099 Young people, you know.
Several teachers glanced towards the door, finding the man somewhat familiar, but unsure of his identity as he wasn't in military uniform. They only realized who he was when Guan Yuehe cheerfully greeted him at the door.
Although there was still a lot of work to be done, the teachers weren't old-fashioned and immediately gave Guan Yuehe a day off.
"You've been busy for half a month, Xiao Guan, you should get some rest today."
"Thank you, teacher!"
Lin Yiku followed closely behind and also thanked the teacher.
"Teacher, I'm leaving now, I'll come back tomorrow." I didn't feel tired from working early and late at school before, but as soon as I saw Lin Yiku, I suddenly felt that the world outside the office was sweet and pleasant.
What smells and tastes sweet is actually something else.
While she was tidying up the documents on her desk, Lin Yiku rummaged through her bag outside the door and pulled out a brown paper bag.
He pulled Guan Yuehe back from her excited walk out and whispered, "Share some of the snacks made by the elders at home with your teachers."
Guan Yuehe sniffed into the paper bag and said with certainty, "My aunt made these fried dough twists. Did she come to our house?"
Unfortunately, she wasn't home and didn't get to meet her aunt.
She didn't even wait for Lin Yiku's reply. She took the paper bag and went back to the office, placing it on the desk of the teacher closest to the door.
"These are fried dough twists made by my family. Please help yourselves, everyone. I'm off!"
Xiao Guan was like a gust of wind, jogging back and forth, her tone cheerful, quite unlike the way she would say "work is important, I don't want to think about Comrade Xiao Lin" in front of them.
Teacher Ye got up to get a paper bag, took a fried dough twist first, and took a bite. "Delicious!"
While eating, he also shared his food with the other teachers, jokingly saying, "Look how happy Xiao Guan is."
"Young people, Xiao Guan has only been married for a little over a year, and his wife is in the military, so they may not see each other often. I understand."
Teacher Ye chuckled to herself. She ate in the cafeteria with Xiao Guan every day and often chatted with her about her family.
Whenever Xiao Guan mentions her lover, she can't help but think about the meals he cooks.
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As soon as she stepped out of the office building, Guan Yuehe looked around and saw that there were people everywhere. With the new semester approaching, many students had already returned to school early to welcome the new students who had been admitted this year.
It wasn't appropriate to be so affectionate in public, so she walked close to Lin Yiku, asking, "Did Auntie come to the house? Are you busy lately? Are you going home tonight or staying in the military dormitory?"
After asking him a series of questions, she didn't forget to lead him to the cafeteria, saying, "Let's eat something in the cafeteria first."
Taking him back to the dorm was absolutely out of the question; male students aren't allowed in female dorms. Besides, there weren't many places to sit nearby, and most of the seats were already taken. It looked like the students were having an event.
"All you do is stare at me, say something!"
Lin Yi raised an eyebrow. "Your sister said the school cafeteria food is bad during the holidays. I wonder if you've lost weight."
"Luckily, I often went to the teacher's house for meals." At first, she was a little embarrassed to go every day, but if she didn't go, Teacher Qin would come to her dormitory to catch her. After that, she ate lunch with Teacher Ye in the cafeteria and dinner at Teacher Qin's house. To avoid making her feel awkward, Teacher Qin assigned her the task of cooking.
"You haven't answered my question yet."
“Juanjuan had a high fever that wouldn’t go down, so my aunt took her to the hospital. She’s better now.” He finished in one breath: “My aunt stayed at home for a few days, and went back to her hometown yesterday.”
At this time, the harvest brigade was very busy. Second sister-in-law was pregnant with her second child. Uncle and second brother had to go to the fields to earn work points and take care of second sister-in-law. So Aunt could only take Juanjuan to the city for medical treatment.
Guan Yuehe was relieved and laughed, "Wouldn't Juanjuan be overjoyed to have me at home?"
"I stayed in the hospital for two days, and then stayed at home for the next few days. During the day, I went to get IV drips, and at night I watched TV with Yuanbao. After I recovered, I stayed an extra day to go shopping at the department store, otherwise I wouldn't have wanted to leave."
Lin Yiku recalled what her mother-in-law had said and relayed it to her: "Mom said that Juanjuan and Guyu's stubbornness was learned from you."
"Nonsense!" Guan Yuehe refused to believe it.
When asked about his aunt and Juanjuan coming to the city for medical treatment, Lin Yiku added, "My elder brother and sister-in-law have moved to a new house."
"Oh." It's bound to happen sooner or later. Moving to a new house is a good thing; the sooner you move, the sooner you'll adapt.
"And you?" The two turned to look at each other at the same time and spoke simultaneously.
Lin Yiku stared at her intently, and she shrugged, "All I see when I open my eyes is letters. One day of work is equivalent to ten days of self-study at home."
Could this be considered a case of practice testing theory?
When it was Lin Yi's turn to complain, she said very briefly, "I've been busy with training lately, all I see when I open my eyes is training."
Guan Yuehe also gleaned important information from his words: "You come home to live every day?"
Seeing him nod, she glared at him irritably, "What a mess! Why don't you just stay in the dorm? You can sleep a little longer then."
"The kang (heated brick bed) at home is very comfortable to sleep on."
Guan Yuehe pursed her lips, led him along a shortcut, and when no one was around, she immediately reached out and took his hand, her eyes crinkling with laughter, secretly pleased, "Finally, I've managed to hold your hand."
That's the downside of being in school; school rules prohibit students from dating, and even if a boy and girl get too close, they might be targeted. Of course, this is what her sister and her friends in college told her.
She whispered to Lin Yiku, "I also think the kang (heated brick bed) at home is more comfortable to sleep on."
