Chapter 30 Guagua Guagua This is going to be a mistake.
The air was deathly silent.
Xiang Yao opened her mouth, wanting to explain something, but nothing came out.
Nie Baichuan was stunned for a moment, then raised his lips slightly and narrowed his eyes: "Is that so?"
In an instant, the coldness and harshness in this person seemed to melt away silently with his smile, and the whole person became warm.
This really fits the description of the aunties in the team, but...
Xiang Yao blinked once, then blinked again: "You'd better stop smiling. You look pretty even without smiling."
She always felt that this smile was fake.
His expression was clearly smiling, there was a smile in his eyes, and his temperament was gentle, but something was wrong.
Nie Baichuan, from his appearance to his acting skills, is really suitable to be an actor!
Nie Baichuan naturally couldn't hear Xiang Yao's complaints in her heart, but just by looking at the girl's expression, he guessed what she was thinking.
A short and low laugh suddenly escaped from his throat, bringing Xiang Yao back to his senses.
"Don't you want to see me laugh?" There was a hint of teasing in his tone. Looking at Xiang Yao, he thought she looked quite cute with her eyes wide open.
"Uh..." Xiang Yao raised his hand and scratched his cheek. "I'm just asking out of curiosity."
Nie Baichuan's smile remained undimmed. "You behave in many different ways in front of your elders. This isn't surprising."
Xiang Yao raised her delicate eyebrows, it seemed so.
Isn't she quite changeable? She is sharp-tongued and full of thorns in front of the Xiang family, but well-behaved and enthusiastic in front of other people in the team.
Tsk, after all, these are not disguises, she just instinctively uses different appearances to face different people.
Thinking about it this way, Xiang Yao understood.
Nie Baichuan, he just has better acting skills, in essence, there seems to be no difference between the two of them.
Xiang Yao found a strange sense of identification in this similarity, and had a better understanding of the nature of Nie Baichuan's sesame-filled glutinous rice balls.
The Nie family must have had a hard time at the beginning. They were repatriated from the capital and had a bad background. Even if they had some money, it was not of much use in the countryside.
Therefore, Nie Baichuan's image in front of the team members is actually his way of survival in the past.
"Nie Baichuan, you're a nice person." Xiang Yao said sincerely.
Nie Baichuan glanced at her and said, "Don't you think I'm a bad guy now?"
He did not forget the strange look in Xiang Yao's eyes every time he saw him.
Xiang Yao smiled awkwardly: "I never thought so!"
It must be impossible...
But appropriate lies are conducive to friendly cooperation.
Nie Baichuan curled his lips meaningfully and did not refute her.
Xiang Yao, on the other hand, felt a little embarrassed at this moment. She felt that her thoughts seemed to be exposed in front of this person.
Rolling his eyes, Xiang Yao stood up and picked up the basket: "Then we have a deal. I will notify you after I prepare the goods."
Nie Baichuan nodded: "Yes."
He asked, "Are you going back to Xiangjiawan now?"
Xiang Yao shook his head: "No, it's not easy to come to the county town, I'll take a walk first."
Nie Baichuan seemed to want to say something, but Xiang Yao was no longer paying attention. She waved her hand, opened the door, tiptoed to look outside, and saw that there was no sound outside except the chirping of cicadas in the trees, so she hurried out.
"Goodbye!"
He turned around and waved again, then left calmly.
Not long after she left, a short middle-aged man walked into the innermost alley and knocked on the door cautiously.
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Xiang Yao felt very relaxed as he no longer had to make transactions in secret.
She paced along the road in the county town, sniffed her nose slightly, and smelled the aroma of food coming from not far away.
It was almost afternoon now. Xiang Yao touched her stomach and felt a little hungry.
Walking towards the source of the fragrance and turning a corner, I saw a state-owned restaurant.
The door of the shop was wide open at this time. There was a table of people eating inside. The waiter was sitting idly beside the empty table, talking about something and laughing loudly.
Xiang Yao slurped it up imperceptibly, his head filled with all the food he had eaten before coming here.
Even at the most stingy canteen window, there was always plenty of oil and water. Unlike now, when we cook at home, we either boil the food in water or just grease the pan with a little oil.
No matter how much vegetables you eat, you still can’t keep yourself from getting hungry.
She had to prepare a special meal for herself every day and eat the fruits and vegetables from the melon field in secret.
But in the era of food shortage, no matter how many fruits and vegetables you have, they will only fill you up and are far less satisfying than eating a proper meal.
Xiang Yao touched the still warm money in his pocket and decided to have a good meal first.
The restaurant waiter looked Xiang Yao up and down, then walked over and asked her what she wanted to eat.
Xiang Yao glanced at the table of customers eating in the restaurant and pointed at the bowl of twice-cooked pork: "I want one portion of twice-cooked pork. Do you have fish? I'll have another portion of fish."
The waiter said indifferently: "We don't have fish, but we have scrambled eggs. Do you want any?"
Xiang Yao didn't look like someone rich, and the waiters treated customers differently. When they saw a less respectable customer, their tone wasn't so nice.
These days, being a waiter in a state-owned restaurant is a very popular job. Most people can't even get in, so it's really high and mighty.
