Lin Zhixia got up at five o'clock on Monday morning. Her mother had just come back from purchasing goods, and her father and mother were tidying up the warehouse. Lin Zhixia, wearing slippers, stepped into the kitchen lightly.
She peeled two apples, mashed them into a paste, added rock sugar and starch… Suddenly, her mother’s voice rang out behind her: “Xia Xia, what are you doing?”
Lin Zhixia looked back at her mother and described honestly: "Mom, I want to make two apple pie."
They had just eaten dumplings last night, and there were still a few pieces of dough left in the refrigerator.
Mom washed her hands with a basin of running water, took out the dough from the refrigerator, and then said to Lin Zhixia, "Go back to your bedroom and sleep, Xia Xia, Mom will make you some apple pie."
Lin Zhixia yawned and rubbed her eyes: "I want to do it myself."
"You've never cooked before, you don't know how to use gas, and you're not even as tall as a water pipe. What can you do?" Mom gave her an ultimatum, "Go back to bed. I'll wake you up at six o'clock."
Lin Zhixia was indeed very sleepy. She returned to her bedroom, rolled up under a quilt, and soon fell asleep. When she woke up, she smelled the fragrance of apple pie. Her mother put the pie on a plate and placed it on the stove to cool.
Lin Zhixia packed the pancakes in a glass lunch box and stuffed the lunch box into her schoolbag.
On the way to school this morning, Lin Zhixia jumped and skipped. The azure sky stretched as far as the eye could see. She was in an incomparably good mood. Every step she took seemed to be stepping on the clouds, making her soul and body float freely in the wind.
Aquarium! Aquarium! Visit the aquarium!
There are also strawberry milk, strawberry biscuits and apple pie in the schoolbag!
Lin Zhixia is super happy!
Lin Zhixia brought all her assets and rushed into the classroom of Grade 4 (1) class happily.
The school bus will arrive at the school gate at 7:50 in the morning. But it is only 7:10 now, and the classroom is deserted and relatively quiet.
Jiang Yubai has arrived.
Jiang Yubai stood beside his seat, looking at the campus scenery on the first floor. Lin Zhixia ran to Jiang Yubai, opened the plastic bag, took out the lunch box from the bag, and handed Jiang Yubai a fork.
She said, "This is apple pie that I made at home. I made the filling myself. Try it."
Jiang Yubai was not hungry at all. But Lin Zhixia looked at him with shining eyes, and he was too embarrassed to refuse, so he could only accept it with reluctance. He lowered his head, took a bite of the apple pie, chewed it slowly, and then said slowly: "It's delicious."
Lin Zhixia raised her head: "As long as you like it. This is your lunch box, I will return it to you."
Jiang Yubai thanked him and said, "I will not take back the gifts I give to others."
"Do you want more apple pie?" Lin Zhixia asked doubtfully.
Jiang Yubai was very reserved: "Thank you, but it's thanks." He was a man of steel and would never allow himself to be bribed by food.
Lin Zhixia observed his expression and deliberately said, "Then I'll give it to someone else."
This morning, Labor Committee member Han Dawei arrived at school at 6:50. Han Dawei cleaned the classroom by himself and was feeling hungry. When he heard Lin Zhixia say, "Give it to others," Han Dawei jumped to Lin Zhixia's side in two steps and said, "Lin Zhixia! What delicious food do you have?"
"This!" Lin Zhixia picked up the lunch box.
"Give it to me!" Han Dawei took it with both hands.
Jiang Yubai opened his schoolbag and pulled out a large bag of Hainan specialty fruit crisps and coconut cakes. He threw all these high-quality snacks to Han Dawei.
In an instant, Han Dawei's surprise turned into ecstasy: "Wow! Jiang Yubai! You are so generous!"
Jiang Yubai took the lunch box from Lin Zhixia and zipped up his schoolbag again. He didn't say a word and sat back in his seat, keeping his achievements to himself.
Lin Zhixia turned her back to him and looked out the window, pretending to be someone who knew everything: "Jiang Yubai, will you still have this kind of personality when you grow up?"
