Chapter 79 - instant rice sequelae

Standing in the warehouse, Wei Xuan looked carefully at the whole room under the dim light.

This place is obviously a transit warehouse, with cardboard boxes piled up one after another, almost reaching the ceiling. No matter from the outside packaging or some empty boxes scattered on the floor of the room, the products here clearly indicate their identity—instant rice!

The so-called instant rice is a convenience food consisting of a box of rice and a portion of vacuum-packed cooked vegetables. Needless to say, the side dishes in this kind of food are all dishes with different tastes and relatively strong tastes developed by different manufacturers, but most of them taste good. The rice is either raw or cooked depending on the choice of the manufacturer. In comparison, raw rice has a longer shelf life, while cooked rice has a shorter shelf life.

These instant rice can be differentiated according to the way of eating. Some of them come with a heating bag inside. After opening, put the rice and vegetables on the box and it will be automatically heated. It is suitable for camping or in places without microwave ovens or steamers. The other kind does not have a heating bag, and needs to be heated in a microwave oven and a steamer when eating.

All the ones that Wei Xuan found in the warehouse where he lived were self-heating bags, which were convenient and especially suitable for him to take a few with him to solve his food problems when he went out. .

Looking around, the box containing rice in this room is about a quarter empty, and it should be those two guys who took it from here. After all, although there are a lot of things here, but because of the large size, when there is no car to carry them, one person can move at most one box at a time, and it is really impossible to carry any more.

But at this time, Wei Xuan’s attention was not on the taste of the rice, he went directly to a box that had already been opened and there were still a lot of boxes left that hadn’t been taken away, and carefully checked the production date on it, the result was very gratifying—” It was shipped in April this year, and the shelf life is actually 270 days, nine months?!”

He bought another brand of non-self-heating instant rice in the supermarket before. If I remember correctly, the shelf life of that kind of rice seems to be only about half a year? If it was that kind of rice, it would have expired by now, but now these things can last at least until January next year!

Wei Xuan couldn’t help but put a smile on his face. Although these things have expired, they can still be eaten for a certain period of time after the expiration date, but the safety cannot be guaranteed by then. And he is not someone who can’t find food at all, and is so hungry that he even eats grass roots and bark. His family has potatoes and carrots, so even if he can’t find these things, he can still make ends meet, so he can’t afford to take such a risk. But if you can find food that hasn’t expired, it’s always good to improve the food!

“Braised beef in soy sauce, curry chicken, fish-flavored shredded pork, stewed pork rice, pickled pork with preserved vegetables, black pepper beef, Kung Pao chicken, shredded pork with pickled vegetables… There are so many varieties!” Wei Xuan glanced at the surrounding boxes. According to the printed handwriting, it was found that the variety of this brand was much richer than that of another brand he had bought before.

Since there are so many types to choose from, he will not be polite!

People who have been here before seem to have taken some of every flavor after discovering here, so the boxes that were opened around basically have every flavor, but obviously, the number of fish-flavored shredded pork that was taken away seems to be is the most. So, either this taste is the best, or people who come to get instant rice prefer this taste.

No matter what happens, since I came here once, I naturally try to take away everything I need. So Wei Xuan quickly took off Du Hang and his backpack, emptied them, and stuffed them with various flavors of rice first.

For the eight flavors, Wei Xuan first took out ten of each and began to stuff them into his backpack. What made him more upset was that this thing was really big! It is bigger and heavier than the brand he bought before!

Of course, the weight of this thing is not a problem, but the size is really a headache. So Wei Xuan looked at the sky outside, and simply took all the things he was going to carry to a brighter place, and sat side by side with Du Hang on the ground to unpack the boxes.

He disassembled at least half of the heat packs and outer boxes of the instant rice that he needed to take away into the empty box—something that can also be heated in the microwave. This would save a lot of space.

Sure enough, after removing the unnecessary parts, the eighty boxes were easily stuffed into the backpack. After confirming that the inner packaging of the rice was intact and that the production dates were the same, Wei Xuan took out a few more from the side of the backpack. A bag, and then filled four bags with several flavors of rice that I am interested in comparing prices, ready to take home together.

He only planned to come to this place once. Firstly, the things here were not his own, and those two guys would come here to take some back for dinner. The second reason is that because of the shelf life problem, if you take too much, you can’t eat it. Thirdly, he didn’t want to come here often, for fear of encountering other survivors.

