Chapter 9393

He Xiaofang's words made everyone in the dormitory burst into laughter. Lu Xuehua asked He Xiaofang with a smile: "Xiaofang, what did you dream about? Did the dormitory head compete with you?"

He Xiaofang scratched her head awkwardly, not knowing what to say, so she asked the dormitory head not to snatch from her the opportunity to help Ningning.

She knew that Jiang Ning was a very independent girl who didn't want to trouble others, so the chances of her being able to help her were slim. But if she didn't do something for her, she would be very uneasy because she knew that she had been absorbing positive energy from Jiang Ning.

She sat up from the bed, quickly got out of bed, took out a can of pickles, and handed it to Jiang Ning like she was offering a treasure: "Ningning, you're here? This is for you!"

Lu Xuehua cried out: "Wow! What good stuff is that? Give it to Jiang Ning alone and not to us~"

"That's right!" Liu Ping also followed suit and shouted, "Jiang Ning, whoever sees it gets a share. I want to try some of the good stuff, too."

He Xiaofang's slightly dark face blushed with shyness. She twisted her hands and said shyly, "It's just some snow vegetables that I cooked myself." She explained solemnly, "Don't say I didn't bring any for you. It's just me and my eldest sister. I have to carry 100 kilograms of food, my eldest sister has to carry 80 kilograms, and I have to carry a backpack and cans of vegetables. How can I carry so many? This is just one bottle, and it's for Ningning."

Don’t eat it!

Her mother heard that she had a good friend at school, and fed her braised pork every day, sometimes one piece, sometimes two pieces. But these two pieces of braised pork were the most delicious dishes she had ever eaten in high school. Many, many years later, when she thought of the taste of the braised pork, she still felt happy from the bottom of her heart while tasting the ups and downs of life. When she recalled this time in her old age, she seemed to still be able to taste the only sweetness in her dark youth.

It is very sweet and very fresh, and makes people salivate every time they savor it.

Many years later, she wanted to go back to the cafeteria of No. 1 Middle School and eat that delicious braised pork again. Unfortunately, the chef had retired, and no matter how similar the food made by the later chefs tasted, it was no longer the taste of her youthful memory.

She couldn't help but look at Jiang Ning expectantly.

Jiang Ning did not reject her kindness, but asked with interest: "What is it?"

"Open it and take a look!" Her dark eyes were surprisingly bright.

Jiang Ning opened it under her expectant gaze. As soon as she opened the can, the rich and sour smell wafted out.

"It smells so good! I want to eat it too!" Liu Ping shouted while lying on her upper bunk.

"It's pickled mustard greens and braised large intestines~" He Xiaofang squatted down, holding her chin up and looking up at Jiang Ning who was sitting on her own bed. From this angle, she could see all the expressions on Jiang Ning's face and eyes. She was afraid that Jiang Ning would dislike the pickled vegetables she brought.

Almost every household there grows snow vegetables. After they are planted, they are harvested and thrown into a large square cement pond beside the vegetable garden. They don't need to be washed. Just sprinkle them with coarse salt and pickle them. The pickled snow vegetables are golden, crispy and then sold on the market.

He's mother is very good at pickling snow vegetables. The pickled snow vegetables are golden in color, with an indescribable sour and fragrant aroma, which is paired with the unique rich flavor of pig intestines. It is especially fragrant and delicious.

In addition to pig intestines, she also secretly put a piece of pig tail at the bottom of the bottle.

The pigs were slaughtered at home for the Chinese New Year. Generally, the front legs, hind legs and the middle parts were all good for sale, and the remaining pig heads, internal organs, pig tails, etc. were all kept for their own consumption. During the Chinese New Year, her second sister came back, and the three sisters sat under the kitchen stove, making fire, rolling dumplings, pounding meat, etc., to prepare ingredients for the Chinese New Year. It was cold in winter, so she would curl up behind the stove, making fire, roasting fire, and using the wood ash at the bottom of the stove to clean the pig's large intestine.

While kneading the pig intestines mixed with wood ash, she told her eldest and second sisters what happened on campus, saying that her best friend in her dormitory invited her to eat braised pork.