"What kind of personality?" Jiang Yubai asked seriously.
"That's the kind of personality you have," Lin Zhixia described. "What you think in your heart is not quite the same as what you say."
Jiang Yubai was about to refute her, but she turned around and smiled at him. He suddenly forgot what he was going to say and sat quietly in his seat like a mute.
At 7:40 that morning, the seven fourth-grade classes lined up.
In addition to the head teacher, each class also has two team teachers. The teachers repeatedly demanded that all students must abide by the rules and regulations of the aquarium and not run around or shout, which would damage the school's reputation.
Teacher Wu faced the students of Grade 4 (1) and emphasized again: "When you walk out of this school gate, you represent not only yourselves, but also the reputation of your teachers and the school. You know that, right? Our class is a key class and the top-ranked class in the grade. You must abide by the rules and have a sense of collective honor! Okay?"
The students shouted in unison: "Okay!"
The momentum is majestic and reaches the sky.
Teacher Wu waved his hand. Class monitor Dong Sunqi hurriedly followed Teacher Wu's footsteps. Then, the whole class got on the bus in an orderly manner.
Jiang Yubai sat in the last row. Dong Sunqi and Ding Yan were his neighbors, while Lin Zhixia and Gan Shuli sat in front of him. The two girls were whispering to each other and soon they started to giggle.
Ding Yan asked, "Lin Zhixia, are you guys joking? Take me with you, I want to listen too."
Lin Zhixia and Gan Shuli were having so much fun that they completely ignored Ding Yan's request from behind their seats.
Ding Yan put his hands on his knees, turned around and said to Jiang Yubai: "I have a good idea."
Jiang Yubai asked him: "What's the idea?"
Ding Yan whispered stealthily: "Lin Zhixia and Gan Shuli didn't tell me what jokes they were telling. You and I should laugh a few more times, and when they come to ask us, we won't tell them!"
After the explanation, Ding Yan laughed: "Hahahaha, Jiang Yubai, hahahaha."
Jiang Yubai said: "It's a mental illness."
Ding Yan was abandoned by both his opposite-sex and same-sex friends, and suddenly realized how difficult life was. When he looked up, he noticed that Jiang Yubai had an earphone hanging on his left ear. He took a closer look and found that Jiang Yubai was holding an MP4 player in his hand.
MP4 player!
Forget about MP4, even when Ding Yan wanted to buy an MP3, his parents didn’t agree.
Ding Yan hooked Jiang Yubai's shoulders and begged, "Lend me your MP4 to play with."
Jiang Yubai agreed, and the MP4 player fell into Ding Yan's hands.
Ding Yan noticed that this MP4 player was the latest model released by Newman in September this year. The display screen was as big as Ding Yan's palm, with a clear screen and high resolution. The metal buttons had a dull feel. Ding Yan pressed a finger and suddenly felt like he was floating, as if he was seamlessly connected to the latest high-tech in 2004.
"What videos do you have?" Ding Yan asked impatiently.
"Detective Conan, Pokémon, Sheriff Black Cat." Jiang Yubai pressed the buttons to call up the playlist.
Dong Sunqi, who was sitting next to him, poked his head out and exclaimed, "Detective Conan!"
"Let's watch Black Cat Sheriff, shall we?" Ding Yan said, "My dad won't let me watch Black Cat Sheriff. He said a lot of people died in Black Cat Sheriff... No, a lot of animals died."
Jiang Yubai didn't care: "It's up to you."
Ding Yan immediately chose the fourth episode of Black Cat Sheriff, which is titled "The Mantis That Eats Her Husband".
"The mantis that eats her husband!" Ding Yan exclaimed, "Damn! What a powerful name!"
Lin Zhixia in the front row suddenly turned around and told them: "I read in Life Science Research that the probability of a male mantis being eaten by a female mantis during mating is not high. This is because the male mantis has well-developed wings and is more capable of flying than the female mantis. It lies on the back of the female mantis..."
Having said this, Lin Zhixia suddenly stopped.
Ding Yan, Jiang Yubai and Dong Sunqi all looked at her in amazement.
