nycdaug Chapter 426 Eating Hot Pot
Chapter 426 Eating Hot Pot
Meng Ke looked at the bulge in Qing Hao's pocket and sneered: "Humph! I knew you were just pretending."
The base leader was immediately overwhelmed by great joy, and calmly dragged Qinghao behind him, fearing that his little ancestor, whom he had resurrected with great difficulty, would encounter an accident again.
"That's good! That's good! The little ancestor must be hungry. Let's take him back to eat."
Meng Ke looked at the burly man who was smiling like a flower, and then looked at the dozen or so soldiers behind him. What a coincidence, they all knew each other.
"You came just in time. I've already boiled some water. Let's have some hot pot together."
After she finished speaking, she remembered to ask, "Have you eaten?"
The leader was about to refuse when Meng Ke took out half a table of fruit and said, "Eating hot pot can easily cause internal heat. These fruits can help reduce internal heat. If you haven't eaten them yet, it's a good idea to eat them together."
The soldiers' eyes sparkled as they all focused on their leader. The strong man glared at them angrily and said, "No more training!"
A soldier quickly explained: "The training was postponed."
As to why it was postponed, it is not convenient to say here.
Meng Ke was funny. You didn't need to ask to know that these soldiers or their superiors knew that something had happened to the little ancestor of the base, so they must have asked them to cover up for him.
"A bunch of foodies, it's unbearable to watch!"
The strong man scolded harshly.
Meng saw that they were not going to stay, so he took out four hot pot stoves and poured the boiled soup base over to them.
The next second, a large hand took the hot pot away: "Haha! How dare I let you do it? Let me do it! I'll do it!"
Meng Ke looked up at her leader's broad, sturdy back with a blank expression. Didn't this guy just scold his subordinates for being foodies? How come he was so quick to fight than anyone else?!
"Major General, there are only four pots. We can eat from one. You can't eat alone."
Several soldiers gathered around, and Meng Ke quickly reminded them: "One pot per person, I have enough here, is there anyone who can come and help?"
Meng Ke called out, and a group of people gathered around: "I'm coming, I'm coming!"
The spoon in Meng Ke's hand was taken away without giving her any chance to refuse.
Meng Ke was pulled by a soldier to sit next to Qingyou.
Ouyang Kong raised his eyebrows. The table had automatically extended, and he and Qingyou were sitting face to face. Meng Ke sat down like this, just diagonally opposite him. He felt a little unhappy.
Meng Ke didn't care about this detail. He took out more than a dozen pots, including the four guards at the door, and turned around to greet them: "Let's eat together!"
The four guards looked at their leader, who waved his hand and said, "Wait until we eat before we change shifts."
Meng Ke didn't say anything else. He handed a storage container to the logistics robot and said, "Take out some of the vegetables and meat in here until the table is full."
Then she called to the soldiers around her, "These fruits take up too much space. Leave ten boxes for us to eat, and collect and share the rest."
This was something the leader, who tried hard to hide his foodie nature, loved to do. Almost the second after Meng Ke finished speaking, he kept ten boxes and put away the rest.
The young and handsome warriors sighed in regret. What a tragedy! If they had been a little slower, they would have missed out on these natural fruits and vegetables.
If it were other things, even high-level energy stones, the leader would be generous enough to share them with them.
But natural fruits and vegetables are life-saving things for soldiers who are often on missions. It is difficult to snatch them when their body radiation levels are low.
What? The Alliance has purifiers? Okay! They do! But do you know how harsh the interstellar environment is? Going on a mission inevitably raises radiation levels, and the Alliance has a limited number of purifiers, so how can they keep up? It's fair to say the Alliance's biggest talent shortage is planters, and the second-biggest talent shortage is purifiers. Without the waiting period for purifiers, natural fruits and vegetables are life-saving medicine.
The soldiers held the small hot pot and looked at the various vegetables and meats on the table. Their mouths were almost watering. They all looked at Meng Ke and waited for the meal to start.
Meng Ke originally wanted to follow the local customs and say a few pleasantries, but seeing this, she decisively cut it off and made a gesture of invitation: "Let's eat! Everyone, enjoy your meal. Don't be polite. There will be plenty of vegetables, fruits and meat today."
From this moment on, the pre-washed ingredients in the fresh-keeping box on the table decreased at a rate visible to the naked eye.
The soldiers ate extremely fast. No matter how fast they ate, the logistics robots could immediately bring the consumed food to the table, as if the natural fruits and vegetables and purified meat were endless. Everyone ate until they were full, but the food didn't stop.
