Chapter 98 The Beautiful Sister Who Loves to Treat Me to Dinner
"What? The teacher wants you to invite your parents?" Xia Wu was really at a loss whether to laugh or cry when she received the call from Yang Mingyuan. She looked at Wang Minping who was chatting with someone not far away. She had just told someone that her son's study attitude had improved a lot recently and he could pass all the exams. Who knew that Yang Mingyuan would get into trouble at school in the blink of an eye.
After walking a little further, Xia Wu asked, "What did you do wrong? Did you do poorly on the test? Why do you need to call your parents?"
Yang Mingyuan was standing outside the office making a phone call. The only people in the office were the head teacher Yan Lingling and another teacher who was leaving.
He was so sad that he had no tears, so he had to tell the story.
In Yang Mingyuan's opinion, he did nothing wrong, as school was already over.
Going against the teacher is a small matter, but if Teacher Yan cries, that's a big deal.
Yang Mingyuan couldn't help but talk back when he was invited to the office. Yan Lingling couldn't stand it anymore. As it was getting late, she asked Yang Mingyuan to call his family to pick him up.
He didn't dare to call Wang Minping because Yang Mingyuan knew his mother's temper. She would be impulsive when she got angry. Such an embarrassing thing as inviting parents would make her lose face in the village. If she lost face, Yang Mingyuan would suffer.
In order to avoid eating stir-fried bamboo shoots and meat before eating barbecue, Yang Mingyuan resolutely called Xia Wu.
This guy knows Xia Wu's cell phone number by heart.
"Sister, please save me, just this once. I promise there won't be a next time," Yang Mingyuan begged bitterly. Even at this time, he still didn't forget to ask: "Is the barbecue ready? Can I still eat it when I go back?"
Xia Wu frowned. He went back to the house to get the car keys and looked at the stove that was bustling with activity. Many people had already come to the yard and everything was ready. They only needed to fry a few hot dishes before they could start eating.
"I'll be merciful and save you this once, you little brat. If you dare do it again, I'll have your mother beat your ass to pieces."
"Okay! Sister! You are my best sister! Just wait, I will bring people to work for you on Sunday!"
After hanging up the phone, Xia Wu smiled, feeling a little helpless.
Seeing her taking the car keys as if she was about to go out, someone asked her where she was going.
Wang Minping was still wondering why her son came back so late today.
Xia Wu replied, "I'm going to pick up Ji Yunzhou and check to see if Yang Mingyuan is acting up again on the road. He hasn't come back yet at this hour."
Wang Minping quickly said, "That's great! This brat didn't listen when I told him to come back early. It's almost dark now. I'm going to beat him up when he comes back!"
Xia Wu didn't try to persuade him, Yang Mingyuan really deserved a beating.
You made the teacher cry, you little rascal.
Xia Wu's excuse to pick up Ji Yunzhou was just an excuse. It would be more convenient for Ji Yunzhou to come by himself, so she drove directly to Dongkeng Primary School.
At this time, all the students in the school had left, and only a few children from the village were still playing on the playground.
The elementary school here was the most dilapidated school Xia Wu had ever seen. It had only a three-story building, and the so-called playground was the open space in front of it. There were a few ping-pong tables to the right of the flagpole, and a basketball hoop in front. The ground was paved with red bricks, with weeds growing in the cracks.
Yang Mingyuan said that the first thing to do after every summer vacation is to do a thorough cleaning. All students in the school have to weed, otherwise the place will be like a sea of grass. Some villagers even lead their cows in to graze.
Xia Wu couldn't imagine that scene. She had been attending an international school since she was a child. It was magnificent and the environment was completely different from here.
Seeing this, she felt a little sorry for these children.
The teacher's office was on the first floor. Yang Mingyuan stood outside the office, leaning against the wall, staring at the ground and kicking his toes out of boredom.
"Yang Mingyuan!" Xia Wu shouted, bringing Yang Mingyuan's soul back.
"Sister! You're finally here! Is the barbecue ready?"
Xia Wu gave him a slap on the head, "Eat, eat, eat, all you do is eat. Even if the sky falls, you still won't forget to eat."
Yang Mingyuan didn't mind being beaten at all. He kept clinging to Xia Wu like a mangy dog, calling her sister all the time.
The lights were on in the office. The older female teacher saw Xia Wu coming and said to Yan Lingling, "Here's a parent from your class. He's quite young and I think he's easy to talk to. Talk to him nicely and don't get angry. After we're done, why don't you come to my house for dinner?"
Dongkeng School provides food and accommodation. The students live in a row of tin houses behind the school teaching building. The environment is simple, and the students get food and accommodation as one. There is a food allowance of 200 yuan per month, and the teachers need to cook their own meals.
Except for Yan Lingling and two other new teachers, all other teachers in the school are locals and can go to and from school by electric scooters.
