Chapter 33: Stealing Vegetables

Xu Wangqiu used to study at Nortel, and when he was in Tian Xiangzhuang's class, he heard Tian Xiangxiang say that Li Shaohong was the goddess in the minds of many boys in the 78-level directing department, and several boys had a crush on her. Xu Wangqiu suspected that Xie Xiaojing was one of them, and said with a smile: "Dean Xie, you won't fall in love with Li Shaohong, right?"

"There are so many beautiful girls in the acting department, who can't I fancy it, why do I like Li Shaohong?" Xie Xiaojing defended and immediately changed the topic, "Okay, okay! Stealing vegetables matters. Do you steal or not?"

Liu Lin and the others said in unison: "Steal, of course steal." Let's do it!"

Xu Wangqiu glanced at Zhao Ban and asked, "Zhao Ban, do you want to steal vegetables with us and eat together when the time comes." ”

Zhao Ban's family is very rich, Zhao Ban's father Zhao Dan has a monthly salary of more than 300, and his mother has nearly 200, which belongs to the high-income class. However, his family, like many families in this era, paid attention to hardship and simplicity, and gave him 20 yuan a month; Although Zhao Ban hated Xu Wangqiu very much, people were powerless in the face of hunger. Hearing that Xu Wangqiu and they were going to steal vegetables and cook noodles, he hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded: "Okay!"

Xu Wangqiu smiled when he heard this: "Okay, let's go together." ”

Xu Wangqiu locked the door of the dormitory, took a magic travel bag, came to the girls' dormitory on the second floor, and asked Li Shaohong to come out. Li Shaohong saw that Xu Wangqiu was mysterious, and he didn't know what they were doing, so he came out with Hu Mei. Xu Wangqiu and the others pulled Li Shaohong and Hu Mei into a corner and whispered the plan.

Hunger is a common problem faced by young people in this era, boys are always hungry, and girls are the same. Li Shaohong and the others heard that they were going to steal vegetables and cook noodles, and immediately said that as long as the noodles were cooked and they shared their share, they would help steal the vegetables. Xu Wangqiu and the others naturally agreed, so the vegetable stealing alliance was established.

Xu Wangqiu and the others came out of the dormitory, looking around and uneasy along the way, for fear of meeting someone, and even they felt sneaky. When everyone came to the vegetable cellar behind the cafeteria under the leadership of Xie Xiaojing, they all broke out in a cold sweat.

Liu Lin and Wu Zhiliu removed the lid of the vegetable cellar, revealing a black hole. Xu Wangqiu looked inside the vegetable cellar, and he couldn't see anything in the dark, but there was a cool breath wafting out of it.

Xu Wangqiu knew that the air was not circulated after the vegetable cellar was covered and sealed, and the vegetables absorbed oxygen and discharged carbon dioxide, which would greatly reduce the oxygen content in the cellar and increase the carbon dioxide content.

The candle burns well in the vegetable cellar, which means that there is no lack of oxygen in the vegetable cellar, and there is no problem for people to enter.

Li Shaohong raised her hands, Liu Lin and Wu Zhiliu, the two boys with the most strength, each took one of her hands, put her in the vegetable cellar, and then threw the travel bag in it and asked her to fill the bag with vegetables. Li Shaohong was a thief for the first time, and he seemed a little nervous, so he didn't want to take the cabbage. Xu Wangqiu shouted at her, don't just take cabbage, take some of the others!

After the bag was filled with vegetables, Xu Wangqiu and the others pulled the bag out of the cellar, and then asked Li Shaohong to stretch out his hands, and Liu Lin and Wu Zhiliu pulled her up, and then covered the lid of the vegetable cellar, and returned to the bedroom with the bag as if nothing happened. Xu Wangqiu took out the vegetables from the bag, and there were not many types, just four kinds, cabbage, carrots, corn and edamame. They took a basin, put the vegetables in the basin, and hid them under the bed.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the lights in the dormitory went out. Xu Wangqiu lit a candle and asked Xia Gang to drag the kerosene stove out. Xia Gang poured kerosene on the kerosene stove, lit the fire, put the pot on the stove, poured boiling water, put the carrot slices into the pot, and put the cabbage leaves in it. Eight people gathered around the kerosene stove and waited for the water to boil, and they couldn't stop watching the hot steam, and their eyes flashed with hunger.

