Little Fool and Xu Yang sat on the metal benches next to each other, with soldiers and miners sharing their supplies. Thanks to the earlier environmental improvement, the fish population had recovered, so the miners brought out their frozen fish, crabs, eels, and oysters, along with their long-stored turnips, radishes, and potatoes.
The soldiers, on the other hand, offered their field rations, including stewed pork, beef stew, diced chicken, dried meat from bioengineered beasts, and the indispensable nutrient paste.
All these foods were dumped into a large copper pot, where the miners' wives got busy, filling the pot with boiling water and then pouring in powdered saury soup mix, blending everything into the bubbling saury broth and emitting waves of deliciousness as all the ingredients bobbed in the steaming liquid.
Next, they opened up many cans, adding pre-made bamboo shoots, fish balls, and seaweed into the pot, making the assortment of food even more colorful and varied.