Along the cement road into the inside, there is a group of buildings in the mountains, basically all of them are Soviet-style slope top brick buildings, there are also a few cement slab buildings, there are a few villas on the hillside that are quite sensitive from a modern point of view, that is, the general building in the mouth of the common people.

The army has a reception room, on the first floor of a sloping top building, which is very large, and from the window of the reception room you can see the two-story general buildings when you look up the hillside. The buildings here are all tiled roofs, and thick chimneys stand on them, and wisps of smoke come out and disappear between heaven and earth.

After sitting in the reception room for a few minutes, several people met Major General Wang, the political commissar of Wang, and the army commander had a mission to go to Dalian.

After making tea and sitting for a while, Zhang Xingming explained his intention, Commissar Wang smiled and asked the communication soldier to call someone, and then left with a few polite words, before leaving, he said that he would hold a banquet in the canteen at noon, but Zhang Xingming politely refused, he was not a member of the military, and it was not interesting to eat this meal, but he still exchanged contact information with Commissar Wang.

Li Chun and his comrades-in-arms met, both of them were very excited, hugging each other and crying, it is really difficult for future generations to understand the feelings of people and people in this era.

After eleven o'clock, several people left Jungou and returned to the county seat.

Zhang Xingming asked, Erhong was not hungry, so he decided to go to the school cafeteria to have a look, and a few people parked the car at the school gate to enter the campus. First help Erhong deliver the things he bought to the dormitory, and then go down to the cafeteria.

The cafeteria is at the back of the academic building, the second half of the first floor of the administration building.

It's not big, the whole hall is about 100 square meters, and there are a few shabby dining tables, and the students will go back to eat, and occasionally teachers will sit here to eat.

At this time, the cafeteria is ready to eat, there is a row of aluminum basins in the blue wooden frame of the dining table inlaid with white tiles, and the prepared meals are placed here, and the teachers and students eat with the school's meal tickets, rice is three cents, vegetarian dishes are five cents, and meat dishes are not very cheap. You can eat enough for eight cents, and you can eat well for two or three yuan.

In the puzzled eyes of the cafeteria staff, Erhong led Zhang Xingming and Xiaobing to look around the dining window, and Xiaobing said: "The canteen is okay, it's similar to our school, but I don't know if it's good or not." ”

Erhong said: "It's good, I can eat enough, and it's better than the stew at home." ”

At that time, how much oil was willing to put in cooking at home in the countryside, it all relied on water stews, and I was reluctant to put MSG, and there was not much meat. No matter how bad the dish in the canteen is, it is fried, and the oil is more than that of ordinary people, and there is monosodium glutamate and meat, so it must be better than at home. Unlike the common people in later generations, who have good conditions at home and have everything, they will feel that the things in the canteen are becoming more and more unpalatable. Of course, in later generations, everything is about money, and the cost of reducing the law is also the root cause of unpalatable meals.

Zhang Xingming was relieved after looking around. The years from 88 to 95 were a transitional period, and the entire education system silently changed from educators and gardeners thinking about students to doing everything for money. Since then, outsourcing has become popular in school cafeterias, where schools charge a hefty contracting fee, the person in charge takes a large amount of hard-earned money, and then the students bear all the consequences.

Erhong is a gluttonous little girl, and after reading the food in the cafeteria, she couldn't walk, licked her lips and said to Zhang Xingming: "Otherwise, second brother, let's eat here." ”

Zhang Xingming looked at Erhong's appearance and laughed, stretched out his hand to put his arm around her shoulders and said, "I invite you to have a big meal today, you can choose any restaurant in this county, and eat delicious food." ”

Erhong reluctantly withdrew from the window, thought for a while, looked at his watch and said, "Can I call my classmates? ”

Zhang Xingming said: "Call all the seven people in your dormitory, everyone lives in one room, and you can't favor one over the other." Erhong rolled her eyes and understood what Zhang Xingming meant, nodded and said, "Okay, then let's eat something cheap, you guys are waiting here, I'll call someone." ”

It's almost half past eleven, and the fourth class is going to end soon, just in time for dinner.

Zhang Xingming, Xiaobing Li Chun, and Zhang Qisheng walked outside the door of the cafeteria, waiting for Erhong and them to come over.

Within a few minutes, the electric bell rang, and then the quiet school instantly became noisy, and the school building exploded like a bomb, and the sound of human footsteps boiled, and then in the blink of an eye, students ran to the cafeteria.

Xiao Bing looked at the more and more people and smiled and said, "This speed is too scary." ”

Li Chun and Zhang Qisheng also looked at the more and more students who came over with a smile, which was a feeling of vitality and beauty.

Zhang Xingming asked Xiaobing: "Are you like this at school?"

Xiao Bing said with a smile: "It's all about the same, look at who runs fast, and the one who eats first looks awesome, and they are all idle." But at noon I was really hungry, I was better, I ate quite full every morning at home, some students couldn't eat in the morning, and some families couldn't eat well if they were in difficulty, so they didn't fight hunger. ”

Zhang Xingming nodded, looking at the students who filled the cafeteria in front of him, he should have been one of them, but unfortunately he took a wrong step, and he was getting farther and farther away from the life he should have. Now can I also say to others that my biggest mistake is to create Hexiang, and it is painful to earn hundreds of millions a day?

At this time, the school was not closed teaching, and the students whose families were in the county town were all going home to eat, so soon there were fewer outsiders, and teachers began to come over with lunch boxes.

"Second brother, over here. ”

Zhang Xingming looked over, and Erhong and a few little girls were standing on the edge of the teaching building jumping and shouting.

The four of them walked over, and Erhong said to his classmates: "This is my second brother, come to see me today, my second brother said please go to the restaurant." ”

Zhang Xingming looked at it a few times, seven people, two of them obviously have better family conditions, they dress differently from the others, the other few are slightly worse, and two of them are not rich at first glance, but they can provide girls to go to high school, which means that the family conditions are poor, but they can live normally, and the adults in the family are far-sighted enough.

In these years, the really difficult food in the rural areas is not enough, and the children generally finish junior high school, and most of them do not study in junior high school. Few families can borrow money to pay for their girls' schooling, they don't have that much vision, and the money is not so easy to borrow. Girls in such families generally work in agriculture after graduating from primary school and become laborers in the family, and then at the age of fifteen or sixteen, they marry at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and return with some money and things for the family.

Zhang Xingming said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go out to eat, you can choose your own place, you can eat anywhere, you can eat whatever you like, you can discuss it." ”