At noon, Zhou Xiang brought the four tails home, and everyone sat around the eight-immortal table in a daze. There was no sign of the gentle and kind old woman in the house or in the yard, nor was there the always smiling Skeleton Brother Chao. Zhou's father's specialty dishes also failed to arouse everyone's appetite.
Even though everyone's midterm exam scores improved by several places, no one was happy.
Zhou Xiang got full marks as expected, but the four people were in no mood to congratulate her for retaining first place.
After a quiet lunch, everyone studied quietly and returned to school quietly.
After a few days, everyone finally recovered. Ji Bin was the first to recover. "Zhou Xiang, I want to go to Beijing during the summer vacation."
"I don't have time."
Zhou Xiang rolled her eyes at him unhappily. Her family's building was completed during the summer vacation, and she had to do some decoration and purchases, so she was very busy.
"What should we do then?"
"Next year, I'll participate in the National Junior High School Knowledge Competition and make it to the finals. Then I can go to Beijing."
Xiao Chunmei nodded. "Yes! I want to participate next year too. If I make it to the finals, I'll go see the blind lady again. She'll definitely be happy. Besides, they just went there and haven't settled down yet. If we go there this summer, it will cause them trouble."
"Okay! I'll join in too." Zhang Ning responded.
Li Li also responded, "I want to participate too!"
Zhou Hua looked at his sister and said, "Sister, what about me? I want to go too!"
If Mei Zi goes, he must go.
"Come on! Study hard in the second half of the year and strive to be with us."
"Okay! I will definitely work hard."
So, the six of them studied harder, and Zhou Hua also attended the classes of Ji Bin and Zhang Ning. Anyway, when his sister was giving a lecture, he would put down his pen and listen carefully.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, just remember it. When you learn it yourself, you will understand it naturally.
A week later, laughter was heard in the Zhou family yard. Shi Minglei, who lived next door, heard it and a smile appeared on his face.
Shi Mingxin felt creepy when he saw his elder brother smiling for no apparent reason. "Brother, can you please return to normal?"
In Lin County, Ling Ran went to the post office as usual without any hope to inquire if there were any letters or mails for him.
The post office clerk shook his head, "There's no letter, there's a large mail."
Seeing him shaking his head, Ling Ran accepted the fact, but who knew there was a big surprise behind it.
"Where is it?"
The post office clerk handed him the mailing slip, and the first thing he looked at was the signature.
The two words engraved into his bones made him ecstatic. "Quick, please take them out for me."
Zhang Shanbiao, who came with him, saw his appearance and could guess who had mailed the item to him.
"Your sister?"
Ling Ran turned around and glared at him, "Fuck you! How dare you curse!"
Zhang Shanbiao didn't know what he said wrong, but the devil's eyes were terrifying, so he quickly explained, "I was asking if the package was from your sister?"
"Yes."
Humph! I told you to be concise!
“There must be something delicious.”
"Wait until I open it."
The two men carried the huge package and put it on the broken jeep.
After a bumpy ride for most of the day, they finally reached the foot of the mountain, and then the two of them carried it up the mountain.
After opening the package, I found that it was full of food. Except for the White Rabbit, Thousand Head Fish and Small Silver Fish, everything else was broken. Fortunately, at least half of them were still whole.
"Zhang Shanbiao, take these mung bean skins, thousand-head fish, and small whitebait to the cafeteria as a snack for everyone."
Zhang Shanbiao didn't move. "Okay, I'll take a look at something else."
Ling Ran took out the White Rabbit bananas and said, "Please help me pick out some of these foods that are in good condition. You can take the rest and share them with everyone. The broken ones are also delicious. They are a specialty of my hometown. Sometimes we even crush them on purpose to eat them."
Zhang Shanbiao immediately smiled happily, "Okay, don't worry, as long as it's edible, I will definitely finish it. I can even lick the oil paper bag clean."
Ling Ran touched the letter he had just stuffed into his chest, "Well! Hurry up and sort it out!"
After Zhang Shanbiao asked someone to take away the food, Ling Ran locked the door, took out the letter and carefully opened it. There were only a few words of greeting in it, with a hint of concern.
He couldn't help but grin, the little girl finally remembered him.
He already knew how busy she was from his mother's letter. He didn't expect that she would still remember him this semester, but a surprise came when he was feeling lost.
Let his heart, eyes and body be filled with joy.
In the evening, three fresh dishes suddenly appeared in the cafeteria, which surprised the people at the base.
Cabbage stewed with mung bean skins? Whitebait and egg soup? Stir-fried thousand-head fish with chili peppers?
What is a mung bean skin? What is a thousand-headed fish? Does it have a thousand heads?
Whitebait is easy to understand, it's a silver fish! But isn't it milky white? Why is it called a whitebait?
The chef only knew how to make these three dishes after asking the Big Devil. He figured out the process based on the Big Devil's description of the finished products.
After making them, I tasted them and they were all good, especially the silverfish and egg soup, which was so delicious.
Therefore, he only allowed half of the soup to be poured out, leaving the other half to deal with these gluttons.
Sure enough, the first thing to sell out was the whitebait soup, and then the thousand-head fish. Fortunately, after tasting the thousand-head fish, he decisively left one third of it. It was a real dish that goes well with rice!
The kitchen staff refused to add more dishes, and even the cabbage and mung bean stew had lost its skin.
Everyone held their bowls and shouted to the back of the serving table for more food.
The chef quickly served soup and thousand-head fish to the people in the kitchen, and then asked the workers to carry the dishes out.
Ling Ran stood at the front and no one dared to compete with him. Not to mention his competitive nature, even though he was the one who contributed the dish today, everyone should give in to him.
Ling Ran poured a large bowl of soup and put a spoonful of thousand-head fish on the rice before making way.
As soon as he walked away, there was a scramble for food at the serving counter.
He sat aside with his two big bowls. These two dishes made him miss home, and he missed the little girl even more.
Zhou Xiang frowned and looked at the person standing in front of him. He looked very familiar.
"You're blocking my way."
"Sister Zhou Xiang, my name is Hao Heng, Xiaosong's friend."
As soon as he opened his mouth, Zhou Xiang recognized him. He didn't expect that the butterfly would look quite handsome after changing its appearance.
"Please call me Zhou Xiang."
Hao Heng choked, then nodded, "Hello, Zhou Xiang! Can we talk?"
Zhou Xiang looked at the people coming in and out of the school gate and nodded, "Let's go! Since you found this place, it was Cao Xiaosong who told you, right?"
Hao Heng nodded, "I've been pestering him for many days."
"Then let's go to my house and talk!"
I couldn't just follow him to a restaurant, could I? Back then, unlike later times, there weren't many places to relax and talk.
"Okay, okay."
Today is Tuesday and there will be no guests coming to the house. Zhou's father knew this, so he made the food according to the portions for his family of four.
After seeing the person following his little girl, Zhou's father decided that next time he would rather have leftovers than cook more.
Zhou Xiang only told his father Hao Heng's name and didn't say much else.
Father Zhou nodded, told Hao Heng not to be polite, and went to the kitchen to cook noodles.
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