After morning self-study the next morning, several girls in her original dormitory went to the classroom cafeteria to have breakfast with Xiang Jin, even Zhang Xiaoxia was no exception.
It's just that Xiang Jin saw that their food was very simple. A few of them only had a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun, but no one was willing to buy steamed buns to eat, let alone eggs.
Yang Hui was eating with others before, but he moved out from their place yesterday. Although they returned the food he had handed over to him before, he was not embarrassed to ask for it. After all, no matter what, these two
Nian also treated him as a small thank you for disturbing him, so he ate here this morning.
Because Xiang Jin had a monthly card, his share of the meal was automatically marked when he picked up the meal.
Because of the lesson learned yesterday morning, for this morning's meal, she and Yan Chen only had three bowls of porridge, three steamed buns, two steamed buns, and three boiled eggs.
Xiang Jin and the girls in the dormitory had packed their meals and saw that there were still empty seats for them to sit here, so they wanted to come over and sit with them.
Especially Zhang Xiaoxia was the most active. She passed them and was about to sit down. However, Yan Chen didn't want to give face to her, so she just coldly threw out two words:
"Someone!"
His voice was cold and cool, and it clearly conveyed a sense of displeasure that was repelling people thousands of miles away.
Then Zhang Xiaoxia said, "You only have three bowls of rice. There are several seats here, why can't I sit here?"
Yan Chen lazily raised his eyelids and glanced sideways at her, "How can I allow others to snore on the side of the bed? By the same token, I don't like strangers getting too close to me!"
"You? Yan Chen, are you too domineering?" Zhang Xiaoxia suddenly became unhappy, frowned and glared at Yan Chen and said angrily.
Yan Chen said, "There are vacancies elsewhere, why don't you go elsewhere?"
"You?" Zhang Xiaoxia was asked, and when she saw everyone around her looking in their direction, her face suddenly turned red.
Yan Chen was too lazy to pay attention to her anymore. He leaned on the back of the chair with his hands and closed his eyes to calm down, but there was a cold aura about him that kept strangers away from him.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Xiaoxia stomped her foot, and while letting out a cold snort, she twisted her body and angrily grabbed her lunch box and went elsewhere.
Several other girls witnessed the whole process of how Yan Chen rejected Zhang Xiaoxia. Who would dare to come here again? Therefore, they all consciously moved elsewhere.
Yang Hui arrived later than them. Just when he was about to line up with those people, Xiang Jin waved to him, "Hey, Yang Hui, here?!"
After Yang Hui heard her shout, he raised his head to search for her figure, then strode towards them, and then sat down next to them.
"I thought your lunch boxes hadn't arrived yet when you went back to get them."
Xiang Jin said, "Hey, we brought the bowls, chopsticks and lunch boxes to the classroom in the morning before gathering on the playground."
Xiang Jin handed the chopsticks to him, "Now, I gave you a bowl of porridge, a steamed bun, a steamed bun, and a boiled egg. If you don't have enough, take my little book there and buy it later.
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Yang Hui said, "Isn't this enough? You've made me think too much. Oh, by the way, how much will it cost? I'll give it to you later?"
Xiang Jin glared at him, "Can we still be relatives? As for seeing people outside so much? Yan Chen and I don't see each other outside! Right, Yan Chen?"
Yan Chen said lightly "Yeah".
Yang Hui saw this and nodded, "Okay, okay, I won't see you outside. I will give you food when I have the chance."
"That's pretty much it," Xiang Jin picked up a bun and took a bite, then put a boiled egg in front of him, "Eat quickly, the bun won't taste good when it gets cold."
"oh!"
After eating a steamed bun, Yang Hui went to get the steamed buns. When he saw that there were only two steamed buns in the bowl, he went to get them with some embarrassment. Then he retracted his hand and peeled the eggs instead.
Xiang Jin explained to him, "I couldn't eat that much, so I didn't bake myself a steamed bun. That steamed bun was originally meant for you. I didn't eat even one of the steamed buns I made yesterday morning, and there was still some left."
"Oh well!"
Yan Chen picked up his own steamed bun and asked Xiang Jin, "Would you like some?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "A little!"
"half?"
"Well, I can't eat that much, just a small piece, about one-fifth of it."
Then Yan Chen broke off about a quarter of it for her.
Xiang Jin took it and said, "You can eat by yourself at noon. I won't eat in the cafeteria. I will eat on the street. I also need to buy a bed of cotton wool to lay under it. The frame of the wooden bed is too deep. Yesterday,
I slept on it for a long time at night and couldn't fall asleep. I always felt uncomfortable."
Yan Chen said, "There is enough time at noon. Even if you have eaten, it is not too late to go shopping on the street."
Xiang Jin said, "Don't I find it troublesome? After dinner, I have to wash the dishes, go back to the classroom, and then go downstairs, which wastes more time."
