Chapter 39: This Roommate is Eighteen

Just like Yu Xiaoli said, let alone anything else, sit down and eat, fill your stomach first.

From noon to afternoon, the food was still steaming hot: a steamed sea bass, a portion of braised pork with knotty bean curd, stir-fried loofah with edamame, fish-flavored eggplant, and a large bowl of chive and egg soup.

It's just that the sea bass had a long knife cut from the top of its head to its tail, don't know why.

Lu Wei sat at the table uneasily, and Yu Xiaoli put a large piece of braised pork into her bowl.

"Xiao Lu, try it. Usually, only Xiao Da eats the dishes I cook, and he praises everything. Help me criticize it twice."

Lu Wei nodded hurriedly: "Delicious, delicious, Teacher Yu's cooking is really delicious."

Zhai Da coughed dryly: "Can you pick up your chopsticks first?"

The script was given to you, why can't you act well?

Lu Wei almost buried her head in the bowl: "Ao... li... gei..."

Fortunately, Yu Xiaoli's enthusiasm could melt all embarrassment. She never let words fall to the ground at the dinner table, and never let Lu Wei's mouth be idle, piling things into the bowl one by one.

Zhai Da was much more normal, eating his own meal.

Lu Wei ate the home-cooked food she hadn't tasted for a long time, her cheeks sour, reaching her eye sockets. Fortunately, her eye sockets were always red, so it wasn't so conspicuous.

After eating more than half, Yu Xiaoli said: "Xiao Lu, I've heard your situation from Xiao Da. I just asked someone in the factory, there are no vacancies in the dormitory there."

Lu Wei raised her head, put the chopsticks back to the side of the bowl, and put her hands on her knees.

"You know that the first batch will come next week for internship a few months before graduation from technical secondary school, and two conference rooms have been cleared to lay floor mats."

Lu Wei hurriedly said: "Teacher Yu, I can also lay floor mats, my things are very few."

Yu Xiaoli glared at her reproachfully: "Those who lay floor mats are all male students, how can you lay floor mats?"

"Then... I can deal with it in the workshop..."

Zhai Da didn't help with a word, continuing to clean up the sea bass in the plate.

Don't say, it's more flavorful after being cut with a knife.

Yu Xiaoli showed her cards: "Listen to me, on the way you came back, I cleaned up the storage room next to Xiao Da's, you just stay at my house first, and move out whenever you think it through and recover."

Zhai Da came to his senses, sat up straight and looked left and right, seeing no sundries.

"Where did you put the things in your storage room?"

"Put them in your room."

Zhai Da widened his eyes, how did you fit so many things?

Immediately got up and wanted to see, but was pulled by Yu Xiaoli: "Don't go, it's annoying to look at."

Zhai Da:?

He had expected Ms. Yu to open this mouth, letting Lu Wei live at home, but didn't expect that she had already started cleaning the room.

Just on the way back, she even had time to cook a meal...

Sure enough, middle-aged women are numerical monsters...

Lu Wei hung her head, her voice soft and glutinous: "Teacher Yu... really no need..."

Even though Zhai Da had given a vaccination, and even though Yu Xiaoli was enthusiastic and warm, making such a decision was still not easy.

Accepting help from others is harder than biting your teeth and holding on.

Sometimes, rejecting kindness is just a conditioned reflex of a drowning person.

Lu Wei looked at Zhai Da, trying to get some help, or hear Zhai Da persuade her to agree, or even persuade her not to stay.

But Zhai Da had no reaction, supporting his head with one hand, concentrating on cleaning up the leftovers.

Some things, Lu Wei has to decide for herself.

The short silence was prolonged, and finally, Lu Wei plucked up the courage to say: "Then.. thank you Teacher Yu, then I will disturb you for a few days, I can pay rent and food expenses..."

Yu Xiaoli's expectant expression brightened in a second: "It's all a small matter, what money or not. That Sister Ma in our factory, when she was young, quarreled with her husband every day, and also came to sleep at my place every three days, and didn't see her give money. This room is not factory equipment, will living one more person wear it out?"

