Watching others eating and drinking for free, Liu Erhu and his wife smiled stiffly and watched them leave.

A week after school started, Wen Xin suddenly discussed with Liu Erhu and his wife that they should prepare more noodles tomorrow and cook two more pots of bone soup. The advantage of bone soup is that you can add water and keep boiling it. The older the soup is, the better it tastes. You also need to keep adding bones and replace them when they are almost done.

Then she said, "The noodles I'll make tomorrow are free, and will be eaten by everyone for free. Let's prepare the ingredients for 500 bowls, and we'll settle it when we're done."

These words simply stunned the couple.

Five hundred bowls for free?

incredible! Why don’t you want money? All of them were bought with money. The bone sticks cost money, and the few pounds of臊子肉 also cost money. Coal costs money, and those peppers, peanuts, oil, and noodles, none of them are free. How can we give them food for free?

Besides, in this day and age, how can you give others food for free? Stealing food is like robbing money, or even more terrible than robbing money?

Liu Erhu and his wife had both experienced hunger before, and they were so worried about Wen Xin's free business that they couldn't sleep well all night. But what could they do? This shop is cozy and she has the final say. The two of them had to get up early in the morning to knead the dough, cut the noodles, and boil the broth. They were really nervous and didn't know how to cope with it.

Liu Erhu's legs and feet are not very flexible, but he has a lot of stamina, which makes him suitable for the job of kneading dough. After practicing seriously for a few days, the dough he kneads is now of moderate hardness and is especially chewy.

His wife Wang Xiaojuan might be average in other aspects, but she is more than capable of cooking daily meals. She can cut noodles easily. With some pointers from Wen Xin, the noodles she cut are thin and long. She is very skilled, so it didn't take the couple long to get the hang of it. The most important thing about noodles is the secret recipes that Wen Xin told them. They have tried it, and if they use ordinary ingredients, the taste will be very ordinary. But if they use the ingredients and oil in the bottle that Wen Xin gave them, the noodles will be extra fragrant, and the soup will be fresh and spicy, with a particularly refreshing taste.

When no one came to the store at the beginning, they were thinking about charging a lower price to attract customers, but who would have thought that Wen Xin was in school and would not come out, and even if she did, she would not ask for money.

…

When I first entered school, Wen Xin was not in a hurry to start working, but got familiar with the school first.

She is brushing up on her school experience, and others are also paying attention to her. The campus of Shanghai University is very large. Compared with several other ordinary colleges and universities, Shanghai University is more grand and beautiful. It has a very good complex of buildings in this area, and the school’s classrooms are also spacious and bright.

During the first class meeting on the first day, Wen Xin's name spread. People said that a freshman female student who looked very Western had come to the Foreign Languages ​​Department. Everyone only knew that there was a female student in the Foreign Languages ​​Department who looked very Western, but many people didn't know how she looked so Western. It was not until they saw her in the cafeteria later that they understood what Western meant when others talked about it.

It's probably because she has a kind of beauty and temperament that is incompatible with the people around her. She seems more fashionable and beautiful than others. You can tell her difference at a glance in the crowd. As long as she is there, the other female classmates are like background boards, and people are not interested in taking a second look at them.

I saw that female classmate had two small braids that were common nowadays, but the braids were a little loose, thick on the top and thin on the bottom, and very short, just reaching the chest. Others had very big braids, and when they were tied up, they left a fur fringe at the end. She is not like that. Her hair is so fine and soft that it disappears while braiding. She doesn't even need to tie it up. Of course, she still ties it up, but to others it looks like there are no fringe at all, as if it was just braided naturally all the way to the end.

Several of her female roommates thought she was so special and wanted to imitate her, but their hair was so cut that they could only tie a fringe at the end, and there was no way they could braid it like Wen Xin. Their hair was also not obedient and was not as black, shiny and soft as Wen Xin's.

That fashionable female classmate was wearing a fitted white silk short-sleeved shirt, a bright blue silk suspender skirt, and white canvas shoes. She looked like a student, but different from the ordinary students. She gave people the feeling that she was out of touch with the world, beautiful yet strange.

Wen Xin didn't care about the looks from these people. He just did what he wanted. When it was the turn of the boy in front of him to buy food, he turned around and gave his seat to Wen Xin with a blushing face.

"Thank you, classmate. You can get your meal first." Wen Xin smiled at him.

The male student stuttered, "No, you're welcome. You go first."

