Early in the morning, Zhao Yuan woke up to the sound of reading, and it seemed that this group of children was hit hard by Luoluo last night.

"Second brother."

"Second uncle."

……

Seeing Zhao Yuan come out, the children shouted Zhao Yuan.

"Uncle, come and exercise, you got up too late today, I'll call you, but my aunt won't let me go." As soon as Zhao Yuan got up and walked into the courtyard, Luo Luo said to him loudly.

"Okay, I'll come when Uncle washes his face first." Zhao Yuan nodded at the children and said with a smile.

The little girl was wearing tight clothes for exercise, running slowly around the yard, and the other children were also running, reading the text aloud in their mouths.

"Seeing that you are very tired, I didn't let Luoluo wake you up." Meng Ying fetched a basin of hot water, took a towel, and brought it to Zhao Yuan.

"I've been lazy these days, have my father-in-law gotten up?" Zhao Yuan took the towel and washbasin, but didn't see his father-in-law's family.

"They got up early and went to the farm to have a look, saying they were helping with some work, only Xiaoying's little guy was still sleeping." Meng Ying said with a smile.

"Oh."

After washing his face, Zhao Yuan began to move around the yard, warmed up first, and then played a set of punches, and then finished his work.

"Second brother, what are you practicing, like a monkey." Tiezi Zhao Xiantie watched Zhao Yuan practice boxing and asked curiously.

"Uncle Tiezi, my uncle practices monkey boxing, and I will do it too." Luoluo replied from the side.

"Isn't it amazing, can it be compared with Sun Wukong?" Tetsuko asked, wide-eyed.

"It's amazing, but it can't be compared with the monkey of Sun Wukong, this punch is mainly for exercising. If you want to learn, I can teach you, but the most powerful people here are not me, but Shao Meng and Guo Du. Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"We have to learn, and the second brother (uncle) will teach us." The boys were interested.

"Okay, but I have something to do, Guo Du, I'll leave it to you." Zhao Yuan smiled and pulled Guo Du over.

"Okay, I'll teach you how to practice boxing." Guo Du, who had already finished exercising, said with a smile.

"Uncle, it's time for breakfast, and we'll have to read later." Luoluo saw that everyone hugged Guo Du and said dissatisfiedly.

"Forget it, let's have breakfast first." Zhao Yuan said to everyone.

"Xiaobao, you go to the farm and call your father and mother, and have breakfast." Meng Ying assigned Meng Xiaobaodao.

……

Old Pillar Field, White Rock Mountain, Cement Workshop.

"It's not going to work like this, those guys are too good to eat, we have to limit the amount of food they eat." In the barracks of the workshop, Han Tao, the logistics manager, reported to the commander Miao Shijie.

Originally, looking at the large amount of grain in the grain depot, the steward Han Tao was not worried about the lack of food at all, but after a few days, the food in the grain depot decreased wildly, and he felt that something was wrong.

"But the adults have instructed that everyone must be satisfied in terms of eating, not to say that they eat well, but to let everyone eat enough." Miao Shijie frowned.

"But it can't be like this, I calculated, there are more than 2,500 people in our workshop army regular army plus reserves, in the cement workshop, not counting the nearby villagers who came to help, there are more than 500 people, and now there is a group of bandit prisoners, how much food is consumed every day, do you know? The daily food requirement is almost 7,000 catties. Han Tao said worriedly.

"Isn't there a large amount of grain in our grain depot, plus so much seized this time, and the transport team is still not enough to transport grain back every day?" Miao Shijie asked.

"Not enough, it's so cold now, and when it snows heavily, the transportation of grain may be blocked at any time. The food in the military depot can only support all staff for fifteen days at most, and I have communicated with the account manager on the side of the workshop, and the grain on the grain depot side of the cement workshop can support about a month and a half. Han Tao said.

Every time the transport caravan comes to the cement workshop, it will bring a large amount of grain, which is also the reason why the grain depot of the military camp and the cement workshop can store so much grain during this time, but the winter weather is bad, and the transportation of cement and grain will inevitably be affected, and once it can't keep up, there is a risk of running out.

