Spicy Crayfish

Jiang Xizhi sat in her seat, feeling out of place in the cafeteria, but after taking exams all morning, her stomach grumbled non-stop against her will.

Jiang Xizhi took her chopsticks and carefully picked at the spicy hot pot in her bowl.

The soup of the spicy hot pot had a slight spiciness, covered with a layer of sesame paste, and sprinkled with sesame seeds and crushed peanuts on top, looking quite appealing.

However, Jiang Xizhi had never eaten this kind of thing before.

She hesitated and stirred it with her chopsticks, and her stomach rumbled a few more times.

Jiang Xizhi sighed, gritted her teeth, and brought a piece of lettuce to her lips.

She hesitated and took a bite, and found that the strange taste she feared did not flood into her mouth.

Instead, the fresh sweetness of the lettuce, mixed with the aroma of sesame paste and crushed peanuts, flooded into her mouth at once.

Jiang Xizhi’s eyes lit up, and she took another big bite.

She was so moved that she almost cried.

She never expected that the junk food her family talked about was so delicious!

Jiang Xizhi also tried a meatball and found that it was also delicious, and she couldn’t stop taking one bite after another.

On the other side, Zhou Yining continued to queue up to buy spicy hot pot.

The food at the school was monotonous, and there were many people at the noodle and spicy hot pot windows, so she could only continue to queue.

What could she do when the school’s set meal was so unappetizing?

Ten minutes later, it was finally Zhou Yining’s turn.

Zhou Yining ordered another spicy hot pot and also bought two bottles of soda.

When she came back, Jiang Xizhi had eaten half of it.

Zhou Yining handed her the soda.

“Drink some of this to relieve the greasiness.”

“Thank you.” Jiang Xizhi thanked her and hesitated whether to drink it.

She usually drank freshly squeezed juice at home, and she had never drunk cheap drinks like cola.

Jiang Xizhi looked at Zhou Yining and saw that Zhou Yining had also opened a can of cola.

Zhou Yining took a comfortable sip before starting to eat.

Jiang Xizhi’s eyes fell on her can of cola again.

Judging from Zhou Yining’s expression, the cola seemed to taste good?

She tentatively opened the cola, cautiously took a sip, and found that there was no strange taste as she had imagined.

On the contrary, it was really delicious, cold and greasy, relieving a little bit of the spiciness of the spicy hot pot.

Jiang Xizhi’s eyebrows curved, and she continued to eat heartily.

Shi Yuanyuan gave Si Yaqing a look, and the two secretly curled their lips.

They thought that the young miss would dislike the heavy fumes in the cafeteria and go back to the class to eat, but the young miss, who usually had a bad temper, was actually eating quite deliciously.

Shi Yuanyuan and Si Yaqing immediately felt a sense of crisis.

Why did they feel that this Zhou Yining was more suitable to be the young miss’s lackey than the two of them?

This wouldn’t do!

Zhou Yining didn’t know that they had made up so much in their minds.

She was eating heartily at the moment.

Her body was still that of a high school student, and a morning of exams had long since exhausted the little breakfast she had.

Eating spicy hot pot at this time was particularly delicious.

It wasn’t until she finished the last bite that Zhou Yining wiped her mouth with satisfaction and drank all the cola at hand.

Seeing that she had finished eating, Jiang Xizhi said, “Are we going back? Want to go together?”

“Sure.” Zhou Yining smiled at her, got up, and prepared to take the bowl out.

Jiang Xizhi didn’t know the rules here in the cafeteria, and the used bowls needed to be placed on the dining cart, where staff would clean them uniformly.

After Zhou Yining picked up her bowl, she also picked up Jiang Xizhi’s bowl.

Seeing Jiang Xizhi looking at her, Zhou Yining explained,

“The used bowls have to be taken to the dining cart, let’s go, I’ll help you hold it.”

Zhou Yining’s tone was casual, neither flattering nor trying to please her.

It was like helping a friend to take it over.

Jiang Xizhi thanked her subconsciously.

“You’re welcome, it’s just a small thing.” Zhou Yining smiled at her and put the two bowls on the dining cart for collecting bowls.

Jiang Xizhi followed behind her, but she felt strange.

She always felt more comfortable getting along with Zhou Yining than with Shi Yuanyuan and Si Yaqing.

Although Shi Yuanyuan and Si Yaqing were trying their best to be friends with her, she could still see their flattery towards her sometimes, but she would never have this feeling when she was with Zhou Yining.