She shrank back to her seat timidly, as if she had seen a ghost in broad daylight. Her cheeks were red, and the blush spread to her ears. The sudden strong sense of embarrassment wrapped her tightly like a cocoon, so tightly that she could hardly breathe.
"I was just talking about science!" Lin Zhixia announced in a low voice, "Do you guys understand?"
Jiang Yubai took the lead in answering: "Life sciences."
Lin Zhixia breathed a sigh of relief: "Yes! It's life science."
She and Gan Shuli exchanged seats. She sat by the window and Gan Shuli sat near the corridor.
There was a blue curtain hanging inside the bus. Lin Zhixia pushed this foldable curtain to the other side so that she could gaze at the scenery outside the window. The bus had just boarded the viaduct, carrying a carload of passengers, climbing higher and higher. In the distance, skyscrapers were lined up one after another, the city's skyline was staggered, and the blue sky and white clouds merged into the city's scenery.
Looking at the microcosm of modern society in front of her, Lin Zhixia couldn't help but think of the origin of human civilization. She thought of the Sumerian civilization on the Mesopotamian plain - the academic community generally recognizes that the Sumerian cuneiform script is the earliest traceable written record in human history. In addition, the Liangzhu civilization originated in the Yangtze River. In Liangzhu about four or five thousand years ago, the Chinese were already able to make exquisite jade cong, jade bi, lacquerware and silk.
Both jade cong and jade bi were ritual objects used by the ancient Chinese in major ceremonies, such as sacrifices. The ancients emphasized "using bi to worship heaven and cong to worship earth". It seems that all the wonders left by ancient civilizations in the world are related to the gods of heaven and earth and religious beliefs. Why is this? Lin Zhixia had new thoughts.
She remembered that the Pumbapungu ruins in South America were a pile of finely crafted stone formations. The materials used for the stone formations were extremely hard andesite and diorite. And the Pumbapungu people 15,000 years ago were able to drill perfect round holes, horizontal lines, and standard right-angled polygons in that rock. She suspected that the ruins were formed by casting rather than polishing.
When Gan Shuli asked her, "Lin Zhixia, what are you thinking about?"
Lin Zhixia could only answer vaguely: "Me? I don't know either."
Another twenty minutes later, the school bus arrived at the parking lot of the Oceanarium.
The autumn sky was clear, windless and rainless, and the temperature was neither too hot nor too cold. Lin Zhixia got off the bus and stood in the class line, jumping up and down with joy.
"Aquarium! Aquarium!" she cried joyfully.
"Quiet!" Teacher Wu issued an order at the front, "All of you keep quiet! No noise is allowed, keep the formation! No one can fall behind! If one person is missing, none of us can go home!"
The students were all speechless and followed the teacher obediently into the main entrance of the aquarium.
The aquarium assigns a guide to each class. The guide for Grade 4 (1) is a young lady in her early twenties. She is wearing a work uniform and leads a group of children through the hall.
Some tourists, including Lin Zhixia, couldn't help but exclaim "Wow!" Because they were passing through an underwater tunnel. Above their heads was an arched glass, and countless marine creatures were moving slowly on the other side of the glass.
These graceful creatures from the ocean are a perfect example of fluid mechanics.
They tempted Lin Zhixia to stop.
The colorful shallow sea world was within reach. Lin Zhixia clung to the glass and murmured to herself, "So many fish, so many fish."
There were so many kinds of fish that Lin Zhixia couldn't see them all.
Jiang Yubai's reaction was flat. He walked past Lin Zhixia as if no one was around. Lin Zhixia was very surprised and asked him, "Jiang Yubai, aren't you surprised to see so many fish?"
"What's so surprising?" Jiang Yubai replied, "It's just a group of fish."
Lin Zhixia corrected him and said, "A large school of fish."
Jiang Yubai accepted it with a chuckle: "Yeah, a large group."
Lin Zhixia asked him again: "Have you ever been to an aquarium?"
Jiang Yubai asked back: "Which city's aquarium?"
Before Lin Zhixia answered, Jiang Yubai caught a glimpse of a fat blue fish. He exclaimed, "This fish is very fat."