Yang Hui said, "No, you will eat when the time comes and I will help you wash the dishes. You can just go to the street."
Xiang Jin said, "Okay, what did you say?"
Yang Hui nodded, "Yes, I said so!"
Well, it seems that having a cousin is quite good, and he can still be used at critical moments!
After finishing lunch at noon, Xiang Jin directly pushed the dishes and chopsticks to Yang Hui to wash. Just as he was about to turn around and go to the street, he saw Yan Chen pushing his own dishes and chopsticks to Yang Hui, "Help me wash them too."
, I will also go to the street for a while."
"Oh, good!"
While walking on the road, Xiang Jin asked, "What are you doing on the street?"
Yan Chen said, "I'll get you a key."
"Oh, that's right!" Xiang Jin suddenly realized, and suddenly remembered, "You reminded me that I haven't given them the keys to my dormitory yet."
Yan Chen said, "Then you'd better hand it over as soon as possible, otherwise you won't be able to tell what was missing in the dormitory!"
Xiang Jin nodded vigorously, "Yeah, yeah, I'll leave it to them when I get back later."
After a while, the two of them arrived on the street, and then Yan Chen said, "You go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy cotton wool, and I'll find the one with the key."
"Oh, good!"
So the two of them acted separately.
In about ten minutes, Xiang Jin had just returned from the supply and marketing cooperative with several thick sheets of cotton wool in her arms. Before she had gone far, she met Yan Chen who had come back to look for her.
Yan Chen frowned when he saw her holding a cotton bat that was taller than anyone else, then took the two beds from her hand and asked, "Why did you buy so many?"
"Oh, that's great." Seeing him, Xiang Jin immediately relaxed. "I bought a bed for you and Yang Hui. I guess you won't be able to sleep comfortably either."
Yan Chen's frown deepened, "I don't have to, I'm used to sleeping on a hard bed."
Xiang Jin said, "Then put it there and use it when you have a headache in winter. I'm telling you, it will definitely be very cold in winter, but if you want to use it as a quilt, you'd better put it on first
Put it underneath and compact it, then take it out and cover it, so that the cotton inside won't fall off."
She heard Aunt Liao say that winter here is always frosty and snowy, and freezing is a common occurrence. Every morning when she opens the door, the house, the road, and the vegetable patch are all covered with white stripes.
It's frost, big frost!
"Um!"
"Have your keys been matched?" Xiang Jin then asked him about the situation here.
Yan Chen said, "It's not that fast. He asked me to pick it up after school in the afternoon."
"Oh," she started to panic again, "It's over, now that you left the mother key with him, what will happen to my cotton wool? Can I put it back in the bedroom?"
Yan Chen said, "No, I asked him to make a mold and brought the mother key back."
"Oh oh oh, that's good, that's good," Xiang Jin breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "Hey, can he match the key just by leaving a mold?"
Yan Chen nodded slightly, "He said he could, but it doesn't matter. We can just correct it according to the mother key when the time comes."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then asked, "Then I'll take you back to the dormitory for dinner?"
"Can!"
"Then you have to come back early then. We have noodles in the cafeteria tonight, so I'll try to have them cook them for you later."
"good!"
Xiang Jin glanced at his watch and saw that there was still plenty of time, so he said to Yan Chen, "I will go back to the girls' dormitory to return the keys later. Please help me take all these cotton wool back."
"Well," Yan Chen nodded and glanced at her wrist, "Did you buy a watch?"
Xiang Jin looked at his wrist and nodded, "I later thought that your watch was high-end, so I didn't want to wear it. I just wanted to wear it when I grow up and start working! At that time
I’m not afraid of scratching the watch cover. Now, just bring a watch and check the time.”
Yan Chen laughed, "Then you have to put it away and don't lose it!"
Xiang Jin was stunned, "No, that watch is really valuable?"
Yan Chen said, "It's not very valuable, it's just average value."
Because of the unpleasant experience they had last time, Xiang Jin did not ask him how much the watch was worth, but nodded half seriously and half jokingly, "Then it seems that I have to
Put it away, otherwise it would be a shame to lose it!"
Yan Chen just smiled and said nothing!
Back at school, Xiang Jin put the bed of cotton wool directly into Yan Chen's hands, and she turned around and went to the girls' dormitory.
However, in the corridor, she saw an old woman selling soup with a bucket, and several girls from their dormitory were also queuing up to get soup.
"Xiang Jin, are you back?" Seeing her, several familiar girls waved to her.
Xiang Jin nodded towards them, then walked over and joked with them, "Why are you late again today? Did the rice steamer doze off again?"
A few people shook their heads, and then Liu Ying said, "I heard that there was something wrong with the rice steaming boiler, so it was delayed for some time."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then asked them, "What kind of soup are you getting?"
They said they hadn't been beaten yet, but it looked like others were giving them cucumber slices and pickled cabbage soup.
