eurekapd Chapter 870 The Great Bug Appears
Chapter 870 The Great Bug Appears
After working for most of the day, the two were a little hungry.
Seeing that the chicken soup would take a while, Lu Qingqing took a few chopsticks and placed them on the iron pot.
Spread the small pancakes out and place them on top.
Using the rising steam from the iron pot, the flatbread was heated in just half a minute.
The two rubbed their hands with clean snow and began to eat the baked cookies.
Lu Qingqing could eat at least dozens of these thin pancakes if they weren't filled with meat.
As for Qin Lang, there's no need to elaborate.
However, the two of them were just having a light snack.
After eating five or six simple snacks to fill my stomach, I began to focus on waiting for the chicken soup.
Meanwhile, the roast chicken on the other side had already started to be covered in mud.
Making this beggar's chicken is much more troublesome than making their chicken soup.
No one knows how the soldier did it, but when Lu Qingqing saw it, it had already started grilling.
In addition, some people are making roasted rabbit, rabbit soup with radish, and other dishes.
Many soldiers, smelling the aroma of meat, had stomachs rumbling with hunger.
You should know that even Bai Song, the eldest son, hasn't eaten meat for months.
Needless to say, the ordinary soldiers were even worse off.
Because he had replenished his food supplies from Manager Qian's house, Bai Song became more generous.
Each soldier carried a considerable amount of dry rations on this trip into the mountains.
To be precise, each person can eat two large flatbreads per meal.
This cake is made by grinding wheat with the husk on into flour and then adding a large amount of soybean meal.
When you eat it, the fishy and bitter taste of soybean meal is particularly noticeable.
But these days, being able to eat this is already pretty good.
Not to mention, each person can eat two at a time.
After drinking two large bowls of hot water, my stomach felt full.
Not to mention the prey we caught today.
After dividing it up, everyone could get a few pieces of meat.
We're eating even better these days than during the Lunar New Year.
At this moment, everyone was beaming with joy.
While grilling his own flatbread over the fire, he glanced at the area next to him where meat was being cooked and grilled.
Many soldiers took several deep breaths in a row, reluctant to exhale.
In their words, smelling the aroma of meat is a bonus.
Come to think of it, they also struggled to get enough to eat when they were in Hai'an County.
With the imperial court gone, naturally no one was paying their salaries anymore.
It was still Boss Bai who personally paid for their meals every month.
But since the temperature dropped, grain prices have skyrocketed.
The little money they gave out couldn't buy much grain at all.
If it weren't for Boss Bai's protection, many of his brothers would have starved to death long ago.
Therefore, when the barbarians attacked the city, they directly followed Bai Laoda in rebellion.
They went to the two houses in the city with the most grain, robbed and killed them, and then fled the city with the grain and money.
However, in order to survive, they abandoned the carts carrying the grain when they fled.
At the time, I thought that as long as I had money, I could always buy food on the road.
Unexpectedly, the situation outside the city was even more difficult than inside.
Often, even with money, they couldn't buy food.
In order to survive, they committed numerous acts of murder and robbery.
There's no bottom line; there's only a lower one.
Moreover, their own relatives are still hundreds of miles away, and they don't know whether they are alive or dead.
They have even less compassion for others.
All actions and behaviors are predicated on the premise of survival.
In this world, it's really hard to say whether humans or ghosts are good or evil.
Half an hour later, Lu Qingqing's chicken soup was ready.
She scooped half a pot of water for Bai Song, who was waiting nearby.
Bai Song carefully carried away the half-pot of chicken soup.
With that person no longer nagging beside them, Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang finally felt at ease and prepared to eat.
Each person scooped a small bowl of chicken soup, and before eating, they tore the small biscuits into pieces and threw them directly into the chicken soup bowl.
These little pancakes, soaked in hot, oily chicken broth, are incredibly delicious when you eat them!
The two enjoyed their meal, while soldiers nearby watched with longing.
There's no other way; that's all the chicken soup I can make.
The white pine brought back was only enough for four or five people to share.
The remaining soldiers could only eat stewed or roasted rabbit.
However, no one thought it was bad.
When it came time to divide the meat, everyone wanted to have a bigger piece.
Cutting the meat was another ordeal.
After the meal, everyone was smacking their lips, clearly enjoying the delicious food.
Many soldiers gnawed on the bones they were given.
They didn't throw the bones away even after they were gnawed smooth.
I plan to use these bones to make soup when I get back.
Some soldiers even picked out and ate the bits of meat stuck between their teeth.
The beggar's chicken was finally ready just as everyone was finishing their meal.
I cracked open a white pine tree, took a bite, and smacked my lips.
"Chen Lao Er, your beggar's chicken doesn't taste as good as before."
I feel like it's even a little less impressive than the chicken soup Brother Lu makes.
Upon hearing this, Chen Lao Er, who was in charge of making beggar's chicken, repeatedly complained.
"Boss, we're up in the mountains now, and we don't have anything except salt."
I really did my best to make it this way.
If you still want to eat it, I'll prepare all the ingredients when we get back.
I'll make it for you then, okay?
Bai Song sighed with some regret, wrapped an unopened beggar's chicken in cloth, and brought it to Lu Qingqing.
"Brother Lu, Brother Qin, we don't have enough ingredients on the mountain, so the chicken doesn't taste as good as before."
"After you come down the mountain, come to my place, and I'll treat you to an authentic meal, how about that?"
By this time, Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang were already about 80-90% full, so they naturally had no objections upon hearing this.
After everyone had gone far away, Qin Lang knocked open the mud shell covering the beggar's chicken, revealing a whole chicken wrapped in cabbage inside.
After taking a bite, all I can say is that it's something new to try.
However, neither of them were wasteful people.
We ate all the chicken.
As for the remaining chicken carcass, it was taken away by a soldier who was watching from a distance as soon as they finished eating.
In their words, if you take this chicken carcass home and stew it with some cabbage, it will taste like meat.
After the meal, Qin Lang boiled some more water and poured it into the hot water bottle.
Since Bai Song had agreed to take the night shift, the two of them finished packing and went into the tent with the hot water bottle.
Seal the tent entrance and hang a bell as a warning.
Lu Qingqing then took out several thick mattresses, sleeping bags, and pillows from her spatial storage, and stuffed the hot water bottle into the sleeping bag.
After finishing all their work, the two took turns going into the space to wash up.
When I came out after packing up, there was no sound outside the tent.
Listening to the howling wind outside, the two slowly fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, a sudden tiger's roar startled everyone awake.
When Lu Qingqing came out of the tent, she saw a dark shadow flash by in the distance and then disappear without a trace.
Bai Song emerged from the crowd and went to check on the guard who had been knocked down by the tiger.
In just one strike, the arm that was hit by the tiger's claws was already untouchable.
The soldier cried out in pain at the slightest touch.
A soldier with some medical knowledge stepped forward, examined him, and deduced that his arm was broken.
I found some branches and went to help him deal with it.
At this moment, another soldier on duty was still panting heavily, terrified.
Just now, the two people on duty were wrapped in blankets and huddled around the fire.
After hearing a slight noise from the east side of the camp, he took a torch and went to investigate.
Little did they know, a large insect was eating the rabbit right where they had released the prey.
The giant tiger also spotted the two of them, opened its blood-stained mouth, and let out a tiger's roar.
Immediately afterwards, it pounced on the two of them.
One of them was so frightened that he fell to the ground and trembled as he backed away.
The other one, who was standing, was slapped by the big worm.
As for what happened next, everyone saw it after they came out.