"This is a scalloped mullet, which belongs to the family Wrassidae, order Perciformes, suborder Wrassius, class ray-finned fishes[1]," Lin Zhixia introduced to him. "It is mainly distributed in the Indo-Pacific region. It has a very gentle and lovely personality. It is not called a fat fish."
Jiang Yubai stared at Lin Zhixia. Lin Zhixia tilted her head. Jiang Yubai imitated her and tilted his head. She said, "Don't imitate me."
Jiang Yubai said: "I still think this fish is very fat."
The croaker seemed to understand their conversation. It flicked its flowing tail and swam away angrily.
"There are a lot of sciaena bream here!" Lin Zhixia pointed to a location. "Look, sciaena bream are not fat, they are flat."
The body of the false surgeonfish is blue-purple, but its tail is bright yellow. They are very eye-catching when playing in the coral reef. Lin Zhixia told Jiang Yubai: "Did you watch Finding Nemo, which was released last year? The fish named Dory in Finding Nemo is a false surgeonfish."
She turned her head and looked at him. "Do you like it, scorpionfish?"
Jiang Yubai repeated: "You, thorn, hedgehog, eagle?"
Lin Zhixia nodded: "Yes! Pseudo-spined snapper."
"It's obviously a fish," Jiang Yubai commented, "but its name has both hedgehog and eagle in it. This fish has lost its identity."
Lin Zhixia couldn't stop laughing: "Wei is the tail of the tail, and Tai is the fish with a Zhou next to it."
Jiang Yubai asked out of ignorance: "What?"
Lin Zhixia wrote on the palm of her hand: "Dai, it's written like this, pronounced as diao, with the first tone."
"I know too few Chinese characters." Jiang Yubai reflected deeply.
The team of Grade 4 (1) disappeared at the end of the undersea tunnel. Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai both mixed into the team of Grade 4 (2). Lin Zhixia quickly grabbed Jiang Yubai's sleeve and pulled him forward.
The tunnel was a one-way street. When Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai ran out, they happened to run into the commentator sister.
All the students and teachers from Class 1 stood in an open space. The sister said to everyone, "Our Ocean Aquarium welcomes all the teachers and students from Experimental Primary School! Today, I will be your tour guide. During our tour, I will ask some small questions. If any child knows the answer, please tell me. There is a corresponding prize for each question!"
Many classmates cheered in unison.
Lin Zhixia mixed in with her classmates and shouted happily, "Prizes! Prizes!"
Jiang Yubai just asked: "What prize?"
“She was carrying a bag,” Lin Zhixia pointed out, “and the prizes were all in the bag.”
Although Teacher Wu repeatedly stressed that the whole class must maintain formation, the aquarium was crowded with students and the teachers gradually found it difficult to manage them. The three leading teachers of Grade 4 (1) formed a triangle to protect all the students within their field of vision.
Lin Zhixia followed the commentator sister closely, following her every step, just like her sister's little tail.
Finally, when they arrived at the "Jellyfish Exhibition Hall", the sister began to ask: "Children, do you know how big the largest jellyfish in the world is?"
Lin Zhixia immediately raised her hand: "I know! The Echizen jellyfish can reach a maximum diameter of three meters and weigh more than 500 kilograms!"
Her sister opened her backpack and gave her a jellyfish refrigerator magnet.
Lin Zhixia was extremely happy. All the classmates looked at her with admiration.
The elder sister continued to explain: "Just now this child mentioned the largest jellyfish. Do any children know how small the smallest jellyfish in the world is?"
"Irukandji jellyfish!" Lin Zhixia raised her hand again. "It's only one cubic centimeter in size, but it's very poisonous! It can kill an adult!"
The reason why the aquarium asked questions to the elementary school students was because they adopted the educational policy of "asking and answering questions by themselves, combining education with entertainment". The tour guide never expected that there would be a little girl who could keep giving the correct answers.
The sister was stunned for a moment, then took out a jellyfish refrigerator magnet and gave it to Lin Zhixia.
Lin Zhixia gave this refrigerator magnet to Jiang Yubai.