To be honest, the food in the cafeteria of Shanghai University is not delicious. This is still a good key university. There are one or two meat dishes every day, but the taste is very average. Except for the steamed buns and porridge, the rest is hard to describe. There is a lack of oil and salt and the taste is not satisfactory. Just make do with it.

After entering the cafeteria, you have to use your meal ticket to buy food. There are two meat dishes today. Wen Xin took a look and asked for a portion of braised pork, a portion of stir-fried vegetables, a crucian carp soup, and rice as the staple food.

She always eats whatever is expensive in the cafeteria. She will order whatever is good today. A few familiar people in the dormitory will get together to eat. She and Ning Xue are in the same department and have a close relationship, so they often sit together. Hu Aizhen sometimes comes over too.

Hu Aizhen's family was not well off. In order to save money, she took a lot of pickles from home. In that era, there was a lack of seasonings, and the pickles were not delicious. They were spicy, salty, and a little fishy. But there was no other way. Her family was too poor. Although the university received subsidies and student allowances, it was only sixteen yuan a month, enough for food, but Hu Aizhen had to save enough money for textbooks and send some back home.

There was no other way but to save money on her food, so she only bought two steamed buns for one meal, five cents each, a total of ten cents. She was reluctant to spend even ten cents on a bowl of egg drop soup, so she would just eat the two steamed buns with some pickles. Sometimes she would buy one steamed bun and a vegetable dish, but the steamed bun was small and she would not feel full.

Wen Xin looked at her and felt that she was a bit pitiful. After all, she would be a state official in the future. In a few decades, these college graduates would at best be civil servants. Those who did well could gain promotion by accumulating experience and working their way up to deputy section level or above. But now they had to suffer like this. These were the most difficult times in their lives.

So every time Hu Aizhen sat over, she would scoop a spoonful of rice and meat vegetables silently, and pour some crucian carp soup for her.

Wen Xin has a small appetite, so she can’t finish even the smallest portion. It would be a shame to waste it, so it’s better to give it to her.

Perhaps for this reason, Hu Aizhen particularly likes to be close to Wen Xin. She feels that Wen Xin never discriminates against her because she is from the countryside, unlike the classmate on the upper bunk who wanted to switch seats with her on the first day. In fact, it was okay to switch, but she didn't like the tone of voice of Yang Fei on the upper bunk, who often laughed at her for having torn shoes and patched socks.

Although she usually keeps silent when she hears those things, people from the countryside also have their own tempers.

But Wen Xin was not like that. She would lend her books, share her food and take care of her in every way. She liked being with Wen Xin very much.

"Aizhen, look how thin you are and how sallow your face is. How can you eat pickles every day? You're not getting enough nutrition and your body is damaged." If it were the Ning Xue from the past, she would not care about people like Hu Aizhen. They were not in the same circle, could not talk to each other, and had different values. But now she is on good terms with Wen Xin, who takes care of Hu Aizhen, and she can also say a few words to Hu Aizhen.

"I have two younger siblings at home, and I also want them to go to school..." It was really too difficult, and she had no choice.

Ning Xue shook her head, feeling really pitiful, and then scooped a spoonful of her own braised pork for her, "Then, you should eat more."

Hu Aizhen didn't know how to thank them. She felt that the luckiest thing that happened to her after she was admitted to university was meeting Wen Xin and Ning Xue.

Wen Xin did this not for Hu Aizhen's gratitude. She couldn't finish it anyway, so she just did it for the convenience of eating. She has always been able to control her food intake. She would not eat more than three bites of meat. She just wanted to balance the nutrition. She mainly ate vegetables and soup, and gave the meat to other students.

One good thing about this era is that people don't mind eating leftovers. They are so happy to get meat for free. They don't even think about saliva or dirt when it comes to meat. However, people at this time have fewer infectious diseases, so there won't be any problems with contact with each other.

But Wen Xin would not eat the food that others gave her unless they hadn't started eating. She would only take the food from others if they hadn't eaten it yet. If they had eaten it, she would ask others if they wanted some, "I can't finish the meat, do you want some?" The other person would usually take some themselves.

Wen Xin ate in the cafeteria for a few days and made some general observations.

There are about two thousand male and female students, teachers and staff at Shanghai University. Among them are some students from poor families. They usually eat pickles and various pickled vegetables brought from home, and spend only ten cents at most to buy porridge or steamed buns for a meal. Some people buy a lunch box of porridge and divide it into two meals. They save to the limit and some even go hungry every day.

Most of these students want to save the subsidy money and send it back home to support their families. They can only live frugally in their daily lives, just like Hu Aizhen.

