Chapter 86: Losing Money Teaching
"No need, it's not far from here to school, I can just walk back, you guys should go home quickly."
"Teacher Wen likes to walk! Wouldn't it be more convenient to take a car?"
Xu Cailing took Wen Susu's suitcase with a giggle. Fang Wei on the side also untied the rope on the back seat of the bicycle, lifted the suitcase she handed over, and tied it up.
"Teacher Wen, let's go together. We have nothing else to do, so I'll give you a ride." Fang Wei said with a smile.
"Teacher Wen, take my bike and I'll give you a ride!" Xu Cailing rode her bike and stopped in front of Wen Susu.
Since Fang Wei and Xu Cailing were so enthusiastic, Wen Susu didn't refuse anymore.
Holding Cai Ling's shoulders, he lifted his legs and sat on the back seat of her bicycle.
"Can Cai Ling carry me? Do you want me to carry you?"
"Teacher Wen underestimated me! Sit tight, let's go."
Xu Cailing rode with Wen Susu, and Fang Wei followed them with the luggage.
Sitting on a bicycle and traveling through the town feels amazing. Wen Susu smiled and said, "This is my first time sitting on the back of a bicycle."
"Can Teacher Wen ride a bicycle?"
"Of course I do. When I was in college, I often rode a bicycle."
"Is your home so close to the school? Can you ride a bike to go to college?"
"...That's not the case. I usually ride my bike from the dormitory to the teaching building or the cafeteria or library."
Xu Cailing was stunned for a while before she responded: "Teacher Wen, your university is so big?!"
"Yeah, it's okay. Walking is actually fine. Riding a bike is more convenient."
"Then why doesn't Teacher Wen buy a bicycle? It would be much more convenient to travel around the island."
"Ready to buy."
Wen Susu smiled. After living here for more than half a month, she also found that not having a bicycle was quite troublesome.
She took the bus on the island once, and it left a shadow on her life.
Baitan Island is much larger than Pineapple Island, and traveling around the island still requires a bicycle. In order to buy all the local specialties, she walked around the island and almost broke her legs.
"If we want to go to your Pineapple Island, we can just ride a bike, right?"
"Yeah! Just go past the Baitan Bridge!"
"That's fine. When I go on a home visit, I'll ride my bike over there. I haven't been to Pineapple Island yet."
"Home visit?!"
Xu Cailing was shocked. Compared with the parent-teacher meeting, the teacher’s personal home visit made her feel more uneasy.
"Why, Cailing doesn't want the teacher to come to your house?"
"No no!"
Xu Cailing asked cautiously, "When will Teacher Wen come to visit us?"
"Well, it depends on the school's arrangement. I guess we'll visit your home one after another after the midterm exam. Cailing, you have to work hard."
"Ohhh...Okay!"
Cailing pedaled the bicycle very fast.
"I'm telling you to study harder!"
“…I’m working on it.”
Cai Ling then slowed down her bicycle.
Wen Susu was both angry and amused. She could see that Xu Cailing was not very interested in studying and her grades were only average, but she still liked Cailing as a student very much.
Although teachers have to be fair, they are also human beings and will always have students they prefer.
If she had to rank their preferences, Cai Ling would probably be the student she likes equally as much as Fang Wei.
"Teacher Wen, why are you back to school so early today?"
Fang Wei asked curiously, "If I remember correctly, there should be a boat from Shanghai at noon, which can arrive at Baitan Pier in the evening. Why don't you take that boat?"
"Well, it's nothing. I have nothing else to do at home anyway. If you want to come earlier, then come earlier." Wen Susu smiled and didn't talk much about this topic.
"Teacher Wen, you haven't had lunch yet, right?"
"Yes, I just got off the ship. It's not like the plane. I can have lunch on the ship, but I'm not hungry right now. I've been staggering for a long time. It's a good thing I didn't vomit~~"
"Ah? How can you not eat lunch, Teacher Wen? How about we take you to town to find something to eat first." Xu Cailing turned around and said.
"It's okay. I have noodles in my dormitory. I can just cook some noodles later."
"Can Teacher Wen cook?" Cai Ling asked curiously.
"…I usually eat in the cafeteria."
"So Teacher Wen can't cook?" Cai Ling suddenly realized.
"..."
