This situation lasted all morning, and it was not until noon that Zhang Fan rested for a while.

After lunch, Zhang Fan gathered the newly recruited temporary laborers together for a small meeting.

"I saw everyone's performance in the morning, and they were all very capable!

But when eating, I was puzzled, why did some rats secretly hide? Do you want to take it home with you?

I can tell you one thing, no matter how much you eat, I have no opinion, but you must not keep it private.

It's not a matter of how much food you have, it's a matter of your personal credibility, if your credibility is gone? No matter how capable you are, I don't welcome you here, so I'll give you a chance, if anyone hides food and hands it over now, I will treat it as if it didn't happen. ”

Zhang Fan looked at the more than 20 mice, they looked at each other, and they didn't know who had taken the food without permission.

Just as Zhang Fan was about to order a search, two rats came out of the rat colony, they knelt on the ground, and took out four rice balls from the wide hemp fruit coat.

"Okay, I, Zhang Fan, do what I say, even if you take the initiative to hand it over, I will forgive you this time, but if I find out next time, I will not show mercy.

Get up! Can you tell us why you did this? ”

One of the rats was the first to speak: "Young master, my lord! We are brothers, and the reason why we hide food is because we have a one-year-old mother in the family, who has inconvenient legs and feet, and can only be bedridden, but we are both separate families, and we do not have enough food.

So we thought, let's eat less and bring the rest of the food to our elderly mothers. Please young master, for the sake of the old mother, give us these rice balls! ”

Zhang Fan was about to say something, but at this moment, the centipede who came back from outside spoke.

"Young master, they are not lying, this is indeed the case when I rushed to their mother's house.

And we gave all the food we had, the old mother. ”

"Oh! I really didn't expect it to be like this. For the sake of your filial piety to your parents, I will allow you to bring it back, and I will give you double portions of the food you have received today, and I will also bring my greetings to my old mother. ”

The two brothers kneeling on the ground, they couldn't speak, they could only thank Zhang Fan with their eyes.

"Alright, get up! Let's all disperse, work hard, I won't treat you badly. ”

..........

Due to the appearance of more than two dozen rats, the progress of the harvest is getting faster and faster.

"Centipede, don't go out in the afternoon, you're not here, I'm tired!" Zhang Fan said complainingly.

"Hehehe, young master, so be it! The two men who followed me today are already basically familiar with how to lure the rats in, so let them go! ”

"Hmmm! This couldn't be better, Shui San can only lead everyone to harvest food, he is not good at managing this piece, and Er Ya is also responsible for the food of the entire rat group, fortunately I assigned her a few subordinates yesterday, otherwise she would really not be busy. ”

"Young lady, I'm really tired these days, and it's really not easy to manage so many rats to eat."

"There's no way around it! Now we can only focus on harvesting grain, so everyone should work hard first, and wait for these few days.

At present, there is still a shortage of manpower, so we can only wait for the rats in the north of the dam to come, and we must send more men to patrol tonight to spread the patrol area, so as not to have an emergency, and we will not have time to deal with it. ”

"Young master, the analysis is very reasonable, and when the evening comes, I will send more people to patrol."

Zhang Fan thought for a moment and said again.

"Oh, yes! Now we are in dire need of something, is there a way for you to get it? ”

"I don't know what the young master is talking about?"

Zhang Fan slowly spit out two words.

"Cigarette case!"

The centipede thought for a long time before speaking: "The 'cigarette box' that the young master said, is it used by humans!" ”

Zhang Fan nodded and said, "Yes!" We urgently need this kind of stuff now, because the food we cook is cooked with this kind of stuff.

In the future, there will be more and more rats, and we will only have one "pot", so we will not be able to supply so many rats to eat.

So while it's still early, you and I go to look for the "cigarette box" and try to find it before it gets dark. ”