A few minutes later, the water boiled, Xu Wangqiu threw five pieces of instant noodles into it, covered the pot, and continued to sit and wait.

Orange carrots, green leaves, and white noodles rolled in the water, and the white mist filled the room with a fragrance. Liu Lin sniffed the fragrance coming from the pot, licked his lips, and couldn't help but say, "It's so fragrant!"

Xu Wangqiu took a spoon, scooped the hot soup from the bowl for everyone, and then sandwiched the noodles and vegetables into the bowl. He looked at the crowd and asked, "Which of you brought Li Shaohong and Hu Mei's noodles to them?"

Xie Xiaojing and Xia Gang were very active about this, and went down with Li Shaohong and Hu Mei's lunch boxes. However, in order to prevent Xu Wangqiu from stealing food, when they left, they specially advised: "You are not allowed to steal ours!"

Xu Wangqiu didn't have this idea, but Xie Xiaojing's words reminded him. After Xie Xiaojing and the others went out, Xu Wangqiu picked a chopstick in Xie Xiaojing's bowl. Seeing this, Liu Lin immediately picked a chopstick in Xia Gang's bowl. Wu Zhiliu and Gu Changwei also followed. Then the crowd laughed.

After a while, Xie Xiaojing and Xia Gang returned. When they saw that half of the noodles in their lunch boxes were missing, they couldn't help but scold: "You beasts, you have eaten all my noodles, can people still trust each other?"

After eating supper, Xu Wangqiu washed the pots and dishes and lay on the bed chatting. Liu Lin: They are extremely satisfied with today's supper, and their only regret is that there is no meat. Liu Lin lamented that if he could have some meat every night, it would probably be communism. Xu Wangqiu thought to himself that after thirty years, you don't want to eat meat, but miss the vegetables now, which are all green food.

At this moment, Xie Xiaojing got up from the bed and said in a low voice: "I have a way to eat meat if I want to." ”

When everyone heard that Xie Xiaojing had a way to get meat, they smelled the blood with the shark, and they were shocked, and they all asked, "What way?"

Xie Xiaojing lowered her voice and said, "The farmers in the nearby villages have chickens, so let's go steal the chickens." ”

Xu Wangqiu was worried about being arrested: "Forget it, what if you don't find out?"

Hearing this, Xie Xiaojing smiled proudly: "Wangqiu, I am not as good as you in film knowledge, literature, poetry, music, I am not as good as you, but when it comes to stealing chickens and dogs, then you are not my opponent!"

When Xia Gang heard this, he couldn't help but say: "Xiaojing, I have never seen such a brazen person, you are better than Wangqiu in stealing chickens and dogs, as if you are quite glorious!"

Everyone else laughed: "This is not ashamed, but proud!"

Xie Xiaojing didn't care about this, and proudly popularized science with Xu Wangqiu: "Stealing chickens is a technical job, you don't have technology, it's easy to be discovered." I'll teach you how to steal it, throw a few grains, and when the chicken comes to peck at it, a thin bamboo pole sweeps and hits the chicken's neck, and the chicken immediately falls to the ground and convulses. You'll quickly slip into your canvas bag and slip away. ”

Xu Wangqiu was happy in his heart, thinking that it was a pity that there was no video recorder, otherwise he would have filmed this scene, and when Xie Xiaojing became the vice president of Nortel in the future, he would show it to the students, and the scene would be very interesting!

Due to the lack of meat to eat, Liu Lin became interested in stealing chickens and began to discuss stealing chickens. However, the chicken has to be cooked after being stolen, and it takes time, and it is not suitable at other times. They were going to steal it on Saturday night, and after stealing the chicken, they would cook it in the dormitory at night.

