"It's over, it's over, what can I do......"

When the news of the suspension of living expenses came, Shangguan Yu'er regretted it more and more, and felt that it was too wrong to help Li Mu. This time, it completely angered the master, and even made the killing move of cutting off food.

The servants in the Li family's manor all have salaries, but Shangguan Yu'er is not an ordinary servant, she is Li Mu's close follower, and the salary is all paid by Li Mu.

In the past, Li Mudu gave the card to Shangguan Yu'er for safekeeping, and never settled the accounts by himself. As for Shangguan Yu'er, in addition to her daily expenses, she has never taken money out, and the two of them are equivalent to eating in the same bowl.

But who would have thought that this iron rice bowl would also be taken away one day. Now not only Li Mu has run off food, but even Xiao Yu'er has suffered from seedlings.

It's not just literal, it's literal, it's literal, and even eating is a problem.

Li Xuantong, the head of the family, is busy with affairs, and he has a working meal almost every day. And the other brothers also have their own careers, doing business, being a soldier, living in school, and living in school, they also don't have much opportunity to eat home-cooked meals. And Li Mu's wife is a fairly senior interstellar traveler, who travels to major galaxies all year round.

Therefore, except for Li Mu, a big otaku, there is usually no one at home at all.

Li Xuantong really made up his mind to save his son this time. After the blocking order was issued, not only Li Mu's bank card was stopped, but even the kitchen at home was blocked. The cooks and servants were all on long vacations, and the guards standing guard ate the government's box lunches, leaving only Li Mu and Shangguan Yu'er without food.

"Young Master, why aren't you in a hurry?"

"What's in the hurry, there's no need to worry about getting rich anymore......"

"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about your living expenses. Now that even the card has been stopped, what are we going to eat if we don't have money?"

"What are you afraid of if you don't have money, isn't there still food in the refrigerator, what are you panicking about......?"

The second young master's calmness made Shangguan Yu'er feel a little more at ease, thinking that maybe Li Muzhen had some way to tide over the difficulties. Barely steady, he turned to check the rest of the fridge.

But what Xiao Yu'er didn't know was that Li Mu's calmness was all pretended, in fact, the second young master was already a panicked group.

Daddy played too hard this time, and economic sanctions are all-encompassing. Li Mu once secretly called his eldest brother and three younger brothers, and even his uncle and uncle who were far away in other cities to borrow money, but the replies were all unified. Li Xuantong used his dual status as the director and the head of the family to block all possible channels for help, leaving no room at all.

And what made Li Mu even more desperate was that the cold storage at home was emptied, and even half of the rice was left. The good luck in the misfortune is that Dad forgot that there were snacks in the fridge. The Li family's house also has a large refrigerator, barely able to last for ten days and a half months.

But sooner or later, the refrigerator will be emptied, and this is not a long-term solution. Besides, when it comes to eating, it's not just about filling your stomach.

......

Three days later, the Thundercloud Star Planetary Administration, Office of the Director.

"Director, I'll go first if there's nothing else to do. ”

Seeing a subordinate who reported to leave, Li Xuantong moved his lower neck a little tiredly, and pressed a button on the table: "Is there anyone else?"

"There are also Chief Liu of District 6 and Chief Gu of District 23 waiting. The secretary on the other end of the phone replied, "But Director, it's noon now, and it's time for dinner." ”

"Oh. Li Xuantong thought for a moment and said, "Then let's go to the restaurant first and call the two chief executives." ”

Director Lee and the two Chief Executive came to the restaurant, and a sumptuous lunch was already on the table.

An atmospheric dining table and a decorated conveyor belt connect the dining room to the kitchen. Plates of delicious dishes are placed on a conveyor belt and delivered from the kitchen to the dining room. After a full turn, head back to the kitchen.

This kind of assembly line is not strange, and it can be seen even on Earth in the 21st century. But compared with the traditional sense, there are still some differences.

Not only is there a lot of variety of meals, but the portions are surprisingly large.

How big is it?

The smallest plate is about the size of a bathtub. The slightly larger ones are no different from the table. Pigs, cows, and many other animals that cannot be named, are roasted and piled up on plates. Not to mention eating, ordinary people feel full at a glance.

Normally, there is so much food that there must be left over for a banquet of thousands of people, and those who don't know think that Li Xuantong is specially preparing it to entertain the two chief executives. But in reality, it's just an ordinary working meal, and it's not a luxury at all. Regardless of whether there are guests or not, Li Xuantong will eat like this every day.

It's not that the director is so talented that he can eat so much, as long as the source energy level reaches the C level, his appetite will not be small.

Like the beasts in the animal world, the more ferocious they are, the more they can eat meat. Even if it is a vegetarian overlord like an elephant, the amount of food is not small.

This is especially true for powerhouses with high source energy levels, the normal amount of food is enough to fill their stomachs, but if they want to ensure their combat effectiveness and maintain the needs of cultivation, they must have a sufficient amount of food supplements. The higher the source energy level, the more you can eat. The better the quality of what is eaten, the stronger the combat effectiveness.

The amount of food in the primary source energy is no different from that of the earthlings in the 21st century, but from the C level, the amount of food will increase exponentially.

In many worlds, there is a proverb that people live on food. But only in this world is this sentence most appropriate.

Thunderclouds are about the same size as Earth, but the total population is only about 100 million. Because although there are enough people in terms of space to live on billions or even tens of billions of people, the people of the world are too good to feed so much. Coupled with the fact that there is still a part to be paid to the federal government as taxes, 100 million people is already the limit.

However, the Federation does not impose a population limit, and if the population pressure on a planet is too high, it will organize large-scale immigration.

The most important factor in the rebellion in the new three districts of Thundercloud Star is that the population of these three districts is too large and they are unwilling to immigrate, so that the shortage of resources and contradictions intensify.

Human beings put their journey in the sea of stars and opened the era of interstellar colonization, not only because of the development of science and technology, but also because of the problem of resources.

This resource is not oil or ore, it is all food. Even money is about food.

Whether it is the Federation of Atlantis or other countries, the unit of currency is the "knife", which is sometimes called the "knife" after colloquial words.

The reason why such a unit is used is that in a high-precision meat processing plant, the amount of meat is exactly one kilogram in one knife. Civilians go to restaurants to eat, and the amount of food is also measured in kilograms. No one has ever said anything like two taels of pig's head meat, at least two catties of rice as the base, and high-end restaurants have to talk about "tons".

Food is the world's most important strategic resource. Eating is the world's primary productive force.

Whoever eats more is great. Whoever eats the most will be the best. All in all, everything in this world can be accommodated, but there can be no sloppiness in eating. A diligent director of the General Administration of Planetary Affairs like Li Xuantong will not miss important meal times just because he is working.

Those snacks in the Li family's refrigerator, Li Xuantong didn't forget to empty them, but they didn't need them at all.

In the past, the degree of attention was not enough, and Li Xuantong naturally did not care about how much his son ate. But now that he knows that his son has a strong hidden source energy, he only needs to calculate a little, and he knows how much food intake he needs. Just the little thing in the refrigerator is not enough to feed the cat, how can Li Mu be full.