My Courtyard Refuge

: Reflection

After lunch at noon, Xu Dong drove Ke Ke and the others to school.

Both of them are in one-piece dresses, Keke is pink, Lele is yellow, and even their small suitcases are the same color.

“You must listen to the teacher outside, and don’t run around, you know?” Xu Dong asked.

“Got it.” Coco replied.

“How about you, Lele?”

The little guy was still angry with his father, turned his head and refused to speak.

Seeing this, Xu Dong took out two tubes of potato chips from his pocket. Compared with beef jerky, potato chips are not so conspicuous, after all, there are a lot of potatoes right now.

“Do you want it? If you don’t say anything, I will give it all to my sister.”

“I want it.” Lele took the potato chips and finally showed a smile on his face.

Soothe the little girl.

Xu Dong took out two big bags from the passenger seat, each containing five catties of rice and some vegetables, which were the sisters’ food for the next two days.

For the spring outing, the school does not include food, students need to prepare their own ingredients, and then the canteen master cooks the meals.

“Keke, take the rice, Lele, take the vegetables, don’t spread them.” Xu Dong reminded.”I’m holding it tight, I won’t let it go.” Lele nodded.

“Okay, Dad is coming home.”

“Mua, goodbye dad!” The twins kissed dad one from the left and the other from the right.

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At two o’clock in the afternoon, the twins finally got on the bus for a trip. The little ones were full of energy and chattered non-stop along the way.

Lele took the opportunity to take out potato chips and distributed them to a dozen or so friends. Looking at the envious eyes of the students, she felt very happy.

“Lele, why are there so many potato chips in your house?”

“I know, Lelejia used to run a convenience store, and I even went to her house to buy things!”

“What’s so great about opening a convenience store? My family used to own a hypermarket, which is 10,000 times bigger than your convenience store.”

The classmate Zhao Yuanyuan who spoke is Xiao Lele’s “enemy for life” in the class.

“Hmph, my father is a policeman, what is your father?”

Lele is very proud. In the eyes of children, the status of police uncles is second only to soldiers. If anyone has a father who is a policeman, he should be so proud.

Zhao Yuanyuan stopped talking now.

Since their family’s hypermarket closed, her father stayed at home all day long, playing mahjong or video games, and her mother said that her father was a homeless person.

A male classmate echoed: “I’ve seen Uncle Xu, wearing a police uniform, driving a big car, and wearing sunglasses, not to mention how handsome he is.”

“Lele, has your father ever caught a bad guy?”

“It must have been caught, my father is very powerful, and he has a lot of people in charge of him.”

“Does Uncle Xu have a gun?”

“There should be!”

In this way, after more than two hours, the desalination plant finally arrived.

“Okay, students, take your luggage, line up, and follow me into the factory area.”

Following the class teacher, the twins walked through the factory area with their classmates, and finally came to a ten-story office building.

This is where the students sleep at night. There is a room for the boys and a room for the girls. Everyone sleeps directly on the floor.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of heating in the factory, and it is not cold at night.

After the floor was laid and the luggage was put away, the head teacher gathered everyone together and began to count the ingredients brought by the students. It was almost time to prepare dinner.

According to the school’s requirements, each student should hand in at least two catties of food, any kind of food.

It’s just that the more statistics, the more disappointed the head teacher is. Most of the students brought miscellaneous grains such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Although this month’s food ration has been reduced a lot, we can’t fool the school like this!

The school will not take advantage of the students, and the food will still end up in the stomachs of the students.

Fortunately, the factory will sponsor some of the ingredients, otherwise everyone would really have to eat potatoes and sweet potatoes for two days.

When it was Coco’s turn, the two sisters walked forward together carrying two bags.

“Mr. Ding, this is the ration for my sister and I.” Ke Ke said proactively.

“Xu Ke, Xu Le, what did you bring?”

Teacher Ding has a very kind attitude towards the twins, and at the same time has great expectations for the two. Not to mention anything else, the family conditions of the two are definitely among the best in the class.

“We brought rice and vegetables.” Lele said loudly, and at the same time, she did not forget to look at Zhao Yuanyuan provocatively.

Just now she saw clearly that the little fat girl also only handed in two catties of cornmeal.

Hmph, their cornmeal is used to feed chickens.

The teacher in charge opened the bag, looked at it, and said full of praise: “That’s right, you two can stay and help the teacher wash the vegetables later!”

This is the treatment only top students have, and the twins can’t help but be overjoyed:

“Thank you, teacher.”

An hour later, dinner time began.

The staple food is multigrain rice and steamed buns. There are very few vegetables. There are only three washbasins in total. However, the factory provides about ten catties of sea fish. Each student can get a large piece of fish, and the fish soup is also enough.

After queuing up to make a good meal, the students ate happily with their lunch boxes.

The factory doesn’t change shifts until eight o’clock in the evening, and dinner is also at that time, so right now, there are only students and teachers like the twins in the cafeteria.

Lele tasted the fish. It was too fishy. She felt that it was not as delicious as grandma’s cooking, so she couldn’t help showing a disgusted face.

“Lele, isn’t the fish delicious?” Wang Xiaoxia, who was next to her, wondered.

Lele put the fish into the opponent’s bowl: “I’ll give it to you, I don’t like fish.”

Wang Xiaoxia was stunned by this sudden action. How could anyone not like to eat fish?

“Lele, the fish is delicious, I’d better give it back to you!” After speaking, he wanted to take the fish back.

Lele grabbed the lunch box: “No need, I like to eat green vegetables, you can eat it yourself.”

Ke Ke also felt that the fish was unpalatable, but seeing her classmates eating with gusto, she still ate it with gritted teeth. Her father often said that food should not be wasted.

After dinner, it was leisure time. The students were arranged in the auditorium of the factory and watched a film about seawaterWatered down documentary.

Everyone read it very seriously, and from time to time they took a small notebook to write and draw, because after the spring outing, they had to write their impressions, so they couldn’t be sloppy.

After watching the documentary, it’s time to sleep.

Before going to bed, the students have to take turns to take a bath in the bathhouse. This is a seawater desalination plant, so there must be no shortage of water. Many students take a real bath for the first time after the year.

Usually at home, most people take a bath almost every ten days and a half months, and usually wipe their bodies with a wet towel at most.

After taking a shower, the twins used their smartwatches to call their father. The two spent the night outside for the first time, and they even cried while talking.

Xu Dong took a while to coax him.