However, there are also some students who come from well-off families and do not care about the subsidy. Their families may even give them extra pocket money. The 16 yuan subsidy from the school is enough for normal meals. With the pocket money given by their families, they can order a meat dish a day, which costs 30 cents per meal on average, and the meal with meat can cost more than 50 cents.

Of course, most of them are still very ordinary. With 20 cents per meal and two or three yuan a month, they can eat well. Wen Xin calculated that a bowl of noodles in a noodle shop is suitable for 20 cents, which is just the price acceptable for Shanghai university students' subsidies, and there are noodles, vegetables and meat, which is very economical.

Of course, the臊子 cannot be made entirely of meat. There will be fewer pieces of meat, and more chili peppers, oil, chopped cooked peanuts, and a few fried crispy soybeans. In a word, it is very fragrant and greasy. Two cents for a bowl of noodles is definitely not a loss. You can buy a bowl for two cents, or for one and a half cents plus two taels of food coupons.

…

Having made up her mind, Wen Xin informed Liu Erhu and his wife the day before and asked them to make preparations. Then, when she returned to school, she found a particularly talkative male classmate in the boys' dormitory and gave him a neatly bundled paper snack that she had made. Then, she politely asked him to help promote the restaurant in each dormitory. She said that Huzhou Noodle House would be free tomorrow and asked him to promote it in the hope that everyone would go.

The other party felt strange and asked her about it, so she told him that it was her brother and sister-in-law who opened the noodle shop, but asked him to keep it a secret.

The big mouth is indeed a big mouth. The next day, all the freshman male students knew that they could eat noodles for free. This was so new. Is there any free lunch? The next day at noon, believe it or not, everyone knew about the Huzhou Noodle Restaurant behind the school. There were always some curious freshmen who went to take a look, and it turned out to be free, so they came back and advertised it widely.

As for the girls, Wen Xin gave Hu Aizhen two dollars, which was an indirect aid to her, and asked her to promote the product, but of course not to mention her own name.

People at that time were still very conservative in their thinking. Many people could not understand why Wen Xin could study and do business. It was too troublesome for her to explain, so she just said that it was opened by her brother and sister-in-law.

The next day, it was almost noon, and Wen Xin said to the people in the dormitory, "Everyone is here, do you have time? We are not going to the cafeteria today. I will treat you to noodles, free of charge."

Hu Aizhen knew about it yesterday and had been waiting for a long time. She put down the book happily. She really wanted to go to the noodle shop opened by Brother Wenxin and his wife to see what it was like.

"Really? Free?" a female classmate who was studying in the dormitory wearing a vest and shorts asked in surprise.

"Well, it's free, I'll treat you all to a meal. Hurry up and clean up, or there will be no seats if you go too late."

Someone invited us to dinner, and several female classmates who were lying, sitting or reading in the dormitory all sat up at once, some got dressed, some combed their hair. Wen Xin and the others knew that she was from a wealthy family, so if someone said he would treat us, it would be impossible for him to lie to them.

Only Yang Fei, who was on the upper bunk of Hu Aizhen, curled his lips and said, "Isn't it the Huzhou noodle restaurant behind the school? They offer it for free, so why are you saying they're treating you?" Why are you pretending to be a good person? The news came out last night.

Wen Xin smiled, "Yes, that noodle shop is owned by my brother and sister-in-law." She said to the other roommates who were getting dressed, "I'll take you there to eat. Everyone else can have a bowl for free. You can eat as much as you want. I'll also ask my brother and sister-in-law to cut more meat. I guarantee you'll eat well and be full. Let's go."

Her attitude of ignoring Yang Fei made Yang Fei very uncomfortable. She was also pretty, but not as pretty as Wen Xin. Moreover, when she came to the dormitory, the first thing she saw was Wen Xin's bed, because Wen Xin had already made up her room and the bed was pink. She also liked pink, so of course she liked that bed at once. However, no matter how hard her mother tried, it was useless and she couldn't change it. Later, when she wanted to change to another bed, no one would let her.

Later, when she returned home, her mother said that Wen Xin might have a background and a backer. When Yang Fei asked a teacher she knew to change beds with the officer who came with her, the officer went out for a while and probably went to find a leader of the school. In the end, Yang Fei couldn't even change her dormitory.

So Yang Fei felt uncomfortable when she saw Wen Xin, and always had to make fun of her to vent her anger.