Wen Susu was silent. Don't ask too many questions! It's already a great achievement to be able to cook noodles!
Fang Wei also laughed. Hearing that there were kitchen utensils in her dormitory, and they happened to pass by the market, he went with Cai Ling and took her into the market.
Seeing Fang Wei and Xu Cailing taking her around the vegetable market skillfully, teaching her how to identify various seafood and how to cook them, Wen Susu was a little confused.
Who is the teacher anyway?!
Well, Wen Susu admitted that at least when it came to buying groceries and cooking, she was no match for the two students.
When she came out of the market, she had a bag of local eggs, a few sausages, a small piece of lean meat, a small bag of shrimps, and a handful of vegetables in her hands, just enough to make two hearty meals of "big bowls of noodles".
"Haha, I know how to do this. Just put it into the noodles and cook it together, right?" Wen Susu said with a smile.
Fang Wei: “…”
Even Xu Cailing couldn't help but sigh: "Teacher Wen, what kind of life did you live before? When the cafeteria was closed, did you eat noodles every day?"
"It's okay, the teacher never gets tired of it."
Wen Susu said this stubbornly, but she had already made up her mind that she would learn how to cook when she had time in the future...
You know what, this gave her an inspiration.
If she could make a hearty lunch for her parents when she returns home one day, would their views change?
Thinking of the quarrel last night, she couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
But soon, the familiar campus appeared before her eyes, and she quickly calmed down, not wanting the students to notice anything.
……
It was not class time, so the school seemed empty and quiet.
Not to mention students, even other teachers would not return to school so early.
But this is also a good thing. It makes things much more convenient for Fang Wei and Xu Cailing. At least they don’t have to push their bikes anymore.
The two of them rode their bikes directly into the campus, carrying Wen Susu and the luggage, and rode around the campus all the way to the bottom of the dormitory building.
The structure of the school is very simple. Behind the teaching building are the cafeteria and dormitory building. The taller building on the right is the student dormitory, and the building on the left, which is only four stories high, is the teacher dormitory.
The accommodation environment in the teachers' dormitory is much better than that in the students' dormitory. It is similar to a rental house, with one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom, with an area of about 50 square meters, which is considered very large and spacious.
There are only three households on each floor, so there are only twelve households in total, but it is still not full. After all, many teachers on the island live directly at home, and only those whose homes are far away live in the dormitory. There are many trees on the campus, especially near the dormitory building. The afternoon sun shines through the shade of the trees and falls on the ground in spots. From time to time, birds on the branches shake off a few leaves. It is much cooler here than on the playground. Maybe the hardware facilities are a bit shabby, but the living environment is still good.
Fang Wei and Xu Cailing parked the car downstairs of the dormitory building and locked it, and helped Wen Susu carry the luggage upstairs.
This was the first time for the two of them to come up to the teachers' dormitory building, and they felt quite curious.
"Teacher Wen, which floor do you live on?" Cai Ling asked.
"It's on the third floor, 303, the room at the back."
"Who lives in that room? There are so many flowers planted there!"
Xu Cailing pointed to a house on the second floor. Following the direction of her finger, one could see many flowers and plants planted on the balcony. Some of them were in full bloom and were quite pleasing to the eye.
"That's your biology teacher's room. Teacher Chen has planted a lot of flowers and raised cats and dogs in the room. She probably hasn't returned to school yet."
"Then will the kittens and puppies stay in the dormitory?"
"I think he took it home."
"Where does Teacher Chen live?"
"In Baitan Town. She likes to live alone."
"Is Teacher Chen still not married?" Xu Cailing asked gossipingly in a low voice.
Wen Susu smiled and didn't answer her. She just said, "Everyone has their own way of choosing their own life. Getting married or not is secondary. It's enough to live a life that satisfies your heart."
"That makes sense..."
Xu Cailing nodded. She didn't want to get married! Although she often said she wanted to marry Fang Wei and give birth to a baby for him when she was a child, that was all just a joke! How could she take it seriously?
Maybe she is not that old yet, she doesn't even know what it feels like to like someone... Anyway, it should be something very embarrassing! After all, when she watches TV or something like that, she blushes when she sees the male and female protagonists kissing!
It would be fine if she was the only one watching TV, but if her parents were also there, she would really want to change the channel immediately!
Isn't it just a bite...why do they like it so much...
