Chapter 134
Su Yuanzheng brought in the food. Since Su Miao just woke up at this time, it must be two meals combined into one.
"Miaomiao, go wash your face. Yuanyuan, come have dinner with us."
Li Yuanyuan was used to coming to the Su family, so she didn't shy away and said with a smile, "Hey, Uncle, I'm not hungry, but your food is delicious, so I still have some room in my stomach."
The main meal during the Chinese New Year must be sumptuous, but Li Yuanyuan had just eaten at a relative's house, so she only ate some braised food. She loved braised duck feet the most. Since Su Miao's family went to Yongcheng, she had never eaten such delicious braised food.
Su Miao chatted with her while eating: "Yuanyuan, why do I feel like you seem to have lost weight? Do you study a lot?"
Li Yuanyuan sighed, "It's definitely because I have a lot of homework, but that's not the reason I lost weight. I just can't get used to school."
"Oh! Your letter said that after New Year's Day, your school required the key classes to stay in boarding schools. So they must have been staying there for a month before winter break, right? Is the school food not that good?"
When it comes to accommodation, Li Yuanyuan is so upset that she wants to cry without tears. She has a lot of grievances to vent!
"Miaomiao, you don't know, I've always had my own room at home since I was a child. When I went to school to live in the dormitory, I had to sleep in one room with more than a dozen classmates. We used iron bunk beds. When I turned over, the whole bed would move, and I would always wake up at night."
Su Yuanzheng had never been to junior high school and thought the school's accommodations were quite good. He was surprised by Li Yuanyuan's description: "Do they sleep in bunk beds in school? It's just like our factory dormitories."
"Yes, uncle, that bed creaks a lot. It's made of just a few wooden planks. I sleep on the lower bunk now, and I'm always worried that the upper bunk will collapse one day!"
Su Miao was also a boarding student in junior high school in her previous life. At that time, Liu Xu had just remarried and didn't want her to go home to ruin the atmosphere, so she knew that the school's accommodation environment had not improved at that time.
"Can I apply for day study at the school? After all, your home isn't far away, so you don't really need to live there. Wasn't the school's accommodation system originally designed to make it easier for students from the towns down below to study?"
"The school won't let me. I don't know why they suddenly changed the rules. They said that in order to unify management, the key classes must live on campus. I can't sleep well, and the food is terrible. I can only go home on weekends to catch up."
"The food at school isn't good either?" Su Yuanzheng asked.
"The school cafeteria's purpose is to keep students from starving to death. The vegetables are all boiled in water, without any oil, and the meat dishes are just a few scraps of meat. We can only replenish our energy when we go home every weekend."
Su Miao sympathetically put some meat into her bowl: "Then eat more. By the way, can your family send you food?"
"It's only delivered on Wednesdays and Fridays. Other families have their grandparents delivering. My parents come home from work, and it's almost seven o'clock when they finish cooking. We have to go to evening self-study and there's no time to eat. We have to queue up to use the bathroom and take a shower, and we have to fight for hot water. You see, I cut my long hair just to make it easier to wash."
Su Yuanzheng was stunned when he heard this, and was glad that he followed his daughter to Yongcheng to accompany her studies, otherwise his daughter would have to suffer from poor accommodation.
Su Miao thought for a moment and said, "Actually, your uncle and aunt don't have to rush home to cook. They can get food from their workplace cafeteria and bring it to you. That way they'll be in time. Although it won't be as delicious as homemade, it should be better than the school cafeteria."
Li Yuanyuan's eyes lit up. "Right! I didn't think of that. My family never eats in the cafeteria, so I didn't expect this! The cafeteria at work is at least more savory than the one at school! Miao! You're really smart!"
"Why can it only be delivered on Wednesdays and Fridays? If it's for hygiene management, it shouldn't be delivered at all. But since it's being delivered, there's a time limit." Su Yuanzheng said puzzledly.
Su Miao said, "It's for the cafeteria's profitability. Everyone eats at home, so who would buy food from the cafeteria? Now their food is too unpalatable. If we don't allow parents and students to send food, there will definitely be a commotion. So we compromise and allow them to send food for two days."
Li Yuanyuan's eyes sparkled again. "Miaomiao, you're so smart! You guessed everything right. I heard from my seniors that the person in charge of the cafeteria is the principal's brother-in-law. His family is very rich! His own son is in the third grade at this school, and he gets special treatment every day. There are so many people who flatter him!"
After dinner, Su Miao and Li Yuanyuan lay on the bed and chatted. Li Yuanyuan suddenly looked a little sad.
"I don't feel as happy in junior high school anymore. There are so many things to do and I don't get along with my classmates as well as I did in elementary school. Many of them are forming cliques in the class and I don't know who to get along with. I really miss the days when we were desk mates."
Su Miao stroked her ear-cut hair and said, "Growing up is a complicated thing. The more you know, the more ideas you have. Yuanyuan, it's impossible for everyone to like you. We have to follow our hearts. Remember that we go to school to learn knowledge. Good friends can help each other. If there are classmates who are always negative, we don't have to make friends with them. We should just be ourselves and not try to please others."
Li Yuanyuan's mood warmed up a little, and then she thought of something: "Miaomiao, Ma Wenjie dropped out of school."
"Huh? Dropped out? Why? His grades were actually pretty good."
"I've been corresponding with you, so I know why he was expelled from No. 1 Middle School, but the other students don't know. It's all spread around. After all, everyone was desperate to get in, and no one had ever been rejected from the top.
Ma Wenjie had good grades, so when he returned, he joined our key class. I noticed he was much quieter than before, sometimes not saying a word all day. Once, a classmate went to ask him why he transferred back, and he immediately jumped up and hit the other person, grabbing the classmate's head and banging it against the wall.
"Ah?" Su Miao was extremely shocked. Although Ma Wenjie had set traps for her several times, they were all done secretly. The only time he showed his intense emotions in public was on the day he was fired.
"Later, his parents took that classmate to the hospital for a full-body checkup and paid a hundred yuan in nutrition fees. The teacher suggested taking Ma Wenjie to see a doctor, but the end result was that he was expelled from school. As for whether he was actually sick, we have no idea."
After hearing about Ma Wenjie's story, Su Miao couldn't help but sigh. A person's choices will affect his future path. If Ma Wenjie hadn't been so stubborn, he would still be a top student in No. 1 Middle School.
Judging from his parents' attitude towards him, they didn't care about him even when he was doing well, let alone now that he has dropped out of school. A 12 or 13-year-old child, born in a county town, with no land to guarantee production, will have a difficult road ahead.
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