Because there were new educated youth arriving today, Lin Yiman cooked two more dishes in the evening. However, since we had just eaten chicken the day before yesterday, all the dishes tonight were vegetarian.
There was a stir-fried eggplant, a plate of spicy and sour potato shreds, a plate of cold cucumber salad, and a Chinese cabbage soup. As for the staple food, it was the steamed buns made of three-grain flour that Lin Yiman had gotten up early in the morning.
Although the educated youth were willing to eat, they usually ate very little steamed buns, mostly cornmeal cakes. Today, because there were new people, everyone decided to steam buns with three-grain flour in the future.
"Wang Zhiqing, Li Zhiqing, it's time to eat!" Liu Xiaoling came to the door of the female educated youth's room and shouted loudly.
"Here it comes," Wang Qingwen's gentle voice rang out.
After a while, Wang Qingwen pulled the reluctant Li Mi to the kitchen. As for Lei Xiao and another male educated youth, they arrived at the kitchen early.
After everyone was seated, Zhang Hongliang, the elder brother of the educated youth center, spoke: "Come, let us all welcome the new educated youth!"
The other old educated youth clapped their hands in cooperation.
Lei Xiao and his companions immediately stood up, bowed and said thank you.
"New educated youth, please introduce yourselves so we can get to know each other," Zhang Hongliang said with a smile.
"Hello everyone, my name is Lei Xiao, I'm 19 years old, and I'm from Beijing."
"Hello everyone, my name is Li Qiang, I'm 18 years old, and I'm from Hai City."
"Hello everyone, my name is Wang Qingwen, I'm 19 years old, and like Lei Xiao, I'm from Beijing," Wang Qingwen said in a gentle tone, "This is my cousin, Li Mi, 17 years old..."
"Do I need you to speak for me?" Li Mi shouted before Wang Qingwen finished speaking.
"Ah, Mimi, I didn't mean it..." Wang Qingwen looked at Li Mi cautiously, and glanced at Lei Xiao secretly.
Receiving the look from his beloved, Lei Xiao really exploded again, "Li Mi, what's wrong with you? Qingwen means well, why are you yelling?!"
"Brother Xiao, I'm not yelling at her. It's her. It's not like I don't have a mouth. Can't I introduce myself? Do I need someone to speak for me?!" Li Mi was so angry that she started yelling.
"You are like this every time, always bullying Qingwen. It's because Qingwen is kind that he helps you every time. You are so unreasonable!" Looking at Li Mi's expression, Lei Xiao defended Wang Qingwen even more.
"Lei Xiao, stop talking about Mimi. Mimi is right. I am wrong. I shouldn't talk too much..." Wang Qingwen said in a low voice with red eyes.
Another new male educated youth, Li Qiang, looked at them in surprise.
Wen Nuan and Xie Sufang kept exchanging glances, watching the farce in front of them with great interest.
Zhang Hongliang stroked his forehead and said helplessly: "We are all good comrades, stop arguing, let's eat!"
"Today is the day when the new educated youth arrive. This meal is equivalent to the welcome banquet we prepared for them. Tomorrow morning, the new educated youth will go to the village chief to collect your subsidized food. In the future, you can cook for yourself or eat with us."
"Okay, okay, let's eat. Everyone is tired today. We can rest early after dinner!"
Yang Zhijun and the Wang brothers were already extremely hungry. When they heard Zhang Hongliang say that it was time to eat, they immediately picked up their chopsticks, took a steamed bun and started to eat.
Li Qiang, the new educated youth who had just arrived, was probably very hungry. He smiled at everyone embarrassedly, then picked up the steamed bun and started eating it in big mouthfuls.
Lei Xiao and Wang Qingwen only started taking the steamed buns after seeing that the old educated youth had all taken theirs.
Everyone lowered their heads to eat, except Li Mi, who sat there motionless, looking at the food in front of her with disgust.
"Li Zhiqing, why aren't you eating?" Xie Sufang asked kindly when she saw that Li Mi hadn't started eating.
"What is this? There is no meat at all. How can we eat it?" Li Mi looked at Xie Sufang with disdain.
Hearing this, everyone's expression changed instantly.
Wang Qingwen carefully tugged at Li Mi's sleeve and said, "Mi Mi, these dishes are delicious. Please eat quickly..."
"I don't want to eat it. There's no meat at all!" Li Mi said arrogantly.
"Li Mi, could you please stop making trouble!" Lei Xiao looked at Li Mi with disgust.
"Brother Xiao, you yelled at me again. How many times have you yelled at me since we first arrived at this crappy place? I want to call Uncle Lei!" Li Mi stood up and yelled at Lei Xiao, then kicked the stool she was sitting on aside, "I won't eat this pig food!"
After saying that, he ran towards the female educated youth's house.
"This... I'm really sorry. Mimi just has a childish temper and hasn't grown up yet. Please don't mind it..." Wang Qingwen was also confused by Li Mi's sudden move, but he reacted instantly, quickly stood up, bowed to everyone, and explained softly.
"hehe……"
"Qingwen, you are always so kind. Just ignore her and let her do whatever she wants!" Lei Xiao looked at Wang Qingwen tenderly, but his face was full of disgust when he mentioned Li Mi.
"Lei Xiao, Mimi is my cousin after all, how can I ignore her..." Wang Qingwen said softly.
"Ugh..." Suddenly a vomiting sound was heard.
"Xiao Nuan, what's wrong with you?" Xie Sufang, who was watching the show seriously, heard the vomiting sound coming from Wen Nuan and asked with concern.
"It's okay, it's okay. I just accidentally heard something greasy and it's a bit disgusting..." Wen Nuan patted her chest and waved her hand.
"You..." Xie Sufang nodded the warm head from a distance and smiled helplessly.
Wang Qingwen and Lei Xiao's faces changed, sometimes turning blue and sometimes white.
"Okay, okay, let's eat!" Zhang Hongliang called everyone to eat again.
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