Then he went to a deli in town and bought a pound of beef, followed by a pound of pork belly from a butcher shop.
As for the prices, Jaylen didn't have much of a sense of what things should cost.
He paid whatever they asked and didn't haggle.
After he finished shopping, the director reminded him, "You've spent a whole week's budget in a single day."
Jaylen stared at him in disbelief. "Ordinary farming families only spend this much in a week? How do they survive?"
"Ordinary farming families aren't like city people. They can go a whole month without spending any money and still get by. They have vegetables in the fields, rice and flour at home, and bamboo shoots in the mountains. They just have to work for it."
Five in the afternoon.
Jaylen finally returned from town with milk tea and meat. Huang Lei and He Jiong had also come back after digging up bamboo shoots.
Wang Yi was still fast asleep.
The three exchanged amused smiles and didn't disturb him. Then Teacher Huang asked He Jiong to pull a few scallions from the field.
He asked Jaylen to help wash them.
Teacher Huang took charge of the cooking, making stir-fried bamboo shoots with sliced pork and dry-fried beef.
Jaylen then took a case of beer out of the electric tricycle.
Only then did they wake Wang Yi.
After getting up, Wang Yi washed his face and went out into the courtyard.
His nutritionist had told him not to eat pork.
There were two reasons.
First, all kinds of additives and hormones were unavoidable in the way many pigs were raised these days.
Eating that kind of pork could cause an athlete to test positive in a doping test.
Things like that had happened several times