Chapter 195
Jiang Ning did not return to school that night. She went to the dormitory at noon the next day with the dried sheets and quilt.
Students are not allowed to live off campus during their first year of study and must live in the school dormitories.
This time her dormitory was located in Room 401 on the fourth floor, with a total of six people in the room.
Different from the papers in No. 1 Middle School that were initiated by her, the papers in Peking University were all spontaneous. When Jiang Ning returned to the dormitory, the girls in the dormitory were either reading books or sitting in front of the small square table writing something with pens.
Seeing Jiang Ning coming back, the round-faced girl who was reading on the small square table in front of the window looked up from her book and greeted Jiang Ning with a gentle smile: "Are you back?"
"Yes." Jiang Ning nodded with a smile, climbed to the upper bunk, opened the mosquito net, and spread out the bed sheets that he had washed and dried yesterday.
The round-faced girl Liu Yan walked to Jiang Ning's bed, looked up at Jiang Ning who was making the bed, and asked with a smile: "Huh? Have you washed your sheets?"
The sheets issued by the school are blue plaid and very bright in color. They faded a little after the first wash. They just came to school yesterday and put the new sheets and quilts on as soon as they got them. They haven't been washed yet and are very new. The color is very obvious when they are placed side by side with Jiang Ning's washed and faded sheets.
"Huh? The bed sheet is fading?" The girl with a round face and bright hair is called Liu Yan. Maybe it's because she has been combing her hair back tightly for a long time, but her hairline is a bit high, her forehead is round, and her face is also round. She is about 1.71 meters tall and weighs about 130 to 140 kilograms. She is not strong, just a little chubby. However, she looks very kind and her temperament is a bit like Jiang Ning's aunt. Her eyebrows and eyes are soft, which makes people feel close to her when they see her.
She had just arrived in Beijing yesterday. After registering, she received her things, thinking that they were new items issued by the school. In addition, the sheets would not be dry in the afternoon, so she did not think about washing them. After seeing Jiang Ning's washed and dried sheets, she realized that the new sheets were actually a little faded. She returned to her bed, lifted the mat, and touched her blue plaid sheets.
The sheets were pure cotton, so the color wouldn't fade if touched. But after giving it some thought, she lifted the mat, took off the sheets and quilt covers underneath, and took them to the bathroom to wash.
Seeing the girl lying on the bunk below her, she asked casually, "Qianqian, do you want to take a shower together?"
The girls in the dormitory had never thought about washing new sheets before. When they saw Liu Yan washing the sheets, Yu Qianqian, whose name was called, stood up immediately and said, "Yes, wait for me for a while." She immediately packed her own sheets and went to wash them. Before leaving, she called Zhang Min, who was on the lower bunk opposite Jiang Ning, "Zhang Min, aren't you going to wash them?"
Zhang Min was reading a book. Hearing this, she looked up and said, "I can't help it. It's a new bed sheet with a cool mat between them. No one has slept on it before. Why should I wash it?"
The two girls from Beijing had not originally thought of washing the sheets, but when they saw them all washing them, they hesitated for a moment, put down the books in their hands, and got up to wash the sheets.
There is a washing machine in the bathroom, which was only installed in the past two years. It is very new. The local girl from Beijing put the quilt cover and sheets into the washing machine and asked the others, "Do you want to wash in the washing machine?"
Liu Yan had already wet the sheets and was washing them, so she shook her head and said, "Thank you, but no, new sheets don't need much washing, just rinse them."
The girl with a round face and a pointed jaw, who was also from Beijing, handed over her quilt cover and bed sheet and said with a smile, "I want it."
She had never done housework at home, and she didn't know how to wash clothes in the washing machine. When the girl in suspenders asked her, she naturally put the sheets in the washing machine, and then watched the girl in suspenders operate the washing machine with curiosity.
The girl in suspenders is named Cui Yujie. The reason why she is called that is because she is wearing a very tight suspenders with a small cardigan on the outside. The buttons of the cardigan are not buttoned, revealing the tightly wrapped suspenders inside. The first impression given by people is that she is slender and thin.
They had just met, and although they had introduced themselves by name, except for those with easy-to-remember names, no one could remember them, so they could only refer to them by their features in their minds.
