Shang Jianyao held the canned food, but did not respond or put it down.

After a few seconds, he asked:

“Can it sing?”

"Huh?" Chen Xianyu has lived for so many years and suspected that there was something wrong with his ears for the first time.

At this time, Long Yuehong took two yellow plastic lunch boxes and rushed in from outside the "activity center" and saw Shang Jianyao.

He greeted with a smile:

"Have a meal together later!"

"Will you invite me?" Shang Jianyao put down the can and stood up.

Long Yuehong shook her head without thinking:

"Won't.

"Don't you have a lot of subsidies?"

Although Shang Jianyao's parents did not leave any inheritance, the company provided some pensions. When he went to college, there was an additional monthly subsidy of 1,200 points - every college student had it.

This allowed Shang Jianyao to barely maintain food and clothing.

The subsidy deadline is allocated to college students to work one month after formally going to work.

Shang Jianyao's face did not show any embarrassment of being rejected, and said with a smile:

“Why don’t you share something happy with friends?”

"You want to say that treating a meal is the best way to share?" Long Yuehong has become more and more accustomed to the jumping thinking of Shang Jianyao in the past two months.

Chen Xianyu, who listened to the conversation between the two, smiled and interrupted:

"Yes, Xiaoyue, you are so depressed in the afternoon and become so happy in the evening. You must have encountered something good."

"Don't call me a nickname..." Long Yuehong muttered first, then said with a smile, "My mother said she didn't have to wait for a unified marriage next year. She and my father had a few colleagues' daughters who had not been admitted to college and had just started working. She was going to introduce us to know each other and see if we could develop a romantic relationship."

Company employees only have one chance to take the college entrance examination. If they fail, they will be assigned a unified job (after the work, if they perform well, there will be recommended places to go to college). At this time, they are often only 18 years old and are not at the age of compulsory participation in a unified marriage.

Young people at this stage all yearn for free love. After all, this is definitely better than random allocation. It is not just about competing for luck, but also has a emotional foundation.

Of course, not many people can truly fall in love freely, because after starting work, they go out at 7:30 in the morning and get off work at 6 o'clock in the evening, and are fixed on a position with only one hour lunch break and meal time in the middle. At 9 o'clock in the evening, the "activity center" is closed and the street lights are off. Everyone has to go home and prepare for a rest. Therefore, young people can get in contact with very few suitable opposite sexes, and the time they can get in contact is limited.

Relatively speaking, free love appears more frequently in both ordinary schools and universities.

Long Yuehong said, suddenly feeling a little depressed:

"I don't know if they will fall in love with me. They have only been genetically modified for 1.75 meters and are average. Their grades are not very good. They have not been booked by any department..."

"It seems that something is happening there..." Shang Jianyao interrupted Long Yuehong's self-pity and pointed to an old table a few meters away and said.

There were many employees there, as if discussing something.

Long Yuehong was curious and followed Shang Jianyao over.

He glanced around and saw an acquaintance, then blurted out:

"Aunt Ren, what are you talking about?"

Aunt Ren, who he said, was a middle-aged woman in her forties, wearing a polyester shirt, beautiful eyebrows and simple hair.

Her name is Ren Jie, and she lives next to Long Yuehong's house. She is an employee of the company's "Strategic Committee" department, and she is only at level D3.

Ren Jie looked at Long Yuehong and sighed:

"We're talking about a recent rumor."

"What rumors?" Long Yuehong asked curiously.

At this time, Chen Xianyu, Old Man Chen withdrew his gaze and looked at the pile of military cans placed in front of him. He couldn't help but touch his stomach and swallowed his saliva.

He seemed to recall the feeling of opening a military can when he was extremely hungry.

"It really knows how to sing... No, it makes my stomach and soul sing." Chen Xianyu had an association and sighed sincerely.

On the other side, Ren Jie looked around and lowered her voice:

“It is said that the company wants to deprive everyone of their right to give birth.”

"Ah?" This topic was a bit unexpected to Long Yuehong. He could not understand what it meant for a while.

Ren Jie looked at Shang Jianyao who was keeping a smile and continued:

“Companies may allow couples who want children to hand in their biological materials with the guidance and help of doctors.

“Then, a large ‘fertility center’ was established in the research area to conduct unified test tube culture, artificial uterus pregnancy, baby growth assistance and intervention. In short, by the time you take back your children, they may be several years old.

"Hey, it is said that it is to free women from pregnancy and childbirth to alleviate the lack of labor in the company."

When Ren Jie said this, a woman in her twenties watching on the side couldn't help but speak:

"Isn't this a good thing?"

"How can this be called a good thing?" Ren Jie's face darkened, "The fertility is the gods. Uh, God, the sacred rights given to us, how can you hand them over to machines? Then, how can you establish feelings for your children?"

"Yes, yes." A man sitting diagonally opposite her touched his hair and said worriedly, "It is said that the old world was finally destroyed because of a series of taboo experiments that did not follow ethics."

Ren Jie nodded frequently and turned to Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:

"Xiao Shang, Xiao Yue, what do you think? Do you also think that nurturing life is the key to the reason why human beings are called human beings, and that it is the sacred rights given by God?"

