Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 60 Lu Xian must be doing the right thing

The scenery to the west of Tongzhou County is almost the same as that to the east of Tongzhou County.

After Lu Xian and Yao Wei came out of Tongzhou County, they drove along the road until dusk, when they finally came across a river.

A gurgling stream less than one meter wide.

When the two got out of the car to refill their water bottles, Yao Wei stared at the Hexi River for a long time, then looked away with some disappointment.

"what happened?"

Lu Xian asked.

“No shrimp…”

Yao Wei answered with a somewhat gloomy tone.

Lu Xian noticed that the woman was still missing the stir-fried shrimp she had outside Jiangyu District.

He couldn't help but smile and said, "We have fish and meat now, why should we worry about shrimp?"

“But I want to eat.”

Yao Wei replied without a trace of shyness, expressing her thoughts directly.

That meal of stir-fried shrimps with rice was a bit dry and had to be eaten with water, but it left a very good impression on Yao Wei, making her want to experience it again.

Lu Xian said: "We'll eat it again when we have a chance. We're going south, the weather conditions should get better, right? We should also encounter a lot of shrimps."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded.

Lu Xian said this based on his feelings and speculation from north to south.

But Yao Wei had indeed been to the south, and now she was just heading south again. Therefore, she still had memories of places further south.

"So what are we going to eat?"

After Lu Xian put the full mineral water bottle back in the car, he pointed to the fish and dog carcass in the pot and asked, "Fish or dog meat?"

Yao Wei looked at the fish in the pot, then at the dog meat, and couldn't make a decision for a while.

Lu Xian thought for a moment and said, "Let's eat fish first. Mengxin's environment is quite suitable for making dried meat. We can process the dog meat together and see if we can make it.

"That way, we can keep the meat for a while and don't have to eat it all at once."

"it is good."

Yao Wei nodded, thinking that this kind of thing really depends on Lu Xian. This guy always understands things that she doesn't understand and makes different suggestions.

However, Lu Xian then added: "But let's make it clear in advance, I don't know the specific steps for air-drying meat, so I can only try my best. Don't blame me if it doesn't work out well."

"Well, I don't blame you."

Yao Wei smiled gently and said.

She felt that Lu Xian’s disclaimer was unnecessary. She had experienced the loss of stored food due to unsuitable conditions before. This was normal and she would not blame anyone.

But for some reason, when she heard Lu Xian say that, she wanted to smile.

"Then you take care of the fish, and I'll take care of the dog meat."

Lu Xian then divided the work between the two of them and they each got busy.

Yao Wei took the fish out of the pot, scraped off the scales and guts, removed the gills, and then grilled it over the fire.

This was the only thing she was good at. Whatever meat she got along the way, she would grill it and eat it. That was why she missed Lu Xian's stir-fried shrimps even more.

——That was the first stir-fried dish she had ever eaten.

Even when she first grilled fish, she didn't know how to remove the gills, so the fish always tasted bitter. Later, after repeated experience, she finally figured out this step.

Lu Xian took a knife and laboriously peeled the skin and removed the internal organs, cut the dog meat into long thin strips, removed the fascia, and washed it clean with stream water.

He only remembered that the dried meat he had eaten in his previous life was in long strips, so in the absence of experience, he tried to cook it according to the shape he remembered.

His idea was to try his best. If it worked out well, he would store the food. If it didn't, he would just roast or cook it and eat it in the next two days.

In short, don't waste it.

"Here, salt." Lu Xian handed the salt to Yao Wei.

This bag of salt was opened at the shelter at the entrance of Tan Village.

At that time, the small bag of salt that Lu Xian brought with him was used up in the shelter, so he opened another bag. The taste seemed much better than what Lu Xian had found elsewhere.

Only a little of the newly opened salt was used, and the two of them certainly couldn't waste it, so they brought it out of the shelter.

A bag of salt didn't take up much space, so when they left they took five bags, plus the one that had been opened, which made five and a half bags in total.

With sufficient reserves, there is naturally no need to be too frugal at this time.

However, Yao Wei is used to saving money, so she applied some of the sauce on the processed fish when grilling it, but not too much.

Relatively speaking, Lu Xian uses it more.

After Yao Wei finished using it, Lu Xian spread the salt evenly on the meat strips and gave them a thorough massage as part of the marinating process. He then hung the strips on the iron window net of the car.

Yao Wei looked at Lu Xian's actions with some confusion, but did not ask.

She felt that since Lu Xian knew so much, what Lu Xian did must be right.

But Lu Xian took the initiative to explain to Yao Wei and said, "The wind in Mengxin is strong. I will try to see if it can be dried naturally at night."

Without professional knowledge, Lu Xian could only rely on these unconventional ideas that he came up with on the spur of the moment.

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded. Although she was a little worried that the salted meat strips might attract mosquitoes, she still firmly believed in Lu Xian.

"What do you think of the current situation in Tongzhou County?"

Lu Xian asked as he hung the strips of meat.

Yao Wei thought for a moment and said, "It's time to fight."

"Is it?"

Lu Xian glanced in the direction of Tongzhou County. They had walked too far and the deserted city was no longer visible.

He did not continue the topic and just said it casually at the time.

Apart from the captured arrows, dog meat, and gasoline, that place had nothing to do with them anymore.

"All right."

After a while, Yao Wei grilled the fish and gave one portion to Lu Xian.

Lu Xian also hung strips of meat all over the back seat of the car and the iron window net at the back, and even on the door handles and the roof rack.

From a distance, the car is already unique, as if it came out of some weird movie.

He took the grilled fish from Yao Wei and asked her, "Do you think we can make this dried meat?"

Yao Wei said, "Yes."

Lu Xian: "..."

This woman spoke more firmly than he did.

The two men put out the fire, put the remaining dry firewood back into the car, and then sat quietly by the stream and ate the grilled fish.

You know what, this time the grilled fish tastes much better than the last time I grilled pork.

After all, they did have enough salt in stock, and even if Yao Wei was frugal, she still used more than she did when she roasted pork before.

Lu Xian tasted it carefully, picked out the fish bones, and said with a smile: "It tastes great."

"Ah."

Yao Wei ate her fish silently and hummed sullenly, but she felt inexplicably happy in her heart.

It was already dark, and the night in Mengxin was different from anywhere else. The night sky was extremely deep, giving the stars in the sky a strong sense of depth.

The two of them ate grilled fish while bathing in the night, looking forward to another harvest tomorrow.

——About the harvest of air-dried meat strips.

(End of this chapter)