The next morning, Xu Wangqiu and they went to the playground to exercise, and saw Tian Zhengzhi and Chen Kaige playing basketball in the playground. Liu Lin went over and said if he wanted to have a confrontation match. Brother Chen Kai glanced at Liu Lin and said contemptuously, Okay, then come on!

Xu Wangqiu and Chen Kaige actually have no contradictions, but because they have different backgrounds and different classes, they don't like each other, so the two sides regard the court as a battlefield for competition, and they both work very hard to play.

Tian Xiangqiu played well, and Chen Kaige was even more professional. In 1969, Chen Kaige went to Yunnan to be an educated youth, and one day three years later, a soldier came over and asked him seriously if he wanted to be a soldier. Brother Chen Kai replied without thinking. The other party said, then you come with me. Because he is 1.85 meters tall and loves to play basketball, Chen Kaige has become the envy of everyone's "ball soldier", playing basketball professionally.

It's a pity that Brother Chen Kai and the few balls left in their bedroom are very smelly, belonging to the two gods with three pits, and they were beaten all over the ground by Xu Wangqiu. Brother Chen Kai and Tian were angry, and their whole faces were black.

Xu Wangqiu and the others were refreshed one by one, singing songs and going to the cafeteria for breakfast. As soon as they walked into the cafeteria, they met Li Shaohong and Hu Mei coming over with bowls. The two girls smiled and gave them a thumbs up, indicating that the instant noodles tasted great.

After breakfast, Xu Wangqiu and the others went back to the dormitory to read for a while, and then went to the classroom to attend classes. Nortel's classes in this era are completely different from later. Since the current school textbooks are still the textbooks of the fifties and sixties, and the world cinema has long entered a new era, teachers cannot only teach things from decades ago, they must teach new things. But the problem is that the new things are just getting in touch with the teachers, and the experience of this group of students is no worse than that of the teachers, so they can simply teach. In class, teachers often talk about movies and discuss together.

The first and second classes are "Film Analysis", and Mr. Bai Jingsheng will talk about "Rome 11 O'Clock". As a result, it didn't take two minutes to speak, and Xu Wangqiu and Teacher Bai argued. Mr. Bai said that "Rome 11 O'Clock" is a masterpiece of Italian neorealism, and Wangqiu firmly opposes this statement, he believes that there are two important signs of neorealism, real scenes and non-professional actors, but "Rome 11 O'Clock" is a scene, and it uses stars, how can this be called neorealism?

Brother Chen Kai and the children of the family showed sarcasm on their faces, waiting for Teacher Bai to teach Xu Wangqiu a good lesson. To their surprise, Teacher Bai couldn't say anything about Xu Wangqiu at all. Xu Wangqiu quoted scriptures and finally persuaded Teacher Bai.

By this time, many students realized that what Zhong Xianfei said was true, and Xu Wangqiu's level was enough to be a teacher at Nortel. However, of course Brother Chen Kai and the children of these families would not see it this way, they were very unhappy, and they felt that how could they let a local force like Xu Wangqiu show off his might in class?

The third and fourth classes were film music classes, and Xu Wangqiu didn't make any noise. However, he did not pay attention to the lecture, sat in the last row, and buried himself in changing his script. Sitting in the last row with him were Wu Zhiliu and a few of them. Wu Zhiliu and the others sat in the last row, but because they were old smokers, and it was convenient to sit in the last row to smoke.

Many of the students in Class 77 and Class 78 are older, and some of them have already started families. Many of these students are smoking guns, and the school is more understanding of them, and the teacher allows them to go to class with a tea jar and allows them to smoke in class, but they have to sit at the back of the classroom. This is not just the case with Nortel, but also with many universities during this period.

It was almost eleven o'clock when eight or nine young men and women rode bicycles into the Nortel campus. The girl at the head was wearing a white shirt, green army pants, a double ponytail, and a pair of big and bright eyes, it was none other than Su Bai.