Apocalypse: I have a supermarket stocked with supplies
Chapter 291: Boil noodles and slurp noodles

Chapter 291: Boil noodles and slurp noodles

Su Yinhe was left alone in the chaotic wind.

Understanding politeness is good, but sometimes people don’t need to be too polite.

Su Yinhe touched her chest, feeling a bit like she had a heart attack.

Su Yinhe had a heart attack, while Su Linglong and Su An, carrying the noodles, were actually very happy.

So happy that they almost walked and sang at the same time.

"Mom, we can eat noodles now, right?" Su An asked, drooling as he spoke.

"Yes, we can eat several bowls now," Su Linglong said, getting hungry herself as she talked.

She wanted to eat noodles too.

For them at that moment, even plain boiled noodles were a delicacy.

"But how do we cook them?" Su An knew that cooking noodles required a pot, and needed fire.

"That’s easy." They could still find a pot, as people had lived nearby.

If they searched carefully, they would find one.

As the saying goes, perseverance pays off, and after a thorough search, they indeed found a pot.

It’s just...

The pot was a bit dusty.

Luckily, Su Linglong was a Water Element Superpower User, and the water she could produce, although not plentiful, was enough to wash the pot.

First, they dumped out the ashes inside the pot.

Then they slowly cleaned it.

However, getting firewood was somewhat difficult.

But they managed that too, albeit with difficulty.

Then, they began to cook the noodles.

While waiting for the noodles, they watched the boiling pot with an attitude of utmost sincerity.

"Mom, it smells so good." Su An watched the tumbling noodles and the rising white mist, inhaling deeply through his nose.

"I think it smells delicious too. Don’t rush, we’ll get to eat very soon," Su Linglong said, drooling herself.

She told Su An not to rush, but in reality, she was the most anxious.

She was truly in a hurry.

But she was an adult now, she needed to remain calm and comfort the child.

"But it really smells so good." Su An really wanted to eat, he had been hungry for a long time.

"Yes... it does smell good." Su Linglong stared intently at the noodles in the pot, unwilling to even blink.

The noodles smelled fragrant, that inherent scent of the noodles themselves, not very strong, but very tempting.

Actually, the noodles didn’t take long to cook, but for them, the wait felt like an eternity.

Finally, the noodles were ready. They had only found a pot, nothing else, but they had carved their own chopsticks. Without bowls, they just ate directly from the pot.

The two of them started slurping the noodles.

The noodles were very hot, scalding their tongues as they ate them.

They stuck out their tongues from the heat, but neither of them wanted to spit out the food in their mouths; they just kept eating despite the burning.

"Mom, this is so delicious," Su An said contently.

"If it’s good, eat more," Su Linglong didn’t quite understand why her son was taking the time to express his thoughts. Shouldn’t he be hurrying to eat as much as possible?

Su An only made that one remark, then buried his head and continued to slurp the noodles.

A large pot of noodles was devoured cleanly by the mother and child, even the noodle soup was drunk to the last drop.

When Su Linglong cooked the noodles, it was just noodles and water, not even salt.

Such noodles were actually very bland and tasteless, but for them, it was already a rare delicacy.

"Are you full?" After finishing the noodle soup, Su Linglong asked Su An.

Su An touched his stomach and honestly shook his head.

"Then let’s cook another pot." Su Linglong wasn’t full either, only about half full.

Seeing that her son wasn’t full either, she felt completely justified and started cooking noodles again.

This time, she purposefully cooked a little more.

Because they had already eaten once and had something in their stomachs, the wait didn’t seem long for them this time.

When they ate again, they finally had the time to slow down and savor the food without gobbling it down.

Chewing carefully, they could appreciate the deliciousness of the noodles even more.

There was a very special flavor to it.

By the end, both mother and son were stuffed.

But they couldn’t bear to waste any of it, so despite feeling full, they still pushed themselves to stuff more food into their bellies.

Not even the broth was spared.

They knew they could afford to be wasteful with it, but they just couldn’t bring themselves to do it.

They truly couldn’t bear to waste even a bit of the noodle soup.

During their most difficult times, if only they had had a bowl of this broth.

Su Linglong was a Water Element Superpower User and didn’t lack water, but she was truly in dire need of food.

Su Linglong had also once sold her body for a bite to eat, her goal was always clear, to stay alive.

In this era, purity was really not worth mentioning.

For her, sleeping with a man in exchange for a chance to survive was very much worth it.

Su Linglong carried herself with openness and honesty.

However, she didn’t want Su An to know.

Su An was just a child and shouldn’t know too much.

A child needed to learn something very simple, how to survive better in this world.

He could learn more skills to stay alive, but he shouldn’t be exposed to this.

Su Linglong thought she had kept it well hidden.

But what she didn’t know was that children of this era matured exceptionally early, and the things she thought she had hidden well, Su An knew all about them, crystal clear.

But Su An was a sensible kid; he knew Su Linglong didn’t want him to know too much, especially not this, so he pretended to be oblivious.

Su Linglong trusted him completely; he barely had to act, and she had no doubts at all.

She had never suspected that her son, at such a young age, could understand so much.

Su An really did understand a lot, but he often acted as if he didn’t.

He knew his mother liked to see him innocent, hoping he was a carefree child.

He wasn’t, but he wanted to make his mother happy, so he was willing to pretend to be what she liked.

He was very good at that.

Really.

Every time he pretended, his mother never doubted him.

As he pretended time and again, sometimes even he started to believe it.

He occasionally imagined the world his mother spoke of, one that had never suffered from a disaster, a world he had never seen, hard to imagine, but he still gave it some serious thought.

It must have been beautiful.

But he hadn’t seen it; no matter how much he imagined, it was limited.

However, the existence of the supermarket gave him a glimpse of the prosperity and beauty before the apocalypse.

The mother and son had white water-boiled noodles for several days in a row.

They hid the noodles and the pot somewhere, then went out to hunt zombies and extract Crystal Cores. When mealtime came around, they would return to eat their white water-boiled noodles.

Even though it was white water-boiled noodles for three meals a day, none of them grew tired of it.

Su An thought that noodles were the most delicious thing in the world.

He loved white water-boiled noodles.

However, Su Linglong felt that, while the noodles were tasty, there were so many things in the supermarket, and now that they had so many Crystal Cores, they should exchange them for something different.

To give her son a chance to know that there were other delicious things in the world.

Besides, they still owed the shop owner a debt; before, they had no choice, they were too poor, having nothing, not even their dignity could be preserved.

But now that they had Crystal Cores, the shop owner wasn’t running a charity; they couldn’t let him suffer a loss.

It was just a question of whether these Crystal Cores would be enough.