"No, you... Xu Qianqian." Jiang Nian’s dream of being the protagonist of a manga was shattered, "You’re so positive, it’s making a little embarrassed."
It has to be Chinese youth, where the bright sun shatters the gentle daydream.
Zhenan Middle School, North District Dormitory Building.
Building 2, Girls’ Dorm.
Thud, thud, Wang Yuhe hurried into the dormitory hallway carrying two-thirds of a bucket of hot water. Her hair and clothes inevitably got wet, and she thought to herself how unlucky she was.
Washing her hair at night and unable to dry it, she had to find a way to pat it dry.
With only fifty seconds to lights out, the hallway was still crowded with people. She carried her bucket of water expressionlessly, effortlessly following the flow upstairs.
The strength of a girl is not small, she always felt puzzled when she saw girls who couldn’t even lift a quarter of a bucket of water.
Wang Yuhe estimated that if it were a full bucket of water, she might only be able to carry it to midway between the second and third floors before needing a break, which was why her dorm was on the fifth floor.
When she was halfway up the stairs with her water, the lights in the dorm building suddenly went out, and the hallway was instantly filled with the curses of girls.
"The dorm manager is an idiot!"
"Exactly! Don’t they know it’s pouring rain, can’t they delay for a few minutes?"
"Damn, I’m fed up."
Wang Yuhe took the opportunity to rest on the third floor, having pushed her limits once again. She felt almost as strong as a boy, thinking she could punch and kill Dong Wensong with one hit.
Eh? Why was it Dong Wensong?
Because she also hated people who pretended to be hotshots.
Once her eyes adjusted to the darkness, Wang Yuhe continued carrying her bucket upwards. She wasn’t sure if Chen Yunyun had returned to the dorm, as she was responsible for filling two thermos bottles.
The hot water in the water room was divided into two temperatures, one row was the tap water from the greenhouse area which provided warm water. How hot it was depends on luck, and boarding students filled their buckets by using a card to get water.
The other side was inside the water room where the boiling water was, filled with thermos pots. Again, it required a card, with an elderly man sitting there in charge, charging thirty cents each ti.
She managed to get to the fifth floor in one go, the corridor was slippery and wet, full of a strong watery sll. Occasionally passing a dorm, the intense perfu sll was nauseating.
Returning to the dorm, she found that Chen Yunyun hadn’t co back yet.
Sure enough, when Chen Yunyun ca up with the thermos bottles later, she was drenched, her hair wet and sticking to her forehead, giving a sheepish smile to her roommates.
"What a heavy rain."
"Use a towel to wipe it." Wang Yuhe was also drying her head.
In the dormitory, except for a few girls who took advantage of the midday peak to shower and didn’t get wet, the rest were more or less in a sorry state, changing clothes, wiping their hair, and wiping their glasses.
Lining up for water always took a long ti, so generally, we would take turns with soone.
"Okay."
Chen Yunyun took off her wet school uniform jacket and casually stripped down to her pants, with her oversized T-shirt acting like a nightgown covering her thigh roots.
High school girls would not wander around in just underwear, the top being more important than the bottom. Just wearing underwear on top felt as if they were running around naked for high school girls.
Even in sumr, if not wearing anything, they would have to wear a little camisole over it.
A couple girls from the neighboring dorm ca over to hang out, and the atmosphere in the dorm beca lively again.
Soone turned on a desk lamp on the bed, taking out howork.
When it was the two girls’ turn to shower, Chen Yunyun took out a pink bucket from the balcony. She also pulled out a mysterious small basin and a pack of tissues.
The two girls divided a bucket of water into two, leaving a bit of water in the thermos bottle before further dividing it.
In the narrow private bathroom, they guessed it was almost done.
Suddenly, Wang Yuhe said, "Yunyun."
"Mm?"
"When I was coming up the stairs, I broke through again, felt like I could kill Dong Wensong with one punch."
Chen Yunyun praised, "Aweso, aweso, I think it takes one and a half punches. One punch probably won’t do it; I have to add another one."
"Then you have to work harder, only one year left in high school." Wang Yuhe said, "I heard that universities have private bathrooms, no need to carry hot water, but Northern University doesn’t seem to have that."
