Chapter 297 "Sucker"

Ning Xiyue walked to the kitchen. There were already two bowls of cold sweet potato porridge and a plate of pickled radish slices on the table.

"Second brother, you got up too early. The meal is already cooked." Ning Xiyue looked at Ning Qingyuan who was feeding the chicks in the chicken coop and said in surprise.

"It's not just me who cooked it. There's something else going on that allows me to have breakfast so early today."

Ning Qingyuan poured the chicken feed into the stone trough, winked and raised his chin while speaking in a low voice in the direction of the kitchen next door.

"What's going on?" Ning Xiyue trotted over to her second brother, lowered her voice, and guessed the answer with interest: "Could it be that you and Yu Zhiyu did this?"

"That's not the case, sister, you guessed it right."

Ning Qingyuan was surprised for a moment and then continued:

"I was sleeping soundly this morning when Yu Zhiyu from next door suddenly knocked on my door and asked me what to eat the next day after getting drunk. I dozed off for a moment and then I was completely awake."

"Then I remembered that the only people who were drunk last night were Liu Yao and Chen Yechu. Hehe, I probably knew what Yu Zhiyu was thinking. I didn't even sleep, and quickly got up to cook breakfast with him. Let's go in and tell you a big secret I discovered last night."

Ning Qingyuan walked out of the chicken coop and pulled Ning Xiyue into the house.

Ning Xiyue tilted her head with a smile in her eyes and looked towards the kitchen next door.

I really didn't expect Yu Zhiyu to be so proactive. He handed in the brief last night and took the initiative to cook stomach-nourishing porridge this morning. He is quite proactive and really considerate.

Ning Xiyue is now a little curious about the situation next door. There is no rush. Perhaps she will be able to see the outcome of their situation after today.

"Little sister, please sit down. I'll bring the steamed eggs and steamed buns."

Ning Qingyuan took out two bowls of steamed eggs from the pot, one bowl for each of the two siblings.

There are also two big steamed buns per person.

"This is steamed with the duck eggs we picked up yesterday. The steamed buns are made with the dough that rose when we cooked rice last night. We steamed them this morning. Eat them while they're hot."

"Wow, you guys made quite a rich meal."

Ning Xiyue picked up the bowl and took a sip of the porridge. "Well, the temperature of the sweet potato porridge is just right, not too cold or too hot. By the way, second brother, what big secret do you want to tell me?"

"Last night, last night I saw Yu Zhiyu tell Chen Yetu that he liked her." Ning Qingyuan looked outside the door, leaned over mysteriously and whispered.

"Is that the secret?" Ning Xiyue calmly scooped a spoonful of egg custard and ate it.

She thought it was some big secret, but she didn't expect it to be this. However, her brother also saw it last night, which surprised her more than the secret itself.

"Aren't you surprised? Little sister, you knew about this?" Ning Qingyuan's expression froze. How could this be different from the reaction he expected?

Ning Xiyue took another bite of the steamed bun and smiled mysteriously: "I was also at the scene last night. I heard and saw everything. There is nothing in this Youth House that I don't know. I can see clearly what everyone is doing."

Ning Qingyuan widened his eyes: "..."

I never expected this!

Ning Xiyue was very happy after scaring her second brother. She picked up the steamed bun and continued eating.

"Hurry up and eat. You have to go to the coal mine team to officially start work today. You should be able to see some changes in their situation when you get back from work today."

"Well, I admire you. I finally understand why you are so successful in the Daliu team. You can see everything clearly."

He also personally thought that his sister had become more cunning than the holes in a hornet's nest after going to the countryside, which was a good thing because she wouldn't be bullied.

Ning Qingyuan was drinking porridge when he thought of something and looked up and said:

"By the way, sister, the people working in our coal mine team eat in the team's canteen. We will issue special meal tickets every month, one ticket per person, and you can eat with the tickets. Go to the accountant to get them at the beginning of each month. You don't have to cook for lunch. How about I go get the tickets today and take you to the canteen to eat."

"Okay, today is the first lunch in the cafeteria, so it's nice to give it a try. I'm sure there will be a lot of people joining in the fun today."

Ning Xiyue had this idea a long time ago. She had to go to the cafeteria to find out if she could get ready-made meals in the future.

"Well, it's settled. I'll wait for you in the cafeteria at noon. Come eat, there's more in the pot."

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After breakfast, Ning Xiyue mixed a cup of brown sugar water and added a drop of mango sago water into it, then gave it to Liu Yao to drink and went out to work with her.

