Chapter 288 Chapter 288 Hot
Mingjia Supermarket is a large convenience supermarket that sells everything from food, clothing, housing and transportation, and is only five minutes away from their residential area.
Zhang Le squinted his eyes and yawned: "What are you doing in the supermarket? Do you have anything to buy?"
He Junxia hummed and said nothing more.
Judging from the current situation, he cannot guarantee that his guess is correct, so why cause anxiety in advance?
Zhang Le: "Okay, the takeaway has your phone number, right? Message me when it arrives and I'll pick it up."
He Junxia: “Okay”
The car stopped next to Mingjia Supermarket. After He Junxia confirmed that there were no electric vehicles running behind, he quickly opened the door and got out.
He still had about 25,000 yuan in free funds (including the 15,000 yuan given by Zhang Le), which was enough to buy another large amount of food.
Otherwise, with Zhang Le's strange appetite today, the food stored at home would only be enough for them to eat for three months at most.
As soon as He Junxia entered the supermarket, she took a large shopping cart and went straight to the fast food area. Although staple foods such as rice, noodles, and flour were plentiful and cheap, they were too eye-catching and inconvenient to carry.
If there is a water or power outage later, how to cook the food will also be a problem.
Even if you can chop wood to make a fire and use solid alcohol, it is still more troublesome than instant food, takes too long, and the fireworks can easily be noticed by neighbors.
It would be fine if everyone has sufficient food reserves, but if there is a food shortage or even a food outage, families with food reserves will become the target of public criticism.
No matter how powerful or good at fighting a person is, it is impossible for him to kill everyone. At that time, he will just be defeated by a random punch.
He Junxia pushed the shopping cart and rushed to buy things in the fast food and snack areas. This behavior would definitely attract attention under normal circumstances, but at this moment no one gave him a second glance.
The reason is simple.
The older generation who have experienced major natural disasters such as floods, droughts, and famines seem to be easily fooled by experts in short videos, but they have their own way of identifying dangers.
The unprecedented black sun and the frequent and bizarre murders have made them highly alert, and stockpiling food and supplies has become the best way to resist unknown dangers.
And people have a herd mentality.
Seeing other people's old men and women rushing to the supermarket to buy food and carrying bags of rice, flour and oil home, even those who were not nervous became nervous.
Therefore, in the morning, Mingjia Supermarket was crowded with elderly people buying rice, vegetables, meat, eggs and milk. They moved so quickly that there was no sign of their usual shaky gait.
The supermarket staff were so busy, fearing that an old man or woman would fall while pushing something, that they had no time to pay attention to a young man buying snacks and instant noodles.
Chocolate, ham, compressed biscuits, sandwich biscuits, hard fruit candies, soft candies, condensed milk, canned fruit...
These junk snacks, which are considered tooth killers by adults, can provide the human body with unimaginable energy at critical moments and are easy to carry.
The disadvantage is that eating too much will indeed affect your health, and it is not as filling as rice.
But when there is a serious food shortage, who will care about their health and satiety? They will just be thankful if they don’t starve to death.
Moreover, He Junxia had stockpiled 1,000 kilograms of rice, 200 kilograms of flour, 200 kilograms of dry vermicelli noodles, etc. early on, so she had no shortage of staple foods.
——Zhang Le’s home is on the first floor, so there is no need to worry about too much food being stored affecting the floor and causing cracks in the building.
He Junxia pushed a cart of snacks and dried fruits to the automatic checkout machine to pay. Most of the people rushing to buy food in the supermarket were elderly people who didn't know how to use smart machines and preferred manual checkout.
“Drip-drip-drip——”
He Junxia took out the items from the shopping cart and scanned the codes one by one. Suddenly, a middle-aged couple rushed towards the long queue for manual checkout.
"Mom, what are you and Dad doing?"
"If you buy so much rice and can't finish it, and it gets infested with worms, what a waste! Don't you feel bad about it?"
The old couple were as stubborn as two old donkeys despite the earnest advice of their son and daughter-in-law, and turned a deaf ear to their words.
"I told you to stay out of it. If it's infested with worms, your dad and I will eat it, not you guys."
"Mom, that's not what I meant. Think about it, we already have several bags of rice at home. If you buy five more bags of rice and dozens of kilograms of noodles, there won't be enough space."
"Put it in my room. It won't take up your space."
"Go, go away. Not only did you raise a useless son, but you also come here to teach your father and me a lesson."
"Dad, Mom, the experts have said that the black sun is a special astronomical wonder, not the end of the world. Don't listen to what those people on the Internet are saying."
“You have to believe in science.”
"Stop nagging me. I didn't spend your money. If you think we're taking up space, your dad and I will move out and you can take care of the child by yourselves."
The middle-aged couple talked too much, and the old couple became impatient and reached out to push them away.
Their son was at a loss as to what to do, and the other elderly people in the queue who were rushing to buy rice and flour also tried to persuade the middle-aged couple.
"If you don't listen to the advice of the elderly, you will suffer the consequences."
"There's nothing wrong with listening to the elders. Parents won't harm their own children."
The girl waiting behind He Junxia snorted softly.
There are many parents who sell their children, and there are even more who ignore and neglect their children.
There is no selfless love in the world, and raising a pet does not require emotional value.
If you believe such things, your life is over.
Unfortunately, parents are not ordinary elders and cannot be ignored. No matter how reluctant the middle-aged man is, he can only watch his parents pay the bill and do the unfortunate hard labor of carrying food.