Isn't it disgusting to eat the other person's saliva...
As she thought about it, Xu Cailing became absent-minded. She secretly glanced at Fang Wei and stared at his lips.
Fang Wei noticed her strange look and reached out to touch the corner of his lips.
"What? There's rice in my mouth?"
"Why can't you grow a beard?"
"..."
You don't have a bear either!
Fang Wei was too lazy to pay attention to her wild and imaginative topics.
……
Soon, the three of them went up to the third floor.
Walking to the door of Room 303, Wen Susu took out the key and opened the door.
The door lock is also quite simple, just an ordinary padlock, but the lock head is very large and new. I guess it was replaced by Wen Susu herself, so the quality is reliable.
The door of the room is an iron door painted green. It may not be as beautiful as a solid wooden door, but the quality is very good.
Because I closed the doors and windows when I left, the air in the room seemed a little stuffy when I entered.
Wen Susu asked Fang Wei and Xu Cailing to sit anywhere they wanted, then she put down her backpack and drew the curtains and opened the window to get some fresh air.
The room is well lit and there is no need to turn on the lights at this time of day.
Fang Wei and Xu Cailing curiously walked around her dormitory.
The living room is right after the entrance and has a TV, a small refrigerator and a floor fan, all new.
"Teacher Wen, are these home appliances provided by the school, or did you buy them yourself?" Xu Cailing asked curiously.
"The school is not that generous. When I first moved in, this was almost an empty house. Everything you can see inside was basically bought by me. Appliances, furniture, and other things. It's not convenient to buy things on the island, so it took me several days to finish it."
"Well, that's almost like buying a house! It must cost a lot of money, right?!" Xu Cailing was stunned.
"It's okay... After all, I'm going to live here for a long time, so it doesn't matter!" Wen Susu said casually.
Fang Wei: “…”
You are really teaching at a loss! !
Fang Wei didn't know what to say. He could see that Wen Susu's family was well-off, but he didn't know to what extent. Anyway, if it were someone else, they wouldn't be willing to teach at a loss. After all, a year's salary might not be enough for her to buy these things.
"So many paintings! Teacher Wen, your dormitory is like an art exhibition!"
Compared with the furniture and appliances, what attracted Fang Wei and Cai Ling more was the dazzling array of paintings in the room.
It felt like they had walked into a painting studio. The two finally understood what that smell was when they first opened the door. It was probably the smell of watercolor or ink that naturally came from the paintings.
I just looked at Wen Susu's album last time, those were all works she had carefully selected.
Many of the things in the room were semi-finished products, including sketches, oil paintings, and watercolors. There was no tea set on the coffee table, only her paint tray and brushes.
"Hehe, I draw when I have nothing to do. I need to practice regularly, otherwise I will become rusty."
“Wow, this was painted on the balcony, right?”
Xu Cailing moved in front of an easel, which contained a half-finished watercolor painting. When compared with the field scenery outside the balcony, it looked exactly like the one in the painting.
"Yes, it's not finished yet."
"Teacher Wen, you are awesome!!"
"Haha, it's okay~"
"Fang, come and look at this painting..."
Compared to the previous time when Wen Susu's album was passed around in the classroom, now there was no one competing with them for it, so they had plenty of time to look at it.
Fang Wei and Cai Ling felt like they were in an art exhibition, and they carefully appreciated each painting for a while.
Paintings are made to be seen by people, right?
Maybe Fang Wei and Cai Ling don’t know how to paint and their aesthetic taste is not as good as that of professionals, but in Wen Susu’s opinion, they are already the best audience.
Wen Susu opened the refrigerator, took out two ice creams and two bottles of soda and handed them to the two of them.
"Thank you, teacher~!"
"It's the teacher who wants to thank you. There are a lot of snacks here. Please feel free to eat whatever you want."
Wen Susu opened the suitcase and took out bag after bag of snacks that they had never seen or tasted before, and piled them on the coffee table.
Seeing that the two were a little embarrassed to eat on their own initiative, she simply tore open the package herself and handed a bag of potato chips to them.
"Delicious!"
Xu Cailing's eyes lit up. She had never thought that potatoes could be made into such a delicious snack.
While eating potato chips, ice cream, drinking soda, and looking at the paintings.
Cai Ling felt that this was the most perfect life possible!
(End of this chapter)
