At this moment, Zhou Xueqing suddenly said to Cao Dan, "Let's have dinner at the school gate later. I don't want to eat in the cafeteria."
Upon hearing this, Cao Dan looked up at her and nodded, "Okay."
Yuan Mengge glanced at her lower bunkmate; she hadn't arrived yet.
She took the straw mat that Yuan Pingping had left behind and threw it away, then put her newly bought one on top of it.
Then she climbed into bed, tied up the mosquito net, took out the quilt and pillow and put them on the bed before getting out of bed.
Then she went to the cafeteria to eat by herself.
After she left, the two people in the dormitory glanced at the door with subtle expressions.
Cao Dan said with some surprise, "Why is she so quiet today? She's usually always chattering away..."
Zhou Xueqing shook her head: "Who knows? Isn't it good that she's quiet? Why bother with her?"
Upon hearing her words, Cao Dan said, "It's just that she usually finds fault with everything and everyone as soon as she enters this dormitory, so it's a bit strange that she's suddenly so quiet today."
Zhou Xueqing said, "It's the last semester, and I still have to share a dorm with her! I really wish time would just end and I could graduate quickly so I don't have to see her again."
Yuan Mengge didn't hear their conversation; she had already gone downstairs.
The school cafeteria is located behind the teaching building and the teachers' dormitory. It is a metal shed with a wall on three sides, but the main entrance is not blocked, leaving the cafeteria completely open.
The cafeteria has some old desks and long benches that serve as dining tables for students to sit and eat.
However, most students prefer to pack the food in a lunchbox and take it back to their dorm to eat.
Yuan Mengge came down with her lunchbox. There was only one place to get food in the cafeteria. A row of tables were set up in the kitchen, and large pots of vegetables were served in large iron basins. Rice was served on the other side, and soup pots were also next to the rice.
Normally, two chefs help serve the food, but today there are fewer people, so there's only one.
Yuan Mengge walked to the rice cooker and filled the box more than halfway with rice, then left a third of the space for vegetables.
After getting my food, I walked over to the vegetable table and found three bowls containing one meat dish and two vegetable dishes: stir-fried greens, stir-fried potatoes, and stir-fried green beans with meat.
There were only a few pieces of meat, and I could only see a lot of broad beans.
Yuan Mengge took out her meal card and handed it to the uncle serving the food.
The cafeteria meal card is paid along with the tuition fee. The meal card can only be used to buy meals and cannot be used to buy anything else.
Moreover, they are handmade paper cards, and each one can only be used for one month. At the end of the month, you have to ask the homeroom teacher to exchange them.
The uncle serving the food checked off a small box on her meal card with a pen, returned the card to her, and then picked up the serving spoon to serve her the food.
When the uncle saw that she had a large lunchbox and had filled it with so much rice, he was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't say anything.
Girls generally eat less, but occasionally a few will eat a lot.
Yuan Mengge eats a lot; she exercises a lot and gets hungry very quickly.
She doesn't get enough to eat, even with the average amount of food a girl would have.
After getting her food, she found a clean spot to sit down and eat quietly.
There weren't many people eating in the cafeteria today, but there weren't very few either.
After all, most of the students who come to study in the town are not from wealthy families; they are mostly students from poor families.
So once you pay for food, you won't waste the money and will eat everything you're supposed to eat.
However, a few families with better financial conditions will eat out once or twice a week.
Especially today, many students who came to register had just received some pocket money from their parents, and they couldn't control their urge to spend it.
After finishing the whole box of food, I went to the sink to wash it.
Then I took the lunchbox and went back to my dorm.
When I got downstairs, I saw a girl with a blanket and a duffel bag in her left hand, a bucket full of things and a large bag in her right hand, a backpack on her back, and a duffel bag hanging on her shoulder.
They were struggling to climb the stairs.
Yuan Mengge followed behind her, watching as her and the pile of bags completely blocked out the light in the stairwell.
So I casually asked, "Do you need me to help you carry this? You're blocking the way."
Hearing her words, the girl subconsciously turned around and glanced at her, but then her eyes widened in surprise, and she frowned: "You... are you going to help me carry it?"
Yuan Mengge could tell from her eyes that she must know Yuan Pingping.
Moreover, judging from the other person's furrowed brows, the relationship was clearly not friendly.
Yuan Mengge raised an eyebrow and said indifferently, "If you don't want it, then forget it. Please move aside."
The girl didn't ask for her help in the end. Instead, she made way for Yuan Mengge and looked on with a puzzled expression as she walked up.
After Yuan Mengge went upstairs, she had just returned to her dormitory and hadn't even put down her lunchbox when she saw the girl with big bags and small bags walking in from the stairs.
Hmm? It's my roommate. No wonder his expression was a bit strange earlier.
After Yuan Mengge put the lunchbox on the bed, she climbed up.
After putting down a bunch of things, the girl sat on her lower bunk and looked up at her.
It turns out he was my roommate in the lower bunk.
Her roommate in the lower bunk is named Su Yue.
Yuan Mengge sat on the bed against the wall, planning to read for a while and rest before going outside for a run.
She hasn't finished her daily check-in task yet.
After putting her things down, Su Yue sat down on the lower bunk opposite her and sighed, "I'm exhausted..."
Her own bed was still dusty, so she couldn't sit on it and had to sit on Liu Xiaoqing's lower bunk opposite her.
Liu Xiaoqing and the other two went out but haven't returned yet.
The other two people in the dorm looked at her and replied, "Why did you bring so much stuff up here all by yourself? Didn't your parents help you carry it?"
Su Yue complained, "They don't care about me at all. They made me carry all these things out of the house by myself."
Suddenly remembering something, she immediately stood up, walked back to her bed, picked up one of the bags, and said, "I brought you some delicious food, Adan, Xueqing, come quickly!"
Upon hearing that she had something delicious to eat, both Cao Dan and the other person turned to look at her at the same time and asked, "What is it?"
As Su Yue opened the bag, she said, "My grandma fried peanut cakes and rice cakes, and also pan-fried coconut shreds and glutinous rice cakes. Come on, they're delicious."
Yuan Mengge glanced at the food when she heard it was there, but no one called her over.
Thinking about the way the other person looked at her in the stairwell, it was clear that the other person probably wouldn't ask her to eat.
Indeed, Su Yue carried the bag directly to Zhou Xueqing's lower bunk and sat down.
Cao Dan and Zhou Xueqing both had upper bunks, and at this moment they climbed down from their beds and sat down next to Su Yue.
A delicious aroma of fried food wafted out.
Yuan Mengge read her book quietly.
The three of them sat together and started eating snacks and chatting.
Not long after, the last roommate arrived.
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