[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again":3,"chapter-after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-chapter-49":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},711697,950,"Chapter 49 - 23 Director Fang’s Prophecy Emperor_2","after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-chapter-49",49,"\u003Cp>Lu Zexian nodded and was about to queue up when Yue Tao started reminding Fang Huai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s been noodles all week, and buns only once! They’re all meat! With your appetite, why not eat more?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Huai shook his head firmly, \"Forget it, I don’t feel well today, can’t eat much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The buns were brought back, quite large in size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As big as the palm of a hand, and very hefty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there weren’t enough to go around, so everyone had to be content with just a few distributed evenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the beginning, everyone was enjoying the buns with some pickled vegetables, savoring the flavors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Peng Yingqirui, who usually had a small appetite, was devouring them like Wang Yousheng from \"Bright Sword.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the buns steamed today had ample filling, and the dough wasn’t thin, so once the filling was eaten, it became too dry, and people started to dip the buns in soup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more they ate, the more bloated they felt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, some couldn’t eat anymore and began asking around if anyone wanted their buns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone shook their heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those in the later companies fared a bit better, as they had assigned small daily duty members to fetch the buns. When they returned to their squads, there was hardly a chance for anyone to grab excess buns. But in the earlier companies, where everyone fetched their own, some even got seven or eight buns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>New recruits couldn’t move around freely, and it wasn’t possible to run over to another squad to ask. The ones with whole buns just hid them in their bags. Those who couldn’t finish the halves they had eaten mostly consumed the meat, leaving the dough in the soup bowl, which was then thrown away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In some squads where the squad leaders were strict, the new recruits didn’t dare to hide a big bun in their bags. Resignedly, they threw the whole bun into the bin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The swill buckets quickly filled up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the dining hall’s staff had no choice but to pull out a large basin to contain the swill,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chief of Staff Yang Yonghua finally stood up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked over to look at the bucket, frowned, then picked up a large ladle from next to it and stirred it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw a whole bun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After stirring again, there was another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chief of Staff’s frown deepened into a chuan character, and then he called out loudly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Company Leaders, Instructors, gather here!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fourth Company has already left!\" someone called out from a distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chief of Staff bellowed, \"Call them back immediately!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>minutes later, the entire battalion assembled at the entrance of the dining hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next to the Chief of Staff, there were two huge swill buckets and a basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he saw everyone had gathered, he issued his first order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Company Leaders, Instructors, fall out!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group of cadres marched forward purposefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new recruits held their breath, feeling they might be punished this morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chief of Staff pointed to the bucket, \"Come, take a look. Drought kills by drought, flood by flood. Some are overfed, others go hungry; while the dining hall staff slaved over steaming these, here lies so much waste! There are even untouched ones thrown away!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cadres gathered around for a look and remained silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Speak up! What to do?\" the Chief of Staff demanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instructor of the First Company gritted his teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First Company is skipping meals today!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next one quickly followed suit, \"Third Company too!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Sixth Company is skipping meals!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chief of Staff gestured dismissively, \"What nonsense are you talking? Without food, can you sustain the training?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, he walked forward, picked up a dry piece of leftover bun from the bucket,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and put it in his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of the new recruits immediately covered their mouths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn, what a tough guy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But something even tougher followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Company cadres lead by example! Pick a piece from the inside, each one of you! If there are leftovers, the squad leaders will eat them! And if there’s still more, the new recruits will eat!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes!\" A cadre immediately stepped forward, grabbed a piece, and stuffed it into his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was now a big queue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all the squad leaders finished eating, the new recruits started scooping up chunks of bun in the order they had entered the dining hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pieces picked by the cadres were mostly dry, while from the squad leaders on, it was generally half-soaked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pickled vegetables, egg flower soup, you name it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chief of Staff personally served the rice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing next to the bucket with a scoop in hand, the queue moved forward, and each person took a piece with no luxury of choice, and taking too little was not acceptable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As it got to the last few, not a single one didn’t frown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it was soggy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the bucket today looked clean on the outside; otherwise, there might have been a mess outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each scoop, it became clear how the new recruits had eaten before: the buns were broken open, and the meat was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the new recruits picked theirs up, some almost cried at the sight of those oily bun \"remnants,\" unable to bring themselves to even touch them, let alone eat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the squad leaders scolded on the side, \"You grabbed a pile when it was your turn! Now can’t eat it? Eat others’ leftovers! Others eat yours! It’s fair! I didn’t leave any food either and still ate! Take it! Eat right here!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The actual contents weren’t complicated—just bun dough, pickles, and egg flower soup, with no odd smells, and the bucket indeed had been cleaned. In the past, during times of food scarcity, if this were distributed as aid to displaced people, it probably would have been snatched up instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the new recruits hadn’t seen anything like this before, each one eating as if they were about to vomit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there were just two greasier dishes today, or something slightly off-tasting, they could have been spitting out their bitter gall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Huai and his group were lucky, queued with the Fifth Company, and by then, there was nothing left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, no one was mentioning how the first few companies were lucky to have picked extra buns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But every squad leader of the Seventh Company got a piece.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was somewhat aghast at the incident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chief of Staff stood in front of the line, pushed his tongue against his teeth, dissatisfied, and then reached in to scoop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone’s full, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole place fell silent, except for the occasional retching noise from the back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chief of Staff’s face darkened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"800 people, wasting a bowl of rice each per day, how much does that add up to? Firefighting doesn’t raise pigs; there’s no swine here to digest your excess! Some of you come from the countryside, don’t you know the value of grain?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1165,"2026-06-02T10:16:52.042Z",1,"novelbin.me","c88c7f2b3e8234ac3160369a606980f53bc68cbdf042f06db609acf67ca54bf3","after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-chapter-50","after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-chapter-48",807,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-cover.jpg"]