Ten days is insignificant in the life Elena has experienced.

But the last ten days have been a miracle.

Elena, whose physical fitness reached 7 points, underwent a period of "diet therapy" and her physical condition changed greatly.

At this time, she looked about forty-five years old, and the standard for judging age was still before the disaster. The dimple on her left cheek that had disappeared for a long time became more three-dimensional just by smiling.

Having been in a wheelchair for several years, she has been very quiet and restless in the past few days, busy and taking care of her children...mainly Lin, to prepare for farming in the coming year.

...Okay, we are building a fermentation tank for farmyard manure.

When Wang Qi and Li Xiang came to the kitchen, there was no one there, and they were not in a hurry. They boiled water to take baths separately, set up a fire in front of the fake sofa to dry their hair, and prepared for barbecue.

Invite the neighbor to have a meal today, to reward the "employees", and at the same time, see what information I can get from Elena.

It wasn't as grand as the first banquet, mainly because they had just come back from outside and had dealt with the praying mantis, so they didn't really have much to think about. Being simple would also help reduce the sense of alienation.

But even if it is just a barbecue, Wang Qi also wants to do some tricks.

When I was cleaning the fresh meat and getting ready to grill it, I suddenly thought of husky barbecue and thought I might give it a try.

This kind of barbecue is simply to slice the meat, marinate it, and then grill it on skewers. Obviously, you don’t have the conditions to marinate it at home, but slicing and stacking the meat for grilling also makes sense.

The moisture of the meat baked in this way is lower. Due to the increased surface area, the crispiness of the layer cut off the surface will be more obvious. Although it may not necessarily taste better, at least it can make a difference in taste.

There are too few options for the existing ingredients. Even if it is just a difference in taste, it is still worth a try.

In order to avoid monotony, Wang Qi still tried to marinate it.

Boil the oak and pine leaves in a small pot, and use a little sugar to fry the caramel color to increase the flavor.

I hesitated about whether to add salt to the marinade, but decided to be lazy and get it together.

The marinade was being made, and Anna and Varya came into the kitchen and had already changed their clothes.

Wang Qi didn't want to move anymore, so he simply asked others to help: "Anna, help me cut that piece of meat into large pieces and eat together tonight."

Anna did as she was told without much hesitation, as if she had adapted to the relationship between the two parties.

While cutting the meat, I asked: "Do you want it marinated? Do we have some sauce?"

"sure."

With Anna's wink, Varya went out to get it, and soon two bottles were placed in front of Wang Qi.

Both are glass bottles, one is pickled radish... maybe radish, the other one is darker under the firelight, but it doesn't seem to be black. When I unscrew the lid and smell it, it looks like soybean paste.

They didn't know how to preserve it, but it didn't freeze at this temperature. There was only some ice residue in the pickled radish.

Wang Qi took a spoon and a small plate and scooped out a little bit to try.

...really pickled radish!

Maybe because of the geographical location, it's not spicy at all (low temperature is not conducive to the production of capsaicin).

The soybean paste is also different from what was expected. There should be other ingredients in it and the production method is also different, but overall it is not much different from the soybean paste. It is salty and has a weak soybean flavor.

"Isn't this a dipping sauce?" Li wanted to translate, but he couldn't translate "dipping sauce", so Wang Qi made a gesture.

Anna nodded: "Yes, we will also put it on the meat and grill it."

A little subtle.

However, he is not disappointed. Wang Qi knows that except for the big food empire where he once worked, people in other regions have almost zero development in sauces. Even unfermented things can be called sauces if they are made into a paste. Here you can see quite a lot of

Soybean paste like that is considered to be the best.

In fact, there is soybean paste, which is very close to soy sauce, but I guess the local sunshine intensity and duration may not be enough to make serious soy sauce.

Wang Qi looked at his sauce basin: "Forget it, just use it as dipping sauce and cold dishes."

He has already added the salt, and the soybean paste will kill him if he adds it any more, but he can use a little pickled radish juice and use it as ginger water.

Just as the marinade was mixed, Elena opened the door and came in.

At this time, she no longer uses the wheelchair and is smiling all over her face.

"I saw Varya bringing things down. Is he really making food? King, what is today?"

She didn't speak fast, probably because she was used to speaking at a low speed when she was in a wheelchair, but Wang Qi could hear her clearly.

"She asked what to eat." The great translator was still as refined.

Wang Qi showed her the marinade basin: "Just play with it, I don't know what it will taste like."

"You are a gourmet." Elena commented.

In her eyes, not everyone is willing to try new things, and it is difficult to differentiate with the existing spice conditions. Just like her Anna, she lost enthusiasm after trying it a few times.

But Wang's attitude towards food is completely different. He really keeps trying to make the ingredients more delicious under limited conditions.

Wang Qi shook his head and did not reply.

Gourmet? It feels like a word that deliberately distinguishes people's identities. He still likes to call the foodies in his previous life, "Lao Gourmet".

Anna was almost done cutting it, and Wang Qi started marinating, skewering, and putting it on the grill.

"What is this?" Elena was curious.

"The barbecue method of a certain region, but without spices, I don't know what it tastes like. It may be similar to ordinary barbecue."

The great translator still relayed it in a concise way: "It's a barbecue from other places. You'll know after eating it."

Elena smiled even more. She had no talent for languages, and she also knew that Qin language contained a lot of information as an ideographic language. The girl's translation was a bit perfunctory, but what she said was right. You will know it after eating it.

Wang Qi glanced sideways at Li Xiang, looked at Elena and said in the local language: "While I have time, why not tell a story about hunting demons, ghosts and bugs."

"OK."

As we get older, we tend to like to reminisce, and most of human memories will gradually beautified automatically.

...Actually, there are still a lot of bad things, and Elena blocks them out.

The story of hunting demons has been told to the children many times. This time she told it in more detail. Maybe her memory has improved?

"I once saw a report that the demon hunters released from the different-dimensional nodes are not the first ones to escape. Each of them has certain differences in behavior and cognition, like a completely new race.

"(For the process of demon hunting, please see the name of 056 Demon Hunting)

The bugs really came from nowhere, and they appeared at a very special time. At that time, there were still a small number of demon hunters wandering around the city. It was very dangerous for the survivors to go out, so they had to rely on the food they had before the disaster to survive, and began to learn indoor planting techniques.

No one knows the exact time when the bug appears, and the abnormality is not discovered until spring.

Demon hunters and bugs began to prey on each other. At that time, scorpion ants were not what they are now. They were more like scorpions than now, and their tail blades secreted toxins. The scorpion ant guards were just larger scorpion ants.

Insects during this period were still at a disadvantage. They moved in groups. Survivors would occasionally observe witches escaping with scorpion ants in their mouths. However, whether the scorpion ants could prey on witches at that time, Elena had not seen with her own eyes. Also at this time

During this period, there were gradually no survivors in the entire southern area of ​​the city. They may have died in the conflict between the two sides, or they may have escaped.

Changes occurred in the second spring after the disaster.

The size of the scorpion ants seems to have changed a little, and it seems to really threaten the life safety of the demon hunters. There are fewer and fewer demon hunters in the city. However, some people say that because the demon hunters are triploid and cannot reproduce, and their lifespan is very short,

It has nothing to do with scorpion ants.

Li Xiang struggled to translate, so he simply brought the dictionary.

This is the benefit of studying cultural classes. Even if she doesn't understand something, she can still find the corresponding word in the dictionary and point it out to Wang Qi.

Elena is not in a hurry, she will stop and wait.
Chapter completed!