Jiang Yubai asked her doubtfully, "What are you doing for me?"
"I'll give it to you if I want to." Lin Zhixia's answer was a little arrogant.
Jiang Yubai opened his schoolbag and took out a piece of strawberry candy. He put the strawberry candy directly into Lin Zhixia's pocket. Lin Zhixia asked him: "Why did you give me strawberry candy?"
Jiang Yubai took a step forward and moved further away from her: "Because I can't eat it."
Lin Zhixia frowned: "Really?"
Jiang Yubai said: "Really."
The light in the jellyfish exhibition hall was dim. Jellyfish of all sizes were floating in the dim light, and some of them were already dissolved, no longer having a complete and floating shape.
Jiang Yubai didn't know what "jellyfish autolysis" meant. Facing the glass window, he described it as "this jellyfish looks like a bunch of swollen bird's nests."
"It's dying," Lin Zhixia explained. "This is what happens when a jellyfish dissolves itself."
Jiang Yubai turned around and looked at her: "Lin Zhixia."
Lin Zhixia stopped and asked: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Yubai asked her, "Does your brain feel tired from remembering so many things?"
"Sometimes I feel a little tired," Lin Zhixia confessed honestly, "My memory is very strange, and I am a little afraid that people will find out. You should understand, right? When you become an outlier in a group of people, there may be corresponding risks."
Jiang Yubai seemed to understand her very well. He even reminded her: "You memorize very quickly, one text in three seconds, and the whole class knows it."
Lin Zhixia said: "At that time, I was a freshman and a bit dull. Now when I take exams, I occasionally make mistakes on purpose so that I don't always get full marks."
While she was talking to Jiang Yubai, the sister narrator asked some new questions. Lin Zhixia did not participate. She opened the strawberry candy Jiang Yubai gave her. The candy was exquisitely packaged and was a spherical soft candy. She took a bite and smiled: "So sweet, thank you."
Jiang Yubai didn't hear it. He, Ding Yan and Dong Sunqi all walked away.
After leaving the jellyfish exhibition hall, visitors entered the penguin hall.
The penguins lived in the ice and snow, lying or sitting, none of them were moving. So some elementary school students stood outside the window, beating their chests and stamping their feet, jumping around, and making all kinds of strange roars, trying to attract the penguins' attention.
The penguins still refused to approach the window and looked at the human babies as if they were idiots.
The class teacher, Ms. Wu, stopped the students' crazy behavior in time. She scolded them, "Be quiet, you guys! The tourists are not looking at the penguins anymore, they are all looking at you! How shameless you are!"
The tour guide said, "Okay, kids, this is the polar penguin exhibit! Do you know the name of the largest penguin in the world?"
Visitors were coming and going around, and the fourth grade (one) class gathered together. Everyone heard the guide's question. Class monitor Dong Sunqi was the first to answer: "Emperor penguin! The largest one is the emperor penguin!"
Deputy monitor Tang Leqin also said: "It's an emperor penguin!"
The guide took out a plush penguin toy. This plush penguin was about 30 centimeters tall, with round black eyes, a gray fluffy back, a white chubby belly, and pink little paws. It was really adorable.
Lin Zhixia was completely fascinated by the little penguin. She raised her hand without caring and said loudly, "Sister, sister! What you just asked about is the largest penguin in the world. Well, the largest penguin in existence is called the Emperor Penguin, or Aptenodytes forsteri. It can be 120 centimeters tall when it grows up. And there is also the Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, a penguin discovered by scientists on Seymour Island in Antarctica. This penguin is extinct! But they can grow up to two meters tall! Two meters tall! Taller than the Emperor Penguin! They lived in Antarctica 37 million years ago [2]."
The whole class fell silent.
The tourists also looked over.
The homeroom teacher, Mr. Wu, said to another teacher, "Ah, Lin Zhixia in our class really likes reading, which is different from other students. I also taught this kind of student who loves reading in the last term, but they don't remember things as clearly as Lin Zhixia."
The teacher asked, "Lin Zhixia...isn't she very smart?"
