Siheyuan: Returning to 61 to collect waste

Afterwards, Ye Chuan arranged for the canteen to prepare more food. When the more than 40 people came to the canteen after finishing their work and saw the food, everyone's face was filled with joy.

The cafeteria serves unlimited white flour steamed buns, and the dishes include twice-cooked pork, braised pork belly with cabbage and tofu soup made by Luo Aimin, with the quantity more than a dozen more than usual.

Director Yang said to Ye Chuan with emotion, "My dear brother, in today's Beijing, there are not many places where you can enjoy white flour buns as much as you want. You are one of them!"

Ye Chuan laughed and said, "That's because we can produce these things ourselves!" "But I heard that you have stored a large amount of flour?"

Ye Chuan did not comment on this, and instead asked, "Brother, do you think the scene outside is lively now?"

Director Yang answered without hesitation: "Of course it's very lively, everyone is very enthusiastic!"

Ye Chuan nodded: "The school has stopped classes, the factory has stopped production, and you should also be aware of the changes in the countryside."

"I do know!" Director Yang responded.

Then Ye Chuan asked him, "So what do you think the consequences of all this will be?"

This time, Director Yang looked a little puzzled and shook his head slightly, saying, "I have never thought deeply about this..."

So, Ye Chuan gave everyone present a cigarette and said, "If students postpone their schooling, at most their learning progress will be slightly delayed, but they will be able to catch up sooner or later; but if the factory stops production, it will cause a shortage of various daily necessities and consumables! As for the rural areas, how will they ensure food supply at that time?"

It was only then that Director Yang realized the severity of the problem. If the same drastic reduction in grain production occurred again, would it lead to another round of food shortage?

He said to Ye Chuan, "Brother, what you said is indeed true, but these problems are definitely not something we two can handle!"

Ye Chuan blew out a puff of smoke and said slowly, "That's why I decided to stop supplying flour to other cooperatives and stock up on myself. Once that happens, the most important thing is to ensure the survival needs of the people around us, and the rest of the situation is beyond my ability."

Factory Director Yang fell silent about this. After a while, he silently agreed. According to their current positions and social status, they actually had no other choice.

During this conversation, everyone had already served their meals, and the discussion came to an end.

After all, Luo Aimin has worked as a chef for a long time and his cooking skills are superb. Currently, his work is mainly focused on the logistics management of the commercial building, and he rarely cooks in the kitchen.

However, he personally prepared this meal today. Director Yang ate the steamed buns and tasted two plates of delicious food, constantly praising, "This taste is really wonderful, even better than the food made by Sha Zhu!"

After hearing this, Ye Chuan smiled a few times but did not respond further.

Director Yang originally intended to say a few good words for Sha Zhu, but when he saw that the other party ignored him, he stopped talking. Although the food made by Sha Zhu was very much to his taste, he was just a chef after all, and there was really no need to ruin his relationship with Ye Chuan for a chef.

More than 40 people devoured the food, and soon they ate up all the food for 60 people, leaving not a single one of the 200 steamed buns. Ye Chuan stared helplessly and said, "This is a huge loss. You guys are using the warehouse, but we can't even keep the cafeteria!"

Director Yang promised with a smile: "Bring your brothers to the canteen of the steel mill one day and eat as much as you want!"

Ye Chuan smiled as he saw Director Yang out the door. A convoy consisting of twelve Jiefang brand trucks and a crane drove out of the yard one after another, which was a spectacular sight.

Back in the yard, he looked at the closed warehouse and some items piled at the door, with a satisfied smile on his face. Ye Chuan did not leave until five o'clock when the workers got off work, and stayed until seven o'clock in the evening. When no one was in the supply and marketing cooperative in the commercial district, only he and Mr. Cui, the gatekeeper, were left in the yard.

After eight o'clock, he finished all his work, locked the door of the office, and walked into the yard with a flashlight. First, he put the large rosewood tea table outside the warehouse into the system space, and after thinking for a while, he also put all the broken old furniture in.

These furnitures are large and well-made, and even if you don't use them now, it's a pleasure to put them aside and admire them. Especially the canopy bed with carved patterns, the four wooden pillars are exquisite and delicate, whether it's for yourself or for your parents to use in the future.

After dealing with the furniture in front of the door, he opened another warehouse filled with porcelain, vases, calligraphy and paintings, etc., which was filled with various antiques and cultural relics. Most of these porcelains belong to the Qing Dynasty, but there are also Ming and Song Dynasty Ru kiln and Tang Dynasty Sancai, and some objects can even be traced back to the Han Dynasty.

