Chapter 57 Exchange
Although I quickly adapted to this kind of group life, Xiaoxi looked at the insulation bucket in front of me (this was specially bought by Grandpa Chen when he was on duty, and I used it to pack food for Xiaoxi and the others). It was empty now, but it was just Wednesday (even if I don’t finish it now, I can’t eat it. It’s a hot day. It’s a limit to keep it for two days). What can I do next?
I washed the dishes and lie on the bed to take a nap. Xiaoxi was still thinking about this. It was impossible to eat plain rice, right? I could go to the convenience store to buy pickled vegetables, but it was not enough to eat that... Then Xiaoxi fell asleep in a daze.
"Lingling..." The bell rang when she woke up. Xiaoxi opened her eyes and was not completely awake. She stared at the mattress on the upper bunk. She unconsciously sucked her saliva, well, Xiaoyuzai really smells...
"Xiaoxi, get up, class is coming." Zhao Juan skillfully pushed Xiaoxi and told her to get up. Because she only slept for an hour at noon, this was completely tormenting for Xiaoxi. She had to get up as soon as she fell asleep, so that she would be drowsy after taking a nap. This came in handy - to wake Xiaoxi.
Xiaoxi came to her senses and lifted the thin sheets covered by her body. This was a habit that Xiaoxi developed for many years. Even if it was hot in summer, she would have to sleep on her stomach.
After washing my face with cold water, the water was poured into the washbasin when I finished lunch. The faucet at the school steamed rice was only turned on during the meal time and was turned off for the rest of the time.
On the way to the classroom, Xiaoxi was still going back to the house. The smell of the little fish in his dream just now. It sounds like my mother made it. Hum… “Ah…”
"What's wrong?" Zhao Juan turned her head and looked at the stream, which was smiling like a cat that had stole a fishy fishy cat.
Xiaoxi pretended to be mysterious and smiled, "I'll give you something delicious tonight." It is kept confidential for the time being, and it seems that I have lost a lot of sleepiness. I suddenly became energetic. After saying that, I walked into the classroom lightly.
After school in the afternoon, I went back to the dormitory to put rice in the lunch box and go to the faucet at the back to collect the water and wash the rice, and then add an appropriate amount of water. At this moment, I am preparing tomorrow's breakfast, so it is very crowded. There is a small channel in the corner of the sink that drains water. Because of the drainage for many years, there is a layer of shallow moss growing. Usually, few people pass by it because it is easy to fall.
After finally squeezing out, Zhao Juan stood beside the cement table with two lunch boxes in her hand, and waited for the master to open the steamer box to carry out the iron frame for the lunch box, one class and one iron frame, placed in a fixed position, so it is very convenient to find. Students usually have at least two lunch boxes, and use them for replacement, so there is no need to rush to finish the meal, so that they can wash the lunch box and go to steam the rice.
It was Xiaoxi's turn to clean it this afternoon, so she handed over her keys to Zhao Juan and asked her to help her clean rice. After cleaning the classroom, Xiaoxi took the initiative to ask to remove the garbage.
There are two lawns behind the school, one up and one after another, and the area is quite large. The stream from my previous life likes to come here to bask in the sun.
Although we usually only come here if we remove the garbage, and it is not too late now. We probably have to eat and no one has come. However, the stream is still afraid that someone will suddenly jump out, so we carried the garbage into the bushes beside us. We sneaked into the space, found a glass canned bottle, and filled a can of fish sauce. These were made by Chen’s mother a year ago. We didn’t eat much, so we piled several plastic buckets in the warehouse of the stream.
After going back to the classroom, I put the garbage back on it, and passed by the flag-raising platform, I found that my brother and Xiaojuan were already waiting there.
Because Xiaoxi, Zhao Juan and Chen Yubin were having dinner together, while Chen Yubin was a boy and was not convenient to stay in the girls' dormitory, especially the mixed bedrooms of several classes, so the three of them ate at the stone table outside the inner courtyard.
"Sister, we have already brought it here." Seeing that the stream came up from the stone steps below and was about to walk towards the inner courtyard, Chen Yubin quickly called out.
Xiaoxi turned her head, hurriedly threw the words "I'll go back to the dormitory first" and ran away. When she returned to the dormitory, because everyone was eating in the dormitory at this moment, Zhao Juan threw the keys and locks into the box. Xiaoxi opened the box only for a crack, reached in, pretended to fumble in it, then took out a glass bottle and walked out.
Passing by Pu Xiaoli, he was stopped. "Xiaoxi, why haven't you eaten yet? Huh? What are you?" asked pointing to the glass bottle in Xiaoxi's hand.
"Oh~ this..." Xiaoxi raised the bottle in his hand and explained: "This is the sauce I took from home to serve the meal." It's hard to say that it was made by Chen's mother, because she lived not far away, so she knew that Chen's mother was not at home and she didn't come back for the New Year.
Pu Xiaoli looked at the bottle of sauce, black and red, with an attractive luster, and felt delicious. She noticed that the saliva was flooding and felt a little embarrassed. She quickly ate a bite and covered it, but her eyes were still staring at the bottle in Xiaoxi's hand.
Xiaoxi felt very funny, so he returned to his bed, found a spoon from the box under the bed, opened the bottle cap and scooped a spoon, and handed it to Pu Xiaoli, "Hey... try it." Pu Xiaoli happily handed the lunch box and thanked her repeatedly.
It is impossible to give her only one person. Several people around him are watching, so I might as well give some tastes to a few acquaintances, You Huanhuan, Luo Ting, Hong Hong...
