After hearing this, Grandma Meng wanted to see her granddaughter as soon as possible.
"Girl, tell grandma what my granddaughter looks like."
Jiang Baige told her how cute and fun the baby was while taking out the rice porridge and opening it to eat.
"Grandma Meng, there's porridge for sale over at the dining car, but it's too watery and won't fill you up. Let's just have rice porridge for lunch!"
Grandma Meng was very happy to hear about her granddaughter. She didn't feel hungry at all and didn't care what she ate.
Nodding, "Whatever! Anything is fine."
Jiang Baige prepared two boxes of rice and took out a half-pound piece of braised beef. Because there was no cutting board, she put a paper towel on the small table and took out a knife to cut the beef.
Because her knife skills are not good, the slices are not evenly thick, but after tasting them, they are still pretty good.
The carriage door was closed, and in the enclosed space, a fragrance soon drifted into the carriage.
She picked up a piece and put it in Grandma Meng's mouth.
"Grandma Meng, how does this meat taste?"
Grandma Meng responded, "Yeah, it tastes much better than that big piece of meat this morning."
When Chen Yuan was engrossed in reading, he heard the grandparents and grandchildren in the lower bunk seemed to be preparing food. After hearing what they said, he lost the mood to read.
I put the book aside and was just about to take a nap when I smelled a fragrance floating in the carriage.
I stuck my head out and looked at them preparing to have lunch. I didn't know what the rice was made of, but the rice smelled very fragrant, and it seemed to have the taste of vegetables, and there was also meat on their table.
He was thinking, what kind of family is this! They can eat meat while riding on the train.
But he took a look and then turned his head back. As a man, it would be too embarrassing for him to stare at what others were eating.
While Jiang Baige was waiting for the meal to be cooked, she picked up the book on the bed and continued reading.
She picked out a novel from her space to pass the time.
In my previous life, I never read any books and didn’t even have time to watch TV. Now that I finally have some free time these two days, I want to find an interesting book to relieve my boredom.
After lunch, Jiang Baige put away the box because it was disposable and she didn't want to throw the wet thing into the space.
So while no one was looking, I quickly opened the window and threw the lunch box out.
Chen Yuan was already drowsy from the fragrant smell in the carriage. He was about to fall asleep when he was woken up by the wind blowing in from the open window of the lower bunk.
After this move, he couldn't sleep and felt a little hungry.
After thinking about it, I climbed down from the bed.
Jiang Baige was just about to lie back down on the bed when she saw the person from the upper bunk coming down. Their eyes met, and she nodded and greeted him proactively.
Seeing that the female comrade greeted him, Chen Yuan smiled at her.
Without saying a word, he pulled out his bag from under the lower bunk, took out the lunch box from it, and went out.
When Jiang Baige saw the man leave, she looked at her watch and it was already past three o'clock.
If this person goes to get food now, he will definitely not be able to get any, because the meals on the train are served by the station staff at mealtime. The portions are not big, and there are so many people on the train that there is almost nothing left.
Sure enough, not long after, the man came back.
After this trip, Chen Yuankong felt even hungrier. He had returned from the northernmost part, and all the food he had brought with him was gone.
It seemed that he could only endure hunger and eat at night.
Seeing him put the lunch box back, Jiang Baige asked, "Comrade, you didn't get anything to eat."
Shen Yuan responded: "Well, no more."
Thinking of the smell I just smelled, I swallowed.
He asked, "Comrade, what did you just eat? It smells so good!"
"Do you have any left? Give me one! I'll give you money, what do you think?"
Jiang Baige just asked casually to avoid the embarrassment of having nothing to say in this space, but she didn't expect that this person would actually ask her for food.
But looking at his clear eyes and the old clothes he was wearing, he looked very simple and didn't look like a bad person.
He nodded, "Yes! You want some? Three dollars a piece?"
"There's rice and meat, and no tickets required."
Chen Yuan didn't know what the food was, but it cost three dollars for one serving.
But since it had rice and meat, he found it very attractive.
But he was really hungry, and three dollars was not a lot for him. He had earned more than a thousand dollars on this trip, so this amount of money was nothing.
Nodding, he said, "Yes, three dollars a piece, right? I'll give you the money now."
He turned his back and fumbled inside his clothes for a long time before he took out a ten-yuan unity note.
All his money was in bundles sewn into the fabric of his inner garment. It was inconvenient to take out the large bills. If he had known he would have to spend a lot of money, he would have left a few bills outside.
Hand over the money and then ask, "Do you have change? I'm short on change."
Jiang Baige had just seen that his clothes were tattered and he didn't look like a wealthy man. But she didn't expect that the Great Unity banknotes he took out were so new and had never been folded. It was obvious that they had just been opened, and the marks of the paper band on the money were still there.
Thinking of his actions just now, Jiang Baige thought that he might have worn this outfit on purpose, and maybe he had a lot of money on him.
Jiang Baige said, "Uh, I can find it for you."
She took out her shoulder bag from under the bed, took out the money, and gave him seven dollars in change.
Wanting to test whether this person had money, Jiang Baige asked, "Comrade, I have some braised beef here, would you like some?"
When Chen Yuan heard that there was also braised beef, he quickly nodded.
"Yes! You tell me how much it costs."
A bag of braised beef is only half a pound. According to the supply and marketing cooperative's price of three yuan and fifty cents per pound, this half a pound of beef is only one yuan and seventy-five cents.
But she has it braised, so five yuan is enough.
Jiang Baige said, "Five yuan a piece, do you want one?"
Chen Yuan didn't expect it was only five yuan. He had just eaten braised pork in the north, and a portion in the state-owned restaurant there cost ten yuan.
I nodded quickly: "Yes."
Jiang Baige took back another five yuan and handed him the two yuan in her hand.
Grandma Meng listened to them talking quietly and was extremely worried.
We are on a train here. If anyone finds out that this girl is fleecing socialism, they will all be arrested.
She sat there restlessly, listening carefully to the noise outside, fearing that someone would open the door and see them trading.
After Jiang Baige received the money, she pulled the suitcase out from under the bed, opened a small opening, and put her hand in first.
When I reached in, I took out several flavors.
I opened the suitcase and took out a few boxes. Each one tasted different.
Jiang Baige said, "Every dish here tastes different. Look at the pictures above. Whatever the picture looks like, that's what the dish is."
Chen Yuan didn't expect that there was such a good thing, but he couldn't understand it in the picture!
Jiang Baige didn't expect that the people here had never eaten any good food, so he didn't recognize the dishes in the pictures at all.
Then he took out the boxes and told him, "This is the braised pork, there's also curry chicken, stir-fried beef with pickled mustard greens, shredded pork with fish flavor, and Kung Pao chicken. Which one do you want?"
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