Chapter 17

His uncle was just a profit-seeking person who basically relied on the Jiang family to eat; it was impossible for him to increase the dishes for no reason.

Unless there was some greater benefit or an important person for him to please. Jiang Xiangnan pondered what benefits a cafeteria could involve.

At this time, a student from Class 1 on the side said excitedly: "Jiang Xiangnan, we were just talking casually at noon, you actually really let your uncle increase the quantity!"

"I didn't tell him." Jiang Xiangnan's eyes were slightly cold. He turned around and happened to see the few people behind him.

The boy behind was wearing a jacket, standing casually, carrying a sense of nobility. At this moment, he was looking down slightly at Su Li beside him, his expression focused. He inexplicably felt that the young master in front only had Su Li on one side in his eyes.

Those from Class 1 also saw it. They realized that if it wasn't Jiang Xiangnan, then it was him.

After all, the school's new campus had been built for five years, and this cafeteria had been operating for five years, but it had never been changed.

As soon as he came, after eating one meal, it was immediately rectified.

Damn, what exactly is his background?

To make the school go to such great lengths to improve the food?

Su Li sensed something and turned her head, happening to see Jiang Xiangnan looking at Zhao Jiu with a cold face.

Su Li frowned and took two steps forward, blocking Jiang Xiangnan's gaze.

Zhao Jiu: "???"

He looked over, and that Jiang Xiangnan was looking at him.

Mm?

Why is he looking at him like that?

Jiang Xiangnan noticed Su Li's action and sneered. With a new person, she was protecting the calf quite quickly.

He put away his expression, lifted his foot, and walked over. Passing by Zhao Jiu, his gaze swept over Su Li with unclear meaning, and finally landed on Zhao Jiu.

"Just to avoid running, the young master spends a thousand gold?"

"Young master"—the three words were full of sarcasm, as if mocking him for coming from a greenhouse.

Zhao Jiu looked at the swarming crowd in front, one hand in his pocket, and said frankly: "Any problem?"

He might as well have "I am rich" printed on his forehead.

Jiang Xiangnan gripped his hand tightly and walked away.

The people from Class 1 looked at Jiang Xiangnan with complex expressions. Those who knew him knew that he might never step into the cafeteria again.

They looked at Zhao Jiu again. How long had he been here, and he actually made Jiang Xiangnan stop eating in the cafeteria.

Su Li was also stunned. In her previous life, Jiang Xiangnan seemed to have always been high above, like a king, coldly watching others make futile struggles.

This seemed to be the first time she had seen Jiang Xiangnan being suppressed by someone?

"Let's go, eat." Zhao Jiu walked toward the cafeteria.

Su Li: "Mm!"

She hurriedly followed.

Zhao Jiu was slightly stunned and turned to look at the person behind. Was her mood suddenly a bit good?

Su Li looked up: "What are you looking at me for?"

Zhao Jiu withdrew his gaze: "Nothing."

Chen Xue and Liu Jiajia were still looking at Jiang Xiangnan's back in place. Did he look a bit like a wolf driven out of its territory?

"Chen Xue, Jiajia!" Su Li stood at the door and called them. The two hurriedly came to their senses and ran excitedly toward the cafeteria.

They had to think about what dishes to add!!!

Wolf or not, whatever, it had nothing to do with them anyway!

They were eating in the cafeteria while talking about what dishes to add. More than ten minutes later, on the other side, at the Su family, Su Cheng finally returned home.

She opened the door. Fang Lan saw her, and the smile reached the bottom of her eyes: "Chengcheng, go wash your hands quickly."

Su Cheng suddenly discovered that Su Li was staying at school, and this family seemed to only have her and her parents.

"Mm." Her mood improved. She changed her shoes and hurriedly returned to her room with her schoolbag.

Fang Lan watched her go in, her gaze subconsciously looking at the door. The door was still closed, and her heart felt a little empty. This seemed to be the first time Su Li hadn't come home.

She realized belatedly that her little Li hadn't smiled at her as soon as she got home or acted like a spoiled child behind her for a long time.

She was dazed for a moment, but soon remembered that she would be home on Saturday and Sunday, so why act like she wouldn't come back?

In the room, Su Cheng had just thrown down her schoolbag, preparing to tell Jiang Xiangnan that she had arrived home, and that Su Li wasn't coming home, so she finally had the feeling of a home, instead of feeling like an outsider as before.

She also wanted to tell him this news, but as soon as she took out her phone, she found that the class monitor was collecting opinions on cafeteria dishes in the class group.