Cui Yujie, the girl wearing suspenders, saw the white-skinned girl with dimples staring at her and asked her with a smile, "What are you looking at?"
The white-skinned girl with dimples smiled sweetly and said, "Let me see how to use the washing machine, and I'll be able to do it next time."
Cui Yujie exclaimed: "No way? You haven't used a washing machine before? Don't you have a washing machine at home?"
The white-skinned girl with dimples still smiled sweetly and said, "There is a washing machine, but I have never used it. I was planning to take the clothes home to wash them after a week. Now that there is a washing machine, I can wash them myself in the future."
She studied the buttons and said with a smile, "It doesn't look that difficult."
"Yes, it's very simple. I don't wash clothes at home, my mother washes them. I can do it after watching for a few seconds." He pressed the switch and turned it to the washing position. "You see, it's very simple."
The fair-skinned girl with dimples nodded in agreement, as if she had learned something: "It's very simple."
While they were talking, Yu Qianqian was listening with her ears perked up. She had never used a washing machine before and didn't want to reveal that she didn't know how to use it, so she wanted to learn it quietly on her own.
Liu Yan turned around and looked at him calmly, her hands moving non-stop.
Cui Yujie saw her curious and inquiring eyes and taught them, "It's very simple. Look, this is the switch button. Just press the switch and turn the cleaning button. Isn't it simple?"
Yu Qianqian nodded somewhat embarrassedly.
Cui Yujie said: "Don't be embarrassed. Next time if you don't know anything, you can just ask me and I will teach you."
After Cui Yujie and the white-skinned girl with dimples returned to the dormitory, Yu Qianqian came over to look at the meaning of the words around the buttons on the washing machine. In fact, they were very easy to recognize. They learned it at a glance. They thought about trying the washing machine themselves next time, so that they would not have to wash clothes by hand every time and could save time for reading and studying.
Her family lived in the suburbs and she had never used a washing machine. When Cui Yujie and the others were talking just now, she had been listening attentively but didn't dare to ask. After they left, she came over to see and asked Liu Yan, "Liu Yan, can you use a washing machine?"
Liu Yan had just watched Cui Yujie operate it once and already knew how to do it. While washing the sheets, she said, "I've never used it before, but it looks very simple. I should be able to do it after a while."
It does look simple. Yu Qianqian thought.
She wanted to try throwing her sheets and quilt covers into another washing machine, but she was afraid that she would damage the washing machine since it was her first time. After thinking about it, she went back to the sink, wrung out her sheets and quilt covers, and took them back to the dormitory with Liu Yan. On the way back, she kept looking back at the washing machine.
There is a long corridor on the west side of the dormitory where clothes can be hung to dry. Due to the orientation, there is no sunlight in the morning, and only in the afternoon does the sunlight shine in through the large sliding glass windows. At this moment, there are many clothes hung in the corridor that they took off after taking a shower last night.
Last night, Yu Qianqian hung her underwear and pants here. When Cui Yujie saw it, her face immediately turned black and she scolded with a sullen face: "Who hung underwear here? How can I leave?" There were even more unpleasant things to say, but she didn't scold him on the first day of school.
Yu Qianqian did not say that they were her clothes at the time. When Cui Yujie went to take a shower, she hurriedly took off her underwear and quietly hung them on the telescopic pole facing southeast.
There are many girls who hang their underwear and trousers in the corridor to dry. After hearing people scolding them, some girls realized that underwear and trousers should be hung on the telescopic pole facing southeast in the dormitory by default. This not only avoids the problem of others walking under your trousers and underwear, but also makes underwear and trousers that have been exposed to the sun more hygienic to wear.
Liu Yan liked bed sheets and quilt covers. She took them to the dormitory and stretched her head to look underneath.
Although they don't have a balcony, there are still telescopic rods outside the windows.
Before Liu Yan hung the sheets to dry, she looked downstairs and saw that there were no sheets, only clothes hanging to dry. She shouted downstairs, "Classmates downstairs, classmates downstairs!"
The person who was reading in front of the window downstairs heard someone shouting, so he stuck his head out of the window in confusion and looked up to ask what was going on.
Liu Yan smiled sheepishly and said, "I washed the sheets and they are dripping. I am afraid your clothes will get wet. Can you pull the clothes-drying pole back a little? I will extend it out a little so that your clothes will not get wet. Can you please call the students on the second floor as well?"