"Sister, why are you here? Let's wait for you for a long time." Before Xiaoxi could get in front of him, Chen Yubin pouted and began to complain.
Xiaoxi placed the bottle in his hand on the stone table, sat down quickly, and explained: "Okay, okay, I know I was wrong. Didn't this be stopped by them?" He pointed to the direction of the dormitory.
Seeing that most of the bottles of things on the table seemed to be eating, Zhao Juan pointed at her curiously and asked, "Xiaoxi, what is this?"
"Oh, this is the little fish sauce made at home. Grandpa is afraid that we don't have enough food to bring, so it's delicious." While speaking, he unscrewed the lid and pretended to complain, "I just snatched a lot of it in the dormitory. It's only them that I came out now."
"Oh...this is what you said to give me delicious food." He picked up a chopstick in the lunch box, took a small bite, hissing, spicy and crispy, and it was very good to eat rice. Zhao Juan, who had recovered, raised her thumbs up (Xiaoxi taught), blushed and said with a red face: "It's so delicious, it's so delicious, no wonder you don't let me buy pickled vegetables after school in the afternoon. Well, it's delicious. Hey? Binbin, eat slowly, don't rob it." Seeing Chen Yubin burying his head and not talking, he quickly picked up another chopstick and started eating.
Because the three of them had dinner together, the dishes Zhao Juan brought to school had already finished.
Looking at the two people rushing to Xiaoyuzi in front of him, Xiaoxi felt very funny and wanted to tell them that there were many more, but it would be fun to eat like this. Shaking her head, Xiaoxi just had fun and chili. Well, it was delicious, and you could make some kimchi or something.
Since eating Xiaoxi's little fish sauce, several people in the dormitory missed her very much and wanted to ask her but she was embarrassed. Finally, Pu Xiaoli mustered up the courage to say to Xiaoxi: "Xiaoxi, give us some more sauce?"
"Ah..." Xiaoxi looked at the half bottle of sauce in his hand and said embarrassedly: "I don't have much left. Because I have eaten all the dishes, this is the meal for the three of us in the next few days."
"Then I'll change with you..." Before Xiaoxi's words could be finished, Pu Xiaoli stretched out her arm holding the pickled vegetables and blurted out her words. Seeing Xiaoxi looking at her in surprise, she touched her head embarrassedly, but the hand holding the pickled vegetables did not stretch back. Cleared her throat and plucked up the courage and said, "Xiaoxi, I'll change my pickled vegetables with you, just... no, two spoons, okay, please, huh?"
Oh my god, this cute guy is so scary, it turns out that a tomboy is so cute! Seeing that she wants to say something, Xiaoxi quickly took the pickled vegetables in her hand and agreed to exchange it.
This is awesome. When Pu Xiaoli heard that the exchange was successful, the others rushed forward and asked for it. Xiaoxi had to agree with a bitter face. Fortunately, it was only the few in the same village. The others did not come because of their face. Otherwise, Xiaoxi looked at the small bottle of small fish sauce in her hand. If a few more bottles were given, they would be gone. After packing up, Xiaoxi answered the few people who were eating on the bed and said, "You have also seen that there are only so many left in my bottle, so you can't change it. Wait until I bring more from home next week."
Anyway, I have eaten it now, so I will talk about what happened in the future. Chen Yuxi said that there will be more next week, so everyone happily agreed and then began to enjoy it under the envious eyes of others.
I put the pickled vegetables in my arms back into the box, picked up a bag of kelp silk, and went out with a glass bottle. Xiaojuan and the others had already gone out, alas~ I guess I would be complaining again this time.
Sure enough, Chen Yubin complained again before Xiaoxi sat down to have a meal.
Looking at the glass bottle on the table, Zhao Juan said in confusion: "Ah? Didn't there be half a bottle left last night? Why is it half a bottle now?" Could it be that someone stole the food? No, the boxes were locked. They bought pickled vegetables in the morning and used sauce for rice at noon and evening.
Xiaoxi glanced at the bottle, took off the lid of the lunch box, and pretended to be careless and said, "Oh... I used it to exchange with them when I first came out, now..." Heavy the lid of the lunch box under the lunch box, and then threw the kelp silk in his hand on the table, "They insisted on changing with me, but I had no choice, so I changed it. Also, there is not much sauce, we have to save some food, there are two more meals." Because Zhao Juan was with her, she knew it, so Xiaoxi could not put a bottle of sauce in the space.
Xiaoxi couldn't believe what she heard, "Ah? They exchanged pickled vegetables?" Seeing Xiaoxi nodding seriously, and looking at the pickled vegetables on the table and the glass bottles with a lot of sauce, it was definitely not a lie to him. "Why? Although this sauce is delicious, pickled vegetables cost 50 cents a bag, they are willing to exchange them for you? It's crazy." Zhao Juan was very puzzled by their behavior. You should know that everyone's pocket money per week is only a few yuan, at most ten yuan.
"Sister, can we sell our sauce for money?" Last year in Beijing, his parents' stalls left a big impression on him, so now that after hearing this news, he thought that he could sell it for money.
Xiaoxi looked at him in surprise, so she forgot to swallow the rice in her mouth. Indeed, why didn’t she expect it? Since this sauce is so popular, she can sell it to them. Although everyone has no money, it should be acceptable to sell a spoonful of one or two cents a spoonful. Think about it, there are also Lao Gan and other things that can be made to sell. Oh, Xiaoxi seems to have seen countless red tickets flying towards him.
"Haha...hehe..."
Chapter completed!