Su Cheng was stunned. She had only been home for a while, so how did it feel like she had missed something important.

Su Cheng replied in the group: "What's the situation?"

The people in the group had no time to pay attention to her, one by one reporting what they wanted to eat.

Xu Lian privately messaged her: "The class is collecting opinions."

Su Cheng: "What's going on? Why collect opinions on dishes?"

Xu Lian sent her the cafeteria announcement. Su Cheng felt a sudden uncomfortable feeling in her heart. Why increase the dishes? And unlimited supply?

Xu Lian was also a bit wilted. Originally, because of Jiang Xiangnan, they had always been the most special existence, and they could eat whatever they wanted. The girls in the class almost all envied them, but now this specialness seemed to be gone.

"Chengcheng, do you know why this announcement suddenly appeared?" Xu Lian asked. The cafeteria was contracted by the Jiang family, so it should have been changed by the Jiang family suddenly, or it could have been proposed by Jiang Xiangnan.

Su Cheng pursed her lips. Jiang Xiangnan had a stiff relationship with his father and didn't like his uncle, so it was impossible for him to manage this matter. Besides, he hadn't said anything about changing it for over a year, so it was even more impossible to change it now.

One person appeared in her mind: a youth holding a book, his forehead covered in sweat, clearly disheveled, but facing Jiang Xiangnan, his eyes were still frank and confident, as if no one had the qualifications to make him bend his waist.

Su Cheng bit her lip and hurriedly threw this thought out of her head.

If it really was Zhao Jiu, wouldn't his background be stronger than Jiang Xiangnan's?

But was it possible?

"Maybe Uncle Jiang wants to ease the relationship with Jiang Xiangnan?" Su Cheng sent a message.

Xu Lian: "Makes sense."

Previously, the students in the class felt that Jiang Xiangnan had no reason to propose changing this, after all, he didn't care what he ate, so they were all guessing if it was because of Zhao Jiu in Class 13. After all, it was his first day of formal class, and the cafeteria changed.

But couldn't it be Uncle Jiang changing it for Jiang Xiangnan?

The two chatted for a while, and Su Cheng sent a message to Jiang Xiangnan again, but the sent message remained unreplied for a long time.

Su Cheng was a bit disappointed, but thinking of his habit of not liking to reply to messages, she cheered up again, and then went out to eat.

At school, on the basketball court, the youth's jacket was thrown on the stool, and the phone screen lit up. The owner was playing on the court, his style fierce, and the whole team could barely handle it.

"No way? Jiang Xiangnan, are you crazy tonight?"

Jiang Xiangnan had just dunked and jumped down, looking at the bouncing basketball: "Nothing. I'm going back to the classroom."

He picked up his jacket, glanced at his phone, and kicked it into his pocket.

"What's wrong with him? How long has he been here? Just to abuse us?" A junior student from Grade 1 looked puzzled.

The one next to him shook his head: "Don't know."

"Forget it, I'm not in the mood to play either. I just want to report the menu to the class monitor now."

Others: "..."

They also dispersed and returned to their own classes.

In the teaching building from Grade 1 to Grade 3, most of the boarding students had returned, and the rest were still washing up in the dormitory.

In the past, most people were doing homework at this time, but today, one by one, homework was spread out, and as long as they heard someone saying what to eat, they joined the team.

Chen Xue held a small note. Zhou Xinxin asked the whole class to write on the note, and after she finished counting, she handed it to the teacher.

"Su Li, what do you want to eat?"

Su Li picked up the small note she had written full and started reading: "Cold noodles, meat burgers, fried dumplings, steamed dumplings, boiled dumplings, soybean paste noodles, small steamed buns..."

She finished reading them all without even catching her breath.

Chen Xue was dumbfounded. Although she often ate these, when asked to think suddenly, she couldn't remember. She didn't expect Su Li to think so comprehensively.

"How long have you been thinking about these things to remember them so completely."

Su Li placed the note on the corner of the table. A long time, she had been thinking for a long time. Although the taste of Zhao Jiu's chef was also very good, it was a bit different from street snacks.

She was also too busy to go to roadside snack bars often.

Su Li had a little resentment.

Zhao Jiu was grinding homework for other subjects in the back. Suddenly, he felt a chill behind his back. He looked up at the front, then leaned back in his chair. He suspected that Su Li was scolding him just now.

Qian Lei leaned over: "Zhao Jiu, why is your paper blank?"

