Xiang Jin and her second uncle arrived at the meeting place they had agreed with Yan Chen and others. Yan Chen and others had not arrived yet, so they waited there for a while before they arrived.
Looking at the bag in Yan Chen's hand, Xiang Jin's lips curled up, "It's really at your place. I thought I lost it and planned to buy some again after lunch.
"
Yan Chen said, "I didn't care at that time, so I just took them over and packed them up?"
"Well, it's packed. What about you? Have you settled in?" As he spoke, Xiang Jin reached out to pick up the bag.
Yan Chen said, "I'll hold it for you first, and then you can take it when you go back after eating."
"Okay," Xiang Jin's lips curved upward a little wider.
Yan Chen then answered her, "I've packed it up too."
"It's your first time living with so many people, are you used to it?" Xiang Jin asked after him.
In the past, when he was in the provincial capital, he lived at home, but when he came to them, he only lived with her and Yang Hui, and everyone had their own rooms. The most important thing was that he was a bit of a germaphobe.
, if there is someone who doesn’t care about cleanliness, he will probably feel uncomfortable living with him.
Yan Chen shook his head, "I don't know, let's just stay and take a look."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then said, "It doesn't matter. We will look for it when the time comes. For example, there are some teachers in the school who have been assigned dormitories to him. If he buys a house in the town, he will be assigned the school to him."
That house is rented out. If you are really not used to it, just move out of there."
"Um!"
"Which side is your dormitory on? Is it facing the inside or the outside? We are inside, facing the mountain behind, and it is a bit dark."
Yan Chen smiled and said, "Then we should be better, we are facing the playground, the light is very good!"
"How many people are there in your dormitory? Where do you sleep? Upper bunk or lower bunk?"
Yan Chen said, "There are four bunk beds, and there should be eight people there. When I went there, three seats were already laid out. I slept on the top bunk, on the right side of the door."
Xiang Jin thought for a moment and then said, "Then you are similar to me. I also sleep on the top bunk of the bed on the left side of the door. It's very humid in the back, so I didn't choose it."
Yan Chen nodded, "Yeah!"
"Where are we going to eat?" Xiang Jin then asked again.
Yan Chen said, "Why don't we find a place to eat in the town? It will be convenient for Uncle Yang and Yang Zhao to catch the car back after dinner."
Just as Xiang Jin was about to nod, Xiang Jin and her second uncle said, "No, no, no, how about we go to the cafeteria in your school to eat? It just so happens that we also know about the food situation in your school. Then your mother,
And if your grandpa asks, we can tell them.
Besides, it will be convenient for Yang Zhao and I to go back later. We can take a motorcycle at the school gate and go to the station. There are many buses going back there, so we can just catch a taxi and go back."
Yang Zhao also nodded vigorously and said he would go to their cafeteria to eat. He had never seen the food situation in this key middle school, so he just wanted to go and see it for a while.
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen looked at each other, and then they nodded, "Okay, let's eat in the cafeteria."
So Xiang Jin immediately asked a student carrying a kettle where the school cafeteria was, and the other student pointed in the direction.
Xiang Jin felt that she was a senior student and should know the school better, so she asked again, "Is there only one place in the school where I can eat?"
The other party told her, "In addition to the canteen, there are two teachers in the school who have private restaurants at home. However, the food there is better and more expensive. It is a small stir-fry. You can let them eat whatever you like."
What to cook for you? A meal might cost five yuan per person."
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen felt that the five yuan was acceptable and it was nothing. They had money now and were not short of money, so they nodded, and then Xiang Jin asked the two teachers where they lived.
Where is the private restaurant?
The student pointed it out to them. After Xiang Jin and Yan Chen remembered it, they thanked each other, and then the other party left.
Xiang Jin looked at Yan Chen and said, "Let's go to the cafeteria first. If it doesn't work, then we can go to the private restaurant of the two teachers?"
"Can!"
So everyone headed towards the canteen together.
As expected of a key middle school, the cafeteria is very big. There are many people selling food in it, at least dozens of them, each occupying a stall. There are two people standing in each stall, and there are several large pots of food.
There are some meat and vegetable dishes, but no matter whether they are meat dishes or vegetarian dishes, everyone likes to put bean paste or chili in the dishes, and the dishes are always oily.
