This happened in many families in the logistics department, but most of the men who were the heads of the families did not react as much as He Defang.

"What's the big deal? His family has a big business, do you care about such a few bags of salt and a little rice? Aunt Xu didn't care about her son Xu Sande's complaints.

"Mother! If he didn't care, would he let Zhao Di supply it according to the quantity? It's really not good for you to do this, I've said it several times before, you still take it, so that everyone eats porridge for dinner tonight, everyone sees it, no one will blame Brother Xiang'er, it will only think that you are greedy for ink......"

"You know what! Your mother and I eat more salt than you eat rice! How much benefit did that Zhao Xiang give you, and you spoke for him like this? What am I bringing those things back for? Isn't it to leave you some wife in the future? You're good, now that your wings are stiff, it's not my fault that I've been working for a few days! Aunt Xu was very angry, and the consequences were very serious - Xu Sande slammed the door and left.

Even in an "uncivilized" southern barbarian land like Zhangzhou, "filial piety" is still an important virtue, and there is another reason that calms this matter down: "family and everything is prosperous" - so all the family members of the logistics department finally chose to remain silent.

The next day, Zhao Di still prepared five catties of salt and three hundred catties of rice, and went to receive the logistics materials, Aunt Xu, with a black face: "Zhao Di, didn't you tell your Mr. Zhao, everyone ate porridge last night, and today it is still these things, how can you let us have the strength to work for him if we can't eat enough?" ”

Zhao Di is very embarrassed, it is the most difficult to do in the middle, Mr. Zhao didn't know before, she can still pretend that she doesn't know, but Mr. Zhao said, let yourself pay attention to these unreasonable places, if you pretend to be stupid, you can't say it.

Aunt Xu saw that she didn't speak, and said again: "Go back and tell Mr. Zhao that if you give us such a little thing a day and ask us to feed more than 200 people, we can't do this work." ”

Zhao Di said weakly: "Aunt Xu, three hundred catties of rice is enough, although there are more than two hundred people, but there are so many children and old people, and there is not much to eat......

Aunt Xu said angrily: "Yo, Zhao Di, you are now eating good things in the house every day without having to do heavy work, wearing new clothes and new shoes, people have changed, of course I don't know how much we eat with our hard mud legs, I'll just say this, three hundred catties of rice is only enough to cook porridge, if Mr. Zhao is not satisfied, you let him invite someone else, see who has the means to do it." ”

The three mothers-in-law who came over to carry supplies also echoed. Zhao Di was almost unable to hold on, after all, these were people from her village, and she and her younger brother had eaten at their house during the most difficult time at home.

"Hey, Zhaodi, I'm looking for you, why is it so long, I got up early today, you go and help me make breakfast first." Zhao Xiang appeared at the right time, Zhao Di was relieved, and hurriedly fled back to the house.

Zhao Xiang saw a few mothers-in-law who shrank to the side again, and said with a smile: "Aunt Xu, how about receiving salt and rice, how about it, is there enough manpower over there?" ”

Mrs. Xu plucked up her courage: "It's still enough for people to get together, but this salt and rice are not enough, Brother Xiang, these five catties of salt and three hundred catties of rice are really not enough for more than two hundred people to eat, you know that we work hard and have a large amount of heavy rice, you let Zhao Di supply it in such a limited quantity, it will be difficult for us to do it, this is not last night there was no rice in the pot and we could only cook porridge, and the villagers didn't know how to scold us in their stomachs!" ”

Zhao Xiang: "Oh...... Aunt Xu, how much salt and how much rice is enough? ”

Aunt Xu thought about it, discussed it quietly with the three mothers-in-law around her, and then reported the number: "There must be fifteen catties of salt and five hundred catties of rice a day, which must be the catties and taels we use, and the one catty you use is only twelve or three taels." ”

Zhao Xiang nodded: "There is no problem with this, do you think how many catties of salt and rice do you need to convert into my catties?" ”

Aunt Xu's eyes rolled: "No matter what, I have to get twenty catties of salt and six hundred catties of rice." ”

Zhao Xiang sighed in his heart, but his face was still light and breezy and said, "This is no problem!" The villagers came to work, although they were paid for their wages, but they also had to take care of their food. It is done according to 20 catties of salt and 600 catties of rice a day. By the way, how many of you cook in total, is there enough manpower, do you want to add more manpower? ”

A mother-in-law on the side said quickly: "There are not enough people, there are too many people to eat, and they can't be busy." ”

Aunt Xu turned her head and glared at her mother-in-law, then turned around and sneered: "Brother Xiang, this person is making up for it, everyone will work hard, don't hinder it, don't hinder it!" ”

"How can this work? If you don't have enough manpower, you have to add enough! As he spoke, he looked around again, sighed, and said, "You see that there is a shortage of manpower everywhere, otherwise it would be like this, I will be idle these days, so I will go over and give you a hand." ”

Aunt Xu thought that this was going to be a bad thing, and hurriedly waved her hand: "Don't you dare, there is really no shortage of manpower, and no matter how short it is, I can't let you help, you say yes." ”

The reaction of the three mothers-in-law was to figure it out no matter how slow they were, and persuaded Zhao Xiang together. But where did Zhao Xiang give them a chance, he clapped his hands: "Then let's go, these three hundred catties of rice, you have to take three more bags out, and the salt is still fifteen catties less." ”

So he opened the door of the warehouse, went into the house, and brought out three bags of rice and fifteen catties of salt.

Several people moved twice to the makeshift kitchen. When Mrs. He got Mrs. Xu's support, she felt that things were going to be bad, so she came over with a smile and persuaded: "Brother Xiang, you are so busy, what should you be busy with, don't listen to the Shen family's mother-in-law's nonsense, if there are not enough manpower, I won't have the face to cook for the villagers." ”

Zhao Xiang smiled kindly and brightly: "It's okay, I'm okay during this time, I'm almost done with what I should be busy." ”

Zhao Xiang's insistence made the aunts in the logistics department very embarrassed, and they couldn't directly tell Zhao Xiang that they were going to bring things to the house secretly, it was inconvenient for him to be here, right?

Breakfast is still porridge as usual, and the side dish is stir-fried lard residue with pickles. The pickles were bought from the city, and when the butchers went to the villages to collect pigs, they also bought the pickles from each family and supplied them to Xiaozhishan. The oil residue is the oil left after the pork fat, finely cut into pieces and stir-fried in a large iron pot, plus green onions, ginger and garlic and chopped pickles to fry on high heat, fragrant.

"Do you want salt on this?" Zhao Xiang pretended to be confused, those pickles had never been soaked in water, and they were too salty without salt, so why do you need to put more salt.

He Po stubbornly asked him to let him go.

As for rice, it's embarrassing, this thing is not easy to arrange, 600 catties of rice and 200 people eat three meals. A meal for one person is only one pound of rice, which seems to be not much for a peasant family with a huge amount of food, but more than 100 children and elderly people actually can't eat much - even if they are all young and strong, eating a pound of rice in one meal is not a pound of rice!

The porridge in the morning is very thick, it is almost dry, and the pickles are a lot saltier than usual, but it is a big deal to eat more porridge and less side dishes...... As a result, more than half of the two large pots of pickles were left.