Chapter 48 They are all picky eaters
Buzzing, the little bee Fang Wei flew to Wen Susu and came to the corridor with her.
This time the buzzing sound was not made by Fang himself, but was dubbed by his classmates who were laughing and playing nearby.
I am really worried, as I am afraid that this title will accompany me for a while.
As Wen Susu's personal servant, Fang Wei, the squad leader, doesn't have many specific work tasks. He just has to be there whenever Boss Wen calls.
There was nothing wrong with Wen Susu calling him out at this moment. She mainly wanted to ask him about the distribution of school uniforms in the morning, and then use him to find out about today's teaching method and the real feedback among classmates.
"Teacher Wen, you ask me instead of asking everyone else. You make me look like a spy."
"What kind of spy is this? This is called going deep into the masses!"
"Don't worry, Mr. Wen, everyone's feedback is very good. Anyway, all the classmates around me think that your teaching method is very good, and they all listen very carefully."
"So how did you learn? Only when you learn something is it real."
"...You can only know this after taking the exam. Even if I were among the crowd, I wouldn't know this, teacher!"
"Uh, yes."
Wen Susu nodded.
Although she is the class teacher, Chinese teacher and art teacher, she is actually just a college student who has just graduated for less than a year.
The first time she officially served as a teacher, she came to such a remote island. She had her own pursuits and ideals, and was also worried about her teaching results. It was not that she did not want to do well, but that she wanted to do well too much.
"Don't worry, Mr. Wen. You teach really well. There will be no problem! We all really like you!"
"..."
Seeing that her class monitor, who was as stubborn as a cow, actually came to comfort her, the head teacher, Wen Susu was almost amused by the anger.
"You actually come to comfort me!"
"It's not consolation, it's true!"
"..."
Wen Susu looked at Fang Wei's serious eyes and was sure that he was not lying.
"Alright, alright. I won't delay your meal. Remember to report to me if anything happens. I'm leaving now!"
After saying that, Wen Susu held the lesson plan in her arms and walked along the corridor towards the office.
Perhaps the affirmation from Fang Wei played a positive role, and now she even walked like the wind.
Teacher Wen, who stands in the classroom and on the podium, is always so generous, confident, elegant and calm in the eyes of young boys and girls, as if she exists in the distant dream; but she is, after all, just a young girl who has just left college and entered the society. Although she is a teacher, the student mentality still occupies most of her. Perhaps she, who shows a little worry and lack of confidence in her teaching like now, is the more real Wen Susu?
This is a side that Fang Wei had never noticed in his previous life.
……
After Wen Susu returned to the office, Fang Wei also turned around and went back to the classroom.
It was time to go home from school and everyone was rushing to eat, so the classroom quickly became empty.
But his three friends stayed in the classroom waiting for him.
Liu Zhiyi sat in his seat; Xu Cailing sat in his seat and talked to Liu Zhiyi; Ah Sheng lay by the window of the table in front of him, looking up at the planes flying in the sky...
Seeing Fang Wei coming back, Xu Cailing quickly took out his lunch box and water bottle from his drawer without him saying hello, called Liu Zhiyi and Asheng, and ran towards him together.
"Eat, eat! If you're late, you'll have to queue in a long line again!"
"Hey, be more ladylike, you are Lihuaer."
"Little fly, buzz, buzz, shut up!"
"Is that a fly? It's a bee!"
"Buzzing—"
The dog A Sheng was also imitating the same buzzing sound he had just made. Fang Wei kicked him in annoyance, but A Sheng dodged nimbly with a grin.
Liu Zhiyi, who was also holding a lunch box and a water bottle, did not join in teasing Fang Wei, but could not help but smile.
Liu Zhiyi felt more and more that she and Fang Wei and the other two were becoming real friends.
The four of them not only rode their bikes to school together, waited for each other to go to the cafeteria to eat, but also laughed and played together.
