Two folding wooden tables were taken out and placed in the yard. The benches were long benches, each seating three people. The original ones from the house, plus those left by Commander Gao and his men, were enough for their needs.
After a busy morning, with all the large pieces of furniture in place, Yu Yao brought out the large wooden basin containing the chicken rice and served it to everyone.
Everyone was quite enthusiastic, having enjoyed the aroma all morning, and now they were starving.
Yu Yao ladled a large bowl of chicken rice for each of the young soldiers who helped her, topped with half a spoonful of chicken and half a spoonful of crisp and sour bamboo shoots.
There were four or five dishes on each of the two tables, and the portions were very generous. Everyone ate their chicken rice and vegetables with gusto, their mouths greasy and they were incredibly satisfied.
They even fought over the leftover broth to use as a rice soaking soup.
Today's dishes are all hearty and oily, so Yu Yao specially made a fruit dessert soup in case everyone gets tired of it.
There happened to be an old pomelo tree in the backyard. Before leaving, Commander Gao and Aunt Chen only picked a few to eat on the way, leaving the rest for them.
Yu Yao used pomelo and the lychee honey she had previously used to make a pot of honey pomelo and mango sweet soup.
Song Yiming and the others were not married. They lived and ate in the army canteen. The canteen's food was mainly large portions and filling. They never made things like sweet soup, which was laborious and not filling.
These rough-and-tumble men had never tasted such delicious sweet soup before; they were amazed by the first sip.
"Sister-in-law, I didn't expect you could even make soup so well. If the side business team made this kind of fruit sweet soup, it would definitely sell well."
"Exactly, this is much better than those fruit sweet soups made by the side business group. Especially the pomelo, I don't know how it was processed, there is no bitterness at all, just the aroma of pomelo. Why doesn't the division commander ask his wife to take charge of the side business group? If his wife made this, it would definitely sell out."
"Eating won't shut you up! Your wife is doing just fine at the food factory, she doesn't have time for anything else." Song Yiming said to Yu Yao with a smile, "Sister-in-law, don't listen to her nonsense."
"That's true. Sister-in-law, you're so amazing. What's so amazing about you? The food at lunch today was the best I've ever had. It was even better than the food I've had at state-run restaurants."
Yu Yao didn't respond to the side hustle group's comment, but instead said, "I made a lot of sweet soup today. If you like it, you can fill a kettle and take it back with you later."
"I can't accept this, eating and taking things at the same time, but this sweet soup is really delicious."
"As long as it tastes good, that's fine. I was just wondering what to do with the leftover pomelos, so I made some for you to take back with you."
After a hearty meal, everyone worked with renewed vigor. It's said that a full stomach makes you sleepy and slows you down, but these young men were full of energy and worked even harder than they did in the morning.
Before 3 p.m., all the work was finished.
Yu Yao wanted them to stay for dinner, but everyone felt embarrassed. One meal was enough; they didn't have the face to stay for two. They refused to stay no matter what.
Having no other option, Yu Yao had to ask Lu Ze for help.
Lu Ze knew what these greenhorns were thinking, so he waved his hand and said, "It's fine if you don't eat. Go back and get your water bottles. Each of you should fill a pot with sweet soup. No refusing, that's an order."
While everyone was back in the barracks getting their water bottles, Yu Yao quickly steamed the seafood buns she had prepared that afternoon. While she was making sweet soup, she gave each person two large buns to take away.
With everyone's help, this move was easy and pleasant, and it was almost done in less than a day.
The new bedroom is in the master bedroom and is twice the size of the old bedroom. Yu Yao separated it with a curtain; the inside is used for sleeping, and the outside is used as a study.
With two desks, she and Lu Ze could read and work without interfering with each other.
Three days after the Lantern Festival, Hu Lingyu received a call from the Lu family's old house, saying that the old man had accidentally fallen while alone at home.
Hu Lingyu was worried, so she had Lu Ze buy a ticket for the next available ship back to Guangdong Province.
When she left, Yu Yao was at work and Lu Ze was training, so Wu Wanying and Wu Huaiqing took her and Tianya to the dock.
On her way to work that day, Yu Yao was organizing canned goods information for the upcoming Spring Canton Fair in her office when she heard a series of hurried footsteps.
Fang Qiaoqiao, panting heavily, stood in front of her desk. "Ayao, big news, big news! Director Li is being transferred!"
"What? Director Li is being transferred?"
Yu Yao put down her pen and gave her some mint water. "What exactly is going on? Is the news true?"
Fang Qiaoqiao took a big gulp of mint water. "The news is definitely true. The personnel changes were just posted in the announcement."
"Director Li is doing a great job, why is he suddenly being transferred?" Director Li is an upright and warm-hearted person who is wholeheartedly dedicated to the development of the factory. With him as the leader, Yu Yao can save a lot of trouble.
If it were someone else, who knows what would happen? It takes time to get used to each other.
"I asked Brother Zhao about this. He said that the factory manager of a food factory in Guangdong Province was found to have been covering for the Black Shark smuggling gang for more than a year and was taken away by the border police. Now the food factory is leaderless, and the organization is not at ease. They want to transfer people from other factories and have chosen Director Li."
Yu Yao paused, "So, Director Li is going to become the factory manager directly? That's a good thing for Director Li."
“Promotion is indeed a good thing, but it’s tough on us,” Fang Qiaoqiao sighed. “The new director has a history with our factory and isn’t someone easy to get along with.”
"From what you're saying, you know who the new director is?"
"Yes, as soon as Director Li's personnel changes were announced, the new director was also chosen. It's not someone from our factory who's being promoted; it's someone transferred from Yangcheng Food Factory named Jiang Jiawei, who's thirty-two years old this year."
At this point, Fang Qiaoqiao walked over and closed the office door before saying, "I heard they have connections at the top. They know our Haixing Food Factory did well last year, and they want to come here to gain prestige and get a share of the pie."
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