A steaming plate of dumplings was something these workers hadn't had in a long time.
Throughout the year after the disaster, various difficulties kept coming one after another. Though food was never scarce to the point of starvation, those who didn't work still only managed to not go hungry, and to be full, they had to work.
Even for those who came to work outdoors every day, the meals were just standard shelter food, which everyone was already sick of.
If you wanted to eat something different, unless you were like Chen Xin, who had a private shelter and abundant supplies, otherwise, no matter how sick of it you were, all you had was the monotonous shelter food.
So, a plate of dumplings for these workers, they probably last had it before the disaster during the New Year.
Thus, these dumplings acted as an extraordinary catalyst for these workers, making them work energetically in the afternoon after eating.
