“Ah, Su Mian, Wei Min, you are here!” It was Liu Xiao Hui, who was grinning with her round head stuck out on the upper part of the door.
“New Year’s food is good, aren’t you becoming fatter again?” Su Mian teased her, but in fact Xiao Hui was cuter with some fat.
Liu Xiao Hui sat up from the bed awkwardly, covering her face with both hands, panicked and said, “Really? Really fatter? Sigh, I just have this kind of physique, I gain weight after a holiday. Su Mian, I’m so envious of you, you can always maintain your figure so well!”
Su Mian had a look at the big cotton-padded jacket and trousers that wrapped her tightly. She just had no idea at all as to how Liu Xiao Hui could figure that out.
Su Mian put down her bag and took out the meatballs that He Qin fried yesterday. The New Year was just over, and it actually wasn’t something rare, but just to enjoy the moment together.
“I brought some meatballs, everyone just come around and eat!” Su Mian looked around the dormitory. The ‘everyone’ she talked about was just Liu Xiao Hui and Zhang Yan Jie. Wei Min had a lot when they were in the car.
The dormitory Su Mian lived in was small, it was a six-person room, with upper and lower bunks, a fire stove in the middle of the floor, and a chimney from above the roof to the outside.
Su Mian came late during her freshman year, and as she liked to live in the upper bunk, she could only choose the one with the chimney above it.
Both the upper and lower bunks near the window were left empty. One was named Sun Ying, she lived in the city and seldom lived on campus. Her father was the school principal while the mother was a teacher, who happened to be teaching Su Mian and the others English.
There was another girl who stopped studying last semester. It was said that her father was seriously ill and the family had no money to let her study anymore. It was totally normal for someone to not study in this era. Anything that happened at home, even if it was a minor one, would affect their studies, especially for the girls.
As soon as Liu Xiao Hui heard that there was something delicious, her eyes lit up, and she didn’t envy Su Mian’s good figure anymore. She just came down swiftly by the ladder.
Zhang Yan Jie didn’t even lift up her head while sneering, as if she didn’t hear anything at all.
Seeing that Zhang Yan Jie was acting strange, Wei Min asked Liu Xiao Hui in whisper, “What’s wrong with her? Who has offended her?”
Liu Xiao Hui stuffed a meatball in her mouth, chewed a few times before lowering her voice, “Who knows, she ignored me when I arrived.”
Su Mian and Wei Min smiled at each other, and began to make the bed and tidy up their things.
They had self study at night, so Su Mian and the other two went to the classroom after dinner.
The classrooms were new buildings with tiles and bricks, and there was a large flower pot in front of each classroom. Su Mian’s dormitory was near the gate, and you had to go through the small field to get to the classroom. To the left of the small field was the water room and the canteen, and further behind was the boys’ dormitory.
Looking at the scene that she was so familiar yet unfamiliar with at the same time, Su Mian felt that the world was playing with her. In her previous life, she couldn’t complete high school, and she had always been regretful. Although she knew that she would definitely not be able to pass the exam, she had always felt badly for not finishing high school.
The classroom was brightly lit, Su Mian and Wei Min’s seats were in the last row, while Liu Xiao Hui’s was in the middle.
Su Mian’s class teacher’s surname was Wu. She was a very special woman who taught Su Mian language classes. She was slightly fat, and her lips were always red. She often said, “I’m jealous when I look at you at this age. If I don’t put on anything, I will become even older when compared with you all!”
The seats in the class were arranged according to grades by Wu Yu Mei. The students stood in a row according to grades. The first place in the class would choose first, then the second, and so on…
So, Su Mian and Wei Min, who were the last in the class, had always been at the end of the row.
