Chapter 29 Rumors of Meal Tickets
One time, a classmate raised his head and lay on his bed, curiously asking him: "An Shaojie, what are you writing every day before going to sleep? Is it some kind of secret recipe or something? You think about it during the day, write it down at night, close your eyes before sleeping, and then secretly practice it in your heart. No wonder your grades are so good! When can I borrow it from my brother to take a look and practice too, to improve my skills?"
That classmate was smiling and joking, originally just thinking of opening a joke to make everyone laugh. Who knew that An Shaojie's face sank, and he asked in a low voice: "Who is your brother?"
After finishing speaking, she closed her diary and stuffed it under the pillow, covered herself with the quilt, lay down and fell asleep, ignoring that classmate. Heaven? Heaven! Small? Said #net?
"Huh, what's going on? I didn't say anything, did I?" The classmate pointed to An Shaojie lying on the ** and shrugged his shoulders, sneering at the other roommates, "What's the big deal? Just because he got good grades, it's not like it's something amazing."
The other roommates shook their heads and snickered in private whispers.
Not long after, rumors spread from the girl's side that Qing Lan liked An Shaojie, but An Shaojie didn't like her and even hated her.
"How did you know An Shaojie doesn't like her?" The girl asked Yuan Yuqiu.
"All the guys know, Ahn Shaojie said he had never been in contact with her before, it was all her own imagination." Xiang Yuqiu lowered his eyebrows, drooping his thin eyelids, looking careless, but a hint of cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"But I heard the boys say that An Shaojie is very poor at home, although he has good grades. The Qinglan family is the richest in their village, so he feels inferior." A girl retorted.
"Is that so? Don't you know? An Shaojie's mother comes to school every Wednesday, do you know what for?" a chubby-faced girl wearing a light blue blouse and a light blue scarf asked mysteriously.
"What's going on?" Many girls immediately gathered over.
"He brings rice every Monday in exchange for meal tickets, which is not enough for him to eat for a week. Every Wednesday, his mother comes to give him more meal tickets."
"What's so strange about it? Monday brought rice that wasn't enough, and Wednesday supplemented it once more. It's very normal." A girl walked away with a disappointed look on her face.
There's something mysterious and curious about this situation. Many classmates in our class often bring rice on Monday that isn't enough to eat, and then go back home to get more.
"No, the problem is that on Wednesday her mother didn't bring rice, but there was a meal ticket." The chubby-faced girl continued to say mysteriously.
"How can we exchange meal tickets without bringing rice?" The scattered girls were attracted by the chubby girl's words again.
"I don't know? On Wednesday, those meal tickets his mother sent over were from Qinglan."
"Qing Lan's?" The other girls stared in shock with their eyes wide open.
Xiang Yuan's eyes widened as he stared at the chubby-faced girl with a mixture of surprise and suspicion, his book forgotten.
From An Shaojie's clothes, every classmate in the class knew that he was absolutely a child from a poor family. It is said that his father had passed away and his sister was still studying in junior high school in this school. Therefore, it was normal for a family to not have enough food to eat, and it was also possible for them to accept relief from others.
But how could it be Qing Lan's? She hated Qing Lan so much that she wouldn't even admit to knowing him.
"Yes, didn't you see?" Her own words sparked everyone's interest again, and the chubby-faced sister became even more interested, with a mysterious glint in her eyes and an eerie smile spreading across her face.
"What's going on?" Everyone leaned in, their faces filled with sly smiles. Empress Lu Zhen was at a loss.
Every Monday, Qing Lan's father comes to school to deliver rice to Qing Lan. She always takes out a few meal tickets from her own and gives them to her father. Every Wednesday, An Shaojie's mother sends him the meal tickets that Qing Lan took out. The chubby-faced girl said with a smug expression on her face, picked up the tray of food from the edge of the table, puffed out her chest, "You guys think about it carefully, I'm going to eat now."
"Oh! So that's how it is?" Originally, they should have been a group of innocent and naive girls who had not yet shed their childishness, but at this moment, they all revealed worldly colors on their faces.
"It's indeed a fox spirit, the means of **** people are really different from others." After everyone went to the cafeteria for dinner, Xiang Yuanqiu threw the book onto the desk by the bed with force.
Autumn leaves and winter arrives, cold comes and heat goes, in the blink of an eye another year has passed.
In the summer of 1994, Shao Min graduated from junior high school and was admitted to an ordinary high school in the county, where Jia Wei was also studying. At that time, Jia Wei was in his second year of high school, while Qing Lan and Shao Jie had both advanced one grade and entered their second year of junior high school.
Jia Wei and Shao Min studied in the county town, taking a holiday at the end of each month and returning home once.