Compared with works from other eras, Han Dynasty items are slightly inferior in terms of craftsmanship, but a gray pottery jar from the Eastern Han Dynasty that he casually took out was still very interesting. After observing it carefully for a moment, the jar began to flash and turned into data.

Ye Chuan quickly checked the information through his system, and was extremely surprised after seeing the result - this inconspicuous pottery jar actually contributed a unit of energy!

Before this, it took many years of hard work to raise the accumulation to more than 10 units. Just this ceramic container from the Eastern Han Dynasty brought Ye Chuan units of energy, and the current accumulation has exceeded units of energy!

This discovery surprised and delighted him: if the other thousands of pieces of ceramics, antiques, calligraphy and paintings could provide him with similar benefits, the total energy in the future would be unimaginably huge.

Ye Chuan did not rush to extract these energy points immediately, but sorted them first. First, modern artworks and imitations were eliminated, and then antique artworks with a long history and a sense of age were selected separately. Although the energy benefits brought by old pieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties were limited, only those produced by the palace or extremely rare and precious objects could achieve a breakthrough, but such treasures were rare after all.

Objects before the Ming Dynasty brought more energy points, which he roughly grouped together.

After finishing all these tasks, it was already past midnight, but he was not in a hurry. Having worked until late at night in recent years, Tong Yao knew that he was busy and could understand.

If in the future he does not come home all night, as a wife she will definitely have all kinds of thoughts, especially for a man like Ye Chuan who is young, rich, has status and is handsome.

The future has its advantages, and this era has its advantages. At least infidelity wasn't as frequent back then as it is now.

After finally sorting out the items, he picked up the objects from the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, and the Jin Dynasty in turn. There were not many items from this period, only a few dozen pieces.

After each item flashed, he checked the system information. The least one gave him 10,000 energy points, and the most one reached 40,000 energy points.

After some operations, the energy points in the system exceeded 700,000, which made him ecstatic.

Ye Chuan discovered a problem in the process of collecting energy points: the system does support group collection, but the closer the age of the items, the higher the success rate. If a single item has more than 10,000 energy points, it is almost impossible to collect it in a group.

That's why he spends a lot of time sorting.

He began to collect those higher-value items. By around two in the morning, the energy points in the system had exceeded two million, and only the more common objects from the Ming and Qing dynasties had not yet been processed.

Most of these items came from private kilns and were the most common ceramics of that era. All the precious items that had come down from the palace had already been collected.

Ye Chuan was very excited. This was just the situation of one warehouse for detained items. If he inspected each warehouse one by one, not to mention tens of millions of energy points, even hundreds of millions of energy points would be possible.

The last batch was collected in groups. Three or four thousand antiques flashed together, and the entire warehouse was instantly as bright as day.

Although these items were relatively common, they were in large quantities, and the total energy points after they were collected reached 320 million. Adding the previous million, the total energy points exceeded million.

"Ding! System upgraded successfully, current level is 8!"

"Ding, an upgrade gift pack is available, do you want to open it?"

Ye Chuan was stunned for a moment, his heart filled with ecstasy.

Previously, upgrades were only made after items were repaired. This is the first time an upgrade has been made by collecting energy points.

It turned out that the collection was insufficient before, so he wondered if he could copy and upgrade in this way and look for warehouses for confiscated items all over the capital?

He has been using the system for several years, but he still feels that he has not fully understood it. The current system level is 8, and he doesn't know whether the final peak will be 10 or 20.

Ye Chuan was not in a hurry to open the upgrade gift package. It was almost 2:30 in the morning, and if he continued to work it would definitely be past 3 o'clock.

After selecting a few valuable old items from among the many old objects and putting them into the space, he left the warehouse, locked the door, and then drove the jeep out of the commercial building.

In the guard room, Mr. Cui was so sleepy that he was staggering, but because Ye Chuan hadn't left yet, he had been forcing himself to stay awake, fearing that something unexpected would happen and the leader wouldn't be able to find him. Only when the sound of the jeep faded away and the outline of the commercial building disappeared from sight did Mr. Cui feel relieved. He fell on the bed and within a few minutes he began to snore loudly, and the sound echoed throughout the guard room.

It was already three in the morning when Ye Chuan got home. He carefully opened the door and walked into the house, but found that Tong Yao had not gone to bed to rest. Instead, she was half lying on the sofa. She woke up immediately when she heard the noise. "Ye Chuan, you're back?" Tong Yao said while rubbing her sleepy eyes.

Ye Chuan stepped forward and gently hugged his wife, saying with some care: "You are pregnant now, don't worry so much."

Tong Yao smiled and said, "You come home so late because of work, I just keep you company. Are you hungry? I'll go cook some noodles for you."