But she sleeps much better now; at least in the past two weeks, she hasn't rolled off the bed in her sleep even once.
Lin Yiku had just grasped her hand when, a moment later, Guan Yuehe shook it off as if it were a hot potato.
There are people ahead.
Lin Yiku: "..."
They've already gotten their marriage certificate, so why do they still have to do it secretly?
The further you go, the more students you encounter.
Although they couldn't hold hands again, it didn't affect Guan Yuehe's good mood at all.
Especially when they arrived at the cafeteria, Lin Yiku laid out the two lunchboxes she had brought, which were full of dishes.
"I'm going to get food."
Guan Yuehe brought back two large portions of rice and proudly showed them off to him, saying, "I've gotten to know the cafeteria ladies quite well lately. Look at the rice I got, they packed it down really well, so there's definitely enough for everyone."
"Yeah, you're really good."
I feel like you're making fun of me.
"No way, how could I dare?" Lin Yi smiled wryly, looking like a very serious person, and his tone of voice seemed fine, but Guan Yuehe just felt that he was laughing at her!
"Eat meat." Lin Yiku picked up a piece of meat and held it to her mouth, then remembered that they were at school, so she put the meat on top of her rice.
Guan Yuehe took a bite and whispered mischievously, "It tastes best when you feed me."
Lin Yiku reminded her: "...When we're out here, don't try to sweet-talk me."
Guan Yuehe suppressed a laugh and happily ate the food, which was ten times better than what she ate in the cafeteria.
Cheng Shuang came from the library, got her food, and was about to go back to her dorm to eat when she suddenly saw a familiar face with a wide grin. She deliberately went around to the other side and saw the face of the man opposite Guan Yuehe, and then she understood.
Cheng Shuang frequently visited the dormitory next door. Once, while sitting on Guan Yuehe's bed, she found a photo next to her pillow, which was of her and her lover.
With just one glance, Cheng Shuang recognized that the person sitting opposite Guan Yuehe was her lover.
These two seem to have a good relationship.
"Is that someone you know over there?"
Guan Yuehe followed Lin Yiku's gaze and saw only Cheng Shuang's back. "She's Cheng Shuang from the dorm next door. She studies mathematics."
Speaking of Cheng Shuang, her expression turned somewhat bitter. "Cheng Shuang wanted to drag me into learning math together, but that's too scary."
"Don't laugh!" Guan Yuehe glared at him. "Mathematics is so difficult, what's wrong with not wanting to learn it?"
“That’s right.” Lin Yiku replied, but couldn’t help laughing. “Of the four of you, three of you can’t understand math. Ding Xuewen started school later than you, so he has to help you with your homework.”
When he brought it up, Guan Yuehe remembered those things from her childhood, and laughed, saying, "Maybe Ding Xuewen did well in his studies later because he did too much homework."
Oh right, Lin Yiku remembered what she had brought and pulled an envelope out of another bag, handing it to her. "It should be from your classmate Chunmei."
Guan Yuehe immediately put down her chopsticks, took out the letter, and read that Chunmei had written to say that she had been admitted to the graduate program at the university in her hometown's provincial capital, and was also admitted to the Department of Spanish Languages.
"I knew she would pass the exam!"
Chunmei wrote that she decided to take the postgraduate entrance exam in order to be assigned to a work unit in her hometown city in the future, but there is only one junior college in the city that has not started recruiting postgraduate students, so she can only take the exam for other universities in the province. She is now worried that she may not be able to be assigned a job back to her hometown city in the future.
Regardless, Chunmei has now received her admission notice and has left her workplace to go to school.
"I'll have to use a different address to contact Chunmei again from now on."
After reading the letter, Guan Yuehe carefully put it away and put it in her bag, intending to take it back to her dormitory.
"By the way, what did you bring?" She had three bags, one large and two small. She didn't lack food or drink at school.
Lin Yiku introduced them to her one by one: “Your aunt made fried dough twists before she went back to her hometown yesterday, these are your winter clothes, and these are new clothes that Xu Cheng and his wife made for you.”
"No, why would they make me new clothes for no reason?"
“Someone in the alley was wearing clothes that were bought from the south. Everyone thought the style was nice, so they had identical ones made for them. They said Xu Cheng made the best ones, and everyone went to him to make clothes.”
Xu Cheng was skilled at sewing, and Guan Yuehe knew this wasn't new; it wasn't surprising that everyone went to him to make clothes. But, "Why did you give it to me?"
"They said it was a gift for you, to celebrate your admission to graduate school." Lin Yiku thought the four of them were quite interesting. It was rare to see childhood friends get married and start families and still insist on getting together like they did when they were kids, always making sure no one else was left out of any good news.
"He's quite sensible." Guan Yuehe then asked, "Does Sitian have one too?"
"Yes," Lin Yiku joked, "When Ding Xuewen gets married, Xu Cheng will have to make an extra set of clothes for you."
“It’s alright, Ding Xuewen is a big spender now, he’ll pay his share.” As she said this, Guan Yuehe looked at him and laughed.
Lin Yiku was helpless. Didn't she say he was a big dog owner before?
They arrived at the cafeteria early, and were only kicked out by the cafeteria auntie when it was about to close.
Guan Yuehe stood not far from the dormitory, carrying large and small bags. She and Lin Yiku looked at each other expectantly. One urged the other to go upstairs, and the other urged the other to go back early. But no one moved after they said it several times.
I'll be going back in a few days.
"I'll come see you again in a few days."
After saying that, the two of them looked at each other and grinned foolishly. The dormitory supervisor stared at them intently, then spat out a sunflower seed shell with a "pui" sound.
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