Shaomin returned home for vacation during the first month of school, coincidentally on a weekend when Shaojie was also at home. Shaomin noticed that Shaojie kept following her everywhere she went.
"Shao Jie, is there something on your mind?" Shao Min asked curiously.
"Heh heh." Shao Jie rubbed his hands together, standing awkwardly in front of Shao Min with a shy and unnatural smile.
"What's wrong? Shao Jie." Shao Min looked at Shao Jie with an unusual behavior and asked even more puzzled.
"Hey, sis." Shao Jie scratched his head and smiled, saying: "Sis, you're in the county town, have you seen Lin Xi?"
"Oh, Lin Xi? My silly brother, the county town is so big." Shao Min clapped her hands together, "From the east end of the county to the west end, you have to take a bus for a long time, it's even farther than going to our town. So, running into Lin Xi isn't an easy thing. Besides, there are so many people on the streets in the county, it's crowded, even if I bumped into her, I wouldn't recognize her." Shao Min smiled.
"Oh." Shao Jie lowered his head and smiled awkwardly, "I thought that if I went to the county town, I would be able to see her."
"Not necessarily." Shao Min patted Shao Jie's head, "The county town is very big, even if you know someone, it's not like you can see them every day, but..."
"But what?" Shao Jie asked impatiently before Shao Min could finish speaking.
"But in the future when you go to the county town to study, it's likely that you'll see her, and who knows, maybe you'll even be in the same class."
"Really." Shao Jie's eyes widened, shining with excitement.
"Of course, you and she are in the same grade. Later on, as long as you both get into the same high school, it's very likely that you'll be in the same class. Even if you're not in the same class, you'll still be in the same school, so you can see each other every day."
"Uh-huh!" Shao Jie nodded heavily, as if he had just come to a realization.
However, Lin Xi's father is a teacher, so her grades must be very good. She must have taken the exam for County City No. 1 Middle School. County City No. 1 Middle School is the best high school in our Wufeng County." Shao Min nodded lightly, with a provocative gaze at Shao Jie.
"Sister, what's with the look? Don't you think I can get into First Middle School? I'm going to take the exam for First Middle School." Shao Jie said in a huff, his usual gloomy demeanor replaced by a silly tone.
Shao Min's eyes sparkled as she gazed at Shao Jie, who was full of confidence. One day, a classmate poked his head in and asked curiously, "An Shao Jie, what do you write on your notebook every night before sleeping? Is it some kind of secret recipe for success? You think about it during the day, write it down at night, close your eyes to sleep, and then secretly practice it in your heart. No wonder your grades are so good! When can I borrow it from you and practice too, to improve my skills?"
That classmate was smiling and joking, originally just thinking of opening a joke to make everyone laugh. Who knew that An Shaojie's face sank, and he asked in a low voice: "Who is your brother?"
After finishing speaking, she closed her diary, stuffed it under the pillow, covered herself with the quilt, lay down and fell asleep, ignoring that classmate.
"Huh, what's going on? I didn't say anything, did I?" The classmate pointed to An Shaojie lying on the ** and shrugged his shoulders, sneering at the other roommates, "What's the big deal? Just because he got good grades, it's not like it's something amazing."
The other roommates shook their heads and snickered in private whispers.
Not long after, rumors spread from the girl's side that Qing Lan liked An Shaojie, but An Shaojie didn't like her and even hated her.
"How did you know An Shaojie doesn't like her?" The girl asked Yuan Yuqiu.
"All the guys know, Ahn Shaojie said he had never been in contact with her before, it was all her own imagination." Xiang Yuanqiu lowered his eyebrows, drooping his thin eyelids, looking careless, but a hint of cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"But I heard the boys say that An Shaojie is very poor at home, although he has good grades. The Qinglan family is the richest in their village, so he feels inferior." A girl retorted.
"Is that so? Don't you know? An Shaojie's mother comes to school every Wednesday, do you know what for?" a plump-faced girl wearing a light green blouse and a light green scarf asked mysteriously.
"What's going on?" Many girls immediately gathered over.
"He brings rice every Monday to exchange for meal tickets, which are not enough for him to eat for a week. Every Wednesday, his mother comes to give him more meal tickets."
"What's so strange about it? The rice brought on Monday wasn't enough, and Wednesday is just a supplement, isn't that normal?" A girl walked away with a disappointed look on her face.
There's something mysterious and curious about this situation. Many classmates in our class often bring rice on Monday that isn't enough to eat, and then go back home to get more.
"No, the problem is that on Wednesday her mother didn't bring rice, but there were meal tickets." The chubby-faced girl continued to say mysteriously.