Starting today, the members of the team began their busy work for the new year. Except for those who worked in the coal mining team, everyone else, young and old, was busy with spring plowing in the fields.

Today is the first day of work. Ning Xiyue only works on the slope in the morning and returns to the clinic in the afternoon, so the team leader assigned her a simple job.

Weeding the land for planting spring wheat.

Ning Xiyue’s task is to weed.

She is still in the same group as the aunts with whom she used to work.

Aunt Yang Liu, Aunt Zhao, Aunt Qian and other people who are most familiar to me go to work together.

Working with them is a constant joy and never boring.

We were pulling weeds and chatting at the same time.

As they chatted, they talked about the two aunts who were absent from the gossip group, Aunt Liu and Aunt Zhang.

Aunt Zhao moved to another place with the basket filled with grass. She kept pulling the grass with her hands and talking a lot.

"Today, the big canteen in our team opened. Lao Liu and Lao Zhang are still the chefs there. I really want to go and see what the canteen looks like. They are both pretty good at cooking."

At this point, Ning Xiyue had something to say and told everyone the news she heard from her second brother this morning.

"I heard that you need a ticket to eat in the cafeteria. You can't eat without a ticket. The number of meal tickets each person can get is fixed, and only people who work there can get tickets."

"That's true, but this is a benefit for being on our team."

Aunt Yang Liu was good at chatting. She paused when she got to the key point, looked at everyone with a smile and kept the topic in suspense for the time being.

As the captain's wife, she had first-hand information about the brigade canteen.

This aroused the curiosity of everyone present, and they all looked at Aunt Yang Liu.

Aunt Qian couldn't hold back her curiosity, she even stopped pulling weeds and asked, "Yang Liu, what are the benefits? Tell us quickly."

Ning Xiyue cared a lot about this benefit. She had originally wanted to inquire about eating in the cafeteria. Now when she heard Aunt Yang Liu say this, her curiosity was aroused and she looked at Aunt Yang Liu with curiosity and asked.

"Aunt, what kind of benefits are they? Can you tell me? It's so uncomfortable to stop here."

Aunt Zhao echoed, "Yes, Yang Liu, why don't you say something? You feel uncomfortable when you are halfway through your sentence."

Aunt Yang Liu glanced at the others and said, "Don't stop pulling weeds. I'll tell you something."

Ning Xiyue moved her hands quickly and pulled out the weeds without any hesitation.

The other aunts continued to pull out the weeds, but half of their eyes were still on Aunt Yang Liu, waiting for her to speak.

Aunt Yang Liu saw that everyone was pulling weeds faster, smiled with satisfaction, and continued:

"If people who don't work there want to eat in the cafeteria, there are ways to do that."

"There are two ways. One is that when the team members go to eat, they can bring their rations to the canteen to exchange for cooked meals. We will charge them two cents as a processing fee."

"There's one more." Aunt Qian continued.

Aunt Yang Liu looked at Aunt Qian and smiled.

"Don't worry, listen to me slowly. There is another way to buy meal tickets directly with money, just like eating at a state-owned restaurant, but the cost is half cheaper than that of a state-owned restaurant. However, only members of our brigade can eat in the cafeteria in person to enjoy these benefits."

When the aunts heard that both methods had a lot to do with money, they lost interest.

Two cents is still money. Two cents at a time is sixty cents a month, which is enough to buy a pound of meat. It will take a long time to work in the fields to earn back the money.

Not to mention the second method, some people have so much money that they have to buy food outside.

This benefit is not very attractive to those who make a living from the land.

It is not necessary to eat in this cafeteria.

Although the aunts were not interested and did not think this benefit was good, they could not say it directly because they had to give Aunt Yang Liu some face.

One moment he urges others to talk about benefits, and the next moment he starts to despise them. He does this to the captain's wife, at least. No one is so stupid.

Aunt Zhao smiled awkwardly and said, "It's still okay. If there's a happy event in someone's family, we can go to the cafeteria to eat. If we're lazy and don't want to cook occasionally, we can also try it. It's still pretty good."

"Yes, yes, I think so too. When you are tired from the busy farming season, you can go to the canteen to have a look." Aunt Qian also nodded and said politely.

Of course, others followed closely behind.

Not a word he said was serious.

All I was thinking was which sucker would go there. The food was cooked by the people in the team, so how could it compare with the food cooked by the chefs in the state-owned restaurants in other towns? There was nothing good to eat in the cafeteria.

Only Ning Xiyue really wanted to go. The polite words the aunts said were her true thoughts. She was the "sucker" in the aunts' minds.