Silicon Invasion

The uncle loudly called for his wife to come and watch the stall, then enthusiastically led Luo Rui into the house behind.

The house was a bit messy, but still fairly clean. Several foam boxes were piled in one corner, and three freezers stood in another. Along the wall, there were some shelves made of bamboo poles.

Hanging on them were rows of sausages, curing in the wind.

"Hehe, little brother, take a look, these are all freshly made. If you don't like these, we can make them with fresh meat, just charging you for labor and seasonings."

Luo Rui followed the uncle's gesture and saw that the sausages were at least of two types, one black and the other red.

"Uncle, what's the difference between these two types?"

"Hehe, the black ones are traditional sausages, which take a long time to dry. In the summer, because the temperature is high, the quality isn't as authentic, but they're still okay to eat."

Luo Rui knew this type of sausage. His mother made at least ten catties of it every day, drying it outside in the winter until it was as hard as a club. After steaming, it was sliced, but it wasn't very tasty, too salty, and you couldn't eat much of it in one meal. Luo Rui, at least, couldn't stand it.

If the authentic ones were already so unpalatable, these inauthentic ones probably wouldn't be much better. The black ones were all dyed with soy sauce. Luo Rui ate ten or twenty catties in one sitting, and that much salt wouldn't be good for him.

"What about the red ones?"

"Hehe, these are roasted sausages. After marinating for two days, they can be roasted in the oven for ten minutes. The taste is absolutely amazing, guaranteed to make you want more after just one bite."

The uncle rubbed his hands together. These were indeed delicious and you could eat a lot of them. Once you got hooked, it was easy to sell them. If this young boss liked them, it would be another source of income.

Even if it wasn't much, it was stable.

"Do you have any ready-made ones? Let me try some."

"Yes, yes."

The uncle took a bag from a foam box, found a small plate, and sliced a few pieces of roasted sausage while chattering: "We have spicy and non-spicy options, and the flavor can be adjusted."

Luo Rui nodded, picked up a slice, and put it in his mouth. Suddenly, his eyes lit up. The taste was indeed good. The lean red meat was a bit dry, but the fatty white meat emitted an extra fragrance.

For Luo Rui, whose food intake had increased sharply, the taste of food was secondary to becoming stronger, but if he could reward his taste buds while getting stronger, that would be even better.

"Can you roast these for me?" The small base had a microwave, but no oven. Besides, buying a small oven could only roast a few sausages at a time. If he wanted to roast a hundred catties, he didn't know how long that would take. Luo Rui didn't have that much time to babysit it.

"Alas, the taste of these is much worse when they're cold. It's best to roast and eat them fresh." The uncle indicated that what Luo Rui was eating now wasn't the peak of flavor, but seeing Luo Rui hesitate, he immediately added: "Helping you roast them is no problem, but it will cost extra, and the weight will definitely shrink after roasting. One catty of meat will probably yield seven liang."

"Okay, do you have any ready-made ones? Weigh some for me first, and then make 200 catties more." Luo Rui nodded, indicating his understanding. Meat and seasonings contain water, and some of it evaporates during roasting, so the weight would definitely decrease.

"How much?" The uncle was surprised. Although his stall sold thousands of catties of meat a day, 200 catties wasn't much, but it was rare for someone to order so much at once. Moreover, the sausage casings, seasonings, and roasting were the key, and the profit from these was even more than from five hundred catties of meat.

"200 catties, plus these, is that okay?"

"Yes, that's absolutely fine, little brother, you're generous." The uncle gave Luo Rui a thumbs up and upgraded his title from 'little brother' to 'brother'.

The meat stall didn't have many cooked roasted sausages, but there were about fifty catties of raw ones. Luo Rui packed them all up. He had also figured out how to deal with these raw ones. He would get some more power strips, run them all the way to the sixth-floor corridor, and then move the pot over to steam them.

Anyway, the entire unit belonged to his family, and there were no outsiders. By the time the smell passed through all the barriers and reached the outside, there probably wouldn't be much left.

Doing this occasionally shouldn't be a big problem.

He took a taxi back to the residential area and first brought the meat to the basement, being careful on the way. At this time, the old men and women in the area had finished their dinner and were cooling off outside.

Yesterday's incident in Building 6 had caused a lot of noise, and the police had even come. Luo Rui was approaching the scene of the crime with these big and small packages, and if he wasn't careful, the police might come again in a while.

He put the things in the corridor. The developer had already laid the floor here. Although Luo Rui had asked the boss to put several bags on the roasted sausages, if there was a leak, the marble floor would be easier to clean than the cement floor in the house.

He took out one of the smaller bags, about ten catties, to take back and let his parents try, and to release some of the smell, giving the residents of the area a heads-up.

Back home, his father had already returned. He had recently become obsessed with short videos and was fiddling with his fishing gear in the house, seemingly teaching people how to tie fishing lines.

His mother was cooking, and Luo Rui thought his father was really carefree, actually letting his mother into the kitchen.

His mother was very happy with the roasted sausages Luo Rui brought back. Wasn't this perfect? She was just worrying about what to make for dinner. She had no problem with the simple task of roasting sausages.

While his mother was cooking, Luo Rui quickly finished his homework for the day. Since he had already previewed the lessons during the summer vacation, he had finished the math and physics, which required thinking, at school. The rest was just copying from books, which would take a little time.

Fortunately, his mother wasn't very fast, and Luo Rui even finished his homework and had time to browse the news before eating dinner. He didn't know why a few roasted sausages took so long to prepare.

After finishing dinner as quickly as possible, Luo Rui said goodbye to his parents and rushed to the small base. Going to the market today had already taken up some time, and he had to hurry up with his practice.

Moreover, he could eat some more. The small base had yesterday's boiled meat, which could be heated up and eaten. If that didn't work, the cold ones would do. He also needed to prepare the raw roasted sausages for tomorrow's rations.

It took more than an hour to fill his stomach, and he ran back and forth several times to set up the 'processing center' in the sixth-floor corridor. The electricity was also connected with a dozen power strips.

Fortunately, Luo Rui's personality was to be prepared for anything, like a groundhog. Whenever he encountered something useful, he liked to stock up on it, like if he had two good mobile phone charging cables, he would have to buy five more.

After buying the appliances last time, Luo Rui felt that there weren't enough power strips. Only the basement had electricity, and the other locations had to be powered by power strips. So he turned around and bought more than twenty online, not expecting them to come in handy so quickly.