There was no telescopic clothes rod on the first floor, so a rope was tied to a small tree next to the flower bed below the dormitory. Clothes and sheets were hung on the rope, so there was no need to worry about dripping water from upstairs.
Liu Yan carefully folded the sheets neatly and placed them on the clothesline. She then used a clothes fork to prop up the wet sheets and quilt covers and sent them to the outermost clothesline, while trying her best to avoid the drying clothes of the classmates below.
The students downstairs saw the water dripping from above, and even though Liu Yan had tried her best to avoid their clothes, they still took in their underwear, pants and other clothes that had already been dried.
Yu Qianqian had no intention of notifying others to collect the clothes. It was only when she saw Liu Yan doing so that she remembered that if she had not seen Liu Yan's action and had directly hung the clothes to dry, she would probably be scolded to death by the people below.
Cui Yujie saw it and said, "Why bother? Just throw the sheets into the washing machine. There's no water at all and they'll dry quickly."
With the high temperatures in late summer, it does dry out quickly.
Zhang Min saw that they all washed the sheets except her. She didn't want to wash them, and she felt uncomfortable, different from them, as if she was very dirty.
She lay down on the quilt she had folded, rubbed her face on it, and said to them, "It's only because the school doesn't have to harvest crops twice a year, otherwise we wouldn't be able to finish the work in the fields, and we'd be too tired to even breathe, so how would we have time to wash the sheets? I've never seen anyone wash new sheets, so can washed sheets still be called new sheets?"
They are all so pretentious.
Liu Yan just smiled and said nothing, then climbed onto her bed and continued reading.
Yu Qianqian smiled and said, "You're right. I don't want to wash it either. The quilt cover is so big, and twisting it makes me so tired!"
Cui Yujie smiled and continued, "I told you to throw it in the washing machine. There are three washing machines there, but you don't use them."
After she finished her sentence, no one in the dormitory responded.
For a moment, the dormitory was quiet.
Jiang Ning, who had been sitting cross-legged on the upper bunk watching the scene in the dormitory, roughly judged the general behavior style of the new roommates in the dormitory just from this one incident.
In the evening, a group of people went downstairs to eat. Cui Yujie, the girl in suspenders, spontaneously walked together with Shen Xinlan, the white-skinned girl with dimples. Yu Qianqian, Liu Yan, and Zhang Min walked together. Jiang Ning, who came last, walked alone.
Seeing that she was alone, Liu Yan asked her curiously, "You were not in the dormitory yesterday. Did you go home? Are you also from Beijing?"
For a moment, several people looked towards Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning smiled and shook his head, "No."
Liu Yan was waiting for her to continue, but Jiang Ning disappeared.
But everyone can basically judge from this point that Jiang Ning either has relatives in Beijing, owns a house, or rents a house outside the school.
They all tend to favor the first and second points. As for the third point, since they already have dormitories, who would want to rent a house off campus? It’s not like I have so much money that I’m burning it.
But just based on this point, everyone in the dormitory was more polite to Jiang Ning. After all, just looking at her clothes, although she didn't dress like Shen Xinlan, she looked like a little princess who grew up in a pampered family with no shortage of money, but she didn't look like someone with particularly poor conditions.
Those who are in poorer conditions, such as Liu Yan and Zhang Min, can be seen at a glance.
After dinner, Liu Yan, Zhang Min, Yu Qianqian and Jiang Ning got some water and returned to the dormitory. Cui Yujie and Shen Xinlan left for other things. In the evening, Cui Yujie and Shen Xinlan came back to inform them that the department would hold a freshman meeting the next day.
Zhang Min asked curiously, "Why did you notify us? Why didn't we receive any notification?"
Cui Yujie said without disguising: "The department head called all of us from Beijing to a meeting in the evening. After all, we are more familiar with Beijing."
Mainly, many parents of freshmen from Beijing, even if they don’t know the department director, teachers, and professors, have all used various connections. The department director asked them to come over, not to take care of them privately, but to make it clear to them that although their parents had used connections to ask him to take care of them more, the prerequisite was that they had to be obedient, study hard, and not make trouble. They could come to him if they had any problems, but he would not cover up if anyone made trouble for him.
