When Xiang Jin returned to the dormitory, everyone was still eating, but after seeing the rice bowl and lunch box in her hand, a girl named He Guizhi said, "Xiang Jin, are you going to steam rice?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "No, I just think it's better to use your own bowls and chopsticks when eating out."
Luo Qiuyan took a mouthful of rice and said, "That's right, no matter how clean the outside is, it's still useless for your own safety."
Xiang Jin asked, "Why are you eating just now? It seems a little late?" She had finished eating on the street, and then went to visit the supply and marketing cooperative before returning, but looking at how many of them looked like
The amount of consumption in the lunch box seems to have been eaten not long ago?
Zhao Xiaomei said, "Oh, don't talk about it. The rice steamer today overslept due to a nap, and then steamed dinner late, so it took us almost twenty minutes to get the rice."
Then Xiang Jin asked again, "Have you steamed it tomorrow morning?"
Some people nodded, and some shook their heads. Those who nodded usually had two steaming rice boxes, and those who shook their heads usually only had one steaming rice box, so they had to wash the boxes after eating, and then use them to steam rice.
Xiang Jin nodded, "Then you eat, I'll go to the canteen to get some boiling water and come back to scald the bowls and chopsticks. Do any of you want to boil the water? I'll bring it back to you?"
Then Liu Ying hurriedly said, "I, I, I, please bring me a jug back, thank you?" Then she handed her kettle and a dime to Xiang Jin.
Does this mean you have to pay for fetching water? One cent per pot, right?
Then Xiang Jin said, "Wait a minute." She still wanted to look for it to see if she had a dime?
She had only glanced in the direction of the student cafeteria from afar before, and then saw a classmate carrying a kettle there, and then another person carrying a kettle coming out of there, but she had never been there herself.
Fetched water.
Then she took out a bunch of money from her pocket, one yuan, two yuan, five yuan, ten yuan. It seemed that she hadn't gotten a dime yet. Then when her classmates in the dormitory saw it, they were all a little surprised. He Guizhi said
, "Xiang Jin, your mother is so willing to give you so much pocket money at one time?" That adds up to thirty or forty at least, right?
Xiang Jin chuckled. Her mother never took any money from her. It was all her own money. In fact, whether it was tuition and fees or the things she bought recently, it was all her own money.
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Not only that, from the time their family built their house, except for the money for the materials used to build the house, she paid for all the family's living expenses, and even the money from the mulberry sold was returned to her.
Mom’s two thousand.
She keeps small bills and coins in this pocket. She puts the 510 coins in another pocket but doesn't take them out. If she takes them out, wouldn't it scare them?
It's a huge surprise, and I don't know how much they would say her mother dotes on her?
Xiang Jin smiled and said nothing, then she saw Luo Qiuyan and said, "Xiang Jin didn't steam rice. Does her mother need to give her a little more pocket money, otherwise she will be hungry?"
Then several people nodded, and then Zhao Xiaomei asked, "Oh, by the way, Xiang Jin, why don't you steam rice? How cost-effective it is to steam rice?"
Xiang Jin lied and said, "I had a serious illness during the summer vacation, and then I had some gastrointestinal discomfort. The weather is still a bit hot now. My mother is afraid that if I eat that bad rice again one morning and make my stomach upset, she will just scream
I don’t want to steam rice, I can just eat fresh food outside.”
"Oh, so that's how it is?" Several people nodded suddenly.
Then He Guizhi still couldn't help but said with envy, "But your mother really loves you. My mother would be reluctant to let you go. She only gives me five yuan of pocket money every week. It doesn't matter if I have a penny more."
Several other people also said that their parents were like that.
Xiang Jin said, "Okay, I'm going to get water."
She carried two kettles and went out. Luo Qiuyan ran over and gave her a dime, "Bring your own change. The old man who put out the water is a bit weird and doesn't give change."
Oh, is there anything like this? Xiang Jin said with a smile, "Thank you, I'll lend it to you and I'll pay it back to you when the time comes!"
"Oh, no, no, it's just a dime," Luo Qiuyan waved her hand generously.
Xiang Jin went to fetch water. There were a lot of people fetching water. She waited in line for a while before she could fetch water. However, she saw a sign there, which decisively said: Bring your own change when fetching water. Sorry.
Not looking for compensation!
Ha, it's true! Fortunately, Luo Qiuyan lent her a dime, otherwise she would have lost nine cents.
