Zeng Bai came out of the fourth canteen, packed two steamed dumplings for a midnight snack, and said goodbye to Yuan Yuxue: "Alas, I can't accompany you tonight, take care."
Voluntary labor sounds like a tough job, and the timing is weird. It would be pure self-deception to say that one can spend the night peacefully.
Yuan Yuxue replied: "Hmm..."
Zeng Bai followed his gaze and asked tentatively, "Uh, how about you take some steamed dumplings as a midnight snack?"
Yuan Yuxue looked at him, her long and fine eyelashes trembling slightly, and she said nothing. But the sight of her beautiful and moist eyes immediately made Zeng Bai's fatherly love surge, and he gave the steamed dumplings to Yuan Yuxue out of loyalty.
He also heard his roommate politely say "thank you" to him, and somehow he felt quite relieved. He felt a little elated, thinking that he had found the right way to increase NPC favorability - don't say it, Yuan Yuxue looked very cold, but it was really easy to increase favorability if you found the right way, he seemed to hear the reminder of the favorability upgrade like the sound effect of the game.
But Zeng Bai floated for a while, and suddenly felt like a thorn in his back. He turned his head and found that Jie Zhouyan and Tang Yuan were looking at him coldly. Their eyes were very complicated.
They seemed a little angry and a little jealous, but Zeng Bai couldn't interpret such complicated emotions at the moment. He could only vaguely feel that they seemed to be quite angry. He asked tentatively: "Do you want to eat steamed dumplings too? I'll go pack another portion?"
The look seemed even more contemptuous, with a hint of anger.
Zeng Bai: “…” Alas, men’s hearts are as unfathomable as the sea. It seems that it is not so easy to gain favorability. Yuan Yuxue is really a special case.
The time for voluntary labor was set from 8pm to midnight. Due to the school rules, most students had already returned to their dormitories even before 8am.
In the huge campus of Huaiyin University, there are almost no people on the various branch roads, and it is very quiet except for the sound of treetops colliding.
Even the freshmen who were punished to do compulsory labor had a sense of confusion in time and space in this lonely environment. It was as if they were abandoned by everything and were left alone in stagnant time.
Fortunately, this strange feeling of loneliness was broken by the occasional young teacher in a royal blue uniform passing by in a hurry.
They returned to Fengdu Tower, and Yuan Yuxue and others went to the utility room to get the cleaning tools according to the message sent by Teacher Yan.
It was said that a teacher would check their cleaning situation the next day, requiring that there should be no obvious paper scraps on the floor and that all blackboards and screens should be wiped clean of dust. Although the standard was not strict, it shattered the hopes of several students who thought that they could sneak back to the dormitory as long as they stayed long enough.
The work has to be done, and there are four floors to clean. There are more than thirty classrooms on each floor, plus several staircases and corridors. So everyone has a heavy task.
After receiving brooms, dustpans, rags and basins, the unlucky guys who were chosen simply divided the work.
Although from a safety perspective, everyone should stay together to reduce the probability of dangerous accidents, in order to cope with the heavy cleaning task, they can only be divided into twos, with each person responsible for cleaning one floor, so as to avoid leaving the cleaning task unfinished, which may cause more trouble.