Returning the tools to the general affairs office, the two didn't need to go back to the classroom and headed straight to the canteen.
Since each class ended differently today, and the second-year students were still in self-study, there were very few people in the canteen, almost no need to queue, saving ti, as the two split up to get food from two windows.
"Auntie, I want that, that and that one too."
At the window, Lin Li ordered three dishes like those often ntioned in rap videos, but the canteen auntie didn't seem to get it and served him three dishes instead.
No harm, no foul.
Looking at the scene ahead, Lin Li couldn't help but feel touched.
Many tis, life's most magnificent declarations are hidden in those perseverances that coexist with pain. When fate is unfair and tips the scales of life causing imbalance, so choose to give up and drift, while others recalibrate their dignity amid the imbalance.
What kind of indomitable will does the latter have? What kind of magnificent vitality? What kind of proud soul?
Respectfully, Lin Li couldn't help but feel tears welling up.
——The above feelings were stirred when Lin Li saw the canteen auntie continuing to work despite having Parkinson's disease.
Auntie, maybe you shouldn't let your hand tremble like that.
A large scoop turned into a half scoop.
However, to be fair, it wasn't really Auntie's fault; it's just that he ca at the wrong ti.
If he had co earlier, apart from those seriously stingy aunties who act as if public money is their own to save, most aunties would generously serve food from full trays.
And if he ca later, especially when it's near closing ti, the aunties would be even more generous with leftovers, sotis doubling the usual amount.
So the current timing was awkward, with just enough food and having to consider that later students wouldn't go without. Understandable for the hand trembling.
After getting the food, Lin Li went to the utensils section, took two sets, and walked over to the rice bucket area: "Auntie, please scoop so rice."
Upon hearing this, Auntie glared at Lin Li. If her hands weren't full, she would probably have given Lin Li a punch, playful squeeze.
——That's Aunt Chen.
The rice and soup buckets at Nansang Middle School canteen don't have staff but aren't free; you pay an extra dollar when getting food.
Though dissatisfied, Aunt Chen dutifully picked up the scoop and asked, "Want more or less?"
Lin Li: "Seven parts sugar, less ice."
Chen Yu Ying sighed; it's normal for Lin Li to choose "or" out of the "AorB" options.
Usually, with regular aunties, hearing a student say sothing like that, few can resist spitting in Lin Li's rice.
But Aunt Chen resisted.
She feared Lin Li would enjoy it too much.
"Speak human language."
"Forty-five hundred grains." Personified, but Lin Li only halfway personified.
Plop, a lump of rice landed on the largest space on the tray, Chen Yu Ying mimicked another rice ball as big as a fingernail, nodded: "Counted them, just right~."
"Wonderful." Lin Li smiled and nodded.
This indulgent praise was well-received by Chen Yu Ying, although she responded with a disdainful "tsk", her smile was genuine.
Hmph, forgiving Lin Li for calling her Aunt.
The canteen had plenty of seating, and the two casually picked a corner seat.
No need to hide too much or avoid suspicion, but also no need to flaunt.
"In the novels I read, when a school heartthrob like has similar ambiguous interactions with a girl while eating alone, even in the corner, it would cause an uproar across the school, and soone would co to question 'Who are you~ Why can you have lunch with Lin Li~', why is it so quiet?"
But Lin Li was a bit disappointed.
That 'school-wide uproar' plot didn't happen; still had to attend classes, damn it.
"Shaless." Chen Yu Ying sighed, shaking her head.
"Shalessness isn't important now, class monitor, why does your French butter egg grain with sweet and sour tomato slices have so much? It's not fair!"
Lin Li squinted, slightly pushed his tray forward, touching Chen Yu Ying's, then questioned.
Both had ordered scrambled eggs with tomatoes, but the portions were different.
F*ck, bad encounter with auntie!
Should have gone to Chen Yu Ying's window; wasted the sympathy for the Parkinson's auntie at my window.
"Because Auntie feared that if she gave you too much, the whole school's girls would misunderstand, thinking she has ulterior motives for you, then she'd be questioned 'Who are you~ Why are you being nice to Lin Li~'."
Chen Yu Ying picked up a small bite of rice, waved it in front of Lin Li's face, mimicked Lin Li's tone, smiling with water sparkling in crescent-shaped eyes:
"Then the whole school would erupt. We students wouldn't be affected much, but the canteen auntie would lose her job~"
"So she obviously has to be very careful~"
Lin Li: "[○･｀Д´･○]!"
Chen Yu Ying's way of thinking, under his influence, had reached a state of vibrant life and thriving ideas.
And indeed, hearing 'Lin Li Lord' made him feel ticklish with excitent.
"Baby, now that you ntion it, I suddenly see clearly—you ant my brain, you're so precise." Lin Li nodded.
Chen Yu Ying: "?"
Why emphasize the brain?
"Actually, Auntie is already being kind to . By giving less scrambled eggs with tomatoes, she's actually considering my health," Lin Li argued back and forth with himself:
"Class monitor, your Auntie gave you a lot, but actually, she's harming you!"
"Hmm?" Chen Yu Ying placed her chopsticks at her lips, slightly tilting her head, looking at Lin Li.
"You didn't know, did you," Lin Li began to explain a cold fact, with a serious look: "Tomatoes are poisonous, they contain a substance called lycopene, a natural toxin, and once ingested in excess, can lead to poisoning and even death!"
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