However, Wen Xin's attitude of never paying attention to her, not even looking at her, and treating her like air made her even angrier. What was she so arrogant about? Like a young lady of a capitalist family, if her class background wasn't taken into consideration now, she could have been arrested with just a letter of denunciation, but that was just what she thought.

Her mother had specifically told her not to mess with this classmate. She didn't know the background of the officer, but she knew that the teacher she knew told her in a subtle way that it was best not to let her daughter cause trouble at school and to get along well with her "roommate". As for who that roommate was, Yang Feifei's mother knew it as soon as she heard it. Wasn't it the one who changed the bed? She wants Yang Fei and Wen Xin to have a good relationship.

Yang Fei would not listen to her mother, she just didn't like Wen Xin in every way.

But no matter how displeased she was, all the roommates in the dormitory went to the noodle shop with Wen Xin, and she couldn't stay alone in the dormitory. Besides, it was a waste not to eat something for free. Wen Xin's brother and sister-in-law were not smart people. They actually gave people food for free. What a fool! People like this will lose everything sooner or later. The shop will close tomorrow, Yang Fei thought secretly.

…

When Wen Xin arrived, the restaurant was already full of people. She asked Liu Erhu to reserve a table near the kitchen, and Wen Xin took her classmates there to sit down.

Seven or eight female classmates were chattering and looking around.

"Wen Xin, I didn't expect your brother and sister-in-law's noodle shop is so beautiful."

Wen Xin smiled and said, of course, she decorated it according to the style of later generations. Although it is a bit simple, it is definitely not shabby. The windows are large and the air circulation is good, making the front hall very bright, spacious, clean and tidy.

“Smells so good…”

"Yes, I'm hungry. When will Wen Xin be back?"

"It's almost ready. I'll go take a look. You guys sit down for a while." Wen Xin glanced at the bustling restaurant. All the seats were already full. The students who had finished their meals quickly ran back to school. Soon another group of people came. They all knew that there was free noodles here. Originally, only the freshmen knew about it, but later the sophomores and juniors all knew about it.

There are too many people behind.

Wen Xin entered the kitchen and saw Liu Erhu, who was busy cooking noodles and scooping the sauce, and handing the cooked noodles to the students waiting outside at the kitchen front desk.

There was bitterness in the couple's smiles.

Liu Erhu felt so heartbroken watching the food go into the students' stomachs. He also began to feel sympathy for his company commander. He used to think it was great that the company commander had found such a beautiful college student as his girlfriend, but now, no matter how much money he had, he could not afford to see his company commander's girlfriend squandering it like this. He had already begun to think that he could no longer run this noodle shop and what he should do.

As soon as Wen Xin entered, Liu Erhu's wife Wang Xiaojuan pulled Wen Xin and asked again and again: "You really don't want to charge me? Really not? If you keep eating like this, you will have dozens of dollars left." This is someone else's monthly salary.

Looking at the two anxious faces, Wen Xin glanced at the people waiting in line outside and asked, "How many more noodles are there?"

"Half a bag of noodles has already gone down."

"This bag of noodles is all done."

Liu Erhu and his wife looked as if they were about to speak but hesitated. "It's so warm..."

"It's okay, we will make it back." Wen Xin smiled at the two of them. There are two thousand people in the school. If one tenth of them come here a day, the noodle shop will be very popular. What it lacks mainly now is publicity. The purpose of publicity is to let people know that there is a noodle shop here and the noodles they make are delicious.

How can you know that the noodles here are so delicious if you don’t eat them? You will spend money if they taste good, so tasting is a must, it only costs a few dozen yuan.

Under the gaze of Liu Erhu and his wife, she took out a whole piece of pork that had just been stewed, sliced ​​it, took a small dish of mashed garlic and the pot of noodles, scooped a spoonful of soup, added a spoonful of臊子, then leaned her head out of the kitchen window and called the female classmate at that table to come over and serve the noodles.

The female classmates in Wen Xin dormitory had been hungry for a long time. When they heard Wen Xin calling them, they ran over together and thanked Liu Erhu and his wife. Wen Xin told Liu Erhu and his wife that they should tell others that the noodle shop was opened by them.

The two of them smiled and said to Wen Xin: "Eat more, there will be more after you finish eating..."

After dividing the noodles, Wen Xin brought down a large plate of cut pork and mashed garlic.

"Don't call me stingy, I'll treat you to some meat dishes."

This dish would cost at least one or two yuan in a state-owned store, and it contains so much pure meat.

"Wen Xin, you are so generous!"

"Thank you for the warmth."

"From now on, you will be the boss of our dormitory. We will listen to whatever you say."

