Before long, Aunt Gu and Xue Chuchu's mother, Hua Fengi, got off work.
Hua Fengi brought a bunch of vegetables, ribs, corn, bass, fruits, and the like.
She had bought these ingredients separately in the morning, planning to cook at Sister Gu's house to express her thanks for helping her get a job at Changqing Liquid Group.
The two had been friends for years; talking about money or giving gifts wouldn't be quite right, so they could only use this way to show gratitude.
Xue Yuantong had played video gas for most of the day, and she was tired in the eyes. She moved off her "throne" and went out to find her mother.
Aunt Gu and Hua Fengi were busy in the kitchen preparing for the Chinese New Year, and for the mont, they couldn't attend to Xue Yuantong.
So Xue Yuantong ran to the door again.
She glanced at Jiang Ning and stretched her body, feeling her view broaden as she had grown taller, which gave her a sense of boundless ease.
In one term, she had grown a whole three centiters.
What kind of speed was that?
At this rate, she would grow 6 centiters in a year!
And by the ti she graduated high school in three years, she would have grown 18 centiters, reaching 168 cm, 3 centiters taller than Xue Chuchu.
Thinking of this, Xue Yuantong felt her future was full of promise, and once she beca a "giant," Jiang Ning would no longer look down on her!
Xue Yuantong intentionally picked a fight with Jiang Ning. She put her little hands behind her back, ambled over to where Jiang Ning stood, first looking up at him, and then, arrogantly said,
"Not bad, Jiang Ning, you're not that tall either."
This term, Jiang Ning had grown roughly less than twenty centiters, now standing at a net height of 182 cm in the evening, certainly an excellent height among his peers in Hui Province.
Even in a future where kids were well-nourished and shot up in height, he would still not be considered short.
"It's alright," said Jiang Ning. He was sowhat puzzled as to why Xue Yuantong would ntion this.
After Xue Yuantong finished speaking, she turned to look at Xue Chuchu and added,
"Chuchu, you're still pretty tall."
Xue Chuchu was very modest and spoke pleasantly, "Not at all; I'd rather be a bit shorter."
Hearing her words, Xue Yuantong said earnestly, "You're just right as you are now, and I will be as tall as you one day."
"Mhm, Tongtong, you can definitely do it."
"Hmph, I asured this morning, I'm at 153 now, but you just didn't get to see it. Now, I'll asure again so you can see."
Xue Yuantong boasted. Since discovering she had grown, she couldn't wait to broadcast it far and wide, to let everyone know about her limitless potential.
"Jiang Ning, wait for a second."
Having said that, Xue Yuantong ran to the yard to fetch the specific mat and tape asure for height checking.
Passing the kitchen, she slled the aroma; her mother was "frying dough rounds" and making sugar cakes.
Every New Year's, her house would fry dough rounds as a custom.
Round doughs, not atballs!
Frying dough rounds involves using flour, shredded radish, bean sprouts, and eggs to make the dough rounds before frying them in a clay pot.
Her mother was an excellent cook, able to make delicious fillings and to expertly control the heat when frying, resulting in dough rounds that were crispy outside and tender inside when freshly made.
They could also be boiled in soup or even stir-fried with vegetables, having many uses.
Slling the fragrance from the kitchen, Xue Yuantong, with great willpower, resisted; she just wanted to prove to Xue Chuchu that she had grown three centiters over the sester!
Only after getting an exclamation of surprise from Xue Chuchu would she enjoy the delicious fried dough rounds.
In ancient tis, Guan Yu cut down Huaxiong while his wine was still warm; now, Yuantong sought to impress the whole room!
Xue Yuantong hurried to the door, this ti, carrying the full set of height-asuring equipnt.
She glanced at Jiang Ning, who was still playing with his phone at such a crucial mont!
"Jiang Ning, are you ready? I am about to start."
"Yes," Jiang Ning put away his phone. Soone had been chatting in the class group and even ntioned him, which was why he had checked it.
Xue Yuantong took off her cotton shoes, stepped onto the thin mat, and inhaled deeply, standing tall and proud as if holding the moon in her embrace, feeling as if her head touched the sky and her feet stood on the earth, growing taller with the heavens.
Xue Yuantong held her breath, looking reproachfully at Jiang Ning, urging him to be quick.
It was uncomfortable to hold her breath for so long!
Jiang Ning made a mark: "Done."
Xue Yuantong quickly stepped away from the wall, "Chuchu, the mont to witness a miracle has co!"
Then she looked at the mark on the wall and exclaid in shock,
"Jiang Ning, did you asure it wrong? How can it be shorter than this morning's mark?"
"I asured right beside the top of your head; how could it be wrong?" Jiang Ning said.
"That's not right!" Xue Yuantong still couldn't believe it.
She asked Xue Chuchu to asure her again; it was still the sa mark as before.
Jiang Ning took out the tape asure and took a reading:
"151.5 cm. Hmm, it's an inch and a half shorter than this morning."
Xue Yuantong's face fell in disappointnt, saying plaintively,
"How could this happen? It was 153 this morning."
She couldn't understand it, feeling like she had suffered a significant blow, looking utterly disheartened.
Xue Chuchu looked at Xue Yuantong and explained as she was a good student,
"When you wake up in the morning, the joints throughout your body are relaxed, especially the spaces between the vertebrae in your spine are widened. After being active all day, the effect of gravity causes the spaces between the vertebrae to narrow down, aning there's a sinking effect, so you end up shorter in the evening than in the morning."
Chuchu's explanation made Xue Yuantong's heartache even more. So her 153 was fake, it was all a lie...
It was only because she asured in the morning; the truth was she was just 151.5.
Xue Yuantong felt worn out.
Seeing this, Xue Chuchu went to comfort her, while Jiang Ning continued to look at his phone.
The ssage in the group was from the hairstyle mighty ng Gui, who didn't just ntion Jiang Ning but had also ntioned most of the boys in the urban area, inviting them to go skating together.
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