Chapter 174
Yang Yuyan’s punishment of sweeping the floor, surprisingly persisted.
Except for the morning when she couldn’t get up to sweep, she swept the floor after lunch and dinner!
This surprised Prof. Dai.
He had thought that the punishment would end, but Zhu Yanshu remembered it every day, and Zhang Ma didn’t intervene anymore, and both of them stared at Yang Yuyan obediently being punished.
Yang Yuyan didn’t play any tricks, and accepted the punishment as she was punished.
Prof. Dai said to Shi Wuwei, “Ms. Zhu’s family is strict, no wonder the child is so well taught.”
Shi Wuwei agreed, “Little Cicada is indeed very good.”
Professor Dai glanced at him and turned to ask about recent events.
“Have you been reading with Little Cicada a lot lately?”
Shi Wuwei nodded, “Yes.”
Yang Yuchan was worried that Yang Yuyan was secretly doing bad things again, and couldn’t ask Shi Wuwei 800 times a day, urging Shi Wuwei lest he be called upon by Yang Yuyan again.
Prof. Dai asked as if he didn’t mean it, “A while ago I saw you always avoiding people, is there any conflict? Is the misunderstanding solved now?”
Shi Wuwei blushed, lowered his head and said vaguely, “There is no misunderstanding. It’s my own thing, but now it’s all right, it’s all right.”
He had already figured it out. His love is not shameful, is not shameful, his adoration is sent out of love, stops the ritual, he will never reveal a star, called Yang Yucan difficult. He will hide his love silently in the bottom of his heart.
In the morning, Shi Wuwei sweeps the floor, of course.
Only after he finished cooking breakfast and sweeping the floor did the Yang sisters come downstairs. Only after that did Professor Zhu come downstairs.
Prof. Dai finished his morning run early, changed his clothes, and stood in front of the small window in the sunlight to read in the morning. When he saw that the young ladies had all gone downstairs, he urged Shi Wuwei to get changed and come over for breakfast.
Since the Zhu family’s mother and daughter lived in the house, both of them have become much cleaner.
Shi Wuwei went to wash his face and hands, and even rubbed behind his ears with soap before being let go by Zhang Ma. Then he changed his clothes and put on clean socks and shoes before coming out.
The floor to ceiling windows in the dining room are open, the sunlight pours in diagonally, and the shade of the trees outside is reflected on the floor, bringing the coolness of summer.
Breakfast was cakes, steamed buns and buns. Recently the weather has gotten hot, Zhu family mother and daughter are not happy to eat soupy things anymore, and after eating it, they have to sweat all over again. So noodles, congee, and soup wontons were not eaten.
Zhang Ma remembered that Second Miss Yang ate buns, so she started teaching Shi Wuwei to make buns.
The soup that goes with it is milk and soy milk.
The school has a dairy cow and a workshop for grinding tofu, so you don’t have to go out of the school to get both, they are sold in the cafeteria.
Professor Zhu eats more delicate, she wants to drink tea in the morning, the kind of milk into it, and other things are not eaten, at most eat two pieces of Miss Yang’s milk cookies, a boiled egg.
Shi Wuwei every morning to see Professor Zhu so eat feel that she must not eat enough, thought Professor Zhu is influenced by Japanese students, to diet military.
He had to eat five big steamed buns or five cakes in the morning, otherwise he had no strength.
Professor Zhu ate so much that he didn t dare to reach out.
Prof. Dai was eating pancakes with soy milk next to him, and when he saw Shi Wuwei eating two pancakes and then just drinking soy milk and not daring to reach out for more, he took two for him.
Zhu Yanshu finished his own nothing to do, the table is still buried in the middle of eating, she is not good to get off the table, so she turned her head to talk with her two daughters to pass the time.
She said to Yang Yuyan, “Yan Yan, don’t forget to sweep the floor after dinner.”
Yang Yuyan said with a circle of milk mustache on her mouth, “I don’t have time ah, I’m going to be late for class.”
Zhu Yanshu looks at the three buns on her plate and says in a bad mood, “Then you shouldn’t eat them. Girls should eat less, before you only ate two, now you’re eating more and more.”
It was only then that Yang Yuyan suddenly realized that her food intake had become bigger.
In the past, at home, two buns were enough for breakfast every day, but now at Little Red House, she has to eat three buns to be just right.
Could it be that she was just now starting her developmental phase?
When Zhang Ma heard this, she interjected, “You let her eat, she’s so busy now, she attends classes every day and has to write homework.”
Zhu Yanshu said: “I’m doing it for her own good.”
Zhang Ma persuaded Yang Yuyan: “Your mom is afraid that you won’t look good in a dress if you get fat, it’s okay, eat, I don’t think you’ve gained any weight.”
