Master of Thermodynamics
Chapter 229
The thought of coming home soon lightened Frederick''s steps, and the tiredness of working on the oyster fishing boat for a whole day seemed to be relieved.
The so-called "Oyster fishing boat" is a 500 ton yacht, which is specially used to catch bad oysters.
To combat turbulence, the yacht is equipped with a 3000 kW thermal magic engine and several high-strength metal trawls with a large number of metal hooks.
Put the trawl into the sea and wait for it to sink to the bottom of the sea. Then start the thermal magic engine and drag the metal net to hang from the bottom of the sea. The reef and the bad oyster attached to the reef will be fished up together.
Through this method of "scraping the land", the fishing boat can work 8 hours a day, catch more than 2000 bad luck oysters, and obtain more than 100 magic stones, officially realizing the mass production of magic stones.
In addition, more than 15 tons of oyster meat can be obtained, which makes the food supply in the territory more abundant.
However, it''s very hard to work on the fishing boat. Although there are various magic machines to assist, such as using magic machines to recover fishing nets and using magic hand drills to decompose bad oysters, many times they have to rely on manual labor.
And the weather is so cold that even the strongest workers are exhausted after a day''s work.
"Frederick, I''m home. See you next year..."
"See you next year, Anthony..."
The year 745 of the lunar calendar is about to pass, and the day after tomorrow will be a new year. With a kind of inexplicable emotion, Frederick said goodbye to his last fellow worker and turned into a fork in the road.
He knew that he would soon see dear Willa and her two lovely daughters. Willa must have prepared dinner and the mother and daughter were waiting for him to go home.
This makes Frederick''s mood unconsciously become happy, walking more than 50 meters on the snow, in the light of the moonlight, he saw his home.
Although the style of the public rental housing is almost the same, he can recognize his own house at a glance.
Some time ago, he specially planted several purple and green pineapples more than 2 meters high, an alien evergreen shrub, which he could see from afar.
This is the practice that came from the Lord''s mansion.
According to Mr. civil servant, after the road in the Lord''s mansion was hardened last month, the Lord asked to plant a number of shrubs on both sides of the road, which is also called road greening.
This practice soon became a trend, and now in the island of Odin and Theron, all the big dog owners who have paved cement roads at home follow suit.
This led to a sudden upsurge of buying and selling shrubs in the market. Among them, the most popular and the most expensive shrub was privet, because the Lord''s house also planted this kind of shrub.
The branches and leaves of Ligustrum lucidum var. hongtianensis are dense, and the leaves are rare fire red. After construction, it looks like a torch, and it looks very beautiful.
Many people marvel at this wonderful event.
In previous years, no one would take a look at these shrubs, and would not lose heart to buy them. All kinds of shrubs are everywhere on the island. In the eyes of civilians, they are just firewood, and fools would buy them.
I didn''t expect that after the Lord started this trend, some kinds of shrubs suddenly became sweet cakes. Frederick also responded to the call and planted several shrubs at his door.
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"Vera, I''m back..."
As soon as he reached the door, Frederick began to shout.
Then the door was opened, and the fire in the fireplace came with a warm feeling. Willa''s smiling face appeared behind the door.
As soon as Frederick entered the warm room, Bella, the eldest daughter, called "Dad" excitedly. She rushed over and hugged Frederick''s waist.
Behind Bella, a little figure came quickly, shouting "Dad".
Frederick''s old face burst into laughter. He squatted down, put his left hand around Bella, gave her a kiss on the forehead, and then spread his right arm around his little daughter Betty.
At this moment, Frederick only felt tired and disappeared.
"Frederick, ready to eat..."
"Bella, bring me the bread..."
Accompanied by Willa''s garrulous, a plate of food is placed on the table, and the attractive food fragrance diffuses in the house.
The main food for dinner is a large basket of black bread. There are three dishes: Stewed bad luck oyster and shellfish, seafood soup and fried fish steak.
