Our family is in decline

The composition of the school is mainly divided into several parts. The first is those who have normal families and send their children to study.

The second is those who are in their teens and twenties, have jobs, come to receive literacy training, and there are also workers and farmers who are trained.

The last category is orphans who are admitted to the school for various reasons.

To be honest, those newly arrived barbarian boys have no money. In the past, they were taken care of together in the form of tribes. In fact, their parents have been messed up for a long time, and only a small number of them have accurate family relationships.

Most of these barbarian-born children have no money, so Lance simply separated the children into different grades and managed them together. The files were classified as orphans and treated them the same as orphans, which was not unfair to them.

He even did this intentionally to cut off their ties with the tribe and show kindness to the outside world.

School construction costs money, and it is far from free now. Ordinary students have to pay tuition. Although it can be afforded after subsidies, there are greater exemptions if they are relatives of heroes.

And those who come here for literacy tutoring are regarded as rewards and do not need tuition, but they are also considered subsidies, which is equivalent to the lord paying their tuition.

But they still have to pay for food, and the first two groups have family support and can earn money, so they can afford it.

The problem lies with the orphans. They have no money to pay for tuition, and naturally no food expenses. They can only rely on the lord's grants to subsidize them.

The standard meal is not very good, but there are vegetables and meat, and there are nutritional subsidies such as eggs and milk every day. If the berry garden on the farm has a harvest, you can also eat berries.

Lance really raises them like people, because these orphans are selected by him before they are accepted. He is specially trained to be separated from family relationships and only accept the kindness of Hamlet.

But why didn't he see nutritional subsidies in those people's bowls when he came to eat today? Only dry and hard bread?

"Do you eat these? I remember there are nutritional subsidies? You should have at least meat every day?"

The student didn't expect the lord to suddenly appear, and they naturally did not hide this question.

"It's getting dark, and the adults said that the food is running low."

"Everyone is starving, so we just need to eat this."

Looking at the simple smiles of those children, Lance looked a little unnatural, but he didn't say much. He began to ask more detailed questions, and then turned to more people.

"When did this start?"

"What do you eat for three meals?"

Lance went around among them and investigated roughly, and found that this was not an isolated phenomenon, but a large part, and the time span was not short.

It's just that there was still a little bit before, but this problem became more serious after the arrival of the extreme darkness.

It is mainly manifested in those orphans, including those students from barbarian tribes. On the contrary, those ordinary students who paid money had meat in their bowls, which might be brought from home.

It's just that today is a holiday, and those students have all gone home, leaving only these orphans, which has concentrated and magnified the problem.

Lance's investigation naturally attracted the attention of some people, and soon the person in charge of the school cafeteria ran over happily. Looking at the smile on his face, he obviously didn't realize what happened.

"Welcome to the Lord's inspection!"

"Finally you are willing to come out, right? It seems that your spy is not very good, or are you busier than me? I don't know what you are busy with?"

Lance looked at the man, although he was smiling, but the sarcastic words were like playing with prey, giving people great pressure, and the man suddenly sensed a hint of danger.

"Go and get me a meal." Lance didn't care about his reaction at all, and threw a sentence casually, and then sat down among the students.

It was just that this attitude of picking up the food and suddenly changing the words made the man inexplicably have unrealistic fantasies, and dared to please Lance, the Lord.

"Sir, we have prepared the food in the private room."

This made Lance, who had just sat down, pause, and the smile on his face became even stronger.

"I've been in Hamlet for so long and I've never heard of a school cafeteria with private rooms.

What? Is it unfair for you to eat with students and teachers?"

"No! No!"

The man quickly denied it. He was also a little confused about the lord's inexplicable attitude, but the lord's weirdness had not stopped, and his smiling face was full of malicious malice.

"That's even more troublesome. I can't even use the private room for meals, but you use it first. It seems that you are more powerful than me."

The sudden words made the man's expression disappear in an instant, leaving only panic.

"Oh, by the way, I remember that you seemed to be from the city, and you were promoted to the position of the school cafeteria because you had experience in banquets. You used to serve big shots, and now you are a big shot yourself. How can you say you are a big shot without a private room, right?"

Lance was still talking to himself, and his words revealed the man's identity. He was a chef for a wealthy businessman in the city before, and he was promoted because of his relevant experience.

But most people can't handle this kind of stress test. Fortunately, Lance didn't want to waste any more time and directly asked the key question.

"Why do those students eat this?"

Lance raised his hand and knocked on the table, so that the man finally no longer had to figure out the lord's intentions. However, instead of breathing a sigh of relief, he became even more flustered, hesitating and unable to explain.

Fortunately, the lord was very considerate and helped him explain.

"I heard they said it was because it was dark that there were problems with material transportation, right?"

"Ah... that's right! It's just because of the delay in the delivery of supplies. It's all their fault... I'll recover as soon as possible..."

As if he had found a life-saving straw, the man smiled again, nodded wildly, shirk responsibility, and promised various improvements.

But whenever he had contact with the lord, he knew that Lance's kindness was usually not so easy to swallow.

Lance didn't rush to refute what he said. Instead, he smiled and waited for him to finish.

Regardless of extreme darkness or blood moon, there is still an impact on Hamlet's material supply. This is the drawback of urbanization, and food must be imported.

As soon as he came back, Lance asked someone to sort out the information from this period. Judging from the information he had on hand -

During the period of extreme darkness, it becomes more difficult to fish at sea, marine resources shrink, and the production of vegetables and fruits drops sharply.

From these two aspects, it can be said that the shortage of material supply caused by production reduction is normal, and Lance has nothing to say.

