Unit 2, Room 904, Lu Family.
Grandpa Lu's wife happily rendered the pound of pork fat that her husband and daughter-in-law had brought back into oil.
Then cut off the lean meat from another pound of pork belly, cut off half of the fatty part, and stewed it with the potatoes sent by the Xu family.
The other half of the pork belly is kept in the refrigerator.
Although electricity is only available from noon to 4 pm each day, her family also has solar power generation equipment, so their refrigerator won't run out of power.
The lean meat was cut into strips, and Old Lady Lu specially set aside some for the refrigerator. The rest was used to make half a pot of lean meat soup. Then, she mixed flour with whole grain flour and made a few pancakes to eat with the lean meat soup.
Once the soup was ready, she first served a large bowl to her granddaughter and daughter-in-law, and then ladled most of the lean meat from the pot into their bowls as well.
Next, she scooped all the remaining lean meat from the pot into her husband's bowl, while her own bowl only contained half a bowl of lean meat soup.
Seeing this, Leng Jia quickly used her chopsticks to pick out half of the lean meat from her bowl and put it into her mother-in-law's bowl.
"Jiajia, what are you doing? I'm already so old, I don't go out to work anymore, why would I eat meat?"
Seeing her mother-in-law about to put more lean meat from her bowl into hers, Leng Jiajia said, "Mom, it's precisely because you're getting older that you need to eat well and nourish your body! Besides, you take care of An'an and do housework every day at home; you do just as much work as we do outside!"
Old Mrs. Lu was a bit stubborn. Even after hearing her daughter-in-law say that, she still refused to eat the lean meat that her daughter-in-law had put into her bowl.
Seeing that her mother-in-law was still trying to put the lean meat from her bowl into hers, Leng Jia pretended to be angry and said, "Mom, this lean meat was bought for everyone to eat together. If you don't eat it, I won't eat it either!"
Grandpa Lu used his chopsticks to pick up two pieces of lean meat from his bowl and put them into his granddaughter's bowl. Then he said to his wife, "This is the child's filial piety, eat up!"
For the next week, the Xu family, Xiao family, and Lu family agreed to go out every day to search for the steel protective netting in uninhabited houses and sell it to Chen Cheng, the middleman.
Over time, their lucrative business was noticed by other people who were making a living outside.
This business spread like wildfire, and soon a business selling second-hand steel wire mesh sprang up in City C.
However, most families do not own cars and rely solely on manpower, so their search for steel protective netting is far less successful than that of Xu Lai and his team.
In the past two weeks, the Xu, Xiao, and Lu families have each earned approximately five thousand work points.
With this large sum of work points, they would go to the district government's supermarket every night before returning home to buy the daily quota of grain.
If you're lucky enough to find someone selling pork or chicken, you'll buy some extra meat to improve your diet.
The Xu family had stored grain in their space. When she saw the Xiao and Lu families discussing storing grain, she made an excuse that she had previously bought a batch from Chen Cheng.
"Lai Lai, does this Mr. Chen also sell grain? Why don't you ask him again? My family also wants to stock up on some more grain!"
When Li Qingya heard that Chen Cheng was also selling grain, her eyes lit up.
Grandpa Lu and his daughter-in-law Leng Jia took the opportunity to exchange all the work points they had earned during this period for grain in Chen Cheng.
Two days ago, Xiao Rui went home on his leave and brought back some news: the soldiers had discovered mutated poisonous rats while exploring the nests of mutated red ants.
The mutated rats were each larger than a cat, and their nests were located beneath the mutated red poison ants.
Furthermore, the military personnel sent a mutated rat, which they had captured using special methods, to the relevant government zoological department for testing. In addition to the presence of the ancient glacial virus in its blood, which was the same as that found in the mutated red ants, its saliva also carried a highly toxic substance.
Moreover, Xu Lai knew that this thing was much smarter than the mutated red poison ants.
She remembered that during her freshman year, there were rats in her dormitory at school, and her roommate Li Lan's brand-name shoes were chewed up by the rats.
When she found out, she was furious and said she would buy rat poison to kill the stinky rat that was biting her shoes.
As a result, after she fell asleep that night, the mouse sneaked onto the bed and bit her foot.
Li Lan even got several vaccinations for this.
At the time, Li Lai even looked up the intelligence of rats online.
It is said that an adult mouse has the intelligence of an eight-year-old child, so a highly intelligent mouse can actually understand what people say.
Moreover, there are many other cases online of rats that, after hearing people say they should be poisoned, secretly take revenge on humans.
Now that these mutated poisonous rats have appeared, if they were to attack humans at close range, humans would only have death to live on.
For the safety of the people, the government sent a notification to the public via text message when it announced the existence of mutated poisonous rats.
Unfortunately, before the notice was issued, two brothers who were scavenging for survival encountered two mutated poisonous rats that had run out of a rat hole underground.
Seeing this, the two brothers quickly made some simple modifications to an iron cage they had found while scavenging, broke off two pieces of their lunch—a multigrain pancake—and put them into the cage. Then they placed the cage in the spot where the mutated rats had appeared.
At this time, food was scarce in the wild. The two mutated rats, who had not yet found food, suddenly smelled the aroma of food and followed the scent to the cage where the food was placed.
However, the two mutated rats were quite cautious; they circled the cage for a long time.
After a series of squeaking sounds, as if they had discussed it, one of the larger mutated rats took the lead in keeping watch at the cage entrance, while the smaller rat cautiously and slowly crawled into the cage.
As a result, the mutated rat waiting in the cage, seeing that there was no danger, started biting the food placed in the cage.
The movement of the grain cake triggered the thin rope tied to it, which in turn controlled the iron cage door.
The iron cage door slammed shut. The mutated rat inside, clutching the multigrain cake with its forelegs, stopped eating and tried with all its might to squeeze out of the cage.
The mutated rat guarding the cage entrance squeaked loudly and rammed against the cage door, trying to break it open.
"Brother, there's a fat rat in this cage!"
The short, dark-skinned, skinny man standing not far away excitedly said to the tall, dark-skinned, skinny man next to him.
The tall, thin, dark-skinned man looked at the larger, fatter rat still attacking the cage door from outside and felt a little sorry for it.
"Little brother, let's grab the stones, sneak up on the cage, and smash that big rat to death!"
The short, dark-skinned, and thin man nodded repeatedly in agreement.
Such a fat and big rat, it's all meat!
The two brothers, who hadn't eaten meat for almost half a year, actually started drooling over the two rats.
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