Bang! A heavy sack slammed down onto Feng Bawan's sweat-soaked back, making his legs tremble at once.
"An-another sack!" Feng Bawan shouted hoarsely, craning his neck.
As another sack was loaded onto his back, Feng Bawan summoned every ounce of strength he had and carried it toward the construction site ahead.
Though it was exhausting, he did not slack off in the slightest, because working here truly meant being fed until full.
Clang clang clang!! The gong rang out. "Food! Time to eat!"
All the workers immediately set down what they were doing, watching the heavy baskets carried over on shoulder poles with eager faces. This job was what they were counting on now.
The quilt covering the tops was lifted away, and the golden-brown soy sauce fried rice made everyone swallow mouthful after mouthful of saliva.
The fried rice did not contain only soy sauce. There were wild vegetables and mushrooms mixed in, and rarer still, there were actually diced pieces of meat.
This was not rice meat, but genuine pork. These days, not so many people were starving to death anymore.
Without even bothering to wipe the sweat from his forehead, Feng Bawan picked up his chopsticks and kept shoveling the tender, silky, fragrant, sticky rice into his mouth.
It was clearly just a serving of soy sauce fried rice, yet eating it felt as though he were tasting dragon liver and phoenix marrow.
Only after shoveling down more than half the bowl did he pick up the bowl of soup allotted to him and gulp it down.
Lowering his head to look at the wild vegetable soup, he discovered a thin sheen of lard floating on top and immediately drank with delight.
With one slurp, his whole body shuddered. An indescribable fragrance rippled between his lips and