Xiang Jin and the others saw many students taking bowls and chopsticks to cook, and then they put a spoon full of oil and soup directly into the bowl. The rice in the bowl was suddenly dyed red.
, and those who bring food are like that, and the students seem to be accustomed to it.
Seeing this, and the fact that the surrounding environment smelled like rotten meat, Xiang Jin and Yan Chen frowned directly.
Xiang Jin looked at Yan Chen and said, "It's the same as the cafeteria in our junior high school."
"Well," Yan Chen nodded slightly, and then said, "Let's go, let's go to the teacher's place and take a look?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "I think so!"
Xiang Jin and her second uncle said, "No, isn't this good? Can you eat it here?"
Yang Zhao and Xiang Jin stayed for a long time and got to know their eating habits. Then he tugged on his second uncle's clothes and whispered, "Second uncle, it can't be done here. The food is too oily, and it's okay.
It stinks! They’re not used to it!”
Xiang Jin also nodded towards her second uncle, "Uncle, it is easy for people to gain weight after eating that food, and it develops horizontally. Look at the amount of oil in that dish. I doubt that his oil guard is unhygienic.
clean."
Her second uncle glanced into the canteen again, and then frowned, "Yes, yes, you are right, this is indeed suspicious. Who would be willing to put so much oil in cooking, even if it is half a pot,
I guess their oil is not very good, either made from the leftovers from the pig, or the oil and soup left over from the previous meal. Add more oil and stir-fry the next meal, so I'd better go somewhere else to look.
Look, this body is still important no matter what."
Her sister now has a net income of two to three hundred yuan every day. In that month, she will earn at least six to seven thousand yuan. Their family does not need to repair the house anymore, and Xiang Lan is still young and does not need to study.
She has no money, and the expenses at home are not big, so it is no problem for her to support Jin Yatou now. Even if she is given five hundred yuan a month for living expenses, there will be no pressure.
So they turned around and went to the private restaurant of one of the teachers downstairs in the teachers' dormitory.
Not to mention, it is much more comfortable there than in the cafeteria. Although there are many people eating there, first of all, there is no other smell other than the smell of the food. Secondly, you can order the dishes there yourself.
, what you want to eat will be fried for you. Of course, the dishes are limited, only four or five dishes, and they won’t prepare more for you. They will all use these chopped vegetables to stir-fry with the pork.
Xiang Jin and the others also looked at the oil they used, which was absolutely pure rapeseed oil.
So Xiang Jin covered his mouth and whispered to Yan Chen, "Shall we eat here from now on?"
"Yeah!" Yan Chen nodded slightly.
Then Xiang Jin asked her second uncle and Yang Zhao to find a place to sit down first, and then she and Yan Chen went to line up to order.
"What do you want to eat?" Yan Chen asked her.
Xiang Jin said, "Anything is fine."
Yan Chen asked, "Then let's all have one?"
Xiang Jin turned his head and looked at him, "Are they all frying meat?"
Yan Chen looked at her with a smile, "Don't you want to eat meat?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "No, it's mainly because the meat is just the same. Look, it's all twice-cooked pork, stir-fried twice-cooked pork with green beans, twice-cooked lotus root pork, twice-cooked pork with garlic sprouts, sliced cucumber meat, and stir-fried fungus.
The meat is just the soup but not the dressing, there is nothing new.”
Yan Chen also had a smile in his eyes, "Indeed!"
Xiang Jin said, "It would be great if he had shredded pork or scrambled eggs with tomatoes."
Yan Chen moved closer to her and said, "You can give them some suggestions then."
Xiang Jin said, "It's better to say goodbye now. We'll go to another house in the afternoon to have a look."
Yan Chen nodded, "Okay!"
Soon Xiang Jin and the others arrived, and the other party asked them what they wanted to eat. Xiang Jin looked at Yan Chen and said, "How about we order the same portion first?" After all, there were still four of them.
Yan Chen nodded, "Okay!"
After Xiang Jin looked at the vegetarian dishes displayed in the glass cabinet again, he asked, "Boss, besides the few dishes displayed here, do you have any other dishes?"
The other person said, "There is also braised tofu, cold preserved eggs, cold vermicelli, and steamed pork with rice flour."
Xiang Jin asked again, "Are there any scrambled eggs with tomatoes?"
The other party said "Yes!"
