This young girl is so lucky to have married a college student. While thinking this, her hands kept moving, and she booked two rooms for them, one for a man and one for a woman.
When she saw Yan Xiaonan, her eyes sparkled, and all her negative emotions were healed by Yan Xiaonan's delicate face.
Looking at the suddenly overly enthusiastic waiter, Yan Xiaonan was speechless. She missed the kind of hat that could cover half of your face, but unfortunately, it didn't exist in this era.
Agricultural universities are somewhat different from other colleges. Apart from teaching buildings, dormitories, canteens, and libraries, the rest of the area is covered with fields, probably all experimental fields.
The school buildings are all single-story houses with red bricks and black tiles, but the school grounds are much larger than the town's high school.
The dormitory has eight people per room. This school already has bunk beds. Four bunk beds are placed against the wall, and a large desk is placed in the middle.
The school's shower rooms are free, meals are free even with food stamps, there's a school doctor if you're sick, and you can go to the library if you want to read any book.
There are spring and autumn sports meets every year, and the school shows movies on the playground every weekend. After four years, the school guarantees job placement.
Yan Xiaonan felt that college students in this era were too lucky. They only needed to study hard and didn't have to worry about anything else.
There was a sentence in classical Chinese texts that Yan Xiaonan didn't understand: "In books, you'll find beautiful women; in books, you'll find houses of gold."
While it's not true that all professions are inferior and only studying is superior, reading good books is definitely a perfect way out in this era. Therefore, the saying "there is a golden house in books" is absolutely true.
Yan Xiaonan watched as Dongnan went to report for duty, watched him find his dormitory building, and watched how he greeted and built relationships with his classmates.
These are all things I will have to face in the future. It's never wrong to learn more. Yan Xiaonan looked at Dongnan, and her grandmother also looked at Dongnan. But what she was thinking was whether Nannan would have to go through the same thing in the future.
Southwest looked at the campus with envy and said to Yan Xiaonan, "Nannan, I want to go to this university in the future, just like my older brother, and become a proud college student."
Yan Xiaonan looked at him sympathetically. "When you graduated from high school, the college entrance examination was abolished. Your dream of going to university will not be realized for more than ten years. The problem is that you have to pass the exam."
After taking care of everything, Dongnan went out with his family to familiarize himself with the county town.
Now that I'm a resident of this county and might even work here in the future, I really need to get to know this place better.
Yan Xiaonan carefully observed the county town. There were primary schools, middle schools, and universities, as well as state-run restaurants and supply and marketing cooperatives. Slogans were also painted on the walls.
The people coming and going were dressed simply, and very few of them wore clothes without patches. Occasionally, a bicycle would ride by, and the rider would proudly ring the bell as he passed by with an air of nonchalance.
The supply and marketing cooperative was crowded with people queuing up to buy what they needed, their hands full of colorful bills. Each item cost a different bill, making Yan Xiaonan's eyes hurt from looking at them.
Grandma Yan likes to look at fabrics. She has a sewing machine at home and buys some nice fabrics to make clothes for Nan Nan.
Cuihua also looked at the yarn. There were two kinds of yarn, pure wool and blended yarn. After comparing the prices, she decided to buy the blended yarn, which was half the price.
With so many people in the family, let's prioritize Nan Nan, Grandma, and Dong Nan.
Grandma Yan asked Southeast to find all the wool coupons. There weren't many, only enough to buy three jin of wool. Cuihua bought navy blue, a color that could be worn by both men and women.
Seeing the cotton counter, I thought about how all the cotton-padded coats in my house were old except for Nan Nan's. As for the quilts, only the one in the southeast was new.
But cotton requires cotton coupons, and Yan Xiaonan didn't have any. She secretly told her grandmother to go buy some cotton seeds and see if her special ability could help produce cotton.
Grandma Yan's eyes lit up. If Nan Nan could grow grain, then cotton should be able to too, right?
They took Cuihua to the seed counter. Seeds were readily available now, so Cuihua bought cotton seeds, vegetable seeds, grain seeds, and grape seeds that Nannan wanted.
The state-run restaurants in the county town were quite crowded. Each person could order two dishes. Southeast didn't order much; each of us ordered a bowl of shredded pork noodles and a plate of braised pork.
After paying, there were also grain coupons and meat coupons. Yan Xiaonan felt a little nostalgic for the way money was paid in her time, when a mobile phone could handle everything.
It was the first time the whole family had eaten at a state-run restaurant. Luckily, Southeast was quick-witted and saw that people would go to the window to get their food when they heard the table number, so he quickly looked up the number.
The number was written on the wall next to the table. Their table was number five. A moment later, they heard someone inside shout, "Table five, eight bowls of shredded pork noodles and one bowl of braised pork."
Everyone looked at Yan Xiaonan's table with envy in their eyes—braised pork!
Southeast, Cuihua, and Xiaoqiang quickly went to the window, and Xuemei and Southwest also went over. The group brought the noodles and meat to the table and began to eat.
The food was so delicious that people from the north, south, and southwest wolfed it down. Yan Xiaonan also picked up her chopsticks out of curiosity, as she had never eaten at a state-run restaurant before.
The braised pork belly is fatty but not greasy. It comes in a big bowl, with plenty of meat and great flavor. The shredded pork is cooked to the perfect tenderness, and the shredded pork is cut into short, thin pieces, just like matchsticks, and very neat.
The family was extremely satisfied with their meal. They were amazed at how delicious the food at the state-run restaurant was, but it was too expensive. The food cost a full five yuan, plus two jin of grain coupons and half a jin of meat coupons.
Five yuan is my mother's monthly pension money, and it's all gone in one meal. Yan Xiaoqiang felt a little regretful.
Just as she was about to speak, she heard Southwest ask Nannan, "Nannan, is the meat delicious? Is the noodles delicious?"
Yan Xiaonan nodded: "It's delicious, I'll come again next time."
Everyone was shocked. It's so expensive. Will we come here again? Are we out of our minds?
Grandma Yan nodded with a smile: "Come again next time you visit Southeast China."
Yan Xiaoqiang's earlier regret had long since vanished: "Nannan likes braised pork, Dad will buy you some more later."
It was getting late, and after seeing Southeast off at school, everyone returned to the hotel. The thought of having to take that smelly and stuffy bus again tomorrow made Yan Xiaonan and the others a little worried.
Yan Xiaonan, feeling worried, fell asleep. Her eyes were sore after dinner, and it was already quite an achievement that she made it to the hotel.
Cuihua put Yan Xiaonan on the bed. The hotel beds were small, so she and Xuemei put the two beds side by side, and the four of them would just make do for the night.
While fast asleep, Yan Xiaonan dreamed that she was sitting in a movie theater in a large supermarket watching a movie. The scenes in the movie seemed familiar, as if she had seen them somewhere before.
Yan Xiaonan was startled awake when she saw a black and yellow Siberian tiger appear in the snow-covered mountains.
This mountain is the one behind Mushroom Village, and this tiger is the Siberian tiger that lives on the mountain near Mushroom Village.
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