Chapter 23 Does your husband know that you are squandering his hard-earned money like this?
Wang Xueling was furious after being repeatedly "frustrated". She didn't dare to stroke Lu Chiyu's beard anymore and yelled at Lin Zhu, "None of your business! People haven't said anything yet, why are you meddling in other people's business?"
Unexpectedly, just as she finished speaking, the female comrade who was squeezed spoke out weakly: "If I speak up, will you stop squeezing me?"
"Hahaha..." Lu Chiyu couldn't help laughing anymore. She found that except for the two Fengchu sisters, the girls sitting next to her and opposite her in the two rows of seats facing each other were quite interesting.
At this time, Lu Chiyu was not the only one laughing. Everyone nearby was laughing because the girl's words were so pitiful and funny.
Seeing that she had a good reason to do so, Lin Zhu said bluntly, "Did you hear that? If you keep pushing me, I won't have to fight back. I'll just help you out and take care of you first."
Lu Chiyu also raised his hand: "And me."
Wang Xueling and Liang Meimei: …
If only Lin Zhu and the others dared to resist, they would all give up the idea after hearing Lu Chiyu's voice.
At this time, the train broadcast sounded, reminding everyone that it was lunch time and asking them to go to the sixth carriage for lunch.
Lu Chiyu's stomach had been rumbling for a long time, and she was just about to take out a few buns to eat, but when she heard that there was food in the car, she immediately decided to go and eat.
How can cold buns be as delicious as hot food!
Seeing that Lin Zhu beside her had no intention of going to eat, she tentatively asked, "Comrade Lin, are you going to eat?"
Lin Zhu shook his head: "No, the food on the train is so expensive. A meal costs several dimes or even a dollar." He said with a painful expression on his face.
"Then can you help me look after my luggage? I'm going to have a meal."
Although her valuables were all in the space, Lu Chiyu felt that in order not to appear special, he should ask someone to help look after the luggage.
When Lin Zhu heard that Lu Chiyu was actually going to eat on the train, she was a little surprised, but then she understood when she thought that she was a military family member. She thought that with a husband who was an officer, she would not be short of this little money.
So he patted his chest and agreed: "Okay, go ahead and don't worry, I promise to show you something good."
As soon as Lu Chiyu walked to the next carriage, he saw an "acquaintance", the woman holding a child whom he bumped into when he got on the train this morning.
But this time, there was a man around thirty years old, about the same age as the woman, and the child was also held by the man, but the same thing was... the child was still sleeping soundly.
Did this child sleep for so long? Lu Chiyu was a little confused, but when she thought that the child might have woken up in the middle of the night, she felt that she might be overthinking it.
Arriving at the sixth carriage, Lu Chiyu discovered that the food on the train was not much worse than that in state-owned restaurants, especially the famous Cantonese roast duck.
The golden and juicy roast duck immediately aroused her appetite, and she ordered one without hesitation.
Then she ordered a dish of braised pork with eggs, which surprisingly contained two eggs, and finally she asked for a vegetarian dish of smashed cucumber.
She ordered white rice as her main course.
Seeing the steaming white flour buns, she bought two more.
When I checked out, it cost a total of 98 cents, but luckily I didn't need a ticket.
When Lu Chiyu finished her meal, the restaurant was already full of people, so she had to take the meal back to the carriage to eat.
When Lu Chiyu returned to the next carriage, she found that the child was still not awake. She couldn't help but frowned.
But she had only been in the restaurant for a while, so it was normal for the child to still be sleeping.
Lu Chiyu returned to the carriage where she was. Many people in the carriage were also eating, but there were only two people who went to buy food and ate it like her. Almost everyone was eating the dry food they brought with them.
People were poor at that time, and most of the people ate steamed buns made of grains and wild vegetables. The better ones were corn buns or two-grain flour buns. Only a very few people could afford white flour buns.
There was no way around it. Cornmeal was considered a refined grain now, and it was not easy to eat proper food. Lu Chiyu even found that some people only took out two sweet potatoes to eat.
Lu Chiyu returned to her seat, and as soon as she opened her lunch box, it attracted many people's attention because it smelled so good.
Especially when the Fengchu sisters across from them saw that there were two meat dishes and one vegetable dish in Lu Chiyu's lunch box, and the staple food was still white rice, which was emitting steaming hot water, the mung bean cakes in their mouths that they had just shown off suddenly became tasteless.
Especially when they saw that Lu Chiyu gave Lin Zhu a steaming white bun, they became even more excited.
Wang Xueling finally couldn't help but burst out: "How can you be so heartless? You didn't eat at the restaurant but brought the food back to eat. Are you really trying to show off to us all how good your food is?"
"No, there are no seats left in the restaurant." Lu Chiyu shook his head.
Wang Xueling didn't expect Lu Chiyu to deny it and admit the accusation without saying anything. She felt like she had punched cotton, and the next words she wanted to say were stuck in her throat.
Wang Xueling turned off the stove. Liang Meimei said pitifully, "Comrade Lu, can you finish all this food? It's shameful to waste food. If you can't finish it, can you give me some?"
Lu Chiyu looked at her as if she were a fool: "Have you ever heard of anyone having leftover food these days? I dare say I can finish it all.
Didn't your family teach you that food is precious these days and you shouldn't look at the food in other people's bowls? "
"I... I didn't. I just saw that you packed such a big box of food and gave Comrade Lin Zhu some steamed buns, so I wondered if you had any extra food to share with me. I haven't eaten meat for a long time." Liang Meimei said in a crying voice, shrinking her neck like a frightened rabbit.
Wang Xueling was furious when she saw this: "Why are you so arrogant, woman? I think you are deliberately trying to create division. Why do you give white flour buns to Lin Zhu but not to us? You are deliberately destroying unity."
Lu Chiyu couldn't understand Wang Xueling's train of thought for a moment. When she finally understood, she rolled her eyes at her and said, "I gave Comrade Lin Zhu the steamed buns as a reward for helping her watch my luggage. I'm lucky I didn't seek revenge on you two."
"Reward" and "revenge" have the same pronunciation but different characters, but the Fengchu sisters understood it immediately. For a moment, they were once again knocked out by Lu Chiyu's sharp tongue.
Lin Zhu couldn't help but burst out laughing when she heard Lu Chiyu come up with another "golden sentence".
Wang Xueling was so amused that her head burned. She couldn't help but curse Lu Chiyu again, "Humph, two meat dishes, one vegetable dish, and a bowl of white rice—you're eating more extravagantly than a capitalist. Does your husband know you're eating like this out? Does he know you're squandering his hard-earned money like this?"
"Don't worry about it. I eat like this because my husband asked me to. He said that I had a very hard life in the past and was severely malnourished and needed to be well nourished. Before I went on the mission, he also gave me a target to spend all the money he gave me.
When did eating two meat dishes make you a capitalist? Comrade Wang Xueling, you are very skilled at making false accusations against people. I think you really want to go to the military court to have a look.
At this time, there are indeed relatively few people who would order such high-standard meals as two meat dishes and one vegetable dish. Generally, only relatively wealthy cadres would eat like this, but they are still far from being capitalists.
When Wang Xueling heard Lu Chiyu say that it was her lover who asked her to eat like this, her eyes almost turned red with jealousy, but she suddenly came to her senses after hearing about the military court later.
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