Chapter 100: Field Training – Class Lunch
After Xiang Chuan satisfied her craving with a bite of fish belly, she lost interest in the steamed fish. After all, picky 21st century people tend to disdain steamed fish without soy sauce. But for modern people tasting such deliciousness for the first time, even though this fish had few bones and fatty meat, they were still greatly unsatisfied.
“Full yet? Liang Gong, go bury the fish bones.” Xiang Chuan directed, “Go, dig a pit. Later, everyone throw the fish bones in there.”
Taking food shortens one’s mouth, so the few boys led by Fu Chengkai felt too embarrassed to let A Bite of China Club people keep working, and simply picked up their own shovels and started digging. Xiang Chuan watched speechlessly as several big boys grabbed shovels and in one go ran to the open ground outside the tent area to start ravaging the wild grass, thinking, so many people, how big a pit are they digging? Is this digging a garbage pit or laying foundations to build a house?
“Xiang Chuan, Xiang Chuan,” Chou Manman came over, “You’ve already eaten your fill? You only ate one piece of fish meat. Normally you need at least three buns and four pieces of meat patty to be full.”
“What, could it be you still want to eat?” Xiang Chuan looked at her with a strange gaze.
“Yeah.” Chou Manman didn’t beat around the bush anymore and threw a straight ball, “That fish is so delicious, how can we only eat a few pieces of meat! If there’s not enough fish, you can tell me, I’ll go catch a few more for you!”
Who was it just now that ran far away upon seeing me gutting the fish! Xiang Chuan really wanted to complain harshly, but seeing the people around had the same gaze as Chou Manman, estimating that complaining out loud really wouldn’t have much impact, she simply let it go.
Xiang Chuan looked around, everyone had bright eyes and eager expressions, leaving her baffled: Isn’t it said that modern people don’t like eating freshwater fish!
“But… do you all know how to fish?” Xiang Chuan tried to make them give up from the modern people’s hands-on ability.
“Fishing isn’t that simple?”
With that, everyone suddenly pulled out rope rings from their pockets.
Oh, forgot, modern people aren’t great at hands-on stuff, but technology crushes the 21st century. With this thing, not to mention fishing, maybe they can even net fish.
Unable to convince these gluttonous boys and girls, she could only let them go.
After getting Xiang Chuan’s silent nod, the crowd cheered and rushed to the riverside, which scared the captives from the two classes again: just now it was that strange girl, now how come a whole group came? What are they doing? Formulating an attack route along the river? This intense?
Remembering these people don’t know restraint, and if something unexpected happens it would be bad, Xiang Chuan hurriedly followed, and helplessly started directing the crowd:
“Spread out a bit, if you stand too close the rope rings will collide.”
“Don’t go toward the river center, there are water plants under the surface, you can’t see the bottom, if the water is deep, it’s easy to drown… anyway, there’s life danger!”
“Don’t keep stirring the water plants, that will stir up the soil in the river, making the water turbid so you can’t see anything!”
Xiang Chuan shouted directions from the side like an old nanny, afraid something would happen.
Whether Class Eight people can do other things is unknown, but in terms of obsession with food, their action power is strong enough to make the entire grade bow down, so they followed Xiang Chuan, who could make delicious things, without question. Maybe it’s because everyone’s rope ring technique is good, or possibly because spring came and the fish like coming out, in less than half an hour, the freshwater fish caught with rope rings piled up into a half-meter high small mountain on the shore, leaving Xiang Chuan silent again: so much, what to do with it all?
Helplessly, she could only duck back into the tent, open Geegle, and start planning how to eliminate the freshwater fish.
Not sure if it’s lucky or unlucky, the live stream room group opposite the camera, upon seeing Xiang Chuan sitting motionless outside the tent in the morning, ignored Xiang Xue’s opposition and chose to follow and film Class Eight’s outbound students.
Mandy, as the Class Activity Supervisor, showed his careful side, directing the classmates to properly clean up all traces in the two classes’ camp and the duel site, and after processing, the woods completely showed no sign of the rope ring chaos class struggle that once happened.
After repeated checks, Mandy led the classmates while walking toward Class Eight’s direction, cleaning along the way the traces left by them and Class Ten passed during yesterday’s patrol, at a pace of two steps walk one step stop, greatly slowing the advance time, by the time they returned to camp it was almost past twelve, and from far away they smelled the aroma of lunch.
Wait? Aroma?
Mandy and the classmates responsible for cleaning the battlefield looked at each other: why can instant solid food and liquid food emit aroma?
With doubts, the crowd quickened their returning steps a bit.
“Everyone, welcome back.”
Before entering the camp, they met the Class President coming out from the camp.
“Report Class President, venue cleanup and traces in the forest have all been completed.” Mandy put on an act and gave a guard team military salute, getting laughed at and shouldered by the Class President.
“Good, hurry in, lunch is just starting, and you can help out too.”
Help? Help with what? The camp construction was done long ago, even the captives’ tents were built, could it be those left in camp to guard home took advantage of them cleaning the battlefield to sneak attack the enemy again? But walking to the central region obviously can’t do that. Mandy thought.
After entering the camp, the crowd was stunned by the scene before them: they actually, lit a fire!
Yes, now in the camp center a fire was lit with firewood, beside the fire pile were plump grass carp skewered with wooden sticks, since their size was somewhat too large compared to ordinary fish, one fish was fixed with three or four shaved wooden skewers, each fire pile had at least three or four fish around it, several A Bite of China Club people were sitting on small stools by the fire pile watching, occasionally turning the fish meat. Under the fire’s roasting, the fish meat emitted enticing charred aroma, making the students busy all morning swallow saliva greedily.
And right beside the grilled fish fire pile, another fire pile was set up with a square pot about half a meter long, inside bubbling and stewing milky white soup, if the grilled fish was a charred aroma that greatly stimulated appetite, then what emanated from this pot was a fresh aroma that pleased the mood, standing by the pot was Xiang Chuan continuously adding seasoning to it, she used a large ladle to scoop a ladle of soup into a square small bowl, tasted the flavor, then casually sprinkled a few handfuls of indistinguishable seasoning, repeating this.
Others were either adding firewood nearby, or ferociously processing live fish with techniques Mandy and others couldn’t understand, the idlest at least helped by throwing some very disgusting-looking things (actually fish scales and fish innards) into the soil pit outside the tent area.
The only one from the class cadre group completely staying in camp, Fu Chengkai, now became the one directing the overall situation, upon seeing stunned Mandy and others standing near the entrance, she immediately ran over to greet: “Back? Hurry over to help, if you have your own bowl and tableware get it from the tent, lunch is about to start soon.”
Lunch? These fish?
Just left for less than three hours, how does our class’s camp feel completely changed?
Mandy and others and the crowd watching the live stream outside the hidden camera simultaneously voiced doubts.