With meat to eat, everyone's mouths were filled with sweetness. Everyone picked up four or five large pieces of meat with chopsticks and put them on the bowl of noodles. The smell was so delicious that it made people's mouths water.

"Delicious, the noodles are so delicious!"

"Wen Xin, your brother and sister-in-law's cooking skills are amazing."

"This stew is so delicious. The cafeteria also has noodles, but they are never as delicious as this one. It's warm and cozy. I will come here to eat again in the future!"

Six or seven people were silent and buried their heads in the noodles. After a while, several girls were sweating profusely. Ning Xue couldn't eat spicy food, so Liu Erhu prepared some sauce without chili.

She seemed to eat very politely at first, but her sloppy eating style became contagious, and gradually she started to drink the soup from the bowl, because the soup of this noodle restaurant was yellow and oily, and tasted really delicious.

Almost everyone who comes to eat noodles will eat it all, leaving no soup.

Some neighbors around Huzhou Noodle House saw that the noodle house was deserted two days ago, but today it was crowded with people and there was a long queue. Some people asked about it and when they heard that it was free, some people curled their lips and asked if the customer was crazy, saying that he couldn't sell the food but gave it away for free.

Some people lined up behind and kept asking if it was really free. Is there such a good thing? Are there still such stupid people?

Liu Erhu and his wife, who were called idiots behind their backs, were also helpless. Their silly smiles revealed their heartache. What could they do?

"It's really good." Wen Xin invited several female classmates from the dormitory to dinner. At first, everyone came because she said it was a free treat, but after eating, they really thought the food was delicious.

"How much does a bowl cost if it's sold? It's so warm." a female classmate asked.

"Two cents without a ticket. If you have a ticket, it's ten and a half cents plus two taels of food coupons." In fact, the prices were all written down in the store, but a few people didn't notice.

"That's quite cheap. I'll come here again in the future." After all, there are noodles, meat, vegetables and soup, and it's very filling. A meal in the school cafeteria is just like this, and the taste is average. It's better to eat here.

Others also think it is not expensive.

Yang Fei curled her lips and said, "The noodles are okay, but your brother and sister-in-law are too bad at business. After everyone has eaten free noodles, who would still spend money to eat here? They haven't made any money, but are losing money first. If this goes on, they might close down in two or three days, tut tut."

After hearing this, the classmates fell silent for a while. No one spoke. They all looked at Wen Xin. They had just finished eating someone's noodles for free and now she said that the restaurant was closed. They didn't know whether Yang Fei really couldn't talk or did it on purpose.

Wen Xin's face was indifferent. She ignored her and said, "Have you finished eating? Let's go." She pushed the bowl away, stood up and prepared to go back to the dormitory.

The students next to them noticed that the situation was a little awkward, and they hurried to smooth things over. However, they had to speak to Wen Xin, so who would help Yang Fei? "Yang Fei, you are wrong. Wen Xin kindly invited us to dinner and even gave us food. How meaningless are those words you said?"

"That's right, how can you say they're closed? I think brother Wenxin and sister-in-law's business is pretty good, I will definitely come tomorrow."

"Me too, I definitely can't close the door."

"Don't worry, Wen Xin..."

Yang Fei sat there biting her lip in grievance, "I'm telling you the truth, there's nothing wrong with that. It would be strange if someone who gives people free food didn't close the door..."

This time no one paid any attention to her. Several classmates stood up and prepared to leave, thinking that even if you are right, you can't say it in front of others. You just finished eating someone's meal and you say this. Yang Fei is really ignorant.

On the way back, Wen Xin only talked and laughed with Ning Xue and the others. Yang Fei followed them alone. She felt that everyone in the dormitory was helping Wen Xin to target her. Why?

Back to the dormitory.

"I'm so full, I want to sleep for a while." Several people sat on the beds, and some lay on them.

In addition to Wen Xin and Ning Xue, there is another female classmate named Fang Qionghai in the girls' dormitory. Her family conditions seem to be relatively good, while the others are quite average. The worst one came from the countryside, and the others have one parent who is a worker, or are from a dual-income family.

It's okay if there is only one child, but if there are three or two, the conditions are tight. It can't be said to be too tight, but there is definitely no spare money, so they can't eat meat every day. Wen Xin treated them today, and they felt satisfied because they had a good meal. Usually, they would like to walk with books in their hands, but now they even stopped reading and started chatting, asking Wen Xin who her brother and sister-in-law were and why they did this.

Wen Xin didn't want to say much, just said that he was a veteran.