Then, by the way, ask them to inform others that the department will hold a freshman meeting at nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
But when Cui Yujie said this, it was as if she was saying that they had a lot of connections in Beijing and the department head was also their background.
Liu Yan, Yu Qianqian and Zhang Min, who were not familiar with these twists and turns, were immediately shocked.
Zhang Min asked with a hint of curiosity: "Is the dean of the department your relative?"
Cui Yujie smiled and said nothing, but Shen Xinlan smiled and said, "No, don't get me wrong, the dean called us over to warn us."
But no matter what they said, in the minds of Liu Yan, Zhang Min and others, it was left that local students from Beijing had a different impression from their teachers and deans.
The next morning, Jiang Ning got up at 5:40 as usual. After washing up, she went to the playground to warm up and jog. When she came back, several girls in the dormitory had also gotten up. The six people in the dormitory spontaneously formed three small groups. Cui Yujie and Shen Xinlan were in one group, Liu Yan, Zhang Min and Yu Qianqian were in another group, and Jiang Ning was in a group alone.
But among the three small groups, Liu Yan wanted to pull Jiang Ning to join them, and Shen Xinlan didn't seem to like Cui Yujie. When she saw Jiang Ning coming back from running, she smiled and greeted Jiang Ning: "You got up so early, do you want to go downstairs for breakfast together?"
Jiang Ning smiled and wiped the sweat off her face with a towel, then took the wash basin and some clothes and said, "Go, I'm going to take a shower and change clothes first."
Shen Xinlan naturally replied: "Okay, then I'll wait for you."
When Jiang Ning came back, all five people in the dormitory were there.
Everyone probably noticed that Shen Xinlan's family conditions might be the best in the dormitory. Cui Yujie wanted to form a group with Shen Xinlan. Other people in the dormitory noticed this and also vaguely centered around Shen Xinlan.
Before this, Zhang Yan, Yu Qianqian and the others were very simple girls who only focused on studying. However, social relationships are a subtle and implicit relationship. As soon as they arrived in the new environment, they were already in this subtle social relationship.
So naturally, a situation was formed where Cui Yujie was next to Shen Xinlan, Shen Xinlan and Jiang Ning were next to each other, Liu Yan and Jiang Ning were next to each other and talked from time to time, and next to her were Liu Min and Yu Qianqian.
Cui Yujie, who had always wanted to be the one with the most say in the dormitory, wanted to control the entire dormitory 401 and make the entire dormitory 401 listen to her, inexplicably became a marginal figure in the dormitory just like Yu Qianqian, but she herself did not realize it at all.
Perhaps, it is difficult for people involved to notice this subtle change in the relationship.
Jiang Ning was from the School of Mathematics, and the girls in her dormitory were all science majors.
The freshman meeting in the morning mainly discussed four things.
First, there is the welcome party; second, there is the registration for the upcoming autumn sports meet for college students; third, it is about this year’s centennial anniversary celebration, and their department will be putting on a show; fourth, it is about the election of class leaders, which requires students to actively sign up with their counselors, and then vote for class leaders through their own speeches.
After the freshman meeting, each class will elect class leaders.
The counselor asked them to raise their hands and nominate themselves, and then the classmates would elect them.
Jiang Ning herself was not interested in these things at all, she just watched quietly. Liu Yan wanted to participate in the class cadre election. She was active and calm. Zhang Min was eager to try, but a little hesitant. She whispered to Yu Qianqian below: "Aren't you going to sign up?"
Yu Qianqian shook her head: "I'm not going, you go."
Zhang Min said: "Then you vote for me."
Yu Qianqian nodded: "Okay."
Cui Yujie, a girl wearing suspenders in their dormitory, was the most enthusiastic. She turned around and said to them, "Hey, we're all from the same dormitory. I'm going to run for class monitor. You all have to vote for me. If I become class monitor, I'll treat you to a meal!" She then asked Shen Xinlan, "Xinlan, who are you running for?"
"Propaganda committee member, right?" Shen Xinlan said in a light tone. She turned her head to ask Jiang Ning: "Jiang Ning, what about you?"
Jiang Ning smiled and shook his head: "I'll leave the matter of serving the class to you."
