These two dishes are stir-fried mutton with cabbage and braised beef with tendon!
After saving the food for Su Ruyi, Shen Heping and Ji Xuchang immediately reached for the large chunks of beef with their chopsticks.
Su Tong picked up a piece of cabbage from the mutton with his chopsticks, and then kept reaching for more.
The two noticed something amiss, took a bite of the cabbage, and then protected it, preventing Su Tong from eating any more.
The three of them laughed and joked, taking cabbages from each other's chopsticks.
Both dishes were devoured in no time.
The sixth dish is a main course, called "Three Delicacies".
The large plate is specially made, with three fan-shaped small dishes inside, each containing three kinds of crispy fried offal, which smell delicious. In the middle is a dish of dry dipping sauce with chili powder and sesame seeds.
This dish was recommended by the waiter, and none of the three, who grew up in Haicheng, had ever seen it before.
Ji Xuchang mustered up his courage and asked the young master chef what all of this was, but the man rattled off a string of words that he couldn't understand at all.
When he returned to his seat, only one piece of each of the three items on the plate was left for him.
So he refused to serve the dishes.
Su Tong smiled and got up, bringing out the last dish.
This is a chicken stew with hazelnut mushrooms.
Inside are chicken, hazel mushrooms, and translucent glass noodles.
Su Tong directly allocated one-third of the money to Su Ruyi.
The two of them had no objections, and after he finished picking at the chicken, they both reached for the largest piece of chicken with their chopsticks.
Su Tong simply scooped up some soup and poured it over the steamed bun before eating.
The soup was thick, almost semi-liquid, and Su Tong felt he had never eaten so much!
This meal took a full hour.
The three of them leaned back in their chairs, rubbing their bellies, looking at each other, and grinning contentedly.
After finishing their meal, they bought all the sauerkraut and fatty pork buns, and also bought the driver two large sesame seed cakes that he had been longing for.
The group gave the sesame seed cakes to the cart driver, put the packed goods on the oxcart, and then went to the county supply and marketing cooperative.
Su Tong wants to buy Su Ruyi a bicycle.
He bought the bicycle ticket from Shen Heping.
Shen Heping wanted to give it to him directly, but he resolutely refused.
When the group arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, they found that the goods on the shelves were pitifully few, and even the only bicycle they had was a Phoenix 28-inch model with a crossbar.
There was no room for choice; I had no choice but to buy it.
180 yuan, no bargaining.
As Su Tong paid, Shen Heping kept nagging, "Why don't I pay for this? You might not even have enough for your return trip!"
Su Tong rolled her eyes at him: "You'd better hide yourself from Ruyi, or he'll find out how gossipy you are!"
To be fair, Su Tong has a high opinion of Shen Heping.
They are all people who know each other well, so they won't do anything too outrageous.
Although Shen Heping had some of the habits of a privileged kid from a high-ranking family, he wasn't a bad person.
The group went to get their bicycles stamped with official seals, and Shen Heping bought a lot of snacks and candies, spending all the tickets he had.
He smiled apologetically at Su Tong: "I promised to find you a ticket, but things changed. I'm sorry!"
Ji Xuchang smiled sheepishly, "My situation is the same!"
Su Tong smiled and let it go, without telling the others that Su Ruyi didn't like eating snacks and candies.
But then I thought, does Ruyi not like to eat it?
She can't get any at all, okay?
Snacks and candies at home were a privilege reserved for Su Manao.
When Ruyi was little, she also looked at the food with longing, but she was sensible and always said that she didn't like it...
Thinking of this, he grabbed Ji Xuchang by the collar: "Sell me all the candy and pastry coupons you have left!"
...
In the end, the three of them, each carrying two large bags, returned to the oxcart.
To ensure the bicycle was new and the tires were free of mud, they also loaded it onto an oxcart to take it back.
The driver, munching on a sesame seed cake, had no objections and even reminded him, "Tie it up tighter!"
At 5:30 p.m., the oxcart finally returned to Dingjiatun.
It was cooking time, and every household in the village was busy, including the educated youth settlement.
Cooking has always been Shulan's job alone. She cooks three meals a day, which is much harder than other jobs, but she seems to have no regrets.
This morning, she carried back the rations that the three new educated youth had received in advance from the brigade headquarters all by herself.
After discussing it with Su Ruyi, Su Tong accepted the grain loan for the past half month as well—the rest would be deducted from Su Ruyi's work points.
She carried back more than 300 kilograms of grain in one trip after another, using the time before going to work!
Su Ruyi paid her an extra dollar as payment for Su Tong's food.
During lunch, Shulan explained the situation to everyone in a very quiet but clear voice.
There were eight former educated youths in the educated youth compound, four men and four women. Only Wang Chuntao was not there; the others all said there was no problem.
Su Tong doesn't look like someone who eats a lot; they might even make a profit on a dollar.
As for Wang Chuntao, she had asked for leave and gone to the county town with Su Tong and the others that morning.
Shulan whispered to everyone that Wang Chuntao's youngest brother was sick, and she had borrowed money from everyone yesterday and sent it back today.
Su Ruyi watched them talk coldly.
The meal Shulan prepared consisted of steamed buns made from a mixture of wheat and water, stir-fried Chinese cabbage, and cold scallion salad.
Light and filling.
Of course, this meal was incomparable to the delicacies in the treasure box.
Su Ruyi ate her meal in small bites, but her heart was filled with mixed feelings.
She didn't know if it was because of her past life that her views on the world had changed, but she felt uncomfortable that Shulan had revealed Wang Chuntao's private affairs to everyone.
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