Eating melons

It’s not that Wei Wei is too fussy, but she knows that the rule at the Youth League Institute is to do it based on the minimum number of people.

In this case, there will be no good dishes served for this meal.

Not to mention the new educated youth, people like Zhu Ying had no money or things at all.

This year, the brigade did not share any money from the pigs, so the old educated youth were not so rich.

So this year's dishes will definitely be more humble than last year's, so she doesn't want to make them too good or too outstanding, and she doesn't want to be the one who is taken advantage of.

Besides, there were so many people in the educated youth center, so there were definitely only four or five dishes, or at most five or six.

The two of them served one dish, which contained three pounds of meat, which was already quite a lot.

On the New Year's Day, Xiao Xuemu started preparing in the space early, and even Wei Wei got busy.

Of course, these things they prepared were not to be taken to the Youth League Institute, but to be eaten after they came back after finishing their meal there.

Although it is said that food tastes better when it is freshly made, they will definitely have to wait until they get back to make it.

But now they can prepare the ingredients first. This is the first New Year that the two of them have spent together alone. Wei Wei didn't think it was a big deal, but Xiao Xuemu still took it very seriously.

Seeing that Xiao Xuemu attached so much importance to it, Wei Wei also became active.

But the main reason is because there is a lot of material, and there is a ready-made excuse to be unrestrained and wasteful.

Normally I am quite lazy and I just cook as much as I can eat, not too much.

First, there is no waste, and second, it is less troublesome.

But now, both of them are very active in making things, especially Wei Wei, who is not as lazy as usual, so she will do more.

Therefore, even though there were only two of them celebrating the New Year, the food was still very rich.

There is fish, which is prepared to be steamed fish, and there are also crayfish, but Wei Wei is used to calling it crayfish. She makes spicy crayfish, but it is not particularly spicy.

There are also pig stomach chicken, spicy pig's trotters, beer duck, and pearl meatballs.

Most of the dishes were non-spicy, mainly because Wei Wei didn't want to trouble Xiao Xuemu during the New Year, so she took his taste into consideration. After all, it was not like she couldn't eat light food.

In fact, Wei Wei also likes light food. Her taste is generally at two extremes, either extremely light or extremely heavy.

Anyway, she likes both of them very much.

After all the dishes were prepared, Xiao Xuemu started to prepare the dishes to be taken to the Youth League Institute for a dinner. This dish was very easy to make, and Xiao Xuemu was completely adept at making it.

A three-pound fish is not really a big amount for making braised fish for so many people.

But after making it into soup and adding sauerkraut, it still seemed like a lot, and it took a small bowl to hold it all.

After they were done, the two of them were not in a hurry to go over. After learning from last year's lesson, they would not go over so early this year.

When the two of them arrived, the food wasn't ready yet. It would have been awkward for them to just sit there without helping since they had arrived early.

After all, everyone is busy there. It was okay last year, after all, there were seven of them.

But this year it would be really awkward with just the two of them sitting there.

But when it comes to helping, they firstly don't want to, and secondly, they don't know how to help.

Because there are already enough people at the Youth League Institute, if they go there, they might just cause more trouble.

So it’s better to go later and eat directly then.

After cooking, the fish soup was placed in a constant temperature box to keep warm, and they stewed the dishes they would eat in the evening in advance.

For example, you can stew the pig's trotters first. After all, this takes time. Then you just need to stir-fry them in the pan.

The pork stomach and chicken can also be stewed first and put in a pressure cooker so that they won’t get cold.

When the time was almost up, the two of them carried the dishes and slowly walked towards the educated youth institute.

Originally, the two thought that they arrived late enough and the people at the Youth League Institute might be waiting for them to have dinner.

But when they arrived at the educated youth institute, they realized that they had overestimated these people, and there was not a single dish on the table.

Wei Wei didn't know what to say. There were so many more people here than last year, and they came later than last year. It was almost dark, so why wasn't it done yet?

Is this the classic story of three monks carrying water to drink, where the more people there are, the less motivated they are to work?

But it didn’t seem like this when the seven of them had dinner together!

Whenever the seven of them get together for a meal, they work very efficiently, much faster than when they work alone.

And the facts are indeed not much different. Of course, the main reason is the different attitudes towards the issue of food.

