Probably seeing Oda Saina's question, Ito Usuke smiled and took out a wad of bright yellow cardboard from the pocket of his jacket and overalls, took out one and handed it to Oda Saina on the other side.

"Well, this is the meal roll in the cherry blossom canning field, the factory gives us 60 free sheets every month, according to two meals a day, of course, if you want to eat meat every day, then you can only eat one meal, and the factory will distribute additional when working overtime. ”

While listening to Ito Yousuke's introduction, Oda Sane looked at the delicate piece of cardboard in his hand, and he took a closer look and found that it read the Tokyo Sakura Cannery Employee Work Meal Roll.

"And many workers in our factory bought this meal roll privately, twenty yuan a piece, but it's still very few people sell it, do you know why?"

Seeing that Oda Wasina shook his head very cooperatively, Ito Yousuke continued with satisfaction: " Because our canning factory now allows the workers in the field to exchange the meal rolls for the canned food produced in the field, only five sheets can be exchanged for a can of luncheon meat, and seven can be exchanged for a can of canned fruit, many people exchange the canned food and wait until the monthly break to take it to the black market, it is easy to sell it at a good price, and according to Kojiro-sama, there may be more items for us workers to redeem in the future, Oda-kun, let's eat first. ”

After taking the meal roll handed back by Oda Saina, Ito Usuke didn't say anything else, but motioned for Oda Saina to eat, because just as he was talking, he heard two loud grunts, and he was obviously a little afraid that his former co-worker would starve to death in the cafeteria.

Looking at Ito Yousuke who had already started to eat on the other side, Oda Wasa swallowed a mouthful of saliva and carefully picked up the chopsticks on the plate, he didn't immediately move the fried fish stew that made his mouth water, but directly picked up a piece of chopsticks and put it in his mouth to taste it carefully.

Through guò's sensitive taste buds, Oda Saina savored the aroma of rice in this rice, although this rice is not pure rice, it is a mixed rice of rice and sorghum rice.

But that's how Oda Saina already feels very happy, you must know that the reason why their family has been able to survive recently is by selling the four taels of coarse grain rolls distributed by the government every month, which is used to exchange the money for buying some multigrain potatoes and sweet potatoes and the like, and in exchange for those wheat bran and rice husks that are cheaper than coarse grains, so their family is barely living.

He closed his eyes and tasted it for a while, until he had completely chewed the rice in his mouth before swallowing it, and in the process, Oda Wasa kept his tongue in check to taste it.

After swallowing the meal, Oda Saina immediately began to move and eat quickly, but he only ate those side vegetables, dried radish and pork bone broth, and he didn't touch a bite of fried fish and stew.

Ito Usuke, who was sitting opposite, watched Oda Wasina gobble up rice, and secretly rejoiced in his heart, and only with the comparison could he feel how happy his current life was, which made him cherish the life in front of him even more.

"Oda-kun, why don't you eat fried fish stew?"

Oda Saina, who was eating with his head down, heard Ito Yousuke's question, and quickly swallowed the rice in his mouth before he replied: "Speaking of which, Ito-kun is not afraid of your jokes, because I have not been able to find a regular job for a long time, and my wife and daughter at home have a very bad life with me, they haven't eaten meat for a long time, and I want to bring these to them to eat." ”

After saying that, Oda Saina continued to eat quickly with his head down, this qiē Ito Yousuke saw it in his eyes, but he didn't say anything, he knew that whatever he said now would hurt the heart of this former worker.

For a while, there was no sound at the dinner table, and there were just two people who ate silently.

After carefully eating the pickled radish strips on the plate, and eating the fifth bowl of rice and the fifth bowl of pork bone broth, Oda Saina stopped.

"Ito-kun made you smile, I haven't eaten so much for a long time, this pork bone soup is even more delicious, with plenty of oil and water, thank you for your hospitality today. ”

"Xiao Tian, you say this to see the outside, you took very good care of me when I was in the cloth shop, and with the relationship between the two of us, it is nothing to invite you to a meal today. ”

Ito Yousuke's casual attitude made Oda Saina's heart relax a lot, he felt that the other party was still the way he used to be, and he didn't alienate him because of his current situation, which made him feel very comfortable and without pressure.

"Where did Ito-kun go after you left the cloth shop, and how did you end up in this cannery?"

Hearing Oda Saina's question, Ito Usuke did not answer immediately, but took out a pack of cigarettes with the cherry blossom logo from his jacket, took out two of them, handed one to Oda Saina, and then lit a fire for it.

Oda Hayina was a little woodened when he saw Ito Usuke take out a cigarette, and it wasn't until the other party lit a fire for himself that he came to his senses, and after he came to his senses, he wanted to extinguish the cigarette on his mouth as soon as he came aware, but when he saw Ito Usuke who had begun to swallow the clouds and spit out the fog on the other side, he suppressed his thoughts, but he also smoked with a distressed face, because he knew how expensive it was with cigarettes.

"Ito-kun cigarettes are so expensive to give me, how embarrassed do you make me, cigarettes are now more than 50 yen on the market, and the cheapest ones are more than 30 yuan. ”

Ito Yousuke took a sip of the smoke ring, squinted his eyes for a while, and then opened his mouth before he replied: "Oda-kun, you don't think that I will be willing to spend so much money to buy cigarettes, I didn't buy these cigarettes myself, they were issued by our factory, you can smoke them with confidence, I still have some at home." ”

Ito Usuke's words completely shocked Oda Sanina, he didn't expect the owner of this canning factory to hand out this pack of cigarettes for more than 30 yen, which is too luxurious, you must know that cigarettes are now very rare and expensive goods in the Japanese market.

Because of the famine in Japan's defeated country, the government has ordered that all agricultural land must be given priority to growing food, even cotton and other cloth raw materials have been compressed by the government to the limit, and luxury goods such as tobacco have been directly banned from planting, after all, people are going to starve to death, so there is still effort to grow these things.

Because of the government's ban on tobacco cultivation, the price of cigarettes on the market has been rising, and in this case, Oda Hayina actually heard Ito Yousuke say that the cigarettes in his hand were issued by the factory, if it was possible, he really wanted to ask the owner of this canning farm, what he thought, how could he behave such a loser. (To be continued.) )