The two went to the teachers' cafeteria to get food, but there were only a few people sitting there. Xiang Jin tugged Yan Chen's clothes lightly, and then whispered to him, "Is it possible that the food here is not delicious?"
After Yan Chen looked around the entire hall, he said, "Probably not. Teachers are relatively freer than us, so it is normal for them to eat earlier than us."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Your statement is still reasonable."
The two people went to the chef to get some food, and then the chef asked them what they wanted to eat, and then Xiang Jin asked him how they sold the breakfast.
The master said, "Steamed buns cost 250 cents each, steamed buns cost 350 cents each, boiled eggs cost 20 cents each, and a bowl of porridge costs 150 cents."
Then Xiang Jin looked at Yan Chen, "What do you want to eat?"
Yan Chen didn't answer but asked, "Then what do you want to eat?"
Xiang Jin said, "I want to eat a steamed bun and a steamed bun, but master, how come your steamed bun is so much more expensive than that steamed bun?"
The master said, "Our buns are all stuffed with meat."
"Oh, do you have vegetarian steamed buns at home?"
"Vegetarian buns?" The chef immediately shook his head, "No vegetarian buns."
Yan Chen said directly to the cook, "Two steamed buns and two bowls of porridge, then two steamed buns and two boiled eggs."
"Oh, okay!" The rice cook then took their lunch boxes and scooped out the porridge, while the other person took their bowls and filled them with steamed buns and steamed buns.
Xiang Jin knew that this guy had mysophobia, so he said, "Hey, Master, put the steamed buns in one bowl and two boiled eggs in one bowl."
"Oh, good, good!"
After the two chefs prepared the rice for them, Xiang Jin and Yan Chen handed over the money at the same time. Xiang Jin had two yuan in his hand and Yan Chen had five yuan in his hand.
Then the two masters asked them whether they should be given to each of them, or together.
The two of them said in unison, "Together!"
Then the two of them looked at each other, and then Xiang Jin said, "It's mine. My money is better than yours, and it's easier for the master to find it!"
The two masters nodded, and one of them said, "If you give it today, it will be the same tomorrow."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, that's right, we are also 'relatives' anyway, so it's the same no matter who gives it, right?"
Seeing the teasing look on her face, Yan Chen reluctantly took the money back, and then the female of the two masters laughed and said, "Oh, you are still related?"
Xiang Jin nodded, and Yan Chen said lightly "Yeah".
However, after the male master gave Xiang Jin the change, he said, "In order to avoid you having trouble finding money in the future, you can actually apply for a monthly card with us."
"Apply for a monthly card?" Both of them were surprised for a moment, and then asked Xiang Jin, "What should I do?"
"I'll let you know when you finish your meal," the master said.
The two of them nodded, then took their meals to an empty seat not far away to eat.
The boss is quite conscientious. The steamed buns are very solid. The buns are as big as a grown man's fist. The buns are a little smaller than that, but the ingredients inside are quite sufficient.
It's all good meat. When you bite it into your mouth, you'll be filled with meat and oil.
When he was halfway through eating, Xiang Jin said to Yan Chen, "It's over. I found that my eyes are big and my belly is small today. What should I do? I shouldn't have ordered that steamed bun, or you should order less eggs. It's a waste of too much food.
Isn’t it a pity?”
Having said this, she glanced at the two chefs who were cooking not far away, "You said, can I return these steamed buns that I haven't eaten yet? But what if I want to eat some again?
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Yan Chen directly took the steamed bun she was holding in her hand, then broke it in half from the middle, handed one half back to her, and ate the other half by himself, "You must eat eggs to supplement protein.
You take the rest back and feed it to your roommate."
Xiang Jin was surprised and said, "You don't want to eat?"
Yan Chen raised the half piece of steamed bun in his hand and said, "I'll be done eating these."
Xiang Jin said, "Then it seems we should do less in the future."
