Chapter 27 Gu Dong, your stepmother is so nice
Yu Lixin swallowed his saliva as he smelled the aroma wafting from the lunch box. "No trouble, thank you Aunt Yu for the candy."
He was going to school anyway, so if he helped bring some lunch, he could get two candies in return. This was the best deal in the world.
In the classroom, Gu Dongzheng and two classmates who were also kept after class were sitting in their seats, enduring hunger and working hard on their homework.
He had already finished his math homework, using the method his stepmother taught him to calculate the answers, and he finished it quite quickly.
I haven't finished my Chinese homework yet. I have to write each of the new characters I learned last week twenty times. There are twenty new characters in total. I also have to copy two texts, and my handwriting must be neat, otherwise I have to rewrite it. It takes me a long time to write.
Their math and Chinese teachers are both Mr. Zheng, with one teacher teaching one class, while music and art are taught by separate teachers.
"Gu..." Gu Dong's stomach growled again, and he covered his hungry stomach with his hands.
When Brother Li Xin came to ask him to go home together, he told Brother Li Xin that he probably would not go at noon. He didn't know whether his stepmother would let Brother Li Xin bring him some food after he went home and told his stepmother.
He thought about it and felt that his stepmother would not let Brother Li Xin take care of the child. After all, he had made her so angry yesterday.
"Oh, I'm so hungry." The boy named Sun Xiangdong, who was sitting at the door of the classroom, looked up and shouted.
"I'm hungry too. Doesn't your mother bring you food?" Another boy named Li Qiang also asked while shouting that he was hungry.
"My mom has to go to work and has no time to bring me food. And my mom knows that I haven't finished my homework, so she told my grandma that if I am kept after school at noon, I can't go back to eat and she is not allowed to bring me food. Let me go hungry so that I will remember it." This was not the first time that Zhao Xiangdong was kept after school. His grandma brought him food on the previous occasions.
"My parents are not at home today. They gave me money and tickets and asked me to go to the cafeteria to get lunch at noon. But now I can't go and can't eat." Li Qiang lay on the table uncomfortably. He just didn't finish his Chinese homework. He has already finished half of it, but even if he finishes it, it will be too late to go back to the cafeteria to eat.
The teacher's office is right next to the classroom, so if he sneaks out, Teacher Zheng will see him.
Teacher Zheng said that you can only leave after you finish your homework and have her check it.
"Gu Dong, will your stepmother bring you food?" Sun Xiangdong looked at Gu Dong and asked.
Gu Dong frowned and just as he said "no", he heard Yu Lixin shout, "Gu Dong, your mother asked me to bring you food."
Gu Dong looked towards the door in surprise and saw Yu Lixin carrying a lunch box.
Yu Hui actually asked Brother Li Xin to bring her food.
Seeing that Gu Dong's meal had arrived, Sun Xiangdong and Li Qiang looked at him with envy.
Sun Xiangdong: "Gu Dong, your stepmother is so nice. She even asked someone to bring you food."
Unlike his biological mother, he told his grandmother not to send him food and let him go hungry.
Yu Lixin carried the lunch box, walked to Gu Dong's seat, put the lunch box in front of him, and sat directly in the seat of his classmate in the front row.
"Hurry up and open it to see what Aunt Yu has cooked. I've been smelling delicious food along the way. You have to let me have a bite as a way of repaying my kindness in bringing you the meal." He endured it all the way and didn't open the lunch box to steal the food inside.
Cheating is not something that suits him; he wants to eat openly.
Gu Dong pursed his lips and took the lunch box out of the net bag. The lunch box was still hot.
As soon as the box was opened, a rich fragrance wafted out.
"It smells so good." Sun Xiangdong and Li Qiang, who smelled the fragrance, put down their pens and surrounded Gu Dong.
"Steamed eggs with minced meat, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and mushrooms and vegetables..." Sun Xiangdong exclaimed, "Gu Dong, your stepmother brought you so many dishes."
"It looks delicious too." Li Qiang swallowed his saliva. "Gu Dong, your stepmother is so nice to you. She even cooks three dishes for you in one meal."
There are also eggs and meat. Usually, his mother cooks at home at noon, but at most she stir-fries a vegetable dish and makes a soup.
Gu Dong looked at the food in the lunch box and listened to his classmates say that his stepmother was good to him. He felt a little complicated and a little proud.
"Let me have a taste." Yu Lixin picked up the chopsticks from the net bag, picked up a small piece of steamed egg with minced meat and put it into his mouth.
He has never eaten this dish and his mother doesn't know how to cook it.
Gu Dong licked his lips. He hadn't eaten yet.
After finishing the steamed egg with minced meat, Yu Lixin tasted the scrambled eggs with tomatoes and mushrooms and vegetables.
After finishing his meal, he returned the chopsticks to Gu Dong and sighed with satisfaction, "These dishes are so delicious. I wish Aunt Yu was my stepmother. Then I could eat such delicious dishes every day."
He just said this, and he must not let his mother hear it, otherwise she would definitely beat him.
Just as Gu Dong picked up his chopsticks and prepared to eat, he heard Sun Xiangdong say, "Gu Dong, can you give me a taste? I only want one bite."
"I'll just have a taste." Li Qiang stretched out a finger and looked at Gu Dong eagerly.
Gu Dong sighed, stretched out a finger and said, "You can only taste it."
The two of them said yes in unison, and Gu Dong gave the chopsticks to Sun Xiangdong. Sun Xiangdong first tasted the steamed egg with minced meat, said it was delicious, and then stretched out his chopsticks to the scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
"Aren't you just going to have one bite?"
Sun Xiangdong picked up the scrambled eggs with tomatoes and put them into his mouth. He loved the sour and sweet taste. "Hey, I mean one bite at a time."
Gu Dong: “…”
His mother tongue is speechless.
After tasting it, Sun Xiangdong gave the chopsticks to Li Qiang. Li Qiang also tasted it before returning the chopsticks to Gu Dong.
"Gu Dong, your stepmother is amazing. The food she cooks is so delicious. I hate vegetables the most, but the vegetables your stepmother stir-fries make me crave more. They are crispy and sweet."
"Yes, it's very fragrant. The ones my mom cooks are all bitter. Gu Dong, your stepmother is so good to you. You are so lucky. If I could eat such delicious food every day, I would wake up laughing in my dreams."
Gu Dong was eating his food with big mouthfuls while listening to two classmates chattering in his ears, and he had no idea what was going on in his mind.
Sun Xiangdong's grandmother couldn't bear to see her grandson go hungry, so she brought the meal to him when Gu Dong finished eating.
Li Qiang was not hungry either. At Sun Xiangdong's suggestion, he gave the money and ticket to Yu Lixin, asked him to help buy some food from the cafeteria, and gave him one cent as a fee for his errand.
Since there is money to be made, Yu Lixin is naturally happy to do it.
Before the afternoon class, the three of them handed in their completed homework to Teacher Zheng's desk.
In the afternoon, Yu Hui moved out the sewing machine, planned to clean it, and make a beautiful little skirt for Beibei first.
"This is my mother's sewing machine." Gu Nan said, pursing her lips.
Yu Hui: “…”
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Forget it. She had to understand that as a child, she couldn't let others touch her fucking things.
"Can I use it to make clothes for you?" she asked.
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