Chapter 24: Hot Baths
The landlord just glanced at the admission instructions and knew that Red Leaf Academy provided high standards of accommodation for every student, which meant that Jiang Chanji no longer needed to live in her remote and old dilapidated apartment.
"When are you going to pack up and fuck off, don't think you're going to pay off my rent and utility bills!" she said.
"Uh...... I was about to talk about this, I don't plan to move into Red Leaf Academy for the time being, so I will continue to bother for a while......," Jiang Chanji said in a hesitant manner.
He also read the admission instructions on the way, and knew that Red Leaf Academy provided dormitories.
Everyone wants to live in a more comfortable place, but the problem is that the dormitory provided by Momiji Academy is a double room, which means that if he moves into the dormitory, he will have to share a room with a strange real girl.
This...... It's more troublesome.
Momiji College has ample conditions to provide single dormitories, but the meaning of the dormitory is not only a place to stay, but also a place for students to communicate, so the purpose of the double room is to enhance the communication between students, and two people living in the same room can also play a role in supervising and promoting each other, after all, living by yourself is easy to breed laziness.
If Jiang Chanji, a fake girl, gets along with a real girl day and night under the same roof, it is estimated that it will be debunked in a month at most...... Many details of life are easy to expose.
Fortunately, considering that these daughters who have lived in the ivory tower since they were children have poor self-care skills, and even more so, it may be difficult to leave the housekeeper, so it is not mandatory to live on campus, and students who live in the local area can go to school.
Therefore, Jiang Chanji still plans to continue to live in this apartment and spend more time after school, but he saves himself from being scared all day.
His decision was a surprise to the landlord's aunt, and the average civilian girl who was admitted to Red Leaf Academy would like to live in the school, and have a good relationship with the daughter who lives in the same house, and she will be inexhaustible in her life.
But the landlord's aunt is also a little more relaxed in her heart, she is urging Jiang Chanji to pay the rent every day, but if he really settles the rent and utility bills and leaves, there will be no dime relationship between them in the future.
The community police often come to her to verify the identity of the tenants, and because Jiang Chanji does not have an ID card, she has always claimed that he is the child of her relatives and lives here temporarily.
Over time, she seemed to really see him as a relative's child, and always felt that she couldn't leave him to fend for himself.
Except for Jiang Chanji's admission to Red Leaf Academy, nothing else seems to have changed.
She snorted and dodged out of the way, "Go back to your room." ”
The exam in Red Leaf Academy is extremely difficult, and she has experienced it herself, so she knows that Jiang Chanji must be very tired now, this kid ...... No, this girl looks like she's losing her feet right now.
Jiang Chanji hurriedly walked past her as if he had been pardoned.
"Wait a minute!"
The landlord's aunt stopped him again, frowned and sniffed, "How many days have you not taken a shower?"
Jiang Chanji's room did not have a water heater, and if he wanted to take a bath, he could only take a basin of cold water to wipe his body, and since he ran out of food, he really didn't have the mood or strength to take a bath, because the cold water would take away the heat from his body, making him even more hungry.
"Three...... Three or four days, four or five days?" Jiang Chanji couldn't remember.
"The official start of school is the day after tomorrow, right?" the landlady thought for a while, "You take a shower tomorrow, and the boy is just that, what does a girl look like if she is so sloppy!"
"Bathing ......"
Jiang Chan said that I want to take a bath too, but where to take a bath? In the whole apartment, only the landlord's aunt's caretaker's room has a water heater, do you want to go to her room to take a bath? That is tantamount to the Longtan Tiger's Den!
"What are you thinking about?" the landlord said with a cold face, as if she had seen through his thoughts.
"No, no, I didn't ......" Jiang Chanji hurriedly clarified, not daring to think about it.
"Do you know there's a public bathhouse at the corner of the street?" the landlady pointed outside, "The one that runs the public bathhouse, their daughter seems to have been admitted to Momiji Academy this year, so in order to celebrate, the day tomorrow will take a bath for half price." ”
"Huh, is that so?"
Jiang Chanji was unexpectedly stunned, and he didn't expect a classmate to appear in the neighborhood.
"But you know that, right? Once you hear that it is half price, there must be many people in the neighborhood who will go to the shower tomorrow, and if they go late, they can only take a shower, and it is difficult to take a bath, and the whole bath will become muddy soup. ”
This is a good word, the family living nearby has little money, even if the family can take a hot bath, I heard that tomorrow the bathhouse is half price, I must choose to go to the bathhouse to wash, save the water and electricity at home, because you can take a bath.
A rare opportunity to take a hot shower, should you miss it like this?
He'd forgotten when the last time he took a hot shower.
"Tomorrow is a weekday, so if you don't want to be crowded, it's best to go to the bathhouse as soon as it opens in the morning, and there should be few people to take a shower in the morning, so don't wait until the end of the evening to go. The landlord's aunt advised.
Jiang Chanji understood, but there was still one more question - "That...... I don't have any money. ”
The landlady knew that he was poor, but she didn't expect him to be so poor.
"Not even five bucks?"
Jiang Chanji sneered, if he had five yuan, he would definitely choose to buy food instead of taking a bath.
She discharged five large coins, "Counting them into the room fee, and charging interest." ”
"Uh......"
Night.
Jiang Chanji was in his sleep, and he came to the sky above the big lake between the mountains.
The mountains are still bald mountains, and the water is still stagnant.
The day is too short and nothing seems to change.
There are still bubbles bubbling in the middle of the lake.
However, in places that are invisible to the naked eye, there are actually things that are quietly changing.
The water level of the lake dropped a little, less than half a centimeter, and this part of the lake evaporated into the air in the form of water vapor, so the air was not as dry as it was in between, but freezing three feet was not a day's cold, and the consequences of such a small change could not be revealed in a day or two.
The next morning.
Snort -
The sound of hot oil stir-frying with dried chili peppers is accompanied by the rising smoke of oil.
"I'm so hungry!"
Jiang Chanji got up from his sleep.
Then there is the aroma of leeks and bean sprouts rising into the pot.
"Who's going to make fried pho early in the morning!"
And it's also a deluxe version of stir-fried pho with extra sausages and luncheon meat!
Plenty of starch and super high protein, and there is no lack of vegetable fiber, enough to support a morning's hard work, as long as you eat this stir-fried river stir-fry, the whole person will be refreshed!
Jiang Chanji was crying again, shedding tears of pain.
How many days can a person live without eating?
"Jiang ...... Jiang Chanji! The bathhouse is about to open! What are you still grinding upstairs!"
The landlord's aunt's roar rang out.
Jiang Chanji then remembered that he was going to take a bath today and go to a public bathhouse to take a bath.