Chapter 299 Crouching Dragon and Phoenix
"Xiyue, I didn't expect that we would meet here. What a coincidence. We both thought of the same thing."
Liu Yao jumped happily over and took Ning Xiyue's hand.
Ning Xiyue glanced at Liu Yao, then looked at the other two, and asked curiously, "Did you three make an appointment?"
"The three of us met at the work point recording place. Liu Yao said she wanted to come and take a look. We were all very curious about this place. We were the only ones in the Youth Farm who cooked our own meals. So we decided to come here to see if we could be lazy and have a meal here without having to cook for ourselves."
Wang Mengmeng smiled and shook her head, then went over and took Ning Xiyue's other hand.
Wang Jiandong looked at the three people who were with their partners, while he was alone with his arm around each other's shoulders. After thinking about it, he hugged his arms and crossed his chest with his hands. Suddenly he had a place to put his hands, and he didn't feel embarrassed anymore.
Liu Yao saw that this cafeteria was bigger than she had imagined, and she was a little confused: "Where should we start to find out now?"
Wang Jiandong looked at the crowd of unfamiliar faces in the cafeteria. He was not in a hurry to check on the dining situation. Instead, he turned his gaze to the calm Ning Xiyue and asked with a smile, "Sister Xi, how is it? Do you know something about the internal situation?"
Although he was asking, he was very confident in his heart. He believed that he didn't need to ask anyone else about the situation here. He would be able to get the answers they wanted from Sister Xi.
"You are really sharp, nothing escapes your eyes. Come with me, I will take you there, and we will talk as we walk."
Ning Xiyue walked in front to lead the way. As she walked, she briefly told them what Aunt Yang Liu had said today, and by the way, she looked back to see if her second brother was there.
Second Brother Ning didn't see it, but when he walked to the innermost window of the cafeteria, he saw a small room next to it. Ning Xiyue knew that this was the place to exchange tickets.
"We should change here." Ning Xiyue stopped and said to the three people following behind her.
Liu Yao trotted over excitedly: "Come on, let's knock on the door and change quickly. I just passed by those windows and saw that there was pork stewed with vermicelli, and a pot of food made with fermented black beans and crucian carp. It looked delicious."
Wang Mengmeng swallowed her saliva and looked at the window where the food was served from time to time: "I smell the fragrance, it is indeed very fragrant, I will eat these two dishes today."
Wang Jiandong walked forward and knocked on the door. A strange woman at the window next to him shouted, "What are you doing there?"
Ning Xiyue stepped forward with a smile on her face: "Auntie, we are here to exchange meal tickets. May I ask if you can exchange them here?"
When the aunt heard this, she did not reply, but shouted loudly behind her: "Master Shen is looking for you."
After a few seconds, a middle-aged man wearing an apron and glasses ran out from the kitchen. He wiped the water off his hands on his apron and shouted, "Here I come."
Master Shen looked like an educated man, but he looked unfamiliar, so it was estimated that he was a member of the coal mine team.
After he came out, Ning Xiyue and the others saw a familiar-looking person following closely behind him.
The five people all glanced at Chen Yetu.
Chen Yetu raised his eyebrows at them and greeted them with his eyes.
Liu Yao leaned close to Ning Xiyue's ear and whispered, "Isn't this Ye Chu? Is she responsible for the change?"
"Just watch first." Ning Xiyue turned her head and replied.
She was not too surprised. She was not surprised that Chen Yetu was the general manager. It was something she was capable of doing.
After Master Shen opened the door and sat down, Chen Yechu also sat down next to him and took out a notebook and placed it in front of him.
Master Shen looked at the four of them and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that someone would come to exchange tickets on the first day. You are well-informed. You are the first group to exchange tickets. Comrades, how many do you want to exchange?"
Ning Xiyue waited for him to take out the ticket and put it on the table before asking, "Master Shen, how do I change it? How much is a meal ticket?"
Liu Yao then asked: "Master Shen, if we want to have a meal at noon today, do we only need one meal ticket?"
"You are from the Daliu team, right?" Master Shen looked at Chen Yechu when he said this. After getting her eye confirmation, he continued, "If you are from the Daliu team, a meal ticket costs 10 cents. One meal ticket can buy one meat, one vegetable and one rice. You can get the soup over there."
When they heard the price, they felt relieved and looked at each other and had plans.
Ning Xiyue thought the price was very suitable. If the food was delicious, she would eat here every day. The two dishes Liu Yao just mentioned were very good. There were at least five different dishes at the windows along the way.