There were two other teachers who came with Yan Lingling, one male and one female. The male was about 28 or 29 years old and had a family with a child who was only one year old. He usually went back to the dormitory to study after school, hoping to take the exam early.
Another female teacher is three years older than Yan Lingling. She has a very clingy boyfriend. They video call each other whenever they have time. Even if they don’t video call, they will keep the voice chat on. Sometimes you can hear them whispering in the middle of the night.
Yan Lingling had no choice but to ask the principal for a single dormitory. She felt much better after moving, but she also couldn't make friends with the other person.
The female teacher in front of her was the only one in the school with whom she had a good relationship. She had specially stayed to accompany Yan Lingling today and even invited her to go back for dinner.
Yan Lingling didn't want to cause trouble for others, so she shook her head and said, "Sister, you go back first. I can ride my bike to town to eat later."
Yan Lingling only has a small electric cooker, which she usually uses to boil eggs and noodles. Cooking is too difficult and she doesn’t know how to do it.
Occasionally, when she wanted to eat meat, she would ride the small electric bike given to her by the principal to the town for a fast food meal.
There's nothing I can do about it, this place is just like this.
The conversation came to an abrupt end when Xia Wu came in.
"Teacher Yan, I'll be leaving first."
After the female teacher left, there were only three of them in the office, and Xia Wu felt inexplicably uneasy.
Oops, that shouldn't be the case.
The female teacher in front of her was not much older than her, but Xia Wu still felt a sense of timidity when seeing the teacher.
"Hello, Teacher Yan. I'm Yang Mingyuan's sister. I'm so sorry that he has caused you trouble."
Yan Lingling had to admit that as a girl, she was stunned at the first sight of Xia Wu. She didn't expect that Yang Mingyuan actually had such a beautiful sister.
You are so beautiful, why do you want to stay in such a remote place?
This was Yan Lingling’s first thought.
Soon, she put aside these messy thoughts and entered the state that a teacher should be in.
Half an hour later, Yan Lingling's mouth was dry from talking. She stopped to drink some water and noticed that it was already dark outside. She thought to herself, "Oh no!" She wondered if it was because she was imagining that Yang Mingyuan's sister stayed in the village to take care of her brother, and she felt sorry for her, a girl. Or was it because of her emotions...
"Okay, it's early, you should take Yang Mingyuan back first."
"Yeah, okay, Teacher Yan is right...eh? Is it over?"
Xia Wu accidentally said what was in his heart, and Yan Lingling was very upset.
So, all she said just now was just self-indulgent, right? I should have stayed out of her business. She'd be leaving sooner or later anyway, so what did the fate of these children have to do with her?
Just like what other teachers advised her.
Unless the student has committed a serious mistake, it is best not to invite the parents. Most of the children are left-behind, and the parents who come are old men and women. Those with good tempers can listen patiently, but they may not be able to discipline the children well when they go back.
If you meet someone with a bad temper, just prepare to be scolded by the old men and women who dote on their children.
Yan Lingling waved her hands dejectedly, "Forget it, you guys go."
Xia Wu smiled ingratiatingly, "Teacher Yan, please calm down. I've taken everything I've said. Yang Mingyuan is still a hopeless child. I'll discipline him when I get home. Don't worry, I'll beat him up until he behaves."
"To be honest with you, Teacher Yan, there's a reason why Yang Mingyuan was so anxious to go home after school. They were having a barbecue at home, and he was craving it. Actually, I'm hungry too, so I was a little distracted. Are you hungry, Teacher Yan?"
Yan Lingling asked suspiciously, "Does your family run a barbecue restaurant?"
Otherwise, why would I have nothing better to do than barbecue?
But I have never seen anyone in the countryside who has so much leisure time.
"Uh... I guess so." Xia Wu didn't know how to explain it, so he scratched his head and admitted it.
Yan Lingling was a little hungry and a little greedy. She hadn't eaten barbecue for a long time... The last time she went back home during the holiday, she only had time to eat hot pot.
If she were not a teacher at this moment, and the people in front of her were not students and their parents.
Or maybe she just hadn't finished teaching her students a lesson.
Maybe Yan Lingling would really shamelessly ask, "Where is your barbecue restaurant?"
But she was really embarrassed.
Fortunately, Xia Wu had already had an idea. When she entered the room just now, she heard that Yan Lingling had not eaten yet, so she wanted to invite Yan Lingling to have barbecue. It didn't matter anyway.
"Teacher Yan, why don't you come to my house for dinner?" Xia Wu invited enthusiastically. "It's not far away. I'll bring it back to you after we finish eating."
Yan Lingling was torn between inner and outer feelings. "Isn't this inconvenient?"
"It's convenient! Very convenient! Teacher Yan, you can go ahead. Just consider it my apology to you. I'm really sorry. I won't dare to do it again next time. Let's go!"
