Chapter 54: Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes
Chapter 54: Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes (1000 words more!)
"Ah~~~" Lin Yi touched his arm which was covered with goose bumps.
When he thought of the green-bibbed chef who was eyeing him covetously in the cafeteria and the blue-bibbed chef who secretly replaced milk with tomatoes when no one was paying attention, he decided not to think about the cafeteria auntie for the time being.
No, he didn't want to think about anything now.
After leaving the sun, he now just wants to be a salted fish.
But he already knew something. He felt that even if he wanted to be a salted fish, there would be some indescribable external factors that would come and turn him over.
For example, the cafeteria that disappeared inexplicably just now.
Walking on the road under the sun, without sea breeze or fog, and then... without any warning, the cafeteria disappeared?
He shook his head, buried the thought deep in his heart, and then entered the student passage with Wei Liang.
Before entering, he looked up at the passage sign.
After confirming that it was the [Student Passage], he felt a little more at ease and walked in.
The moment he stepped into the student passage, Lin Yi's hair stood on end - a certain discomfort seemed to descend from the void and fall upon him.
This was his second time entering the student passage, and he didn't feel this way the last time.
His muscles tensed a little, and under the light of the incandescent lamps in the student corridor, he locked his eyes on the exit in front of him, while following Wei Liang's steps closely.
This time, he clearly had a different feeling from when he came at noon.
When that strange feeling fell upon him, even the incandescent lights in the passage, which symbolized safety, could not give him enough sense of security.
His hearing seemed to have become more acute. He could hear his even but slightly rapid breathing, the sound of his feet stepping on the steps in the passage, and... the "crackling...crackling..." sound of some kind of frost spreading along the wall...
His pupils shrank slightly and his scalp exploded slightly. He tried not to make any associations and began to focus his attention from hearing to vision.
The sound of the spreading frost gradually disappeared, but from the corner of his eye he discovered some faint white marks on the walls of the passage, as if wisps of white mist were coming out from the cracks in the wall.
"wipe……"
He shuddered, quickened his pace and rushed out of the student passage.
Wei Liang was shocked by his speed: "What's wrong, Lao Lin?"
"I'm hungry." Lin Yi made a natural excuse.
He ran faster and faster, and soon he reached the exit of the student passage.
But at this moment, he found a figure standing at the exit of the student passage.
He was a cafeteria employee wearing a white chef's uniform, a square hat and a blue bib. He had his arms crossed over his abdomen and his body slightly leaning forward, like a waiter greeting guests at the door of a hotel.
"The chef in the blue bib?"
Lin Yi was a little surprised, but a question immediately popped up in his mind - the cafeteria rules stated that cafeteria staff would not appear in the student cafeteria, but there was still some distance between the end of the passage and the entrance of the student cafeteria.
At this time, a chef in a blue bib appeared. What should he do?
"Ignore."
When in doubt, choose to ignore it first.
He quickened his pace and rushed out of the student passage.
"Too fast, too fast! Damn you, Lao Lin, you must be full of energy after swimming for an hour, right?" Wei Liang followed with a curse, "Can you take care of the handsome guy who I practiced gymnastics with for forty minutes?"
"Liangzi, hold on tight, the sun is about to set, hurry up and eat!" Lin Yi turned around and shouted at the end of the passage, trying to make Wei Liang ignore the existence of the chef in the blue bib.
At the same time, he glanced at the student passage.
The incandescent lights in the student corridor are always on, and the soft, clear yellow light gives a sense of security no matter how you look at it.
There was no sign of frost spreading on the walls of the passage.
"Oh my god!" Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, "Hallucination! Visual hallucination!"
He realized that he had just had that strange hallucination that could not be explained by common sense. If he paid more attention to hearing or vision, he might fall into the same crisis he had encountered before.
Or, like when I was walking on the road to the gym, I opened and closed my eyes and stepped onto a road that didn't exist;
Or, like what happened just now, you don’t know what happened and lose the "coordinates" of the cafeteria, and fall into some intense and unknown crisis, your brain is in a mess and you almost suffocate and sink.
