Chapter 41
Children are eager to grow up, and they have ambitions that are not inferior to those of adults. Or, because they are young, their ambitions are big. Adults are baptized by reality, and their ambitions are worn out.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" Lu Haici sat on the ground and asked his friends.
"I want to be a hero." Qin Ming was the first to answer. Although he was young, he had always been clear about his goal. He was raised by his grandpa and grandma since he was a child, so he often listened to his grandpa telling stories, stories about him leading soldiers to fight, and stories about how he beat bad guys. Qin Ming's young heart admired his grandpa very much, and he also wanted to be a hero like his grandpa.
"You are amazing." Lu Haici said, "My aunt said that my father is also a great hero."
Qin Ming: "Then do you want to be a great hero?"
Lu Haici was silent. What child doesn't want to be a great hero? But compared to being a great hero, he wanted to be something more. So he answered: "I want to be a college student." "
What is a college student?" Qin Ming's family didn't have any college students, and he had never heard of the term college student, so he didn't know yet.
"College students..." Lu Haici didn't know how to describe it, "College students are very powerful people. We are kindergarten children now, and we will be junior high school students in the future, and then we will be high school students, and finally college students. Like brother Da Wang, he is now a junior high school student, like my mother, she is an adult in high school, and finally a college student like my father. My father said that my mother also wants to go to college, so I want to be a college student like my mother."
The little boy didn't have brothers and sisters who were in elementary school, so he ate up the elementary school students.
"Is that so... Then I will finish kindergarten and stop studying. I will go directly to the army." Qin Ming had a headache when he heard that there was still junior high school, high school and college. "What's good about studying? Your mother is an adult who is in high school, and she will still work in the cafeteria in the future. Your father is a college student, and he will still be a soldier in the future. I can also join the army directly after finishing kindergarten. It's all the same."
This... Lu Haici was confused, and it seemed that what Qin Ming said made sense. But: "Then I still want to be a college student." Regardless of whether the result makes sense or not, he still wants to be a college student, because he wants to be like his mother. He is a child who is very persistent to his mother.
"Then I will be a college student too." Ji Yang said, "Lu Haici and I are good friends. Good friends go to school together, go home together, play in the mud together, and eat together. If Lu Haici wants to be a college student, I want to be the same." Ji Yang is a child who is very persistent to his good friends. Actually, Ji Yang was not so obsessed with his best friends before. In addition to Lu Haici, he had other friends. But after Lu Haici became good friends with Qin Ming and other children, he became very obsessed with the identity of Lu Haici's best friend.
"Qin Ming, you will go to the army after finishing kindergarten. In the future, we can't go to school, play and eat together, because we still have to go to junior high school, high school and college." Ji Yang said again.
Qin Ming heard that, that's not possible, he still wants to play with everyone and go to the cafeteria to eat the meals made by Lu Haici's mother. So Qin Ming immediately said: "Then let's go to junior high school together, high school together, and become college students together, and then we'll join the army together."
"But after I become a good college student, I don't want to join the army." Lu Haici said, "I want to work and earn money to support my mother in her old age."
"I know that." Ji Yang said, "My father sends old-age money to my grandma every month, and my mother also sends money to my grandma." Because Xu Huijuan was introduced to Ji Changfeng by Grandma Ji Yang, the relationship between Xu Huijuan and Grandma Ji Yang is quite harmonious.
"I know that too. My parents also give my grandma money for her old age every month." Qin Ming said, "My mom comes back from the county every month to give my grandma money for her old age."
"I know about the money for her old age, too." Chen Zhou said. Chen Zhou was the kid who pushed Lu Haici down and said he didn't want to be friends with them. For the little kids who have a very short memory, they have long forgotten what they said, faster than a couple who make up after a fight. "My mother secretly gave money to my grandmother, and my father found out. He scolded my mother and said that my grandmother was extorting money. So giving money to the elderly is extortion."
"That's not true." Lu Haici said, "My father also gave money to my aunt because she was old. It was my father who gave money to my aunt. It was not extortion. When my mother gets old, I will also support her." "
Then why did Chen Zhou's mother give money to Chen Zhou's grandmother, and Chen Zhou's father said that Chen Zhou's grandmother was extorting money?" Ji Yang asked.
"This..."
The kids didn't know.
"I'll ask grandma." Qin Ming said, "My grandma will definitely know."
Ji Yang: "I'll ask my mom, she will definitely know."
Lu Haici: "Then I'll ask my mom too."
Chen Zhou: "I... I'll ask my dad, my dad said this, my dad will definitely know."
So, the children decided to go home after school to ask the adults, and then discuss it together when they go to school tomorrow.
