Chapter 87 The first photo with Cai Ling
Snacks seem to taste better when shared with others.
Not only Fang Wei and Xu Cailing were eating, Wen Susu herself was also crunching her food.
"Hehe, Teacher Wen, you are really different from other adults!" Xu Cailing said with a smile.
"Hmm? Why is it different?" Wen Susu was curious.
"You like snacks too. My dad and his friends would just say, 'What's so good about these? They're obviously really delicious.'"
Wen Susu smiled. In fact, most of the time, she also felt that she was still a child, but in fact, she was ten years older than Cailing and the others. From any perspective, she was already an adult.
I can only sigh that time flies and years are unforgiving!
After finishing the potato chips and taking a sip of iced soda, Xu Cailing clapped her hands and pulled Fang Wei together:
"Teacher Wen, you treated us to so many snacks, just sit down and rest for a while. Fang Wei and I will cook some noodles for you!"
"Ah? No, no, the teacher can do it himself."
"Respect your teacher!"
Xu Cailing laughed again and said, "Then Teacher Wen, tomorrow...should we go clean the campus?"
Wen Susu was both angry and amused, and said, "I'm just teasing you!"
"Then let's go cook noodles!"
"Hey?"
Wen Susu couldn't persuade her, so she had to let them do whatever they wanted.
It’s just cooking noodles, can you two make it into something more fancy?
……
Walking through the living room, there is a small balcony at the back.
To the right of the small balcony is the bathroom, and to the left is the small kitchen.
There were a few simple kitchen utensils in the kitchen, and the stove was very clean. It looked like Wen Susu had hardly ever cooked. Even the bottle of soy sauce that had been opened was almost full...
There was no range hood, only an exhaust fan. The kitchen seemed a bit stuffy in the afternoon, so Fang Wei turned on the exhaust fan.
Xu Cailing carried the vegetables she bought and walked into the small kitchen with him.
The kitchen was really small. After the two of them stood inside, there was no room for Wen Susu to go in and help.
"Teacher Wen, please go back to your room and rest. The noodles will cook quickly. We'll be ready in a moment!"
"Is it you, Cailing, who is cooking, or Fang Wei?"
"...I do 80% of the work! He just needs to know how to start a fire and use a shovel!"
Wen Susu couldn't help but be amused by her. She could actually describe the role of an assistant in such a refined and refreshing way?
But then she couldn't laugh anymore. Even if she was just helping out, she seemed no match for Cai Ling...
Xu Cailing first took out the piece of lean meat, washed it carefully under the faucet, and then handed it to Fang Wei after washing.
Fang Wei took the washed kitchen knife and chopping board, spread the meat flat on it, cut it in half first, and then skillfully cut it into thin slices with the knife.
He cuts the meat so fast!
Wen Susu was frightened by what she saw.
"Fang Wei. Be careful not to cut your hand!"
"Don't worry, you can't cut mine."
"It's very dangerous! Even the teacher is scared just looking at it!"
"When you cut meat, press it like this... Keep your fingers tucked inward and cut along the back of your fingers so you don't cut your hands."
"..."
"Also, when you cut the meat, you have to find its grain. The grain is like this... Then you cut it horizontally. This way it won't be tough or dry."
"..."
"After cutting, add some salt, oil, starch and pepper to marinate it. When the noodle soup is boiling, the meat will be tender once it is boiled."
"..."
Wen Susu was stunned. Why was this different from the way she usually cooked noodles? Didn't she just pour the chopped meat in and cook it? !
Look at Xu Cailing next to her, she is peeling shrimps now.
They were all live shrimps. She had a pair of small scissors in her hand. She skillfully cut off the shrimp heads and tails, then cut along the back. In just a few seconds, she peeled a shrimp.
"Cai Ling, how do you peel these shrimps so quickly?"
“Just peel it like this.”
Xu Cailing couldn't explain it. In addition to drying salted fish on weekdays, she would occasionally help prepare seafood. Peeling shrimps was a fairly simple job.
At first, Wen Susu thought Fang Wei and Cai Ling were just joking because of their ages, but now that she has seen it, she is shocked to realize that she is not even as good as a child?!
"Fang Wei, do you usually cook for yourself?"
"Yes, I have."
"How many years have you been doing this?"
"It's been five or six years. Don't worry, Mr. Wen. My cooking skills are still good."
"Five or six years...started cooking for yourself when you were seven or eight?!"
"more or less."
"Then Cai Ling, you..."
