Food King [Interstellar]

In the news photo, a man is carrying a hunted red gerbil with ocher-red hair, at least half a meter long from ear to foot, and as fat as a rabbit.

The red gerbil is an imported product from an alien planet. It seems to be particularly adapted to the environment and climate of Spanda, and its reproductive ability is amazing. A litter can produce five or six, and at least four litters a year.The size of this thing is not smaller than that of a rabbit, and its appetite is not small. Moreover, it has no absolute natural enemies. They not only eat grass, but also eat grass roots. No wonder there is no achievement in sand control. Misfortune fell.

With the existence of this creature, wouldn't Spanda's potatoes and sweet potatoes not be affected?Jiang Tang searched the news about Spanda's red gerbils, and sure enough, there were many reports of gerbils destroying farmland crops. It seems that the existence of gerbils is a disaster for Spanda.Jiang Tang asked Daniel: "Danny, can you catch the red gerbil?"

Daniel laughed: "Tang Tang, do you want to eat meat?"

Jiang Tang said: "The destructive power of this thing is amazing. If it is allowed to reproduce, it may affect the ecology of the entire Spanda. There is little vegetation here. If it is destroyed by gerbils, human beings will not be able to survive. All of you move to Angus."

Daniel is gearing up: "I'll grab two to test and see if I can eat them. If I can eat them, make me a delicious meal."

"Don't worry, it's indispensable." Jiang Tang reckoned that gerbils would definitely be able to eat them, since they are herbivores after all.

They plan to go surfing first, then catch gerbils later.The car climbed to the top of the sand dune. Daniel grabbed the tow rope with one hand, stepped on the surfboard, and snapped his fingers at the driver, indicating that he could drive.The car drove to the bottom of the slope, and Daniel let out a cheer of "Yo Ha", and rushed up along the pull. The strong wind blew his loose T-shirt like a bulging sail, which looked cool.

Jiang Tang stood on the top of the sand dune with his surfboard in his arms, and videotaped Daniel. He saw Daniel's cool posture through the camera, and he couldn't help but playfully, stepped on the surfboard under his feet, and slid down the slope.Jiang Tang has never played sand surfing, but he has played sea surfing. Sand surfing is not as difficult as water surfing. Although he hasn't played for a long time, he can still surf.He was chasing Daniel's figure while enjoying the excitement of fast sliding.

Suddenly, the off-road vehicle bumped, the body sank, and stopped. Daniel behind swooped forward due to inertia, and was about to hit the off-road vehicle directly. He quickly loosened the tow rope and used his foot to Changing the direction, perfectly avoiding a collision with the off-road vehicle, he drifted under his feet and stopped the surfboard: "Fuck, what's wrong with you, Wendi? You want to hit me to death?"

Wendi, who has always been steady, jumped out of the car, kicked the off-road vehicle, cursed, ran towards Daniel, hugged him up and down to check, Daniel raised his hand and punched him on the back twice, but he didn't let go .Jiang Tang hurried to catch up: "What's wrong?"

Wen Di let go of Daniel, and said with lingering fear: "There is a hole under the sand, and the car is stuck."

Jiang Tang directly stepped on the surfboard to the side of the car, and found that the right front tire was half sunken in: "It's strange, how can there be such a big hole in the sand, the sand is fluid, and any holes are automatically filled. Let's go." Jiang Tang leaned over to take a closer look, the sand suddenly moved, and then a burst of sand suddenly rose up, Jiang Tang quickly closed his eyes and stepped back, the eyes were blocked by the sun visor, the sand did not enter, but the nostrils and mouth They were all unfortunately recruited.

"Bah! Bah!" Jiang Tang spat out two mouthfuls of sand and stopped suddenly. He saw a red mass jumping out from under the tire of the car. It was as big as a grown-up rabbit. As soon as it came out, it slithered along the slope. "Run down.Jiang Tang yelled, "Gerbil!"

