Following the crowd through the humble gate of the picnic Park, the Fredericks saw the scene in the park.
On several continuous hills, the grass covered the earth like a giant carpet, and countless colorful square linen were scattered among them, just like the flowers dotted with the green carpet.
The north of the park is cut off by a precipice. Beyond the precipice, there is endless ocean. Sea tides are scouring the rocks at the bottom of the precipice, splashing with the sound of water waves. Seabirds are hovering over the precipice, making a pleasant birdsong sound.
For safety, the government office built a half person high wooden fence on the cliff, painted a layer of white paint on the fence, and paved a winding pebble path along the fence.
Fence and pebble path not only do not damage the natural beauty, but add a bit of chic flavor to the park.
Just standing here, looking at the sea and feeling the cool sea breeze, makes people feel relaxed and happy.
The linen on the meadow is all picnic cloth, which is full of all kinds of food, and each side of the cloth is surrounded by a family.
The conversation of adults, the laughter of children, and the smell of food in the air make the park lively.
Bella couldn''t help swallowing her saliva. She looked up at her mother Willa eagerly and whispered:
"Mom, I''m hungry..."
Vera touched her daughter''s head with a smile and said gently:
"honey, we have to find a suitable place first. Can you help mom and dad find it?"
Bella nodded and said excitedly:
"OK! I want to help my parents... "
In the smiling gaze of Frederick and his wife, my sister-in-law looked around for a while and soon found a suitable place. She pointed to the distant hill and cried happily:
"Mom, there is a place there..."
The family happily through the crowd, came to Bella found the place, began to prepare for a picnic.
Vera puts down the basket, takes out a piece of picnics cloth with blue and white patterns, spreads it on the grass, and then puts the food on the picnics cloth. Frederick is not idle. He gives his little daughter Betty to Bella to take care of and help his wife set the tableware.
The two aunts were drooling, watching the picnic cloth full.
Among these foods, there are eight kinds of meat alone.
Among them, there are two plates of animal meat, which are fried black boar meat and stir fried chinchilla meat. The ingredients are from the farms under the Department of agriculture.
The German farm on Odin island has set up a farm to cultivate black porpoises and a farm to cultivate long eared chinchillas. Not long ago, the first batch of products on the market were very popular.
The residents have been eating seafood for a long time, and they urgently need to change their taste.
There are two plates of fish and two plates of shellfish on the picnic cloth. The cooking patterns are different, and they are all rare seafood famous for their delicious meat. The selling prices in department stores are more expensive.
The fishing fleet of the Department of Fisheries goes out to sea all the year round and catches a lot of fish. Fish is the most abundant and the cheapest in the territory. Even for the so-called "rare seafood", the price is not much higher.
There are even two plates of bird meat on the picnic cloth, one is fried warbler, the other is charcoal roasted red head duck.
It''s hard to catch seabirds, and now it''s approaching the storm season, the vast majority of seabirds have moved to the south, and there''s almost no fresh seabird meat for sale in shops.
In order to prepare for today''s picnic, Vera went to the "frozen food counter" in the department store, spent several silver nals, bought expensive frozen warbler and red headed duck, and cooked these two dishes.
Not only the Fredericks but also other families prepared some bird meat more or less.
Even if there is a decent picnic in the sky and on the water, it can be regarded as a decent one.
In addition to meat, Vera also prepared two fruit and vegetable salads, as well as a small basket of golden toast, and even a plate of expensive butter beside.
Because it was about face, she cooked all the food as beautiful as she could, with all the colors, flavors and flavors. After all, everyone sat together for a picnic, and it was clear what food was on the picnic cloth.
If a housewife makes a mess of her food, she will definitely be ridiculed by others.
Even the containers for food were all made of porcelain without any wooden ware. For this picnic, many families even took out silverware that they usually didn''t use.
In today''s haichaoling, thanks to the guidance of a certain leader and the improvement of industrial level, a special porcelain factory has been set up in Odin island. The efficient industrial production mode has greatly reduced the price of porcelain.
These tableware, which could only be afforded by wealthy families and nobles, have entered thousands of families in the territory, and porcelain can be seen in most families.
As wooden tableware is more difficult to clean, easy to be polluted, and has great health risks, the government administration department has been vigorously encouraging civilians to use porcelain and try to avoid using wooden tableware.At ordinary times, as long as one of these dishes appears on the table, the meal can be called a feast. At this moment, they all appear on the picnic cloth, and the two girls can hardly stop their eyes.
"Dad I want to... "
Betty pointed her little hand at the attractive fried warbler and called Frederick.
Frederick touched his daughter''s little face lovingly and said with a smile:
"honey, when you eat fried warbler, the first course must be" salt and pepper sea loach ", which is the rule of picnics..."
He picked up a metal fork, forked a piece of fried golden crisp sea loach, handed it to his daughter''s mouth, watched her bite, in the opposite, Vera and Bella also started, mother and daughter''s goal is the same salt and pepper sea loach.
While enjoying the delicious sea loach meat, the family talked happily.
This salt and pepper sea loach is a dish that Renault cooked himself when he had a picnic here.
In the view of the civilians in the territory, if the picnic lacks this dish, it will not be considered as an authentic picnic, or even as some kind of behavior that does not conform to the etiquette.
Therefore, the picnic can be without any dish, only pepper salt sea loach section must not be less.
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In fact, in this picnic Park, you can see the above food from any piece of picnic cloth.
With the average income of the residents and low prices, most families can afford such a picnic.
Even if the family income is low, as long as we save a little, we can still experience a decent lifestyle.
In addition, to have a picnic in the picnics park is also social in nature. If any family doesn''t buy more than 10 kinds of meat and fill up the picnics cloth, would it be nice to have a picnic here?
If anyone dares to do so, he will be the laughing stock of his neighbors and colleagues the next day.
Therefore, many low-income families, even if they secretly eat dried salted fish and shellfish for a period of time, have to make a fat face today to make the meal rich enough.
If we pull the time to a year ago, this is a life that all civilians, including Frederick, can''t imagine in their dreams.
At that time, most of the civilians in the park were struggling on the edge of starvation. They were willing to do everything they could to feed their families.
However, no matter how hard the civilians try, hunger still haunts every family like a nightmare. The whole family is always hungry and awakes in the middle of the night.
Picnics?
It doesn''t exist!
This is the tone played by aristocrats. Dirty and cheap civilians, who are qualified to go out for a picnic like old men?
Many civilians don''t even wash the dirt on their faces, and the whole family can''t find a piece of clothes that isn''t dirty or broken. What a wild meal?
As for the theme of the picnic - food, don''t even think about it. It''s absolutely impossible to have meat and fishy food. Can the whole family squat in the grass and eat black wheat paste together?
It makes people laugh
However, a year later, what we dare not imagine has become a reality.
In today''s tide collar, the health habits of the civilians are no worse than those of the nobility.
Bathhouses have been set up in every factory and block for residents to use free of charge. Moreover, the facilities are extremely advanced. All of them are tap water, which can be used by turning on the tap, and everyone is clean.
It''s something that the aristocrats of the whole foreign world have never seen. They are still taking a bath in wooden barrels.
Every resident has a suit of decent clothes. The material may not be very good, but it is absolutely clean and tidy. The materials are strong, the cuts are very fit, and the stitches are very neat. It looks energetic after wearing.
These clothes are made by magic sewing machine, much better than pure handmade.
As for food, forget it.
Walking in the streets and alleys led by the tide, you can see any civilian with red face, adequate nutrition and better living standard than some aristocrats.