“I also started helping to peel shrimps, open shells, and dry salted fish when I was seven or eight years old!”
"..."
Wen Susu was silent. Compared to the two of them, when she was seven or eight years old...she could only peel garlic, right?
While admiring them, Wen Susu felt inexplicably distressed. Perhaps this was the norm for most boys and girls on the island, who had to help with housework at a young age.
"You two work very well together, do you often cook together?"
"Hehe, when I was a kid, Fang Wei often asked me to play house with him!"
"No, who is pulling who?"
"I remember it was you anyway!"
"...??"
"Hey, did you grow up together? Do you live close to each other?"
"Yeah, right next to me!"
"Childhood sweethearts!"
"We are still classmates!"
"Indeed, we are not only classmates, but also childhood sweethearts. It's rare!"
Fang Wei thought to himself, Teacher Wen, you must not understand what Cai Ling meant by classmates.
……
Soon, Xu Cailing finished peeling the shrimps, washed a few slices of green vegetables, washed a few green onions, and helped peel a sausage.
The rest of the work was left to Fang Wei.
Fang Wei washed the pot, turned on the fire skillfully, and after the pot was hot, he added oil and fried a poached egg.
"…Why don't your fried eggs stick to the pan?"
Wen Susu was a little confused about who was the teacher and who was the student, so she asked without hesitation when she saw this.
"The pan needs to be heated up, and don't flip the egg until it's set. It should be done like this."
Considering Fang Wei's current height, this stove is still quite inconvenient for him to operate, but he still flipped the egg quite skillfully.
After a while, a beautiful poached egg was fried.
"If you want the noodle soup to taste good, fry the eggs first and then add water to boil, so the soup will be very fragrant and rich."
As he poured in an appropriate amount of water, there was a sizzling sound in the pot, and soon the egg soup in the pot boiled.
Then he put in the noodles and cooked them. When the noodles were almost cooked, he added the marinated lean meat and shrimps, and finally a few slices of green vegetables.
Xu Cailing handed him a big bowl quite tacitly.
Fang Wei picked up the cooked noodles, put the sliced ham on top, covered it with a poached egg, sprinkled some chopped green onions, and finally poured the noodle soup from the pot on top. A bowl of fragrant noodles was ready.
Looking at the bowl of delicious noodle soup in front of her, Wen Susu was stunned for a moment.
Simple yet refined, plain yet delicious. Compared to what she usually cooks, it's food from two different dimensions!
It’s not that the taste is so different, but the two life attitudes are different.
"Teacher Wen should also eat well every day!"
"Please enjoy your meal!"
……
"Delicious!"
Wen Susu felt extremely happy. She sat at the dining table and happily enjoyed the bowl of noodle soup made for her by her students.
Maybe she has eaten many expensive delicacies, but in her heart at this moment, none of them can compare to this simple bowl of noodle soup.
After being hungry for most of the day, I finally felt hungry.
Wen Susu had never thought that she had such a good appetite. She ate such a big bowl of noodles by herself, without even leaving a last mouthful of soup.
With a click, she put down the empty bowl in her hand.
She leaned back in the chair, touched her bloated belly, and let out a long sigh of satisfaction.
"Fang Wei, Cai Ling, thank you for making noodles for the teacher, they are so delicious!"
"Haha, Teacher Wen, you're exaggerating. It's just a bowl of noodles." Xu Cailing said with a smile.
"No, teacher, you are not exaggerating at all. It is really delicious!" Wen Susu said sincerely.
"Teacher Wen, there is some marinated lean meat, shrimps and vegetables on this plate. I'll put them in the refrigerator for you. If you cook noodles for yourself tonight, remember to use them. Don't forget to keep them or they will go bad." Fang Wei said.
"Hey, after eating the noodles you two made for me, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat noodles I made myself anymore."
“Hahaha…” Xu Cailing laughed. She loved getting along with Teacher Wen. For the first time, she felt like she was becoming friends with her teacher.
Thinking of something, Wen Susu got up, opened the bedroom door and went into the room.
Fang Wei was too embarrassed to follow him in, but Xu Cailing didn't care and stood at the door of her room looking around curiously.
"Teacher Wen, it's so hot, why are you covering yourself with such a thick blanket?"
"Well...there is air conditioning. I usually like to turn on the air conditioner and cover myself with a blanket."
"!! Teacher Wen, did you buy the air conditioner yourself?"