Xiang Yao nodded: "Okay, another serving of scrambled eggs. Can I use green peppers? I love scrambled eggs with green peppers."
The waiter's voice became sharp: "How can you choose your own dishes? We don't have such rules in our restaurant!"
Xiang Yao raised an eyebrow: "Just tell me whether you have it or not?"
The waiter rolled his eyes and said, "No! Why don't you go home and eat whatever you want!"
Xiang Yao was so angry that she laughed. She thought to herself that she had been very polite in her words and had a smile on her face. She didn't offend this person, so why did she speak like she was angry?
The people at the table next to them also heard the noise, stopped talking, and looked over.
Xiang Yao hesitated in her heart. Should she quarrel with the other person and then eat, or pretend not to feel the other person's hostility, ignore her and continue ordering food?
Anyway, she has to eat, and no one can stop her from eating!
Oh, forget it.
She is not a pushover! She can't swallow this!
Xiang Yao asked, "Your restaurant doesn't have eggs?"
Waiter: "Of course, how about scrambled eggs?"
Xiang Yao asked again: "So you don't have green peppers?"
The waiter was very impatient: "Oh, which restaurant doesn't have green peppers? Are you kidding me?"
Xiang Yao sighed, "You have both green peppers and eggs, and you don't even have a fixed menu. So why do you say we can't order scrambled eggs with green peppers?"
It's not that she insisted on eating this dish, it's just that the waiter didn't bring a menu. Since there was scrambled eggs, it wouldn't be difficult to add some green peppers.
The waiter was even more angry now: "You are so funny. I said no, that's right, why are you still asking? Don't eat it, go home and dig out the chicken coop, pick some green peppers and stir-fry them yourself! We don't welcome customers like you here!"
Xiang Yao stared at the waiter, was silent for two seconds, and then asked, "I say, are you driving customers away from your restaurant?"
The waiter was slightly stunned. He didn't expect her to ask this question. He said unhappily, "I didn't chase you away!"
Xiang Yao raised his lips and sneered, "You don't look like you didn't chase me away. I came to eat and paid for my food coupons, not because I owed you anything. With your attitude, do you think you're making distinctions? Do you look down on us poor and lower-middle peasants from the countryside?"
Taking advantage of the waiter's stunned silence, she continued, "Workers and peasants are one family, and the peasant community is strong! Although we dig for our living in the fields, no one should look down on us! If you really have this attitude, you're going against the mass line!"
The crackling sound was crisp and bright, as if they were not arguing with anyone, but sharing something happy.
But her fluent speech shocked the waiter, who felt a chill all over his body in the hottest days of summer.
Obviously, she didn't expect that this person would put such a big accusation on her just because her tone was a little bad!
"Don't talk nonsense! I don't look down on you! I haven't strayed from the mass line!"
The wind direction in the county town is more sensitive than in the countryside. Normally, when people come to eat, no one is disrespectful to the staff, so naturally there will be no troublemakers who are so tough.
However, she could admit that she looked down on others, but she could never admit that she looked down on the poor and lower-middle peasants, nor could she admit that she classified people into different levels in her mind.
This is where mistakes are made.
Xiang Yao smiled and was about to speak when she saw a fat man coming out of the kitchen. He was obviously the chef of this restaurant.
Oh no, help is coming?
Originally, Xiang Yao was thinking that it was okay to offend the high-ranking waiter, but it would be wrong to offend the chef.
She had come here to eat the delicious food, so if the food wasn't tasty, she would be at a big loss.
I was just hesitating whether to give up, but I didn't expect the chef's attitude to be so nice.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. She definitely didn't mean to look down on us. It's just that our place is very simple and she's new here, so she doesn't quite know how to order."
The chef simply attributed the incident to the waiter being new and not understanding.
Xiang Yao naturally came down using the ladder: "That's fine, it's not that you look down on us farmers, that's fine."
The chef smiled without a single wrinkle on his face: "You want scrambled eggs with green peppers and twice-cooked pork, right? Okay, we have green peppers and eggs too!"
Xiang Yao smiled sincerely this time: "Okay, thank you, Master!"
When the chef saw that she was a little girl, surprisingly brave and smiling sincerely, the anger in his heart disappeared quietly.
He glanced at the waitress, warned her with his eyes not to cause any more trouble, and went into the kitchen to start preparing the food.
In state-owned restaurants, chefs have a very high status. Not to mention how dissatisfied the waitress was, she even thought about tripping Xiang Yao up. But when the chef stared at her like that, she had to suppress her little thoughts.
The waiter snorted silently, and when he saw that Xiang Yao wasn't looking at him, he rolled his eyes again.
Xiang Yao didn't care about her at all. He paid the money and ticket at the window and then found a clean table to sit down.
In fact, she didn't feel much. She had seen many people like waiters who flattered the powerful and looked down on the weak before, so she didn't take it seriously.
Anyway, we won’t have any interactions in the future. If there is any unpleasantness, we can just vent our anger on the spot and there will be no emotions worth remembering.
Soon, the food was served.
Smelling the fragrant aroma of the pot, Xiang Yao couldn't help but sigh——
She had been here for so long and finally had a decent meal!
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