Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn-Chapter 195 - 17: Black Heart Cotton (Part 2)

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Chapter 195: Chapter 17: Black Heart Cotton (Part 2)

Wang Ke’s chopsticks were clutching a piece of braised pork when the splash hit, leaving his face pretty dark.

"Sorry, senior schoolmates," Xiao Xian tried to hold back her laughter, while Zhang Yiyi wasn’t so cooperative, suspiciously shrugging her shoulders as the tap water rushed out with a gush.

"Ha ha ha, that was so satisfying, you definitely did that on purpose," they didn’t burst into laughter until they got back to the dormitory. They had the nerve to be upfront, so Xiao Xian played it cool. It’s one thing to miss out on meat, but another to insult someone.

After hearing the whole story, Lin Ya still had some concerns: "Do you think it’ll be okay? I heard the student council at Sacred Heart Middle School has a lot of power. They even vote on dormitory hygiene checks and personal evaluations."

"Evaluations?" Zhang Yiyi, indifferent as ever, climbed into bed to hang up her mosquito net and tuck in her blanket. "I’ve been estranged from awards and honors since I was a kid. As long as they don’t stretch their hands into the basketball team, I’m cool with everything else."

Every new student receives a complete set of daily necessities when they start school, from bedding to mosquito nets to washbasins and toothbrushes, with only toothpaste and shampoo needing to be purchased separately.

There aren’t many mosquitoes in Beijing, but because Sacred Heart Middle School has done such a good job with its greenery and the abundance of trees attracts more bugs, their dorm on the second floor is better off with a mosquito net. For the other three dorm mates who are new to boarding school, hanging up the mosquito nets is a clumsy affair, but Zhang Yiyi, with her bold and carefree approach, proves quite handy.

"Don’t judge me by my laid-back manner. I went to a sports school in the third grade for special training and stayed in boarding houses, so I got pretty smooth at tasks like hanging mosquito nets and sewing buttons," Xiao Xian wasn’t as skilled as Zhang Yiyi when it came to the details—those tasks were usually handed to Sister-in-law Lian.

With Zhang Yiyi’s guidance, the other three also got their mosquito nets up.

"Let’s air out our quilts too. My mom said that the school gives out new quilts and we shouldn’t just keep them in the closet. Let’s carry them out together, air them out, and then head to the supermarket to buy daily necessities." Zhang Yiyi unwrapped the school-issued quilts and put them out on the balcony to air. The other three followed suit and placed their quilts on the balcony too.

Once they were all tidied up, they headed to the supermarket. The supermarket was located behind the school gates; Xiao Xian and Zhang Yiyi had come through the front gates in the morning. From the look of the front gate alone, one would never guess there was such a bustling commercial street behind Sacred Heart Middle School.

A bookstore, a daily necessities store, a supermarket, and most enticingly, a variety of food stalls and restaurants. There were tempting honey-glazed shaved ice, richly flavored popcorn, sizzlingly grilled large meat skewers, and not to mention the mouthwatering aroma of stir-fried dishes wafting out after lunchtime.

This commercial street is actually part of the school, and the so-called back gate is just the entrance to the junior section. Walking from one end of the commercial street to the other leads you right into the senior section.

For the four junior high schoolers who were either under the strict supervision of their grandparents or parents, it was now as if they had escaped a birdcage, eager to check out every nook and cranny of the stalls. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

"If I had known there were so many delicious treats outside, I wouldn’t have fought with them over the braised pork," Zhang Yiyi had five hundred yuan for monthly living expenses. However, after being admitted to Sacred Heart Middle School, which brought honor to her family, Mr. Zhang’s relatives and friends gave her quite a lot of red envelopes as a reward. Mr. Zhang deposited all the money in her savings book and she brought it along. Setting aside Xiao Xian, who could store her money using a spatial ability, she was indeed quite wealthy.

"I’ll treat everyone to kebabs, and if you don’t eat spicy, just say so," Yiyi picked out the most popular barbecue stall and ordered two skewers for everyone. The stall owner happily picked eight skewers of meat, fanning the flames and brushing on the seasonings. In less than two minutes, eight juicy meat skewers were handed out.

"I’m afraid of breaking out in acne, have one of mine," based on Xiao Xian’s observation, Lin Ya seemed more like a big sister than Lin Xiang, always thoughtful and considerate to her when it came to eating or packing luggage.

Having siblings must feel like that, Xiao Xian thought as she carefully tore off a piece of meat, feeling a touch of envy.

"What are you looking at? If you want to eat, I’ll give you one too," Zhang Yiyi seemed to guess Xiao Xian’s thoughts and generously offered, but she was already halfway through her skewer. There was hardly one left to give.

"It’s better I give you one, the meat here isn’t as good as what we have in our village." As the three listened to Xiao Xian’s tales of her youthful adventures in the Guizhou mountains, they munched and strolled towards the supermarket. After purchasing their necessities, the four decided to dine out together.

Dinner stretched on until the streetlights came on, and it wasn’t until then that the four new junior high school students remembered the quilts airing on the balcony. Rushing back, they thankfully found them free of dew when they took them down.

"We only aired them for half of the day. If the sun is good in the morning, let’s air them for another half, give them a few good beats with the clothes rack to relax the new cotton, then they’ll be good," said Zhang Yiyi, preparing to put away the quilts. However, she noticed Xiao Xian feeling the quilt with an odd expression, "It should be fluffier and lighter after airing, right?"

"No, it’s the cotton that’s wrong," Xiao Xian pressed the quilt with her fingers and sniffed it closely, detecting a scent different from fresh cotton.

"How can the cotton be wrong? They said it’s custom-made and new from the school, there’s even the smell of cotton pulp," Lin Xiang joined in, sniffing around like a pup.

"That’s not the smell of cotton pulp, there’s a musty smell. There’s something wrong with this cotton filling. I don’t want to use it. We need to bring this up with school administration. All these quilts are problematic," Xiao Xian folded up the quilt neatly. With their first evening self-study session scheduled for six and a meeting with their headteacher and collection of middle school textbooks coming up, this issue needed to be brought to the school’s attention. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to cast your recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation.)

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