When he came back from downstairs, he called Li Xiang to eat.

Maybe it was because something happened yesterday that made the two of them more familiar and trustful. Li Xiang's sense of awkwardness was much reduced, and he could hardly feel it without careful observation.

Wang Qi pretended that nothing had happened and used a new way to cook - stir-fry.

In my previous life, I almost vomited from eating stir-fried vegetables, but in this unfortunate world, stir-frying is really not that easy. Without fat and a pot, I can only do it.

The knives I used were just picked up.

Yesterday I picked up stainless steel and ceramic knives. Stainless steel kitchen knives are not good at cutting meat, can’t cut bones, and are too short for cutting people. The typical ones are always inappropriate; ceramic knives are probably too brittle, passing survivors

We don't like it, so it's just right for cutting meat.

Cut the meat and fat into slices, add the fat and sauté with oil, then add the meat and fry until cooked.

The firepower of firewood is not as good as that of gas and electromagnetic fire. The heat of the fire is not concentrated, so stir-frying is not possible and can only be cooked.

When it's almost cooked, sprinkle with salt, stir for a while, and remove from the pot.

Lifting the pot means taking the whole pot down, so that at least you don't have to wash the dishes, even though the dishes are also picked up.

I gave Li Xiang a pair of beef bone chopsticks and started eating from the pot.

Li Xiang had never used chopsticks before, so he observed Wang Qi's movements for a while before trying to use them.

Chopsticks are very strange. It’s hard to learn by just looking at them. Most people can’t notice that only one chopstick is moving when they observe them. Even if they realize some strange skills, they probably won’t be able to pick up heavier ones.

Wang Qi also paid attention to Li Xiang, waited for her to move her chopsticks for a while, and then helped her correct her hand movements.

The meat slices are light, and Wang Qi deliberately cut them into slightly larger and thicker pieces, which is suitable for novices to try and will cause less frustration.

When Li let go, the meat on her chopsticks slipped a little. When she applied force, the chopsticks staggered and the meat fell back into the pot.

Wang Qi picked up a few more pieces himself, then held her hand to help pick up another piece.

This time it was smoother. Li Xiang seemed to have squeezed the meat with two chopsticks and finally managed to put the meat into his mouth.

After she succeeded once, it became much easier. Between the two of them, no one was trying to grab the food. It would not be a big problem if she was slower. Wang Qi would occasionally correct her movements. After a meal of fried meat, Li Xiang's chopsticks became smoother and smoother the more she used them. It took about 10 seconds before finishing the meal.

70% of the time it can be clamped securely, but occasionally a piece of meat will fly off.

After eating, Li Xiang took the initiative to run away. Before Wang Qi finished packing, she came back with two vegetables in her hand!

Vegetables, they sound so ordinary.

But there is an extraordinary story behind it.

Modern vegetables are the result of continuous improvement and breeding after humans entered the agricultural era. Even though there was no concept of breeding in ancient times, humans have participated in the changing times of plants, and artificial selection has been more or less involved, which actually changes the characteristics of plants bit by bit.

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This kind of long-term breeding does not change the underlying genetic logic. Vegetables, domestic pigs, and dogs are the same. They rewild very quickly after being released into the wild. They don’t even need to wait for the replacement of generations. More and more ancestral characteristics will appear in a few years.

To put it bluntly, they will become weeds and wild vegetables.

There have always been artificially cultivated vegetables, the appearance and texture of which are clearly different from wild vegetables, just like the two small cabbages that Wang Qi took from Li Xiang.

It looked wilted, so Wang Qi pinched it secretly and confirmed that it was a vegetable. With this fragility and water content, it would be okay to eat it raw.

Think of a smile for Li and put the cabbage on the kitchen counter.

He looked at her and asked, "Can you still eat it?"

Li Xiang looked at the baby cabbage placed on the table, his expression changed a little, it seemed...annoyed?

Wang Qi didn't have much research on micro-expressions. In his previous life, he had only built buildings at the municipal library level, which had nothing to do with craftsmanship. He just didn't have the eye color and was too thin-skinned to lick it. He was still a salty fish.

Seeing that Li Xiang was planning to go back, Wang Qi stopped her, held her hand, and started working together.

"Someone left a message outside saying that they want to trade with us. Today we are clearing out some things that can be sold. There are a lot of steel bars, which may need to be eliminated in the future, so we can give some away; lean meat seems to be consumed slower than fat, so we can also take it out." Still the same.

It doesn't matter whether people understand or not, he just keeps talking.

Instead of choosing from the supplies room on the fourth floor, I went to fiddle with it in the storage room on the sixth floor.

Start with the steel bars.

Anything under fifteen millimeters is considered scrap metal in his opinion.

It’s not that the quality is not good, but that their production purpose is not close to making weapons, and they are too easy to deform when used as a swinging stick. It is unrealistic to expect to rebuild a new concrete building with these few steel scraps.

