"I didn’t expect the homeroom teacher to be so nice." Originally thought a scolding was inevitable, but it turned out he was trying to save food for them.
"However, what should we do with these two?" Tang Dou looked at the bread in her hands, which she now really couldn’t eat.
"Let’s hide them for now, so no one sees them." Everyone’s snacks had been confiscated, and there wasn’t even a small store around. They still had to stay for several more days. Just in case they got hungry in the night, they could sneak a bite.
Tang Dou, making sure no one was around, stuffed them into her clothes.
After hiding them, she turned back to Ning An and asked, "By the way, where did you and God Xu just go?"
If it weren’t for their lengthy departure, they wouldn’t have missed the mealtime.
Ning An said, "Just wandered around, but what about you, what happened?"
"What do you mean what happened?"
"How did I not know before that you loved barbecue so much?" Seeing the barbecue, she could hardly move!
Tang Dou replied, "You really think I did it for the barbecue? I was creating an opportunity for you two!" She didn’t know why, but whenever she saw those two together, she felt like a third wheel.
Ning An said, "Really, thank you!"
This girl was indeed stubborn about pairing her with Xu Weiran.
At two o’clock in the afternoon, the homeroom teacher once again gathered everyone.
"Later, I will take all of you to the Ecological Garden for a tour. Each person can manually pick some vegetables. The base has a special clay stove, and tonight you will cook with the ingredients you’ve picked yourselves. Take as much as you eat, to avoid waste."
A group of people headed towards the Ecological Garden; Tang Dou tugged on Ning An’s sleeve, "An’an, do you know how to cook?"
"No." In this regard, she fully inherited her mother’s lack of skills.
In their house, robots were more capable than her.
"I can’t either, what should we do? Will we end up without dinner again tonight?"
"Don’t worry, with so many people here, I guess at least half of them can’t cook either. The school won’t let us starve."
Everyone who could attend Jiu Middle School came from a household that wasn’t short on money, almost every family had a nanny. Cooking was something they’d never bothered with, let alone cooking for themselves; they probably couldn’t even differentiate the types of vegetables.
Tang Dou thought so too, none of her classmates looked like they could cook.
The school obviously wouldn’t let them starve; if worst came to worst, she still had two pieces of bread hidden on her, so they wouldn’t go hungry.
Reassured by this thought, she instantly relaxed.
This season, the variety of vegetables in the Ecological Garden was quite abundant. Each greenhouse employed modern planting management methods, and some of the plants were even hydroponically grown, which looked clean and fresh.
Beyond vegetables, there was even a strawberry picking area, but it came with a cost. Since everyone’s phones had been confiscated and no one had cash on them, they could only watch longingly. Some of the more resourceful ones went straight to the homeroom teacher to borrow money.
Inspired by others, soon everyone gathered around the homeroom teacher.
Eventually, the homeroom teacher agreed to lend a hundred to each person, and the crowd dispersed.
Ning An didn’t dare pick much as she couldn’t cook, so after a round, she only picked two tomatoes.
Leaving the garden, she unexpectedly ran into Xu Weiran again. Looking at the vegetables in her hands, he said, "You like these?"
Ning An replied, "Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to sneak a snack. The homeroom teacher organized for us to come here for a tour and allowed us to pick our own produce to cook."
"You can cook?" Xu Weiran said with a smile, raising an eyebrow.