"Is there another way to fix it?" Miao Shijie realized the seriousness of the problem and asked.

"Wanjia's grain bank should be able to help replenish some of it, but the price will definitely be more expensive than what we buy from outside, and now the price of grain has risen a lot during the Chinese New Year." Han Tao said.

"It seems that I need to go to the adult's house and ask him for instructions and discuss countermeasures." Miao Shijie got up and said.

The accounts of the cement workshop and the barracks are independent, and although the money of the workshop army has increased a lot of money because of the profits from this Tongyi crackdown, it is impossible to use all of it to buy food to supply the cement workshop.

The same is true for the cement workshop, although a part of the income is fixed to be allocated to the workshop army, but when it comes to the expenditure of a large amount of money, it is still necessary to ask Zhao Yuan.

"Lord Commander, I'll go with you, and first go and call the manager and the tent of the cement workshop." Han Tao suggested.

"Okay, you go, I'll arrange the training of the soldiers." Miao Shijie nodded.

A few days ago, Zhao Yuan asked about the situation of the cement workshop, and the steward said that there was no difficulty, so Zhao Yuan did not carefully check the accounts of the cement workshop, and the sad appearance of the family of Li Peng who died made Zhao Yuan in a bad mood and did not pay attention to the problem of food.

Most of the work of the cement workshop is heavy work, the farm of the workshop has not yet formed the scale of slaughter, the supply of meat can not keep up, and the consumption of food will naturally be a lot, even if you add some miscellaneous vegetables and sufficient oil and water, the average person has to eat nearly one and a half catties of grain a day.

Miao Shijie and Han Tao packed up, took the steward and account room of the cement workshop, and rushed towards the lower river dam.

……

At Zhao Yuan's house in Xiaheba, after breakfast, Tao Pu took his wife and daughter back to the market because of Zhao Yuan's explanation last night to make the first arrangements.

Zhao Yuan led everyone to smoke bacon, sausage and blood sausage, and the white smoke floated from the fragrant leaves in the fire pit under the shelf, lingering on the neatly arranged pork, and the aroma of fragrant leaves slowly penetrated into the pork.

"It's a lot of meat, Luoluo, your family can eat meat every day in the future." Looking at the pork smoked neatly hanging on the shelf, Zhao Bo said enviously.

"My family can eat meat every day, don't you have it?" Luoluo said straightforwardly.

The friends next to them felt that they had received a critical blow, although Xiao Zhaozhuang's life has been much better now, but unless it is a busy time for farming, in terms of eating meat, they can eat it at most once a month.

"How can we have so much meat to eat, most of the pigs fed at home are usually sold, and there is not much left." Zhao Bo shook his head and said.

"Then you want to eat meat, come to my house." Luoluo invited.

"Okay, Zhao Bo, don't stare at eating, if you want to eat meat, you will earn it on your own in the future, didn't the second brother say, read good books, learn skills, and worry about not being able to eat meat in the future?" Zhao Zhili said to Zhao Bo, but he still swallowed his saliva when he looked at the meat neatly hanging on the shelf of Zhao Yuan's house.

"Atom, Ying'er, we'll go back in a while, and we still have livestock to take care of at home." After helping Zhao Yuan's house clean up, Meng's father said to Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying.

"Let's go back after dinner, it's not far from here, and it's too late to go back later." Meng Ying, who knew that there was something going on at her father's house, said.

Rural people are often inseparable from the livestock and poultry they feed at home, and even if they leave their relatives and have someone else to take care of them at home, they are in a hurry to go home because they can't rest assured that they can't stay at home.

"Go back early to prepare pig food, although I have asked the village people to help, but I can't let others paste pig food to help feed it." Father Meng said.

"That's good, or sister-in-law, you take Xiaoying to stay here for two days, anyway, you have to take the children, and you can't help if you go back." Meng Ying said again.

"I'd better go back, isn't there a New Year's pig going to be killed at home in two days, and you will come with the atom." Wei Qiumei said with a smile.

"Then I'll go back after lunch, don't be in a hurry for a while." Zhao Yuan said.

"Okay, I'll go back after lunch." Father Meng agreed.