"Come on, come on, if you want to take your food away, come here and buy your meal tickets." There was a lady selling meal tickets at the front of the dining car.
The place where they get food doesn't charge money, so they have to buy a meal ticket before they can get the food. Ning Xi was afraid that the food would be sold out after they finished eating, so she bought a meal ticket first.
The meal ticket cost 30 cents, and she only wanted vegetarian dishes, so she chose stir-fried amaranth and stir-fried water spinach. The lady who served the meal gave her a very generous amount of money.
"Come here if you want to order food~" the young and beautiful dining car waitress greeted.
There are not many dishes. Braised carp costs two yuan per serving, which is a bit more expensive than braised pork. The cheapest is kelp and egg soup, which is only eight cents a bowl.
Ning Xi glanced through the food and made the decision, "One each of braised pork, braised carp, shredded pork with green peppers, and smashed cucumbers, and three bowls of soup. Uncle Sun, how much rice would you like?"
Sun Zhigao: "Four ounces is enough."
"Okay, one pound of rice." They each had four ounces, so two ounces would be enough for her.
The waiter quickly wrote it down: "The total is five dollars, sixty-four cents."
This amount of money seems pitifully small from the perspective of later generations, but according to today's wage levels, an average worker in the city only earns thirty or forty yuan a month, and more than one-tenth of it is spent on a meal!
However, it is understandable that the prices on the train are a bit higher. A meal on a modern high-speed train is also shockingly expensive. Ning Xi has never eaten there anyway, and usually brings her own bread.
Either I can’t afford it, or I think it’s not cost-effective.
"Comrade, here's the money. By the way, is Chef Lin still busy?"
The waiter's smile became even more friendly. It turned out to be an acquaintance. He quickly took the money and gave the change, saying, "Yes! It's dinner time now, and we're busy."
The dining area of the dining car has very large windows. After paying, Ning Xi took the two of them to choose a seat by the window where they could enjoy the scenery.
The original owner had never been on a train, so everything on the train was new to her. She just glanced at the kitchen and it seemed that they were still using open flames.
It's really not easy to be a chef in such a hot day, especially on a shaking train.
"Hey! Is that Moutai?" Ning Xi noticed the bottles of wine in the window in front of her.
Sun Zhigao nodded: "It seems so, the little girl has good eyesight!"
Ning Xi became excited. If it was really Moutai, she would have to buy a few bottles to stock up!
If you don’t need food coupons to buy meals on the train, you shouldn’t need wine coupons either, right?
Just then, the waitress came over to pour them some water, and she took the opportunity to ask, "Comrade, how much is the Moutai liquor over there?"
"Seven cents a cup, one ounce."
"How about buying a whole bottle?"
"Six dollars, and each table can only buy one bottle at most."
"Okay, thank you. Give them each a glass first, and then get me a separate bottle."
Ning Xi was so hungry that she wanted to have a drink herself, but due to her physical condition, it was better not to drink anything spicy.
You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Once your body is well, you can eat whatever you want.
Sun Zhigao didn't expect to be able to drink Moutai, and his smile became even wider: "Comrade Ning is really too polite."
The prices on this train are too high!
He had been sighing inwardly since he started ordering, and kindly reminded her, "Actually, this wine is only a little over four dollars a bottle back home, but the wine tickets are hard to get."
Uncle Zhang: "Not only is it difficult to do, but you also need a permit to do it."
"It's indeed expensive." Ning Xi agreed, but she had already planned to buy a bottle of Moutai with every meal.
The price of this wine is not low now, but it will be even more expensive after being kept for decades. If it is well preserved, it will cost at least tens of thousands per bottle, which is definitely a good value!
She hasn't spent a penny on herself since she came to Nanji Province!
Sun Zhigao also handled the train ticket back to the city this time, and he didn't ask her for money yet, saying that it was Zhao Huaiyan who instructed him to do so.
The first time Lin Yongjun gave her one hundred yuan and twenty kilograms of food coupons, she asked for five hundred the second time, but in the end he only gave her two hundred, which he really couldn't afford.
In this era when the average household deposit is around 100 yuan, Lin Yongjun took out 300 yuan at one time, which was quite beyond Ning Xi's expectations.
There is also 600 yuan from selling my job and 200 yuan from Director Zhu.
After deducting the one hundred yuan she gave to Liu Chunmei, the five yuan she gave to Yu Xiaocao, and the fourteen yuan fifty-four cents she spent today, she still had nine hundred and eighty-one yuan and sixty-six cents left.
All the money was put into the bulging waist bag.
She also has 40 kilograms of national food coupons and 20 kilograms of Mingjiang City's local food coupons. With this kind of assets, she is definitely a wealthy woman!
She also had the money and receipts from the Youth League Office for subsidies, but these were not counted. Strictly speaking, she did not really go to the countryside, and the subsidies still had to be exchanged back.
"Uncle Sun, Uncle Zhang, you wait here for the food. I'll take the rice to Aunt Guan, otherwise it will get cold soon." It was only a few steps away anyway.
Sun Zhigao took the lunch box first: "Xiaoning, I'll go. You sit here and rest. I can walk quickly."
Since they were eating and drinking for free, Sun Zhigao didn't feel comfortable asking the person who treated him to the meal to run errands.
While waiting for the food, Ning Xi saw passengers entering the dining car in groups of three or four, but most of them were heading in the same direction as them, that is, the sleeper car.
I hardly saw any passengers from the ordinary carriages coming to eat.
"The food is here!" Soon the train attendant came over with a tray.
Although the food on the train is expensive, the ingredients are visibly good. The braised pork is oily and translucent, with alternating fat and lean meat. The plate serving the food is not big, but it is piled high.
I guess serving food is a technical job. Ning Xi doesn't think she can fill the bowl so full.
As the waiter put the plate down, the piece of meat on top trembled a few times, as if asking people to quickly pick up their chopsticks to pick it up!
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