Yan Chen nodded, and then said to Jin, "But I have several roommates. It seems a bit awkward if I only give it to one person, right?"
Yan Chen said, "People are naturally close and distant, or if you really feel it's inappropriate, just buy a few more later."
Xiang Jin thought for a moment, "That's right."
Then the two of them finished their meal quickly and went to wash the dishes. After washing the dishes, the canteen owner came over and told them about applying for the monthly card.
The two of them listened attentively, and sure enough, they were talking about the same thing as Director Zhao, saying that they usually have steamed buns, steamed buns, porridge, and boiled eggs in the morning. The price of eating all of these is about 70 cents.
It looks like left and right.
At noon, there are two meat dishes and one vegetable. Sometimes the two meat dishes are a stir-fry and a stew, sometimes they are just two stir-fries. The number of vegetarian dishes is also determined based on the two meat dishes of the day. For example, if the day is
If it is stir-fried or stewed, then the vegetable dish will be stir-fried. It may be shredded potatoes, braised tofu, or stir-fried vegetables and bean sprouts.
If there are two stir-fry dishes that day, one of them will be soup. It may be tomato and egg drop soup, it may be pickled cabbage and vermicelli soup, and it may be green vegetable and tofu soup.
Then Xiang Jin asked, "What kind of stew is the usual stew?"
The master said, "Sometimes it's stewed meat, sometimes it's stewed pork ribs. Like stewed pork ribs, we usually stew it with winter melon and kelp in summer, and in winter we stew it with radish and kohlrabi. Sometimes it's stewed with pork ribs."
White radish, sometimes carrot, you have more choices.
For example, the price of stir-fried vegetables is 60 cents per serving. The stew takes a long time and wastes more firewood, so the price is a little higher, only 80 cents per serving.
Both the vegetarian dishes and the soup cost 30 cents each. Don't worry, we will never make the soup for you like the farmers and residents around us. It is just soup, with only a salty taste in it, and the clear soup is watery.
, there are not even a few vegetable leaves to be seen, we have ingredients there, and we pay 30 cents for a portion of white rice, we have enough for this, and if it is not enough, you can add more."
Xiang Jin looked at Yan Chen, "It's really about two yuan, huh?"
Yan Chen nodded, and then heard the boss say again, "We usually eat noodles in the evening, saozi noodles, the kind with some meat fried in it, but there won't be too much meat, this one is 50 cents
money."
The two of them nodded again, and then the boss followed up and said, "Our monthly card processing is based on the twenty-two-day system in January. The teachers have classes for five and a half days, oh yes.
Yes, you also go to school for five and a half days?"
Xiang Jin shook his head and said, "We are in the third grade of junior high school."
"Oh, then you only have time off once every two weeks, and you have to go to school twenty-six days a month."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then heard the master say again, "Well, you should just apply for a twenty-two-day monthly card, because no students have ever eaten here before, and you are still the first one."
, nothing happened during those four days, and the teacher was with us
If we don’t eat inside, we won’t be able to open the fire. Then you can go outside to eat. After all, we all use large pots and stoves, so it’s more troublesome to cook. But we have to open the fire on Sunday night, because at that time the teachers are all coming.
Are you back at school?"
The two of them nodded, and then Yan Chen said, "Then let us handle it as you said. The meal at noon will be based on the two yuan standard. We will refund you more and make up for the less."
The master nodded and said, "Well, that's how we came here too. We will make a booklet for each of you. Then you can just come with the booklet. We will tell you the price of the meal you had for lunch.
Just cross out the price when you eat. If you have any remaining balance on the card, you can directly carry it forward to the next month's living expenses, and you will pay a little less next month."
The two of them nodded, and then they applied for the monthly card together at his place. The boss said that they would hand over the booklet to them at noon.
The two nodded, and then said to Xiang Jin, "Master, do you have any steamed buns left? I'll buy three more. I want to take one back for each of my roommates."