Teacher Wu smiled and said, "Children have good memories. She doesn't like too much attention. I talked to other teachers and asked them to give her more freedom, and she was happy."
The guide sister had an awkward smile on her face. She was a biology undergraduate and had just been assigned to an oceanarium for internship this year. Of course, she knew the Carcharodon carcharias, but she had forgotten its English name. Why are today's elementary school students so well-informed!
"This kid is so amazing." The commentator came to her senses and gave the little penguin doll to Lin Zhixia.
Lin Zhixia hugged the doll and spun around happily.
"Why do girls like plush toys?" Ding Yan asked puzzledly.
"You won't like it anymore when you grow up." Jiang Yubai guessed.
"Jiang Yubai, do you still want to compete with Lin Zhixia?" Ding Yan asked again, "Look how strong she is. She even knows about that... Kakakogu penguin!"
Jiang Yubai said, "It's not Kakagogu, it's Kakapoko's Crested Penguin." He still had the fridge magnet Lin Zhixia gave him in his pocket. He put his left hand in his pocket, holding the fridge magnet, and suddenly he felt refreshed. He actually didn't like visiting aquariums. He had seen many marine creatures, and had dived in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia and played with helicopters, but now he felt a little bored.
This refrigerator magnet reminded him that today was a good opportunity to compete with Lin Zhixia.
There are many girls around Lin Zhixia.
The girls all wanted to hug the little penguin doll. But Lin Zhixia was reluctant to let go of the little penguin. She hugged the plush toy tightly and hid behind the head teacher, Mr. Wu.
No one in the class wanted to get close to Teacher Wu.
Lin Zhixia successfully got rid of all her classmates except Jiang Yubai. Jiang Yubai still stayed by Lin Zhixia's side. Lin Zhixia asked him with full vigilance: "Do you want to steal my little penguin too?"
"Yes." Jiang Yubai replied.
Lin Zhixia was stunned.
She was stunned for a long time, tears glistening in her eyes and water droplets on her eyelashes. She half lowered her head, made up her mind, grabbed the little penguin, and handed it to Jiang Yubai: "For you..."
Jiang Yubai was stunned.
Lin Zhixia added: "I'm giving it to you! Take it quickly! Otherwise I'll regret it."
Jiang Yubai suddenly laughed. He didn't laugh often. During this laugh, Lin Zhixia became much more timid and could no longer force others to accept her gift with a clear conscience.
Jiang Yubai also told her: "Only girls like plush toys."
Lin Zhixia hugged the little penguin again: "No way! We shouldn't use the concept of boys and girls to define what a person should like and what they hate."
She held the little penguin in her hands and showed it to Jiang Yubai: "Touch it, it's super cute."
Jiang Yubai was very determined: "No."
Lin Zhixia whispered: "You missed a precious opportunity."
She turned around and ran to the front, walking side by side with Teacher Wu. This time, even Jiang Yubai did not follow Lin Zhixia.
Near noon, the tour guide led everyone to the freshwater fish museum.
The fish in the freshwater fish museum are divided into four categories and distributed in eight areas. Many tourists are taking photos with great interest, and the monitor Dong Sunqi also grabs the camera and takes pictures everywhere.
More than half of the students in the class had cameras, including Jiang Yubai. But Jiang Yubai was too lazy to take pictures, and he didn't even take the camera out of his schoolbag. He walked around the aquarium as leisurely as if he was taking a walk in his own garden.
At this time, the tour guide asked again: "Children, do you know which freshwater fish has set the record for the world's largest freshwater fish?"
Jiang Yubai immediately replied: "Giant catfish from the Mekong River."
The commentator sister had noticed Jiang Yubai a long time ago. She smiled slightly and handed him a catfish greeting card.
Yes, catfish greeting card.
A greeting card with a catfish on it.
The prizes before this were all very stylish. Why did the funds plummet when it came to the freshwater fish museum? Jiang Yubai received this catfish greeting card, but he couldn't give it away at all, and he didn't have the slightest sense of superiority over Lin Zhixia.
But Lin Zhixia happened to come right in front of him.
Lin Zhixia was a little confused: "You didn't want the little penguin, but you accepted the catfish."