In the eyes of a family of four, it was an extremely sumptuous dinner.
In the past, it was a dinner that only a decent family could enjoy. Frederick and his wife could not imagine that they could have such a dinner one day.
A few months ago, the family lived on "sea stewed porridge" and often had not enough to eat.
The sea stewed porridge is a pot of stewed dishes, which has no seasoning, only sprinkled a handful of salt, the taste is absolutely not delicious, the only meat is fish, but because the alien sea fish is too big, the island lacks fishing tools, and there are not many opportunities to eat fish.Unexpectedly, since the benevolent Lord moved into the Haichao islands, the quality of life of his family began to improve at an amazing speed.
It took less than half a month from not having enough to eating meat, and only two months from eating meat to pursuing cooking techniques and more delicious food. This earth shaking change, just thinking about it in his mind, made Frederick feel that it was an unreal dream.
But it happened.
Among the dishes on the table, the most eye-catching one is the golden fried fish steak. Just looking at it, I feel I have an appetite. It is also a dish Vera has just mastered recently.
Because this dish needs to use a cooking utensil - pan.
However, with the explosive growth of steel production in the territory, a large number of cheap iron products have entered thousands of households, and the pan is one of them.
Once, a department store in Hongshi town organized a special activity of "buy cooking utensils, the chef of Lord''s mansion will teach you how to cook on the spot", which attracted a large number of housewives and started a sales frenzy of cooking utensils.
Vera also followed suit and bought a pan. On the contrary, during the promotion, she gave a 70% discount on cooking tools. The price of the pan was only 70 copper nals, which was unbelievably cheap. It was very different from the price of several silver nals in the past.
Thanks to the completion of the development of the hydraulic press, the stamping process has been put into use, and the production efficiency of sheet metal parts has been increased by thousands of times.
Put an iron plate on the stamping die, start the hydraulic press, under the huge pressure of nearly 100 tons, the iron plate becomes a soft dough, which is easily drawn into the required shape.
Through this processing method, it can be formed in one step, and an iron pot can be made in a few seconds, which is incredibly fast.
If let blacksmith to make, hand knock out a pan at least half a day.
With the great improvement of efficiency and the great reduction of raw material cost, all kinds of metal cooking utensils are rapidly popularized to the civilian class, which also brings a revolution of dining table.
Nowadays, in many families, the cooking method of food is no longer limited to stewing and boiling, frying and frying are also gradually known to the common people, but the latter two methods need to use animal fat.
Although oil is not cheap, the average income of civilians is much higher than before, and they can afford to buy a piece of oil occasionally.
In the frying process, due to Maillard reaction, a large number of compounds are produced, which also gives the food a unique taste and crisp flavor.
Even if you just sprinkle a handful of salt and don''t add spices, the food tastes pretty good. In short, it''s better to eat.
At this time is nearly new year, always frugal Vera also generous, a variety of fried dishes frequently appear on the table.
For the four members of Frederick''s family who are used to stewing food, the crisp fish steak is a rare delicacy.
Seeing her husband and daughter staring at the delicious fish steak and swallowing saliva, Vera smiles and shakes her head. She quickly divides the fried fish steak into four parts and puts them on four plates.
"Wait, let''s pray first..." Before dinner, Frederick, the head of the family, spoke.
The family held back their saliva, closed their eyes, folded their hands, and began to pray in a low voice.
"Great lord..."
"Thank you for giving us a warm home..."
"Thank you for the delicious food..."
Such a prayer had become the custom of the Fredericks.
In their view, everything in front of them is a gift from the Lord, and prayer is the only way to express gratitude.
In fact, similar prayer is quite common in the territory. In this area full of public rental housing, every family prays. In Hongshi Town, there are many families who do so.
At the end of the prayer, the crashing and chewing of the tableware immediately rang out, accompanied by Frederick''s praise for his wife''s craftsmanship.
"Dong Dong..."
"Is Frederick at home, please?"
At this time, there was a loud knock and cry outside the door.