The master said, "Yes, yes, yes," and then asked the female master to put a few steamed buns in a bag for her. After seeing the uneaten steamed buns left in Xiang Jin's bowl, he took the initiative
He said to her, "This one of yours is already cold. Can I change it to a warm one?" Then he turned around and asked the female master to add another one.
After the female chef brought the steamed buns to them, Xiang Jin paid for them, but the male chef didn't want it and said he would give it to her directly. The female chef also kept saying that it would be given to her, which made her want to eat it.
Jin was very embarrassed.
After walking out of the canteen, Xiang Jin said to Yan Chen, "The way they do it makes me embarrassed to withdraw orders from them in the future."
Yan Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry about it, after all, the food there isn't that bad."
Xiang Jin said, "That's true, and it's a little comforting. You said that the food he makes is terrible, but I owe him a few steamed buns. If I bite the bullet and eat at his place, I
How frustrating is it?”
Yan Chen said, "Don't worry so much. If it's really so unpalatable, I'd have paid for those steamed buns for you this morning, so you didn't even have a chance to owe him any favors."
Xiang Jin chuckled.
Watching the two of them walk away, the owner of the cafeteria said to the owner Nian, "These two children's families are rich, so we have to keep them safe. Oh, our family has never had students come here to eat before.
You think of those teachers, after they have been teaching here for a few years, which one will not start a family and start a business? Once they start a family, how many of them will come to our place to eat? Unless they are the kind who don’t want to cook, by then our family will
What should I do with my business?"
The boss lady nodded, "Well, I also saw that those two children have money, and they can spend two or three hundred dollars at a time. Do you think any ordinary family would be willing to give their children that much pocket money?"
The boss nodded, "So, we have to stabilize them. As long as there is one student or two students eating here, then there will be students coming here to eat, although we can't count on other students."
Like them, the children also come to our place to eat every meal, but anyway they
They also come here to eat. There are so many people in the middle school and primary school in the school. There are hundreds of people. If thirty or forty people come to eat here every day, then we can still make a profit, even though the mosquitoes are small.
, but after all, it’s meat, so it’s more economical than farming in my hometown.”
The landlady nodded, "That's the truth."
Then the boss said, "Go find me two notebooks and make their monthly cards."
Xiang Jin returned to the dormitory, and then said to a few people except Zhang Xiaoxia, "I think these steamed buns are pretty good, so I brought one back for each of you. It's still hot now. Let's eat it while it's hot."
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Several people were surprised for a moment, then laughed, and then they all thanked them. Xiang Jin waved to them and said no thank you.
Then Liu Ying took a bite of the steamed bun and asked her, "Xiang Jin, how much does this steamed bun cost?"
Xiang Jin said, "Twenty-five cents is equivalent to one cent and a half."
Then He Guizhi said to the other people, "It's still a good deal."
A few people nodded, and then asked her where she bought the steamed buns. Xiang Jin told them that she bought them in the teachers' cafeteria of the school.
Luo Qiuyan was immediately surprised and said, "Where did you go to eat in the morning? Can students eat there?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, the food there is quite good and fresh. In the morning there usually are steamed buns, porridge, and boiled eggs. This morning we had mung bean porridge."
Then they asked her about the prices of other things, and then Xiang Jin told them, and then said, "Actually, if the meal you had in the morning is not suitable, you can go there to eat. They prepare the breakfast there."
It’s hard to endure.”
Luo Qiuyan immediately said that she would go there to eat with her tomorrow morning. She said that her parents gave her pocket money every week, so why would she not use it for flowers?
Zhao Xiaomei also said, "That's right, we just have a spoonful of soup and it still costs ten cents. Besides, except for a little chili powder and salt, there is nothing in the soup, even vegetable leaves. It's better to eat it sour."
For rice, I might as well add two and a half cents to eat a steamed bun."
Others also thought so, so they all said that they would go to the teachers' cafeteria with them to eat tomorrow morning, and they would not cook rice then.