Chapter 115: Novel Crops
"This... this plate is so bright that it can shine on people! Ding! Ding! This plate is made of iron!" Feng looked at the lunch box curiously and knocked on it with her hand. "There is also an iron lid. Such an expensive plate is used to hold food! How much money must it cost!"
"This is a lunch box." Lin Zisu corrected. This lunch box was custom-made. It was a modified version of the old style. The old style with a lid was rectangular and was commonly used in the 80s and 90s. This one was two or three times larger and had several compartments inside to keep the food separate.
Lu took a golden corn cob from the lunch box, took a bite, chewed it, and her eyes lit up. She picked out a corn with her fingers and took a closer look. "So sweet! One by one, yellow grains, what is this?"
"Delicious!" Lin Qiuyue picked up the corn cob and took a bite. Her eyes narrowed with smile and corn crumbs stuck to the corners of her mouth.
Lin Zisu picked up the corn cob and took a bite. It was sweet and sticky. How could there be tender corn to eat in this season?
Shen Xianglan looked at the dinner in the lunch box and said, "This is corn." She picked up the chopsticks in the lunch box, picked up a piece of red and white potato shreds, and put it in her mouth. Hmm... The hot and sour potato shreds fried with chopped peppers were sour, spicy, refreshing, and delicious, just like the taste she remembered.
Mrs. Lu: "Corn? Is this a kind of rice? No wonder it's in small grains. This is the first time I've seen such big grains of rice!"
Yang smiled and said, "We've been on this journey, and we've seen a lot of things for the first time!"
"Hehehe... Everything is new along the way. What kind of dish is this? Hiss, my mouth hurts after eating it." Lu took a bite of the spicy and sour potato shreds and it was so spicy that she reached for water to drink.
The dinner in the lunch box includes a steamed corn cob, hot and sour potato shreds, and two multi-grain cakes. For modern people, this is a diet meal. But for the local people, it is a very rich meal, especially for those who have fled all the way, most of whom have not had a full meal for a long time.
"This is hot and sour potato shreds. The red part is a vegetable called chili pepper, which is a seasoning and spicy. The light yellow shreds are..." Lin Zisu made a circle with her hands, "The oval is a dish made by cutting long and round potatoes into shreds. Potatoes and corn are grains, and they can be fried into dishes."
"It would be great if we had potatoes and corn. We can use them as food and cook dishes." Yang picked up a piece of potato shreds with chopsticks and tasted it. "My mouth hurts... but it tastes good."
"Potatoes? Beans grown in the soil? I've never seen beans as big as my hand?" Feng stretched out a hand and made a circle with her palm, imitating Lin Zisu's.
"...Like beans, but not beans..." Lin Zisu's head spun rapidly, "Just like peanuts, growing in the soil, without shells, like lumps of soil, very large, with thin skin."
"Let's eat. Someone should be here to collect the lunch boxes soon. Corn and potatoes are commonly seen in Congress." Shen Xianglan picked up the pancake, took a bite and then a bite of spicy and sour potato shreds.
Most of the people on the second and third floors of the Xinsheng ate with gusto, because when they were hungry, everything tasted good, and it was their first time to eat corn and potatoes.
Zhao Zhuang finished the corn cob in two or three bites, his mouth was full, and he chewed slowly, "What is this? It's delicious!"
Butcher Zhao finished his dinner and wiped his mouth. "These thin strands, I don't know what they are, but they taste good!"
"Hiss... My mouth just hurts a little." Zhao Wang quickly took out the water bag and drank some water.
Zhao Xi: "I like this dish, it goes well with rice! This yellow corn is so sweet!"
Lin Youfeng: "It would be great if Youcai was here, he would definitely know."
Butcher Zhao: "It's a pity that we can't leave the room. We can only find out when we get to China. We don't have this thing there, it must be unique to China!"
The people in the room nodded in agreement, and still felt unsatisfied after finishing the meal.
Everyone in Lin Youcai's guest room ate with relish, except Lin Xianwen.
Lin Youfu smacked his lips and said, "It tastes really good! But the quantity is too small, I can't feel full!"
Lin Youxiang: "I don't know if I have to pay for meals on the boat! I haven't heard of it since I got on the boat!"
"I guess he will, but not now. Maybe we can pay him back slowly after we settle down there and have an income!" Lin Youcai wiped his mouth, put his son's dinner in the ceramic bowl he brought, and emptied the lunch box.
"Zizizi..." The sound of electricity was heard, followed by a pleasant female voice, "Hello everyone, I am Li Xiaoqian, the manager of Xinsheng. Tonight's dinner is steamed corn, hot and sour potato shreds, and multi-grain cakes. I wish you all a happy meal. In another 10 minutes, the staff will come to collect the lunch boxes. Please don't waste food."
Lin Zisu finished listening to the broadcast and looked at her watch. She had given a full hour for the meal. Meals were served at 1 o'clock and lunch boxes were collected at 6 o'clock.
Lin Zisu thought of something and said, "There are 400 to 500 people on board, including those who boarded before. How can we wash all these lunch boxes..."
Shen Xianglan: "They must have a way. They already have the boat, so washing dishes is not a big problem."
At 7 o'clock, the crew on board collected the meal boxes from each guest room. The meal was not very oily, and there were no leftovers, but it was not difficult to wash.
The kitchen staff loaded the food into the dishwasher one by one, and it took quite a while just to put it in. The dishwasher on the ship is custom-made, with integrated functions of washing, disinfecting and drying. The purpose of putting these food boxes in is not to wash them, but to sterilize them at high temperature. This is one of the rules set to prevent infectious diseases.
When arranging guest room accommodation, the staff will try their best to let a group of people, a team or a family stay together to avoid conflicts.
Lin Zisu slept too much during the day and couldn't sleep at night, but she couldn't go out. At 9 o'clock, the staff asked everyone to turn off the lights and stop making noise. She could only lie on the bed with her eyes open and stare blankly.
After being in a daze for a while, she fell asleep in a daze.
The next day, at 7 a.m., the staff came again with a cart to deliver breakfast. In the lunch box was thick multi-grain porridge, a steamed sweet potato, and some pickled cabbage.
Everyone finished their breakfast contentedly and waited until 8 o'clock for the staff to collect the lunch boxes.
At 8:, the door of Lin Zisu's room opened, as did the door of the guest room next door. A female staff member I had never seen before led a group of women to the top deck to get some fresh air and see the scenery.
Each group of people has half an hour to enjoy the scenery outdoors. After one group returns to the room, the next group goes to the top deck to get some fresh air. Women first, then men, and they take turns to get some fresh air.
At 12 noon, the staff came to deliver lunch again, which made everyone who had just boarded the ship very happy. At home, we could only eat two meals a day, but we didn't expect to have three meals a day on the ship.
For lunch, we had white rice, fried eggs with chili peppers, and vegetables. When we opened the lunch box, everyone was stunned! They couldn't help drooling at the aroma of the food.
Most ordinary people never ate white rice, and rarely ate white flour. Only officials and officials could eat white rice and white flour. The average wealthy family would not eat white rice and white flour often.