Yang Mingyuan shamelessly begged Yan Lingling, pulling her arm and forcing her to go.
Yan Lingling was really embarrassed, after all, she had just cried in front of others.
But Xia Wu and Yang Mingyuan each held one of her arms, enthusiastically... She didn't really want to refuse, so she half-heartedly followed them out of the campus and got on Xia Wu's cart.
Seeing that the car was not heading towards Donghai Town, Yan Lingling finally figured out what was going on. "Isn't your barbecue restaurant in town?"
"No, in the village."
"How's business?"
"It's okay. You'll know when Teacher Yan goes there."
Just like that, when Yan Lingling stood in the courtyard by the well and saw the lively scene with dozens of people, it was too late to leave.
"Xiao Wu! You're finally back! We've been waiting for you!"
"No need to wait for me, you guys can eat first. You don't have to wait for others while eating barbecue."
"Who is this?"
"Oh, this is Yang Mingyuan's teacher. When I went to pick him up, she was giving him extra lessons. She didn't even have time to eat, so I invited her to have a meal with me."
After hearing this, the villagers were extremely enthusiastic and vied to pull Yan Lingling to sit at the table, serving her drinks and tableware.
Now Yan Lingling felt even more embarrassed to run away.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Ma Xueqing, the chef, shouted happily: "The host is here too, let's serve the food!"
"The food is ready! I've been hungry for a long time, and it smells so good!"
"Our village is even more lively today than during Chinese New Year. There are so many people here. Everyone, please sit down quickly and let us young people serve the food and pour the drinks. Just tell us what you want!"
"Uncle Guofeng, you are still young! You should sit down too, and let me, the real young man, come!" Yang Shuhua pushed Yang Guofeng to sit down and quickly ran to serve the dishes.
Xu Li sat in front of the grill, busy and flustered. Zhao Jing helped him and fanned him, "Mr. Xu, thank you for your hard work. You know what, the skewers you grill are even more delicious than mine!"
Xu Li raised his head and sighed. He didn't know where he had thrown the windbreaker he wore in the morning. He really couldn't bear to see these people wasting such good ingredients. Even a skewer was burnt black. It was such a waste!
If he can't stand it anymore, he has to come. Let him come. Who can count for him how many people have come to the yard? Could it be that everyone in the village has come?
It's fine if the villagers come, but who are those people? Why can they just sit down and eat?
Oh, he is Xia Wu’s friend, so he is just a friend, but why did he bring back the teacher of the village children?
Xu Li spent a day in Yanggou Village and he had one feeling.
Xia Wu, you really love making friends, and you really love bringing people home!
But thinking about the fact that his uncle had also eaten a few meals with them, and Xu Li also came to eat for free, he seemed to feel balanced again.
The barbecue grill was brought by Ji Yunzhou. I don’t know where he got it from, but it is more than three meters long. The charcoal is also good charcoal, smokeless, and made of fruit wood. It has a fruit wood aroma when burning.
Ma Fangzhou and Xia Zhi bought meat and meatballs. Neither of them went to the construction site today. They ran a long way to buy dozens of kilograms of meat, including pork, beef and mutton. They asked around in the nearby villages and went there specifically to find out who had freshly slaughtered meat for sale. The meat was very fresh.
Yang Shuhua went fishing for lobsters early in the morning, while Qi Wei was fishing in Xia Wu's pond.
Wang Yuexia cut the meat, and the villagers skewered it together. Ma Xueqing was responsible for marinating the meat, and after the lobsters and fish were cleaned, he prepared them.
The mahogany table used for the last beam-raising banquet was brought back and joined together to be several meters long. The elderly in the village sat down first, and the younger people who had no seats ate standing up. The main thing about eating barbecue is the atmosphere.
Ma Xueqing made a fish hotpot with the fish that Qi Wei caught, some spicy and some not. The old people and children who can't eat spicy food can eat more, and the young people who like spicy food will not feel wronged.
We made two flavors of crayfish, one spicy and one garlic. We also had several cold dishes, and even more barbecue options, including various meat and vegetable skewers...
The village shop owner took two cartons of milk, as well as Fanta, Sprite, and Coke.
Old people like to drink some wine, and meat tastes bland without it.
Xia Wu directly took out two bottles of green plum wine that he had brewed two months ago, opened them in public, and distributed them to everyone.
Yan Lingling also got a glass of green plum wine. She took a sip and found the wine light and had a hint of green plum, which whetted her appetite.
There were steaming crayfish in the fish pot and grilled skewers being brought to the table continuously. Sitting around were strangers, mostly elderly people and children. Everyone had a happy smile on their face, and the party was very lively with drinks and conversation.
All these scenes were captured and recorded by Yang Hongwen with his camera.
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