While waiting in line, Zhong Xiaochen pulled Yun Mo aside and whispered, "Your family should be well off, right? I thought someone like you would be proud and wouldn't come to the cafeteria to eat."

"Why do you say that?"

"Don't you know? Canteen 1 is a well-known poverty alleviation canteen. Most of the people who eat there are poor students."

Seeing Yun Mo was silent, Zhong Xiaochen quickly explained: "I don't mean to look down on anyone, I just feel that you rich girls from good families are more concerned about your reputation and would find it embarrassing to eat in a cafeteria."

"What about you? Don't you feel ashamed?"

"Of course I wouldn't. My family is average, and my parents are ordinary workers. When I was a child, in order to save money, my parents would always order a little more food from the factory, and bring the leftovers home to make a meal. That's how I've been raised since I was a child."

Yun Mo smiled and said, "Everyone is about the same."

“Ah, are your parents also workers?”

"My mother used to live in the countryside and only moved to the city in the past two years. My father runs his own business."

"Oh, I see."

Yun Mo didn't ask the other party what he understood, and changed the topic.

After lunch, the two female classmates went back to the dormitory to rest, while Yun Mo and Zhong Xiaochen went to the library to read books to kill time.

On the way to the library, seeing a public telephone booth, Yun Mo asked Zhong Xiaochen to go to the library first to find a seat, while she called Huang Zhiqiu and Shao Lin respectively to report on the first day of class.

After the call, Yun Mo stared at the phone for a while, then put in another fifty-cent coin and dialed Xiaoyuan's number.

It was Yao Suhua who answered the phone. When she heard her voice, she knew immediately, "Xiao Ling is in the kitchen washing dishes. I'll go call him."

"Well, thank you Aunt Yao."

Hearing Yao Suhua's laughter on the other end of the phone, Yun Mo's cheeks felt slightly hot.

"Hey, wife? Have you had lunch yet?"

"I ate. Nothing much. I just called to tell you that I'm fine at school."

"That's good. Did you eat in the cafeteria? Did you like the food?"

"It's just average, far worse than what you cook."

Hearing this, Ling Chuan couldn't help but grin, and even his voice became gentler, "Then I'll cook dinner early this afternoon and wait for you to come back. What dishes do you want to eat?"

"Whatever, you decide. Okay, it's time. I won't say any more to you. Bye."

"Um."

When Yun Mo hung up the phone and came out of the phone booth, she found a small queue outside the phone booth.

In those days, the only means of communication besides telegrams and letters was the telephone. Although there were many public telephone booths on the campus of Kyoto University, the number of teachers and students was large, so noon and afternoon after school were the peak times for telephone use.

Yun Mo made three calls in one breath, forcing others who wanted to use the phone to wait.

"Sorry to take up everyone's time."

Waiting under the scorching sun made everyone feel annoyed, but when they saw that Yun Mo was so beautiful and polite, their anger immediately subsided by more than half.

"It doesn't matter, first come first served." The boy who was first in line replied.

Yun Mo nodded to the other party, then turned and walked towards the library.

"Hey, do you still need the phone?"

It was not until the people behind him urged him that the boy in the first line came back to his senses from Yun Mo's slim figure, and walked hurriedly into the phone booth with a red face.

Because it was lunch time, there were not many people in the library, and Yun Mo easily found Zhong Xiaochen who had a good seat.

"Shao Mo, you are reading the original novel, can you understand it?"

Faced with Zhong Xiaochen's surprise, Yun Mo suddenly realized that what she was doing seemed a bit of a show-off.

Although students who can enter Peking University are the top students in various schools, due to the different environments and teaching methods, the English level of most of them only stays at the level of situational conversations and short essays, which is far from the level of being able to fluently read original English works.

“I can only understand the general idea. I can learn by watching.”

Zhong Xiaochen nodded in understanding. "You work so hard, so your English grades should be very good, right?"

"Well enough."

"I really envy you. My English is not good. I only scored over 120 points in the college entrance examination. Can I ask you for help with English in the future?"

"Can."

Seeing that Zhong Xiaochen was really willing to learn English well, Yun Mo offered him some suggestions without hesitation.

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"Learning English is not difficult. You can make it a part of your daily life. For example, listen to English radio or English poetry every day and read more English newspapers. Over time, your English ability will definitely improve."

"Okay, I'll try, thank you."

"You're welcome."

In the afternoon, we mainly hold class meetings and copy the course schedule for this semester, and then we can pick up the textbooks and go home.

Before school was over, the class monitor announced that a class activity would be held this weekend. The content of the activity was tentatively decided, but it would be chosen between an autumn outing and mountain climbing.

Yun Mo was stumped when it came to getting the textbooks. More than a dozen textbooks, stacked together, were as thick as four or five bricks. They were so heavy that it was difficult to even carry them in her hands, let alone riding a bicycle with so many books.

It was in public and there was no way she could put the books in the right place. Just when she was in a dilemma, a boy of medium height walked up to her and offered to help her carry the books.

Yun Mo could tell at a glance that the other party's enthusiasm was purposeful and she declined directly.

"No, thank you. My partner will pick me up."

When the boy heard her say she had a boyfriend, he was stunned and then left in embarrassment.

In order to avoid being approached by more male classmates, Yun Mo hurriedly left the academic building with her books and went into a women's restroom.

In the toilet cubicle, Yun Mo put the book into the space, then took some thick clothes from the space and put them into her backpack, creating the illusion that the books were in the backpack, and then rode her bicycle home with the bulging backpack on her back.

When they returned to the courtyard, Ling Chuan was cooking dinner in the kitchen. Yao Suhua had gone somewhere and was not at home.

Yun Mo went to the study first, took out the textbooks from the space, placed them on the desk, and then went to the kitchen.

"Wife, you're out of school so early?"

In the kitchen, Ling Chuan was wearing an apron and cooking. When he saw her, he was immediately delighted.

"Well, I don't have any classes today and I finish school early. What do you have for dinner?"

As Yun Mo spoke, she walked to the stove with her hands behind her back and leaned forward to look into the pot.

"There's sweet and sour pork tenderloin, stir-fried shrimp, and smashed cucumber. Aunt Yao and Zeng Fang didn't go home to eat, so I only made these three dishes."

"Three is enough for us."

Yun Mo brought the prepared dishes to the dining table outside, then picked a watermelon from the space, cut it in half and put it in the refrigerator, ready to have it as after-meal fruit.

(End of this chapter)