Party A Zhou Xu

With permission granted, the Wei State Army laborers, led by White Butcher, hurried over to line up for food, afraid there would be none left if they arrived too late.

Throughout the process, White Butcher and the others were still feeling somewhat nervous.

But when they saw the Great Zhou Soldiers ahead merely give them a quick glance before losing interest, they finally relaxed completely.

In fact, Chun Chun and the others had simply been worrying for nothing. Their portions had already been prepared in the kitchen when breakfast was being made.

The enrollment of this batch of laborers had indeed greatly increased their grain consumption, but after taking Yellow Sand City, they had also seized the city's granary.

Considering the garrison camp as well, Yellow Sand City had a permanent force of one thousand soldiers. Adding the daily consumption within the city and at the mines outside it, their grain reserves were still quite abundant. They had no need to agonize over this small increase in consumption.

However, given the special circumstances and the fact that they were campaigning away from home, breakfast was still fairly simple: two substantial meat-and-vegetable flatbreads, plus a bowl of plain vegetable soup.

Although there were more vegetables than meat, the pickled vegetables stuffed inside the flatbreads were exceptionally delicious. In fact, to many Great Zhou Soldiers, the meat in the flatbreads was secondary—the pickled vegetables were the true essence.

The Wei State Army had similar flatbreads in the past, but perhaps because they had been taken as laborers and gone so long without eating their fill, or perhaps for some other reason, these simply tasted much better than the ones they had eaten before.

They wolfed down the two generously filled flatbreads until not a crumb remained. Afterward, every one of their faces