Meeting those two lunatics was no big deal—everyone already knew each other anyway. But there is also the matter of instant rice here. Maybe other survivors in the city know something about it. It is already troublesome to meet those two guys, and I don’t want to encounter any accidents with other people.

Therefore, whether it is here or the place where he will go to pick up the cans later, he is only going to go there once.

After packing up all the things that needed to be brought, Wei Xuan piled the two bulging bags and four bags by the wall, and looked around the room again with some emotion—he had already taken all these things away. There is a lot of rice, but there are still a lot of things left here. Can they be eaten up before their expiry date so as not to be wasted?

Fortunately, those two guys should be the first to discover them, so let them solve these things by themselves.

“Take a nap and go home in the dark at night.” Patting the two bulging bags that were as big as hills, Wei Xuan leaned against Du Hang’s side as a pillow on his lap, wrapped in a blanket.

Now I and Du Hang can’t carry such a conspicuous big bag on their backs, otherwise it would be too conspicuous if anyone can see the vicinity, it’s better to stay here until dark and act.

Facts have proved that people’s luck will not be so bad every time, and Wei Xuan doesn’t have the strange physique of encountering survivors every time he goes out. So this time, he took advantage of the night to carry the big and small bags and lead Du Hang, and returned home very smoothly.

When the dawn light illuminated the hut where he and Du Hang lived, the instant rice that Wei Xuan brought back after so much hard work had just come out of the oven. The hot rice, the delicious dishes, the taste that he hadn’t tasted for a long time, was a bit greasy. But it was an endless aftertaste…it really made Wei Xuan almost swallow his own tongue.

To be honest, no matter how well cooked instant rice is, it cannot be as delicious as the dishes in real restaurants, especially rice. Most of the cooked rice in instant rice has a mediocre taste. The taste of the dishes is also far less authentic than what Wei Xuan ate in restaurants before the end of the world. But such a convenient finished product and familiar taste still made him almost shed tears—”Sure enough, fresh meat is not the same as dried meat…”

At the beginning of the end of the world, Wei Xuan collected a lot of fresh meat, sausages and hams, and dried them all in the sun. When he had the opportunity, he would soak one to improve his meals.

However, after all, those are dried meats that are far beyond the level of bacon, especially the way he handles those meats is not authentic, so even if they are soaked and then used, the taste is definitely not as good as real bacon and air-dried meat. What’s more, his own cooking skills are relatively ordinary. How can he make delicious food that is often eaten before the end of the world without ingredients?

Therefore, after eating this kind of finished dish now, even if its taste is not authentic, it is still enough to move people, not to mention that the taste of this thing is actually not bad?

Putting aside the box of preserved vegetables and braised meat that he dropped in seconds, there was still a smell in it that made him reluctant to part. Wei Xuan resisted the urge to open another one, and tried hard to control his thoughts of going to that warehouse to get it again.

Some things should not be too greedy, what is yours is yours, and what is not yours don’t worry too much. Those two people are willing to share those things with themselves, but they can’t be too greedy. Everyone leaves a glimmer of hope and some space for each other In order to ensure the harmony among each other.

Not to mention that there might be other survivors going there?

Taking a few deep breaths, Wei Xuan wandered around the room for a few times, and then pulled Du Hang directly to bed, so that he can’t be out of sight! In case I couldn’t restrain the urge to eat those rices when I saw them again, I really ate them all in one go, and then I should cry by myself…

Perhaps it was the sequelae caused by the box of preserved vegetables and braised pork that he ate before falling asleep. Wei Xuan, who hadn’t been particularly entangled in food before, actually ate it all night in his dreams.

First, I dreamed that I went to the Seafood City with my colleagues, and ordered almost all the edible food in the sea until I couldn’t walk. Then he dreamed that he was still going to a Sichuan restaurant or a Shandong restaurant with this group of colleagues who couldn’t see their faces clearly… At the moment before waking up from the dream, Wei Xuan still clearly remembered that he was holding an elbow and not letting go, and his colleagues were holding wine glasses I insisted on pouring myself alcohol, but I gnawed my elbow and said to my colleagues, “I’ll drink this after eating”…

Opening his eyes in a daze, what he saw was Du Hang’s familiar face and his still dazed eyes.

Wei Xuan blinked his eyes first, then sighed: “Hey… I can’t stay at home anymore, wait until it gets dark, and take advantage of this energy to go to Warehouse Street again!” Yes, otherwise he would have to go to Warehouse Street when he was at home Thinking about those instant rice, let’s go to Warehouse Street first and bring back some canned fruit to adjust it…