Chapter 38 Lu Xiaomaoer
On the first floor of the state-owned restaurant, Lu Miao ordered two servings of braised pork, one serving of three fresh vegetables, six steamed buns, six sesame cakes, and one serving of shredded pork noodles, spending a total of two yuan and fifty-six cents, plus four taels of food coupons.
After paying neatly and saying goodbye to Geng Xiaoyun, Lu Miao and Ren Bingxin went upstairs with their baskets to find a seat, while Geng Xiaoyun stayed there waiting to pick up the food.
It has been a while since Chen Miaomiao was reborn. During this period, she has been eating sweet potatoes and potatoes every day, and she has no oil or water in her stomach. Just now, Lu Miao was ordering and reading the names of the dishes. His clear and fluent Mandarin made her saliva rise up in her throat.
Chen Miaomiao had experienced Lu Miao's resistance several times before, so this time she learned her lesson. She did not follow Lu Miao upstairs at the beginning, but instead stared at Geng Xiaoyun's movements.
Geng Xiaoyun had to wait a while to get her meal. Chen Miaomiao rolled her eyes and saw that it was soon her turn to order, so she stepped out of the line and ran to the back of the queue to queue again.
She spent six cents to buy two sesame cakes and a bowl of porridge. When Chen Miaomiao went to pick up the food, she heard the chef at the serving counter shout:
"Who ordered the braised pork, three fresh vegetables, shredded pork noodles, pancakes, and steamed buns? Come and get them!"
Geng Xiaoyun stood up and walked towards the food delivery counter. Chen Miaomiao followed, holding up her tray and saying, "Hey, Xiaoyun, you've been waiting for so long too?"
Geng Xiaoyun didn't think about it and said with a smile:
"Really? We arrived just in time for lunch, and since Lu Xiaomao ordered so many dishes, the cook will have to wait a while to cut and wash the vegetables, right?"
Speaking of Lu Miao, Geng Xiaoyun urged, "Let's stop chatting and go upstairs! We'll make Lu Xiaomao anxious and her temper will come out again."
"Why!"
Chen Miaomiao nodded and hurriedly followed Geng Xiaoyun upstairs.
She laughed in her heart. It was not her intention to stick to Lu Miao. It was Geng Xiaoyun who called her over.
There are several empty tables in the lobby on the first floor. The table at the corner of the stairs faces the main entrance on one side and the back door of the restaurant on the other. The breeze blows through there, making it very cool.
Yang Xiaojing ordered a vegetable dumpling and a bowl of porridge and sat at the table at the corner of the stairs.
Seeing Chen Miaomiao talking to Geng Xiaoyun, Yang Xiaojing thought of something, swallowed the vegetable dumplings in her mouth in two bites, tidied up a bit, picked up the tray and followed them upstairs.
On the second floor, Lu Miao chose a seat by the window. While waiting, she couldn't stay idle. She took out Cuban candy and egg cake from the box and tasted them one by one. She found that the taste of both was quite average.
The egg cake tasted a bit dry, as if the cake base was missing the milky and buttery flavor.
Cuban candy is a caramel-colored candy that melts quickly in your mouth. It tastes like brown sugar, but it also has a slightly bitter taste.
Lu Miao stood there with her teeth bared and her brows furrowed. Ren Bingxin could tell at a glance that she didn't think the food tasted good.
Lu Miao opened his mouth to vomit, and Ren Bingxin tapped the table to remind him:
"Miss, you spent fifty cents plus a snack ticket on this half pound of candy!"
Both Cuban sugar and brown sugar are made from cane sugar, but brown sugar can only be purchased with sugar coupons, while Cuban sugar can be purchased with both snack coupons and sugar coupons.
Waste would cause public outrage, so Lu Miao had no choice but to slowly swallow the candy, but he couldn't help thinking:
Fortunately, she only asked for half a pound of the candy, which she could easily give away by doing favors at the educated youth site.
If you buy too much, it will definitely be wasted.
Geng Xiaoyun quickly came over with a tray full of food. Lu Miao smiled and waved his hand in greeting: "Here!"
When he saw the two people following Geng Xiaoyun, Lu Miao's smile faded a little, but he didn't say anything.
But Chen Miaomiao, when Geng Xiaoyun put down the tray and set the dishes on the table, she sat down next to Gu Ying across the table, her beautiful face turned to Lu Miao, her smile was timid and forced:
"Lu Miao... I, I sit here, you don't mind, right?"
Lu Miao opened the oil paper wrapping of the Cuban candy, tasted one and then left it alone. Ren Bingxin was afraid that the candy would spill out, so she was leaning over to help her tie the candy bag tightly again.
Hearing Chen Miaomiao say this, Ren Bingxin's brows twisted as if cramping, and she raised her head and said:
"Isn't there an empty seat? Just sit down if you want. Why are you asking Miaomiao? Could she not let you sit down?"
"Besides, aren't you already sitting down?"
Ren Bingxin looked up and down at Chen Miaomiao, feeling a little unhappy.
She was already sitting there and still saying this. She must have thought Lu Miao was trying to make things difficult for her!
Lu Miao silently applauded Ren Bingxin in his heart.
Although there was no need for Ren Bingxin to speak up for her, it was undeniable that Ren Bingxin was really her substitute.
Lu Miao sat against the wall near the window, one hand resting on the side of her face, smiling lazily as if watching a show, not in a hurry to speak.
Chen Miaomiao's big eyes darted along the edge of the table. She opened her mouth to say something, but finally lowered her head, helplessly holding her lips and whispering, "I'm not going to say it anymore."
"I thought since we all know each other, we could talk if we sat at the same table, so, that's why..."
If an outsider saw this scene, it would not be Lu Miao who was unilaterally "bullying" her, but it seemed as if everyone at the table was treating her coldly.
But Chen Miaomiao didn’t have much chance to act because Yang Xiaojing couldn’t wait any longer.
The table by the window is different from the other tables. The other tables are square tables with at least three long benches and at most four. The long table only has two long benches facing each other.
Afraid that Ren Bingxin would say there was not enough room and not let her sit there, Yang Xiaojing put the plate in her hand on the table and quickly pulled out a long bench from under the table next to her. She was so anxious that she almost knocked Geng Xiaoyun, who was arranging dishes at one side of the table, to the side.
Geng Xiaoyun tutted in dissatisfaction: "Don't worry, there's still room here."
Even if she was impatient, she shouldn't have been so impatient. Fortunately, she let go in time, otherwise the bowl of shredded pork noodles that Lu Miao ordered alone would have been overturned.
If it really gets knocked over, wouldn't that be a waste?
What's more, it contains both meat and fine grains...
Geng Xiaoyun couldn't help but frown, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Yang Xiaojing didn't even look at Geng Xiaoyun, she just kept smiling at Lu Miao, "I looked for you guys downstairs and only found out you were on the second floor... Don't you want to be around more people? I was a little anxious."
Then he turned to look at Chen Miaomiao, "Miaomiao is right. We are all educated youth from the same production team. We must sit together and come back together."
Ren Bingxin clamped the edge of the soup bowl and moved the shredded pork noodles in front of Lu Miao.
Lu Miao picked up the noodles, took two small bites, and then put them into his mouth.
He usually ate coarse grains that were as coarse as possible, so it was a rare opportunity for him to eat a bite of fine noodles, and Lu Miao actually found them delicious.
After taking a few small bites of noodles, Lu Miao raised his face, which was bright and charming from the aroma of the noodle soup, and glanced at everyone with his lips curved:
"Isn't the food already on the table? What are you waiting for? Come and eat!"
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