"She had braised pork every day, sometimes two dishes for one meal, you know? The first time she treated me to braised pork, she gave me a lot of it, that was the first time I had a full meal at night!" Thinking of the taste of the braised pork, she couldn't help slurping her saliva, the orange-red firelight made her dark face warm and bright: "There were three of us together, and the two of them often exchanged dishes. I didn't have any dishes, so I exchanged with them, but she still often gave me braised pork. I was embarrassed to always eat her braised pork, so I just took a piece each time."

After her eldest sister got divorced, it was as if all the energy was drained out of her. She sat silently on a small stool, kneading glutinous rice balls quickly. She had two children and it would be difficult for her to get married again, so she could only stay in her parents' home.

Unless she is cruel enough to give up the two children.

He Xiaoqin said: "How can you only eat her food? Let me tell you, when people interact with each other, there should be give and take."

The firelight made He Xiaofang's face even redder, just like when she squatted in front of Jiang Ning, holding her face with both hands, her thick eyelashes set off her dark eyes, bright as gems: "I washed it many times, I guarantee it's clean!"

Her hands were very rough, and in this cold winter, they were frozen and cracked like carrots.

When she was in school, her hands were just red and swollen from the cold, not cracked like this.

Jiang Ning raised her eyes with a smile of surprise in her eyes: "Wow, I like it so much. Do you have chopsticks? Let me try it first."

"And me! And me! I want to try it too!" Liu Ping is always the one who loves to make trouble and shouts the loudest.

He Xiaofang hurriedly took the chopsticks and handed them to Jiang Ning. Then Wang Xia, Lu Xuehua, Xu Xiuli, and Liu Ping all came down with chopsticks and surrounded Jiang Ning, taking turns to pick up a few pieces of snow vegetable and large intestine to taste it. Liu Ping was particularly careful. While others only took a few pieces of snow vegetable and large intestine to taste it, she was really going for the large intestine. When she put it in her mouth, she laughed so hard that she couldn't help laughing. He Xiaofang was heartbroken and quickly helped Jiang Ning put the bottle cap on her hand.

She just knew that it was a good thing that she cut the intestines into small pieces.

The pig intestines had become cold and had a layer of lard condensed on them. This might be a disadvantage for others, but for these girls who were short of oil and water, the pig intestines with fine white lard were a rare delicacy.

Everyone else also took out the delicious food they brought with them, including homemade fried peanuts and melon seeds, homemade dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato chips, and homemade rice candy made from syrup, except Liu Ping.

Because it was after the Chinese New Year, everyone brought good things, and Xu Xiuli's was the best. She not only brought a bottle of braised chicken legs with soybeans, but also pecans, pistachios, plums, watermelons, pumpkin seeds, etc.

The pumpkin seeds were roasted at home, and she took the most. As for the expensive dried fruits such as pecans and pistachios, she only took out some for everyone to taste.

Pecans and pistachios are not produced locally. The country bumpkins in Dormitory 610 are eating pecans and pistachios for the first time and have no idea what they are.

"This is pecan, and this is pistachio. My dad said they are good for the brain. I'm in high school now, and I need to use my brain every day. My aunt brought all the pecans and pistachios to my house for me."

Xu Xiuli's aunt married in a neighboring province. The hills behind the mountain were full of wild pecans. Every year her aunt and her family would bring back many pecans.

These pecans were all roasted at home, and the shells had not been crushed and were extremely hard. He Xiaofang and her friends bit them for a long time, and their teeth were almost broken, as they could not chew them at all. But the pecans that Xu Xiuli brought were flavored with pepper and salt, and they could taste the pepper and salt as well as the burnt aroma of pecans. Even though they could not chew them at all, they were reluctant to spit them out.

They couldn't get the walnut meat inside, which made Liu Ping anxious: "What is this thing? Why can't I get it to chew? How can I eat it?"

This is really hard to eat, and Jiang Ning couldn't chew it either. Seeing that they were anxious to throw away the pecans, she said, "Pecans are precious, more precious than meat. They are good for the brain, but they are hard on the teeth and fingers. It's best to use a nutcracker specially made for opening pecans to open them."

When they heard that this thing was more expensive than meat, they looked at the round, black, hard fruit in their hands and couldn't believe it: "This thing is more expensive than meat?"

Jiang Ning nodded: "It's more than twice as expensive as meat!"