Yang Fei, who was on the upper bunk, suddenly snorted, "Only unemployed people would do small business. Your brother and sister-in-law sell noodles for a living. It seems that your family conditions are not that good either? Think about it, where do you get the money to buy clothes? And you eat meat in the cafeteria every day. Your brother and sister-in-law earn 20 cents for a bowl of noodles, but you spend 50 or 60 yuan a month on food in the cafeteria. You're like a capitalist's daughter."

Wen Xin was making her bed. Because Ning Xue and Hu Aizhen liked to sit by her bed and talk, she had to spread a small blanket by the bed and fold it up when she slept.

After hearing Yang Fei's words, the originally harmonious dormitory became quiet again.

Wen Xin looked back at her. She looked okay, but her expression was particularly ugly. "You said I was the daughter of a capitalist? That's just empty talk. I also said you were the daughter of an embezzler. The food expenses are more than 50 or 60 yuan? I'm sorry, my partner gives me 200 yuan a month for living expenses. I can't afford it no matter how much I eat. You can't do anything if you are jealous. You don't have it."

"you!"

The other roommates saw that Yang Fei was speechless because of Wen Xin's words and their faces turned red.

The girls looked at each other. Actually, they had already had opinions about Yang Fei. However, they all came to Huzhou from all over the world to study. They should try to study more and read more. They have no time to target others. It is better to get along with each other in normal times. Wen Xin is also a very nice person. It is very quick to borrow anything from her. She also treats them to dinner. I don't know what's wrong with Yang Fei. She has to target Wen Xin.

Wen Xin endured it many times and didn't argue with her, but Yang Fei became even worse and everyone couldn't stand it anymore.

Therefore, they always side with Wen Xin in everything and think that Yang Fei is really unreasonable. They say that Wen Xin is the daughter of a capitalist, but she herself is the one with a temperamental temper and always wants others to tolerate her.

Fang Qionghai lived on the upper bunk. She arrived late and the only upper bunk was left, which happened to be next to Yang Fei. After listening to what the two people said, she put down the book in her hand.

Asked: "Wen Xin, where is your partner from?"

Fang Haiqiong usually doesn't talk much. Her family is a military and political family. Her parents and brothers are all in the army. When she came that day, she saw the warm object and saw his shoulder straps. She knew everything about military duties. Others might not be clear, but she knew very well that there were very few regimental-level cadres so young. Unless they had a good background and good abilities, they would be promoted to regiment leaders. All conditions were indispensable, and even if there were such young people, they would be rare.

When she went back, she asked her father about it. Her father said, "Oh, you are talking about the commander of the 137th Army Corps, who was just formed. Well, he was transferred from Kyoto, and he has a very powerful background." But her father did not tell her the details.

But his father said that he had a great background and was a well-known figure in Kyoto. She had never asked about it before, but after hearing it just now, she couldn't help but ask.

"From Kyoto." Wen Xin saw Fang Qionghai, who had been quiet all the time, speak up. It was difficult to refuse, so she just replied casually.

really!

Fang Qionghai asked again: "What's your partner's last name?"

Wen Xin felt a little strange that Fang Qionghai actually asked two questions today. However, she still replied, "His last name is Yan." Then she picked up the basin and prepared to go to the bathroom to wash her face.

"Yan?" Fang Qiong was surprised.

As soon as Wen Xin left, several people in the dormitory asked Fang Qionghai, because they all knew Fang Qionghai's family. When she first came, she introduced herself and they knew that Fang Qionghai's family had several brothers who joined the army.

"Where does Wen Xin's partner come from?" They were all very curious. After all, they all saw him on the day they came. He was so handsome, gentle and considerate, and he was so nice to Wen Xin. Several girls were envious that Wen Xin had such a good partner. And just now, when Wen Xin was angry and confronted Yang Fei, she also revealed that her partner gave her 200 yuan pocket money every month.

two hundred!

What is the concept? Their working-class family only earns 40 yuan a month. Most of their families have only one worker, and they have to be extremely frugal to support the family with 40 yuan. If the conditions are better, both parties will work, that is, they have two jobs, but the wages of men and women are different, so a couple can only earn 70 or 80 yuan at most. Even so, they cannot save much money in a year, only 100 or 200 yuan. After all, there are too many places to spend money, but they will be a little more well-off.

But Wen Xin is just herself, and she only has 200 yuan a month. No wonder Wen Xin eats and uses the best things on a daily basis. She always gets the freshest meat and vegetables when she goes to the cafeteria, and she never blinks an eye at paying 50 or 80 cents.