But there are all the supplies produced on the farm. The output of eggs and milk may be smaller, but it can still be supplied.

Even the storage conditions of expired milk make it impossible to waste it, let alone a large amount of dried fish and bacon reserves. It is absolutely impossible to let it go like this.

What he said was simply bullying. Ordinary noble lords would not interfere in these matters, so there was a high probability that they would not understand.

But Lance was very clear about this, because he led those people to study and formulate emergency plans and resource allocation, and he knew what the situation would be.

So what he said sounded reasonable. It would be difficult for everyone to hold on to the special conditions, but Lance understood that this guy was just a barking dog.

After he finished speaking, Lance finally revealed the fangs hidden under the "goodwill".

"During this period of time, Hamlet was under military control and the army was responsible for material transportation. The materials they worked hard to transport under the blood moon were also given priority to schools. I don't remember that there were any deficiencies in the reports they gave me."

Lance laughed angrily and asked angrily, "You mean my army is also corrupt?"

"Ah! No, no..."

Lance's question directly caused the man to quickly deny it. You could see that he was sweating profusely in this autumn and winter, and his face was already as pale as a dead person.

Only now did he react, remembering that this was really the case.

If this word gets out, even if the lord lets him go, those troops will definitely not be willing to be humiliated. It is hard to say whether he will be sunk into the dock overnight.

"Then tell me, where did the missing supplies go?"

Lance's last words were simply heartbreaking. Everyone knew it, but they just pretended to be stupid and forced him to say it himself.

But Lance still underestimated the "strong" belief of these people. Although he was almost scared to death, he just refused to speak.

Lance likes it very much, he likes playing games the most.

"That's easy. Just pair up the account books of the farm, logistics, and school and you will know where the mistakes are."

Lance advocates leaving traces of work, and handovers between different departments should be recorded and signed.

The production, transportation, and use of materials are all separated into three separate accounts. You can find out by looking up these.

This sentence is directly equivalent to stepping on the scale, because the matter is made clear and according to the rules, it must be investigated.

"My lord, I said it! I said it..."

At this time, he didn't know what happened. He couldn't bear the pressure and cried out what happened.

In fact, it's a very simple thing. Wasn't Hamlet's funds relatively tight some time ago? Then he tried to find ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency, such as adding more water to the milk and making the bread smaller.

Some things were better off if they didn't start, but they couldn't stop at the beginning. Later, when the economic situation improved, he didn't stop, and he put this part of the income on the line and sent the materials to the ruins town through some channels.

This is not about making a profit on the price difference, but about making a business without capital, and everyone is sharing the money and laughing.

When darkness fell and prices soared, he intensified his efforts and deducted more money. At the same time, he became dissatisfied.

It's just that those normal students, workers and peasants had families behind them or had the ability to resist, so he didn't dare, and then he focused on those helpless orphans.

When the blood moon came, a large number of outsiders were trapped here, and the prices in private were even higher. He took the opportunity to cooperate with others and made another huge profit.

If he just stopped at this moment, Lance probably wouldn't be able to find out, but his courage was already fattening up, and the school cafeteria was his.

"If you are usually greedy, forget it, buy some ingredients and pass them off as good ones to make a little profit. If the amount is not large and it does not affect the students' normal life, according to the law, you can recover the losses and impose a fine. The most you can do is Just dig a road for two years. If you do a good job in accounting, you may not even be discovered.

But why would you touch the money? Stealing food from the mouths of those children, and under such severe conditions, it is better now. We don’t have to build roads, and our families are also burdened. "

"They don't have family? No background? Are they easy to bully?" Lance's eyes became more and more fierce, and he roared like a roar: "I am their family, I am their background! Today I will tell you whether they are easy to bully!"

"Gather the youth team!"

Lance shouted, and soon many students who were basically ten years old or above came out from those students, both boys and girls.

In general, some children with excellent performance and willingness are selected. Compared with the general physical education classes for physical fitness, they all receive basic militia training.

Hamlet had problems several times, and they would take up weapons, although they were just simple spears, to maintain order in the school and even defend the school.

"You go and call... you go and notify..."

Lance gave the order, and the children ran immediately.

The things here still alarmed more and more people. It can be said that every move of the lord was watched.

First of all, Rosa, as the principal, also came here, but she looked a little uneasy and angry.

As the principal, she mainly pays attention to the quality of education. She is busy with various things every day. Who would have thought that a canteen with no difficulty at all would have an accident.

"Do you know about this?"

"I don't know."

"If you have eaten in the canteen, you should know it, or did you go to the private room?"

Lance looked calm, even a little indifferent. You know, he was very friendly when he inspected the school some time ago and affirmed the principal's achievements. Now he is like this.

He can change his face quickly, and he doesn't care about human relationships at all. If he does well, he is good, and if he doesn't do well, he is not good.

"Usually, I send it directly to the office when I am busy. Sometimes I don't find it when I come to the canteen. It's my problem." Rosa was speechless. She was really dragged down by her teammates.

"It's not your fault. If it wasn't a holiday today, there would only be those orphans here. To be honest, I can't tell."

Lance's face was slightly relieved when he heard this. He nodded to confirm that she was not involved, but he added another sentence.

"But if you need to cooperate, please cooperate with the investigation."

"Lord, I am willing to cooperate with both the investigation and the punishment, but try not to affect the normal operation of the school."

Rosa said this with a stiff upper lip. She still had her own selfish motives. After all, this happened on her territory, and it was her fault. It would be good to reduce the impact a little.

Lance didn't care. "There is nothing that can't be said. Just in front of the children, tell them that there are some things they can do and some that they can't do. No lesson can be more profound than today."