The chefs and kitchen workers are not prisoners, but employees of GEO Company, they are ordinary people with good personalities, because Li Du is here to teach them how to make soup, so they treat Li Du and the four people very friendly.

GEO is a well-known private prison company in the United States, which undertakes a lot of prison business, and even some prisons are managed by them.

Private prisons are a feature of the United States, because prison expenses have become a huge financial burden on the government, and the government has gradually outsourced prisons.

According to a report by the Bureau of Prisons, in 2010, the United States spent $48.5 billion on the prison labor camp.

$48.5 billion is a lot, but the United States has more prisoners, and the number is increasing rapidly, so the money is not enough.

According to Li Du, the total number of prisoners in the United States exceeds 2.2 million, and one in every 110 adults is serving a prison sentence.

He knew this number because he had seen a very interesting report about the chaos in American prisons:

In order to save money, California either exports prisoners to other states for detention, or releases prisoners early because the prisons are overcrowded, and there are even too many death row prisoners who have to wait in line for the death penalty......

He recalls these things, and the process of resting the noodles is over, and the next process is familiar to the chefs: pressing the noodles, making the noodles with a noodle machine, steaming the noodles, and finally putting them in a pan to fry.

When frying noodles, you have to use low temperature, so the stove needs to be switched on and off again and again, and Li Du is so mysterious in this link that the chefs think that the oil temperature must be strictly controlled.

After sifting off the oil and drying it in this way, what comes out is a simple version of instant noodles.

The chefs tasted it and gave Li Du a thumbs up: "Oriental cooking is amazing!"

Li Duxian put it up: "Can you still make it into a variety of flavors, if you want to eat spicy noodles, add spicy sauce to them, add tomato sauce if you want to eat tomato, or add sugar if you want to eat sweet." ”

The cooks nodded, and the white chef with blue eyes and big nose patted him on the shoulder and said, "I will definitely say good things for you in front of the Priest Warden, you have solved a big problem in the prison." ”

Li Du smiled: "What kind of problem is this?"

The head cook shook his head and said, "You don't know, young man, you'll know later, your food in prison is very poor." ”

That's why kitchen work is so popular with prisoners.

Because of the small amount allocated, the Miami prison had to reduce the food specifications of the inmates.

In the past, the prison provided three hot meals a day, but now it has become two hot meals and one cold meal a day on weekdays, and on weekends prisoners are only allowed to eat two meals a day.

This is not a Miami prison that privately withholds prisoners' food, it is being done all over the United States, and the purpose is not to save money, but to punish prisoners for their crimes in society.

As a result, many prisoners who do a lot of daily labor and physical exercise are simply unable to get enough energy from such a quantity and quality of food.

So the prisoners liked to work in the kitchen, although they were tired, but they could take the opportunity to eat something they wanted to eat, and some of the big-bellied prisoners would even save several meals together to eat again in order to be full.

He was dumbfounded by what the chefs told Li Du, because the United States always advertised that its country had many human rights, and in the propaganda, it introduced prisoners, saying that prisoners could move freely, read and study in prison.

Obviously, the reality is not so good.

He told the chefs what he was talking about, and the cooks laughed: "You think so well, young man, you can't commit a crime if you want to enjoy human rights, and if you commit a crime, you can wait for bad luck." ”

A chef showed him the frozen meat pulled out of the freezer, which was stored in a cardboard box, and the chef pointed to the top of the box, and Li Du looked at it, and there were words "not suitable for human consumption" on it!

Li Du and the four of them were full in the kitchen that day, the cooks and the prison guards opened a small stove, and Li Du and the four of them followed in the small stove, but the next day they were rejected by the kitchen.

The reason given by the chef was that they had learned how to make soup, but Li Du knew that it was not because Godzilla was too good at eating.

Yesterday they were eating at the small stove, and Godzilla made a hard meal and made all the sausages in the cooks' stockpile, which they ate for themselves!

However, Li Du instructed the chefs to make soup, which was still recognized by the prison guards.

When soup was served at noon that day, the prisoners were overjoyed.

They don't like to eat slippery noodles, fried instant noodles are delicious, high in calories, and can have a better satiety after eating and drinking some water, which are advantages that other foods do not have.

It is for these reasons that the value of instant noodles has become very popular in prisons, replacing cigarettes as the new currency.

There was also trading in prisons, and instant noodles, known as junk food in China, became the currency of trade in Miami prisons.

On his first day at the prison, Li Du saw the power of instant noodles, which were exchanged for food, clothing, hygiene products, and even laundry or bed-cleaning services.

In addition, when playing card games or participating in soccer quizzes, prisoners also use instant noodles as bargaining chips......

It's a pity that Li Duzhi is not here, otherwise he thinks that he can make a lot of money by going outside to set up an instant noodle company, which specializes in supplying low-cost instant noodles to prisons.

The prison guards were recognized by Li Du because when they went to work the next day, they gave Li Du a list that he could choose his own work environment.

The work in prison is nothing more than cleaning, kitchen help, cleaning the garbage dump, cleaning the toilets, tidying up the warehouse, removing insects and sterilization, organizing files, and so on.

The kitchen office was removed, and Li Du's eyes lit up after seeing the work of cleaning up the warehouse, which was his old job, so he took Hans and the three of them to choose this job.

The prison guard saw that they were very interested, so he said: "The most important thing for you to enter the warehouse is to keep your hands and feet clean, don't think about stealing, believe me, you will not be sentenced for stealing things here, but the end is more terrible than the sentence!"

Li Du nodded in understanding, he was now waiting to get out.

He believed that as long as the white prison guard called, those people who answered the phone would find a way to get themselves out.

However, there is no news in this regard, he has not met a white prison guard today, and he must first find a way to live a good life in prison, and the important thing at present is to do a good job of warehouse hygiene.

The Miami Penitentiary's warehouse, located at the back of four apartment buildings, is a vast area of low-slung houses, like the large buildings of some factory.

After opening the warehouse door, Li Du was slightly surprised, there were too many things inside!