Chapter one hundred and eighteen bran and bran
Zhang Nan looked at the men with joy and asked strangely: "Mr. Wei, are they?"
Wei Tianwu smiled and said, "As soon as you see Lord Zhang, you have never seen this construction thing, and Lord Zhang doesn't see what time it is now. It's time for dinner. The civilians are going to eat."
Zhang Nan seemed to have thought of something and said, "Mr. Wei, are you interested in going with me to see it?"
"Mr. Zhang, what's the best thing about this person eating? But if Mr. Zhang is going, I must follow him." After saying that, Wei Tianwu made another invitation gesture, and Zhang Nan followed the villagers toward the place where the meal was eating.
When he walked to the place where he was eating, Zhang Nan looked at it from afar. The supervisor who was serving the meal was surrounded by a group of civilians.
Zhang Nan and Wei Tianwu walked to the crowd, and Zhang Nan stopped and stood there without moving forward. Wei Tianwu saw Zhang Nan stopping and couldn't figure out the reason, so he had to follow Zhang Nan and stand not far from the crowd.
The people who had already received the meal, all of whom were holding a broken bowl in their left hand and holding a dry and small cake made of unknown ingredients in their mouths. They squatted not far away and gathered together in groups of three or three to eat.
Zhang Nan just waited quietly for all the civilians to receive their food. After all the civilians got the food, Zhang Nan walked to the two supervisors who distributed the food. Although the two supervisors did not know Zhang Nan or Wei Tianwu, they knew Wang Ge around Wei Tianwu.
As soon as he saw Wang Ge coming, he quickly called out: "Sir."
Wang Ge nodded, Zhang Nan did not say anything, walked to the big pot where he was taking the soup, took a spoon and scooped a spoonful and looked at it.
Then he put the spoon back into the pot and said, "I'll ask you two, what's in the pot?"
The two supervisors looked at me, and I looked at you. I didn’t know what Zhang Nan meant to ask this. When Wang Ge saw that the two supervisors didn’t say anything, he quickly said in a low voice: “What are you thinking? What are you asking about?”
At this time, one of the supervisors said to Zhang Nan: "Ask you, the pot is filled with porridge."
When Zhang Nan heard it was porridge, he picked up a spoon and scooped it up and said, "Come on, look at it yourself. What is porridge made in this pot? When you make porridge at home, you don't put rice in the pot, just water, right?"
When the two supervisors heard Zhang Nan questioning him, of course they did not dare to speak, and both lowered their heads.
Zhang Nan picked up the cake in the dirty basket next to the pot and pinched it, which was harder than the stone.
Zhang Nan threw one on the ground hard. Such a hard cake was not broken. Zhang Nan smiled and said, "You two won't tell me that this thing similar to a cake is a cake. What's the thing made of, did you make noodles from a few years ago?"
"Sir, this thing is made by mixing bran and bran together." One of the supervisors saw that Zhang Nan was an official and thought Zhang Nan didn't know, so he kindly reminded him.
"Do you eat this thing too?" Zhang Nan picked up the cake on the ground that made of bran and bran, and asked with two supervisors.
"This...this thing is for the villagers to eat." One of the supervisors seemed to see Zhang Nan's face look a little bad, and changed the subject.
"Is that right? Okay, Lord Wei, let's go and see what the supervisors eat? I don't believe it anymore. The emperor allocated food and funds, and this is what happened to the civilians." Zhang Nan turned around and said to Wei Tianwu.
Wei Tianwu was also in a high position. Obviously, he didn't expect that these civilians would eat something that could not even fill their stomachs every day. He said, "Okay, let's accompany Lord Zhang to see the food of these supervisors."
After Wei Tianwu finished speaking, he said to Wang Ge beside him: "Wang Ge, lead the way ahead and lead Lord Zhang and I to the place where the supervisors eat."
Wang Ge seemed a little hesitant, but Wei Tianwu beat his official position more than one level and had to lead the way.
Soon, Wang Ge took Zhang Nan and Wei Tianwu to the outside of the supervisors' shed. When the supervisor inside saw that Wang Ge was coming, one of the supervisors inside said, "Brother Wang is here, come, come, sit down, it's time to have a meal. Who can go and serve Brother Wang?"
Another supervisor walked to the big pot, picked up the bowl and spoon, scooped a bowl of rice for Wang Ge, walked to Wang Ge, and handed it to Wang Ge.
However, with Zhang Nan and Wei Tianwu around, Wang Ge did not dare to accept it, so he did not reach out. The supervisor who handed the meal to Wang Ge saw that Wang Ge did not accept it, and he would not take it back, and he would not put it in Wang Ge's hand, so he had to hold it up all the time.
A few people fell into an embarrassing situation.
Seeing that Wang Ge was not taking it for a long time, Zhang Nan reached out and took the bowl over. He looked at the porridge in the bowl that was not much thinner than rice. He smiled and handed it to Wei Tianwu, and said, "Mr. Wei, the food in your Ministry of Works is really good."
Wei Tianwu took the bowl, frowned and said, "Do you eat this every day?"
Wang Ge lowered his head and said, "Yes, just eat this."
"Then why don't you eat the bran and bran to make cakes?" Zhang Nan asked strangely.
"That thing is not something that people eat, and it's not enough to eat. It can't be pulled out after eating too much, haha." After a supervisor inside said that, he laughed.
"Oh? Then what you mean is that those recruited men are not human, right?" Zhang Nan turned his head and asked with a smile.
"Why aren't human beings? They can eat that is a great gift from the emperor. If they want to put it in the previous dynasty, they still want to eat this, and they can drink a bowl of water every day." One of the supervisors said while picking up the rice in the bowl.
"Mr. Wei, the management of your Ministry of Works, the construction department, really opened my eyes." Zhang Nan did not pay attention to these supervisors anymore, but instead said to Wei Tianwu. At this time, Wei Tianwu's face turned red. He really didn't expect that the Ministry of Works he managed would work like this on weekdays.
"Who, Wang Ge, I ask you, except for you who have eaten the remaining grain, Wei Tianwu asked Wang Ge angrily.
"This is all in Curry. I didn't move, so I took out some when I was cooking every day." After Wang Ge said that, he wiped the sweat from his head.
When Zhang Nan saw Wang Ge's appearance, he knew that things were not that simple. So he said, "Okay, then please let Lord Wang lead the way and let Lord Wei and I see if the grain from the Ministry of Works is moldy."
"This is this..." Wang Ge immediately began to stutter when he heard Zhang Nan going to see the grain, and couldn't even explain clearly.
"Hurry up, lead the way." Zhang Nan was determined to see how the food was going.
Chapter completed!