The girls in dormitory 610 who had never seen the world had seen it. Even if Liu Ping couldn't chew it, she was reluctant to spit out the hickory nuts in her mouth, especially after hearing that this thing can nourish the brain. She even asked Jiang Ning: "How much of this thing can nourish the brain? Every day I feel that my brain is not enough. English, mathematics, physics, chemistry, Chinese, politics, history, and geography have made my brain dizzy. I can't take it anymore. I need more nourishment. Xiuli, give me another handful of hickory nuts to nourish my brain!"

"Bah, you wish!" Seeing Liu Ping eating and drinking for free in the dormitory again, Xu Xiuli did not spend a penny. She took the walnuts, snorted and laughed, and did not give any more to Liu Ping.

Liu Ping didn't mind and continued, "Do you have a nutcracker? Oh my, this thing is about to break my teeth."

Xu Xiuli took out a nutcracker and gave it to Jiang Ning. She wrinkled her nose proudly and snorted, "No."

Liu Ping kicked her legs on the bed and yelled, "You are biased! Xiu Li, you are biased!"

Lu Xuehua, who was sleeping in the bunk below her, kicked her up in anger: "Behave! There's an earthquake in the bunk below me!"

There was another round of laughter in the dormitory, and then they used nutcrackers to crack walnuts with each other. He Xiaofang watched Xu Xiuli sitting beside her own bed, close to Jiang Ning, using the nutcracker to peel walnuts for Jiang Ning one by one, and occasionally feeding him a pistachio.

He Xiaofang looked left and right, wondering whether she should feed Jiang Ning the pig intestines herself.

After eating, I heard Liu Ping shouting, "Jiang Ning, have you finished your winter vacation homework? Copy it for me!"

Liu Ping spent the entire winter vacation making candied haws and selling them at the market. She had only finished a few pages of her winter vacation homework and planned to come back and ask Jiang Ning to copy it. Jiang Ning's grades were the best in the county, so it would be right to copy her.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Ning said to Xu Xiuli, "Have you finished your winter vacation homework? Lend it to me to copy."

Xu Xiuli's eyes curved slightly with a smile, and she handed the homework to her: "You are rare, you didn't finish your homework."

Yes, Jiang Ning has not finished her winter vacation homework. After all, every day she is either rushing to finish her manuscript or running between Wucheng and Shanghai. She also has to do her winter vacation homework at the same time, so she really has no time to do it.

The teachers at No. 1 Middle School did not really treat the winter vacation as a holiday for them. In addition to the seven winter vacation homeworks that the school distributed every semester, the seven subject teachers also printed a large number of test papers for them to do, and asked them to write one every day.

That is to say, in addition to seven test papers to do every day, they also have seven winter vacation homework assignments waiting for them to complete.

It's okay for boys. In winter, there is no farm work for them to help with. They just need to concentrate on doing their homework. But it's different for girls. They have to do all kinds of housework during the New Year, leaving them very little time to do their winter vacation homework.

But it’s not that it’s unfinished, such as Xu Xiuli.

When Liu Ping heard that Jiang Ning hadn't finished her winter vacation homework, she didn't believe it at all. "I don't believe it. You definitely don't want to lend me the test paper to copy! Then do you have the finished one? It's fine if you have it finished!"

The other people in the dormitory also gathered around, all shouting, "Copy it for me too!"

"Copy it for me too!"

"Dormitory Head, why haven't you finished your homework yet?"

"I went home for the Chinese New Year and had a lot of things to do. I was busy until New Year's Eve. I finally managed to write for a whole day on the first day of the New Year. On the second day, I went to my uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings. On the third day, I went to my aunt's house to pay New Year's greetings. On the third day, I went to my godfather's and godmother's house to pay New Year's greetings."

Wang Xia has a chubby face, a rosy little face, single eyelids, but her eyes are not small, and she has uneven little canine teeth. When she smiles, two pointed canine teeth are exposed, which makes her very cute. She had such a cute look when she was a child, and was noticed by her godfather and godmother who had no daughter, and became their godmother.

Goddaughters here are not formed casually. On the day of the formation, the godfather and godmother will give their goddaughter a pair of gold earrings. The goddaughter must be filial to the godfather and godmother on three festivals and six days a year. The godfather and godmother will also invite the goddaughter to stay for a few days during the holidays, give her red envelopes and buy her new clothes, just like they treat their biological daughter.

If you marry a godson, you will give him an earring to be worn on the right ear.