This kind of interaction was not like the "spring" scenery that could be seen with the eyes in the classroom just now, but it still brought up a certain beautiful feeling in her heart.
Perhaps the girl was lost in thought, or perhaps the fight between the three people beside her distracted her thoughts. At a certain moment, she opened her lips slightly and made a strange sound inexplicably -
"Buzzing..."
"???"
Fang Wei and the other two who were playing and fighting suddenly became quiet. For a moment, they didn't know who was making this strange "buzzing" sound that suddenly came into their ears and sounded like an auditory hallucination. So they looked at each other, and finally, they all looked at the usually taciturn Liu Zhiyi.
Liu Zhiyi was also dumbfounded. She raised her hand to cover her mouth, and her fair face turned red in an instant!
"Zhiyi, you..."
"No, no, it's not me!!"
"But I just seemed to..."
“It’s really not me!!”
The girl holding the lunch box was at a loss. She didn't want to eat anymore. She just wanted to find a corner to die quietly...
……
The food in the cafeteria at noon today was good, and finally I didn’t have to eat fish.
The main course is pork stewed with vermicelli, with minced meat tofu and shredded cabbage.
For the boys and girls who grew up on the island, fish almost made their appetites bland, so it was a rare opportunity to eat such a large portion of meat, and they were very happy.
"Auntie, please pour more soup on the rice!" said Xu Cailing.
"Auntie! Stop shaking! All the meat has fallen off and it's all vermicelli!" Ah Sheng wailed, wishing he could take the serving spoon from the auntie's hand.
"How can it be shaking? The meat is hidden in the vermicelli!" said the aunt.
The price of meat on the island is much higher than inland, so it is inevitable that the canteen is stingy.
"Oh, if only my mom were a waitress in the cafeteria, we would eat so much meat that we would vomit!" Xu Cailing sighed.
"What's wrong? The current version has been updated to the point where you can make dreams for your parents?" Fang Wei asked with a smile while eating. He could hardly keep up with the speed at which Xu Cailing's dream version was updated. "Humph, it would be great if it were true!"
The girl complained while eating: "Why do we always have to let our parents tell us to do whatever we want? Why can't we let our parents do whatever they want?"
"Well, that's the truth."
Fang Wei nodded. Of course, he didn't want to discourage the girl. After all, in his family, everything his parents did was secretly influenced by him to a great extent.
Liu Zhiyi on the side was eating quietly and politely, not because the topic of parents made her sad or anything, but because she had embarrassed herself by making a strange buzzing sound just now. The thin-skinned girl temporarily entered an autistic and invisible state, and did not respond to the outside world for a short time.
Although the cafeteria is stingy, today's pork stewed with vermicelli is a rare dish.
Fang Wei could taste it and knew that the chef in charge of cooking was also an expert at making home-cooked meals. The large pieces of pork were slow-cooked for a long time, achieving a perfect balance between fat and lean meat. The skin must have been fried, with a crispy surface and soft and glutinous inside. It was fat but not greasy, with a strong sauce flavor that melts in your mouth.
Fang Wei used to think that the pork was the essence of the dish, but later he realized that the vermicelli was the key.
Vermicelli is made of sweet potato starch, which is smooth and elastic. It slowly absorbs the aroma and deliciousness of meat in the soup. Each piece is wrapped in mellow gravy and has a smooth texture. Just one bite will leave you with an endless aftertaste!
"Today's pork stewed with vermicelli is really good, but why is there so much chopped green onions in the tofu..."
While eating, Xu Cailing used chopsticks to accurately pick out the chopped green onions from the minced meat and tofu.
"Wow, Xu Cailing, you are such a waste, such a picky eater!"
"You who don't eat bitter melon have no right to criticize me."
"How can it be the same? Bitter melon is really unpalatable!"
Ah Sheng complained that he would accept anything except bitter melon, and he mixed all the food and dishes together and ate it happily.
Hearing the word "picky eater", Liu Zhiyi, who was eating quietly, paused and silently put down the piece of fat pork that was about to be put aside...
