Chapter 19 What's the Private Interest?

The three of them came to the canteen.

They had to smile bitterly, because they thought the canteen was right next to their dormitory.

But when the comrades in the canteen came to call them to eat, they realized that the canteen was not a dugout as they had imagined.

Instead, they had to walk a mile to see an adobe house.

There were three or four rows of adobe houses here, and the canteen was just one of them. The rest of the houses should be offices.

Sure enough, when they got closer, they could already see the sign hanging at the door.

The headquarters of the Sixth Brigade.

There should be an office area and an accommodation area at the back, but it should be where these special personnel were stationed. Technical personnel should live here.

For example, doctors, members of the hydrological team, and members of the exploration team.

You can tell by just looking at the clothes worn by the people coming in and out.

But no one cared about this at the moment. Eating in the canteen was the right thing to do.

When the three of them walked in, they could already see that some of the educated youth who came with them had arrived early.

Some were queuing up for food, and some had already gotten their food and sat at the table.

Perhaps because Zhou Zhengan treated Xia Zhi and the other three people so specially, the others seemed to have drawn a clear line between themselves and them.

Xia Zhi didn't care and directly pulled Liu Qianjin and Liu Zhiyan to the front to line up.

When they walked to the canteen chef, they saw white flour buns and hot cabbage stewed with vermicelli.

The three of them couldn't help but swallow their saliva when they saw it. They didn't expect that the treatment in their canteen was so good that they could actually afford white flour buns.

The chef in front of them, wearing a white chef's hat, couldn't help but smile when he saw the expressions of the three people.

"Don't think too much. I know you are new here today, so the captain has specially instructed us to improve your life. We can't eat white flour on weekdays.

And there are big pieces of meat in the cabbage stew with vermicelli today, which is also specially instructed by the captain.

It's all for your care. The captain will distribute food to you early tomorrow morning. After everyone gets the ration, you will be self-sufficient.

Our canteen only serves special internal staff. Other people are not allowed to eat here."

Xia Zhi was still polite and handed over the lunch box. It was a good meal to improve it.

When they first came, there were no white flour buns. I remember that she went to the third team.

The third team did not have white flour buns.

The sorghum buns were used to show their power.

The sorghum buns were as hard as stones with pickles. The educated youth almost ate it and ran away with their luggage that night.

Thinking of what happened at the beginning, Xia Zhi couldn't help but want to laugh.

Zhou Zhengan was somewhat humane, at least he gave everyone hope in this meal.

But this was also the beginning of the real hard days.

"Master, thank you, and thank Captain Zhou and all the comrades for worrying about us, the new educated youth.

Don't worry, we will work hard, try to adapt here, change the face of our border, and contribute to the motherland."

At this time, slogans must be shouted, which can definitely win favor.

Sure enough, the master chef immediately became happy after hearing this.

"Little comrade, you are a good young man for your progressive thinking."

When serving the dishes, the big spoon did not shake at all, and scooped a large spoonful of dishes from the bottom of the pot.

Sure enough, the master chef knew where the meat was hidden best. This spoonful had two or three large pieces of fat and lean meat floating on it.

The most important thing is that there was half a spoonful of tofu in this spoonful.

This is a protein comparable to meat.

And the master chef's hands were obviously not shaking.

This big spoonful was scooped into Xia Zhi's lunch box, and he also scooped another half spoonful with his hand.

The master chef smiled and whispered to Xia Zhi,

"Eat more, you are too thin. Eat more and grow stronger, otherwise you can't work."

He whispered to the auntie who was holding the steamed buns next to him,

"Give this girl two more steamed buns."

Each person only had three steamed buns for a meal, but the auntie secretly gave Xia Zhi one more.

Xia Zhi smiled and said,

"Auntie, thank you, uncle, you are really good people, I feel the warmth of my family here. I will definitely work hard."

He smiled and said to Liu Zhiyan and Liu Qianjin behind him.

"Hurry up, you two, I'll wait for you at the table."

This move was intentional.

When they sat at the table, the two of them quickly came to her.

Sure enough, the lunch boxes of the two were also full of stewed dishes with meat slices and tofu, and there were four steamed buns on the lid of the lunch box.

The young man at the next table immediately got angry when he saw this scene.

He slapped his chopsticks on the table and stood up.

"Master, this is not appropriate, is it?"

"Why should you give them a full lunch box of dishes, meat, tofu, and four steamed buns, and only give us so little?"

"Young man, why?

I tell you, I am happy. I am happy."

The master chef is still afraid that a young man will challenge his prestige at this age. He can offend anyone these days, but not the master chef in the cafeteria.

If the spoon in the cafeteria chef's hand is slightly tilted, you can't eat enough.

What’s more, they have to get their monthly rations from the canteen. If the canteen blocks them twice, they will probably go hungry.

Obviously, this young man didn’t think he should give in at all, but thought it was bureaucracy.

“You are a chef in the kitchen, and you bully others. You are bullying others by taking advantage of your power. You are abusing your power for personal gain.”

Xia Zhi didn’t even stand up, looking at the group of indignant educated youth in front of him.

He shook his head speechlessly, he was still too young.

"Using power for personal gain?

Oh, you're putting a big accusation on me. What does it mean to use power for personal gain?

Aren't these three comrades the young intellectuals who came with you?

What does it have to do with me?

My family has been locals for generations and has never left this place.

But no one has studied in the city.

I can't even read a single word.

You can't say that these three have anything to do with me, right?

Or go to the captain to seek justice? See what I am doing for personal gain?"

The other staff in the cafeteria laughed.

They have seen a lot of such young people, and they will send a batch every year.

The captain will turn a blind eye to such things in the cafeteria.

They are nothing.

The angry young man walked out with his lunch box.

"Okay, let me find the captain, I will find the captain. I don't believe there is no place for reason."

Twenty minutes later, the young man came back with his head down and dejected.

The others knew from his expression that he was scolded by Zhou Zhengan.

Zhou Zhengan would of course scold him, the chef in the kitchen was the pillar of stability for their food supply.

Even he didn't dare to offend the young man, but he wanted to offend all his subordinates right away.

He really didn't know how high the sky was and how deep the earth was.

After a barrage of scolding, the young man was scolded so much that he came back obediently.