Chapter 2984: 2784 Various Cafeterias

No problem, I'll handle this. Zheng Ren said with a smile.

Yeah, we have no kids, so revenge would be more than ten years off. By then, who knows who'll be the principal of Er Zhong? Besides, if it's still Principal He, we'll just go to the affiliated elementary of the normal university. Su Yun also laughed.

Let's talk as we walk; the people from the Branch Bureau and the Health Bureau have probably already gone. Lin Ge blinked and said.

Director Lin, we're all our own people, stop speaking in riddles.

Let's hurry; maybe we can still find something. Otherwise, after we go, we might find nothing. Lin Ge said with a smile.

Yeah, hurry up. Zheng Ren said, "And Su Yun, what have you been through before? Why do you seem off today?"

When I was in school, in Hai Cheng, I had to attend remedial high school classes. You say, sending me to remedial classes is nonsense. But my mom wouldn't relax, she went on and on, saying if I didn't go she'd cut off our mother-son relationship. Su Yun said anxiously.

Go ahead, anyway you're just changing where you sleep. Zheng Ren said with a smile, "Or do you have to lie down at home to sleep?"

Only your life is this boring. Su Yun pouted, "It's not the remedial class after the teacher's lesson; it's the elite class the school organizes for those aiming for Peking University. Getting to the point, at lunch I went to eat and saw a fingernail in the rice."

Hehe. Zheng Ren and Lin Ge both smiled, not taking offense.

What's the big deal about seeing a fingernail? It's said that someone once saw a condom.

I don't care either, who knows where this came from. Su Yun said, "But we still need to reason; I was holding my lunch box, wanting to ask the aunt to exchange it, guess what I heard?"

Su Yun was just saying that out of habit, not trying to keep a secret; he immediately said, "I heard the two lunch ladies serving food say, I told them if it's spoiled they shouldn't sell it. They insisted they couldn't taste it, which made things even more troublesome."

Well, at least you didn't eat something spoiled. Zheng Ren comforted, "The first time I ate at a cafeteria in Rongcheng..."

Wow, I heard the cafeteria in Huaxi is good.

It's good, listen to me. The first time I went to the cafeteria to eat, there were two windows, one labeled ordinary rice, the other labeled good rice.

Then what? Su Yun asked.

I figured I wasn't well-off either; even though it was a mao cheaper, ordinary rice would do. That time, a senior from the hometown association brought me to eat; he went to get the dishes and told me I must buy the good rice.

I think it's wasteful, this person, how can they be so spoiled? Zheng Ren recalled his school days, it felt like a lifetime ago, and talking about it was quite interesting. At this point we might as well wait for Fan Dian's gossip too.

You wouldn't be so bothered as to serve two different rice meals, would you? Su Yun asked.

Sure thing, I served myself a bowl of ordinary rice and the senior a bowl of good rice. After one bite, I knew what the idiom 'chewing wax' meant. Zheng Ren sighed and said.

Boss Zheng, you've grown up eating Northeast rice since childhood; even average-quality Northeast rice is much tastier than southern glutinous rice. Lin Ge, drawing on experience, explained.

Yes. Zheng Ren nodded, "Later, Northeast schoolmates would bring dozens of pounds of rice to school each term, and Sichuan classmates added their cured sausage to make cured sausage rice, the flavor was absolutely fragrant!"

The aroma could carry two li. Su Yun swallowed, "I haven't had cured sausage rice in ages; I'll find time to tell the Rongcheng section chief Jiang that mailing homemade cured sausage is a legitimate matter."

A few years ago, a 985 university in the capital made the news; do you two know about it? Lin Ge asked.

Why?

It's not that the cafeteria is bad; it's that it's too good, so nearby residents all go to eat. At first it wasn't open to the public, but you couldn't stop those seventy- and eighty-year-olds from surrounding the cafeteria. Lin Ge said.

... Zheng Ren instantly recalled that old lady who snatched children's coins.

Really, where can you reason about this? Even making tasty food invites trouble; who said the heavens' justice is cyclical?

Later the cafeteria opened to the public, everyone just paid to eat, nothing much. Lin Ge said, half-laughing, half-crying, "But after just a few days, someone brought their pet dog and used the tray as a dog bowl."

That photo went straight into the newspaper.

There are really many unaware people, nothing can be done. Su Yun said, "A southern friend of mine once bit into a bun and found a razor blade! Can you believe it?"

It's not a medical school, is it? Zheng Ren immediately asked.

If it were a medical school, who knows what could be on the blade.

No, but that's still scary enough. Su Yun said, "Later that friend of mine wouldn't give up, kept the evidence, and kept filing complaints."

What happened then? Zheng Ren also became interested.

Later the academic affairs office promised not to fail him, so the matter was considered settled. Su Yun shrugged and said.

Zheng Ren found it funny and retorted, "Why didn't you demand to be recommended for graduate school?"

I did, but the school didn't agree.

I've dealt with a complaint before; that person was reasonable, we got along well and learned some inside information. Lin Ge said with a smile, "Running an honest business in good faith doesn't make money."

That person initially contracted a stall, selling stir-fried dishes and braised meat, thinking to make a living to support the family.

As for the meat, it's roughly divided into three kinds. The first is fresh meat straight from the slaughterhouse that day; the second is normally produced chilled meat with a valid shelf life; the third is 'three-no' meat—no idea how long it's been stored, where it's from, or who produced it.

Of course, the cheapest is pork from diseased pigs, but that person is honest, also kind-hearted, and dare not buy it.

Yeah, eating diseased-pig meat will cause problems; better to destroy it. Zheng Ren said.

At first he was especially conscientious, using only fresh meat; the meat itself was fresh and tasty, and I guess he also wanted to build a reputation.

Not just meat, vegetables too—greens and potatoes, he bought only fresh. But doing it this way, the cost was too high; after a month, he hadn't earned anything, and after paying the utilities overhead, he was out several hundred.

Hey. Zheng Ren and Su Yun were both speechless; bad money drives out good, this is a really helpless situation.

Starting the second month he used chilled meat, everything else stayed the same. Because he was genuine, the portions were generous, takeout volume was huge… simply put, the final tally was over two thousand, just breaking even.

So you have to sell zombie meat, right? Su Yun asked scornfully.

Yeah, he's timid, doesn't dare sell, afraid something will happen. Lin Ge said with a smile, "I guess Er Zhong is in that situation."

Zheng Ren shook his head, "It's not a bacterial infection, it's copper poisoning; those are two different concepts."