When he came back from downstairs, he called Li Xiang to eat.
Maybe something happened yesterday that made the two of them more familiar and trust each other, and Li Xiang's feeling of embarrassment was much reduced, almost unnoticeable without careful observation.
Wang Qi pretended that nothing had happened and cooked in a new way - stir-fry.
In my previous life, I almost vomited after eating stir-fried vegetables, but in this unfortunate world, stir-frying is really not that easy. There is no fat and a pot, so I can only do it.
The knife was just picked up.
Yesterday I picked up stainless steel and ceramic knives. Stainless steel kitchen knives are not good at cutting meat, cannot cut bones, and are too short for chopping people. Ceramic knives are probably too brittle and are not popular with passing survivors, so they are just fine for cutting meat.
Cut the meat and fat into slices, add the fat and sauté with oil, then add the meat and stir-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 cannot be done, and it 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 bringing 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 watching. Most people can’t notice that only one chopstick is moving when observing. 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. He 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 she let go, the meat on Li Xiang's 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.
Once you succeed once, it will be much easier. There are two people and no one is trying to grab the food, so it won't be a big problem if you go slower. Wang Qi occasionally corrected her movements. After a meal of fried meat, Li Xiang's chopsticks became smoother and smoother as he used them. About 70% of the time he could hold the chopsticks securely before finishing the meal. Occasionally, a piece of meat would 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 incorporated into them, which actually changes the characteristics of plants bit by bit. .
This long-term breeding does not change the underlying genetic logic. Vegetables, domestic pigs, and dogs, like vegetables, rewild very quickly after being released into the wild. They do not even need to wait for the replacement of generations. More and more ancestral characteristics will appear within 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. 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.
Thinking of a smile for Li, he put the cabbage on the table next to the kitchen.
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 done construction at the city library level, which had nothing to do with craftsmanship. He just couldn't wink well, and he was too thin-skinned to lick it, so 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 old man. It doesn't matter whether people understand or not, he just talks alone.
Instead of choosing from the supplies room on the fourth floor, I went to the storage room on the sixth floor.
Start with the steel bars.
Anything below 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. 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 stockpile, including five, seven, nine, twelve, and fifteen. There were a few missing, right 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. Wang Qi would give her a few steel bars to carry when going up and down the stairs.
Steel bars went through two trips, followed by tools.
The ax must not be sold. To make such a good ax by yourself, you need a master craftsman; you need to keep a few 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 screwdrivers. It takes so much.
After rummaging through seven, seven, eight, and eight, he came up with dozens more tools of various kinds. By the way, take some of the big discus off the fitness equipment that no one wants on the fourth floor. What if the blacksmith in the survivor likes 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 freezing water, but after trying for a while, it still doesn't work, so I can only change my mind.
Li Xiang was very proactive 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 businesses 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.
Rebar cutters are either hydraulic or manual or 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 to cut steel bars, steel bar shears only cut steel bars and metal parts of similar diameter and thickness, such as cables, and are also mostly used for vehicle demolition and rescue; wire cutters mainly cut iron wires and steel wires. Since they are completely manual, they require maximum use. No. 1 steel bars can't be cut much thicker, and they can easily chip.
Taking the steel bars on hand as an example, it is more obvious. Steel bar cutters of corresponding calibers can be found for all thicknesses and types of steel bars. The sharp parts can also be cut 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 it can cut all steel bars, they can 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 is more than fifteen millimeters, the surface seems to be rich in metal particles, and even if the maximum jaw of this half-meter-long pliers is only twenty millimeters, the diameter of the processed steel bar will not be greater than nine millimeters, then It's definitely enough.
Xiao Li wanted to help support the mantis monster's legs, while Wang Qi was responsible for the exoskeleton demolition construction.
The two worked together 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 of the body in a short period of time. There is a lot of fat in the thighs. It's a bit like beef shoulder, with more than a centimeter of fat at the thickest part sandwiched in the center line.
It is said that the fat reserves are 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 some work, his stomach was empty again, and Wang Qilai 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 limit, so he made stew and added baby cabbage at the end.
Not to mention, although the cabbage is inconspicuous, it absorbs the soup and fat flavor well. Wang Qi, who has never tried vegetables since coming here, feels very comfortable eating it.
Not knowing what his mental state was, 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.
The only drawback is that there is no sauce, but the quality of making fire is probably enough in the wasteland.
