novelraw Chapter 418 - 13: Department Store and State-owned Restaurant [Requesting Monthly Votes]_2
Chapter 418 - 13: Department Store and State-owned Restaurant [Requesting Monthly Votes]_2
Chapter 418: Chapter 13: Department Store and State-owned Restaurant [Requesting Monthly Votes]_2
These days, you need tickets for everything. Even if you have money, without tickets, people won’t sell to you. How can that not be painful?
Shi Suifeng remained unflustered, "Putting things in a basket is too obvious, they’ll give you a fertilizer bag just right—it’s almost lunchtime, and I wonder what’s on the menu at the state-owned restaurant today, any braised pork..."
Chu River instantly forgot about her White Rabbit candy, swiftly pushing her cart forward, "Where’s the state-owned restaurant?"
Shi Suifeng sauntered leisurely behind, in an exceptionally good mood.
——Silly girl.
How cute she is.
Honestly, the Old Chu Family doesn’t treat people right, making a good girl suffer like this!
If Little He hadn’t awakened by herself and didn’t need him anymore, who knows, the Old Chu Family might break a leg one night.
Serves them right to lose some money!
...
There weren’t many things in the department store, but the bustling crowd was enough to consume time. Chu River charged all the way into the state-owned restaurant, and it was already 11 AM.
At 12:50, Shi Suifeng had to leave, so the two didn’t waste time, staring intently at the small blackboard at the restaurant entrance.
[Today’s Menu: Braised Pork, Braised Carp, Pork and Vermicelli Dumplings, Vegetarian Noodles, White Rice]
Chu River... if Chu River didn’t think of herself as someone on a quick transmigration mission, she’d be drooling right then.
She turned to Shi Suifeng, "How many food tickets did you bring?"
Shi Suifeng smiled slightly, everything under control, "Whatever I could bring from home, I traded with others; you can eat as much as you want today."
Delighted, Chu River said, "If you say so, I’ll be shameless then."
Saying this, she rushed to the counter, "I want eight plates of braised pork, three bowls of small green vegetables, twenty bowls of rice, and three bowls of braised carp."
Thinking about it, she counted on her fingers, "And pack me 20 large meat dumplings!"
She originally didn’t have that big of an appetite, but this body... has been starved a lot.
Chu River looked at her skinny arms and legs, feeling she really needed to store up energy.
——Actually, she always felt she should have the ability to improve her physical condition immediately, instead of just relying on eating a lot to supplement it like now.
But...
Alas, with amnesia and as a newcomer to quick transmigration, she doesn’t know anything!
Turning her head again to look at Shi Suifeng, feeling a bit embarrassed, "These are enough for me to eat, see if you want anything?"
Salesperson: ...
Oh, so this is for one person.
Shi Suifeng, a step too late: ...
Oh.
He coldly thought: So this doesn’t even include me.
...
No matter the era, there are always wealthy people. Especially in 1970, with the messiest years over, everything was gradually stabilizing, and the state-owned restaurant was quite busy too.
For this reason, sitting with Chu River, Shi Suifeng enjoyed the feel of being in the spotlight, just as if he were still on his bicycle. Even a thick-skinned soldier like him couldn’t handle it, having to keep going back and forth between the window, serving food and grabbing chopsticks...
To cover his complicated feelings inside.
——How could it not be complicated?
A meal that used up all his food and meat tickets, along with his 89 bucks... You know, at this time, 88 bucks is enough to respectably marry a good wife.
In round numbers, Little He ate up a girl in one meal!
Shi Suifeng was quite worried.
Because he calculated his allowance and savings... if Little He were to come over later, it’s not enough for food!
No way, a real man can’t say he can’t!
In any case, he can’t let Little He go hungry.
He’ll figure something out.
...
Throughout the meal, Shi Suifeng was lost in thoughts, while Chu River gobbled up noisily without lifting her head.
Not to mention, one cannot tire of eating braised pork! This body seriously lacks fat.
Plus, soaking white rice in soup and tossing in some greens for a stir...
Oh!
That’s what you call culinary skills!
At home, holding back on everything, even turning pork into pig feed, what can one hope for?
The meal lasted a full hour. Eventually, people in the restaurant stopped leaving and stood by watching her eat. Chu River wasn’t affected one bit, while Shi Suifeng could only smile tenderly yet guiltily, "The child at home had never been full before, really deprived..."
Everyone simultaneously went "Oh," showing a look of sudden realization.
In fact——
Though grown men can eat three to five bowls per meal, this girl in front could eat twenty! It’s not even on the same level.
Terrifying.
Shocking.
Under such admiring gazes, Shi Suifeng finally waited for Chu River to be satisfied and pack up the 20 dumplings to leave quickly.
On the road, he sighed, "Little He, with the current situation, if you want to eat later, buy and find a place without people."