But in the end, I couldn't bring myself to eat it because of the greasy texture on it, so I had to secretly put it in the corner of the lunch box.
"Zhiyi, you don't eat fatty meat?"
The picky eater Xu Cailing noticed it and asked in surprise.
After all, for an island girl who rarely eats meat, she loves to eat all kinds of meat, no matter whether it is fat or lean.
“No…”
"Ah? Why don't you eat it? What will happen if you eat it?"
Liu Zhiyi tilted his head and thought for a long time, not knowing how to answer, so he could only say: "I will be unhappy..."
"Then if you don't want to eat the fat, give it to me!"
"Eh?"
"I'll take it away!"
Xu Cailing then picked up the piece of fat meat from her lunch box and put it into her mouth happily. Now both girls were happy.
"Ha ha……"
Fang Wei, who had just picked up the ginger from the food box and put it aside, also smiled. Except for him, everyone else was a picky eater, and no one could blame anyone else.
You mean ginger? Who would eat this as a vegetable?
He just thought that the big piece of ginger hidden in the vermicelli was pork!
……
The four of them came down to eat together, and then returned to the classroom together after the meal.
Fang Wei sat in his seat, took a sip of water, and looked up at the blackboard.
The blackboard has been wiped, but not completely wiped—
Except for the words written by Wen Susu in the middle of the blackboard which had been erased, the branches and flowers she had drawn around the blackboard were still there, livening up the dull and boring blackboard.
Today's duty student still feels a little reluctant to do it! I wonder what other subject teachers will think when they see these drawings on the blackboard.
We always feel reluctant to destroy beautiful things. The minds of young boys and girls are actually very pure and cute.
On the side, Liu Zhiyi and Xu Cailing came back from the bathroom together, and Fang Wei stood up and made way for her to go into the corner.
Generally speaking, he only needed to let her go once or twice a day. After all, most of the time, the girl seemed to have taken root in her seat, not moving at all.
Fang Wei turned around and looked at her.
Liu Zhiyi loves cleanliness. She had just washed her face, and her pretty face was moisturized. She was wiping it gently with her white handkerchief.
Many female students in the class would bring their own handkerchiefs to wipe their hands, sweat, etc. The handkerchiefs were not big, just a small square piece, with no words or embroidery on them, but somehow people would think that this thing was quite cute.
Perhaps it is a special item unique to young girls of this era, which always brings back many memories.
Of course, not every girl has a handkerchief.
Xu Cailing doesn’t have that.
The little girl was sweating, so she just raised her arms and wiped them on her sleeves.
If they were outside, they might even rub it on Fang Wei's body.
The difference between a girl and a young girl is so huge...
These are two completely different impressions.
During lunch break, the class was quiet. The sun shone through the half-drawn curtains, dappling in every corner of the classroom. Some students lay on the table with books covering their faces; others propped their heads up with their hands, occasionally looking out the window or talking in a low voice. The unerased drawings on the blackboard seemed to still echo with the sound of the lecture; the gaps between the desks and chairs were scattered with several unclosed books and uncapped pens.
Sunshine, breeze, whispers, naps, cicadas, all of these make up a unique scene for lunch break in the classroom, with a lazy and peaceful feeling.
As if tiredness was contagious, Fang Wei yawned and looked at the girl beside him.
"Liu Zhiyi, do you want to sleep?"
"I……"
Liu Zhiyi was feeling conflicted, remembering that she almost overslept during her lunch break yesterday and didn't wake Fang Wei up, but it was Fang Wei who woke her up instead.
"Get some sleep, I'll call you."
Without waiting for her to answer, Fang Wei took the initiative to speak.
"it is good."
Liu Zhiyi nodded, curled up slightly, and still sat in her seat.
"Why aren't you sleeping yet?"
"I'll... think about it for a while." The girl said seriously.
"?"
Not only are you a picky eater, you also procrastinate on sleeping!
(End of this chapter)