Shang Jianyao nodded without hesitation and said:

"yes."

Long Yuehong saw Aunt Ren's eyes wide open, and looked at him with bloodshot eyes, and said softly:

"Yeah yeah."

"You still understand the truth very well." Ren Jie smiled.

At this moment, an employee smiled and said:

"Are you too serious? This is just a rumor. My uncle has never heard of it before working in a subsidiary organization of the board of directors!"

Ren Jie responded seriously:

"Just just remind everyone. If someone comes to ask for advice, you must object."

Some people were silent, some nodded, and some asked richly:

"If this provision is truly implemented, will the marriage be cancelled and the unified marriage be cancelled?"

The man who mentioned the rumors about the old world before said in a tone:

"Won't.

"Mr. Ji said that a harmonious and healthy marriage is the key to maintaining the stability of employees' mental state in the current environment."

Director Ji is named Ji Ze. He is a member of the company's board of directors, vice president, and a senior executive at the M3 level. He often speaks on the radio and greets everyone through the display screen of the "Activity Center" at the end of the year and the beginning of the year.

While everyone was discussing, a ringtone suddenly came from next to the "Activity Center":

"Dingling!"

Except for a few, most people seemed to hear the sound of charge and stood up at the same time.

This time the bell came from the "Material Supply Market", which reminds everyone that there are only three minutes left to open the canteen.

Seeing that the neighbors began to move towards the "employee cafeteria", Long Yuehong glanced at Shang Jianyao beside him:

"You actually agreed with Aunt Ren's words."

Shang Jianyao looked ahead and said:

"You can ask again if you say something differently."

Long Yuehong frowned slightly, thought for a little confusion and said:

“What do you think of the ‘fertility center’ system that liberates women from pregnancy and childbirth?”

Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation:

"Isn't this a good thing?"

"..." Long Yuehong was speechless.

While talking, the two of them had already come outside the "material supply market".

There is no gate here, so you can see clearly what’s inside at a glance:

On the left is a market with long tables and counters. Many employees who don’t want to eat in the canteen are picking and choosing inside, silently calculating. On the right is a "employee canteen", with doors and windows, and the fragrance overflows.

Not long after, the canteen door opened, and the employees on the 495th floor either took their own tableware or had their hands empty and walked in orderly.

Shang Jianyao did not bring the lunch box, and after entering, he separated from Long Yuehong, turned to the right, and received two large wooden bowls and a dining plate.

Then, he held the tableware and followed the people in front of him in a fixed route, heading towards different windows.

"Half a pound of sweet potato rice."

"A serving of cabbage."

"Two mixed grain steamed buns."

“A serving of boiled potatoes.”

After walking through the four windows, Shang found that the two bowls of Yao were filled with cabbage, boiled potatoes and two yellow steamed buns, and the sweet potato and rice kept the other bowl as if it was about to crack.

This has already cost Shang Jianyao 14 contribution points: half a pound of sweet potatoes and rice, 5 o'clock for one mixed grain steamed bun, 2 o'clock for one boiled potatoes, 2 o'clock for one boiled cabbage and oily flowers, 3 o'clock for one boiled cabbage.

Finally, Shang Jianyao came to the window with the strongest fragrance.

This is the carnivore window.

He looked from left to right, and then from right to left, hesitated and said:

"Give me a braised pork and add some juice."

The aunt in a gray-blue uniform at the window held a spoon and made three pieces of braised pork with long fingers, fat and thin, and tempting colors. She turned to the bowl of Shang Jianyao's sweet potato rice.

The soy sauce-colored gravy in the spoon quickly spread out, moistening half a bowl of rice.

"Fortunately you came early, and you will be gone later." The window aunt and Shang Jianyao family were in the same "block" and were very kind to him, "32 o'clock."

Shang Jianyao glanced at the heavy three pieces of braised pork, took out his electronic card, and swiped it on the machine.

He immediately said thank you, brought a free portion of clear soup, walked in the cafeteria for a while, found Long Yuehong, and sat opposite him.

"Wow, luxury." Long Yuehong exclaimed from the bottom of her heart when she saw his dinner.

Shang found out that Yao ignored him, so he first brought the sweet potato rice with the gravy aside, then picked up a piece of braised pork and took a bite.

Feeling the aroma of meat bursting in his mouth, Shang Jianyao quickly lowered his head and digged out the sweet potato rice that was not stained with gravy.

He ate faster and faster. When the three pieces of braised pork were finished, only half of the sweet potato rice and stewed cabbage were left, and the boiled potatoes and mixed grain steamed buns were left at all.

Finally, Shang Jianyao poured the cabbage into the rice bowl, mixed it into the remaining sweet potato rice with gravy, and finished it in one breath.

"Satisfied." Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong opposite him put down their bowls and chopsticks at the same time, sighing.

After drinking the clear soup, Long Yuehong asked casually:

“Go to the ‘event center’?”

Shang Jianyao shook his head:

"Go back to listen to the radio and have a break."

ps: In the previous chapter, I wrote about Shang Jianyao's birthday, I don't know why I pressed 2 more, but it has been revised now...

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