FSC [QT] Chapter 77.1

“You said that the children nowadays are also very powerful. They don’t want to study. Sometimes they criticize this, sometimes they educate that. When we were young, we didn’t have a stable environment to study.”

“Shh, stop talking.”

Next to Ah Wu and the others, there were two middle-aged men dressed as workers. One of them looked around, then pushed the man who just spoke with his hand and gave him a warning look.

The man obviously realized that the current environment was not suitable for discussing such sensitive topics.

Perhaps the trend of the movement had not yet reached their place, so the people in Baihua County and even the surrounding counties were sensitive to these things, but not sensitive enough.

She was afraid that in two or three years, the man who had just spoken would not dare to mention any words related to a certain soldier, even at home, in front of his closest family.

The children did not have such worries as Ah Wu. They chattered and some of them simply compared the answers to the exam they just took.

“Is the final answer to the last question 4?”

“Is it 4? Isn’t it 7?”

“It should be 4. The process is… first get the answer… then convert it… and the final result should be 4, right?”

“My answer is also 4.”

“Oh, my calculation process is the same as yours, but I got the answer wrong in the end. Teacher Ye clearly reminded me to check it carefully.”

“What did you choose for the last multiple-choice question? This question was so difficult that I couldn’t figure it out in the end. I also didn’t have time to check the other questions because of this one.”

“I chose C.”

“I chose B.”

…

The seven children were discussing heatedly. Zhang Heng, who had just made a mistake in the last big question due to carelessness, had a bitter face. Obviously, he had lost confidence in other questions.

“If it’s just a calculation error, you can still get points on this question. Don’t be disappointed. But after this incident, you should face your own problems more squarely. Zhang Heng, isn’t your goal to be an engineer in a machinery factory? If you miscalculate some data due to your carelessness when designing the machine, it may threaten the life safety of the workers.”

Ah Wu did not scold him, but she educated him more patiently.

“I know, Teacher Ye.”

Zhang Heng nodded. Compared with his usual carelessness, he was obviously more serious now that he had learned a lesson from his carelessness in the competition.

“Table No. 7, take the dishes!”

A head suddenly popped out of the window separating the hall and the kitchen. The man dressed as a chef knocked on the window with a big iron spoon and shouted.

There was no such thing as a waiter in this era. Everyone was equal. Waiter was a word with the remnants of capitalism and hedonism. Therefore, in state-owned restaurants, no one would serve you dishes.

When the dishes were cooked, the chef would shout at the window, and you had to go to the window to take the dishes yourself.

Ah Wu couldn’t carry so many plates by herself, so several relatively tall students helped her.

A plate of fried cabbage, which was served on a large plate, was arched into a small mountain with a peak on the top. This plate of cabbage should be fried with lard. It not only smelled of meat but also looked greasy, which made the children who lacked oil and water all year round almost stare at it.

Even if it was cabbage that every household had, they could eat several bowls of rice with this fried cabbage.

In addition to this fried cabbage, there was also a dish of scrambled eggs with green onions and a dish of stewed meat with pickled cabbage.

Eggs were a rare commodity nowadays, so a large portion of scrambled eggs with green onions had more green onions and fewer eggs.

For seasoning, the chef should have added some rice wine to remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor. During the heating process, a lot of the rice wine evaporated, leaving only a faint smell of wine mixed with the aroma of green onions and eggs.

The scrambled eggs were overcooked, and the edges of a few eggs were burnt, but the burnt smell did not cover the taste of the food itself. Instead, it made the eggs a little more crispy and added to the flavor.

The sauerkraut stewed with pork was the highlight of the three dishes. In the past few years, Ah Wu had only cooked a special meal for herself once, and this stewed pork with sauerkraut was one of the dishes.

It was said that the sauerkraut in the restaurant was made by the chef himself. This was their family’s ancestral recipe.

The sauerkraut was sour enough, and the sour soup was rich enough. Stewing it with the pig head with a large piece of fat could neutralize the greasiness of the pork.

The sour taste could stimulate the taste buds to a greater extent, making you love it more and more and whetting your appetite. (T/N: Just reading it makes me hungry!)

The portions of these three dishes were very large, and in order to go with them, Ah Wu asked for some more rice.

However, the children had not eaten such a sumptuous meal for a long time. In the end, although she ordered some rice, it was still not enough, so she added nine more multi-grain steamed buns.

Fortunately, she brought some extra food tickets and money, otherwise, it would not be enough for the children.

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