Xiang Jin nodded, then turned his head and looked in the direction of the old woman.
The old woman was leaning over the bucket to get soup for someone else, and then Xiang Jin saw that the soup in the bucket was indeed cucumber slices and pickled cabbage soup.
There are just a few cucumber slices and some shredded pickled cabbage floating around. When scooped up with a spoon, there are only five or six cucumber slices and a few scattered pickled cabbage pieces, as well as stirred chili powder and even a little bit of oil.
She didn't get any flowers or green onions, and then she saw a girl who took two spoonfuls and gave her a total of thirty cents.
Then Xiang Jin asked her classmates in a low voice, "Isn't it a dime a spoonful?"
Luo Qiuyan curled her lips and said, "The price has increased because her spoon is bigger."
"Oh," it was still like this. Xiang Jin felt that the canteen owner's vegetable soup was really a good price.
For example, for their lunch today, they had pickled cabbage and vermicelli soup, and the boss gave each of them a chopstick of vermicelli. The pickled cabbage and vermicelli soup also had a few small pieces of fat embedded in it, and also sprinkled with chopped green onions.
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The 30 cents they spent at noon today were much more worth it than the 30 cents spent by that girl just now. She just saw that girl, two spoons of soup in that lunch box, she probably didn't even get ten cucumber slices.
, just two spoons of water.
Soon it was the turn of the girls in their dormitory. One of them went to fetch a spoon and came back. Xiang Jin saw that there were only three cucumber slices in He Guizhi's bowl. It was probably the old woman selling soup who felt it herself.
He felt embarrassed, so after giving her the spoonful of soup, he gave her another half spoonful of soup and sealed He Guizhi's mouth so that she could not express her dissatisfaction.
Xiang Jin shook her head helplessly for them in her heart, and then they returned to the dormitory together. Then everyone asked her if she came back to see them?
Xiang Jin said, "Yes, but not entirely. I have one more thing to do when I come back, and that is to give you the key to the dormitory. You can see which one of you takes over." After saying that, Xiang Jin took the key from his own
Take it off the keychain.
Zhao Xiaomei stretched out her hand and said, "Leave it to me. I am the dormitory leader in the dormitory. If someone comes to live in the dormitory next time, I will leave it to her."
"Oh, okay," Xiang Jin handed her the key, and then she hung it directly on her keychain.
Then He Guizhi asked Xiang Jin, "Xiang Jin, do you also eat in the classroom cafeteria at noon? I would like to ask, is your lunch meal expensive?"
Xiang Jin said, "It's okay. We had two dishes and one soup for lunch, which cost about two yuan in total."
"Ah? So expensive? One meal will eat up our weekly pocket money? We can't afford it, we can't afford it!" Liu Ying shook her head in shock.
Xiang Jin couldn't continue talking to them. After all, people's living standards at this time were generally only like this. If she said it wasn't expensive, then people might say she was showing off that her family was rich.
She didn't want to say anything, but Luo Qiuyan and He Guizhi kept asking questions, which made it hard for her not to answer.
"Xiang Jin, how do you allocate your lunch meal expenses? For example, how much is the soup and how much are the vegetables?"
The person asking this question was Luo Qiuyan.
Xiang Jin answered them in detail, and then He Guizhi asked again, "Do you have to have two dishes and one soup for lunch? Or can you choose what you want? For example
Can I just ask you for one dish or soup?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "I don't know about this yet. We all came together as a team and have never served each other individually. What, do you want to go there to prepare dishes and soups separately in the future?"
Then He Guizhi nodded, "Well, you saw it today. Just a spoonful of soup and water costs 15 cents, and two spoons costs 30 cents. Instead of paying 30 cents to buy two spoons of water,
There's nothing in it, so I might as well use the thirty cents to get soup in the cafeteria."
Everyone else nodded and said what she said made sense.
So Xiang Jin said, "Okay, then I'll ask you some questions while I'm making lunch in the afternoon."
A few people nodded, and then Zhao Xiaomei asked again, "Um, have you finished the meal that comes with you at noon every day?"
Xiang Jin nodded and said, "Have you finished eating?" Of course, except for the oil left over from the cooking.
Then Zhao Xiaomei said to herself, "It doesn't seem like there is much capacity."
The enthusiasm on other people's faces became less intense.
It's hard for Xiang Jin to say that, because for the three of them, the amount is enough, but if it's not enough, it's not enough for others. If she tells others that the amount of food is okay, then others will go there.
What should I do if I eat and then feel disappointed and think it’s not worth it?
Maybe it turns out that she was the one who lured them in and got deceived. She won't take the blame! She never likes to meddle in other people's business and doesn't like to cause trouble for herself, so she might as well forget it.
How they want to eat, where to eat, and whether they eat well or not are all their own business, so she won't get involved. After Xiang Jin stayed there for a while, he left directly and went back to the classroom.