mtlumby2d Chapter 404
Chapter 404
Grandma Pang picked up the pig's head with her chopsticks and put it into her mouth tremblingly. She savored it carefully and nodded with satisfaction. "Mm, soft and tasty, delicious!"
Zhou Shuwan also put a few pieces of pork head into the pancake, making it even more delicious.
Qi Mingyu couldn't help but laugh: "Don't eat too much and get sick of it."
"Today we will also drink salty dumpling soup, which is the best way to relieve greasiness." Zhong Tiyun said.
Since I want to fill up the space with supplies, the buns I made a few days ago seem too few.
After processing the pork, they started to make various pasta dishes.
Everyone has to go to work during the day, and when they get home from get off work they start working until one or two in the middle of the night.
Zhou Shuwan took out a few bags of flour from the space.
This is a strenuous job, and Zhong Tiyun and Grandma Pang are responsible for fermenting the dough.
Then the whole family joined together, kneading the dough, rolling it out, and making patterns, and they were very busy and happy.
Steam rises from the steamer, and soon the fragrant steamed buns and flower rolls come out of the pot.
They also used a noodle press to press noodles of various thicknesses.
The cut noodles were neatly stacked on a bamboo plate and quickly froze hard in the cold air, like silver popsicles.
Zhong Tiyun put the frozen noodles into a bag she had prepared in advance and said with satisfaction, "If you keep them frozen like this, they can be kept for a long time. You can just take them out and cook them whenever you want to eat them."
One third of the noodles moved, and the remaining two thirds were received into the space.
Steaming rice is also an important task.
Zhou Shuwan took out a few bags of vacuum-packed rice from the space, washed them clean, put them into the rice cooker, and pressed the cook button.
The faint aroma of rice soon spread throughout the villa, which made people's appetite increase.
The cooked rice grains are plump, crystal clear and exude an attractive luster.
They put the rice in a bowl and put it in a space to keep it fresh and warm.
Most of the fresh vegetables in the space were also taken out.
The emerald green vegetables, bright red peppers, and purple eggplants, all kinds of colors complement each other, making people's eyes bright.
Not to mention Grandma Pang's surprise, Zhou Shuwan and Zhong Tiyun washed the vegetables, used some of them to make cold dishes, which were crisp and refreshing; used some of them to stir-fry, which were fragrant; and used some of them to make soup, which was rich in nutrition.
The aroma of various dishes wafting through the villa makes people salivate.
Frying, stir-frying, boiling, deep-frying, stewing... various cooking methods are used in turn. The kitchen is bustling with pots and pans playing like a symphony.
Grandma Pang was the cook, Zhong Tiyun assisted her, and Zhou Shuwan and Mu Mu helped wash and pick the vegetables.
Zhou Shuwan carefully put all the cooked delicacies into the space.
This is also the advantage of living in a villa area. Most of the residents in the villa area have sufficient supplies. Even in extreme cold weather, they can maintain a relatively decent life. Occasionally eating meat or vegetables is not difficult.
Now, in addition to the Zhou family raising chickens and geese, other families also exchange a few breeding eggs from the base or the Zhou family.
There is also frozen pork preserved under various conditions.
So although others envied the aroma of meat and cooking wafting in the air, they did not care too much. They would just occasionally look out the window curiously, wondering which restaurant was making delicious food again.
When so many supplies suddenly appeared at home, Qi Mingyu explained that they were exchanged with some teams in the base that often went out.
But Grandma Pang still had some doubts in her heart. However, the wisdom of the elderly made her choose to bury the doubts in her heart.
She believed in Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu. Both children were sensible and would not do anything out of line.
When she was alone in her bedroom, she would be lost in thought.
"This world is getting weirder and weirder..."
After a busy week, the whole family finally finished their work and was very tired.
After a few days of rest, the flow of people outside the base began to increase.
Zhou Shuwan had previously tidied up the space and sorted out some of the excess supplies, planning to rent a shop in the base square and exchange them slowly.
Grandma Pang has not been in good health since she was infected with the virus. These days, the family members are afraid to let her do too much cooking and have been urging her to rest more.
But everyone in the family is at work, and no one is idle except Mu Mu and Grandma Pang.
Zhou Shuwan then went to find Chen Fen and asked her to help ask who was willing to go to the store to help look after the shop.
It doesn't have to be someone from Chen Fen's team, as long as they have good character.
Although Chen Fen felt that her condition was too broad, the current situation was chaotic with all kinds of people, and she might attract someone with bad intentions into her home.
But she was embarrassed to bring this up, so she tried her best to look for it within her own team.
All members of the team were selected after she reviewed them one by one, and their character is trustworthy.
Nowadays, as long as there is work to do, it is good work. No one refuses. Many people in Chen Fen’s team have signed up.
In the end, Chen Fen chose an honest-looking single woman in her thirties to help, her name was Zhao Lijuan.
It is said that her husband, children, and parents-in-law all died during the floods and acid rains, and she was the only one who survived.
Since joining the team, she has been very capable and quiet. Chen Fen is willing to entrust some things to her because she thinks she is very reliable.
This time, Chen Fen also chose her from among the candidates who registered.
The Zhou family’s store was given a simple name, “Grocery Store”.
Zhao Lijuan is indeed capable and efficient. After arriving at the grocery store, she kept everything in order.
Zhou Shuwan and his friends would also come to the shop to help after get off work.
Worried that Grandma Pang would come here on her own, Zhou Shuwan had a good talk with her and told her that the most important thing was to take care of herself. Such cold weather was really unfriendly to the elderly, so she should stay at home as much as possible and not go out. If she really felt stuffy, she could just wear air-conditioned clothes and walk around on the terrace on the first floor.
Every time it snows on the terrace, my father and Qi Mingyu will clear the snow from it, worried that it will collapse the house. So when you stand on the terrace and look around the yard, you will see a layer of snow all the way to the top, which is very spectacular and beautiful.
Grandma Pang knew her worries and nodded solemnly: "Don't worry, Wanwan, grandma is not a willful person. I am still waiting for you and Xiaoyu's great-grandson to come out."
This sentence made Zhou Shuwan blush.
After coming out from Grandma Pang, Zhou Shuwan felt a little melancholy.
Great-grandson!
A few years have passed since the natural disaster, and she is now 27 or 28 years old. She doesn’t know when the natural disaster will end. Will she and Xiao Yu have a child before the best childbearing age?
But, in the face of survival, everything else is secondary.
She quickly put this feeling of melancholy behind her.
The grocery store sells a wide variety of goods, including second-hand bicycles, mutated potatoes, compressed biscuits, washbasins, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes and other daily necessities, as well as some clothes that have been soaked in floods and then hung out to dry, for both adults and children, but there are far fewer cotton-padded clothes and the like.