She just wanted to rest and focus on studying during the school day.
Like Liu Min and Yu Qianqian, many freshmen are in a wait-and-see state and are somewhat embarrassed to stand out. At this time, those who are extroverted and have served as class leaders in junior high and high school become much more active and generous.
Liu Yan has been a class monitor since childhood and has been a class monitor for nearly ten years. She speaks and acts slowly and steadily, and is also running for the position of class monitor.
There are quite a few people in their class who have served as class monitor. There are more boys than girls in the School of Mathematics, and there are two boys who are also running for the position of class monitor.
Cui Yujie stood up and talked a lot about her desire to be class monitor, mainly emphasizing that she was a native of Beijing and what benefits she could bring to her classmates as class monitor. Unfortunately, her words sounded nice, but were mostly just to praise herself. Another tall and steady boy in the class was elected instead. She became the deputy class monitor and was a little unhappy.
She has been the deputy monitor since high school and has always wanted to be the class monitor. She thought that when she went to college, she would finally have the opportunity to become the class monitor, but in the end she remained the deputy monitor.
I feel sad.
Liu Yan did not become the class monitor, but became the league secretary.
Shen Xinlan is the propaganda committee member.
There are six girls and three class leaders in the dormitory.
Afterwards, the class leaders stayed to hold the meeting, while Jiang Ning, Yu Qianqian and others returned to the dormitory.
On the way, Yu Qianqian asked Jiang Ning curiously: "Jiang Ning, why didn't you run for class leader?"
The main reason was Jiang Ning. She looked like a class leader. I thought she would run for election, but unexpectedly she didn't run for anything. Just like her, she was completely out of the picture.
Zhang Min was also a little curious: "That's right, why didn't you choose?"
Jiang Ning smiled and asked back: "What about you? You were able to be admitted to Beijing University. You all had good grades in high school. You should all be class leaders, right?"
It’s true.
Yu Qianqian was the study committee member in her original high school, and her only responsibility was to study well, while Zhang Min was the math class representative.
When they returned to the dormitory at night, they had to elect a dormitory leader again. Cui Yujie was still very active in recommending herself, but no one in the dormitory chose her. Four votes were cast for Liu Yan. Among them, Jiang Ning received one vote from Shen Xinlan, and Cui Yujie voted for herself.
When Cui Yujie learned the voting results, her face suddenly fell.
She originally thought that even if she was not elected as the dormitory head, she would at least have three votes, right? I don’t know who it is, but he voted for Jiang Ning instead of her? She suspected that the vote cast for Jiang Ning was actually cast by Jiang Ning for himself.
Thinking of this, she became even more upset, because this meant that, except for her and Jiang Ning, everyone in the dormitory voted for Liu Yan.
She complained to Shen Xinlan in a low voice, "Xinlan, why didn't you choose me?"
She thought that she and Shen Xinlan were both from Beijing and belonged to a small group, so she naturally regarded Shen Xinlan's vote as her own. Unexpectedly, Shen Xinlan looked at her with a smile and said, "The dormitory head has to regulate the dormitory order and dormitory hygiene."
You look like someone who is stirring up trouble, not someone who is trying to calm it down.
Although they had only been together for two days and were not familiar with each other yet, these two days were enough for them to form a preliminary impression of their new roommates and classmates.
Everyone, who were already feeling a little uncomfortable with Cui Yujie's superior way of speaking, couldn't help but smile at each other. Only Cui Yujie sat on her upper bunk unhappily, sulking and ignoring them.
Liu Yan took out a class schedule and asked them to copy it.
Shen Xinlan and Cui Yujie have already copied the class schedule, only Zhang Min, Yu Qianqian and Jiang Ning have not copied it yet.
When Zhang Min and Yu Qianqian were copying the class schedule, they saw Jiang Ning sitting on the upper bunk and didn't get down. They looked up and called her, "Jiang Ning, aren't you going to come down and copy the class schedule? The lights will be turned off soon."
I thought Jiang Ning would wait until they finished copying before copying, but Jiang Ning shook his head and said, "I don't need it."
Yu Qianqian was puzzled and turned around to ask her curiously: "Why? Class starts tomorrow!"
Jiang Ning put down the book in his hand, smiled and said, "I have finished all my freshman courses."
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