In the canteen of this coal mine, the windows for serving meals are lined up.

Meals of different price ranges are placed behind different windows.

This is somewhat similar to the structure of the school cafeteria in the technical secondary school where Luo Xuan went to school.

However, I don't know why.

The window where meals are served in this cafeteria is strictly separated from the dining hall by a wooden fence as thick as an arm, which separates the counter where meals are served and the dining hall.

The canteen staff standing inside were too lazy to wear white coats. Instead, they were each wearing a sweater and were busy with long-handled spoons.

Luo Xuan observed carefully:

This dining hall is divided into three parts by a half-person-high brick wall and a wooden fence that reaches the top.

Just like the isolation zone used to queue up to buy tickets at the train station, each group of people who have finished eating will enter different eating areas.

In other words: they are all working in this coal mine.

But when it was time to eat, even though they could meet each other, they could also see each other.

But the miners who went to the mines at different times could not gather together.

Above the first window, there is a small wooden sign three feet wide.

The ink on the wooden sign has faded, but if you look closely, you can still see what is written on it: Miners’ free meal window.

Behind the grating of the window, on a concrete platform with an enamel basin, there was a basin of yellow rice and a basin of pickled cabbage boiled with vermicelli.

Among this new group of workers.

The first person in line was named Jian Teng. He was holding up a brand-new aluminum lunch box and hesitated: "Master, what kind of rice is this? Is this what we eat?"

Because these people who just came in are all farmers from Bashu and Nanyun Provinces.

They had never seen yellow rice made from millet like the one in Daxi, and they had no idea what it was!

What's more, this kind of yellow rice is also mixed with gravel and millet shells that can be seen with the naked eye.

Seeing this situation,

Even the dumbest and stupidest person probably knows that eating this kind of food will not only fill your mouth, but also jam your teeth. If you are not careful, it will cause toothache.

If he met someone who was extremely hungry and devoured his food, his gums would probably bleed!

——The food provided to Little Carrot Head in the legendary Zhazi Cave is probably nothing more than this, right?

The buck-toothed woman in charge of cooking had a face full of flesh.

When she heard the other party ask this question, she tapped the rice bowl with the long-handled spoon in her hand: "Don't you like this food? If you had been in difficult times a few years ago, you wouldn't have been able to eat it!"

Jianteng was startled by the knocking sound.

Then he asked cautiously, "Sister, is this all we can eat tonight?"

"Want to eat something good? Yes."

The woman with a swollen face pointed to the next window with a spoon, "Here, window 2 has fried donkey meat with dried chili peppers and large white steamed buns mixed with only 50% whole grains."

Jian Teng was overjoyed and happily took his lunch box to window No. 2 to get some food.

Luo Xuan, who was standing at the back of the team, always had an extra thought.

Thanks to his good eyesight, Luo Xuan could clearly see that there was also a wooden sign nailed above the No. 2 window: Management cadres eating window.

After Jian Teng took a spoonful of dried chili peppers to stir-fry donkey meat at window No. 2, he didn't want to eat steamed buns, so he continued walking along the passage.

Immediately afterwards, there is window No. 3.

In fact, there is still a wooden sign above the fence of this window, with faded and almost illegible ink written on it: Senior management dining window.

On the concrete platform inside this window,

There are also two huge enamel basins: a basin of white rice and a basin of braised beef with potatoes.

Jianteng asked the person behind the grill: "Master, can I make braised pork and rice?"

The cook inside blew out a puff of smoke towards the pot of braised pork: "Okay, you can even have a double portion."

Jian Teng looked at himself, the fried donkey meat with dried chili peppers in the aluminum box, and finally sighed: "Then please, master, give me one portion of braised pork and one portion of rice. The box is small, and there is too much food.

If so, I can’t fit it in.”

After he had packed the food, he followed the passage into the corresponding hall area, sat down, and started eating.

With Jian Teng in front, he can act like a baby for everyone.

The miners queuing up behind him imitated him: they all fried donkey meat with dried chili peppers and braised beef with white rice.

Working in this coal mine, you can actually eat so well?

for a time,

The faces of these new workers were beaming with joy, and they were all very happy.

It's just that these people didn't notice that they were among the twenty or thirty miners who were eating in another area in the middle of the dining room.

There is one person among them,

While Jian Teng was cooking, he muttered in a low voice, "Oh! These idiots"

It's just that this person just muttered something like this.

Brother Hao, who was standing aside, pointed at him with his finger. The man was so frightened that he immediately swallowed the rest of his words!

When it was Luo Xuan's turn to cook, he naturally followed the others and served the same meal: donkey meat, beef, and white rice.

It would be a fool to eat coarse grains mixed with sand when there is good food available!

As for saying that he clearly knew that by taking this meal just now, he had definitely fallen into a hole carefully dug by the other party.

who cares!

The sky is big and the earth is big, and eating is the biggest thing.

Pit pits are healthier.

While everyone was devouring the food, their mouths were full of oil.

Brother Hao also carried his lunch box and walked over, "Hey, how can brothers eat so well? No wonder others say that those of us who come out to work in Bashu are the most willing to eat."

Jian Teng said with a smile: "I'm very hungry. I'm thinking of eating something casually to keep my stomach from getting hungry. I can't believe it, this coal mine is kind and righteous!"

He actually managed such a good meal for us.

Tsk tsk tsk, to be honest, this is the first time in my life that I have eaten beef and potatoes."

The people nearby were busy eating,

Everyone happily agreed: "Yes, this donkey meat is quite delicious. They say dragon meat in the sky and donkey meat on the earth. Today is the first time in my life that I have eaten donkey meat!"

Donkey meat is valuable, but that's elsewhere.

In Saibei, there is the famous "Jiami Donkey". The donkey meat sold locally is actually not that expensive.

There is also beef, mutton and horse meat for everyone to choose from outside the Great Wall.

Therefore, the price of donkey meat is not very high in the northern and outer parts of the Great Wall.

Some of them also asked, "Brother Hao, why do you only eat these? Why don't you get a portion of braised beef with potatoes?"

Brother Hao himself only took two coarse-grain steamed buns and stir-fried donkey meat with dried chili peppers.

Hearing this question from others, Brother Hao shook his head: "I came out to run around just to make money and go home. How dare you eat so luxuriously like you all!"

Jianteng stuffed a large piece of beef into his own mouth.

Then he asked vaguely, "Isn't this the free meal provided by the mine? If you don't eat, you won't get it."

"Free meals?"

Brother Hao's eyes widened in disbelief, "I think you want to eat dragon meat! I don't know if you are senior cadres or some other extraordinary people?"

"The meals at window 1 are indeed free for you."

Brother Hao pointed to the wooden sign above the window, "If you are literate, go over and see what is written on it.

If you are illiterate, then you have to speak up and ask other people! I am uneducated, so why don’t you speak more diligently? How about dessert?”

Jian Teng was stunned: "What, what do you mean? Brother Hao, don't scare me."

Brother Hao snorted coldly: "Is your head on your butt? In which public canteen can big people open their bellies and eat potatoes and beef for free?"

"ah?"

Jian Teng, as well as all the miners next to him, all opened their mouths.

In an instant, everyone paused there motionless, as if someone pressed the pause button on time at this moment.

"No, it's not free?"

After a pause of more than ten seconds, Jian Teng finally came to his senses: "This, this meal is not free?"

"The dogs in the production team have to fight to eat hot feces."
To be continued...