Xidan North Street, in a state-owned agricultural and vegetable market near Baita Temple.

Liu Mazi held a cigarette in her mouth and leaned against the lounge chair. Looking at the huge meat stall in front of her, she felt very comfortable while enjoying the sunset.

Since it was already afternoon and there were not many customers coming to buy meat, it would be not important to smoke and take a break.

In this world, the most glorious people in big cities are those who sell meat, which is more popular than university professors.

The same 70 cents, the same pound of meat tickets, whoever gives good meat to who gives less meat depends entirely on the mood of the practitioner.

The kind of life and death that controls the fate of others is easy to addictive.

At least none of the cigarettes that Liu Mazi smoked over the years were bought by himself, and they were handed over by customers who bought meat.

If you want to be fat, you will hand him two big front doors;

If you want to have five flowers, then you have to the South China Sea at least;

If there is nothing, then wait for the croquette.

After a while of relief, Liu Mazi saw a regular customer riding a bicycle and coming to him from afar. So he quickly put the cigarette down and greeted him enthusiastically:

"Yo, Master Niu, I'm buying meat again. Come on, let's see what's going on today, they are all good products."

Although meat sellers do not need to please anyone, no one will think that it can save their work and work too much. Therefore, the big customers who purchase in units are still quite popular with butchers.

The simplest truth - if everyone takes 2 taels of meat tickets and asks Liu Mazi to cut them, then he will have to cut 5,000 knots of meat every day after selling 1,000 kilograms of meat, and his hands will be exhausted.

If the customers start at ten pounds, then they can finish their work every day by 100 dollars.

And this Master Niu is the purchasing and chef in the canteen of the Diplomacy Academy. (The school is small, so there is no distinction between purchasing and chef, and the school with thousands of people will be separated)

In Liu Mazi's mind, Master Niu can rank among the top 20 among his customers, but he is definitely not the most generous one.

After all, the size of the Diplomacy Academy is there. How much meat can a unit with a hundred people eat?

The procurement of Beijing Normal University and even the Affiliated High School next to him are more generous than him; not to mention the large state-owned enterprises and hospitals with good performance nearby.

Master Niu parked the bicycle and took out a stack of big union and meat tickets and said, "Don't worry about it today. Do you have any beef here? It's better to have ribs. If it's not enough, I can only find another family."

Liu Mazi was stunned: "Beef? Don't worry, you only have not enough tickets, but I don't have enough meat - by the way, your school has a celebration today? Why did the leader suddenly understand so much..."

Liu Mazi said while counting the thick stack of meat tickets handed by Master Niu. Later, he realized that something was wrong and was shocked:

"You want 80 kilograms? The total ribs of a beef are not 80 kilograms. Why don't I cut them longer for you and make some beef brisket?"

The beef ticket is indeed 80 kilograms.

As for the thousands of people in Beijing Normal University next door, the cafeteria uses less than 50 kilograms of beef a day, and more than 100 people have to eat 80 kilograms. What a rich lifestyle?

"It's almost done." Master Niu didn't care about it either.

While Liu Mazi was cutting, he couldn't help but wondering about the question of "whether the diplomatic school was corrupted and degenerated by capital attention."

However, Master Niu's next sentence refreshed his three views again: "By the way, remember to issue an invoice for me today. The Academic Affairs Office needs to report the receipt. The receipt is not good."

Many people think that before opening up, there were no invoices in China, but this is actually a misunderstanding. Before opening up, because there was no market economy, there were only no value-added tax invoices, but there were still ordinary invoices. For example, if travel expenses are reimbursed and state-owned enterprises’ raw material procurement accounts, there must be invoices.

However, in the food industry, even when purchasing from a unit, it is usually enough for receipts now.

Of course, Liu Mazi could ask the vegetable market management office to help you issue the invoice, but it was troublesome that he would fill out a receipt by himself to the customer.

Today, he felt that it should be no exception, so he discussed with Master Niu: "It's so troublesome invoices. I can't issue here, so I have to fill out the form. I'll give you a receipt as usual?"

Unfortunately, Master Niu certainly would not agree: "No, you must have an invoice - and remember to write the invoice clearly, it is a 'teaching consumable', do you understand?"

"Puff--" Liu Mazi almost spit out, "Teaching...teaching consumables? Do you call beef teaching consumables?"

Liu Mazi's voice was a little loud, and at least a dozen stall owners and dozens of customers heard it.

Everyone, whether they have bought vegetables for decades or sold vegetables for decades, have refreshed their views.

"Beef can also be considered a teaching...consumables? What unit is this? Don't be greedy! It's too shameless!"

"That's right, crazy!"

"I heard that I bought 80 kilograms? This must be the school leaders who are eating and drinking and drinking!"

The people in Chaoyang were the most righteous, and they were all indignant at the moment.

In 1978, there were only half a pound of meat tickets per month for a serious Beijing residents, which was already the first tier of the country. Foreigners and Beijing agricultural residents were still enduring two taels of meat tickets.