Zhao Jiu: "What I like to eat, Su Li has already written."

Qian Lei: "..."

Chen Xue: "..."

Sorry, they shouldn't have asked. Why go and be that abused dog?

The two of them started doing homework. Does what to eat matter?

It doesn't matter anymore. The only thing that doesn't abuse them is homework.

Su Li and Zhao Jiu watched the two seriously doing homework, and the pressure in their hearts rose instantly, so they hurriedly lowered their heads to write.

In front, Liu Jiajia turned her head, just wanting to ask Chen Xue what she wrote, only to see four people in the two rows behind, heads down, seriously doing homework.

Liu Jiajia: "..."

Crazy?

She looked at the note in her hand, and a sense of guilt arose spontaneously. She felt aggrieved, picked up her homework notebook, and started writing too.

Liu Jiajia's deskmate was going crazy seeing this. Why do this? Weren't they happily discussing what dishes to add?

She couldn't take it anymore, got up, and walked out. She wanted to find the main force.

It wasn't until the night self-study ended that Zhou Xinxin collected all the small notes and counted them with her little sisters.

Noisy sounds started to come from outside, and students from each class started to walk out of the classroom.

Su Li rubbed her neck a bit. She was tired, her head was a bit dizzy, but at least today's homework was almost finished.

Only a few difficult problems were left.

Chen Xue said: "Su Li, Jiajia and I are going to the small supermarket to buy food first, we won't wait for you."

Su Li: "Mm, you go first."

After they left, Su Li turned her head. Zhao Jiu was leaning against the chair, spinning his pen with his fingertips, looking at the biology workbook with a frown. He had basically figured out his weak points tonight.

Su Li looked at his workbook. Gouzi was even more miserable than her.

"Back to the dormitory."

Zhao Jiu took the homework notebook and got up: "Mm."

He still had to work overtime when he went back at night... no, stay up late to do homework.

The two followed the main force along the main road. Actually, for their class, the small path on the west side leading to the cafeteria was closer.

But it was dark, and there were trees everywhere, and the street lights weren't very good. Su Li was afraid that her boss would only focus on thinking about things, not see the road clearly, and then fall.

After all, her salary card was still his.

The two walked for a while and arrived at the girls' dormitory first. At this moment, the large iron gate was open, and students were entering one after another.

Su Li was planning to wave goodbye to Gouzi when she suddenly saw the lights of the boys' dormitory behind, or more accurately, the forest belt between the boys' and girls' dormitories.

The warm white lights fell there, the lighting was first-class, and there were abandoned tables and chairs temporarily placed there.

When she was in Grade 3 in her previous life, she couldn't stay at home, and she also stayed at school for a period of time after the start of Grade 3.

At that time, she was too eager to improve her grades and was afraid of affecting her roommates, so she got up at five in the morning to read there.

Although due to her mindset, the result was half the effort, reading there was not bad, and she could meet students who got up together, and the atmosphere was okay.

Su Li pondered for a while, maybe she could get up and read again now.

Tonight, Chen Xue finished her homework early and was silently reciting English words.

The time for her and Zhao Jiu should be squeezed again. Real high school students were so serious, and the two of them had to rely on diligence.

She pulled Zhao Jiu's sleeve with one hand. Zhao Jiu looked down: "Mm?"

Su Li looked up: "The dormitory seems to open at five in the morning."

Zhao Jiu looked at the large iron gate: "Mm??"

"See you in the small forest in front at five tomorrow morning!" Su Li thought about it. It was common for them to stay up late and get up early; it was just the difference between working and studying.

Zhao Jiu: "???"

"Bring..." Su Li said. At this time, Qian Lei suddenly popped out from behind, "Boss, want to eat? Fresh and hot fish balls!"

Zhao Jiu looked at the fish balls with soup spilled out and took a step back: "Don't want."

He looked at Su Li again and asked: "You just said bring..."

Qian Lei also looked at Su Li at this time. Su Li hurriedly took a step back: "Don't want."

Will get fat.

"I'm going into the dormitory first." Su Li said goodbye to them and hurriedly entered the dormitory. She was afraid that if she was late, it would affect Chen Xue and Liu Jiajia's rest.

Zhao Jiu stood at the door: "Wait, bring what?"

Su Li had already run far away.

Zhao Jiu watched her rush into the dormitory building and wanted to take his phone, but remembered that his phone had been confiscated.

Zhao Jiu: "..."

Gouzi's feeling of depression came back again. He could actually have his phone confiscated.

