The 1970s Educated Youth

Chapter 68

◎Big Liar◎

Overly hungry, Gu Guanning ate the entire bowl of rice and vegetables. Finally, he held two large strawberries and gnawed them carefully.

"Aren't you going to take medicine today?" she asked.

When she takes medicine, she saves one pill and takes it after drinking it.

After putting away the bowls and chopsticks, Cheng Yanzhou went back to the house, "I'll drink it tomorrow."

"Are there any strawberries tomorrow?" Gu Guanning looked at Cheng Yanzhou eagerly. She just saw that there were still strawberries in the bowl outside.

"It may not be possible to let it go." Cheng Yanzhou told the truth.

The weather in Yangshi in September is still very hot, and strawberries are particularly rare.

After eating the remaining strawberries in one bite, Gu Guanning's eyes lit up, "Then let's eat it now, don't waste it."

Looking at her greedy face, Cheng Yanzhou couldn't help pinching her bulging cheeks, "The body doesn't want it."

"Don't I have a fever?" Gu Guanning stood up and shook his arm. "If you have a fever, you should take something cold to cool down!"

Cheng Yanzhou: "..."

Isn't this unreasonable?

"No." Cheng Yanzhou held the person on his lap and sat down, and said to her depressed face: "But the strawberries are on the balcony. If you can get up tomorrow morning, I will let you eat them."

Gu Guanning grabbed his clothes and said, "All of them?"

Cheng Yanzhou nodded, "The rest."

"Then I'll go to bed now." Gu Guanning said that he was about to jump off, eager to sleep.

"Wait, wait, I haven't taken the medicine yet." Cheng Yanzhou took out the pills and watched Gu Guanning drink them before letting her go to sleep.

Early the next morning.

The assembly bugle sounded on time, and Cheng Yanzhou entered the house from the balcony, with porridge and sweet potatoes warming on the stove behind him. He went to the bedside and lifted up the mosquito net and took a look inside. Gu Guanning was sleeping soundly.

At this time, the door was knocked. Cheng Yanzhou took his coat and keys and went out. Gu Heting stood outside the door, "Going for a run?"

Cheng Yanzhou nodded, "Stop on the way to the cafeteria to get food."

At the training ground, Gu Heting trained with his soldiers. Cheng Yanzhou ran a few simple laps. Seeing that the time was almost up, he told him to leave and went to the canteen.

There are not many kinds of breakfast in the cafeteria. Cheng Yanzhou ordered five steamed buns and three steamed buns.

After buying it, he asked the chef about the dishes for lunch and dinner. It was stipulated that there should be at least two meat dishes in these two meals. At noon, there would be stir-fried pork with lettuce and braised pork. In the evening, he would add a dish of minced pork and eggplant, and the remaining meat dishes at noon. Sold together.

Even though every soldier in the army is paid, they can't just eat meat if they want. Most of them have to send money to support their families. People like Cheng Yanzhou and Gu Heting have high salaries and subsidies, and they have to work almost all year round to earn their lives.

The master also said that the fried dough sticks would be served tomorrow morning.

Fried dough sticks are rarer than meat. They are deep-fried in refined white flour. State-owned restaurants in some places cannot serve them more than two or three times a year.