This hatred is worth too much.

Master Niu's face immediately calmed down.

Now that things have come to this, he complained that Liu Mazi was useless to say a big mouth, so he could only explain quickly:

"What are you yelling about? Our unit is a diplomatic college! There is a course that teaches students how to eat Western food like the French. This is diplomatic etiquette. If you don't learn well, you will go abroad in the future, or entertain foreign envoys and make a fool of yourself, it will damage the national character!

They all worked very hard, and they were learning to eat steak for national honors! What are you not convinced? If you don’t make it a teaching consumable for me, the department will inspect the work and think that our teaching work has not been done well!"

"I'm sorry, sorry." Liu Mazi also knew that he had said the wrong thing and quickly made an excuse, "But you have been here for half a year for meat? I didn't see you asking for an invoice before, so I'm wondering."

"I didn't ask for an invoice in the past because the foreign language course was tight last semester and this course was not opened. Now I need an invoice, and this is the rule in the future." Master Niu proudly refused to give in.

The scene was instantly quiet.

Within 30 meters, at least 50 people were silent and staring at the dog, leaving only the sound of saliva flowing to the ground.

"Damn it! Is it to win glory for the country and study hard and eat steak? Please make sure to give me this opportunity to study hard!" This is everyone's voice.

"Liu Mazi said that Beijing Normal University is 30 times the size of the scale, and the school canteen is a total of 100 people in one day, not as many as the Diplomacy School! The bourgeois lifestyle!"

There are also many young people who are watching melons. Because the School of Diplomacy has been suspended for 10 years, they have no idea that there is this university and have never even heard of the name. However, after this farce, the school name of these words is engraved in their hearts like a soldering iron.

...

Gu Ao informed the freshmen that when they were taking Western food etiquette classes tonight, the steak was actually still lying in the vegetable market and they didn't buy it back at all.

However, this does not affect the students' enthusiasm for learning at all.

Because it was the first day, everyone started with the most basic skills.

Everyone wore a uniform white shirt, first tying their own bow tie and folding napkins. Then they adjusted and checked each other.

Considering that although sophomore students have never practiced it, they have been exposed to foreign language literature for half a year and have some theoretical foundations, the teacher asked everyone to check each other according to the two-way grouping method of a sophomore senior and a freshman.

I worked hard for a whole class, then the tableware was placed, how to hold the knife and fork, and the teacher introduced the order of serving French food.

"I'm so nervous. If I make a mistake in a while, will the teacher be punished not to eat steak..."

The one who was assigned to Gu Ao was the freshman Yang Yi. After Gu Ao adjusted the stacking method of napkins and visited him, Yang Yi was a little worried.

"It's okay, don't worry." Gu Ao comforted him unintentionally.

At the same time, Gu Ao was actually worried about a exactly opposite problem:

"I'm so nervous. What if I act too smoothly and decently in a while? How can I pretend to be a newbie who has come into contact with Western food for the first time?

According to my working family, I shouldn’t say that I have been exposed to Western food? Well... If it’s really wrong, then I’ll use the old excuse to make excuses, just say that my dad learned it when he was a foreign aid expert in Albania…”

He had eaten steak dozens of times in a regular Michelin-level store in his previous life. In addition, in order to show off, people in later generations really encountered high-end places they had never been to, so they would first go online to read the show off strategy carefully.

So Gu Ao not only knows what the etiquette teacher teaches, but also is very familiar with it.

The only thing he has to worry about is how to pretend to be a newbie and make his progress seem to be a little more gradual and humble.

The one and a half hours of theory course finally ended with the students' calls. As the steaks were served, everyone's salivary glands were as vigorous as Samoyed.

Although I have recited the position of the tableware, the posture of holding a knife and fork, and the method and size of cutting steak in my mind hundreds of times, after the meat is truly placed in front of me, many people's techniques are still a little inaccurate.

"Qiao Han! I have emphasized it three times just now! The steak must be cut small enough! Only when you can finish it in one bite can you make it with a fork - let me see that you cut it so big, just roll back and eat the steamed buns!"

When the etiquette teacher in the patrol saw that something was not standard, he immediately knocked a whip on the back of his hand.

The new student who was named explained aggrievedly: "Teacher, I can eat such a large piece of beef in one bite..."

"You mean you can eat it in one bite? The standard of one bite is that you must never expose your teeth, you must chew it with your mouth closed. You can only make it stuff it in one bite!"

The etiquette teacher corrected it many times, but everything else was easy to say, but the students could only cut it smaller and eat it slower, and they could not control it at all.

She had to change the teaching standards on the spot: "Then remember, you have to cut it to a size that is half smaller than you can eat in one bite before you can stuff it into your mouth! It was already embarrassing to eat such a big bite during the foreign affairs reception!

I saw that Gu Ao and Ye Wan in the 77th grade performed very well, and they looked very gentle when they looked at their eating habits. You can see how small they cut, so don’t be anxious!”
Chapter completed!