In September, the weather wasn't very cold yet; you could wear short sleeves underneath and a light jacket on top.
So there's no need to turn on the heating.
School starts at 8:00 AM, and they need to be taken to their classrooms by 7:40 AM. The drive takes 30 minutes. Since it's the first day, Lin Ying arranged for everyone to meet here at 7:00 AM.
However, not everyone has a clock. Some families that value their children's schooling bring their children over early, while others, like Lin Ying, only come after being called by others.
However, seeing that there was plenty of time, Lin Ying didn't say anything more.
There were originally six children, but it ended up being seven. Fortunately, the children are all quite young, so they can squeeze into the seats.
Including Haoyu, there are a total of eight children attending school.
Lin Ying has already planned not to let Shuanzi and the others come together tomorrow. However, the task of looking after the children will be left to Shuanzi and the Tiger siblings at home.
The car drove off smoothly, and to Lin Ying's surprise, the town wasn't as far as she had imagined.
She originally thought it would take half an hour to walk there, but she arrived at the school gate in just twenty minutes.
The car door opened, and one by one, the children got out of the car.
Haoyu, who was squeezed inside, was the last to come out.
Lin Ying gently smoothed out his slightly wrinkled clothes with a touch of heartache: "Your sister-in-law won't come with you tomorrow. You and your aunt can sit in the front so you don't have to squeeze in with them."
Haoyu smiled and nodded: "Okay!"
Lin Ying patted her head: "The teacher said there is water at school. If you are thirsty and your water bottle is not full, go to the teacher. If you need to go to the toilet during class, raise your hand. Don't be afraid of being laughed at. Wetting your pants is more embarrassing than raising your hand."
Haoyu nodded again: "Don't worry, Auntie."
As they were talking, a car from the family compound pulled up, and Xiaoqiang and the others jumped out of the car one by one. They were overjoyed to see Lin Ying.
One by one, children ran over: "Auntie!" Lin Ying
Smiling at them, she said, "Haoyu starts school today, so please help your auntie take care of him."
Xiaoqiang said with a smile, "Don't worry, Auntie, Xiaoshuai will also be taking classes here this year. He'll be in the same class as Haoyu."
As he spoke, Xiao Shuai squeezed through the crowd of people older than him: "Auntie, Auntie, I knew Haoyu was going to start school, so I had my mom send me here to study~ Don't worry, with me here, no one will dare to bully Haoyu!"
Lin Ying smiled and said, "Then thank you, Auntie."
Lin Ying had assumed Xiao Shuai would attend the staff primary school, but she hadn't expected him to be studying here. With Xiao Shuai around, Lin Ying felt much more at ease.
After watching Xiaoshuai and Haoyu enter the school, Lin Ying took the children home.
Because the school is far from home, I usually eat lunch at school, and I bring my own food.
At lunchtime, Xiao Shuai came up to Haoyu with a big smile: "What delicious food did your aunt bring you?"
Although Haoyu spent little time in the family compound, they were still friends who played together for a whole summer last year. Haoyu wasn't stingy with his gratitude.
He opened the lunchbox and found a layer of rice, two dishes—one meat dish and one vegetable dish—with a fried egg on top and a small box of meat sauce next to it.
"Wow, Haoyu, this food is amazing! Quick, let me try some meat. I haven't had Auntie's meat in ages."
Haoyu said, "Auntie doesn't allow cold food, wait a minute!"
Haoyu opened the last layer, tore open the inner packaging bag, added hot water, and then closed the lunchbox. Soon, it started bubbling inside.
Xiao Shuai pointed at Hao Yu's lunchbox in disbelief: "This, you, it... it's smoking. It's really hot!"
At this moment, the other children in the classroom also gathered around, looking at Haoyu's lunchbox in disbelief: "Is it really hot?"
"Ouch, it's so hot! Haha, it's hot!"
"Zhao Haoyu, can you do magic tricks? That's amazing!"
Haoyu looked a little embarrassed as everyone surrounded him: "This isn't magic; it's a natural reaction of quicklime with water. Besides quicklime, it also contains sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, calcined diatomaceous earth, iron powder, aluminum powder, coke powder, activated carbon, salt, and so on. My aunt said I'll understand when I go to junior high and study chemistry."
"Wow, that's amazing."
Unlike everyone else's curiosity about the food, Xiao Shuai's mind was filled with thoughts of the food he had just seen: "Stop, stop talking! Is it ready? Quick, quick, eat meat! I want to eat meat!"
Haoyu said, "Auntie only brought mine, not yours. If you eat mine, I won't have enough to eat. Bring yours too, and we can eat together."
Xiao Shuai agreed. Although he didn't like eating his own food, Hao Yu certainly wouldn't share with him, so they should just share half.
After Xiaoshuai brought it over, Haoyu looked at a steamed bun and some pickled vegetables, but didn't say anything.
Instead, she asked Xiaoshuai to wait while she went to get some hot water from the teacher before coming over. She divided the rice in half into Xiaoshuai's lunchbox and gave herself half of Xiaoshuai's steamed bun.
"You do it like me, break the steamed bun into pieces."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Shuai replied, "Oh."
Then, as Haoyu instructed, Xiaoshuai broke the steamed buns into pieces and put them in his lunchbox. Haoyu then poured the water he had brought into their steamed buns and rice. After that, he poured in half of the meat sauce that Lin Ying had prepared for them and stirred it all together.
"Alright, let's eat!"
Xiao Shuai looked at the half-full rice bowl, which contained neither rice nor steamed buns, and looked like pig feed, but hesitated to speak.
But he endured it for the sake of the ribs!
But to my surprise, eating steamed buns with rice porridge and side dishes tasted exceptionally delicious.
The others watched the two eating their steaming hot meal with envy, especially since they were also eating meat.
However, this envy didn't last long, because the two of them didn't eat much, and the rest was eaten without hesitation by Xiao Qiang and his friends, who were older students.
Just now, Xiao Shuai was complaining about the rice soaked with steamed buns, but because they didn't look good, his older brother complained about them, which saved them from being ruined.
Xiao Shuai and Hao Yu won't go hungry.
But because of this, Xiaoshuai and his friends are children from the compound, and Haoyu has a particularly good relationship with them.
The kids in the compound were united and dared to fight. So no one dared to bully them outside.
Now that they know Haoyu has a good relationship with the other kids in the compound, no one dares to bully him anymore.
As for Xiaoqiang and the others taking Haoyu's food, Haoyu didn't mention it when he got back, but Xiaoshuai will. In their eyes now, it's so hard for Lin Ying to take care of four children by herself. And they even stole her food—they deserve to be beaten!
Only Anzi, after learning that Xiaoshuai had transferred to a primary school in town and was dating Haoyu, insisted on transferring there as well. In the end, Gao Chunhua had no choice but to transfer Anzi there as well.
These three became the closest of friends.
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