The waiter came over and asked, "Can you two eat so many dishes? If not, don't waste the food!"
"Of course we can eat it!" Lin Xiaoxi said in a very arrogant tone, "Of course we can eat it. Even if we can't eat it, we can bring our lunch boxes with us!"
"Okay, I'll go to the kitchen and place your order!" The waiter took the menu and said, having already reminded everyone.
Seeing that Li Chuan finished so quickly, Li Xu joked with him, "Hey, Lao Qi, you're not slow at all, you seem to be running pretty fast!"
Li Chuan laughed twice: "Lucky, I got a ride all the way here today!"
First I took a bullock cart, and then I took a freight truck to the county town.
However, he did pay for the second trip, but of course he couldn't say that.
"Why are you here too?" Li Yao didn't know what had happened. He just felt a little puzzled that everyone came to the county town today.
"Nothing, mom asked us to come and see my third brother, and to see if my third sister-in-law has brought enough money, and to give her some money..."
Before Li Chuan could finish his words, Li Yao coughed loudly twice, frowned and winked at him.
At no time should money be leaked.
Li Chuan realized that he had said the wrong thing and immediately shut his mouth.
The first dish, cold pork liver, came up quickly. Li Yao stopped talking to Li Chuan, turned around, picked up his chopsticks and started eating.
The pork liver was cooked to a perfect consistency, and it tasted surprisingly good when mixed with soy sauce, vinegar and a little choked green onion. He had been choking a lot from eating pancakes these days.
It was his wife who cared about him. Knowing that he hadn't eaten well for two days, she came all the way to take him to a restaurant.
Soon, the food on both tables was served. Everyone was busy eating without saying much.
At this moment, an old lady with gray hair holding a five or six-year-old baby stopped beside Lin Xiaoxi and Li Chuan and asked in a low voice, "Can I share a table with you?"
Lin Xiaoxi looked up and saw that the restaurant was indeed full of people.
"Okay, sit down."
The two of them sat down and ordered two bowls of noodles. When the noodles came, the child refused to eat them and kept staring at the other food on the table.
She carefully pointed at the braised spareribs on the table and said, "Grandma, I want to eat spareribs!"
"Be good, let's eat noodles. Grandma doesn't have enough money to buy you some pork ribs."
The child refused to obey and insisted on eating.
The old lady had no choice but to shamelessly beg Lin Xiaoxi: "Comrade, my child really wants to eat. You ordered so many dishes, can you let the child have one piece?"
Li Chuan didn't mind: "Okay, I'll eat one piece if you want."
Although Lin Xiaoxi was unhappy, she didn't say anything.
The child ate a piece of ribs, but still felt unsatisfied, so he reached out to grab more ribs from the plate.
As soon as his hand touched the edge of the plate, Lin Xiaoxi's face darkened and she slapped the back of the child's hand: "We also pay for things, isn't one dollar enough?"
The child was beaten and felt extremely wronged. He pouted and started crying.
The old lady became anxious and quickly apologized to Lin Xiaoxi and tried to coax the child.
The more he tried to comfort the child, the more he cried. Seeing that everyone in the restaurant was looking over here, the waiter came over and said, "Please comfort your child. Everyone is eating here. Why are you letting the child cry?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" The old lady apologized and asked, "We don't have enough money. Can we fry half a plate of meat?"
The waiter waved his hand and said, "I've never heard of being able to fry half a plate of sesame oil. Come back next time when you have enough money!"
The child cried even louder, and the old lady became so anxious that she was sweating profusely.
"Let her come and eat!" Ning Jia couldn't bear it anymore, so he stood up and came over to greet the old lady and the child.
An Ye rolled his eyes at Lin Xiaoxi and said with disdain, "You ordered so many dishes and you can't finish them. How many bites can a child eat? You are so petty!"
Lin Xiaoxi was furious.
Her money didn't just come from the wind, did it? Why should a child be allowed to eat with her?
If she doesn't let me eat, she's stingy?
"Then you are generous, just let them eat with you!" Lin Xiaoxi "returned" a toast.
An Ye ignored Lin Xiaoxi and made room for the child: "Come here and sit here!"
"Thank you, thank you so much!" The old lady was very embarrassed, "Actually, we don't do this on weekdays. This time, we really didn't bring enough money..."
"No." Ning Jia turned around and brought over the two bowls of rice on the table. "Please sit down. We ordered a lot. Let's eat together!"
"No... no more. The child is greedy, and I, an adult, won't eat it."
"Eat it! It would be a waste if we couldn't finish all this! Come on, you're welcome!"
Seeing that Ning Jia was really inviting her to eat together and it was not just a false greeting, the old lady agreed: "Thank you so much!"
"You're welcome!"
The child caught the meat and ate it, piece by piece until his mouth was full of oil. Although he was not very old, he had a big appetite.
He quickly finished a whole pot of the ribs. The old lady couldn't bear to watch it any longer and repeatedly advised her grandson not to eat any more.
The child ignored her and finally put down his chopsticks after eating until he was full.
After lunch, Lin Xiaoxi and Li Chuan packed up the remaining food and left with their lunch boxes.
Ning Jia and the others also stood up to go, but the old lady hurriedly stopped them: "Wait a minute, don't go yet!"
"Hmm? Anything else?" Ning Jia asked.
The old lady motioned for them to sit down first. She looked around and leaned close to Ning Jia's ear and whispered, "Wait a minute, there are pickpockets in this restaurant, and there's more than one! The two people sitting in the northeast corner just now are them. I've seen them several times! Their methods are quite powerful. They can steal people's pockets without them noticing!"
Ning Jia was really glad that someone reminded them, because as soon as they entered the restaurant, the door looked out of place here.
He was obviously poor and his clothes were patched, but he ordered such a huge amount of food.
In the eyes of those thieves, it was easy to tell that they were from the village and not locals.
Therefore, they were targeted for theft.
There is a saying: I'm not afraid of thieves stealing, I'm afraid of thieves thinking about it.
If the thief sets his sights on this, he will succeed sooner or later, so the old lady's reminder was very timely.
"Thank you, Auntie!"
"I have to thank you. Thanks to you, my grandson had a hearty meal today!" The old lady spoke, her eyes wandering around Ning Jia and the others before she said, "You are from the village, right? A village idiot can't give out many cloth coupons, right?"
The old lady was right.
Each person in the village could only afford a few cloth coupons, so if you wanted to buy cloth, you had to save them.
There were so many people in the family, and the few cloth coupons he saved were only enough to make clothes for a few people.
In most cases, it is left to the elderly and children to make cotton clothes in winter.
The reason why Ning Jia wore patched clothes even though he had money in his pocket was because he had no cloth coupons!
When the old lady asked this, Ning Jia thought that she might have cloth coupons, so she hurriedly asked, "Auntie, do you have many cloth coupons?"
The old lady shook her head: "It's the same in the city. Girl, I can't help you solve the problem of cloth coupons, but I can help you solve the problem of cloth!"
Ning Jia's eyes lit up and he looked at An Ye quickly.
An Ye was also very happy. She hurriedly asked, "If the four of us want new clothes, is this enough cloth?"
The old lady looked around and whispered, "To be honest, I have cloth, lots of it! As long as you want it, I can get it! I can get as much as you want!"
Isn’t this a business! !
Ning Jia was overjoyed to have gained something unexpected from the meal. "Then can you take me to see your cloth? After you have seen it, we can decide how much to buy!"
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