Because of these complicated rules, families rarely become godparents unless it is necessary. Only when they are really close brothers or sisters who are not related by blood will they become godparents in order to deepen the relationship between the previous generations.

If you see a boy wearing a gold earring on his right ear, it means he has been godparented.

Wang Xia also had a pair of gold earrings, but she was reluctant to wear them, so she left them at home, with only a pair of tea stems stuck in her ears.

Jiang Ning's ears were not pierced. When she was a child, all the girls in the village would get their ears pierced. There was an old lady who would use two rice beads to grind the two sides of the earlobes repeatedly, making the earlobes red and thin. Then she would use a thin needle rolled in sesame oil to pierce the ears in a flash. The end of the thin needle was threaded with a thick white thread soaked in sesame oil. It is said that if the ears are pierced with cotton thread soaked in sesame oil in this way, they will not get clogged again even after ten or eight years.

Jiang Ning didn't know if she missed this while running on the mountain, or what, but her earlobes were always like pearls, transparent and rosy.

Everyone in Dormitory 610 was immersed in the tense atmosphere of copying winter vacation homework. It's not that they didn't do all of it. They finished all the seven winter vacation homework books distributed by the teachers. The only things they didn't finish were the papers. There were too many of them.

Students from the next dormitory also came to borrow test papers from Jiang Ning to copy, only to find that Jiang Ning was also furiously copying other people's test papers. They were suddenly satisfied, because it turned out that the academic genius would also copy homework.

Jiang Ning was not someone who would just copy homework. Xu Xiuli's homework was just a reference for her. Most of the time, she would read the test questions herself and write based on her own understanding. So sometimes, even if her answers were the same as Xu Xiuli's, her solution methods were slightly different.

Sometimes when she comes across a question or a step that Xu Xiuli has written incorrectly, she will draw a small circle next to it.

As a result, her writing speed is bound to be slower than that of He Xiaofang, Liu Ping and others.

But Wang Xia and He Xiaofang are different. When they copy homework, they just copy it word for word. They are in a hurry to finish the homework and don't use their brains to think at all.

They were going to attend evening self-study that night. During the study session, Teacher Wang came to the classroom holding a teacup and a stack of papers in his hand, and asked the class monitor to distribute them. No one had expected that the head teacher would be so cruel. The first night of evening self-study in school was actually an exam. Everyone's faces were full of disbelief and they wailed.

While wiping the podium with the rag, Teacher Wang lowered his head, looked up at them and said, "What are you yelling about? Isn't it normal to have an exam at the beginning of the semester? Which semester don't you have an exam at the beginning of the semester?" If I don't put a tight rein on you on the first day of school and don't get you back in shape, how can I teach you later? "You will take a math test this class, and an English test next class."

Teacher Wang is the invigilator.

After the exam, there was only a ten-minute break. Teacher Wang told several class leaders, "Collect the winter vacation homework and winter vacation test papers and give them to the class representatives." He also told the class representatives, "Collect them and send them to the teachers' offices."

Many students who have not finished their winter vacation homework are so anxious that sweat is coming out on their foreheads. They originally wanted to use the three evening self-study classes tonight, plus a flashlight in the dormitory at night, to finish the rest of the homework. What are they doing now? I can't finish writing by tomorrow, so I'm just crying and howling like a ghost.

This is also the result that Teacher Wang wants, which is to create a sense of urgency and pressure in them, so that they don’t think that they can relax after the New Year.

After collecting the papers, Teacher Wang flipped through them casually and found that, as expected, most of the test papers of many people were left blank.

Teacher Wang is not surprised. The winter vacation homework is indeed a bit too much. They deliberately leave so much homework because they don't want students to slack off. Even if they can't finish all of it, at least half of it can be finished, so that the knowledge learned before is not considered to be completely forgotten. If they can finish all of it, they should encourage such students.

Of course, on the surface, when seeing these unfinished test papers, the teachers of various subjects will still get angry, criticize the students, and use the students who have already finished the papers as examples.

These teachers have already decided who to use as an example.

Who in Class 3 is more suitable to serve as a role model than Jiang Ning?

Jiang Ning was a well-known test-taker last semester. After evening self-study get out of class every day, he would study in the dormitory until one or two o'clock in the morning, and get up at five in the morning to run and memorize. Others may not have done their winter vacation homework, but Jiang Ning's? Humph, they must all be finished!

Teachers of various subjects were excited.