Dinner is set to start at 6:30 in the evening.
After sending off the last batch of visitors at 5:30, everyone except necessary on-duty personnel gathered on the small square to the right of the office building entrance.
The tables were the kind brought over from Xiaozhai Village, dual-purpose for firewood and coal, placing a pot in the middle, dishes around it, with the furnace underneath also providing warmth.
These multifunctional stoves have become popular in the countryside over the past two years, while in the city, most use electric ones, which have more appealing names like "warming table."
Including the Protection Station and the study base staff, there were fifty or sixty people, not counting those on duty, which meant there would be over a hundred if everyone was present.
Chen Ying was generous, directly having ten stoves delivered, setting up ten tables. People from Xiaozhai Village who came to help stayed to eat together.