Her attitude towards her seemed to be that of a friend.

Thinking this way, the corners of Jiang Xizhi’s lips curved.

In fact, she had no real friends by her side since she was a child.

Even if she wanted to make friends, those who made friends with her were often doing so with a purpose.

“Let’s go, it’s only one o’clock now. We can go back and rest for a while.” Zhou Yining smiled at her and walked towards the entrance of the cafeteria.

“Yeah, let’s go.” Jiang Xizhi followed.

She suddenly felt that Shi Yuanyuan and Si Yaqing were a bit redundant.

She seemed to prefer being alone with Zhou Yining.

Having two people following her felt a bit awkward.

Zhou Yining didn’t feel anything.

She walked and talked with Jiang Xizhi towards the teaching building.

Tian Xue happened to come out of the teaching building at this time.

She hurriedly hid at the corner, not letting Zhou Yining and the others see her.

Tian Xue’s eyes towards Zhou Yining were deep.

The thick glasses covered most of her expression.

After a long while, Tian Xue walked towards the cafeteria by herself.

After Zhou Yining separated from Jiang Xizhi, she returned to the class.

Xu Yueming, seeing her come back, curled his lips and turned around to chat with the people in the back.

Zhou Yining didn’t want to pay attention to him either.

She got up and went out to get water, and then lay down on the desk and slept for a while.

The history teacher came in with the papers.

The exam in the afternoon was liberal arts, and all three courses were on one paper, so the paper was very thick.

The students were already sleepy, and seeing such a thick stack of papers, they sighed one by one.

Zhou Yining pinched her eyebrows to wake up.

After the papers were handed out, she began to answer the questions quickly.

Her liberal arts scores in her previous life were excellent.

For essay questions, she could write every question to the point of scoring.

This time was the same, Zhou Yining quickly answered, completing the entire paper nearly forty minutes in advance.

After filling in the answer sheet, Zhou Yining lay down again to catch up on sleep.

She planned to go to the internet cafe to write something to submit at night, but she couldn’t go home too late, it would be easy to raise suspicion if she was too late.

After the bell rang, the students in the back row began to collect the answer sheets.

Zhou Yining handed in her answer sheet and stretched.

It was impossible to leave school early after the monthly exam.

The homeroom teacher informed them to continue studying on their own.

In the second-year grade’s general office, Chen Yitong was grading the papers.

The geography teacher was watching over self-study in the evening.

She had noticed when she was grading earlier that Zhou Yining’s paper had a high accuracy rate, and the handwriting was much better than before.

She was grading the essay at this moment, so she took out Zhou Yining’s paper to grade first.

At a glance, Chen Yitong felt that Zhou Yining’s handwriting was pleasing to the eye.

Looking at the content, it was very consistent with the theme, and it quoted many famous sayings as arguments.

It was a standard model essay, and she could hardly find any points to deduct.

But it was still a bit outrageous to get a perfect score in Chinese, so Chen Yitong still wrote -1 here in the essay.

She started to directly calculate Zhou Yining’s score, and was shocked when she calculated it.

The previous content was all correct, including reading comprehension.

Every question was answered to the point, and it was answered very skillfully.

Chen Yitong was shocked, because Zhou Yining’s grades in the class were always in the middle and lower reaches.

It was really surprising that she suddenly became so good at studying.

The math teacher next to her saw that she hadn’t moved for a long time looking at the paper, leaned over to take a look, and asked,

“What’s wrong? Who is this who got 149 points in Chinese?”

Chen Yitong looked at Teacher Zhang.

“It’s Zhou Yining from our class.

This child seems to have changed these past two days.

She suddenly became enlightened, and she doesn’t seem like she used to be anymore.

I feel like she’s suddenly refreshed.”

“Zhou Yining, I was just about to tell you about her.

She got 150 points in math this time, a perfect score.

Yesterday, I asked her to explain a difficult problem on the blackboard, and she explained it very well.

I think this child may be the dark horse of this year.”

Teacher Zhang was also very happy.

She had a math top student in her class, so she had face when she talked about it.

Just as the two were happily discussing, Teacher Cao walked up to Chen Yitong with the papers.

“Teacher Chen, does that Zhou Yining in your class have any opinions about me?

If she has any opinions, you can ask her to come to me directly.

What does handing in a blank English paper mean?

I’ve never seen a student like her.”