Zhai Da nodded. He had an impression of Aunt Ma Cuilian. When he was in elementary school, she often checked in with a bag, cried to Yu Xiaoli all night, and lived for a week at the longest.

To be honest, it's a bit unkind to talk about these things to Ms. Yu.

Later, she didn't come.

The person's partner died of a stroke, and from then on, she gave flowers to herself, riding a horse toward freedom, and no one cared even if she danced square dance until two in the morning.

Since the result had been discussed, Yu Xiaoli began to arrange it vigorously.

The dishes were finally washed by Zhai Da. Lu Wei wanted to do it for him, but was pulled away by Yu Xiaoli. The two were going to tidy up the storage room again, and there were many things to wipe and wash.

And the things in the storage room were finally not piled in Zhai Da's room, but placed on the balcony. It was still possible to walk around there, but now it was completely sealed.

After finishing, it was already past ten o'clock. Yu Xiaoli took care of the guest and let Lu Wei take a shower first.

Lu Wei was almost in a daze, pushed into the strange bathroom, carrying her toiletries in her hand.

Started to daze in front of the mirror.

What to do next... take off clothes?

Two toothbrush cups were placed on the washbasin, one green and one pink, which should be Zhai Da's and Teacher Yu's.

Very easy to identify, but not because of the color, but because the toothbrush in the green one was exploded like weeds.

Lu Wei took out her own... orange plastic cup from the plastic bag, which was smaller and simpler.

It looked like a cheap beer cup in a cheap restaurant, and it might even have been one originally.

Finally, she carefully placed it side by side with the other two.

But soon, Lu Wei withdrew her toothbrush cup like an electric shock, as if she had done something wrong.

Secretly decided that in the future, her things would be kept in the storage room, even if they were packed in plastic bags, and would never be put out.

She didn't want to disturb other people's lives... although she had already disturbed them, but less is better.

Lu Wei was at a loss, but worried about occupying the bathroom for too long, so she forced herself to overcome the strange sense of strangeness and took off her clothes first.

Just took off her top, the bathroom door was knocked, Lu Wei was so scared that she hurriedly put it back on: "I'll be out soon."

Outside the door, Yu Xiaoli said warmly: "Not urging you, found you a bath towel, and the hair dryer is in the drawer under the washbasin, just telling you."

After taking a shower with trepidation, Lu Wei didn't dare to dry her hair completely, so she hurriedly came out. Yu Xiaoli seemed to be patting her face in her room, and Zhai Da's door was tightly closed.

Lu Wei, with half-wet hair, returned to her room like a thief.

This place was not designed as a storage room. Zhai Da's house was 60-plus square meters without public share, which was not worse than an 80-square-meter commercial house. It could be said to be a secondary bedroom, after all, there was a window.

It was only mother and son for more than ten years, and this small room gradually became a place to store sundries.

A rectangular space, with a spring folding bed, occupying nearly half of the position. Yu Xiaoli said she would ask who didn't want a single bed later. Lu Wei naturally opposed, but the opposition was invalid.

On the side was a row of combination cabinets, half of which were cleared for Lu Wei to put things, and her suitcase was spread out in the corner.

The spring bed had already been covered with bedding, all from Zhai Da's house, and there was even a pillow towel, embroidered with a retro mandarin duck pattern.

Lu Wei dazed for a while, had nothing to do, so she chose to lie down quietly, not adding trouble to others.

She just lay on the creaking folding bed, flat and spread out.

The moonlight shone through the narrow window onto Lu Wei's slender pale legs. Even if it was just ordinary trousers, they were a bit empty under the foil of her legs, like two big horns.

Occasionally, footsteps came from outside the door. It seemed that Yu Xiaoli and Zhai Da took a shower one after another. Every time someone passed by, she was exceptionally stiff.

Thoughts flew in her mind, recalling repeatedly whether she left anything in the bathroom, whether she made any place dirty.

She lay like this for two hours, and didn't fall asleep until one o'clock in the morning.

Until a voice sounded clearly.

"Can't sleep?"

Lu Wei woke up in a second, looking at the wall beside her in shock.

"Zhai... Zhai Da?" ===== CHAPTER 40 =====