The matter of Zhu Minghan has come to an end. The people in District 3 who participated in the torture and killing of Zhu Minghan have all received their due punishment. If this were before the apocalypse, this kind of news would definitely be explosive. However, it seems that this incident only caused a sensation in the city on the day someone died. After that, people went about their business as if nothing had happened!
This left Lu Yuan speechless. A punishment of fifty kilograms of rice for each person? What kind of nonsense was this? It seemed that the higher-ups preferred to see this outcome.
Influenced by this pig farm, leaders from various provinces and municipalities began discussions on how to minimize losses in the face of the mutated rat infestation.
After heated discussions, local authorities passed an important bill: all live poultry and livestock must be slaughtered to prevent the mutated rats from surviving! The rats would be forced to leave without food and be eradicated.
Soon, slaughterhouses across the country began to carry out genocidal slaughter of various poultry and livestock. For a time, people in various places seemed to see a new dawn. There were a lot of these live poultry and livestock. If they were all slaughtered at once, people would be able to eat meat at least for the foreseeable future.
As expected, after two weeks of slaughter, the number of live poultry and livestock in various regions has basically reached zero. Of course, this excludes some uncooperative individuals and some families who are reluctant to slaughter their livestock.
Lu Yuan carried a canvas bag and joined the queue to buy some meat. Although he raised pigs, cattle and sheep in his dimensional space, he still needed to buy some of these things, especially since money would be basically useless in a while. Spending it now would reduce his losses.
He still had a little over a million yuan left, which was the last bit of money he had left after exchanging several gold bars before the apocalypse. However, it would be quite difficult to spend all of it.
Although meat prices are very high, reaching over ten thousand yuan per kilogram, it still couldn't stop the frenzied demand. On the first day, several hundred kilograms of various meats were sold along with grains, but they were all snapped up in less than an hour.
It was only later that they discovered that Song Heng had received the news early on and secretly used all his family's money to buy more than 100 jin of pork, which infuriated the people who were queuing up to buy meat later.
Lu Yuan received the news quite late, and by the time he arrived, the meat was already sold out. So he could only wait until the next day to buy some meat earlier.
However, when they arrived the next day, they found that they seemed to be late again. Many people had stayed overnight in front of the supermarket in order to be able to eat meat, waiting for the meat truck to arrive the next day so they could buy it immediately.
"Holy crap! What's going on?! Isn't this meat expensive? Why are so many people buying it?!"
Chen Ke stood behind Lu Yuan with a wry smile and said, "It's been so long since we've had meat. We finally managed to buy some, so of course we're going to buy as much as we can!"
"Is this meat safe? Will it have any viruses?" Lu Yuan was a little scared after the last lesson, worried that this meat might be infected with a virus again.
Chen Ke smiled.
"Brother, haven't you seen the news? Now everyone at all the farms has to sign a document saying that if any of their meat contains the virus, they'll be shot on the spot. Who would dare to do anything underhanded? And every time a pig, cow, sheep, or other poultry is slaughtered, the first piece of meat has to be tested. If any piece of meat contains the virus, then none of the poultry on the entire farm can be sold!"
Lu Yuan suddenly realized.
"I knew these people were buying meat so confidently; I didn't realize they were under such tight surveillance! That's actually a good thing!"
As they were talking, they heard the roar of a car engine in the distance. People immediately rushed over, waving their bank cards, cell phones, and banknotes.
However, Lu Yuan was still unlucky this time. Just when it was almost his turn to line up, the supermarket employee shrugged and said that they were sold out!
"Damn it! Why is your family buying so much meat? It's almost Chinese New Year!"
After saying that, Lu Yuan sighed and prepared to leave this sad place. Chen Ke saw this and quickly stopped him, saying, "Aren't you going to wait? You'll be the first one to buy meat tomorrow!"
Lu Yuan smiled. He would have to be out of his mind to wait here all night to buy this meat. All the poultry and livestock at home eat pollution-free green fodder and are all big and strong. Why would he want to eat this pork that smells like feed? It's infuriating!
So when Lu Yuan got home, he took a whole rack of ribs out of the refrigerator and started to thaw it.
While the ice was thawing, I took out my phone and dialed Xiaoshan's number.
"Xiao Shan, bring your aunt and uncle to my house for lunch! I'm going to show you what I can cook today!" Lu Yuan said angrily.
"Hmm? What's wrong? Who made our Factory Director Lu angry again?" Xiao Shan joked.
"Ugh! Don't even mention it! I waited in line for hours today, and just when it was my turn, they were sold out of meat! I've decided to have a proper lunch! Sweet and sour pork ribs or braised pork ribs, you decide!"
"Haha! Why would you, a rich guy, fight with them? I'll eat sweet and sour pork ribs!"
"Okay! Don't forget to call Auntie and Uncle! I made a lot today!"
After chatting for a while, Lu Yuan hung up the phone, rushed into the kitchen, put on his battle robe and apron, and wielded a large cleaver to chop the thawed ribs into small pieces. Then he added water to a pot, heated it up, put the ribs in it to stew, skimmed off the foam, and took out the ribs.
Heat oil in a wok, add a few rock sugar pieces, then add scallions, ginger, garlic, star anise, chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, and other seasonings and stir-fry until fragrant.
With a "boom," the ribs burst into flames as soon as they were put into the pot. Lu Yuan gently extinguished the flames with the lid and began to stir-fry.
High-end ingredients often require only the simplest cooking methods. After working for two hours, Chef Lu lifted the lid of the pot and looked at the pot of ribs that had been boiled dry, and he was on the verge of tears.
"Does that mean I'm really not suited to be a chef? No!"
Lu Yuan raised his head and shouted, expressing his true feelings, but the smell of smoke in the kitchen still attracted his grandmother.
"Xiao Yuan! What are you doing?"
"Um...cooking!"
What dishes did you make?
Sweet and sour pork ribs!
"Where are the spare ribs?"
"That's what's in the pot..."
"Hey! Don't joke around, kid. You can't put charcoal in a pot to burn!"
After saying that, Grandma used her chopsticks to pick out the ribs, but when she saw the pile of white bones, she burst out laughing.
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