In 1977, the college entrance examination was reinstated. Educated youth who had been sent to the countryside, Su Jinyan, passed the exam and was admitted to Peking University in one go. The origin...
"Wow, you all got your food? Is the cafeteria crowded?"
As soon as they entered the dormitory, Fang Jing at the door saw that the two men had a large bag of things hanging on their arms and were holding lunch boxes, and Su Jinyan was holding a large thermos in his hand. She quickly got out of bed and took the thermos from Su Jinyan while speaking.
"There aren't many people here right now." Su Jinyan walked towards the table and put the rice bowl on it and said, "If anyone wants to go get food, go now. The snow is falling heavily and it looks like it will get heavier."
Wang Shuhui sat up and looked at the snow outside, and sighed, "It looks so cold."
"Hey, Jinyan, what did you brew? It smells so good."
Su Jinyan curved her beautiful eyes and said in a tender voice, "The food in the cafeteria tonight is good. If you want to go, go quickly, or the good ones will be sold out soon."
At this time, Fang Jing quickly put on her clothes and said, "Yes, otherwise it will be dark soon. By the way, Jinyan, why did you buy another thermos?"
"It's been cold these days, and I'm used to using hot water to wash my face and hands, and a kettle of water is not enough."
Wang Shuhui turned her head to look at Su Jinyan who was putting his things away for a while. She didn't get an answer and was too embarrassed to ask again, so she stood up and put on her clothes, "Fang Jing, wait a moment, I'll go too."
She just saw Su Jinyan packing two lunch boxes and a lunch jar, and was thinking about having a meal with Su Jinyan and returning them to her tomorrow. Thinking of this, she felt a little uncomfortable, but didn't say anything else.
Except for Lu Tingting, everyone else went out to get food.
Su Jinyan took out one third of the meat porridge from a large jar and said, "Meijun, you haven't made any porridge yet. Give me your rice bowl and I'll pour you some. This is a full jar and I can't drink it all."
Chen Meijun looked at the white meat porridge and said, "Okay, I made beef stew with potatoes, let's have it together."
As he said this, he opened the beef and potatoes and placed them in the middle.
Su Jinyan smiled and nodded, saying hello, then said to Lu Tingting who was reading on the bed: "Lu Tingting, I made too much porridge, you can help me eat some too. It will be sticky tomorrow, which is not good."
Lu Tingting paused for a moment, turned her head to look at Su Jinyan's expression, pondered for a moment, and nodded, "Okay."
The things that happened and the people she met in the past few years made her dislike dealing with everyone. After she was admitted to university, she went to see her parents. Her vicissitudes of life father said that one should not accept food given out of pity, but one should not blindly reject a dormitory roommate with good character, who did not discriminate against her and who truly wanted to make friends with her.
University is an important key to building interpersonal relationships, allowing her to learn to get along with others sincerely.
She couldn't refuse to get along with everyone who extended a hand of friendship to her just because of those people in the past.
Lu Tingting got up and put on her shoes, took out the rice bowl from her cupboard, and pulled out a small earthenware jar from under the bed, picked up some pickled radishes, and took a steamed bun.
"I don't have anything good. If you don't mind, have some of this radish. I pickled it myself."
Su Jinyan saw the spicy radish in the rice bowl and exclaimed happily, "Oh! It's spicy radish strips. This goes best with porridge! I've been craving it for a long time, but I just don't know how to make it!"
Su Jinyan really likes to eat this pickled spicy radish head. In her previous life, her mother pickled it every year. Unfortunately, after coming here, Sun's eyesight is not very good, and she only pickles some sauerkraut every year. It seems that she can't pickle this kind of spicy radish strips.
Lu Tingting looked at Su Jinyan with shining eyes, and seeing that she really liked it, she smiled and said, "I have a jar with me, and some pickled cucumbers. If you don't mind, you can eat it with your meal."
Su Jingya narrowed her eyes and smiled happily, "Don't mind, don't mind. I like these two the most. My mother is busy and never pickles these things. My mother-in-law only pickles sauerkraut."
Chen Meijun also laughed and said, "I've eaten this kind of pickled radish at a classmate's house before, but I didn't expect to eat it again. I'm so lucky today."
As he said that, he picked up one, put it on the steamed bun and took a bite, "Hmm, delicious, crunchy, Lu Tingting, you are so amazing!"
When Lu Tingting saw that her two roommates enjoyed the food, a faint smile appeared on her face and the nervousness in her heart disappeared.
Lu Tingting only had one rice bowl. Su Jinyan put the buns on the lid of the rice bowl, poured the radish heads into the aluminum lunch box, and poured the porridge he had just divided into Lu Tingting's rice bowl.
"Tingting, let's change the taste tonight and eat vegetarian buns instead of steamed bread."
After Su Jinyan finished speaking, Fang Jing also smiled and said, "Yes, steamed buns are two cents more expensive than corn bread. You can eat them alternately."
Lu Tingting smiled gently, not at all embarrassed. "My parents are still on the farm, and I have a 15-year-old brother who lives with them. Life there is hard. The city and the commune gave us some money as a reward, and I exchanged most of it for food and sent it to them."
Lu Tingting said this just to test these two people and see if they are worthy of her true love.
Thinking back to the past, when something happened at home and her closest sister and brother-in-law betrayed the family, all their relatives and friends refused to let her in, humiliated and abused her. She had been sent to the countryside for five years and was ostracized by everyone. Her heart had been locked for a long time, and she was a little afraid to open it again.
Su Jinyan was a little surprised that Lu Tingting talked about her parents, but she looked calm. She pondered for a moment and said, "Tingting, since the announcement of the resumption of the college entrance examination this year, many people who were previously sent down have been rehabilitated. Have you tried to write a letter to help your parents get redress?"
Lu Tingting smiled bitterly. "My grandfather was in the army. He was wrongly accused. My uncle, my second uncle, and my aunt all severed ties with my grandparents. My father was unwilling to sever ties with my grandparents, so my sister reported him in a letter. What kind of letter was that? It was a real report from a relative. There was no chance for him to turn things around."
"Before returning to Beijing, my grandfather and my father wrote some materials and asked me to give them to my uncle, and asked him or his second uncle to pass them on to the higher-ups. But my uncles refused to accept the materials. I then contacted several of my grandfather's old comrades, but they all refused."
"Although my grandfather had a bad temper, he was an upright man. During the war, he sold everything in the house and donated it to the country. How could it be possible that..."
Su Jinyan paused, thought for a long moment, and then asked, "Are your grandfather and your father in the army?"
Lu Tingting nodded and said nothing.
Su Jinyan thought that many people had been framed and wronged over the past decade. She wanted to help, but she also had to ask her grandfather and father.
They didn't say anything and ate in silence.
The snow outside was falling even harder, and when the others came back from dinner, the three of them had already finished eating, cleaned up, and started soaking their feet.
Su Jinyan saw the person coming back, so he wiped his feet, poured out the water, and went to bed.