Jiang Yubai explained: "Catfish can be eaten, but penguins cannot. Longli fish and Jiangtuan fish are both types of catfish and are delicious."
Lin Zhixia jumped up and said, "This is..."
Jiang Yubai looked at her: "What is it?"
"Arapaima!" Lin Zhixia said, pointing behind him.
Jiang Yubai turned around and saw a strange fish with an extremely huge body and a pointed head.
Lin Zhixia put one hand on the glass window and introduced to Jiang Yubai: "Arapaima can grow very large. Its hometown is the Amazon in South America. This fish is very ferocious!"
Jiang Yubai asked: "How brutal is it?"
"They eat very quickly, swallowing it whole in one gulp," Lin Zhixia told him. "Arapaima can eat piranhas. Amazon piranhas, as you know, are also very fierce."
The glass window was cold, and the water rippled slightly in the dim light. The arapaima slowly swam closer to the tourists. They had small heads and even smaller eyes. When they moved sideways, one of their eyes seemed to be looking at Jiang Yubai.
Jiang Yubai walked away immediately. He pulled Lin Zhixia's sleeve, took his catfish greeting card, and walked to the safe area.
The clock pointed to twelve noon, and some classmates in the class were clamoring for lunch.
The aquarium restaurant prepared lunch boxes for everyone, one for each person, two vegetarian dishes and one meat dish. The vegetarian dishes were stir-fried Chinese cabbage and braised tofu, and the meat dish was beef brisket with radish. Lin Zhixia queued up to receive the lunch box and treasured it very much. She said to Gan Shuli, "This lunch box is much better than I thought."
Gan Shuli feels the same way.
She and Lin Zhixia found a random seat. Soon after, Jiang Yubai, Ding Yan, Dong Sunqi, Han Dawei and others came with their lunch boxes and sat near Lin Zhixia.
Han Dawei lifted the transparent plastic cover of the lunch box, opened the disposable bamboo chopsticks, and shouted: "What a delicious rice!" He picked up the lunch box with his left hand, held the chopsticks in his right hand, and shoveled rice into his mouth.
"The rice is chewy! The beef brisket is delicious!" Han Dawei wiped his mouth with his sleeve and expressed his feelings. He noticed that Jiang Yubai was reluctant to pick up his chopsticks, and asked curiously: "Hey, Jiang Yubai, why don't you eat?"
The restaurant in the aquarium is spacious and bright, and is decorated like a university cafeteria. At a glance, it is full of rows of blue plastic tables and red plastic stools. Jiang Yubai was in such an environment, facing a box lunch and disposable bamboo chopsticks, and suddenly lost his appetite. He is not a person who pays much attention to the dining atmosphere, but he thinks that today's dishes will definitely make him hard to swallow.
"Jiang Yubai?" Lin Zhixia called his name.
He asked, "What's up?"
Lin Zhixia asked back: "Have you never eaten a box lunch?"
As soon as he finished speaking, several students nearby all stared at Jiang Yubai. The lights in the cafeteria seemed to be focused on Jiang Yubai's head, and he was the center of attention. Without saying a word, he opened his lunch box on the spot and ate solemnly and formally.
The tofu seasoning was salty, the cabbage tasted average, the beef brisket had a slight fishy smell, and the rice... the rice was slightly overcooked. Just as Jiang Yubai had expected, he was not used to this kind of food.
Ding Yan laughed at him, hoping to stir up trouble: "Haha, Jiang Yubai, you can't eat, right? I was watching "Iron Teeth and Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan" and saw this episode! The young master of the noble family went on a secret visit and couldn't eat the food of ordinary people... Jiang Yubai, you must be hungry!"
Well, Ding Yan is indeed a friend that Jiang Yubai met through fighting.
Jiang Yubai did not argue. He unzipped his schoolbag, found his lunch box, poured out two apple cakes, and placed them on the rice. The cakes had already cooled down, but the rice was boiling hot. The steaming heat had a heating effect, causing the temperature of the cakes to rise sharply.
He ate the apple pie. The filling was soft and not too sweet or greasy, just to his taste.
