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Chapter 10 Three Meals a Day

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    A few days ago, I had a severe cold, and Dr. Huang did not disappoint me. After giving me 2 consecutive injections, my physical fatigue gradually disappeared, and I became lively again.

    For breakfast, it is still white rice porridge with an egg, and there is also a plate of fermented bean curd.

    Fermented bean curd was made by grandma a long time ago.  Store in a jar and grab a few pieces when you want to eat.  When I'm busy, I don't have time to cook, so a bowl of white rice with a little fermented bean curd is enough for a meal.  Don't underestimate the small fermented bean curd, the process and thought involved in it are no less than ordinary hard vegetables.

    Making fermented bean curd is also a unique skill of my grandma. Many relatives come to my house, and when they leave, they will ask grandma to bring some fermented bean curd to them.  When it comes to fermented bean curd, I can't explain it clearly in a few words, so I will talk about it separately for everyone another day.

    After eating breakfast, I put my schoolbag on my back, and walked out to school in the morning dew.

    In a blink of an eye, the four classes in the morning will soon end, and it's time for lunch.  My family lives far away, so I eat lunch at school.  Most of the students who live nearby will choose to go home to eat, which can save a lot of money.

    In our age, there are no health and hygiene problems in school meals that cause parents headaches.  At most it is worth the price.

    The school cafeteria is located on the right side of the school gate and is very small.  It is mainly convenient for our children in preschool and kindergarten.  Older students have already learned to ride a bicycle, and it is very convenient to go home.

    There are 2 rooms in the cafeteria, one is a place for eating, and there are more than ten long tables in it for eating.  The other room is divided into two areas, one is the operating area for pots, stoves, condiments, etc., and the other is the place for the prepared meals.

    The common currency in the cafeteria is "meal ticket", a paper meal coupon with a length of 5 cm and a width of 3 cm.  Students who haven't seen it before can look at the pictures on Baidu.  There are two types of meal tickets, one with a face value of 5 cents, with red letters on a blue background; the other with a face value of 2 cents, with green letters on a blue background.

    In the school cafeteria, you can¡¯t buy meals with money, you can only use meal tickets. It is said that the school strictly stipulates that if the master sells it to us privately and takes money, he will be fined.

    With a meal ticket of 2 cents, you can get a serving of rice and a vegetable dish in the cafeteria, and a meal ticket of 5 cents, you can get a serving of rice and a dish of meat.

    Meal tickets are bought by parents with money from teachers.  You decide how much to buy according to your child's appetite and the family's economic conditions.  Of course, if you run out of meal tickets, you can buy them at any time on the way.

    Every morning before I go out, my grandma will give me a meal ticket for the day.  I can eat 5 cents of meat dishes once a week to improve nutrition.  Basically, it will be fixed on Wednesday by grandma.

    Grandma often tells me about my father's reading when he was a child.  At that time, they basically brought food to school.  When you head out in the morning, use the lunch box to pack the day's meals.  After school at noon, I take a lunch box and eat steamed rice in the cafeteria, and I pay 1 cent and 2 cents each time.  When you don't have any food, you can also use the money to buy food in the cafeteria.

    According to grandma, my dad's daily living expenses are 2 cents, no matter whether he brings rice to steam or eats at school, it is 2 cents.  When I graduated, my dad usually saved more than 5 yuan in total.  like!

    The chef in the cafeteria is surnamed Zheng, and there are also a few aunts who help in the kitchen, picking vegetables, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables, steaming rice and so on.  Cooking and cooking are done by Master Zheng alone.

    Every time I come to the cafeteria with my classmates, there will be a long queue in front of me.  Most of them are senior students, because the senior classrooms are close to each other, they are taller and run faster, so they will arrive before us.

    Standing behind the long line, moving your pace as the line advances little by little, at this time, you can take time to observe the surrounding environment.

    There is a small open space in front of the cafeteria. The queues line up from the inside of the cafeteria to the outside, pass through the gate, turn around the patio, and arrive at the auditorium every day.  The roof of the cafeteria is also made of small blue tiles. Vegetables are steaming in the pot to keep warm. The unburned smoke jumps to the tiles on the roof through the chimney. From a distance, the tiles are covered with a layer of faint white smoke, which is very fireworks.  breath.

    When every person who came out of Dafan passed by everyone, everyone habitually looked at the bowl he was holding.  Familiarize yourself with the aroma of the next meal first, and let your taste buds open in advance.  After 4-5 people come out one after another, you can probably determine the vegetarian dishes at noon today from the dishes they serve.

    Of course, occasionally there will be times when several classmates don¡¯t like a certain dish at the same time.  That's embarrassing.  Do you want to ask why you can't know which meat dishes are available in advance?  Because everyone's family conditions are not very good, very few students eat meat dishes.  The meat dishes provided by the kitchen every day are not too much.?.  Master Zheng also knows everyone's spending power very well.

    Every day, the cafeteria will provide 4-5 vegetarian dishes for everyone to choose from, all of which are relatively common, cheap and easy to eat.  Such as shredded potatoes, onions, lettuce, eggplant, tofu, celery and the like.  There are generally 2-3 kinds of meat dishes.  Don't even think about twice-cooked pork, the cost is too high, and you can't eat it for 5 cents.  Meat dishes are generally fried pork with sweet peppers, roasted pork with mushrooms, or shredded pork.  If you meet Master Zheng in a good mood that day, there will be tamales.  Of course, there are definitely sweet potatoes in the tamales.

    After queuing for about 10 minutes, it was finally my turn.  Close to the steamer, I looked carefully at today's dishes, all the dishes were served by Master Zheng with fish bowls (a kind of earthen bowl made of clay, very small, similar to the small bowls used for drinking in ancient movies, earthy gray)  ) and put them neatly on the steamer.

    After some mental struggle, I thought again, I handed over a 20 cents meal ticket, and chose fried tofu with leeks and white rice as my lunch.

    Served my lunch and stood and waited for a few minutes at the table area.  At this time, the pressure of sitting and eating is relatively high. Basically, there is a person holding a bowl standing behind many people. It depends on whether you are nervous or not.

    There are also those who can't wait, so they stand directly on the open space outside and sit on the ground to eat.  Children eat very quickly. They can't wait for 2 minutes before they have a seat, and they go to the classroom after picking up the food.  Get ready to meet up with your classmates and use the lunch break to play together

    When I got home from school, it was only after 4 o'clock, and my grandparents were still busy with the things in the field.  I opened my schoolbag, took out my homework and finished it, and when grandma came back, I had to help light the fire.

    As the sky gradually darkened, grandma came home first and fed the pigs before we started cooking dinner.  Grandpa and grandma prefer to eat rake food, and grandpa doesn't like to eat chili, so our meals all year round are mainly light and soft.

    There are more fields at home, and a lot of seasonal vegetables are grown.  This season, mainly loofah, cucumber, eggplant, pepper.  Generally boiled eggplant, braised eggplant, fried cucumber, boiled cucumber, cold cucumber, boiled loofah, vegetarian fried loofah and so on.  After eating it over and over again, there are always a few vegetables that are eaten in every season to the point where you want to vomit, just to the extent that you don't want to eat just hearing the name.

    Occasionally, there is a fried potato chip with chili in the middle, that is my next meal, but grandpa doesn't like potatoes, let alone chili, so I have to reduce the frequency of making this dish.  Of course, the twice-cooked pork that can be eaten every half a month or so is my real favorite.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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