Or... a third unknown situation occurs that is different from the above two situations.
But fortunately, he held himself back this time.
"Here I come!" Wei Liang rushed to his side, "Come on, come on, time to eat!"
Wei Liang seemed to have not noticed the chef in the blue bib at all. He came up from behind and pulled Lin Yi towards the student cafeteria.
There was a sign indicating the entrance and exit at the main entrance of the student cafeteria. Before entering, Lin Yi confirmed it again, then lifted the plastic curtain and walked inside with Wei Liang.
When passing by the plate recycling area, Lin Yi observed the chef in the blue bib outside the student cafeteria from the reflection of the alloy rack. He saw that the chef in the blue bib was maintaining a relatively slow and stiff movement, slowly turning around, with a pair of empty eyes, as if he was always watching them.
In the middle of the student cafeteria and the student passage, the afterglow of the setting sun shone down, and it was so quiet that there was not even a shadow of the chef in a blue bib.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang followed the old rules and lined up in front of the No. 3 window.
There were many more people having dinner than lunch, and the cafeteria was packed with people.
Lin Yi glanced at the time on his watch.
17: 33.
"Five-thirty... I hope I can finish my meal and leave before the sun sets." Lin Yi thought to himself.
He and Wei Liang followed the team and moved slowly forward, chatting idly.
This time, Wei Liang got his meal first. Like before, he pointed at the dishes through the glass window with his fingers. This method could effectively avoid disputes with the cafeteria auntie because she got the wrong dishes.
I won’t tell you the names of the dishes. I will eat them all even if you make a mistake.
This is Wei Liang’s textbook method of purchasing meals.
However, this time, something unexpected happened.
When the cafeteria lady was helping Wei Liang get his meal, a look of doubt suddenly appeared in her eyes.
Then, her hands suddenly stopped shaking, and she scooped a spoonful of vegetables from a nearby vegetable grid neatly, and then asked Wei Liang:
"Classmate, I didn't notice, did you order this green pepper beef fillet just now?"
Lin Yi looked over from behind Wei Liang and saw that the cafeteria lady's spoon was full of... scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
But he found that there was no scrambled eggs with tomatoes in the vegetable grid, only beef fillet with green peppers.
A hint of doubt appeared in Lin Yi's eyes. A thought popped up in his mind: Did he see it wrong? Was it beef tenderloin with green peppers, or... scrambled eggs with tomatoes?
Just when this thought popped up in his mind, he suddenly realized that maybe it wasn't that the cafeteria auntie had served the wrong meal, but that the cafeteria auntie had a certain cognitive bias about the food!
Is it beef tenderloin with green pepper or scrambled eggs with tomatoes?
Lin Yi didn't want to think about this question for the time being, because whether it was beef tenderloin with green peppers or scrambled eggs with tomatoes, it didn't matter anymore.
The important thing is, when fried tomato and eggs appear in the spoon, no matter what dish the cafeteria auntie serves, it is a food “containing tomato elements”!
When Lin Yi realized this, Wei Liang was already stunned looking at the full spoonful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
But soon Wei Liang's eyes lit up and he said with a smile: "Ah, yes, yes, yes... this is the dish. Auntie, can you help me get some more?"
The cafeteria lady thought about it, with a strange light flashing in her eyes. She repeatedly confirmed: "Student, is this really what you want... green pepper beef fillet?"
Wei Liang frowned and said, "Auntie, I'm right, please fight quickly, I'm starving!"
The lady in the cafeteria narrowed her eyes for a moment before she said, "Okay, okay, then, young man, eat more..."
As she spoke, she put the spoonful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes on the plate, then reached into the green pepper beef tenderloin and scooped out another spoonful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and spread it on the rice.
The corners of Wei Liang's eyes twitched violently, and his lips moved slightly, as if he was saying - "Oh my god..."