This year, both the new and old educated youth are not that rich, with only so many things and so much money.

There is no other way. If they don’t share the money from raising pigs, their income will be cut in half.

Therefore, we must spend and eat sparingly this year, otherwise we will not be able to survive the transition from harvest to harvest next year.

The most important thing is that they don’t know whether the pig farm will distribute the money next year, or what the harvest will be like next year. These are all unknown.

Therefore, you must save some money and food, and leave some room for yourself, otherwise you will feel uneasy.

Therefore, people are extra frugal when it comes to eating, and are even more restricted when it comes to using.

Especially those who already have little food there, such as those whose family conditions are average or even poor this year.

Maybe Zhang Xinwang was extremely lucky last year, and Wu Mei was the only one who was not related to someone else.

But this year, it can be said that most of the distribution was due to luck, and one of his connections even ran away. It can really be said that Zhang Xinwang’s luck in this regard ran out last year.

Therefore, the work points for the educated youth who came this year were only half of what they were last year. In addition, since it was their first time working, they had no idea how to work, and their families did not provide any financial support, so they really did not have much in their hands.

Because of this, we had already discussed yesterday how much each person should contribute and what they should contribute.

When it came time to distribute the rations today, many people changed their minds and were reluctant to part with the money after seeing so many things being taken out.

There was no way, they really couldn't afford it. The extra food was enough to cover their expenses for several days.

Since the grain was distributed, they have been counting their food very carefully and there is really no room for leniency.

Although the brigade could buy food, they had no money at all, so even if they could, they would not be able to do so.

Wei Wei didn't know about these things, and even if she knew, she would not be able to understand or empathize with them.

Because she was almost never hungry except in the middle of the night, she didn't know what it felt like to be extremely hungry.

I have never worried about being hungry or having nothing to eat.

Seeing Wei Wei and Xiao Xuemu coming so early, and they hadn't prepared their things yet, and seeing the big basin of fish that Xiao Xuemu was carrying, those educated youth who had extra money felt a little embarrassed, especially Liu Yang.

They always take advantage, and they feel really embarrassed and most importantly, humiliated.

So when we were preparing things today, he took the lead in producing something that was slightly better.

But there is really no other way. Most people can't keep up and can only go down.

Even if it drops, Liu Yang still feels that it will at least be slightly better than last year.

But there is no way, the new educated youth really can't keep up, and their level is about the same as last year.

With things turning out like this, both Liu Yang and those educated youth who had more financial resources felt uncomfortable.

Unexpectedly, even so, several people changed their minds this morning, and the prices of those things kept dropping.

Because of this incident, the educated youth who were more well-off and those who were more concerned about their reputation all looked a little embarrassed.

Therefore, even during the Chinese New Year, the atmosphere at the Youth League Institute was extremely low, and people were extremely uncooperative. This is why so little has been produced yet.

Because no matter what you do, there will always be people who will ridicule you. How can you accomplish this?

I saw that the amount of meat brought by Xiao Xuemu and Wei Wei was almost the same as that brought by all of them combined.

Those educated youth who were more concerned about their reputation and those who had something in their hands felt very embarrassed about this. It seemed as if they were shameless and trying to take advantage of others, and this was definitely the case.

Because what Wei Wei and Xiao Xuemu gave was not unusual, the new educated youth did not know about it.

But if these old educated youth were to work together to come up with something like this, it wouldn't be easy, but there would be no pressure at all.

So it’s really embarrassing that it has become like this.

Besides this, there was another thing that made them feel very uncomfortable.

It's the New Year, and it's time to celebrate. It's not like we have nothing to eat. I feel really upset that it's turned out like this.

They really didn't want to eat together, but they had no choice.

If the educated youth create divisions among themselves, they will be laughed at by the others in the team and will be easily caught.

Moreover, if they don't come, they will be giving Liu Yang no face. Liu Yang is the person in charge of the educated youth point. If they offend him, it will be difficult for them to survive in the educated youth point.

So the faces of those educated youth who had things in their hands became more and more uglier.

Liu Yang was in a similar situation. If he wasn't the person in charge of the educated youth, he would be the one to suffer if they weren't united, and he really didn't want to care about these people.

But for those who are less financially strapped, their eyes light up when they see these things. They can improve their meals tonight and think to themselves that they must eat more later.