"How can we exchange meal tickets without bringing rice?" The scattered girls were attracted by the chubby girl's words again.
"I don't know? On Wednesday, those meal tickets his mother sent over were from Qinglan."
"Qing Lan's?" The other girls stared in shock with their eyes wide open.
Xiang Yuanchun, who was sitting on one side with a cold eye observing, suddenly froze, stopped reading the book, and looked at the chubby-faced girl with a suspicious gaze.
From An Shaojie's clothes, every classmate in the class knew that he was absolutely a child from a poor family. It is said that his father had passed away and his sister was still studying in junior high school in this school. Therefore, it was normal for a family to not have enough food to eat, and it was also possible to accept relief from others.
But how could it be Qing Lan's? She hated Qing Lan so much that she wouldn't even admit to knowing him.
"Yes, didn't you see?" Her own words sparked everyone's interest again, and the chubby-faced sister became even more interested, with a mysterious glint in her eyes and an eerie smile spreading across her face.
"What's going on?" Everyone leaned in, their faces filled with sly smiles. The cultivator who had just transcended was...
Every Monday, Qing Lan's father comes to school to deliver rice to Qing Lan. She always takes out a few meal tickets from her own and gives them to her father. Every Wednesday, An Shaojie's mother sends him the meal tickets that Qing Lan took out. The chubby-faced girl said with a proud expression on her face, picked up the tray of food on the table, puffed out her chest, "You guys think about it carefully, I'm going to eat now."
"Oh! So that's how it is?" Originally, they should have been a group of innocent and naive girls who had not yet shed their childishness, but at this moment, they all showed worldly colors on their faces.
"It's indeed a fox spirit, the means of **** people are really different from others." After everyone went to the cafeteria for dinner, Xiang Yuanqiu threw the book onto the desk by the bed with force.
Autumn leaves and winter arrives, cold comes and heat goes, in the blink of an eye another year has passed.
In the summer of 1994, Shao Min graduated from junior high school and was admitted to an ordinary high school in the county, where Jia Wei was also studying. At that time, Jia Wei was in his second year of high school, while Qing Lan and Shao Jie had both advanced one grade and entered their second year of junior high school.
Jia Wei and Shao Min studied in the county town, taking a holiday at the end of each month and returning home once.
Shaomin returned home for vacation during the first month of school, coincidentally on a weekend when Shaojie was also at home. Shaomin noticed that Shaojie kept following her everywhere she went.
"Shao Jie, is there something on your mind?" Shao Min asked curiously.
"Heh heh." Shao Jie rubbed his hands together, standing awkwardly in front of Shao Min with a shy and unnatural smile.
"What's wrong? Shao Jie." Shao Min looked at Shao Jie with an unusual behavior and asked even more puzzled.
"Hey, sis." Shao Jie scratched his head and smiled, saying: "Sis, you're in the county town, have you seen Lin Xi?"
"Oh, Lin Xi? My silly brother, the county town is so big." Shao Min clapped her hands together, "From the east end of the county to the west end, you have to take a bus for a long time, it's even farther than going to our town. So, running into Lin Xi isn't an easy thing. Besides, there are so many people on the streets in the county, it's crowded, even if I bumped into her, I wouldn't recognize her." Shao Min smiled.
"Oh." Shao Jie lowered his head and smiled awkwardly, "I thought that if I went to the county town, I would be able to see her."
"Not necessarily." Shao Min patted Shao Jie's head, "The county town is very big, even if you know someone, it's not like you can see them every day, but..."
"But what?" Shao Jie asked impatiently before Shao Min could finish speaking.
"But in the future when you go to the county town to study, it's likely that you'll see her, and who knows, maybe you'll even be in the same class."
"Really." Shao Jie's eyes widened, shining with excitement.
"Of course, you and she are in the same grade. Later on, as long as you both get into the same high school, it's very likely that you'll be in the same class. Even if you're not in the same class, you'll still be in the same school, so you can see each other every day."
"Uh-huh!" Shao Jie nodded heavily, as if he had just come to a realization.
However, Lin Xi's father is a teacher, so her grades must be very good. She must have taken the exam for County City No. 1 Middle School. County City No. 1 Middle School is the best high school in our Wufeng County." Shao Min nodded lightly, with a provocative gaze at Shao Jie.
"Sister, what's with the look? Don't you think I can get into First Middle School? I'm going to get into First Middle School." Shao Jie said in a huffy tone, his usual gloomy personality momentarily replaced by a more cheerful one.
Shao Min's eyes lit up at Shao Jie's words. Looking at his proud and confident appearance, Shao Min smiled with pursed lips.