After all, you can't let two elderly people in their sixties and seventies do the work. If they bump into something or fall, the money spent on hospital treatment can buy several meals of food.
Bad luck!
"Jingjing, I see a lot of elderly people buying rice. Do you think we should buy some too? I feel a little panicked."
The girl queuing behind him seemed to be sending a voice message to her friend, and He Junxia raised her eyebrows slightly.
Although we cannot completely believe what our elders say, based on He Junxia's experience in several disaster missions, stockpiling food is definitely the right thing to do.
"We eat takeout every day, why buy rice? Do you want to cook for yourself?"
The dissuasion from their good friends made the girls, who were already undecided, hesitate again. After all, with the frequency with which they ordered takeout, they would not be able to finish a bag of rice in half a year.
He Juanxia interjected, "You can buy some more snacks and instant noodles as a reward for yourself."
The girl was startled by his sudden words, but she relaxed when she saw that he was a handsome boy. She said a little embarrassedly, "No wonder you bought so many snacks."
He Juanxia: "Well, since they're all my favorite foods, I won't lose out no matter how much I buy."
The girl looked at the snacks in his car and suddenly understood the elderly people who were rushing to buy rice and noodles. Perhaps they had the same idea.
"Thanks, handsome."
The girl left the line and went straight to the snack section of the supermarket.
The child is teachable.
He Junxia, feeling happy for having saved a future unlucky person, hummed "Community" and left with four big bags.
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"Zhang Le, open the door."
"Damn it, Gengzi, you bought another—"
Zhang Le suddenly realized and swallowed the last few words. The building was not soundproof, and the walls might have ears.
They must not let their neighbors know that they are hoarding food, otherwise it will be troublesome if there is chaos in the future.
"The takeaway hasn't arrived yet. I was really hungry so I made two packets of instant noodles. Would you like to make one to fill your stomach first?"
"Not here yet?"
He Junxia put down the four plastic bags of astonishing weight, and deep red marks were left on the palms of his hands.
He opened the food delivery app to check the order details. The rider had been picking up the food for more than ten minutes, and the backend sent him several messages saying that the merchant had a huge number of orders.
That's strange.
A northern dumpling restaurant would actually be overwhelmed with orders during non-lunch hours. Even if the dumplings are truly handmade, there should be a certain amount of inventory.
What's more, the dumpling shop only sells 200 takeout orders per month, so the business is just barely enough.
Even if we add the orders from other food delivery apps, on average, there are only 20 to 30 orders a day, and most of them are concentrated at special times such as lunch and dinner.
Don’t ask how He Junxia knew this. The only thing he knew was that he used to be a delivery man and knew some inside information.
"Okay, I'll cook two packets too."
After a whole morning of hard work and several hours of work, He Junxia was a little hungry.
Making instant noodles is very simple. He doesn’t even need to boil water. He pours most of the hot water left in the kettle into the bowl and opens the instant noodle bag.
In less than two minutes, a bowl of instant noodles with good color, aroma and taste is freshly baked. It has the flavor of braised beef, not spicy but full of flavor.
Another half an hour passed, and the delivery man finally called, sounding helpless.
"The takeaway has arrived, come down and pick it up."
"I'll go."
Zhang Le, who was still not full after eating two bowls of instant noodles, immediately jumped up from the sofa and almost sprained his ankle.
"Oh my god, the dumplings are still fresh from the pot, and the box is hot."
Zhang Le rushed in, shouting and joking, carrying several large boxes of dumplings. "The driver said that many takeaway vendors are doing extremely good business today. They are really in trouble."
He Juanxia raised an eyebrow: "Are all takeaway vendors doing well?"
Zhang Le: "Yeah, that's strange. Today isn't a special day. Wait, maybe it's because of the black sun that some people are afraid to go out and are just ordering takeout."
He Junxia pondered: "It's possible."
However, he was more inclined to another hypothesis - the emergence of the black sun caused some hidden changes in the human body, resulting in a huge increase in human appetite.
For example, Zhang Le, even though he had just finished two extra bags of instant noodles, his eyes were still full of desire when he received the dumpling takeaway.
He Juanxia: "You eat first, I'm not very hungry. I'll go pack up the things I bought."
Zhang Le: “OK”
Zhang Le couldn't wait to open the takeaway box and ate one dumpling at a time without even dipping it in the condiments, enjoying it with gusto.
By the time He Junxia sorted the snacks and dried fruits she had bought, Zhang Le had already happily eaten forty dumplings and finally burped.
He Juanxia: "Are you full?"
Zhang Le: "Almost. I feel like I can eat a few more, but eating too much won't make me feel comfortable. I'm going to take a nap."
He Junxia stopped him and said, "Wait a while before sleeping. Someone over there ate too much and fell asleep, and ended up with his trachea blocked by food and died."
Zhang Le couldn't understand: "Can you die from this?!"
He Juanxia nodded: "You ate two large bags of instant noodles and forty dumplings. You should sit for a while before going to sleep."
Zhang Le didn't quite believe that people could die from overeating. But thinking about his good brother being a reborn being, and knowing last night that Xie Qiang and Brother Li had plotted against him, he decided to be obedient and sit on the sofa to play with his phone for a while.
It’s no big deal to sit for half an hour anyway.
Facts proved that He Junxia's suggestion was very correct. Only twenty minutes later, Zhang Le was holding his stomach and feeling uncomfortable.
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