Roast meat, boiled meat, nang, and meat broth.
It was an extremely lavish lunch-to Meng Hai and the others, it was an unexpected delight.
In fact, they had come prepared for greater hardship. After all, Li Long and the others were already offering good terms-fairly high wages, and since they were in the mountains, the food would surely be kept simple.
To them, even eating nang was quite good. After all, some households still ate a mixture of sixty percent refined grain and forty percent coarse grain.
They had yet to reach the point where they could eat refined grain freely.
Whatever else could be said about nang, it was made from white flour and baked, and it tasted good.
They had never expected to actually eat this well!
Some had originally grumbled about Li Long running off instead of working, but now all those complaints were gone.
He had gone hunting to improve their meals. That was proper work too.
People were iron and food was steel; miss a meal and hunger would strike.
With meals this good, how could they not work hard?
So Li Xiangqian was surprised to discover that after lunch and a half-hour rest, every one of them got up of his own accord and went back to work.
They all worked even harder than they had that morning!
"Director, take your time here. I'll go have another look in the mountains." Seeing Meng Hai and the others start work, Li Long stood up too. "I'll see if I can bag some more game."
"More? We haven't even finished what we have." Zhou Yuan pointed at the meat and bones still piled in the basin. "Wouldn't that be too much?"
"We can divide whatever I bring back among everyone. Since we've come into the mountains,