"Liangzi..." Lin Yi suddenly broke into a cold sweat for Wei Liang. He didn't know if Wei Liang noticed it. He wanted to remind him, but he didn't know how to start. At this time, Wei Liang suddenly turned to him and said, "Old Lin, hurry up and get your meal! I'll swipe my card and wait for you."
"Ah? No..." Lin Yi was thinking about what to do, but Wei Liang had already taken the plate covered with scrambled eggs and tomatoes from the cafeteria lady, then came to the card machine and swiped the card using the same operation as at noon.
Wei Liang stood aside with the dinner plate in his hand, looking at Lin Yi silently, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Classmate, what would you like to eat?" The cafeteria lady had already grabbed a new plate and gave Lin Yi an inquiring look.
"Please help me order this, this, this, and... this." Lin Yi pointed at the dish grid through the glass without thinking, but avoided the beef tenderloin with green pepper.
The cafeteria lady responded and started serving the food.
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes and observed her every move.
The cafeteria lady was a slightly plump middle-aged woman who wore the uniform white chef's uniform worn by all cafeteria employees and a blue bib.
On her chest, she wore a badge made of white acrylic. The style of the badge was almost the same as that of her class teacher, with ironed-on thorn vine lace and gold-plated fonts in the middle.
He silently wrote down the cafeteria lady's badge number:
「Chef-0391」
"No. 391?" Lin Yixiao was surprised. If the numbers were arranged one by one, then this cafeteria lady would actually be the 391st?
The staff changes in the cafeteria...seems to be quite big.
At this moment, he noticed that the cafeteria aunt had almost finished serving the food. When she was serving the last dish, a hint of doubt appeared in her eyes again.
I only heard her mumbling: "What was the last dish...?"
Her eyes moved back and forth on the food grid, and the hand holding the spoon trembled slightly. Suddenly she thought of it: "It seems to be this!"
She reached for the green pepper beef tenderloin…
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes instantly - he definitely didn't order the beef tenderloin with green peppers.
But the auntie in the cafeteria did not scoop up the green pepper beef fillet, but scooped up the vegetables from the side.
Fish-flavored shredded pork.
Lin Yi watched the whole process and saw the cafeteria lady scoop up a spoonful of shredded pork with fish flavor, shake the spoon, and then the shredded pork with fish flavor on the surface of the spoon was shaken off, revealing most of the spoonful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
The lady in the cafeteria looked at Lin Yi and asked, "Classmate... I didn't notice it just now. Did you order the fish-flavored shredded pork?"
She hunched over, raised her face slightly, and had a normal smile on her lips, but from another angle, it looked as if an old witch was shaking a spoon full of blood, with her eyes wide open with half of the whites showing, smiling sinisterly.
When Wei Liang was serving the food just now, Lin Yi had time to watch and think, but when it was really his turn, he felt a chill emanating from the cafeteria auntie and going straight to his heart.
At this moment, he suddenly realized what Wei Liang meant by this, and he quickly said, "Yes, yes, this is the dish. Auntie, please hurry up, I'm a little hungry!"
When the cafeteria lady saw this, she just put the food on the plates.
Lin Yi reached out to take the plate.
Just as he received the plate and the cafeteria lady let go of it, he heard the lady's slightly trembling, somewhat morbid greeting in his ears: "Classmate... did you order scrambled eggs with tomatoes?"
Lin Yi shuddered and looked up.
“Wow!”
The cafeteria lady's face was right in front of him - she had climbed up the food grid at some point, and then pressed her entire face against the thick glass of the food purchasing window, staring at Lin Yi with wide eyes.
Her facial features were distorted by the glass, showing a kind of insane and crazy feeling, which was completely different from her appearance when she was getting food before.
"That's... fried tomato and eggs. It's fried tomato and eggs! It's fried tomato and eggs, right, classmate?"
This abstract and crazy scene made Lin Yi shudder and feel strongly uncomfortable.
He didn't answer anything from the cafeteria lady, and walked towards the card machine with his tray.
