Chapter 183: Full Production Escort Ship Canteen Two bowls of rice plus five side dishes and a bowl of soup is indeed an excessive amount for modern people who are used to eating solid and liquid should know that the portion of each meal at Yuexiang Restaurant is determined by tasters specially hired by Yuexiang Group. According to the standards of the 21st century, the portion is small, and only some "gifted" modern people can eat medium or large portions. Although teenagers are energetic and have fast metabolism, the upper limit of their stomach capacity is there. They usually only eat one bun, but this time they stuffed themselves with two bowls of rice based on Kagawa's appetite in one go, which really put a high-end challenge on their stomachs. They could actually choose not to eat, as they were already full after finishing the first bowl of rice. These stir-fried dishes are so fragrant, and this rice, which I tasted for the first time, is so delicious. Every bite of the dish and every bite of the rice is so delicious! …… As a result, when the students of Class 8 of Grade 1, who were born with the appetite of people living in the 21st century and whose appetites had increased greatly due to helping Kagawa and the three people from the Tongue Club taste food, were about to follow the management robot back to the residential area to pack their luggage and take a nap, they saw a group of people walking out of the cafeteria holding on to the wall. Kagawa: Even the marketing of the eating contest in the shopping street is not as exaggerated as yours. The rice at noon was so shocking that the practical activities in the afternoon seemed a bit bland. Kagawa originally thought that the practical activities in the staple crop department would be to experience harvesting rice in the fields, or practicing transplanting rice in vacant fields, but in the end he just operated harvesters and shelling machines, and experienced high-tech farm tools at a very close distance. Kagawa: ...Well, this is indeed a new experience. After all, my hometown is not a vast plain, and my family cannot afford such high-tech things. It is all farm work done by my family and neighbors.
According to Chief Steward Wu, although there is now material conversion technology that can convert materials in the universe into land, fertilizers, seeds, etc., the purpose of the twelve fleets' entire production of escort ships is to avoid wasting agricultural products and destroying crops. Therefore, letting the first-year high school students who have never experienced working in the fields go to the fields is indeed a challenge to Chief Steward Wu and the captain's hearts. Kagawa herself is an upright young woman who has been reciting "Song of the Peasants" since kindergarten and does not waste food in her daily life. She agrees with this method of saving. However, even though they had arrived at the edge of the fields, they could not step into the fields to get close to the land, which made Kagawa, a 21st century person who spent most of his childhood in his hometown in the countryside, feel a little uncomfortable. So for the whole afternoon, the students of Class 8 of Grade 1 saw Kagawa sitting listlessly on the edge of the field, doing nothing, watching students from other classes scramble to try to operate the machines. In fact, operating these agricultural equipment is also a novel experience for modern teenagers. The rapid development of AI technology and automation technology has made it so that many positions do not require manual operation. Equipment like this for harvesting and shelling has been operated unmanned more than 10,000 years ago. Not to mention modern teenagers, ordinary residents who are not from the Third Fleet and do not work in agriculture will never have the opportunity to actually experience the feeling of operating agricultural equipment in their lifetime. Kagawa actually understood this feeling. After all, in the 21st century, everyone wanted to try operating an excavator. Humans are born with a mysterious admiration for large machines, and this has not changed even after 30,000 years. But since you like giant machines so much, why don't you consider building a Gundam or Macross? Oh, I forgot, modern people can no longer find video materials related to this kind of culture. Perhaps because he had been sitting there doing nothing, Kagawa felt that the afternoon was very long. So half an hour before dinner time started, she ran straight to the cafeteria. It’s not to come to the cafeteria to get food, but for other arrangements. During the lunch break, Ouyang Yating and others had already learned about Kagawa's arrangements and knew that the workload in the evening would not be as heavy as that at noon. However, due to their concerns about Kagawa, the three members of the Tongue Club and the students of Class 8 of Grade 1 who had heard some news through Qiu Manman, the big loudspeaker, came to the door of the cafeteria of the staple food crop department together. “Oh my god…are there so many people queuing?!” Labor Commissioner Mandy exclaimed, and the rest of Class 8 were also stunned. The dining areas of other departments, which were empty during lunch, were now full of people, and there were long queues in front of the food windows of each department. Even the elevators that Manager Wu had introduced, which were usually out of use due to the small number of diners, were now running up and down, transporting the employees who had prepared meals to the second and third floors. "Everyone was attracted by the rumors at noon." Liang Gong explained a little embarrassedly, "At noon, I met my mother in the cafeteria. After I let her taste the food we cooked, the head of the vegetable crop department who came with her immediately contacted Chief Wu and asked him to share the recipe with the kitchen AI of other departments, so other departments can eat our lunch."
"In fact, the canteens where the escort ships are produced are seldom visited. When they were still selling solid and liquid foods, everyone thought the food sold in the canteens was not fresh enough, so they just bought fresh ingredients and went home to process them themselves. When I was a child, I often followed my mother to visit the various escort ships, but this is the first time I have seen such a full situation like today." "But this is too early, isn't it? It's not time for them to get off work yet, is it?" Ino looked at the time on the terminal. Sure enough, there were still about twenty minutes before the government agency's stipulated time to get off work. "Either they left work early without permission, or they took the opportunity to run over here under the pretext of going to the restroom. Some departments are not very busy, so not many people would notice even if they left early." Kagawa said, the corners of his mouth twitching uncontrollably. How come the excuses for skipping work haven't changed much? Back when she was still a corporate slave, her department was usually very idle unless she had to accompany her boss to a meeting. At this time, they would secretly pack up their things and sneak into the coffee shop or dessert shop on the fifth or sixth floor of the same business building, order a drink or a snack to kill time, and then clock out when the time came. If someone came to visit them on short notice, the front desk lady who had a good relationship with her would contact them in advance, and then they would pretend to go out to the bathroom or come back from the tea room together to get away with it. After hearing what Kagawa said, the employees sitting at several tables near the cafeteria entrance couldn't help but cough lightly to cover up their embarrassment. There was no other way. After listening to the guys from the staple crops department's oral accounts of their eating experiences at noon, they couldn't help it and planned to find an excuse to sneak away. They racked their brains to come up with this method, but they didn't know that it would be seen through by a little girl who looked like a student at a glance. Today's students are so horrible!