Reborn in the red age

Chapter 35 Differences between old and new educated youth on cooking issues
"Hey guys, it's been a long time since we've had a new member of our gang. I heard from the team leader that new educated youths were coming. I was wondering when they would come. Who knew they would arrive today? Now it's amazing Well, there will be new comrades in the future."

Zhao Haixia is from Guangzhou, and she doesn't speak Mandarin very well. After staying in the Northeast for so long, her Mandarin has become tainted, which makes Qingfeng Li feel uncomfortable no matter how she listens to it.

The guy from Shanghai next to him was not much better. He spoke with a Shanghainese accent and a Northeastern accent. Qingfeng Li felt like the magic voice was filling his ears, and the weird accents of the two people kept echoing in his mind.

After everyone exchanged pleasantries, Zhao Haixia and the other two female educated youths prepared to pack up and make dinner.

Seeing this, Hu Jiabao quickly stopped Zhao Haixia from cooking, and asked sheepishly: "Sister Haixia, I would like to ask what we say when we eat? Do we eat all the food together?"

When the discussion about eating came up, everyone stopped communicating and looked at each other, but no one spoke.

Looking at the expressions on the faces of the old educated youths, Li Qingfeng raised his eyebrows. What is going on?Could it be that the old educated youths have any plans?
After a while, it was Zhou Yongjun from the Northeast who spoke first. Zhou Yongjun rubbed his face in embarrassment and said with some embarrassment: "That's what happened. Before you come for dinner, we old educated youths discussed it." At that time, you new educated youths will be in one pot, and we old educated youths will be in one pot, each cooking his own meal. After next year, we will eat together in one pot."

"Comrade Yongjun, why do you want the old and new educated youth to eat separately? Aren't they all the same?" Wang Weimin is a tough guy. He doesn't hide anything he doesn't understand and asks directly.

Zhou Yongjun scratched his head, glanced at the other old educated youths, and motioned for them to come out first and don't let him fight alone.

But the other people all lowered their heads, pretending not to see Zhou Yongjun's gaze.

Seeing the others like this, Zhou Yongjun had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue: "Well, that's what happened. In the first year, you ate food provided by the state. This, this, for the people. Comrades, do you understand what I mean?"

The stunned Qing Wang Weimin didn't understand what this half-sentence meant. He immediately opened his mouth to ask, hoping to get Zhou Yongjun to explain clearly, but he was suddenly stopped by Qingfeng Li, who had quick eyes and quick hands.

What people say is very clear. The educated youth have to work in the fields in the first year when they go to the countryside. The food allocated by the country is enough for them not to do heavy manual labor in the city, but it is not enough to eat in the countryside. People don’t want to eat in the same pot as themselves, they just don’t want to mix their food with people like themselves.

Enough has been said here. Asking further questions will serve no purpose other than embarrassing everyone.

"Brother Yongjun, we agreed to separate cooking. We have two stoves here. It's good to use one on each side. It won't delay things. But we only have food. I want to ask what the rules are for cooking? I see there are vegetables growing in the courtyard, can these be eaten by us newcomers?" After Li Qingfeng stopped Wang Weimin, he agreed on behalf of the new educated youths to cook separately, and then shamelessly asked about the vegetables. thing.

There is private land in the yard. As soon as Li Qingfeng entered the yard, he saw that the open space in the yard was full of vegetables. People can't just eat without eating vegetables. Although the vegetable patch was planted by some old educated youth, people like him You can't use your living expenses to buy vegetables from the vegetable garden managed by the brigade, right?
After seeing that Li Qingfeng agreed to cook separately, these old educated youths no longer looked down at the ground. They all raised their heads and said that the dish was the common property of the educated youth courtyard, and young and old educated youths could eat it together.

Ignoring these people, Li Qingfeng looked closely at Zhou Yongjun, hoping to hear an accurate answer from him.

"Okay, the vegetables are fine, but we grow them ourselves. You guys will be responsible for taking care of the vegetable fields in the future, right?"

"No problem, it's very reasonable. After all, we can't just pick up ready-made food for nothing." After the old and new educated youths discussed the issue of eating, they started to divide into two camps to cook dinner.

The food provided by the brigade is large grains, which are grains made from ground corn. This stuff is very hungry. Not only can it be used to make porridge, but it can also be further processed into cornmeal, which is used to make cornmeal pancakes.

The four newcomers still had some dry food brought from home. They only had to cook a pot of porridge and stir-fry vegetables. They did not need to make big pancakes like the old educated youths.

Qingfeng Li picked a few cucumbers and tomatoes in the vegetable garden, preparing to make cucumber salad with tomatoes at night.

The Northeast is a vast and sparsely populated place. There is unopened land everywhere. Private land is not strictly regulated. As long as you don’t plant it on the public land outside the yard, no one cares what kind of vegetables you grow at home. As long as you don’t grow it, Just grow food.

Although this kind of thing is against the rules, who doesn't eat vegetables?The villagers were not afraid of them at all in this kind of thing. If they dared to bring people to pull out seedlings in the yard, they would dare to gather the whole village to fight with them. After suffering several losses, no one would dare to come to the house again.

In places like rural areas, as long as the bottom line is not involved, the commune will turn a blind eye to other matters.

People like him lacked the process of steaming pancakes, so dinner was naturally faster. As soon as the food was on the table, Wang Weimin picked up his dry food and wanted to use his chopsticks to eat, but was stopped by Qingfeng Li.

"What are you doing? They don't want to eat with us, so why are we waiting for them?" He said that Wang Weimin is a tough guy. This guy is really tough. After being stopped by Qingfeng Li, he looked towards the person doing it in a strange way. The old educated young man said.

The remaining three people looked at Wang Weimin with expressions that looked like fools, and the old educated youths over there also looked at this side with embarrassed expressions.

Ma Wenhui knocked Wang Weimin on the shoulder with her cigarette rod, lowered her voice and said in a low voice: "Please keep your voice down. We will be here for several years. If you talk like this, how will we get along with each other in the future?"

Under the gaze of the three people, Wang Weimin reluctantly put down the chopsticks in his hands and waited for the few old educated youths to come over to eat together.

The other party cooks very quickly. Not only does he cook porridge and steam pancakes, but he also fry leeks. However, there is no oil in the fried leeks, so it is almost enough to call it stewed leeks.

After everyone was served to the table, the first meal of the new and old educated youths began. But maybe because of the embarrassment just now, the atmosphere at the dinner table was very silent.

The old educated youths only ate their own fried leeks, while the new educated youths only ate the cucumbers cooked by Qingfeng Li. The two groups were clearly differentiated.

(End of this chapter)