Time is still passing slowly. Zhao Changxing always repeats the two-point-one-line life of the Fire Spaceship-Humanity Base No. 1. During every break, he comes back with food and spacecraft supplies, has dinner with the children, and then arranges for them to go to bed. The next day, they took the building materials and tools needed for today's work, as well as the domestic garbage produced in the spacecraft the previous day, to Humanity Base No. 1.
Domestic waste is thrown into the garbage recycling center for recycling, while building materials and tools are used in today's work. In addition to continuing to build the living area, I occasionally deal with some matters in the soilless cultivation workshop and the livestock and aquaculture workshop, or watch the crop harvest as a pastime, or watch the growth of the animals, and sometimes take the Hongqi space vehicle out. Go out to the field and collect some water, various compounds used to prepare nutrient solutions, etc., and the busy day will be over.
Although the days are monotonous and boring, they are also fulfilling. At least, Zhao Changxing will always have a sense of accomplishment when watching Humanity Base No. 1 becoming more and more perfect, and watching the children grow bigger and bigger.
Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye. Today, after a busy day's work, Zhao Changxing came to the livestock breeding workshop.
The meat produced by three kinds of poultry, chicken, duck and goose, has almost become one of the daily foods of Zhao Changxing and his children, and there is nothing new about it. Today, Zhao Changxing will usher in a new kind of food.
mutton.
The first batch of 10 sheep were raised. In addition to the breeding sheep and ewes used to breed lambs, the remaining 4 sheep were mature and ready for slaughter.
There were originally 6 sheep that could be slaughtered, but unfortunately 2 died during the breeding process, so these were the only ones left. As for the dead sheep, Zhao Changxing did not dare to eat them. He only kept the wool for future use, directly sterilized and disinfected the skin, meat and bones, then ground them into powder, and prepared a nutrient solution for the plants to "eat". .
Even if these four sheep finally grew up healthily and reached the slaughter stage, their weight was much less than expected. Zhao Changxing originally planned to reach a weight of 30 kilograms in half a year. Based on half of the meat production rate, one sheep can produce 15 kilograms of meat, and 4 sheep can produce 60 kilograms. But now, the weight of sheep generally only reaches about 25 kilograms, and the total meat they can produce is only about 50 kilograms.
"It's a good start after all." Zhao Changxing thought: "There are also various things that can be eaten in the water."
After the slaughter order was given, the robotic arm of the automated slaughtering equipment immediately grabbed the hind legs of the four target sheep and pulled them up directly. The remaining sheep panicked for a while, but then calmed down and continued to eat the feed as if nothing had happened.
After a while of machine operation, what finally appeared in front of Zhao Changxing were 4 sheep heads, 16 sheep hooves, a pile of wool, 4 sheep skins, a pile of mutton, a pile of mutton chops, a basin of sheep blood, etc.
Sheep heads and hooves are usually not considered edible, but there are many areas on earth that have the tradition of eating these two parts. Zhao Changxing has eaten them before, and they tasted pretty good. However, the children may not be able to accept this stuff at this stage, so I will save it for 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 fragrant mutton soup. When the time comes, sprinkle with chili oil, green onions, coriander, etc., and it will taste delicious.
Not to mention the lamb chops, Zhao Changxing felt they were even more fragrant than the pork chops. But these are food for later. Today, Zhao Changxing has decided what food to eat.
He picked out a piece of fat and thin mutton - it weighed about ten kilograms, and put the rest in the warehouse for storage.
Today, in addition to chickens, ducks, goose, and fish, the meat storage area in the warehouse finally has serious meat—about 45 kilograms of mutton and some offal, scraps, etc., and is no longer empty.
After picking the mutton, Zhao Changxing came to the vegetable growing area. Regardless of the fact that the vegetables were not yet ready for harvest, he hand-cut a large handful of lettuce, a large handful of lettuce, spinach, coriander, a whole Chinese cabbage, some mushrooms, seven or eight different kinds, and then put them together with the mutton to keep warm. box and brought it to the Spark spacecraft.
"Kids, let's make hot pot for dinner!"
Zhao Changxing solemnly announced the news.
But the children were not as excited as expected. Instead, they all looked at each other in shock. After a while, the eldest sister Qian Yuecai asked: "Dad, what is hot pot?"
Zhao Changxing was startled before he realized that the children at this moment didn't even know what hot pot was.
Recalling the past years on earth, Zhao Changxing felt a little sour in his heart. But he immediately adjusted his mood and said with a smile: "Hot pot is a method of cooking food. Legend has it..."
