Xidan North Street, a state-owned agricultural market near Baita Temple.

Liu Mazi held a cigarette, leaned on the recliner, looked at the huge meat stall in front of him, and felt very comfortable while enjoying the sunset.

Because it was already afternoon, there were not many customers who came to buy meat, so it didn't matter if you took a cigarette and rested.

Nowadays, in this world, the most beautiful people in big cities are those who sell meat, which are more popular than university professors.

The same 7 cents, the same pound of meat tickets, who gives good meat and who gives bad meat, it all depends on the mood of the operator.

The kind of life and death that controls the fate of others to seize power is very addictive.

At least none of the cigarettes he Liu Mazi has smoked over the years have been bought by himself, and they are all handed by meat buyers.

If you want to gain weight, you will hand him two large front doors;

If you want five flowers, then you have to have the South China Sea;

If there's nothing, just wait for the chops.

After being comfortable for a while, Liu Mazi saw a regular customer pedaling a bicycle and coming towards him from a distance. So he hurriedly put down the cigarette and greeted him very warmly:

"Yo, Master Niu, buy meat again, come on, look at today's sandwich, it's all good. ”

Although the meat seller does not need to please anyone, there are not too many things that can save one's work. Therefore, the big customers of those unit purchases are still quite popular with butchers.

The simplest truth - if everyone takes 2 taels of meat tickets and asks Liu Mazi to cut them, then he will have to cut 5,000 knives after selling 1,000 catties of meat every day, and his hands will be tired.

If the guests all start with ten pounds, then his daily work will be done with 100 knives.

And this Niu master is the purchaser and cook of the canteen of the Foreign Affairs University. (The school is small, so there is no separation between purchasing and cooking, and schools with thousands of people will be separated)

In Liu Mazi's mind, this Niu master can rank in the top 20 among the customers under him, but he is definitely not the most entrenched.

After all, the scale of the Foreign Affairs Academy is there, how much meat can be eaten by a unit of hundreds of people?

The Beijing Normal University next to it, and even the procurement of the middle school attached to the Normal University, are more generous than him, not to mention the large enterprises and hospitals with good benefits nearby.

Master Niu parked his bicycle, took out a stack of big unity and meat tickets, and said, "Don't sandwich it today, do you still have beef here?" It's better to have ribs, if it's not enough, I'll have to find another house." ”

Liu Mazi was stunned for a moment: "Don't worry, only your ticket is not enough, and there is not enough meat for me—by the way, your school has a celebration today? Why did the leader suddenly think so clearly......

Liu Mazi said while counting the thick stack of meat tickets handed over by Master Niu, and only realized that it was wrong until he counted them, and he was immediately shocked:

"Do you want 80 pounds? All the ribs of a cow don't add up to 80 pounds, why don't I cut you a little longer and put some brisket?"

The beef ticket is indeed 80 catties.

And the thousands of people in Beijing Normal University next door, the canteen uses less than 50 catties of beef a day, and more than 100 people have to eat 80 catties.

"That's pretty much it. "Master Niu is not particular either.

While cutting, Liu Mazi couldn't help but be curious, wondering about the question of "whether the Foreign Affairs Academy has been corrupted and degenerated by the attention of capital".

It's just that Master Niu's next sentence once again refreshed his three views: "By the way, remember to invoice me today, and the Academic Affairs Office will report the account." Receipts don't work. ”

Many people think that before the opening up, there were no invoices in China, but in fact, this is a misunderstanding. Before the opening, because there was no market economy, there were just no VAT invoices, but there were still ordinary invoices. For example, there must be invoices for travel expense reimbursement and state-owned enterprise raw material procurement accounts.

However, in the food industry, even if it is a unit purchase, receipts are generally sufficient nowadays.

Of course, Liu Mazi can ask the vegetable farm management office to help issue invoices, but it is troublesome, he usually fills in a receipt by himself and gives it to the big customer.

Today, he felt that it should not be an exception, so he discussed with Master Niu: "The invoice is too troublesome, I can't open it here, and I have to fill in the form." Will you give you a receipt?"

It's a pity that Master Niu will not agree: "No, you must have an invoice - also, remember to write the invoice clearly, it is 'teaching consumables', understand?"

"Poof-" Liu Mazi almost squirted, "Teach...... Teaching consumables? Do you call beef teaching consumables?"

Liu Mazi's voice was a little loud, and the stall owners and dozens of customers at least a dozen stalls next to him heard it.

Everyone, whether they have bought vegetables for decades or sold vegetables for decades, have been refreshed.

"Beef is still taught...... What kind of unit is this? Don't be greedy! It's shameless!"

"That's it, madness!"

"I heard that I bought 80 pounds? This must be the school leaders eating and drinking!"

The Chaoyang masses were originally the ones with the most bursting sense of justice, and they were all filled with righteous indignation at the moment.