"Yes, we also pay for the electricity and other expenses in the dormitory ourselves."
Now even Xu Cailing didn't know what to say, so she could only sigh: "Teacher Wen, you are really spending money on your lessons. How many years of teaching will it take you to make back the money..."
"According to the school's system, I have to teach you for at least three years. It doesn't matter anyway, so I'll spend the money. As long as you get good grades and make progress, I'll be satisfied!"
Xu Cailing is a simple-minded person, and perhaps she doesn't quite understand what Wen Susu gets out of spending her own money to attend classes, but she is very moved and admires such a dedicated teacher.
"Teacher Wen, you seem like a chivalrous heroine in the martial arts world, robbing the rich to help the poor, and having a broad mind!"
"what?"
"My dream is to become someone like Teacher Wen!" said Xu Cailing, the heroine of Pineapple Island.
"Cai Ling, do you want to go out and travel around the world?" Wen Susu laughed when she heard that.
"Well, it's not like I haven't thought about it..."
"Study hard, what nonsense are you thinking about?" Wen Susu tapped the girl's head affectionately.
Xu Cailing touched her forehead and chuckled.
Only then did he notice what Wen Susu had just taken out of the cabinet.
"Teacher Wen, is this... a camera?"
"Yes, the camera."
Wen Susu smiled and said, "I forgot to bring it before, but I finally remembered this time. With a camera, I can take more pictures in class and record your lives. It will definitely be meaningful when you recall it later!"
"It's really a camera! Teacher Wen, can I take a look at it..."
"of course can."
The camera in Wen Susu's hand is the full-frame film SLR camera EOS-1v that Canon just released this year. It is known as the most powerful film camera and also the last glory of film cameras. With the rapid development of technology, digital cameras will soon replace the status of film cameras.
In fact, there are many new digital cameras now with two to three million pixels, but Wen Susu still bought this one, perhaps because she has a special liking for film cameras.
"Fang Wei! Come and see Teacher Wen's camera!"
Hearing Xu Cailing's surprised voice, Fang Wei went over to take a look out of curiosity.
He didn't know much about photography, nor was he familiar with cameras, but he knew that this thing was expensive, so it was still interesting to join in the fun.
The two of them looked at it carefully and posed like the photographers on TV.
Wen Susu didn't mind them playing with it, and she took the initiative to load the film and taught Fang Wei and Cai Ling how to use it and how to take pictures.
"Teacher Wen, let me take a picture of you!"
"Okay, Cailing, how do you want to shoot it?"
"Hey, I don't know..."
"Then let me stand here and take a picture for me."
"it is good!"
Wen Susu stood next to her easel. Xu Cailing raised her camera, squinted one eye, half bent over, looked for the angle, and took a picture of what she thought was a great scene with a click.
"Okay! Teacher, what do you think of this photo?"
"Film cameras are different from digital cameras. You can't see the real-time images. You have to develop the film before you can see them."
"Teacher Wen, can you develop photos?"
"Yes."
"How do you wash it? Like washing something?"
"Haha, it's a bit like that, but not entirely..."
Wen Susu explained it to her, then took the camera back and said to Xu Cailing:
"Fang Wei, Cai Ling, let me take a photo of you!"
"it is good!"
When Xu Cailing heard that they were going to take a photo, she was happy and pulled Fang Wei along and stood side by side with him.
"Okay... strike a pose, you guys, you're standing too stiffly."
"What posture?"
"It will be all right!"
For a moment, Fang Wei didn't know how to pose, so he raised his left hand, raised his thumb, and made a thumbs-up gesture;
Xu Cailing stood on his right, shoulder to shoulder with him.
Seeing him making a thumbs-up gesture with his left hand, she raised her right hand, stretched out her thumb and index finger, placed them under her face, and made an inverted 7 gesture;
"Okay, that's good! Smile!"
"whee--"
"hey-hey--"
"Haha, not bad, not bad! They are exactly like my childhood sweethearts!"
With a click, Wen Susu pressed the shutter and took this photo of Fang Wei and Xu Cailing.
"Teacher Wen, are you done taking the photos?"
Xu Cailing didn't dare to move, she was grinning so hard that the corners of her mouth were almost sore.
"I've taken the photos. I'll develop them someday and print them out for you."
"Thank you, teacher!!"
Xu Cailing smiled happily.
Fang Wei also laughed.
If I remember correctly, this should be the first photo of him and Cai Ling.
This is the most youthful look of each other.
(End of this chapter)
