168. Public canteens

After a day of starvation and indecision by men wearing red armbands who had taken all their food, a family of three finally arrived at what was called the public canteen after asking about the red armbands patrolling the streets.

This was once a warehouse, and the land at the main entrance of the warehouse had been clearly leveled, and at this moment, the place was full of people.

A little farther away, a family of three really smelled the aroma of food.

The child's saliva immediately remained, and the parents, encouraged by the real food, plucked up their courage and came to the vicious-looking muscular men who were maintaining order.

They found that the crowd was divided into two groups, most of them were honestly queuing, and a few who were not very peaceful, and those who tried to disrupt the order were dragged out directly by the muscular men or special forces, and pressed to the ground was a lesson.

"My lord, where should we be in line?" After intuitively understanding the order that this place needs to follow, the man in the family of three cringed and asked the empty muscular man.

The muscular man, who was at least 2 meters tall, turned his gaze to the man, and the man subconsciously took a step back, but thinking that behind him was his wife and children, he mustered up his courage and stood in front of the muscular man.

"Show me your papers." The muscular man in front of him was different from the muscular man who looked more amiable last time, he always kept a straight face and said to the man indifferently.

"Testimonial...... Documents? ”

"Don't you? If you have turned in food, you will be issued a certificate. ”

"Yes! Some!! Thinking of what the muscular man had said earlier, the man hurriedly took out the document from his pocket.

"Well, it's indeed your ID card, remember to put this thing away, don't lose it." Returning the documents to the man, the tall muscular man's face remained unchanged, and he continued to say coldly: "Now you can choose to line up by yourself, if you are willing to participate in labor, you will line on the left, if you just want to receive food, you will line on the right." ”

"Excuse me, what's the difference?"

"It's up to you to choose." The muscular man said lightly, although he no longer paid attention to the man.

The man returned to his wife and children and explained the matter to them.

"Dad, I'm hungry."

The child could not understand things that were too complicated, and if it had been before the war, a child of this age would have been able to understand what his father was saying, but in this era, due to perennial malnutrition, and the fact that he had not received any information, nor had he received any formal education, made this child seem more sluggish than children of his age before the war, and he did not think much about things at all, except that he was hungry.

The children could not understand, but the wives, who had been educated before the war, were able to help their husbands make decisions.

"Remember their propaganda, my dear?"

"Distribute according to need, according to work?" The man said hesitantly.

"If you don't work, you can't eat. Free is the most expensive thing, whether it is the kingdom of God or them, there will be no need for useless people. The wife said sharply.

"I just don't know what labor is, so I don't think we want to kill people......" The man said hesitantly.

"Dad, I'm so hungry......" Smelling the fragrance coming from the cafeteria, the child tugged at his parents' clothes again.

Because of the loss of food, the father, who had been hungry for a day like his children, finally made a decision.

He took his family to the end of the line of people who were willing to work and began to line up.

The muscular man has always maintained the order of the scene, and all the people who do not obey the order are all beaten by the muscular man, and there are really a lot of people who don't know how to abide by the order in this era.

Standing at the entrance of the cafeteria, a female staff member with a red armband stopped them.

"Please show your ID."

Probably because the other party was a woman, the man was not as nervous as before, and he handed the ID card he had shown once before to the woman in front of him.

"That's right." After reading it, he handed the ID card to the man, and the female staff member said, "You do have the right to eat in the public cafeteria, please come in." ”

Although they were very concerned about the content of the so-called labor mentioned earlier, smelling the aroma of food coming from the gate behind the female worker, the family of three could no longer hold back their appetite.

Subsequently, they entered the kingdom of heaven.

Although it is not an open supply, everyone has a quota, but for a family of three struggling to survive in this era, they eat this meal very comfortably, without the malicious gaze like a wild dog, without the emptiness of eating the last meal without the next meal, in this public canteen, the family of three has gained a long-lost sense of security.

While eating, the man found that most of the people around him were people who seemed to be more honest and decent, and most of them were people who dragged their families.

Looking back, he noticed that most of the people who didn't look serious were lining up on the other side.

After eating, the man's brain began to work at high speed for the first time in a long time.

"Is this a kind of screening?" The man thought to himself.

After eating, the cutlery was returned to the designated place according to the instructions in the cafeteria, and then the family of three followed the passage to a hall.

There are several windows side by side, and after queuing up, a family of three came to a certain window nervously.

"Again, sir, are you willing to go to work?" The female staff member at the window asked the man.

"Yes, I do." The man said, "But what is the so-called labor? ”

"Farming, building, casting, hunting, transportation, trading, exploration, you can choose the job that suits you according to your strengths."

The staff then handed the man a form to fill out.

For men, reading and writing are almost about to become the things of the previous life, at least this kind of skill is not needed at all in this era, stunned, looked at the pen and paper in his hand, and then the man began to look at what was written on this handwritten form book.

After reading a paragraph, the man's eyes suddenly widened.

"If a person who participates in the labor force, if he has a child, can send his child to school?!"

At this moment, this term, which is incompatible with the current era, suddenly appeared in front of the man's eyes, causing the central nervous system of the man's brain to fluctuate violently.

Memories belonging to the era of peace are reawakened, and the man suddenly has a feeling of waking up from a long-standing nightmare and suddenly returning to the real world.

If the electricity is over, the whole body is numb, goosebumps come out, and the man looks at the form in his hand in a daze, unable to speak.