In 1978, those who had a serious Beijing resident household registration were only a month and a half pounds of meat tickets, which was already the first echelon in the country. Outsiders and agricultural households in the capital are still enduring two taels of meat tickets.

That's too much hatred.

Master Niu's face sank immediately.

At this point, it was useless for him to complain about Liu Mazi's big mouth, so he could only quickly explain:

"What are you yelling about? Our unit is the Foreign Affairs Academy! There is a course to teach students how to eat Western food like the French. This is diplomatic etiquette, if you don't learn it well, you will visit abroad in the future, or entertain foreign envoys, and show foreign appearances, it will damage the national dignity!

They are all working hard, and they are studying and eating steak for the sake of national honor! Do you have anything to disagree with? If you don't give me teaching consumables, the ministry will inspect the work when the time comes, and they will think that we have not done a good job in this teaching work!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Liu Mazi also knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly made an excuse, "But haven't you come to me to buy meat for half a year, and I haven't seen you ask for an invoice before, so I'm weird." ”

"Originally, I didn't ask for an invoice because the foreign language course was tight last semester, and this course was not opened. Now that it's opened, I need an invoice, and this will be the rule in the future. Master Niu proudly did not give an inch.

The scene was instantly silent.

Within a radius of 30 meters, at least 50 people, silent, stunned, only the sound of saliva flowing to the ground.

"it!" is to win glory for the country and learn to eat steak hard, please give me this opportunity to study hard!"

"I heard Liu Mazi say, the scale of Beijing Normal University is 30 times, and all the meat in the school canteen is not as large as the hundreds of people in the Foreign Affairs University!

There are also many young people who eat melons, because the Foreign Affairs University has been closed for 10 years, so they don't know that this university exists, and they haven't even heard of the name. However, after this farce, the name of the school with these words is engraved in their hearts like a soldering iron.

……

Gu Biao informed the freshmen that when they had a Western food etiquette class in the evening, the steak was actually still lying in the vegetable market and had not been bought at all.

However, this did not affect the students' enthusiasm for learning in the slightest.

Because it was the first day, everyone started with the most basic skills.

Everyone wore a uniform white shirt, and first tied their own bow ties and folded napkins. Then adjust and check each other.

Considering that although the sophomore students have never practiced, they have been exposed to foreign language literature for half a year, and they have some theoretical basis, so the teacher asked everyone to check each other in pairs according to the method of a sophomore senior and a freshman student.

I was busy for one class, and then I put the tableware and how to hold the knife and fork. As well as an introduction by the teacher to the order of serving French food.

"I'm so nervous, if I make a mistake for a while, will I be punished by the teacher for not eating steak......

The one who was assigned to a group with Gu Biao was Yang Yi, a freshman. After Gu Biao adjusted the folding method of napkins and visited him, Yang Yi was a little worried.

"It's okay, don't worry. Gu Biao comforted him unintentionally.

At the same time, Gu Biao's heart is actually worried about the opposite:

"I'm so nervous, what if I behave too smoothly and decently for a while?

As a working-class family like me, I shouldn't say I've ever been exposed to Western food, right......? If it's really a goof, then use the old excuse to prevaricate, just say that my dad learned it when he was a foreign aid expert in Albania......"

In his previous life, he had eaten steak dozens of times in a regular Michelin-level restaurant. In addition, in order to pretend to be forced, later generations will really encounter high-end places that they have never been to, and they will first go online to read the pretending strategy carefully.

Therefore, what the etiquette teacher taught, Gu Biao not only knows, but also is very familiar with the road.

The only thing he has to worry about is how to disguise himself as a newcomer and make his progress seem gradual and modest.

The one-and-a-half-hour theoretical class finally ended with a thousand calls from the students. As the steaks were served, everyone's salivary glands were as strong as Samoyed's.

Although I have memorized in my mind the position of the tableware, the posture of holding the knife and fork, and the technique and size of the steak, I have silently recited it in my mind hundreds of times. But after the meat is really placed in front of them, many people's methods are still a little inaccurate.

"Qiao Han! I've emphasized it three times just now! The steak must be cut small enough! Only when you can eat it in one bite can you fork it up with a fork - let me see you cut so big, go back and nibble on the steamed bun!"

When the etiquette teacher on patrol saw an unstandard movement, he immediately struck a whip on the back of his hand.

The freshman who was named explained aggrievedly: "Teacher, I can eat such a large piece of beef in one bite......"

"You can eat a mouthful? The standard for a bite is that you must never show your teeth, and you must chew with your mouth closed. You can only scream and stuff it!"

The etiquette teacher corrected it many times, and everything else was easy to say, but the students could only cut it smaller and eat it slower, and they couldn't control it at all.

She could only change the teaching standards on the spot: "Then you should remember that you must cut it to half the size that you can eat in one bite before you are allowed to stuff it into your mouth!

I look at the 77-level students Gu Biao and Ye Kun's performance is very good, and they are very gentle when they look at the food. You all see how small they are, don't rush!"