For Chen Xin, there are many things he needs to handle every day, and although it’s not to the point of overwork, there’s not much ti for rest and relaxation.
Aside from the leisure ti after finishing things at the Research Center and returning to his residence, he occasionally takes a break amidst the busyness of handling various tasks by sitting under the Ecological Do at the Research Center and drinking so tea.
The tea leaves are a product of the Ecological Do; after it was put into use, the Bioscience team planted many plants here, including a few tea trees.
Although the yield of tea leaves is minimal, Chen Xin still managed to get a little, occasionally tossing a few leaves into a cup to brew, then sitting in the rest area under the Ecological Do to relax a bit.
The construction and planting in the Ecological Do are now complete. With the energy provided by the nearby geothermal power plant, it simulates the effect of sunlight in the past, allowing these plants to photosynthesize, while also providing lighting for the entire Ecological Do.
Because it uses a natural light simulation model, and there are many lush green plants around, the rest area under the Ecological Do has a pre-disaster feel to it.
Sitting here, one might occasionally and unconsciously forget that it’s the long dark winter after the teor fall, and have a montary illusion of being before the disaster, leisurely enjoying a pleasant afternoon rest and tea.
Only when you look up, the black sky outside the transparent do will remind you that it is still the end of the world.
For Chen Xin, he obviously wouldn’t forget that it’s still the apocalyptic era. After all, when it cos to making one forget the current predicant and re-experience the pre-disaster beauty, the holographic room he set up for himself in the shelter is far better than this.
So to Chen Xin, the rest area under the Ecological Do is just a place where he can sit and rest during work intervals.
Although his own shelter and the Research Center are only separated by a corridor, Chen Xin is still not used to going back to rest during work hours; he even mostly has lunch at the cafeteria of the Research Center with everyone, rarely going ho for als.
He just cos to the rest area occasionally to rest a bit after lunch.
Everyone else at the Research Center is aware of Chen Xin’s habit and generally doesn’t disturb him during his lunchti nap. Even those who also choose to co to the rest area at noon try to avoid him, not disturbing him.
However, today seed to be an exception as soone ca to find him during his rest, breaking his lunchti tranquility.
"Ingredients, I brought you sothing tasty, do you want to try it?" Mo Qingyan sat down in front of Chen Xin with a smile, placing a covered plate on the small table in front of him.
"Food? What is it? Why so mysterious?" Chen Xin wasn’t bothered by Mo Qingyan’s interruption, casually looking at the covered plate and asking her curiously: "You even covered it so I can’t see it, what is it?"
Saying this, Chen Xin wanted to reach out to lift the cover, but Mo Qingyan pressed it down with her hand, smiling at Chen Xin: "It’s delicious, but you can only eat it if you guess it right. If you can’t guess, you don’t get to eat it!"
"Huh? What are you up to? Are you really not going to let eat it?" Chen Xin looked at Mo Qingyan’s hand holding down the cover, his expression a bit incredulous.
"Guess! I put a lot of thought into making it. How can I let you eat it so easily?" Mo Qingyan insisted with a smile, determined to make Chen Xin guess.
Faced with Mo Qingyan’s attitude, Chen Xin felt helpless and could only follow along: "If you want to guess, at least give so hints? Just covering it up and letting guess, how can I know what it is."
"If I gave you a hint, you’d guess it imdiately, and that would be no fun." Mo Qingyan refused Chen Xin’s request, her face filled with confident amusent.
"No hints?" Chen Xin rubbed his chin, looking at the plate: "The plate isn’t big, and the cover you used is quite shallow, so it shouldn’t be sothing large. It doesn’t seem to be covered for warmth, so it shouldn’t be sothing hot."
Chen Xin tried to analyze while touching the lid covering the plate, sure enough, the lid wasn’t hot.
Seeing Chen Xin begin to guess the contents of the plate, Mo Qingyan’s smile beca even brighter, as if she was certain Chen Xin wouldn’t be able to guess what was inside.
But after looking at her fingers and sniffing her clothes, Chen Xin was surprised: "Is it cake? Where did you get the flour?"
In this ti of severe resource scarcity, cake is a luxury, as both eggs and milk are extrely rare. Chen Xin only gets so dairy products every month thanks to special supply from the state.
As for flour, Chen Xin originally had it in his monthly special supply, but with recent flour shortages, he hasn’t had any lately.
Actually, the situation is simple: because of the previous earthquake in the Southwest Region, the state’s grain reserves were transferred to aid the disaster area, so the anticipated flour supply naturally wasn’t available.
Now Mo Qingyan suddenly made him a cake, which inevitably surprised Chen Xin a bit.
"You guessed it!" Mo Qingyan felt a little disappointed that Chen Xin guessed so easily, but she still uncovered the plate, revealing a small cake not very elaborately made but covered with a layer of cream and specially topped with strawberry jam: "I didn’t have much in the way of ingredients, so I made a small one. Try it, the taste should be good."
As she spoke, Mo Qingyan pulled out a small fork and handed it to Chen Xin.
"Where did you get the flour? I rember we shouldn’t have any flour left, right? And there was only a little sugar left. You didn’t use all the sugar, did you?" Chen Xin wasn’t shocked by the cake itself, but rather curious about where Mo Qingyan got the cake’s flour from.
"Don’t worry! I didn’t touch your sugar. The ingredients for this cake were all processed from things grown in the Ecological Do. They wanted to give you a surprise." Mo Qingyan explained to Chen Xin while urging him: "Try it! I spent the whole morning making this cake!"
Hearing Mo Qingyan say this, Chen Xin could only set aside his curiosity about the Ecological Do’s situation, using the fork to cut a piece of the cake and putting it in his mouth.
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