They were very well prepared.

Seeing the scrambled eggs with tomatoes, Huo Bai was a little surprised and asked, "You raise chickens here too?"

"No, these are bird eggs. Xiaofei and the others found them on the mountain," Shiyue explained.

It's easy to find seafood on Haijing Island, but it's difficult to find other nutritious foods.

Meat is definitely out of the question.

The weather here is hot, so meat is hard to buy to begin with. Even if the purchasing office manages to buy it, it won't be fresh by the time it gets to the island after all that travel back and forth.

Who lives on the island?

What if these veteran experts get an upset stomach from eating something that's not fresh?

Therefore, there is no supply of meat.

Besides meat, fragile items like tofu and eggs are generally not delivered because transportation is too troublesome and the losses are too great.

The key is that it doesn't last long either.

If you send too many, they'll spoil; if you send too few, it's unnecessary.

That's why Huo Bai was surprised to see the bird eggs.

Since he had already brought this up, Shiyue also mentioned the suggestion that she and Liang Yueming had wanted to make before.

She said, "Brother Huo, if there are no special regulations in our unit, could you send us some chicks up here?"

We'll raise them ourselves, and when they're grown up, we'll add a dish to the experts' repertoire.

There are local regulations that stipulate that a family can raise no more than two chickens.

If you are found to have done too much, you will be punished.

At best, they'll take the chicken away; at worst, they might put a hat on someone's head.

That's why Shiyue asked this question.

Huo Bai immediately said, "There aren't any regulations in the army, but I don't know if chicks are easy to find now. I'll go back and ask you, and if there are any, I'll send them to you next time we deliver supplies."