When he came, he had quite a complete reserve, including five, seven, nine, twelve, and fifteen. There were a few missing above, down to the twenty millimeters used as the main door bolts, and the relatively smaller number of two

Fifteen millimeters.

Wang Qi picked out all the fine ones, leaving only a few for spare javelins, and planned to put the rest on the shelves and trade them with the survivors.

Li wanted to follow him and didn't know what he was going to do. He just followed and Wang Qi would give her a few steel bars to carry when going up and down the stairs.

I made two trips to steel bars, and then came the tools category.

The ax must not be sold. To make such a good ax by yourself, you need a skilled craftsman. You need to keep a few more hammers, in case you need to hire a younger brother to play with. There are three wrenches that can be used as spares for each other, and there is no need for a screwdriver.

Need so much.

I rummaged through everything and gathered dozens of tools of various kinds. By the way, I took down a few of the big discus balls from the fitness equipment that no one wanted on the fourth floor. What if the blacksmith among the survivors liked it?

After finishing these, take Li Xiang to deal with the mantis legs.

Li Xianggang was obviously frightened when he saw the mantis legs. Although Wang Qi didn't react on the surface, he felt a little nervous in his heart. Not everyone would dare to go through this thing.

It's cold now, and my legs are placed upstairs. The exoskeleton is tight due to the expansion of water freezing, but after trying for a while, it still doesn't work, so I have to change my mind.

Li Xiang took the initiative this time. Wang Qi turned around and found that she had taken the wire cutters from the material room on the fourth floor.

Just listening to the name and introduction, some merchants deliberately mix up the concepts. It is easy to confuse steel cutters and wire cutters, but at a glance, you can tell that they are not the same thing at all.

Reinforcement cutters are hydraulic, manual and electric, and their jaws mostly bite up and down; wire cutters are all manual, and their structure is much the same as that of ordinary hand pliers, with just a few more parts. Although both are used for cutting

Steel bars, but steel bar shears only cut steel bars and metal parts of similar diameter and thickness, such as cables, and are mostly used for vehicle demolition and rescue; wire cutters mainly cut iron wires and steel wires. Since they are completely manual, they cannot cut very thick even with the largest size.

The steel bars are easily cracked.

It is more obvious to take the example of the steel bars on hand. You can find steel bar cutters of corresponding calibers for all thickness and model of steel bars. You can also cut the sharp parts diagonally (working on both ends). In fact, giant wire cutters more than one meter long can only

It can cut steel bars below 15 mm, no matter how thick the manpower and leverage are, it is not enough. If someone dares to promise that he can cut all steel bars, he will just slap the pliers on the forehead.

In short, because of the operations of some unscrupulous merchants in his previous life, Wang Qi usually only calls them hydraulic shears, without any ambiguity. If he sends the wrong goods, he will directly report negative reviews to the store and blacklist him.

Back at the scene, although the wire cutters are not very useful, there is no problem in cutting the chitin shell. Even if the thickest part of the shell exceeds 15 mm, there seems to be a concentration of metal particles on the surface. Even though this

The maximum jaw of a half-meter-long plier is only 20 millimeters, and the diameter of the steel bar processed will not exceed 9 millimeters, which is definitely enough.

Xiao Li wanted to help support the mantis monster's legs, while Wang Qi was responsible for the exoskeleton disassembly construction.

The two of them cooperated and used a crowbar to destroy the joints. It took more than an hour to break the legs.

In order to select inferior meat for trading, Wang Qi also lit a fire to look at all the meat. The quality of the mantis meat surprised Wang Qi.

It may be that the supporting legs are too long, making it difficult to mobilize a large amount of energy to certain parts in a short period of time. There is a lot of fat in the thigh. It is like beef shoulder, with more than one centimeter of fat at the thickest part sandwiched between the center line.

It is said that the fat reserve is not enough. According to this fat content, it is probably not necessary to add additional oil when frying or roasting.

There are also disadvantages. There are too many tendons and connective tissues near the joints, which look very strong and a bit wasteful.

I picked and picked together more than ten kilograms of meat and put it on the fourth floor first, and then took it down on the trading day.

After a lot of work, his stomach was empty again, and Wang Qilali wanted to eat more.

This time I used baby cabbage.

He originally wanted to eat the barbecue wrapped in lettuce, but he thought the bacteria might exceed the standard, so he made stew and added baby cabbage at the end.

Not to mention, although the cabbage is inconspicuous, it absorbs the soup and oil flavor well. Wang Qi, who has never tried vegetables since coming here, feels very comfortable eating it.

I don't know what his mental state was, but Li Xiang smiled naturally for the first time, without any other emotions.

After eating, Wang Qi put the soup base on the fire, sliced ​​some meat and went in to rinse it.
Chapter completed!