Zhao Changxing talked a lot, but the children still looked at each other in confusion. In the end, it was Qian Yue who asked timidly: "Dad, is the hot pot delicious?"
Zhao Changxing nodded vigorously.
"Yeah! Yeah!"
The children cheered.
Zhao Changxing did not hand over the ingredients directly to the kitchen robot for processing, but put them away by hand with the children.
At this stage, Zhao Changxing has begun to consciously train children's hands-on skills.
After washing the vegetables and cutting the meat, Zhao Changxing used a machine to grind out some sesame paste, pounded some chive paste, took out some fermented bean curd, some bean curds, and a handful of potato noodles, all like magic. Placed on the dining table.
In the middle of the table is a large pot, and the water in the pot has already boiled. A few mutton bones and some green onions, garlic cloves, ginger slices, etc. were floating and sinking 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 poured about two kilograms of mutton directly into the pot. After the pot was boiled, he took out a large chopstick and placed it on the dinner plate in front of Qian Yue.
"Qian Yue came first in this exam again. This is a reward for you."
"Thank you dad."
Qian Yue screamed with joy, took a special look at the fat Zheng Yan, snorted, and proudly picked up the mutton and put it into his mouth.
"Slow down, slow down." Zhao Changxing stopped her, "It will taste better if you dip it in sesame sauce."
Qian Yue did as he was told, dipped in some sesame sauce, and then put the mutton slices into his mouth. The other children all stared at her eagerly.
But Qian Yue's expression suddenly changed, and his eyes seemed to glow. She tried to chew it first, then chewed it hard twice and swallowed it in her stomach at once.
"Delicious!"
"Children, eat."
The children cheered and each held out their chopsticks. The two kilograms of mutton were almost empty in no time. Zhao Changxing laughed: "Slow down, slow down, be careful not to get burned. 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 outside the ship's porthole, feeling a strange emotion surging in his heart.
"Children, you must grow up healthy..."
One month after the first batch of sheep is slaughtered, it is time for the pigs to be slaughtered. A total of 25 pigs were raised in this first batch, three of which died, leaving 22 pigs left. Excluding breeding pigs and sows, 18 pigs can be slaughtered.
The weight of pigs is currently only about 80 kilograms - which is much lower than the expected slaughter weight. One pig can produce about 60 kilograms of meat, and 18 pigs are more than a ton.
However, pigs are full of treasures. The bristles, pig skins, etc. are all useful. All kinds of waste, even pig trotters, pig heads, etc. are also delicious ingredients. Even pig ears have a unique flavor and are very delicious.
Zhao Changxing saved them all at once.
"The kids finally have pork to eat. Well, let's stew some ribs for dinner tonight."
Zhao Changxing thought secretly.
As the days passed, the various food reserves in the warehouse became increasingly abundant, the children grew up day by day, and the construction task of the living area was getting closer and closer to completion.
Four years after the construction of the living area began, the 3,000-square-meter living area was finally completed. Now, the children have been in this world for 10 years. It has been 11 years since Zhao Changxing left the earth and arrived at Sedna.
Excluding hibernation time, Zhao Changxing is already 38 years old now.
But what made him feel a little strange was that, apart from his skin becoming a little rough due to working all day long, he didn't show any signs of aging. At this moment, he still looks like a young man under 30 years old.
But even though it was strange, he didn't pay much attention to it.
After completing the construction of the living area, only the last larger building remained in the entire Humanity Base No. 1.
industrial area.
The industrial zone is the initial engine for the subsequent industrialization process and is Zhao Changxing’s hope for 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 from the industrial zone.
After giving himself two days off, having a good rest, and taking advantage of these two days to teach his children a few lessons in person, Zhao Changxing once again devoted himself to the construction project.
The industrial zone is divided into several parts in the planning, namely the mining workshop, casting workshop, chemical and chemical engineering workshop, precision machining workshop, etc., each of which is responsible for different tasks and responsibilities. Its total area is even larger than the living area, up to about 4,000 square meters, occupying almost all the remaining area of Humanity Base No. 1 at the moment.
However, the time required to build an industrial area is much smaller than that of a living area. Because many places inside it are open and not as detailed as the living area. It is expected to only take about two years to complete.
By then, the entire Humanity Base No. 1 will be completed.
Time passes slowly. The days always go by like this, busy yet peaceful. But about a year and a half after the construction of the industrial zone started, something Xiaoxi reported broke the peace.
"Captain, I received some signals from unknown sources..."
