50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 203 Remembering the bitterness and remembering the sweetness
When adding more rice to his meal, the chef greeted him with a fake smile: "Comrade Sun Zhiwei, we guarantee that you will be full with this 'Remembering the Bitterness and Thinking of the Sweetness' meal today."

There were two kinds of rice, one dry and one liquid, two bowls for each person. The damn chef even used two large bowls for Sun Zhiwei.

Remember the bitter past and think of the sweet future. How could Sun Zhiwei not know this?
The biggest characteristic of these two foods is that they are difficult to swallow - yes, this is exactly what the leaders want to achieve.

I hope that by tasting this common food in the old society, everyone will remember the "evil old society" and love the new society.

In fact, this "bitter recall sweetness meal" is not really directed at them.

Because these ingredients are not available in London, they are all airlifted from China, and the cost is much higher than the steaks and hamburgers here.

Sun Zhiwei scoffed at the chef's provocation. He said, "It doesn't matter what kind of food you serve, as long as others can eat it, he can eat it too."

As soon as the leader gave the order to start eating, everyone started eating.

After taking the first bite, most people were stunned.

Don’t even mention the taste. The first feeling is dryness, then astringency and bitterness. It feels like chewing sand. If you force yourself to swallow it, your throat will hurt.

Sun Zhiwei had never eaten this kind of food. Since he came to this era, he always found a way to get food, and his family never lacked food even in the most difficult times.

Even when eating wild vegetables in difficult times, they must be washed thoroughly and added with oil, salt, sauce and vinegar so that they can have a crisp taste.

Nowadays, this kind of food is probably made so unpalatable by the chef on purpose. The ingredients are coarsely ground, simply cleaned, and basically no oil or salt is used.

As soon as he swallowed a mouthful, he found that the chef and the leader were eating the steamed buns in small bites while looking at him with a half-smile.

I'm being targeted. This can't go on. I'll have to eat this meal no matter what, even if I lose face.

Sun Zhiwei made up his mind and started eating with big mouthfuls of steamed bread and vegetable melon soup.

Although he ate quite fast, the pain he felt while swallowing made the leader and the chef smile.

Bringing all the international students along for a free meal, huh? Farming your own land, huh? You've got a big appetite, huh? I'll treat you to a full meal today.

Sun Zhiwei had already sensed their strong "malice", but what could he do? He could only continue eating with a bitter face.

After taking a few bites, my teeth suddenly clicked and there was sand in it.

Only then did he notice that the comrades in other positions were all covering their cheeks, which showed that there was quite a lot of sand.

When he looked at the chef, he couldn't hide his smugness. Nine out of ten times, this guy had put a handful of sand in the ingredients.

Sun Zhiwei cursed this black-hearted cook in his heart, picked out the sand in his mouth, and continued to eat with difficulty.

Compared to him, the others were not much better. None of them didn't have a sad face.

Even the old revolutionaries had not eaten this kind of meal for a long time. They ate it in small bites. It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

No matter who was eating, it was difficult to finish the meal. The lunch that was supposed to be over in half an hour took everyone an hour and a half to finish.

This "bitter recall and sweet thought meal" left everyone with an unforgettable memory, and the leader's goal was achieved.

As the saying goes, "When you give someone a good beating, they give him a good one." Today was New Year's Eve, and the leaders didn't really want everyone to have a miserable Spring Festival. For dinner, the embassy leaders were merciful and served leek and pork dumplings.

Everyone worked together and made thousands of them in an hour. They were then put into the pot right after they were made, so that everyone could have a good meal.

The next day, during the Spring Festival, the international students gathered at the embassy again to wish each other a happy new year.

Just at noon, the latest domestic newspaper arrived, reporting that a fight had broken out at sea.

During lunch in the cafeteria, the leader had someone read out a report from a domestic newspaper: our navy's six small boats faced the enemy's four warships, with a tonnage difference of half, and beat the monkeys in the southwest like three grandsons.

Although the incident happened several days ago, this exciting news still made everyone cheer loudly.

With good news and delicious food, everyone enjoyed this Spring Festival lunch especially happily.

School started in Cambridge after the Chinese New Year. On the weekend of the first week of school, Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother, decided to visit the International Student Building to visit international students from various countries.

In such matters, Sun Zhiwei and the other two, as the only three Chinese students living there, must be present to represent China.

So they immediately reported the situation to their superiors, who quickly agreed to their request for leave to stay in the building to welcome the Queen Mother.

Sun Zhiwei was fine, as he had met several big leaders. However, his two classmates were not so calm. This queen's mother was probably the highest leader they had ever seen in their lives.

Seeing how nervous they were, Sun Zhiwei comforted them: "Don't be nervous, it's just the Queen's mother, not the Queen herself."

"Just treat her as a kindhearted British woman. She funded this building and created a good environment for our studies. We should welcome her. Just be respectful when we meet."

"But there's absolutely no need to be nervous. He doesn't hold any public office. He's just a relative of the Queen. If we really want to calculate his rank, he's not even as high as me."

Although he said this, he knew that this woman had a very high status in Britain.

The Queen's mother was the last Queen of Ireland and Queen of India in British history.

She was called "the most dangerous woman in Europe" by King George VI. During the London bombing in World War II, she insisted on staying in London with King George VI. She was known as the "Iron Lady" behind the Windsor dynasty.

The old lady lived a luxurious life and had a long life. She lived until 2002 at the age of 101.

On weekends, almost all the international students stayed in the building. A little after 9 a.m., several cars arrived at the building's entrance, and the apartment manager and a group of staff greeted them at the door.

The building was built with the help of the old lady, and the staff here are equivalent to her family's employees, so naturally they are the first to line up to meet her.

Afterwards, representatives of international students from various countries gathered in the restaurant on the first floor, waiting to meet the old lady.

The two countries have been on good terms in recent years, and Sun Zhiwei, as a representative of Chinese students, naturally met the old lady.

In fact, there is not much to describe about this kind of meeting, because there were reporters around taking pictures. During the meeting, they just spoke official terms to each other and the main focus was on going through the motions.

The final photo, coupled with the reporter's nonsense, would make the headlines of the Times the next day.

After the meeting was over, the old lady selected a few dormitories and went to check on the living conditions of the international students. At this time, there were no reporters following them, and the old lady spoke much more casually.

(End of this chapter)