Chapter 13: Meeting Educated Youth at a State-Owned Hotel
The two of them went to the meat station and used up their meat coupons that were about to expire. They bought a few lamb chops and the pork was all fatty. Although Lin Momo didn't like fatty meat, she still ate lard.
"The purchasing truck won't be back until 2 o'clock. Let's go to the state-owned restaurant to eat. The state-owned restaurants in southern Tibet don't have many dishes." Cheng Jinghao led Lin Momo towards the state-owned restaurant.
"It's okay." Lin Momo nodded to show her understanding.
She had just seen it at the meat station. It was not even one-tenth of what she saw at the meat station in Beijing.
"It's like this everywhere in southern Tibet, where the altitude is so low. What about on the plateau?" Lin Momo asked curiously.
Cheng Jinghao shook his head. It was difficult to drive on the high plateau, let alone in this era. In this era, delivering supplies to the plateau is a life-threatening undertaking.
When the two arrived at the entrance of the state-owned restaurant, several young men and women inside started arguing with the salesperson.
"What kind of state-owned restaurant is this? There's not even meat buns?" A young man with a hoarse voice said, pointing at the menu on the wall.
"You're sorry. We in southern Tibet don't eat at state-owned restaurants very often, so we prepared a lot of things." The salesperson said politely.
"If we don't have meat buns, we can always have stir-fried meat with green peppers, right?" said another girl.
"No, the only meat dish we have here is braised pork." The salesperson shook his head.
"We don't have this, we don't have that, why open a state-owned restaurant?" A young man slapped the counter.
"We educated youth are here to help you build the country. We don't have this or that."
"If you want to eat, you can go out. If you miss home, just go back." Cheng Jinghao led Lin Momo into the state-owned restaurant.
When the girls saw the two men, they immediately started whispering to each other. It turned out that these girls were the educated youth who had just been in the department store.
"You, you didn't tell you." Cheng Jinghao's height of 1.88 meters immediately gave these educated youths who were over 1.7 meters tall a sense of oppression.
Cheng Jinghao was wearing a military uniform again, with a straight posture.
"Did you come to the countryside or to enjoy life?" Cheng Jinghao glanced at them.
He took out a pen from his pocket, borrowed paper from the salesperson, and handed it to several educated youth.
"Write your name and the township brigade. Since you are here to build the Tibetan area, we will send you back."
"Yes, yes." Seeing that Cheng Jinghao was serious, the educated youth waved their hands repeatedly. If they really sent the child back, their whole lives would be tainted.
"I'm sorry, soldier comrades, it's your fault." A male comrade who had been silent just now spoke up.
"The one you are targeting is this salesperson." Cheng Jinghao looked at everyone.
The educated youths looked at each other, said hello to the salesperson, and obediently ordered a bowl of noodles each.
Cheng Jinghao put the pen back into his pocket and returned the paper to the salesperson.
"Eat braised pork?" Cheng Jinghao looked at Lin Momo. His eyes were exactly the same as before, and gentle as water.
"You eat fat and I eat lean meat." Lin Momo smiled.
"Okay." Cheng Jinghao touched Lin Momo's head.
"Just order some vegetables." Lin Momo looked at the menu, "Let's have some tsampa."
Although it is a state-owned restaurant, they only provide five servings of white rice a day. There is plenty of rice in the mall, so there is no need to compete with others.
"Okay." Cheng Jinghao kissed her lips. Look how cute his little girl is.
"Sit down first, I'll go buy it."
"Um."
The educated youths couldn't help but look at Lin Momo. Is this a military wife? What a beautiful military wife, she joined the army at such a young age?
Lin Momo looked at them. No matter how dependent she was on Cheng Jinghao, he was a manager in the past, and was many times more knowledgeable than these educated youth.
The educated youths bowed their heads in front of Lin Momo. How come this military wife has such a strong aura?
After Cheng Jinghao brought the food, he carefully separated the fat and lean meat of the braised pork, put the lean meat into Lin Momo's bowl, and ate the fat himself.
Lin Momo picked up a piece of lean meat and tasted it carefully. It was the braised pork in the state-owned restaurants in the novels that you must not miss.
"Is it delicious?" Cheng Jinghao looked at her slightly squinting expression and couldn't help but raise his lips.
"Hmm, delicious." Lin Momo's eyes lit up. It turned out that novels were honest and trustworthy.
"......" The educated youth watched the interaction between the two and felt that the two people who had such a strong aura towards them just now seemed to have been replaced by someone else.
The educated youth quickly finished their noodles and fled from the state-owned restaurant.
"After we finish our meal, let's go to the post office to send a telegram home." Lin Momo picked up a tsampa and took a bite.
"good."
After dinner, the two went to the post office and sent telegrams to both the Lin family and the Cheng family.
[Mom and Dad, you are here. Please take care of yourselves. We will take care of ourselves. I miss you. 】
When the communicator saw what Lin Momo had written, he looked at the two of them in surprise. Few people would send such a long telegram, so they tried to make it as concise as possible.
"Both? Punctuation marks too?"
"Yes." Lin Momo nodded.
"One cent per word, two copies is 5.6 yuan." The communicator's mouth twitched slightly, and he glanced at Cheng Jinghao. This soldier actually spoke.
"What's wrong? Can I write it like this?" Lin Momo looked at Cheng Jinghao while taking out the money.
"No, as long as you like it." Cheng Jinghao looked at her gently. Then he said to the communicator, "Send it like this."
After sending the telegram, Lin Momo and Cheng Jinghao went to the boarding point to wait for the purchasing vehicle.
At this time, the military dependents who came to buy things also arrived.
"Captain Cheng and his wife, you bought a lot of stuff." A soldier's family member glanced at the backpack behind Cheng Jinghao.
The backpack was full of things, including what they bought and what Lin Momo had just taken out from the space.
"The young couple just got married, and they came here to prepare their dowry and other things. Their family asked them to buy them here." The political commissar's wife explained for them with a smile.
Lin Momo gave the other person a grateful smile.
"So that's how it is. Comrade Lin's family is also from Beijing, right?" a military relative asked.
"Yes." Lin Momo nodded.
"How many brothers and sisters do you have in your family?" The purchasing vehicle had not arrived yet, and Lin Momo had just arrived to join the army, so many people were curious about this young girl.
"There are two older brothers up there."
"It's so far, will your family be willing to let you join the army?"
"Mainly because I'm satisfied with Captain Cheng." Lin Momo looked at Cheng Jinghao, whose eyes flickered slightly.
Several military dependents laughed.
"You guys, stop teasing that young couple." Others didn't know about Lin Momo's situation, but the political commissar's wife knew it.
When the marriage report was submitted, all the situations of Lin's parents, brothers and sister-in-law's family were explained clearly.
After the political commissar's wife said this, everyone stopped talking, and it was also fortunate that the procurement vehicle arrived quickly.
After getting in the car, Cheng Jinghao peeled an orange candy as usual and fed it to Lin Momo. The political commissar's wife saw this action and nodded secretly.
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