Xiang Jin walked back with two bottles of water, and then heard someone calling him not far away, "Xiang Jin?"
She followed the sound and looked, and then she saw a dark-faced boy by the flower bed not far away, looking at her and smiling. He had a Chinese character face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was probably only a little taller than herself.
The young man saw her looking at him, and then ran over.
Xiang Jin looked at him with confusion, "Is something wrong?"
The young man said, "Are you fetching water?"
Xiang Jin nodded, and then he saw that he was holding a lunch box in his hand. There were still water drops on the lunch box, so he must have been steaming rice.
When the young man saw that she was silent, he said, "Wait a minute, I will help you carry it later." After saying that, he turned around and ran away again.
Xiang Jin felt puzzled, then he turned around and walked away while carrying the kettle.
When Song Kaiyan put away the lunch box and came back, he saw that Xiang Jin was no longer there. He was a little frustrated. After being stunned for a while, he still chased after Xiang Jin.
Xiang Jin walked and he ran. It didn't take long for her to catch up with Xiang Jin.
"Xiang Jin, can I help you carry it?" He stretched out his hand to Xiang Jin.
Xiang Jin refused, "No, thank you," and she wasn't familiar with him, so why should she owe someone else a favor?
"Give it to me. Two bottles of water are quite heavy." He reached out to grab the water bottle from Xiang Jin's hand, but Xiang Jin dodged it. "There's really no need!"
Yan Chen came down from the teacher's dormitory building and happened to see this scene. He frowned slightly and walked quickly towards the two of them.
"How do you get two bottles of water?" He stretched out his hand and took one bottle from her hand. His movements were casual and leisurely, and he also carried a sense of dignity.
Xiang Jin said, "I brought a pot for someone."
The moment he saw Yan Chen, Song Kaiyan immediately felt a little bad, and he just frowned and looked at him blankly.
After Yan Chen nodded slightly to him, he said to Xiang Jin, "When you run out of boiling water, just bring the kettle to me and I will bring it down for you. You don't have to carry it such a long way."
Xiang Jin was surprised, "Where can you boil water?"
Yan Chen glanced at her angrily, "You're kidding, I live in my home, so of course I can boil water! Not only can I boil water, but I can also cook."
"Is that so? Okay, then from now on you will pay for my boiled water. Let me tell you, we have to pay money when we go to the canteen to fetch water. It's nothing, it's not much anyway.
, it’s only a dime, the key is to bring your own change, I almost lost nine cents today.”
"Oh? How do you say this?" Yan Chen asked.
Xiang Jin told him in a crackling voice, and then Yan Chen nodded, "Okay, then I will cover all your water from now on, but only for you, not for others?"
Xiang Jin nodded, then rolled his eyes angrily to the sky, "I know, I know, don't worry, I won't cause you any trouble, you're stingy!"
Yan Chen laughed and said, "It's not that I'm stingy, but I still live in someone else's house. When we gave him money, he didn't want it, so we don't want to cause too much trouble to others."
Xiang Jin nodded, "I understand, then should I give you the dime?"
Yan Chen glanced at her angrily.
She immediately smiled and narrowed her eyes, and then Yan Chen reminded her, "Leave?!"
"Oh oh oh," Xiang Jin followed him and left carrying a kettle. From the beginning to the end, she ignored Song Kaiyan again. Yan Chen walked in front, and the corners of his mouth curled up involuntarily.
Then Xiang Jin caught up with him and continued to ask, "Oh, you really don't need me to give you that dime?"
Yan Chen glanced at her sideways, "Am I the one who is short of that dime?"
Xiang Jin said, "Aren't you still living in someone else's house? Then it will use too much water, isn't it?"
Yan Chen stood still and said, "Don't worry, when Director Zhao gave me the house key, I also asked him for the water and electricity card. I will recharge it myself when I use it."
"Oh oh oh, that's good. Well, why were you so worried about me just now?" Xiang Jin nodded and asked again.
Yan Chen said, "I'm not arguing with you, but I'm afraid that you will agree to bring water to others. I'm not familiar with them, and I don't plan to be familiar with them, so why should I bear the responsibility for other people's water?"
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"Okay," Xiang Jin took half a step behind him and curled his lips, what a cold young man?!
Yan Chen sent her downstairs to the girls' dormitory, then handed her the kettle, "Be careful."
"I know!"
Seeing her going upstairs, Yan Chen turned around and walked towards the teaching building.