Jiang Tang's exclamation caught the attention of Wen Di and Daniel, and they turned around quickly. Daniel took a look, quickly took out the laser gun from his butt pocket and followed: "Meat delivered to your door, don't run away!"

However, there was more than one gerbil, and soon another one came out of the sand. Jiang Tang yelled: "There is one more, it should be a nest."

Wen Di was chasing a gerbil with Daniel, but when he heard Jiang Tang’s call, he hurried back to pick up the second gerbil, but Daniel had already shot the gerbil, and he shouted excitedly: “It’s hit, there’s meat! have eaten!"

Jiang Tang looked down at the sand that was still flowing under the wheel, paying attention to see if there was a third one crawling out. After a while, the sand started moving again, and a small gerbil about the size of cotton candy crawled out of it. Climbing out with difficulty, he looked at Jiang Tang with red eyes like glass beads, and seemed to want to retreat again, but the back had been filled with sand, and he couldn't go back, it was stuck in the sand.Jiang Tang hesitated for a moment, reached out and grabbed the little guy's neck, pulled it out from the sand, the guy screamed "woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" and struggled, four short legs paddling in the air, red The short hair sticks to the body, shiny and shiny.

Daniel came over with the bleeding gerbil, panting and said, "This guy is so fat! Hey, Tang Tang, what did you catch?"

Jiang Tang looked back at Daniel: "We may have found a gerbil nest, and I caught a small one."

Daniel looked at the little gerbil and said, "It's so cute, there must be more down here, I'll look for it." After speaking, he knelt down, picked up his surfboard as a tool, and began to dig the sand.

Seeing that the off-road vehicle was sinking deeper and deeper, Jiang Tang said, "Danny, be careful, drive the car out first, it's too dangerous."

Daniel got up from the ground, got into the car, started the car, stepped up the accelerator, and started to reverse the car. In an instant, yellow sand flew up. Even if Jiang Tang dodged in advance, he was still covered in sand.The performance of the sand buggy is good, even if half of the wheel is sunk, it still falls out.

Daniel parked the car aside and hopped over to dig in the sand for gerbils.Wendi also came back with the gerbil he had hit. The gerbil in his hand was bigger than Daniel's. It seemed to be a male and a female. He dropped the gerbil and came to help Daniel.Jiang Tang found a bag, packed the little gerbil, threw it in the trunk of the car, and came over to help dig out the gerbil.The gerbil's pit was not deep, that is, it was more than one meter below the sand. The three of them quickly took out the other four little gerbils. Because the cave was destroyed, these guys were crushed to death. They threw it into the bag: "Take it back, study it first, then stew it and eat it. I almost killed my young master, and I couldn't give them good fruit to eat."

Jiang Tang asked: "Are we still skating?"

Wen Di said: "Forget it, it doesn't seem very safe here. Just now I ran over there to hunt gerbils and stepped on a sand trap. There are probably many gerbil holes in this area, which are not very slippery. "

Daniel said: "Go back and do experiments first to check whether it can be eaten. If it can be eaten, I will mobilize everyone to dig it. Anyway, they are all alien species, and there is no benefit in keeping them."

So the three returned to Maggie City with a family of gerbils they had hunted.As soon as Daniel came back, he got into the laboratory to work, and soon gave Jiang Tang the information that it was non-toxic and edible.

Jiang Tang plucked a gerbil's hair and removed its internal organs. He was worried that it would have a strong smell. It was filled with an unspeakable strong fragrance, and everyone was sneezed by the pungent fragrance, only Jiang Tang was stirring it calmly, seemingly unaffected at all.

After Daniel sneezed three times, he couldn't help but sucked in his saliva, and shouted: "It's so fragrant, so fragrant, my saliva is flowing out. Are you ready? I want to eat."

Jiang Tang gave him a sideways look: "Go and wash your hands!" It's unhygienic to want to eat without washing your hands after sneezing.Daniel was rushed to wash his hands by him. He grabbed a piece of meat and put it in his mouth. After chewing, it was tender and firm, and the taste was extremely delicious.