Or maybe his taste changes randomly. He just remembered Lin Zhixia's words "I made the filling" when he was eating the stuffed pancake. Some uncles and aunts he knows ask the chefs to create a story for each dish when they go to a restaurant for dinner - as long as the story is touching enough, diners are willing to spend a lot of money. Pure gourmets are no longer welcome, and the appreciation of food culture is the eternal high art.
Jiang Yubai didn't expect that he would be so bored. Anyway, he ate all the apple pie.
Ding Yan was very confused: "Is this your lunch box?"
Jiang Yubai admitted: "Yes."
Ding Yan was surprised: "You are so frugal? You even brought two cakes from home?"
Jiang Yubai's actions spoke louder than words. He picked up his chopsticks and continued to taste his lunch box.
There is a souvenir shop next to the restaurant. The students got the teacher's permission to go shopping in the shop. The gathering time was 1:30 pm, and many students rushed into the souvenir shop as soon as they finished their meals.
There was a round display stand at the entrance of the store, which was covered with exquisite key rings and pendants of various small animals, including seals, dolphins, walruses, etc. Lin Zhixia gently turned the round plate, and the seals, dolphins, and walruses began to rotate. She clapped her hands happily, "So cute."
"How much is one?" Gan Shuli asked.
Lin Zhixia looked at the price tag: "Fourteen yuan each."
Gan Shuli asked again: "Are you buying it, Lin Zhixia?"
"I won't buy it," Lin Zhixia said, "It's a bit expensive."
Gan Shuli reluctantly let go of the dolphin pendant: "I only brought ten yuan... I can't buy it."
Lin Zhixia reached into her pocket and said, "I have three coins. If you borrow one more coin from someone, you can make fourteen coins." While she was rummaging for coins, Zhou Bufeng passed by her.
The souvenir shop attracted a large crowd of tourists. A bustling crowd gathered in front of the shelves, stirring up a buzz of noisy conversation.
Zhou Bufeng was short in stature. He easily joined the crowd, pulled up his sleeves, tore off four key rings, stuffed them into his school bag, and turned to walk out of the store. His movements were skillful and concise, like a habitual thief roaming the streets.
"Zhou Bufeng!" Lin Zhixia called out his name.
She saw him stealing!
As Zhou Bufeng's classmate, Lin Zhixia felt that she had an obligation to supervise him. She grabbed Zhou Bufeng's schoolbag and threatened him in a low voice: "Please return the things. Otherwise, I will call the security guards and the salesperson."
"Get away!" Zhou Bufeng pushed Lin Zhixia away.
The backpack strap slipped from his shoulder and caught his elbow. He exerted force on his wrist and pulled it back, staring at the ground, saying, "Let go! Let go! Who knows you?"
In addition to Lin Zhixia, Gan Shuli was also a bystander in the whole incident. Gan Shuli was one of Lin Zhixia's few friends.
Gan Shuli is a quiet and introverted person, and usually speaks in a soft voice. But now, Gan Shuli shouted loudly: "Someone stole something! Teacher Wu! Zhou Bufeng stole something and beat someone up! Zhou Bufeng stole something and beat someone up!"
Teacher Wu rushed to the crime scene.
In a flash, Teacher Wu grabbed Zhou Bufeng and dragged him into the restaurant. Under the gaze of a large group of adults and elementary school students, Teacher Wu took off Zhou Bufeng's schoolbag, opened it wide, and fell to the ground, and all the contents were dumped on the ground.
The four key chains of the aquarium are quietly displayed before the public.
Teacher Wu's face was pale with a hint of blue, and then blue with a hint of purple. She tried her best to suppress her anger, and the veins on her forehead were visible, and she looked gloomy. It was the most terrifying expression Lin Zhixia had ever seen in her life.
"Stealing! You stole again!" Teacher Wu scolded, "You just can't control your hands! I'm going to call your grandfather right now!"
Zhou Bufeng burst into tears. He cried and said, "I didn't steal... I wanted to buy something!"
The tears dripped onto the tiles, and Zhou Bufeng cried so hard that he couldn't catch his breath.
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