There are so many dishes? Xiang Jin's eyes lit up, and then he looked at Yan Chen and said, "Then let's have a Lianbai hot pot, a bowl of steamed pork with rice flour, a braised tofu, a scrambled egg with tomatoes, and a cold preserved egg or cold salad
fan?"
Yan Chen said, "Let's have some cold vermicelli!"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, let's have some cold vermicelli!"
After the boss heard about it, he reminded, "Two classmates, let me tell you the prices first. The lotus white twice-cooked pork, steamed pork ribs with rice flour, and the small portion of tomato scrambled eggs all cost five yuan each.
, the large portions cost six yuan each, the small portions of braised tofu and cold vermicelli cost three yuan each, and the large portions cost four yuan each."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Do we know? Don't you have price lists posted on your walls?"
The other party smiled and nodded, "Yes, yes, it's all posted, you all saw it? Then do you want a large portion or a small portion?"
Yan Chen said, "Let's all have big portions!"
"Oh, okay, okay, a lotus root stir-fried rice, a steamed pork vermicelli, a braised tofu, a tomato scrambled egg, and a cold vermicelli, right?"
"Yes!" Xiang Jin nodded and then said, "Boss, is this enough for the four of us?"
"Oh, that's enough, that's enough. Don't worry, we've made enough portions for you," the boss responded enthusiastically while serving them food.
Yan Chen walked to the place where money was collected and paid.
Xiang Jin said, "Then I'll go and boil the dishes and chopsticks?"
"Okay, but be careful not to burn yourself!"
"I know!"
The two of them returned to the dining table, and within a short time, several dishes were served one after another. Xiang Jin and Yan Chen saw that the portions of the dishes were indeed quite large, so they took bowls and started serving food to everyone.
After Xiang Jin took a bite of the stir-fried vegetables, he said to Yan Chen, "Does it taste okay?"
Yan Chen nodded, "Well, not bad!"
Xiang Jin said, "After we went to another restaurant in the afternoon, if the food here is not as good, shall we eat here in the future?"
"sure!"
Just when everyone was enjoying their meal, the boss suddenly brought a bowl of vegetable soup composed of cucumber slices, green cabbage leaves and several tomato slices.
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen were surprised for a moment, and then Xiang Jin asked, "We didn't order soup?"
The boss said, "We give this to you for free."
Xiang Jin and the others nodded to express their gratitude.
Then the boss asked them, "Are some of your classmates freshmen in high school?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes, we just came to register today, and then we heard from a senior sister that you had opened a small stir-fry restaurant here, so we came to try it."
The other party nodded, with a smile on his face, "What do the students think of the taste here?"
Xiang Jin said, "It's okay!"
The other party's eyes suddenly narrowed into slits with a smile, "Really? Then you will come here often? If we don't talk about anything else, the freshness and hygiene of the dishes can be absolutely guaranteed. We all do it on the same day.
We go to the street to buy the freshest vegetables and meat. You see, the dishes we have here are not many, only a few.
When growing vegetables, we just don’t want to pile them up, and the oil we use is absolutely farmhouse rapeseed oil. We don’t use lard like some people do. The lard is washed with some leftovers that can be boiled into oil.
You just put it in the pot and boil it without cleaning it, and then the remaining oily residue is used to stir-fry vegetables and sell them."
Xiang Jin nodded and then asked, "What do you sell for breakfast and dinner?"
The other party said, "We usually have rice porridge, steamed buns, steamed buns, and boiled eggs for breakfast. For dinner, we have Chaoshou, dumplings, noodles, and rice noodles."
"So what's the filling of your morning buns? Are there any vegetarian buns?"
"Yes, we have meat buns and vegetable buns. The meat buns are also stuffed with vegetables. Usually they are bean sprout buns and cabbage buns. Sometimes they are stuffings of dried tofu, meat and vegetables.
For example, steamed buns, steamed buns, porridge, and boiled eggs in the morning cost three yuan each. In the evening, the small portions of dumplings, rice noodles, and noodles cost two and a half yuan a bowl, and the large portions cost three yuan a bowl.
Like noodles and rice noodles, we have some stuffed with beef, some with pork ribs, and some with braised pork. Oh, by the way, you can also fry an egg, and an fried egg costs 50 cents."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, then we will come to your place to eat."
The other party immediately smiled from ear to ear, "Okay, okay, don't worry, we will definitely make enough portions for you when you come."
