The last human in the universe

Chapter 16 Hot Pot
Time is still slowly passing by.Zhao Changxing always repeated the two-point and one-line life of the Tinder spacecraft—Humanity No. [-] Base. When he was resting every day, he came back with food and spacecraft supplies, had dinner with the children, and then arranged for them to go to bed.On the second day, I took the building materials and tools needed for today's work, as well as the household garbage produced in the spaceship the day before, to Humanity One Base.

Household waste goes to the recycling center for recycling, while building materials and tools are used for today's work.In addition to continuing to build the living quarters, occasionally go to deal with some soilless cultivation workshops and animal husbandry and aquaculture workshops, or watch crop harvesting as a pastime, or look at the growth of animals, and sometimes take the Hongqi space vehicle to go out. Go to the field, collect some water, various compounds used to prepare nutrient solutions, etc., and a busy day will pass.

Although the days are monotonous and boring, they are also considered fulfilling.At least, Zhao Changxing will always have a sense of accomplishment watching the human base No. [-] become more and more perfect, and watching the children grow bigger and bigger.

In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed. Today, after a busy day's work, Zhao Changxing came to the animal husbandry workshop.

The meat produced by three types of poultry, chicken, duck, and goose, has almost become one of the daily foods of Zhao Changxing and the children, and there is nothing novel about it.Today, Zhao Changxing will welcome a new kind of food.

Lamb.

In the first batch of 10 sheep, except for breeding sheep and ewes for breeding lambs, the remaining 4 sheep have grown up and can be slaughtered.

There should have been 6 sheep that could be slaughtered, but unfortunately 2 died during the breeding process, and only these were left.As for the dead sheep, Zhao Changxing didn't dare to eat them. He just saved the wool for future use. The skin, meat and bones were directly sterilized and ground into powder, and prepared into a nutrient solution for the plants to "eat". .

Even if these 4 sheep finally grow up healthy and reach the stage of slaughter, their weight is much smaller than expected.Originally, Zhao Changxing planned to weigh 30 kilograms in half a year. Based on half the meat production rate, one sheep can produce 15 kilograms of meat, and 4 lambs would be 60 kilograms.But now, the weight of sheep is generally only about 25 kilograms, and the total amount of meat they can produce is only about 50 kilograms.

"It's a good start." Zhao Changxing thought: "There are also all kinds of fish that can be eaten."

The slaughter order was issued, and the robotic arm of the automated slaughtering equipment immediately grabbed the hind legs of the four target sheep and pulled them up directly.The rest of the sheep panicked for a while, but then calmed down and continued to eat the feed, as if nothing had happened.

The machine operated for a while, and what finally appeared in front of Zhao Changxing were 4 sheep heads, 16 sheep hooves, a pile of wool, 4 sheepskins, a pile of lamb meat, a pile of lamb chops, a pot of sheep blood and so on.

Sheep's head and sheep's feet are usually not included in the edible category, but there are also many regions on the earth that have a tradition of eating these two parts. Zhao Changxing has eaten them before, and the taste is not bad.But at this stage, the children may not be able to accept it, so let's save it first and talk about it later.

Heart, liver, spleen, stomach, kidney, lung, large intestine and small intestine are also widely eaten. Zhao Changxing has already planned to use these ingredients to make some delicious haggis soup.When the time comes, sprinkle chili oil, shallots, coriander or something, and it will taste delicious.

Not to mention the lamb chops, Zhao Changxing felt that it was even more fragrant than pork ribs.But that's all food for later.Today, Zhao Changxing has already decided what food to eat.

He picked a piece of fat and thin mutton—about ten catties in weight, and put the rest in the warehouse for storage.

Today, in addition to chicken, duck, goose and fish, the meat storage area in the warehouse finally has serious meat—about 45 kilograms of mutton, some offal, leftovers, etc., and it is no longer empty.

After picking out the mutton, Zhao Changxing came to the vegetable growing area.Regardless of the fact that the vegetables were not yet ready to be harvested, he directly cut a large handful of lettuce, a large handful of lettuce, spinach, coriander, a whole Chinese cabbage, some mushrooms, all kinds, and put them together with the mutton to keep warm box, and brought it to the Ignition spacecraft.

"Children, let's have hot pot for dinner!"

Zhao Changxing solemnly announced the news.

But the children were not as excited as expected, but looked at each other in blank dismay.After a while, Qian Yue asked, "Father, what is hot pot?"

Zhao Changxing was taken aback for a moment before he realized that the children at this moment don't even know what hot pot is.

Recalling the past years on the earth, Zhao Changxing felt a little sour in his heart.But he adjusted his mood immediately, and said with a smile: "Hot pot is a way of cooking food, according to legend..."

