Apocalypse: I have a supermarket stocked with supplies-Chapter 36 - : stir-fried meat with chili

Chapter 36: stir-fried meat with chili

Su Yinhe took out a large, transparent plastic bag, containing six disposable lunch boxes.

“Inside, there are three boxes of dishes, and three are rice. The stir-fried meat with chili might be a bit spicy, so if you can’t eat spicy food, just pick out the meat and soak it in hot water, and don’t eat the peppers.”

“Lunch?” Ah Qian gaped at the six lunch boxes.

They actually had lunch?

Was there really lunch?

“Mhm, better head back early. It’s too dangerous after dark,” Su Yinhe said, looking at the dimming sky with some worry.

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“Thank you, boss. You’re really a great person,” Ah Qian suddenly bowed deeply several times.

Wang Xin didn’t even react at first. He was just as shocked.

So much instant noodles were already enough, but the boss even provided lunch. And such large portions—at six boxes—they could make it last for three days with careful rationing if there were about a dozen of them.

As Ah Qian walked away carrying the plastic bag, he kept praising Su Yinhe.

But he had never been to school and couldn’t read, so his praises circled back to just her being a great person.

Su Yinhe was almost tired of hearing “great person” from him.

Today, Wang Xin and Ah Qian still took the same small path as yesterday, but they were even more cautious, given the amount they carried today.

Luckily, they were lucky today and made it back safely.

Upon their return, the awaiting companions cheered when they saw what they had brought back.

“So much! Were the golden earrings that valuable today?”

“No. We didn’t trade the earrings, the boss gave this to us. Not just noodles, but also meals,” Ah Qian had fully transformed into a hardcore fan of Su Yinhe.

He hadn’t even put the stuff down before he started boasting.

After Ah Qian finished his round of boasts, Gou Dan and the others grasped the situation.

Then they too started praising, and Gou Dan, being a bit older, was better at sweet-talking too, but sadly Su Yinhe wasn’t there to hear.

“Let’s not eat instant noodles today, let’s have these meals instead. Let’s stash the instant noodles,” Xiao Cao came up with the idea and Wang Xin nodded in agreement with her suggestion.

They didn’t start their meal immediately. Instead, a few of them stood watch outside while Wang Xin and Xiao Cao and a few others moved the box of instant noodles to the room where they stored firewood, temporarily moved the firewood from the ground, dug a hole, and buried the box of noodles. After burying it, they covered it again with the firewood.

After all was done, Wang Xin checked everything carefully to make sure there were no oversights before he led people out of the room and summoned those outside to come in and prepare for the meal.

When Xiao Cao opened the six lunch boxes, she found that three contained rice and the others held dishes. Thinking it over, she boiled a pot of water.

With the rice from three boxes and their group of more than a dozen people, it was unlikely everyone could eat their fill. But adding some water to the rice should help.

Xiao Cao took a spoon and started distributing the rice, everyone lining up as she served each person.

After serving the rice, Xiao Cao suggested everyone add some water to their bowls and stir it well.

When it came to eating, everyone took Xiao Cao’s advice seriously. Each person added water to their bowl, stirring it into a porridge.

After preparing the rice, Xiao Cao then distributed the dishes with chopsticks, controlling the portions to ensure everyone got a share.

Tomato and eggs, stir-fried meat with chili, and steamed ribs.

Each person received a chopstick-full of tomato and eggs, a slice of chili, a slice of meat, and a rib.

The portions weren’t large, but as they looked at their bowls of rice, everyone felt a strong urge to cry.

At the end, there was a little juice left from the tomato and eggs, and unanimously, everyone decided to give it to Xiao Cao, who had served the meal.

Xiao Cao carefully poured the porridge from her bowl into the lunchbox containing tomato and egg, allowing each grain of rice to soak up the sauce.

Once the porridge turned a light red color, Xiao Cao began to eat.

The first bite was the porridge, which tasted slightly sour and sweet from the tomato and egg sauce, offering a very unique flavor.

The second bite, Xiao Cao picked up a slice of chili. The chili had been soaked in water, so it wasn’t very spicy anymore, just slightly spicy, soft, and very delicious.

Then came the stir-fried meat, the ribs…

Every bite was delicious.

Especially the stir-fried meat and the ribs, which tasted better than any meat she had ever eaten. Unlike the meat from Mutant Beasts, which was bitter, stinky, and tough to chew.

The stir-fried meat was fragrant, and the ribs were tender.

She had never tasted such delicious meat before.

After eating this meat, how could she go back to eating Mutant Beast meat?

Unknowingly, Xiao Cao had already licked her bowl clean. Coming back to her senses, her face was a bit red, but looking around, she saw her companions were already on their third time licking their bowls.

“It’s so delicious. How come it’s gone already?” Gou Dan held his bowl, unwilling to believe this fact.

“Is the boss still looking for workers?” Gou Dan asked Ah Qian.

“He probably… isn’t lacking workers,” Ah Qian said, looking at his empty bowl, also feeling upset.

He announced that steamed ribs tasted better than instant noodles.

“Alright, stop thinking about it. 40 packs of instant noodles, the boss has already given us plenty,” Wang Xin said calmly, but upon closer inspection, his own bowl was also unbelievably clean.

“The earrings didn’t get traded, let’s go again tomorrow, trade the noodles, and then exchange them for Contribution Value.” They had enjoyed the noodles; now it was time to think about the future.

Today, those who went out to search for gold found nothing.

It seemed unlikely that they could survive on trading gold in the future; once they traded these earrings, they would return to their previous life.

The instant noodles they would get tomorrow and the sausages from yesterday could be exchanged for Contribution Value, enough to buy porridge for a dozen days.

As for the box of instant noodles, just hide it and save it for when they were really about to starve to death.

Wang Xin was quite satisfied; now they could be considered people with assets.

Thanks to Galaxy Supermarket, they had moved from nearly starving to death to having a stash of instant noodles; they should be content.

“Let’s not dig tomorrow, let’s get back to what we were doing before.” There was nothing left to find in that spot. They should return to normal life.

“But…” someone was not quite willing; he wanted to find more gold. He didn’t want to return to the previous life of leaving the base daily to forage for wild vegetables, fighting with others for food, looking for work everywhere, getting beaten up, and going hungry.

Couldn’t they try a little harder to find more gold? A small piece of gold could be traded for so much food.

“Gold is not so easy to find. It’s quite remarkable that we found two golden earrings,” Wang Xin was reasonable; they had already gotten a lot.

Some were reluctant, but Wang Xin was the leader, and they had to listen to him.

Still, a few of them thought about sneaking back to search again after they were done with work, hoping that if they got lucky and found something. So many packs of instant noodles. So much food it could be traded for.

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Having tasted instant noodles and good food, they wanted to eat better and no longer wanted to be constantly hungry.

To be full was such happiness, and they wanted to continue being happy.

Wang Xin was clever, and by the flicker in their eyes, he knew what they were thinking. He didn’t try to stop them, “You can go look for yourselves, just be careful. Don’t let it interfere with your work.”