Mai Sui bought five sets of clothes, pants and shoes at the supply and marketing cooperative, and also bought himself a nice sun hat.

The salesperson at the supply and marketing cooperative kept praising Mai Lao San for loving his daughter and being so generous with his money.

Mai Laosan smiled awkwardly: It has to hurt, otherwise you will be beaten.

Of course, Mai Sui did not forget Mai Hongcai and also bought him a set of clothes.

However, Mai Laosan didn't buy the cigarettes and alcohol he wanted, not because he had no money, but because he had no tickets.

Tobacco and alcohol coupons are in short supply and ordinary people don’t have them.

I can only go to the black market next time to see if there are any ready-made cigarettes and alcohol for sale.

Afterwards, Mai Sui bought another 20 kilograms of rice. Rice was the only staple food in their family, and it was consumed quickly, so they had to buy more.

Unlike other restaurants, which always have rice and sweet potatoes together, with more sweet potatoes and less rice.

Many people don’t even eat white rice at home, but eat brown rice. This is not only filling, but most importantly, it’s cheap!

Mai Sui actually likes to eat sweet potatoes, but he can only eat them as a snack and not as a staple food.

The staple food still has to be white rice, otherwise it feels like nothing has been eaten.

Neither Mai Laosan nor Mai Hongcai are the kind of people who would rather eat something than suffer, so they eat whatever Mai Sui eats.

Mai Sui is a good boss and he won't treat his subordinates harshly in terms of food.

The two bought some Fuqiang flour and planned to go back and make dumplings.

Now that we have the dumpling skin, we naturally need the filling.

But the two men arrived at an inappropriate time. The pork quota at the supply and marketing cooperative had been sold out, so the salesperson suggested that they go to the meat processing plant.

There are only a little lean meat and ribs left at the meat processing plant; the popular fat and pork belly have all been snatched away.

Mai Sui didn't mind, as she just liked to eat leaner food, so she bought all the remaining two pounds of lean meat and three pounds of ribs.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Mai Laosan suggested going to Mai Xiangbei's house for another meal.

Mai Sui disagreed, so the two went to a state-owned restaurant.

The restaurant here is different from the ones Mai Sui had been to before. The waiters will not come over to ask customers what they want to eat. Customers need to go to the window to order food themselves.

There is a blackboard hanging on the left side of the ordering window, with the dishes served today and their prices written on it with chalk.

On the other side there was a big reminder - no hitting or scolding of customers!

Obviously, this tip is not for customers, but to warn the waiters and chefs in the store to be nicer to customers.

This is also a characteristic of the times.

Mai Sui took a look at the words on the blackboard. She didn’t know if it was because the other party wrote too sloppily or what, but she didn’t recognize half of them.

Well, there must be something wrong with the person who wrote it!

Mai Sui would never admit that she was illiterate!

The two of them arrived early, and there was still half an hour before lunchtime, so there were not many people in the store.

Mai Sui chose a seat by the window and sat down, then asked Mai Lao San to order the food like a big boss.

Mai Laosan didn't hesitate and ordered a braised pork, chopped pepper fish, stir-fried cabbage, and two large bowls of white rice.

A total of 4.7 yuan was spent, as well as a pound of food coupons.

Seeing that roast goose was still available today, Mai Laosan spent another 2.5 yuan to buy half a goose, saying that he would take it back for Mai Hongcai to eat.

The hotel waiters were all shocked by the generosity of Mai Lao San. The other party was dressed rather shabbily and did not look like a rich man.

Mai Lao San was very proud and felt very happy. He thought that this kind of life with plenty of money was what he deserved.

Half an hour later, many people came to the restaurant one after another.

Mai Sui had sharp eyes and immediately spotted Mai Lin, Mai Xiangbei’s daughter, in the crowd.

Mai Xiangbei has only one daughter, who is 16 years old and just graduated from high school.

While having dinner yesterday, Mai Xiangbei told me that he was trying to help Mai Lin with her relationships so that she could be an apprentice in a machinery factory.

This kind of thing is very common in this era. It is not considered as a backdoor deal, but a basic benefit for children of big companies.

Mai Xiangbei is a second-level technician and Mai Lin is his only daughter, so it is natural for her to work in a machinery factory.

As for whether the apprentice can be converted to a regular employee, it depends on how well Meilin learns.