Xiang Jin and the others nodded again, and then the other party said, "Okay, then you just eat slowly, I won't disturb you anymore."
After she left, Yang Zhao whispered to them, "But their charges here are still quite high. It costs at least ten yuan a day, which is much more expensive than the canteen in our rural elementary school."
Xiang Jin and her second uncle also said, "The food here is quite high."
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen were a little bit dumbfounded.
Then I heard Yang Zhao talking to himself again, "It seems that the tuition fees of this key middle school are different. They are higher than those in our town."
After finishing the meal, Xiang Jin and her second uncle went to pay for the meal, but Xiang Jin said that Yan Chen had already paid for it. Her second uncle's face suddenly became confused, saying how could he let a child pay for it.
Yan Chen said it was okay, it didn't cost much anyway, so he paid it.
Then Xiang Jin and her second uncle insisted on giving the two of them 100 yuan each and told them to buy some fruit to eat. At that time, he saw that there were watermelons and pears piled up in the canteen on campus.
Xiang Jin and the others had no choice but to accept it.
I followed them and accompanied them to get their books, and then went to the classroom to look at them. After seeing that they had picked a good seat, I proposed to go back.
Then Xiang Jin and Yan Chen took them to the school gate. After seeing them leaving on a motorcycle, they turned around and walked back into the school.
Then Yan Chen asked Xiang Jin, "Let's go, do you want to buy some fruit?"
Xiang Jin's eyes narrowed, "Come on, my second uncle just gave me the money to buy fruit!"
Yan Chen smiled.
Then Xiang Jin reminded him, "Grandpa Zeng asked you to settle in. Don't forget to give them a call."
Yan Chen said, "I'm just going to call their home."
The two of them arrived at the canteen. After Yan Chen handed Xiang Jin's daily necessities bag to her, he went to call his grandparents, and then Xiang Jin picked fruits there.
She first picked a watermelon, then a few pears, and asked the boss to put them in two bags. Then she saw that there were still bags of milk powder on the shelves in the store, so she went in and picked two more bags.
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Just as the boss was calculating the prices of those things, Yan Chen came over and asked, "Do you want to buy anything else?"
Xiang Jin shook his head and said, "No need for the time being."
"The total is eighty-eight dollars and a half."
"Oh, okay!" Xiang Jin lowered his head and went to take out the money, but Yan Chen directly handed over a hundred yuan.
The boss took it and gave the change directly.
Xiang Jin looked at Yan Chen, "Why did you give it to me?"
Yan Chen said, "Isn't it the same as what you give to me? Don't I have a share in those things you bought?"
"How is that possible? Each of us has a share of the pears and milk powder, and then each of us has half of the watermelon."
Yan Chen laughed, then took the shopping bags and said, "Let's go, I'll take you back?"
Xiang Jin said, "Wait a minute!"
Then she ran to the tap water pipe nearby and turned on the faucet to clean the watermelon. Then she ran back and asked the boss to cut the watermelon for them.
The boss did as he was told and cut the watermelon into pieces for them. Then Xiang Jin took Yan Chen to sit down at a stone table under the shade of a tree not far away, "Hey, let's eat here and then go back.
This way you’ll have to carry less stuff.”
Yan Chen just laughed.
Xiang Jin took a piece off the watermelon and handed it to Yan Chen, "I think the skin of this watermelon is a bit thick, but I don't know how it tastes."
Yan Chen said, "It's okay. If it doesn't taste good, I won't buy it next time."
Xiang Jin took a bite and said, "Well, it's okay, but there are a few more seeds."
Yan Chen opened an empty bag so that she could spit the watermelon seeds into the bag.
Just like that, the two of them sat there, one by one and I tasted the watermelon leisurely.
In the end, there were only two pieces left, and both of them couldn't chew anymore. Xiang Jin said, "Originally, I picked the smallest one, but I didn't expect it to be bigger."
Yan Chen comforted her and said, "That's because we just had dinner not long ago."
Xiang Jin nodded, "That's true!"
Yan Chen stood up, threw the bag of watermelon rinds into the trash can not far away, and then said, "Let's go, I'll take you back and rest for a while."
Xiang Jin refused, "No, the things in my hands don't weigh much. I can just go back by myself. You can go back and have a good rest when you go back. This place is very close to where you live. You don't need to run so much."
Far."
"Let's go!" Yan Chen couldn't refuse and directly pulled her up from the stone bench.