The officers and men of the Eighth Company were all sitting straight around the dining table, the table was full of sumptuous dishes, and several tables near the door were empty, and there were several bottles of Moutai on them. All the officers and men stood up in unison.

The deputy commander hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't make so many rules, I am now an ordinary soldier, just like all of you, everyone sits down to eat." ”

Then I heard a command: "Sit down." All the officers and soldiers sat down in a daze, but none of them moved their chopsticks, and everyone gathered around the table, as if they were having a military meeting, and they couldn't tell that they were eating.

The deputy commander smiled and said, "It seems that I don't eat because no one eats it, so it's good, I have to eat first." He took a bite of green vegetables and chewed them, "It's still good green vegetables, when we fought with Jiang Jieshi, one of our companies was surrounded by the troops of a regiment of the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang, and we ate this every day, a life-saving dish." ”

Hearing the deputy commander speak, everyone stretched out their chopsticks to the plate of greens, and in normal times, the greens are always the most left, and today they are all at once.

"Hahaha, you usually train intensely and have a lot of physical exertion, so you have to eat a little more meat dishes, meat and vegetables are matched, and the nutrition is balanced." The deputy commander then picked up another piece of beef and chewed it, and when he saw the deputy commander holding the beef, everyone reached out to pick up the beef, and seeing that everyone was very restrained, the deputy commander said: "Everyone can eat whatever you want, you can eat whatever you want." "The officers and soldiers ate in an old-fashioned manner, don't look at the usual gobbling up, at this time, everyone has become a little daughter-in-law who has just entered the door, and they want to be more than Sven.

While eating, the deputy commander slowly frowned, and he suddenly said loudly: "Please come to the deputy company commander and the division chief." ”

When the deputy company commander and the division chief heard the sound, they ran over, and they stood straight in front of the deputy commander and waited for the chief to ask questions.

"Do our soldiers usually eat like this?" The deputy commander asked.

"It's... It's—" the Secretary stammered.

"Please answer the deputy company commander, he is the chief butler." The face of the deputy commander turned to the deputy company commander.

"It's basically like that." The deputy company commander said tremblingly.

"Then your two housekeepers are incompetent, come, let's calculate an account, this plate of shredded green pepper meat, the cost is calculated at 5 yuan, this plate of tomato scrambled eggs is 3 yuan, and this plate is 2 yuan...... I'm afraid this table will cost more than 100 yuan, right? According to a table of eight people, the average person is 12 yuan, and the food cost of our soldiers is less than 2 yuan a day. What do you eat for the rest of the months? Drink the northwest wind to go? Also, the army ordered that you should not drink alcohol, but you put alcohol on the table, and it is Moutai, isn't this special? ”

"This, this ......" the deputy company commander blushed and was speechless.

"Report to the chief, we only do this when we entertain guests, and we usually make some non-staple food by ourselves, which can basically be filled in this part of the expenses." said the Secretary General.

"Oh, I made my own non-staple food, tell me what kind of non-staple food." The deputy commander was immediately interested.

"Report to the chief, we usually pickle some radishes, leek flowers, and cured pork, and when there is a shortage of vegetables, we will take them out and eat them, and the officers and men of the whole company will not lack food all year round." The secretary hurriedly replied.

"Bring me two plates of your pickles, let me try them." said the deputy commander.

The secretary hurriedly ran into the kitchen, and a few minutes later brought out two dishes, one with salted radishes and the other with pickled leek flowers.

The deputy commander picked up a shredded radish and tasted it with relish, "Well, the pickled taste is good, and this leek flower is also good, Comrade Secretary, this is a revolutionary tradition, can you take some with me when I leave?" ”

"Of course, Deputy Commander, it's on me." said the Secretary General.

After the deputy commander ridiculed him, the atmosphere at the scene gradually eased, "I still want to thank you for preparing such a sumptuous lunch for me, it's a bit extravagant, of course, then again, it's not all your fault, there are people from above, and if you don't entertain well, you will be complained, I can't bear to go to the grassroots level to squat now, as soon as I come, I will disrupt your daily life, if I squat here for three or five months, next year our soldiers will have to drink the northwest wind, now you two listen to me, in front of your army, division, In front of the regiment commander, I said that when I cook in the future, I will do what I usually do now, this is an order. ”

"Yes." The deputy company commander and the chief of the division wiped their sweat and left.