If they have 200 yuan a month, they can eat as much meat as they want and buy a lot of nice clothes.

Her partner is really good to her.

Almost all the female classmates in the dormitory looked at each other with envy, and they all wanted to find someone like Wen Xin who would give them so much money before they even got married.

Fang Qionghai hesitated: "If I'm not mistaken, Wen Xin's father should be XX in Kyoto."

The other female classmates opened their mouths wide when they heard this, but some of them didn't understand.

"Let me put it this way. If he gets promoted one more level, his father might be..." Fang Qiong didn't dare to say it too clearly. She just said it vaguely. In fact, her family didn't allow her to say these things, but she was still a little girl after all. She couldn't control her mouth and said it out loud in front of her roommate.

This statement shocked all the students in the dormitory. Kyoto is a place that these students dream of visiting once, because it is Kyoto, the place closest to the great man. Who wouldn't yearn for it?

But now it's suddenly said that the father of one of their roommates' boyfriend actually holds a high position in Kyoto and may be the next XX, although he is not yet...but it's surprising enough.

On the other side, Yang Fei, who was sitting on the upper bunk and had just been fighting with Wen Xin with her back straight, turned pale when she heard it. She remembered what her mother said, but she still interrupted unconvinced: "If you say so, then so? There are so many people with the surname Yan..."

Fang Qionghai glanced at Yang Fei coldly, "Are there many people with the surname Yan? As far as I know, there are not many people in Kyoto who have been promoted to regimental-level cadres at a young age, just this one." Her father said that she has a background, so she must not be a small fry.

Yang Fei's words were blocked, and she felt suffocated for a moment, not knowing how to refute.

"Wen Xin's boyfriend is from Kyoto, so why was he transferred to Huzhou?" someone asked curiously.

Fang Qionghai pushed up his black-framed glasses and said, "I don't know about that, but I can guess that for a lateral transfer like this, it's very likely that he's using Huzhou as a springboard to accumulate meritorious service for a few years, and then he'll be transferred back in two or three years. I don't know what position he'll be promoted to after that."

"Wow, Qiong Qiong, you are really amazing."

"It's okay. I heard some things from my dad and brother, so I know a little bit."

"Does that mean that Wen Xin will be assigned to Kyoto after graduation?" someone asked enviously.

Fang Qionghai said: "In theory, yes. It's just a matter of one sentence."

Yang Fei was not convinced, "How do you know? Maybe she made it up. Her brother and sister-in-law make a living by doing small business. If her boyfriend is really that powerful, how could he fall in love with her? I don't think her boyfriend is that great."

Fang Qionghai looked at Yang Fei and smiled without saying anything. She was also there when Yang Fei happened that day. The funny thing was that Yang Fei thought it was really the school rule that prohibited changing beds, but in fact it was someone who specifically prohibited her from changing beds. Your school has someone like that, and so does someone else's school. Is it a big deal to know a teacher? Maybe he has connections with the principal.

Her family even specifically requested Wen Xin's lower bunk bed. They really think they can call the shots and do whatever they want in school. They can control you without showing off. They still feel unconvinced and are going against Wen Xin. Now it seems that he is just a fool who cannot see the situation clearly and does not know his own capabilities. He has no future at all.

Everyone in the dormitory was immersed in envy. They were still worried about where they would be assigned after graduation, but others were destined to go to Kyoto easily and would be assigned the best and easiest jobs.

It is impossible not to be jealous, but this is not something they can do just because they are jealous.

When Wen Xin came back from washing her face, she felt that the people in the dormitory suddenly became enthusiastic.

"Wen Xin, use my towel."

"Wen Xin, I have some facial wipes, they smell really good, use mine."

Seeing this, Yang Fei gritted her teeth. Dating doesn't mean getting married, so why be so proud? It’s not certain whether we will get married or not.

…

Yang Fei said that who would spend money to go to a free noodle shop a second time. She said it yesterday and was slapped in the face the next day.

The noodles in the noodle shop are delicious, inexpensive and of good quality. Within two days, almost the entire Shanghai University knew that there was a noodle shop behind the school. The free publicity was so strong that almost all students would come to try it. After all, those who had never been there had heard about it from their roommates, and they were curious about it because they heard it was delicious. No matter what, they would go to eat it once. After eating it once, they would want to eat it a second time the next day.

So in the next few days, Huzhou Noodle Restaurant was packed with people. The money spent on the first day was earned back on the second day, and business was booming on the third and fourth days.

