minutes.
Huo Jingchen stood up, went to get the water without saying a word, then washed the dishes and put them on the dining table.
Xia Mi put the sweet and sour pork loin on the table.
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"By the way, you mentioned raising a dog this morning. I have already painted the doghouse and sent it to Carpenter Wei."
"It's so fast. It seems you really like it. Then I'll go to the kennel and jump one for you as soon as possible." Huo Jingchen was surprised and surprised at Xia Mi's speed.
Xia Mi put a chopstick of sweet and sour pork tenderloin into his bowl, "Don't worry, it will take two or three days to be ready. Try this."
Huo Jingchen ate sweet and sour pork tenderloin, which was somewhat similar to the fish-flavored shredded pork she made last time, but that one was salty and sweet.
This is sweet and sour, both delicious.
"It's delicious." Huo Jingchen rarely praises people, and the words that come out of his mouth tend to be derogatory.
He won't praise others to the highest degree.
Xia Mi curled her lips, surprised that Huo Jingchen would still say this today. Usually, his most direct feedback was to eat silently, and she judged whether he liked it or not based on the speed and frequency of picking up food.
After eating, Huo Jingchen was washing the dishes.
Xia Mi is observing where in the yard is suitable for a doghouse and where is suitable for an earthen kiln.
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The sun was too strong in the afternoon and the sunlight was dazzling. Xia Mi originally planned to go to the sea.
She stood at the door, squinting at the yard, thinking about it or giving up.
[It has been detected that the host is willing to go to sea, and the mall has opened sea area contracting. 】
Xia Mi's squinted eyes suddenly widened, he closed the door and quickly entered the space. He immediately saw a new function, sea area contracting.
There are two types, freshwater and deep sea.
The area is divided into 100 square meters, 500 square meters, one acre, two acres...
And so on.
Xia Mi glanced at the golden transaction panel. Fresh water was cheaper than deep sea. One hundred square meters of fresh water cost 800 yuan, while deep sea cost 1,000 yuan.
Xia Mi found that he was still a little short of the five thousand achievements the system had mentioned last time, and he didn't know what he could get as a gift.
Not counting Huo Jingchen's, Xia Mi now has 4,330 savings and can directly contract for 500 square meters.
In the end, she only chose one hundred square meters, one hundred square meters each for fresh water and deep sea.
There was a lot left in her hand, so she went to the mall to buy fry, worried that if she bought too many fry, she would not survive.
So Xia Mi bought five kinds of fresh water and five kinds of sea fish each.
Tamsui bought the most common ones on the market, including mandarin fish, croaker, grass carp, crucian carp and sturgeon.
I bought seawater, including yellow croaker, redwood fish, extra large golden pomfret, small white pomfret, and octopus.
Worried about them fighting, Xia Mi bought another fish breeding encyclopedia in the mall and read it while he was resting at home while the sun was shining outside.