Qian Lei ate the soft and elastic fish balls and looked at Zhao Jiu, who was still staring eagerly at the girls' dormitory.

They had already transferred to the same school, and they were stuck together every day except for going to the restroom.

Still not enough?

"Not leaving? Can't see anymore." Qian Lei asked. He felt that the fish balls in his hand were a bit full.

Zhao Jiu: "Mm, let's go."

He took the lead and walked toward the boys' dormitory. Qian Lei hurriedly followed.

Zhao Jiu's dormitory was also on the first floor. He only knew it was 208 and hadn't been in yet, but in the morning, the butler had already brought people over to tidy it up for him.

"Why are you standing at the door?" Qian Lei had just finished the fish balls and was preparing to enter the dormitory to throw away the trash when he saw one of his roommates standing at the door like a fool.

He turned to look at Qian Lei and said dully: "Is this our dormitory?"

Qian Lei took a look: "It's 208."

Speaking of this, he hurriedly turned to Zhao Jiu and said: "Don't worry, no one in our dormitory snores or grinds their teeth."

Zhao Jiu: "Mm."

After Qian Lei finished speaking, he was about to step in, and then he was stunned.

When did the floor of their dormitory become reflective?

When did the glass door of the balcony become so transparent that you could see outside?

Did Bai Fei clean it so cleanly in the morning?

Zhao Jiu walked in with his homework. There were wardrobes in the dormitory but no tables. The school's original intention was to hope that students would rest well in the dormitory and not stay up late to read or disturb other students who wanted to rest.

Zhao Jiu could only temporarily put his homework in the wardrobe.

He took his pajamas and toiletries, preparing to take a shower, and seeing them motionless: "Mm?"

He looked at the dormitory again; it should be no different from other dormitories.

After all, he was an outsider, and it was not good for him to make things different from other students here.

"It's nothing, nothing, it's just a bit too clean." Qian Lei said. The one next to him nodded dully. If they maintained it well, could they not have to clean for the next week?

The two gradually changed from dull to excited.

Zhao Jiu didn't care about them and went into the restroom to wash up. After he finished his shower, he opened the door to make it convenient for others to come in to brush their teeth and wash their faces.

He unwrapped the toothpaste and toothbrush, wondering why Su Li asked him to go to the small forest in the middle at five tomorrow morning?

That place for morning runs had too many obstacles.

If there was something to discuss, there was no need to go there specifically.

So what exactly was she going to do?

And what did she want him to bring at the end?

Zhao Jiu started brushing his teeth, just wanting to ask Qian Lei to borrow his phone to ask Su Li later, when sounds from outside started to come in.

"When I came back, I saw Jin Xun and the study committee member of Class 6 walking in the small forest!!" Another late-returning roommate rushed back to the dormitory excitedly.

"Strange, how come our dormitory is different everywhere?" The one outside changed the topic.

Zhao Jiu was stunned, the toothpaste in his mouth already foaming.

Small forest?

"Don't worry about it, Zhao Jiu's family cleaned it. But Jin Xun and the study committee member of Class 6? These two are unrelated, and they are in puppy love?" Qian Lei's surprised voice came in.

With a "clatter," the sound of something falling to the ground came from the restroom.

The few outside didn't care. One said: "It's just a small forest, clearly the playground is the place for dating."

There was no one late at night, and young couples were one-on-one, each going their own way.

Zhao Jiu looked at the cup that had fallen on the washstand, pursed his lips, picked it up again, rinsed it with water, and then continued brushing his teeth.

Qian Lei sat on the bed with one leg crossed, showing off: "You don't know this, right? After two pairs were caught on the playground last semester, they have long since changed their territory."

"Now the small forest is the holy land for dating."

"I heard that confessing there has a very high success rate!"

With a "snap," something else fell inside.

The three outside still didn't care and continued chatting.

At this time, someone walked out of the restroom. The three turned their heads and saw a youth over 1.8 meters tall, wearing silk pajamas, holding a towel in one hand, pressing it on his freshly washed hair. He probably didn't wipe it much, and two drops of water fell on his hair, sliding down his cheeks and into his slightly open collar, where his figure could be vaguely glimpsed.

And someone was completely unaware, just wiping his hair with one stroke or another, seemingly distracted, his thin lips pursed and relaxed, not knowing what he was thinking about.

The three: "..."

Suddenly understood why this person could become popular throughout No. 1 High School based on a photo leaning against the bulletin board, his popularity rivaling Jiang Xiangnan's.

Too much.:,,.