Some soldiers finally put down their chopsticks in satisfaction: "It's so delicious!"
I used to only dream about having an endless supply of fruits and vegetables, but I never thought such a good thing would actually happen in reality. I’m so happy! Ahhh! Too bad, his stomach is still too small.
At this time, the leader was also full. He put down his chopsticks and leaned back in his chair to digest the food. He looked at the mountain of vegetables, fruits and purified meat in front of him and fell into deep thought.
It is said that senior growers are the richest, and it seems to be true.
He turned his gaze to the storage container in the logistics robot's hand. Because of data sharing, he already knew that there were thousands of cubic meters of food in it, filling the entire storage container. Even if more than a dozen of them ate together, they would not have finished even a fraction of it.
He was very greedy for these supplies, but not to mention that Meng Ke took very good care of their base, even Meng Ke's identity was not something that a mere major general like him could touch.
After pondering for a moment, he decided to fight for his soldiers who were on the mission.
"Can you sell the ingredients in this storage container to our base in your dream?"
Meng Ke had just put down her chopsticks when she heard these words. She was not surprised at all. There was a huge gap in the supply of natural fruits and vegetables in the interstellar space. Although Meng Ke's family could eat whatever they wanted, it was actually impossible for them to buy more without connections.
What's more, the military has a budget for expenditures. If they don't look at the price, they can indeed sweep through all the vegetable and fruit stores on the optical network. But this is not possible. Not to mention that the price approval will not pass, but even the optical network market will not allow individuals to purchase in large quantities. Otherwise, the various countries on the ancient blue star would not have gone to so much trouble to find channels.
"Sure! What we just ate and what's on the table are not included, but I can't sign a contract with you. If we go through the retail channel, the price will be calculated based on the wholesale price."
Meng Ke has cooperation with various legions. In principle, it can no longer sign a sales contract with the Alliance Star Base No. 2. It can only go through the retail channel and calculate the military wholesale price, which is a discount on top of a discount. In addition, retail sales cannot be tax deducted. Purified meat is okay, but the tax rate for natural fruits and vegetables is extremely high. If you calculate it carefully, you will definitely lose money.
But some things cannot be measured in interstellar coins. If this matter could not be concealed, some people might think she was an idiot who was easy to trick. It would be fine for her to send this storage container and food to the base.
"Since we're going through the retail channel, I'll go and ask the higher-ups to give me a wholesale price. You don't have to go by the military wholesale price."
The leader knew that Meng Ke was rich, but as a soldier, he still abided by the rules and would not cheat his own people.
Ever since Meng Ke built a mushroom ecological park at the base, everyone has included her as one of their own.
Meng Ke shook her head. Before she could say anything, she heard her leader speak again: "Our base is still hoping that you will sell us some natural fruits and vegetables when there is an abundance of them. We can't let you suffer any loss."
That being said, Meng Ke can't say that I will never have enough fruits and vegetables in the future, right?
She is a senior grower. If she really said that, the other party would just think that she meant that she would not sell it to you even if she had it.
Uh... in that case...
"Okay! Let's go with the wholesale market price."
Anyway, the wholesale prices of natural fruits and vegetables vary from place to place, so she asked Xiao Xingyun to help her by compiling the lowest wholesale prices from various places into a document and sending it over.
"What do you think of the price?"
The boss took one look and saw it was much lower than he expected. He asked uncertainly, "Are you sure you won't lose money?"
Even if he is not in business, he knows that if he wants to have a long-term cooperation, the most basic thing is not to let the other party lose money.
Many suppliers are rushing to cooperate with the military not only to make money, but also to seek protection.
Meng is different. Not to mention her husbands who have extremely high status, just her identity as a senior planter means that the entire alliance is her backing, so she doesn't need to make such concessions.
“You won’t lose money, you’ll even make money.”
Meng Ke was very sure that she had a system in her brain that could show the profit and loss at a glance after importing the selling price, and this price was a small profit.
Hearing Meng Ke say that it was not a loss, the leader nodded in agreement. If he went up to raise the price again, it would be suspected of embezzling military funds.
After dinner, Meng Ke asked Qingyou and Luo Tian to stay in the base. She wanted to go to Yunhe's experimental site to take a look. She heard that there was some progress in ginseng cultivation.
She felt a little excited when she thought about the successful cultivation of ginseng in the interstellar space, the extension of human life span, and that she was one step closer to growing old with her four husbands.
She had made up her mind that if Tiantian, Qingyou and Leihu failed to differentiate into spiritual bodies, she would not eat interstellar ginseng even if it was grown. She wanted to grow old with her lover.