Daniel turned around and saw Jiang Tang's mouth moving: "Tang Tang, you stole it again!"

Jiang Tang raised his eyebrows: "I taste the food openly, how can it be called stealing?" He shoveled a piece of meat to Daniel with a shovel, and Daniel grabbed it and threw it into his mouth regardless of the heat, yelling while breathing in: " Wow, it's delicious."

Pour the ginger soup with soy sauce, stir it, and serve it out.Everyone in the kitchen was staring at the two plates of gerbil meat, their mouths were full of saliva, and they swallowed involuntarily.

Jiang Tang brought one of them to them: "This is for you all to try."

Daniel picked up another plate: "This is for me, right?"

Jiang Tang said, "We eat."

Daniel said: "Isn't there another one? This plate belongs to me, and you can eat the others. Why don't you kill all the small ones? The young rat meat should be more tender."

Jiang Tang couldn't help laughing: "Fortunately, you are still a biologist, you can also deal with baby animals."

Daniel said: "What's the matter? You made roast suckling pig for us in Angus, and Richard's restaurant also sells caviar. Also, you know what biologists hate most? They hate ecological balance the most." Destroyed. Now that gerbils are endangering the ecology of Spanda, I have no mercy for them. This invasive alien species should be wiped out! You stew them all, I Will love it."

Jiang Tang turned his head and looked at the shivering little gerbils huddled together in the cage. He knew in his heart that they should be a delicious meal, but he still couldn't bear to kill them. "Actually, I was thinking that these few can be kept. Since gerbil meat is so delicious, why don't we raise it artificially? In the future, everyone will be able to consume animal protein."

Daniel grabbed another piece of meat and put it in his mouth: "You have a good idea. The wild ones must be eliminated, and artificial breeding can be carried out. After all, meat is so delicious, it would be a pity to destroy it all."

Jiang Tang started to deal with another gerbil. He cut the potatoes into pieces and prepared to stew a pot of potato and rat meat.When he was busy, the chefs and kitchen helpers of the hotel had no time to help. They were all rushing to eat the plate of gerbil meat made by Jiang Tang. It can be said that they had never eaten such delicious food in their life. After a while , A large plate of gerbil meat was swept away, and the plate was snatched by a person, and someone exclaimed: "Nara, you don't want to lick the plate, do you?"

It was a girl who grabbed the plate, she was not shy at all, she just rolled her eyes: "Don't think you don't want to lick it, you just didn't grab it."

Jiang Tang couldn't help laughing when he heard this. For people who have never eaten meat, meat is simply the best taste in the world. He can understand everyone's feelings.

This evening, their main course became Potato Roast, the meat was gerbil meat, and everyone praised it after eating.That night, Luo Xun released the news through Spanda's largest news media, advocating that everyone hunt gerbils, and Jiang Tang will teach everyone how to deal with gerbils, making them a delicacy on people's plates.

The next day, Spanda's vigorous rodent control campaign began.Jiang Tang gave everyone a few lessons, teaching people how to fry gerbils, stew gerbils, roast gerbils, stew gerbils, etc. Only then did the Spanda people realize that the gerbils they hated so much were actually so good The food became the best food they had ever eaten in their life.If there were still many Spanda people who had a neutral attitude towards the revolutionary army before, they are completely conquered now, because under the rule of the imperial government, it is basically impossible to eat meat, so it is better to follow the revolutionary army.

The rat hunting activity is going on vigorously. There are too many gerbils hunted by the people. If they can’t eat enough, they will be wasted. Jiang Tang suggested that the government should come forward to buy them, process them into jerky, and export them to other planets together with potatoes and sweet potatoes .Originally, the red gerbil was only a foreign species of Spanda. After that, gerbil meat became a local specialty of Spanda, which became popular all over the empire.