With more than 2,000 people, if only one-fifth, or even one-tenth, could make a fortune, after all, at that time there was only this one noodle shop around the school, and then there was the campus service center, and the state-owned stores and department stores a little further out of the school.

In comparison, the noodle shop at the back door is better in quality and cheaper in price, it’s close to the school, and of course the food is delicious, so everyone is willing to come.

It's not just the school. Seeing people coming in to eat noodles, the neighbors at work would occasionally go in to have a bowl. Two cents is really not expensive, and there's meat, so in less than a month, the business was booming.

Liu Erhu and his wife are very busy every day. Wen Xin said that they would take 20 cents for every ten yuan sold, and 2 yuan for every hundred yuan sold. They can make more than a thousand yuan a month, and they can get an extra 20 yuan. Wen Xin's salary includes food and accommodation. The salary for the two of them is 50 yuan a month, and with the extra money, they can get 70 or 80 yuan a month. Moreover, the food and accommodation do not cost much at all, and it is all net profit, so the two of them are very motivated.

As the business is getting better and better, Wenxin has added appropriate menu items. Do any classmates want to eat tea eggs? To fill in the blank, Liu Erhu's wife is very good at making buns. She makes a few baskets of buns every morning and sells them until they are sold out. She also gives them to students in the school who are less well-off.

The store sells a kind of meat sauce, which contains chopped dried chilies, a small amount of meat, fried peanuts, and chopped soybeans, all mixed together and fried in oil. It costs one cent per spoonful, and five spoonfuls can fill a one-pound glass bottle. Because it is very spicy and salty, it can be kept for several days.

This meat sauce is fried until it smells really good and is full of oil. Whether you eat it with steamed buns or with rice, it's so delicious that you can eat an extra bowl of rice. And it's very cheap when you share it. For students who are short of money and don't often go home to get food, this sauce is a great deal. It's only 50 cents a bottle, and if you eat it sparingly, it can last you a week.

Fifty cents a week's food costs only a few cents a day on average, which is completely acceptable, and it is nutritious and delicious.

It sold like hot cakes after just three days. Not only the students who were struggling financially, but almost all the students bought it. When you went to the cafeteria, you could see everyone carrying a glass bottle with them. No matter what they ate, they would scoop a spoonful of it. Even the cafeteria dishes that were not very tasty would become so delicious that it would make you cry if you added a spoonful of sauce.

This sauce was a huge hit. Wen Xin initially just wanted to make something nutritious and affordable for these students who were short of money, because she saw that Hu Aizhen's food was too simple. She would never order any dish that cost more than ten cents, and would only order a soup for five cents. In fact, she was not the only one like this. Many poor students were like this. They all ate until they were pale and skinny, and did not eat any meat at all.

The meat sauce that Wen Xin prepared only costs a few cents a day. It is nutritious and affordable. She was just trying to sell it, but she didn't expect it to be so popular.

Maybe it’s because the oil extracted from the warm system is so fragrant. All the students who have bought and tasted it are craving for it.

With these two sources of income, the noodle shop earned nearly two thousand yuan a month. Liu Erhu and his wife had no idea they would earn so much money. They also received more than one hundred yuan that month and were so happy that they almost cried.

We were at a dead end before, but now we have hope.

Wen Xin doesn't plan to deposit the money in the bank because money in the bank is dead money. She plans to continue buying houses nearby. It is most practical to use the money to buy houses.

She liked the food on both sides of the noodle shop very much, so she took the things and went to find Uncle Zhang to ask for help, as it was always difficult for her to talk when she visited someone.

The two families were determined not to sell it at first, but later Wen Xin offered a price of fifteen hundred yuan.

One of them was interested.

The current house price is only 800 yuan, but someone actually wanted to buy one for 1500 yuan. The family casually mentioned 1600 yuan, and Wen Xin agreed. They thought that with 1600 yuan, they could buy two houses. With the money, they could buy one house to live in, and still have 800 yuan saved.

Few people at that time could save so much money. Money was tempting, so after thinking about it for several days, he finally agreed.

Wen Xin took the family to the housing authority and successfully got the house, so she bought the one to the left of the noodle shop.

Then she didn't dare to make any big moves. After all, if she bought two adjacent houses, she could say that she was expanding her business. There was not enough space. But if she bought too many, she was worried that there would be trouble. After all, the crime of speculation still exists. So Wen Xin planned to wait and see.

…

Time passed quickly, and the weather turned cold. Wen Xin deposited the money in the bank and locked the passbook in her