Chapter 114: Field Training Entertaining Vips
[Time to eat!]
While Nancy and Ainuo served the guests peeled apples, Xiang Chuan used the Class President’s megaphone to issue the signal to start eating, and everyone cheered as they rushed toward the center of the camp.
This kind of momentum had truly never been seen on the people from Class Eight! The guests were somewhat frightened.
It was mainly because the Class Eight people they usually saw at school each had a packed meal box, calmly lining up at the end of the queue to pick the last few solid foods, then taking their lunch to sit in the corner of the canteen and nibble slowly on that flat round white item—they now knew it was called buns—then casually eating two solid foods, often not finishing them, dumping the leftovers into the food disposal window, becoming the first batch to leave the canteen the quickest.
This had absolutely no connection to their current appearance of scrambling to grab seats.
Actually, it was because today’s lunch was exceptionally abundant.
After the meeting ended yesterday, Xiang Chuan returned to her tent to ponder the content of today’s lunch. Since it was to entertain guests, rather than practicality, she also needed some aesthetic appeal.
Thus, soup dumplings and pan-fried buns were brought out first. Originally, she had planned to use locust flowers to make locust flower rice or locust flower buns or the like, but the eggs unexpectedly harvested at noon gave her inspiration, so she newly created locust flower egg pancakes, and used the remaining few eggs to make simple fried eggs. One kind of wild vegetable naturally didn’t count as abundant, so she brought out gray gray vegetable and made stir-fried green vegetables and bun dumplings.
The reason stir-fried green vegetables were brought out only now was that in the morning, after Xiang Chuan stir-fried a small portion of minced garlic lactuca in her own small pot, the surrounding classmates all eyed it covetously. Xiang Chuan said, “This thing has a slightly bitter taste,” scaring off some people, but not knowing if it was Chou Manman’s spirit of adventure that infected others, seven or eight people boldly ran over to mooch a chopstickful. If Xiang Chuan hadn’t quickly stopped them, the lactuca she had accidentally found near the camp would have been divided up by them like that. As expected, two or three people didn’t adapt well to this slightly bitter taste, wanting to throw it away after one bite. It was Xiang Chuan who suggested they put it in the box of vegetable stems and vegetable leaves to feed the chickens together later. And the remaining people surprisingly accepted it well, even wanting another bite. Xiang Chuan quickly called a stop. Thus, lactuca was added to the patrol group’s ingredient collection list for today. But since noon was to entertain guests, Xiang Chuan still prioritized the clear sweet wild vegetables that suited the general taste, thinking to save the lactuca for making for them in the evening, and selected the gray gray vegetable nearby.
The small soup dumplings and pan-fried buns—not to mention the several guests—even the Class Eight people who were used to eating buns looked at them with novelty, especially the pan-fried buns. The crispy fragrant bottom and soft upper layer sandwiching meat filling or vegetable filling were actually even more delicious. The patrol group, who already had large appetites, finished more than half a plate in the blink of an eye.
“Pan-fried buns are quite oily, go eat some green vegetables or drink some soup to go with them.” Xiang Chuan saw them always staring at the pan-fried buns, her old mother personality flared up, and she quickly shooed everyone to eat green vegetables, “Balanced diet, balanced diet!”
Oh——
Seeing everyone reluctantly picking green vegetables or taking soup bowls, Xiang Chuan began to worry about the nutritional problems of her own class’s children.
Next week when the club officially opens to the public, should she prepare more fruits and vegetables to pair with staple foods? She didn’t want to be visited later by nutrition experts from the Third Fleet or the like accusing her recipes of maliciously disrupting modern people’s nutritional balance.
Unlike the lively chaos of grabbing dishes in the center of the camp, on the guests’ side, there were Ainuo and Nancy arranged by the Class President and others serving them. Various dishes were packed in individual small meal boxes, one portion per person, and when all laid out, it was quite spectacular.
Roasted chicken, steamed fish, stir-fried chicken with shiitake mushrooms, chicken soup, soup dumplings, stir-fried green vegetables, pan-fried buns, and the peeled apples that Xiang Chuan and Ouyang Yating and others had gathered in the morning, made the guests swallow their saliva crazily.
