Gu Chengyu and Wang Qikai headed to the dining hall together. They saw that most students eating there had a bowl of plain rice porridge accompanied by two white flour buns, and a separate bowl of stir-fried seasonal vegetables. This dining hall wasn't like the modern cafeterias of the previous life, offering a wide selection of dishes. Here, there was only one dish. The daily rice porridge and buns were always the same, only the vegetables changed.
In private schools like this, students who ate there were given a small bamboo stick with "provision" inscribed on it. They would show this stick to the dining hall lady before meals to get their food. Of course, after some time, the cook would clearly know who brought their own meals and who bought food from the school, considering there were only about fifty people in the school.