It’s good quality and cheap, she likes it.
"Master Chen, we are from the Daliao team. I want to exchange thirty tickets." Ning Xiyue readily took out three dollars from her pocket and handed it over, and bought thirty tickets first.
Master Shen handed the money to Chen Yechu, "Xiao Chen, register it for her."
He took the box of meal tickets and started counting the meal tickets for Ning Xiyue.
"Why."
Chen Yechu took the pen and wrote on the notebook, and Ning Xiyue signed after he finished writing.
Seeing Ning Xiyue buying so much, Liu Yao thought about it and took out three dollars and handed it over.
“Master Shen, I’ll change thirty too.”
"I'll change thirty too." Wang Jiandong also changed the same amount.
Only Wang Mengmeng was different. She took out six yuan generously and said, "I'll change for sixty."
Ning Xiyue held her thirty meal tickets in her hand and looked at them. When she heard the amount they exchanged, she smiled knowingly. She knew it would be like this.
Currently, the only educated youth in their home are Zhao Jianshe and Wu Guifang, two old educated youths whose families have many children and whose conditions are average. The remaining educated youths have good family conditions and their families give them subsidies and send them gifts every month.
Wang Mengmeng's family conditions are even better. Her parents are both leaders in large companies. She has been brought up in pampered conditions since she was a child. She is a person who will not put herself in a difficult position and she has plenty of money and tickets in her pocket.
Wang Mengmeng has long wanted to stop wanting to cook for herself. It’s bad enough that her cooking is not tasty, but she is already tired after work, and cooking makes her even more tired.
So she had been looking forward to it since she knew about the canteen opening. When she saw the food and heard the prices, she wished she could eat three meals a day in the canteen so that she could free her hands and no longer have to cook.
After she got the sixty meal tickets, she looked at the food in the window, and then saw people passing by with food, so she turned back and asked, “Master Shen, do you provide breakfast in the morning?”
This question made Ning Xiyue stop and look at Master Shen, waiting for an answer.
Master Shen smiled more as he looked at several big customers who exchanged a lot of meal tickets, and said kindly: "Yes, the canteen provides three meals a day. You can come whenever you want. You are welcome at any time. Next time you come to exchange tickets, just stand here and call me."
"Thank you, Master Shen." Wang Mengmeng was even happier with this answer, and took out three yuan from her pocket and handed it over: "Change me another thirty, and I'll come to eat in the morning too."
Liu Yao looked at her in surprise: "Mengmeng, why did you change so much?"
Ning Xiyue smiled and shook her head. This guy is stupid and has a lot of money.
She pulled Wang Mengmeng's clothes and whispered in her ear, "Why don't you wait until you taste the food before changing it? What if it doesn't taste good?"
"It's okay. No matter how bad it tastes, it's still better than what I cook. From now on, I won't cook with them anymore. I'll eat in the cafeteria every day. The cafeteria is my second home."
Wang Mengmeng looked at Liu Yao who was helping her get the meal ticket, then looked at Wang Jiandong who was getting food at the window next to her, and leaned close to Ning Xiyue's ear and lowered her voice and said something else.
"The main reason is that all the people who can cook in our courtyard have gone to work in the coal mines. The only two of us left are not very capable, and our cooking is not tasty at all. I guess the cooking skills of Liu Yao and I are not as good as the pig food cooked by Aunt Chunsheng. It's better to eat in the cafeteria."
Ning Xiyue: ...
She was speechless.
This is a disdain for both my own and my friends' craftsmanship.
It may not sound good, but it is true.
Apart from Xia Zhipeng, who she disliked, the only people who cooked with them were Liu Yao and Wang Jiandong.
I remember last year, Wang Mengmeng and Liu Yao, two talented couples, cooked together, but they couldn’t even cook the rice well.
Ning Xiyue understood deeply: "What you said makes sense, let's go and get some food."
"Mengmeng, here's your ticket." Liu Yao happily handed over the meal ticket.
Wang Mengmeng looked at her friend who was equally skilled in cooking, her eyes welling with tears: "Thank you, Yaoyao, I will eat in the cafeteria from now on, what are your plans?"
Liu Yao was pleasantly surprised and took her hand. "So you think so too. I also plan to eat in the cafeteria. I will exchange rations in the future. If I run out of rations, I will exchange them with money. I will discuss it with my cousin when I go back. If he has any rations, I can exchange his as well."
Well, these two are worthy of being called Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick. They have the same ideas and have thought of everything. There is no room for worry at all.
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