He swiped the card neatly and walked together with Wei Liang.
"Liangzi, should we...?" Lin Yi winked at the plate recycling area.
"Hehehe, you found me!" Wei Liang smiled proudly, shook the plate full of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and said, "Let's go take out the trash!"
Canteen Rules Article 8:
[When purchasing food, if you find that the employee in the blue bib has put food containing tomato ingredients in your meal, please do not remind him that he has made a mistake (the word "do not" is emphasized).
But after you take the plate, please go directly to the tableware recycling area and put all the food into the recycling bin, and then go to other food purchasing windows to buy food.
During this process, please remember his employee number and inform the class teacher after returning to the teaching building. 】
This is exactly what Lin Yi just realized. The behavior of the cafeteria lady just now is not only related to Article 7: [When purchasing meals, do not argue with employees because they ordered the wrong meals. Remember that as long as the food does not contain tomato elements, it is safe to eat.], but more importantly, it is related to Article 8.
But because there are only a few seconds when facing the cafeteria aunt, it is almost impossible for anyone to react in an instant.
People like Wei Liang and Lin Yi were stunned for a while before they thought of it.
"Let's go." Lin Yi responded.
The two of them then walked side by side towards the garbage recycling area.
But this time, when they were carrying their plates towards the plate recycling area, students along the way suddenly turned around one after another slowly and cast their gazes full of desire and greed on them without hesitation.
No, not them, but...the plates in their hands.
The target is scrambled eggs with tomatoes!
"Rustle, rustle..." The student cafeteria suddenly became crowded. Students either left the line or stood up from their seats. Finally, all of them fixed their eyes on the plates in Lin Yi and Wei Liang's hands.
“Swish…”
One after another, like zombies, they slowly approached them...
"What the hell is this..." Wei Liang pursed his lips and made an encrypted call with the sound of wind coming out of the corner of his mouth.
With the experience of the first encrypted call, Lin Yi whispered this time: "I don't know, it looks similar to last time... Last time we dipped it in ketchup and attracted their attention."
"Last time?" Wei Liang's calves were shaking, and he was a little unsteady on his feet. "We don't have ketchup this time? Damn, does scrambled eggs with tomatoes count?"
"Of course forget it..." Lin Yi muttered.
When Wei Liang heard this, his eyes rolled back and he almost fainted. After he finally recovered, his hands shook and he almost spilled the scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
"Fuck... If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have been so pretentious and asked the cafeteria lady to fill up the scrambled eggs with tomatoes." Wei Liang's trembling voice was filled with demonic flavor because of fear.
"I thought you discovered the secret and deliberately let the aunt fill the rice bowl to attract my attention!" Lin Yi said seriously.
Wei Liang wanted to cry but had no tears: "This is the first time you met me? Do I look like a person with so many schemes?"
Lin Yi: “…”
"Anyway, we should just follow the rules and pour it out, right? We shouldn't worry about what these people think," he consoled her. "They won't suddenly attack just for a little tomato scrambled eggs..."
"No, no, no! Fuck you...I should kneel down and beg you, can you please stop making random statements at this time?" Wei Liang's tears were about to burst out, and his voice was filled with a strong sobbing tone.
Lin Yi quickly shut his mouth and silently took Wei Liang... and a bunch of crazy and fanatical tomato lovers to the plate recycling area.
But when they were only three dining tables away from the plate recycling area, Lin Yi suddenly stopped.
A chef came out from somewhere and stood silently beside the plate recycling area.
He stood there gracefully and calmly, but his eyes were fixed on the scrambled eggs with tomatoes on their plates.
"Throwing it away without even eating a single bite... isn't that a waste of food?"
He walked slowly away from the plate collection area, his dark green bib leaking frighteningly under the light.
Added 1200 words for the leader "Yuanyue Yuqinghui", and still owes more than 6000 words~
Thanks to the book friend "Moxuan Book Friend" for the reward! !
(End of this chapter)