However, she has a father who is a second-level technician. As long as she is willing to work hard and study, there will be no problem in getting a regular employee.

Mylene's high school classmates all envied her.

Not only did they envy her for having a good father, but also because the machinery factory was the largest factory in their Xiangxi County, Meilin's job was not just a stable job, but a golden one.

So everyone urged Malin to treat everyone to a meal.

There was no other choice, so Mai Lin took them to the state-owned restaurant.

The wheat ears saw her, and she saw the wheat ears.

Influenced by Lin Shuhua, Mai Lin doesn't like rural relatives like Mai Sui and Mai Lao San very much.

She also knew that her cousin had been mentally handicapped since childhood.

So, Mylene didn't want her classmates to know.

So I pretended not to see it.

Mai Sui had roughly sensed Lin Shuhua and Mai Lin's attitudes when he was having lunch yesterday.

This is also one of the reasons why Mai Sui didn’t want to go to Mai Xiangbei’s house for dinner today.

But I didn't expect that by such a coincidence, I would meet Mylin here.

Seeing that Mailin deliberately turned her head to the other side, Mai Sui shrugged indifferently and continued to eat her braised pork.

However, Mai Lao San, who was confused, shouted loudly when he saw Mai Lin:

"Linlin, you are here to eat too, come on, sit here."

At this moment, Mai Lin was holding a plate of food and preparing to find a seat to sit down.

Her three classmates also followed her with food in their hands.

Meilin didn't want to pay any attention to Mai Laosan, but one of her classmates, Wang Meili, seemed to want to see Meilin make a fool of herself.

Especially when I saw that the clothes that Mai Laosan was wearing were full of patches, I thought he must be a relative of Mai Lin in the countryside.

Wang Meili immediately said sarcastically, "Mai Lin, that's your father's relative, he's calling you over."

Mai Lin's face turned slightly red, but Mai Lao San kept calling her, and she couldn't just ignore him, so she could only walk over reluctantly.

Wang Meili and the other two classmates naturally followed closely behind.

Mai Laosan naturally asked the four people to sit down.

Wang Meili was waiting to see Meilin make a fool of herself, but when she saw the food on the table, she was dumbfounded.

Do people in rural areas eat so well?

Not only do the two of them eat three dishes, but two of them are meat dishes!

This was so far from the shabby life she had imagined!

Meilin was also very shocked. Didn't mom say that Uncle San's family was very poor? How come the food was so good?

Looking at them, four people ordered a plate of shredded potatoes and a plate of minced eggplant and meat.

This minced meat is really just minced meat, the kind that is so small that it is invisible, and at most you can smell a little meaty aroma.

The portions of dishes in state-owned restaurants are very large. It is normal for a group of four like Malin to eat two dishes.

Mai Laosan is just a poor man who suddenly became rich and is showing off.

Look, both Mai Sui and he were so full that they hadn’t finished their meal yet.

Just then, Meilin came, and Mai Lao San invited her to have something to eat with him.

This is a meat dish. Even if it is leftover, it won’t be shabby at all when I serve it to my niece.

Mai Lin and her classmates were enjoying the meal very much, calling him Uncle Mai Sanbo sweetly.

Sure enough, whoever gives you milk is your mother.

In the end, Mai Lao San was so excited that he gave the roast goose he brought for Mai Hongcai to Mai Lin and asked her to take it back for Mai Xiangbei to try.

Mai Sui did not stop her. After all, she had just had a meal with Mai Xiangbei yesterday, and she didn't even take half a roast goose seriously.

When Meilin brought the roast goose home, Lin Shuhua was stunned and asked repeatedly: "Is this really a gift from your third uncle?"

"Of course, Third Uncle is very rich now. I saw he put a lot of meat in his bamboo basket. He said he was going to make dumplings when he got home.

Mom, when are we going to have dumplings? I want to eat meat dumplings too."

"Eat, eat, eat. All you do is eat. You took money out to treat everyone at noon without permission, and I haven't said anything to you yet!"

When Mai Xiangbei came home from get off work, he was as happy as a child when he learned that his third brother had sent him half a roast goose.

So, when it was time to eat, he would walk around the staff quarters with the bowl in his hand, telling everyone he met that it was sent by his third brother.

Lin Shuhua simply couldn't bear to watch it.