“The equipment is crude, not very abundant, please bear with us.” Nancy showed a helpless smile on her face, as if she was truly feeling powerless for her own class being unable to bring out good dishes to entertain the guests, provided that was really the case.
No! Very abundant! These five words made the guests all hold their breath. If this isn’t abundant, what does it take to be abundant!
“Indeed not very abundant.” Fu Chengkai, passing by the reception table, heard this and glanced at the things on the table, softly agreeing, and it happened to reach the guests’ ears.
You people from Class Eight are too much! The guests were speechless and choked up, turning their indignation into motivation, viciously gnawing on buns or roasted chicken, then forgetting this little unpleasantness due to the impact brought by the gourmet food.
It wasn’t that the class cadres deliberately belittled while showing off, but these things compared to those in Xiang Chuan’s food box truly weren’t much, after all, you couldn’t eat fruit cake or pudding in the wild.
Compared to the guests slowly savoring the gourmet food, Class Eight, already accustomed to these wild gourmet foods, had long finished their lunch. When the guests had only eaten half, everyone had already started packing up to prepare to wash dishes or take a stroll around the camp, which made the guests a bit anxious. The Class President comforted everyone not to eat in a rush; they would have plenty of time in the afternoon to talk about their matters, afraid these people would choke.
After finishing lunch, the Class President took the guests for a stroll by the riverside. When passing the captives’ tent, whether the several guests or the class cadres from Class Two and Class Ten in the tent all widened their eyes: Is this you guys?
“Class Two and Class Ten… were all captured by you?” A guest looked incredulously at the Class President, that gaze like looking at a monster.
“Yes, we were very lucky to take down two classes shortly after the start, and thus our supplies weren’t consumed much. The classmates from the two classes are living leisurely here.” The Class President laughed haha, and the people from Class Ten and Class Two responded with a collective eye roll.
But in the guests’ eyes, this looked like another feeling. The expressions on their faces gradually turned serious from surprise, and one of them asked softly: “Your class has such strength, why not directly…” He didn’t continue, but the Class President understood his intention.
“Because there’s no need.” The Class President adjusted his glasses, “First, this small camp of ours can’t accommodate everyone, second, the central region is too vast. To achieve the same efficiency as taking down Class Two and Class Ten in a short time, the difficulty increases exponentially, not worth the loss.”
These words were said easily and comfortably, yet the guests couldn’t laugh, because in their view, the Class President of Class Eight’s implication was: If we were willing to put in some effort, taking you down wouldn’t be impossible.
“Are you threatening us?” A girl glared angrily at him.
“No, I’m just stating facts, and everyone doesn’t need to worry so much. As you all can see—” The Class President turned his head, looking toward the camp. The students from Class Eight had now packed up the kitchenware, strolling in the camp, discussing arrangements for dinner, or thinking of ways to get Xiang Chuan to make more new varieties, each one happy and tireless. The Class President couldn’t help but smile: “Our class has no other ideas about this confrontation match. Everyone was originally just getting by. If it weren’t for the president of A Bite of China Club stepping up to make these things, giving everyone some motivation, the ones probably becoming prisoners first would have been us.”
He looked back at the guests: “Our demands were already explained to you all this morning. Entertaining you here is also to give you all some reassurance. The six-day confrontation match is about to enter the latter half’s end. I also don’t hope to break this situation and make our class face intense competition. After all, picking wild vegetables and catching chickens in the woods is more suitable for our group.”
The guests’ expressions didn’t improve because of the Class President’s sincere words. They looked at each other, and the leading girl stepped forward: “This matter is significant after all, we need to return to the class and discuss with everyone before giving you a reply. After all, this also concerns the confrontation match results of all classes in our central region.”
The Class President smiled inwardly: It’s done. On the surface, he remained composed and replied: “Then we’ll have to trouble you all. In the afternoon, we will escort you back to the boundary area. The lunch hospitality was inadequate, please forgive us.”
With the exam approaching, the update frequency will slow down a bit, trying to guarantee 3~4 updates per week!
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