Chapter 1164 This is a life you can't understand

"Please sit down. I've already wiped the table and chairs clean, so they won't get your expensive clothes dirty."

As if afraid that the two of them would find it offensive, Xia Youxin took out alcohol-based hand sanitizer from her bag.

"Wash your hands with this, that way there won't be any bacteria."

The two of them squeezed a little hand sanitizer into their palms, rubbed it on their hands, and then reluctantly sat down.

Qi Xuan felt a little awkward, so he tried to start a conversation. He felt like the two of them were oddballs standing next to him, constantly being stared at. Maybe those people thought they were very handsome, or maybe they recognized them, since they were both prominent figures in the country and the four young masters of Jinyun City.

But perhaps those people also think that the two of them are being too pretentious. After all, so many people are sitting and eating without any problems, while the two of them, as grown men, seem a bit awkward.

"Why don't you sit inside? It's so cold outside!"

It was indeed a bit cold when they first sat down, after all, it had just snowed in the last two days, and it's usually quite cold for a few days after snowfall.

Fortunately

There wasn't much wind today, so I wasn't freezing.

Xia Youxin also washed her hands with hand sanitizer, then put the hand sanitizer back into her bag. "That's because eating spicy hot pot will make your body heat up, and don't you think the air outside is much better than inside?"

Eating mala tang is like eating mala hot pot; if you stay in there for a long time, you'll smell like it on your clothes. You two men probably hate having those kinds of smells on you, right? I'm just thinking of you guys.”

"The four of us only spent 100 yuan on food. Isn't that a bit too cheap? I can hardly believe it's true."

"That's because your consumption habits are different from ours!"

Most of these students come from ordinary families. Our school isn't a private, elite school, so things near the school are generally cheaper than elsewhere.

Even a bowl of spicy hot pot in the city center would only cost a few dozen yuan, maybe a few yuan or ten yuan more expensive than here.

But it won't be much more expensive. You two young masters always go to high-end restaurants, so naturally you wouldn't understand this...

What are the prices of the food that ordinary people eat?

Their parents' salaries may not be high, perhaps only two or three thousand yuan a month.

A family's income might only be five or six thousand, or six or seven thousand.

Each semester, we have to pay four or five thousand yuan, or even more, for their tuition, and each month they need one or two thousand yuan for living expenses. This almost uses up the entire salary of one of the parents.

They need to make a living too; in reality, it's quite difficult for most ordinary families to save money.

It might be a little better if we didn't have children, but having children can almost bankrupt us. Two people have to support one child's education for over ten or twenty years.

It might cost them all their savings, something you can't even imagine. That's why many children nowadays are very sensible; they work part-time while studying, or go out to do odd jobs or something.

To ease the burden on my parents, I always choose the cheapest food available.

Many restaurant owners near schools are quite honest; they understand the hardships these students face, which is why they set their prices relatively low.