Zhao Changxing said a lot, but the children still looked at each other in blank dismay.In the end, it was still Qian Yue who asked timidly, "Dad, is the hot pot delicious?"

Zhao Changxing nodded vigorously.

"Good! Good!"

Only then did the children cheer.

Zhao Changxing did not hand over the ingredients directly to the kitchen robot, but packed them up manually with the children.

At this stage, Zhao Changxing has begun to consciously train the children's hands-on ability.

After washing the vegetables and cutting the meat, Zhao Changxing performed magic again. He used a machine to grind some sesame paste, mashed some leek flower sauce, took out some fermented bean curd, some bean curd, and a handful of potato wide noodles. placed on the table.

In the middle of the table is a large pot, and the water in the pot has already boiled.A few lamb bones and some scallions, garlic cloves, ginger slices, etc. are constantly floating in it.Because there was no hot pot base, Zhao Changxing had to use these things instead.

Under the expectant eyes of the children, Zhao Changxing directly poured about two catties of mutton into the pot, and when the pot was boiling, he took out a large chopstick and put it on the dinner plate in front of Qian Yue.

"Qian Yue is No.1 in this exam again, this is for you."

"Thank you dad."

Qian Yue let out a cry of joy, took a special look at the fat Zheng Yan, snorted, and proudly picked up the mutton and sent it to her mouth.

"Slow down." Zhao Changxing stopped her, "It's delicious to dip in these sesame sauces."

Qian Yue followed his advice and dipped some sesame sauce before putting the mutton slices into his mouth.The rest of the children all stared at her eagerly.

However, Qian Yue's expression suddenly changed, and his eyes seemed to emit light.She tried to chew it first, then chewed twice violently, and swallowed it all at once.

"Really delicious!"

"Children, eat all."

The children cheered and stretched out their chopsticks.Two catties of mutton were almost empty at once.Zhao Changxing laughed: "Slow down, slow down, be careful not to burn it. There is a lot of mutton, don't grab it..."

The meal ended with laughter.Zhao Changxing looked at the children with bulging bellies, and then at the lonely and cold universe beyond the porthole of the spaceship, feeling a strange emotion surging in his heart.

"Children, you must grow up healthy..."

A month after the first sheep were slaughtered, the pigs were ready for slaughter.A total of 25 pigs were raised in this first batch, and three died in the middle, leaving 22 pigs left.Then the breeding pigs and sows are removed, and 18 pigs can be slaughtered.

The weight of pigs is generally only about 80 kilograms at the moment—compared with the expected slaughter weight, it is also much lower. One pig can produce about 60 kilograms of meat, and 18 pigs are more than one ton.

But pigs are full of treasures, bristles, pig skin, etc. are useful, all kinds of offal, even pig trotters, pig heads, etc. are also delicious ingredients, even pig ears have a unique flavor and are delicious.

Zhao Changxing saved them all at once.

"Finally the kids have pork to eat. Mmm, I'm going to stew some pork ribs tonight."

Zhao Changxing thought to himself.

Day by day, the food reserves in the warehouse are becoming more and more abundant, the children are growing up day by day, and the construction tasks of the living quarters are getting closer and closer to completion.

Four years after starting the construction of the living area, the living area with an area of ​​up to 3000 square meters was finally completed.Now, the children have been in this world for 10 years.It has been 11 years since Zhao Changxing left Earth and arrived at Sedna Star.

Excluding the hibernation time, Zhao Changxing is now 38 years old.

But what made him feel a little strange was that, apart from his rough skin due to working all day, he didn't show any signs of aging.At the moment, he still looks like a young man under 30 years old.

But although it was strange, he didn't take it very seriously.

After completing the construction of the living area, only the last larger building remained in the entire human base No. [-].

industrial area.

The industrial zone is the initial engine to carry out the subsequent industrialization process, and it is the hope of Zhao Changxing in the future.In the future, if you want to build a new soilless cultivation workshop, plant more crops, raise more livestock, and breed more people, all the required construction materials must start with the industrial area.

After giving himself two days off and having a good rest, and taking advantage of these two days to personally teach the children a few lessons, Zhao Changxing devoted himself to the construction project again.

The industrial area is divided into several parts in the planning, namely mining workshop, foundry workshop, chemical and chemical workshop, precision processing workshop, etc., which undertake different tasks and responsibilities.Its total area is even larger than the living area, as high as about 4000 square meters, almost occupying all the remaining area of ​​Human Base No. [-] at this moment.

But it takes much less time to build an industrial zone than a living zone.Because many places inside it are empty, not as detailed as the living area.It is expected to take only about two years to complete.

By then, the entire human base No. [-] will be completed.

Time passed slowly.Life is always like this, busy and peaceful.But about a year and a half into the construction of the industrial zone, an incident reported by Xiaoxi broke the peace.

"Captain, I have received some signals from unknown sources..."

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