"Shao Mo, I didn't realize that you are quite considerate."
While waiting in line, Zhong Xiaochen pulled Yun Mo and whispered, "Your family situation must be pretty good. I originally thought that people like you would be more proud and would not come to eat in a cafeteria."
"Why do you say that?"
"Don't you know? No. 1 Canteen is famous as a poverty alleviation canteen. Most of the people who eat in No. 1 Canteen are poor students with no money."
Seeing that Yun Mo didn't speak, Zhong Xiaochen quickly explained: "I don't mean to look down on anyone, I just feel that you rich girls with good backgrounds will save face and find it embarrassing to come to a cafeteria to eat."
"What about you? Don't you feel ashamed?"
"Of course I won't. My family conditions are average. My parents are both ordinary workers. In order to save money when I was young, my parents would eat more meals in the factory and take the leftovers home to make a meal together at night. I
It’s been this way since I was a kid.”
Yun Mo smiled and said, "Everyone is pretty much the same."
"Ah, are your parents also workers?"
"My mother used to live in the countryside. She only came to the city in the past two years. My father started his own business."
"Oh, I understand."
Yun Mo didn't ask the other party what he understood, and turned to other topics.
After lunch, the two female classmates went back to the dormitory to rest, while Yun Mo and Zhong Xiaochen went to the library to read and kill time.
On the way to the library, she saw a public phone booth. Yun Mo asked Zhong Xiaochen to go to the library to find a seat first, while she made a call to Huang Zhiqiu and Shao Lin to report on the situation on the first day of class.
After calling, Yunmo stared at the phone for a while, put in another fifty-cent coin, and dialed the phone number of the small courtyard.
The call was answered by Yao Suhua, and he heard her voice. Yao Suhua immediately knew: "Xiao Ling is washing dishes in the kitchen. I'll call him."
"Well, thank you Aunt Yao."
Hearing Yao Suhua's laughter on the other end of the phone, Yun Mo's cheeks felt slightly warm.
"Hello, wife? Have you had lunch?"
"After eating, there's nothing wrong. I just called you to tell you that I'm fine at school."
"That's good. Did you eat in the cafeteria? Does the food taste good?"
"It's just average. It's far worse than what you cook."
After hearing this, Lingchuan couldn't help but smile, and even his voice became gentler, "Then I'll cook dinner early in the afternoon and wait for you to come back. What food do you want to eat?"
"Whatever. Just look at the arrangements. Okay, it's time. I won't tell you any more. Bye."
"Um."
When Yun Mo hung up the phone and came out of the phone booth, she found a small queue outside the phone booth.
These days, the only means of communication other than telegraphs and letters is the telephone. Although there are many public telephone booths on the campus of Peking University, they cannot handle the large number of teachers and students at Peking University, so the peak periods for phone use are at noon and after school in the afternoon.
Yunmo made three calls in one go, forcing others who wanted to use the phone to wait.
"Sorry for taking up everyone's time."
Waiting in the bright sun made everyone feel irritable, but seeing Yun Mo looking so beautiful and polite, everyone's anger immediately dropped by more than half.
"It doesn't matter, first come, first served." The boy who was first in line replied.
Yun Mo nodded to the other party, then turned and walked towards the library.
"Hey, do you still need the phone?"
It wasn't until the people behind him urged him that the boy first in line came to his senses from Yun Mo's graceful back, and hurriedly walked into the phone booth with a red face.
Because of the lunch break, there were not many people in the library, so Yun Mo easily found Zhong Xiaochen who had taken a good seat.
Zhong Xiaochen was reading a biology textbook, while Yun Mo was flipping through some foreign classics.
"Shao Mo, you are reading the original work, can you understand it?"
Facing Zhong Xiaochen's surprise, Yun Mo suddenly realized that her behavior seemed to be a bit of a show off.
Although the students who can enter Peking University are the golden spires of various schools, due to the differences in environment and teaching methods, the English proficiency of the vast majority of them only stays at situational conversations and short essays, which is far from reaching
Ability to read original English works fluently.
"I can only understand it roughly. I'm learning while watching."
Zhong Xiaochen nodded in understanding, "You work so hard, your English scores should be very good, right?"
"Well enough."
"I really envy you. My English is not good. I only scored over 120 points in the college entrance examination. Can I ask you for English advice in the future?"
"Can."
Seeing that Zhong Xiaochen really wanted to learn English well, Yun Mo did not hesitate to give him some suggestions.
"Learning English is actually not difficult. You can make it a part of your daily life, such as listening to English radio or English poetry every day, and reading more English newspapers. Over time, your English ability will definitely improve."
"Okay, I'll try, thank you."
"You're welcome."
In the afternoon, I mainly hold class meetings and copy the course schedule for this semester, and then I can collect the textbooks and go home.
Before school, the monitor announced that a class activity would be held this weekend. The content of the activity was tentatively decided, but they would choose between autumn outings and mountain climbing.
Yun Mo was stumped when she received the textbooks. There were more than a dozen textbooks stacked together as thick as four or five bricks. They were heavy and difficult to hold in her hands, let alone ride a bicycle with so many books.
It was in full view of everyone, and it was impossible to put it in the space. When she was in trouble, a boy of average height walked up to her and enthusiastically wanted to help her carry the book.
Yun Mo could tell at a glance that the other party's enthusiasm had a purpose and declined directly.
"No, thank you, my partner will pick me up."
When he heard her say that she had a partner, the boy was stunned for a moment and then left in a nonchalant manner.
In order to avoid any more male classmates coming to strike up a conversation, Yun Mo quickly left the academic building with her books and entered a women's restroom.
In the toilet cubicle, Yun Mo put the books into the space, then took some thick clothes from the space and put them into a backpack, making it look like the books were in the backpack, and then rode her bicycle home with the bulging backpack on her back.
Back in the courtyard, Lingchuan was cooking dinner in the kitchen. Yao Suhua had gone somewhere and was not at home.
Yun Mo went to the study room first, took out the textbooks in the space, placed them on the desk, and then went to the kitchen.
"Daughter-in-law, did you finish school so early?"
In the kitchen, Lingchuan was cooking with an apron on, and his face suddenly showed joy when he saw her.
"Well, there are no classes today. School is over early. What are you going to have for dinner?"
As Yun Mo spoke, she walked to the stove with her hands behind her back and leaned forward to look into the pot.
"There are sweet and sour pork loin, stir-fried shrimps, and cucumbers. Aunt Yao and Zeng Fang didn't go home to eat, so I only cooked three dishes."
"Three are enough for us."
Yun Mo brought the prepared dishes to the dining table outside, then picked a watermelon from the space, cut it in half and put it in the refrigerator to be used as after-dinner fruit.