Third Year Afternoon
The school cafeteria was huge, with three floors. The first floor was the general cafeteria, the kind that looked like a fast food restaurant. There were stalls selling all sorts of dishes around the cafeteria, and in the middle were rows of tables and chairs.
The second floor, on the other hand, was a private room, suitable for rich students. Students who didn't come from rich families would come here for birthday parties as well. The food on the second floor was on a completely different level compared to the first floor, after all.
The third floor was the staff cafeteria. The food was similar to the students' cafeteria on the first floor, but with a more elegant ambiance. Naturally, students weren't allowed to eat there.
Lin Yi followed Kang Xiaobo into the cafeteria, and Kang Xiaobo pointed to an office on the right. "Get a meal card there."
"Oh, I'll get one right away." Lin Yi nodded. Pengzhan and Faubert hadn't given him a meal card or library card back then, but it was obvious that he could get one at any time in school as long as he showed his student ID.
"What? Are you looking down on me? " Kang Xiaobo wasn't pleased that Lin Yi was going to get a card. "Today's the first day we've met, and it's my turf. Of course it's my treat!"
Lin Yi gave up on the idea of getting a card right away after hearing Kang Xiaobo's words. "Alright, we'll get one after we eat."
"Alright, I'll go with you after we eat!" Kang Xiaobo said happily as he led Lin Yi through the small windows of the cafeteria.
There were quite a lot of dishes on display, including vegetables and meat, as well as a few staples. There were also buns, dumplings, pies, and the like. Lin Yi ordered some tomatoes and rice, while Kang Xiaobo ordered a plate of shredded pork and steamed buns, spending a total of eleven kuai. It wasn't much, and it wasn't much at all. It was considered average spending.
Lin Yi and Kang Xiaobo found a place to sit down and put the two dishes together so that they could take turns to eat.
After sitting down, Lin Yi scanned the entire cafeteria. Yushu and Mengyao weren't here, evidently having gone to the second floor.
"What are you looking at? Are you looking at pretty girls? " Kang Xiaobo smiled, "Yushu and Mengyao are upstairs, they won't be eating with us, but if we're lucky, we might be able to meet Tang Yun!"
"Really?" Lin Yi only cared about Mengyao's whereabouts, he didn't care whether Tang Yun would appear here or not.
"But Tang Yin's family doesn't seem to be doing well. Most of the time, they only bring food." Kang Xiaobo sighed, "Actually, with Tang Yun's status, just a word from her and there would be countless boys fighting to treat her to a meal. It's not impossible for her to eat in the second floor every day!"
"Ha, ambitious girls won't care about these things," Lin Yi said faintly.
"You're right, Tang Yun has never cared about these things. It's rare to find a girl like her," Kang Xiaobo agreed, "But the more she is like this, the more boys will like her! This kind of girl who doesn't like to be greedy is exactly what we students like! "
Unfortunately, Tang Yun didn't appear even after lunch. Lin Yi didn't mind, but Kang Xiaobo felt slightly regretful. Many students were like Kang Xiaobo, coming here every day to eat, hoping to see Tang Yun. It had become a kind of expectation.
Mengyao and Yushu, on the other hand, were walking down from the second floor arm in arm, attracting a lot of attention from the boys. But to most of the people here, they were princesses high up in the sky, unreachable.
Many boys didn't even dare to look at them directly. Lin Yi watched the two walk out of the school cafeteria and went to the management office with Kang Xiaobo.
"Lin Yi, you were staring at Yushu and Yushu just now, right?" Kang Xiaobo asked.
"I was just looking," Lin Yi was a little embarrassed.
"Ah, you'll understand in a few days. They are not our princesses. Tang Yun is, "Kang Xiaobo looked at Lin Yi sympathetically. But when he first entered the school, didn't he also have a crush on Yushu and Mengyao? But as he grew older, he understood the difference between them.
Everyone was equal, it was a beautiful fantasy. As long as one was slightly more mature, they would understand that there was never equality between people. Wine and meat went bad in the rich, and there were frozen bones on the road. This wasn't a joke, it was a fact.
Mengyao and Yushu, on the other hand, had a beautiful life. Their princess-like life wasn't something a normal boy like him could enter.
So, although many people in the class knew that Mengyao didn't like Zhong Pingliang, they also knew that Zhong Pingliang was the only one in the class who had the right to pursue Mengyao.
The card application process was quite smooth. After all, it was to give money to the school. Although the cafeteria manager said that it wasn't making money, no one would believe that.
Lin Yi showed his student ID and deposited two hundred kuai into the cafeteria, getting his food card with ease. On the way out, Kang Xiaobo complained, "Bro, why did you save so much money!"
"I'm eating, what's wrong?" Lin Yi didn't understand. When he was saving money, Kang Xiaobo kept giving him looks. He didn't know what the kid was trying to do.
"The cafeteria. When you give him money, he'll greet you with a smile. When you stop eating and want your money back, just you wait! We're all twelfth graders, who knows how long we can eat here? You saved so much money at once, and when you graduate, you'll be asking for your money back every day. You don't have the time! "Kang Xiaobo said, blaming Lin Yi.
"Haha, I see. It's fine, it's only two hundred kuai. Look at us, we only spend ten kuai a day. That two hundred kuai will be gone in a month or so." Lin Yi smiled carelessly, "If you don't want your money back, then don't. Worst comes to worst, we won't eat for a day and just eat here."
"You're quite open-minded!" Kang Xiaobo praised, "If it weren't for the fact that the restaurants outside the school are more expensive, I wouldn't eat in this cafeteria."
"It's good enough that there's food." Lin Yi wasn't picky. Although the food in this cafeteria wasn't as good as the chef Faubert sent yesterday, it was much better than Widow Wang's snack shop at the entrance of the village.
When he returned to the classroom, he realized that most of the students didn't go out to play. The twelfth grade was precious and tense. This was a watershed in life. If you worked hard, you might get into a top university in the future. If you were careless, you might fail.
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