The canteen of the third company's cooking class
In the afternoon, Lin Qingqing not only made the white home three-piece suit, but also made the gray three-piece pajama suit. After finishing this, she finally felt relieved. Seeing that the time was almost up, she went to the canteen.
In the canteen, everyone was chatting, and Liu Honghua, who had nothing to do, also sat aside and listened to their chat.
Seeing Lin Qingqing coming, Qi Shao asked, "Comrade Lin, what are we going to make for dinner?"
This was not only what Qi Shao wanted to know, but also what everyone else wanted to know, because they had a very happy lunch, so now they were waiting for dinner. In fact, everyone knew that the reason for the happy lunch was because there was braised pork intestines, which could barely be considered meat. But it was good to have meat dishes once a month. So there would be no meat in the evening.
Lin Qingqing said, "Make cold cucumber and cold eggplant in the evening." Dietary fiber at 10 pm.
All whistles: "Then we are looking forward to the cucumber and eggplant that Comrade Lin recommended. If we were to make them, we wouldn't be able to make them tasty."
Lin said lightly: "This will allow us to blanch the remaining fifty pounds of pig intestines and save them for tomorrow's lunch."
All whistles: "Eating meat for two consecutive days will make them happy."
Lin smiled lightly: "There are not many pig intestines left, only three or four taels per person, and it will look better when it is served with other dishes. But when blanching the pig intestines, I have to prepare the ingredients in the kitchen alone." Naturally,
no one had any objections. Lin Bao even joked: "I will guard the door for Comrade Lin."
As long as the proportion of blanching pig intestines is well matched, everyone doesn't have to worry about the stove. Next came the cold smashed cucumber and cold smashed eggplant. The eggplants were steamed. While the eggplants were being steamed, Qi Shao led five comrades to smash the cucumbers, and Lin Qingqing added the seasoning.
To make smacked cucumber, cut the cucumber into sections and then smash it with a knife. The seasoning requires soy sauce, rice vinegar and sugar. Everyone put the smacked cucumber in a large bowl for vegetables, and then Lin gently poured in the seasoning and stirred it very quickly.
When the smacked cucumber was done, the steamed eggplant was also cooked, and then torn into strips. After it cooled, pour in soy sauce, minced garlic, rice vinegar and salt. Because some people can eat spicy food and some can't, half of the eggplant was added with chopped chili peppers and the other half was not.
After the two dishes were ready, the cafeteria employees started eating first.
"This eggplant is delicious and has a good flavor." Qi whistled. He likes spicy food, and this spicy cold eggplant is very much to his taste. He had to admit that the same ingredients can produce different flavors. How did they cook eggplant before? Either braise it or steam it directly, and then pour some soy sauce on it. But the braised ones are actually not as delicious as the cold-mixed eggplants that Comrade Lin recommended.
"That's right, so Comrade Lin made the right decision to come to our place." Lin Bao flattered him.
Liu Honghua smiled and said nothing, but she didn't think so in her heart. Of course, she recognized Lin Qingqing's cooking skills, and she had many ideas. The things she made were indeed delicious, but they were too wasteful. For example, cucumbers and eggplants need white sugar, and you know that sugar is expensive.
In fact, it seems to be a waste to add white sugar, but it is not. First of all, the amount of white sugar added is relatively small. Secondly, white sugar can be regarded as a tonic for the soldiers. The soldiers work hard, how can the things used for them be wasted? Moreover, all this white sugar is not enough to make a meal of braised pork.
Not long after Lin Qingqing and the others finished their meal, Lu Haici arrived with Ji Yang and Qin Ming. The kindergarten ends at 5:00, which is separate from the 5:30 end-of-day for the troops, so the three little kids still don't have to queue up.
Lin Qingqing gave the kids a small portion of smashed cucumber and a small portion of eggplant, still using the canteen's rice bowls, and put the rest into their lunch boxes. "Qin Ming, Ji Yang, just like at noon, come to the window to get your lunch box after you finish your meal, and take the remaining food in the lunch box home, okay?"
"Okay."
Qin Ming and Ji Yang said in unison.
The kids were slow to eat, and at 5:30, they were still eating. However, the soldiers of the third company rushed into the canteen. After what happened at noon, they were even more looking forward to dinner.
Next door, the soldiers from the first and second companies looked at the soldiers from the third company, who were running more vigorously during training, and were very puzzled: "Why are they running so fast?"
"To eat, how can we not run fast?"
"But it's too fast, isn't it? It doesn't feel like we're going to eat, but like we're going to fight."
"Who would know?"
"I heard that there's a new person in their cafeteria, and the dishes he makes are especially delicious, so they rushed to eat."
"Is it that exaggerated?"
"Why don't we go and take a look?"
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