"Yes, yes, let's eat first. You must have had a hard day out. Let me get you some more rice."
Old Chen, who didn't want to eat rice, declared that he would drink first. Without waiting for Liu Yue's reply, he brazenly grabbed a bottle of fine liquor, saying that he and Shang Zhengxin would drink until they were both drunk.
Well... let's drink then. After all, it's something to be happy about, and it's at home, which is better than getting drunk outside.
After thinking it over, Liu Yue turned to Yun Xuan and the two children and asked, "Shall we have some drinks too? How about cola? I remember putting a few bottles in the refrigerator before."
After another round of preparation, white, black, and clear drinks of all colors and ages were poured into everyone's cups.
In this beautiful season, so exquisite that it could be described as "refined and elegant" (a term used to describe highbrow or unconventional literary and artistic works), the two families clinked glasses together to toast the hopeful early spring.
The English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote in his poem "Ode to the West Wind": If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Just like Chen Shichao's catering business, which was hit hard during the pandemic, the cold winter will not linger over this land of China. When the warm Pacific monsoon blows from the vast East in March and April, everything will revive in the vast East China region, and spring will arrive.
Similarly, the ever-renewing China, with the strength gathered by the unity of its people, will eventually break through the shackles of the epidemic and welcome the spring of 2020 as scheduled in April, when everything will be warm and flowers will bloom again.
It sounds wonderful, right? The story of the great Chinese people uniting as one to overcome the epidemic as spring arrives. But the only drawback is that, on the second day after Wuhan lifted its lockdown, as the national epidemic gradually improved, Baishi No. 1 Middle School also actively responded to the call to resume production and school and decided to open school the day after tomorrow.
It's the day after tomorrow! And they'll be checking my winter break homework too.
We need to check your winter break homework! Also, the online midterm exams, originally scheduled for three days later, will be moved to in-person sessions.
Although Chen Bing didn't mind going back to school, it didn't matter to him where he studied anyway.
Although Chen Bing didn't care about checking his winter break homework, he had already finished it and didn't need to stay up all night to catch up.
Although Chen Bing didn't care about the offline midterm exams, he studied hard during the online classes anyway.
However, however! Due to the pandemic, not only Baishi No.1 Middle School, but the entire Shangping County, has banned students from commuting to school!
In other words, Chen Bing will be staying at the same hotel as Shang Yunmiao!
Sorry, what I just said sounded a bit ambiguous, like it meant they were going to live and sleep together. Actually, it's obvious they're staying in separate rooms.
Sigh~
The lament wasn't because he couldn't share a double room with Xiao Shang at school, but because he was going to have to stay at school for the first time in his life.
Xiao Chen sighed, looking very sad, while Shang Yunmiao kindly comforted him.
"It's okay, Chen Bing, it's just accommodation."
A newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger.
After silently commenting on Xiao Shang's mentality, Chen Bing sighed again.
You've never lived in a dormitory before, so you don't think it matters.
As for myself, Chen Shuaibing, as someone who has experienced three years of junior high school, three years of high school, and four years of university living in dormitories, I can responsibly give an evaluation of the dormitory experience, which is history, a huge amount of history.
The living conditions were no better than at home; he had to wash his own clothes, eat unfamiliar food, and deal with the heat and cold—these physical hardships were bearable for Chen Bing, a grown man. What he hated most was the psychological pain.
Accommodation, to put it bluntly, is a trial that teaches you to live peacefully with all sorts of animals with different personalities and habits, and to hone your willpower.
Only when those originally kind and friendly classmates live under the same roof with you will their various shortcomings be exposed.
For example, snoring, not washing socks or feet are just basic behaviors. Some even party late at night, smoke on the balcony, or do handicrafts late at night.
Take, for example, some of the most memorable things Chen Bing encountered in his previous life. In junior high school, his dormitory 2B had a rule that made people grit their teeth for a period of time: the person to clean the room the next day was determined by staying up all night.
Yes, you heard right. Back in my second year of junior high, this devilish system was actually implemented in Chen Bing's dormitory for a week or two, and everyone was forced to participate. Whoever fell asleep first had to clean the dormitory the next day.
If we were talking about the second year of junior high, when everyone wasn't under much academic pressure and was full of energy and had trouble falling asleep, then this system would have been somewhat acceptable. But a year later, during the high school entrance exams, in that season when mosquitoes were everywhere and it was unbearably hot, someone in the dorm next to Chen Bing's was playing games loudly in the middle of the night, waking him up from his sleep several times throughout the night.
Back in high school, my roommates and I would often buy beer and peanuts late at night, go to the balcony, and have a little chat while we chatted. It was so noisy that I couldn't sleep until two or three in the morning. Wasn't that torture?
Besides, late-night werewolf games played by the whole dormitory, not to mention chatting, all of these things make people feel physically and mentally exhausted.
It's not just about sleep and routines; what's even more painful is having a personality clash with someone in your dorm and constantly finding fault with each other. That's what truly causes suffering.
But what can we do about it?
After all, one must comply with epidemic prevention regulations, and there's no room for back channels on such a crucial matter. Chen Bing had no choice but to accept it and try to find other ways to make dormitory life more comfortable.
For example, find Fang Anmin and ask him to choose roommates for himself and Shang Yunmiao.
What kind of operation is this?
It turns out that because the pandemic is not completely over, although Baishi No.1 Middle School is saying that school has started, it only allows the ninth grade students to return to school. As for the other two grades, I think they will have to wait another month or two before they can return to school.
This results in many empty dorm rooms in the school dormitories, which can be converted from eight-person rooms to four-person rooms, or even three-person or two-person rooms.
Okay, I admit that when I mentioned a two-person room, I inevitably had a slightly inappropriate thought, but please don't mind it, let's continue.
Well, since the eight-person dorms are going to be split up, all the students' dormitories will inevitably need to be rearranged. In fact, as soon as the news about the school's accommodations was released, Chen Bing contacted Fang Anmin immediately and provided him with a list of her and Shang Yunmiao's roommates.
Hehe, it's so convenient to have a father-in-law who is the deputy director of the Education Bureau. Fang Anmin approved the list without even thinking about it.
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