"Then let’s apply to universities in the south, I want to try for Lu University....."
On the bathroom windowsill, there was a standing flashlight. Its faint light was dim, as if it were about to die, only providing vague illumination.
"The flashlight needs charging; let’s take it to the classroom tomorrow." Wang Yuhe suggested.
"Okay."
After the sparse and trivial daily life, the two girls who had finished washing clothes didn’t wash their hair for fear it wouldn’t dry overnight. They wiped it dry with an absorbent towel and used a small fan to blow their hair.
Like drying noodles, hanging over the iron railings at the head of the bed.
At this point, a day for high school girls was coming to an end. Having long been accustod to the poor dorm environnt, they could even squeeze out so fragntary ti with the compact schedule.
At midnight, the girls in dorm 512 gradually put away their desk lamps and howork. One was still writing papers, and only a night light was left in the dorm.
"I think... the dorm manager is so cheap."
One sentence led them on, and the seven girls in the dorm all started talking. One after another, they began, and once confird that no one was sleepy, they let the topics spread far and wide.
"There’s a really handso guy on the third floor. I wonder which class he’s in. He’s so handso; he should have a girlfriend by now. It hurts to think about soone being with him."
"Wow!!! You’re so...."
"Creepy, that’s such a turn-off!"
"Right, I really want to record what you said and play it on loop in the campus broadcasting station."
"Hey, have you guys noticed that the Water Card charges have been increasing faster?"
"I felt that too, it seems like the prices have gone up."
"Chi Shi, greedy school!"
Outside, the sound of rain was pouring down, accompanying them to sleep. But no one in the girls’ dorm felt sleepy; they were all unusually excited, and began to discuss life goals.
Old boyfriends, middle school romances, talking... about friends’ relationships.
They gave a well-reasoned analysis of two guys’ pure love stories and concluded, with everyone’s participation, that those two guys must be bent.
Gradually, talking about graduating next year made a few people sentintal. Complaining about how painful senior year was, why ti was moving so slowly, and how adorable Qianbao was.
"The biology teacher is quite good-looking too, but she’s too serious in class, I’ve decided to call her Qingbao."
"Not as cute as Qianbao, last ti I passed by the office, and saw her sneaking snacks. Hahaha, did you know? It was so funny."
"Hey, during the blackout while we were in night class, I heard Sun Zhicheng confess to Yunyun."
"Don’t talk nonsense, didn’t hear a thing." Chen Yunyun said, "We’re in the sa group, what else could it be? Seeing each other every day is tiring enough, you like him...?"
"Don’t talk about , I’m not the one who brought it up."
"I know, Yunyun likes hanging out with Jiang Nian." In the darkness, one girl sneaked this in, and soone else added, "You don’t like him, do you?"
"Of course not! Just chatting." Chen Yunyun defended, "I talk to many boys in the class, so many people; how could I possibly like them all."
"What about Sun Zhicheng? Hahaha."
"Get lost!" Chen Yunyun denied on the spot, explaining, "I just think Jiang Nian has so interesting things to say, just casual chats."
Just then, the relatively quiet Wang Yuhe suddenly spoke.
"That Zhang Ningzhi in Jiang Nian’s group, she’s really pretty."
"Yeah, people who live in Nanjiang Bay must have money." A girl picked up, "I think it was Yao Beibei and the others who brought her into the group, her personality is quite nice."
Chen Yunyun suddenly couldn’t find any words, feeling inexplicably forlorn for a while, then shook her head. Too much thinking, it was just casual chat among friends.
The topic again shifted, Chen Yunyun, and Wang Yuhe couldn’t help but gradually join in.
In the small dormitory, low laughter kept coming. There was always soone saying "Not talking anymore, ti to sleep", but ti kept dragging, creating few silent monts with soone always bursting out with a new line.
Like sparks flying, exchanging between each other, roommate bonds warming up at this mont.
For a long ti.
"Has everyone fallen asleep?"
"Where did we leave off?"
"...Sleeping."
"Anyway, I’m not,"
Chen Yunyun in a daze, eyelids growing heavier. Maybe it was the night talk about Jiang Nian, or the morable scene of the blackout during night class, but Jiang Nian appeared again in her dreams.
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