Chapter 92: Like a Child
The person who delivered the message was also a female comrade from the art troupe. Her boyfriend was also in the army. She saw with her own eyes that Yan Tuan was walking towards the cafeteria with a very beautiful female comrade.
Now that Sun Ningning questioned her in person, the woman couldn't help but roll her eyes and said speechlessly: "Wang Bo saw it with his own eyes and told me."
"He also said that Yan Tuan and that female comrade were secretly looking at each other, and if he didn't have a girlfriend, he would tear her head off and use it as a ball for me to kick."
When he said the last sentence, someone in the crowd booed. After talking about feelings for such a long time, in the end he returned to showing his affection.
Sun Ningning clenched her fists, her fingertips sinking into the flesh without her noticing, "Which cafeteria did they go to eat?"
As she asked, she looked at the person steadily with a bit of paranoia. The female comrade took two steps back, feeling that the look of Sun Ningning at this moment was inexplicably creepy.
Even Ruan Wei turned around and looked at Sun Ningning in surprise. She had been looking very haggard these past two days, and her cheeks only became a little stiffer when she heard Yan Ye taking Xu Xiaoyue to the cafeteria.
She has been very haggard these days. First, she went to Yan's house, but was kicked out because of Yang Qingping's rude remarks.
Later, her maternal grandfather was found to be involved in a child trafficking case, which made her father so angry that he cursed at home and is now threatening to divorce her mother.
The current Ruan Wei no longer has the arrogant and domineering image of the past. She just hopes to keep the family affairs secret for as long as possible and not let it be brought to the art troupe.
“I really can’t eat so much…”
Xu Xiaoyue looked at the several large pots of food in front of her and glanced at the man opposite her speechlessly. She wondered if Yan Ye was feeding her like a piglet.
Xu Xiaoyue thought that the army meals of this era were all eaten in a communal pot, which should be similar to the fast food in later generations.
By the time she followed the man into the cafeteria, mealtime had already passed. Xu Xiaoyue leaned forward to take a look and saw that all the delicious dishes had been eaten up. Only some rice was left, and she didn't feel like eating it.
Before Xu Xiaoyue could speak, Yan Ye did not go to the queue window, but instead took her around to the window at the back.
The old master finished cooking and leaned against the wall, concentrating on wiping the knife in his hand. The man went up to him and exchanged a few words with him, then took out a stack of bills and said, "My friend came in to see me today. Please, master, make me something delicious."
The old master greeted Yan Ye from behind and said with a smile, "Your girlfriend is really pretty."
"Shui Ling is Shui Ling, but she has a bad temper." The man admitted it frankly and said casually.
Xu Xiaoyue shrank back behind Yan Ye, and couldn't help but stretched out her hand to pinch the back of the person in front of her, and whispered awkwardly: "Who is your partner?"
Her little strength is not enough to be used on a man, at most it can be considered a minor fight.
The old master also understood what the man said. After hearing what the man said, he washed his hands, picked up the knife and went back into the kitchen.
When he came out again, he first served cabbage with vinegar, then shredded pork with Beijing sauce, and then stir-fried lamb with green onions. The staple food was sesame seed cake, and the drink was the Arctic Ocean soda unique to that era.
The three dishes were large and substantial. The meat in the stir-fried lamb with green onions alone was about to overflow. There was no way Xu Xiaoyue could eat so much.
Compared to this, she was more curious about the fact that in the army, one could actually use money and tickets to get special treatment.
The key point was that she saw that Yan Ye seemed very skilled, and he did everything from greeting to paying in one go.
Yan Ye glanced at the young woman's inexperienced look, wanting to laugh but afraid of getting mad at her. "Don't take this so seriously. The chef has to make some extra money occasionally, and I paid for these ingredients with my own money."
"I just pay the master a separate processing fee." The man explained.
"You can actually do this, then if you get caught, will...that is..." Xu Xiaoyue said implicitly, looking at the man, her gesture was very obvious.
Yan Ye picked up a piece of mutton with chopsticks and said, "You should eat more. You are so thin and now you are talking nonsense."
He didn't know whether to say that the little woman in front of him was stupid or to praise her for being cautious. It wasn't like he was the only one doing this. Since he was willing to pay the money and provide the tickets, and let the old master make some extra money, no one would be so idle as to interfere.
Or maybe the people above have known about this little trick for a long time, but they are just too lazy to care and don't think about investigating it thoroughly.
Yan Ye is not a person who would let himself be wronged. Before his mother passed away, she was the eldest daughter of a capitalist family. Even though their family was confiscated this year, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. The Yan family still has a solid foundation.
Not to mention that his mother secretly left some things for him, Yan Ye hid them all in his hands and didn't let them out at all.
Even if some of the precious calligraphy and paintings and jewelry slipped through a gap between his fingers, it would be enough for an ordinary family to live on for a lifetime.
Due to family reasons, Yan Ye has hardly ever suffered from any difficulties in terms of external conditions.
It was past dinner time, and he would not let the girl he liked eat the leftovers.
Although Xu Xiaoyue complained, she actually liked this in her heart. She liked this kind of undisguised preference. If Yan Ye really took her to eat those cold dishes that had been criticized by others today, she would turn around and leave immediately.
Xu Xiaoyue picked up the Arctic Ocean beside her and looked at it carefully. This drink can be considered old. Before she transmigrated into the book, she had only heard of it but had never tasted it.
Yan Ye looked up and saw that she was holding the bottle but not drinking it but just playing with it like a child, so he simply took the drink and put it next to him.
"Eat well and drink after you finish eating."
As the man spoke, he added another chopstick of food to Xu Xiaoyue's bowl, as if he was afraid that she would get angry and refuse to eat, so he coaxed her, "If you like to drink, finish your meal honestly, and I'll buy you a box to drink when you go back."
Xu Xiaoyue listened to his tone, as if he treated her as a junior, and tried her best to coax him. Her eyes fell on the man's face and she deliberately said, "Uncle promised me, so he must keep his word."
The word "uncle" left Yan Ye speechless. In terms of seniority and age, he was really worthy of being called uncle by the little woman.
Xu Xiaoyue lowered her head and didn't dare to laugh out loud. It was after these two encounters that she secretly discovered that men also have their own sensitive spots. They care a lot about others mentioning their age.
Without thinking, Xu Xiaoyue could guess what was going on.
She was eating the food in her bowl, and Yan Ye would add more food to her bowl and ask her if she was used to it.
The food in the capital tends to be sweet, but honestly speaking, she doesn't really like it. Compared to sweet food, Xu Xiaoyue's taste is more inclined towards Sichuan and Chongqing.
She loves spicy food, especially spicy food that makes her sweat.
However, when Yan Ye asked, Xu Xiaoyue nodded politely and said, "It's delicious."
After Yan Ye finished eating, he just watched the little woman sitting opposite him eat. He never had a big appetite, so he would rather feed the little woman than eat himself.
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