As soon as Zhang Ma said this, the three women on the table all subconsciously pushed up their chests and raised their heads to tighten their stomachs.
Have you gained weight?
Yang Yuyan even quietly reached out and touched her waist.
Looking at the remaining buns on the plate again, it was no longer eatable.
Professor Dai pretended not to hear, and when he saw Shi Wuwei’s curious jaw wide open, he gently stepped on his foot under the table.
After breakfast, everyone had to go to class, and the four of them separated after leaving the Little Red Building. Shi Wuwei went all the way with Prof. Dai, on the way he couldn’t help but ask, “Why don’t you eat when you’re fat?”
Professor Dai smiled and said, “You don’t understand women. Women are very nervous about their own body, they can not be too fat, can not be too thin, the pursuit of flora and fauna of the body, increase a point is fat, reduce a point is thin.”
Shi Wuwei still couldn’t understand. Too skinny does not look good this he knows, skinny as skin and bones, how can that be beautiful? But Professor Zhu’s mother and daughter don’t look fat.
Professor generation in the past really never told his students about women, see him finally curious about the world of the other gender, can not help but be a good teacher, explained in detail: “You understand fat is fat as a ball, but the eyes of the woman fat, is that the skirt can not wear up, shirt can not be buttoned up.”
He also held a textbook in his hand, on the spot to stand teaching, two hands on the side of the waist to do empty button shape, to Shi Wuwei demonstrated what is called “wear not up”.
Shi Wuwei touch their own pants waist, that is to use cloth belt or belt tied tightly only, women skirt waist do so constrained?
“Is it to save fabric?” He thought reflexively.
Prof. Dai sighed.
This matter of saving clothes to serve the army is considered to have really taken root in the minds of the students, and it’s thanks to Yan Yan that it didn’t expand its influence.
Hardship and simplicity was a good thing in and of itself, but this could not be associated with the Japanese. It’s like the Japanese saying they’re here to save the Chinese, it’s all a hoax, it’s glorifying the image of the Japanese invaders. Once people believed it, then they lost the position of the people’s heart.
Even with Yang Yuyan’s efforts, the Clothes Saving Fengjun and Food Saving Fengjun still caused some repercussions. Some students in the school started to organize and collect old clothes or fabrics or food in an organized and planned way in order to donate them. Of course, where to donate was another issue. Even if the channels for donations had not yet been announced, the students still responded quickly. Because they were really too eager to do something for this country, their fervor was touching and inevitably exploited.
Yang Yuyan also responded positively to donate old clothes.
The schoolgirls were very active in donating their clothes.
But Yang Yuyan said this is far from oh.
“We should make them into bandages and send them out again. Otherwise, if we just donate clothes, do we want the soldiers to make bandages on the battlefield?” Yang Yuyan said.
She was a bit of a celebrity in the school now, as she was at the forefront of shouting from time to time, and regardless of the facts, she sounded quite reasonable.
As soon as she spoke, the female students immediately had more places to use their money, and they even went to contact the male students, collecting all the old clothes they had donated and making them into bandages.
At this time the bandages are not able to do one-time, are reused. Cotton cloth was cut into strips and sealed on both sides, which was the simplest bandage.
The schoolgirls cut all the collected clothes into strips according to the same standard, spliced them together, sealed them, then sterilized them by boiling them for a long time, ironed them flat and rolled them up, which made a roll of bandages.
Those with holes and patches could not be used.
The female students began to spend a lot of time doing crafts, but the efficiency was really touching, even if they didn’t sleep to do it, there was no way they could make a lot in one go.
For someone as serious as Yang Yucan, even when everyone was sitting in the living room chatting, she was sewing bandages in her hands, truly calling it not a moment to spare.
Like Yang Yuyan, she had yet to sew a single bandage so far.
Zhu Yan Shu also followed along with interest and sewed one, after sewing it, she put it in Yang Yu Yan’s bag, “You take it and turn it in, it’s also considered as a labor over.”
Shi Wuwei saw that Yang Yuyan had no one to help her, so he took the initiative to help her sew bandages together, the two of them sat together at the table, chatting and working at the same time, it was a joyful experience.
Then there were more and more male students sewing bandages in the school. After all, there are only twenty girls left in the school, and they all rely on their bandages to make it to next year. There is no such thing as a bad job, it’s the same for men and women. Male students can also take needle and thread to make bandages.
Shi Wuwei shouted out this slogan, the body to lead the male students to do bandages together.
It took less than a week for everyone in the school to go from making speeches to making bandages.
Even the principal was surprised and asked Prof. Dai, “Was it really that female student who took the lead?”
Professor Dai smiled and nodded, “It was Yan Yan. She probably did it unintentionally, too.”
The principal shook his head and couldn’t help but laugh, “Amazing, amazing! A small person doing great things!”