While Xu Changqing was worrying that Shen Weimin would do something reckless and bring about consequences she couldn't possibly handle, he was, at that very moment, in the middle of doing something.
Unlike the crude cafeteria at Xu Changqing's current commune school, which barely had any tables, the county high school had a long history, and its cafeteria was quite proper.
It was hot in the middle of the day, so he hadn't gone anywhere else today. After class, Bai Chenggang dragged him to the school cafeteria to queue up obediently, planning to be a good student for once.
Since it was the first day of class after the break, the cafeteria was serving steamed buns—the kind with lard in the filling. The porridge was a steaming hot cornmeal mush.
The problem was the mush. To save on cornmeal, the cafeteria made it with very little flour and a lot of water. It was too thin to be considered a proper mush, though it was always a bit thicker at the bottom of the pot.
