Chapter 26: Male Lead Part 4 - Enchantress Translations

Enchantress4-5 minutes 07.02.2022

Because there are special meat tickets, the chef in the restaurant knows that with these tickets, they will definitely be able to buy pork, and they will have priority when buying meat, and they can also pick the fat ones. No matter how good the pig trotters are, they are no better than the fatty meat. It’s a very good deal. Otherwise, as the waiter said, there is no meat for sale in the state-owned restaurant!

After hearing the waiter’s explanation, Zhao Xiulan realized that there are still so many avenues in the middle.

In this era, you have to use tickets to buy things and there are also different types of tickets.

Seeing that Zhao Xiulan didn’t know anything, the waiter secretly thought that she was indeed a country bumpkin, but he didn’t know where her money and tickets came from, and she even went to eat in a state-owned restaurant.

After Zhao Xiulan learned about the gap between the tickets, she did not continue the argument with the waiter. Instead, she looked at Lu Guoqing and Jiang Cheng with some envy.

Jiang Cheng coughed slightly as he was a little embarrassed, he had a feeling that as if he had taken Zhao Xiulan’s things.

Although the ladies should be given priority, there is only such a pair of pig trotters left in this state-owned restaurant, and Jiang Cheng is reluctant to let it go.

After all, he wants to treat Lu Qingguo to a good meal. If he’s eating alone, he may let Zhao Xiulan have it!

Zhao Xiulan didn’t bother so much. Soon, the waiter served the noodles she ordered and a plate of stir-fried shredded radishes.

The noodles are made with black flour, which are not as good-looking as white flour. However, in this era, white flour is so precious that most people can’t eat them at all, and some may only be able to eat them several times a year. On the black market, white flour and rice are fine grains, rare and good things, and it is normal for state-owned restaurants to have no white flour.

However, in the current foodstuff shortage situation, even if black flour is not as good as white flour, they have been classified as fine grains.

Zhao Xiulan doesn’t dislike it either. After all, compared to the food at home, this bowl of black noodles is pretty good!

There is a little clear soup in the noodles, with a little green onion floating on it, and two small pieces of Chinese cabbage are added, which exude bursts of fragrance.

The stir-fried shredded radishes are crisp and delicious, these must have probably been marinated, and the taste is quite good, just a little less greasy, a little lighter.

Zhao Xiulan can understand that oil is more expensive than gold now, and state-owned restaurants are reluctant to put too much oil in cooking.

It’s probably because of hunger, so Zhao Xiulan eats while holding the bowl in her hand.

The dishes at Jiang Cheng and Lu Qingguo’s table also began to be served.

A pair of braised pork trotters smelled seductively, and Zhao Xiulan glanced at their table with envy.

It’s a pity that the things in her space can’t be taken out at will, otherwise she could have gone back and cooked a bowl of braised pork to relieve her cravings.

Jiang Cheng and Lu Qingguo were also really hungry. After their food came, they hurried to eat.

Although Lu Qingguo is a city worker, he can only get a small amount of meat tickets every month, and the meat tickets at home have long been used up.

Every time he comes back from buying such a small amount of meat, there are several children in his family, so there is not much to eat even if they share a few mouthfuls.

Faced with such a pair of fragrant pig trotters, he had long since swallowed some saliva into his stomach.

Lu Qingguo was embarrassed to use his chopsticks to eat first, but Jiang Cheng was straightforward. He took one pig trotter and shared the other one to Lu Qingguo.

Jiang Cheng wanted to give them all to Lu Qingguo. He knew that there are several mouths in Lu Qingguo’s family who depend on him alone, so his life was really not well-off.

As for pig trotters, he usually eats a lot of meat, so they are not so rare for him.

However, Jiang Cheng also knew that if he gave them all to Lu Qingguo, he would definitely be embarrassed to accept them.