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Chapter 125 - 123 Eating (9/10)

Chapter 125: Chapter 123 Eating (9/10)

What exactly Qin Lan wants to do, Chen Xin doesn’t want to delve into. Emotionally speaking, he believes QIn Lan won’t harm him or have any ill intentions towards him.

With this premise, whatever Qin Lan wants to do is something Chen Xin feels he can accept.

If that’s the case, why should he care too much?

Originally, Chen Xin didn’t want to think about anything today; he wanted to give himself a day off. Yet, he was dragged by Qin Lan to work the entire afternoon, which left him quite frustrated and on the verge of exploding if he had to think about anything else.

Thus, giving up on thinking entirely, he just tidied up the workbench and, after cleaning it, went to wash his hands and waited to eat.

Though Qin Lan claimed she was cooking, in reality, there wasn’t much to make due to the lack of ingredients.

Chen Xin’s food storage indeed had quite a bit of food, but besides the carrots, cabbages, and lettuce he grew himself, there weren’t other ingredients.

There were only pre-stored self-heating foods from before the disaster and the standard shelter food obtained through exchanges with the Special Forces team from Qin Lan herself, as well as two kinds of canned food swapped from Mo Qingyan.

Perhaps considering saving food for Chen Xin, Qin Lan didn’t take much from his storage, only grabbing two portions of standard shelter food, one can of luncheon meat, one cabbage, and two carrots.

Returning to the living room with these, Qin Lan saw Chen Xin still playing games on the couch without a word, and she just headed to the kitchen to cook dinner.

With limited ingredients, Qin Lan didn’t plan to make anything too complicated, just washing the cabbage and carrots before chopping them and the luncheon meat to boil together.

While these things were boiling, she also heated the two portions of standard shelter food.

The standard shelter food she returned to Chen Xin was actually not bad if you judge solely from nutrition and calorie supplement perspectives.

Rice and potatoes as the main ingredients provide starch and calories as well as some nutrition, while mushrooms and rat meat offer another portion and also provide some animal protein and fat intake.

If ignoring these things being simply boiled with just oil and salt for seasoning, they’re pretty good as food.

Especially since it also comes with two energy bars made from mixed fried flour and nut crumbs, just one serving is enough to meet an adult’s daily nutrition and calorie needs.

For kids, it might even be too much to eat.

But the texture and taste of these foods... Qin Lan could only say you can’t ask for too much in the apocalypse.

Cooking the rice is certainly okay, and the potatoes are fine too. Just a bit of salt for flavor doesn’t make it taste bad; even if the texture is lacking, it’s still passable.

But boiling the mushrooms and rat meat in water... Qin Lan herself really dislikes the taste of boiled mushrooms.

As for the fried flour energy bar, it’s not the stir-fried noodles, but directly fried flour.

Mixing nut crumbs into the flour, adding a bit of salt, and frying, using the oil from the nut fragments to add some stickiness to the fried flour so it isn’t too loose, and finally pressing into shape with a mold, that’s how the energy bar of the standard shelter food is made.

Since this food is a model supplied to their special police team, it has two energy bars, but the model distributed to the general public in shelters only has one.

In official shelters, to save resources, only those doing physical labor or going out to work can get the model with two energy bars.

Eating this energy bar is straightforward, just break it up and add some water, mix it, and then you can eat it directly. If it feels cold and not to your taste, you can use hot water.

Seventy years ago, at the beginning of the founding of Flame Country, in the war that broke out on the peninsula with the Federation, this was what the volunteer army predecessors ate. Of course, their fried flour didn’t have nut fragments.

A bite of fried flour with a mouthful of snow, that fried flour is exactly this kind of fried flour.

With four energy bars in the two portions of standard shelter food, Qin Lan thought for a moment and put two of them into the boiling vegetable soup.

As she stirred, the soup that was originally clear turned thick and mushy, becoming vegetable mush.

Leaving the other two energy bars unopened, she just set them aside.

The vegetable mush was soon cooked, and the heated food was quickly warmed, releasing the aroma of food.

Setting the food on the coffee table, Qin Lan tapped Chen Xin on the leg, "Dinner time, play later."

Following her words, Chen Xin put down the game controller, went to wash his hands, and came back ready to eat.

"Lan, your cooking has improved! I remember you could only cook instant noodles before." Chen Xin looked at the well-heated food and the quite decently cooked vegetable mush, not holding back his praise.

In the past, because of her job, Qin Lan didn’t care about her quality of life, and the Special Forces often had missions, making meal times irregular. Many times, what she ate were cold takeouts.

Back then, even though Qin Lan looked beautiful and fit because of the high-intensity training, with the added aura of a female special forces sniper, making her seem perfect, her personal life was actually a mess.

Her home looked clean and tidy because she hired housekeeping every week; the kitchen was spotless because she didn’t set foot there for a month...

The only thing Qin Lan could make at that time was instant noodles.

So seeing the current Qin Lan able to cook up a pot of quite decently smelling vegetable mush, Chen Xin really felt her cooking skills had improved a lot.

Qin Lan wasn’t particularly pleased with Chen Xin’s compliment and instead pouted, "Aren’t you looking down on me too much? It’s not like I don’t have an intermediate cooking certificate, now you also can only make this food, even instant noodles can’t be made!"

"Yes, yes, I’m just a chef who can’t even make instant noodles now. Thank you, officer, for the great mercy of cooking for me." Chen Xin chuckled nonchalantly; Qin Lan’s little mood added to her charm in his eyes.

Watching Qin Lan puffing up her cheeks, Chen Xin struggled to resist the urge to pinch her cheeks.

Of course, Qin Lan could see what Chen Xin was intending to do. When they were together before, Chen Xin especially liked to tease her and then pinch her cheeks when she puffed them unhappily.

Recalling this, Qin Lan couldn’t help but let out a snicker, throwing a playful glance at Chen Xin, "Alright, hurry and eat before it gets cold."