Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 159 - 159 156 The Temptation of Mutton Soup

Chapter 159: Chapter 156: The Temptation of Mutton Soup Chapter 159: Chapter 156: The Temptation of Mutton Soup Song Jiawen had been fretting over the gathering tomorrow afternoon, so many people, all strangers to her, she truly didn’t want to go, but after she spoke to Jiang Yan just now, she was no longer bothered.

Especially seeing him frown after hearing her, she felt even more joyous, and her steps up the stairs were light.

Tonight, nearly all the freshman classes were holding class meetings, which likely had not ended yet, so the entire dormitory building was deathly quiet, with hardly anyone around.

The sneakers she wore were bought by her mother, very flexible, and made almost no sound when she walked.

When she reached the third floor, she could faintly hear someone sobbing, along with some indistinct speech.

Song Jiawen paused for a moment, then continued towards Room 303 without a change in expression.

At the end of the third-floor corridor, by the window, someone was holding a phone and looking down while making a call, to be more precise, crying while calling.

As Liang Yujun and the others still hadn’t returned, Song Jiawen took out her key from her backpack, inserted it into the lock, turned it, and with a “click” sound, the sobbing suddenly stopped, and the person making the call turned around abruptly.

“Song Jiawen!”

This teeth-gritting shout…

Damn… this is really serious!

Song Jiawen rolled her eyes, turned her head towards Xia Shi, whose dark pupils were reflecting a cold light under the dim light of the corridor.

Xia Shi, still holding the phone in a calling gesture, was staring at her relentlessly.

Song Jiawen turned and entered the room, and then the door was closed with a “bang”.

“Xia Shi?”

A voice came from the phone, and Xia Shi came back to his senses, turned around while grinding his teeth, “Mom…”

“What just happened?”

“It’s nothing.”

“Did that girl trouble you again?”

….

Song Jiawen’s desk also had a laptop on it, a white one, specially set up by Jiang Yan for her.

She took her pajamas to wash up in the bathroom, and after coming out, she sat at the desk to read for a while, then turned on the computer and clicked on her recently registered QQ account.

She didn’t give herself a screen name, just casually wrote Xiaosi, there weren’t many friends, only three including Liang Yujun, plus Zhu Jin and Wang Xiaole.

The only boy was Jiang Yan.

Just after logging into QQ, she saw a little penguin hopping around, she held the mouse and clicked on it–

Jiang Yan: [Just took three orders.]

Jiang Yan: [Tomorrow I’ll have to ask Number Two to purchase some parts and also to buy a leg of lamb on the way back. We’ll have stewed lamb in the evening. The fish old man Liu caught before is still alive, tomorrow night we’ll kill it to make garlic fish.]

Thinking of the delicious lamb soup, and the tender and spicy fried garlic fish, Song Jiawen bit her lips and decisively gave up the class activity tomorrow evening.

Xiaosi: [Wait for me at the school gate after school.]

On the other side, Jiang Yan’s computer was turned on, he was holding a pen, making lists on his desk, when he heard the QQ notification beep. He put down the pen, looked up, held the mouse and clicked to see the reply, and he laughed!

…..

The next day happened to be a Friday, and everyone was already a bit restless by the last class in the afternoon. As soon as the bell rang, the professor had just left, and the boys sitting in the last two rows started to clamor, calling for Xue Weisong.

Xia Shi didn’t know about the group meal, and when she heard the noise, she turned her head curiously towards the back. Some of the boys she had invited for a meal before saw this and turned their heads to avoid her gaze.

She couldn’t exactly say she felt guilty, but after the emotional scene yesterday following the elections for the Youth League Secretary… now everyone didn’t know what to say to her.

Seeing this, Xia Shi had no choice but to look towards Xue Weisong, conveying that not being elected as a class officer didn’t mean she wasn’t competent, nor did it mean she should distance herself from the class collective.

Her mother was right, it was only the first year of university, it was too early to predict the future, and she shouldn’t belittle herself because of a momentary setback, especially since this couldn’t be considered a failure.

Xue Weisong didn’t hide anything and frankly invited her, “This is our class’s first gathering this semester, come join us, will you?”

He only mentioned it was a class gathering. He didn’t say it was to celebrate Shen Mengfei’s election, nor did he mention the meal was hosted by him and Shen Mengfei, and certainly didn’t reveal he had also invited Teacher Tang.

Song Jiawen had already started packing her bag. Xue Weisong was also leisurely packing his things; Xia Shi was sitting in front of him to the right, with an aisle separating them.

After about a minute of thought, Xia Shi decisively nodded, “Okay, I’ll go!”

Xue Weisong’s hand, which was packing textbooks, paused for a moment. He first glanced at Song Jiawen with the corner of his eye, saw that she showed no abnormal reaction, and then quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he turned his head and asked, “Are you going to come directly, or do you want to stop by the dorm first?”

“I’ll go back to the dorm first,” Song Jiawen replied without lifting her head.

“Alright, Jinkuaizi’s private room 208, there are three big tables inside.”

After a pause, Xue Weisong asked again, “Do you have anything you can’t eat or really like? Mengfei and I will go ahead and order the dishes.”

I love lamb soup and garlic blasted fish, but you definitely won’t be able to order that.

“Don’t worry about me, I’ll just come and sit for a while. I have dinner plans tonight,” Song Jiawen said.

After finishing, she pulled the zipper of her bag closed and, with the bag in hand, she intended to stand and leave first.

However, Xue Weisong didn’t stand up to let her pass like he usually would. He looked at her, seemingly at a loss, and said, “Song Jiawen, this is our class’s first event. Are you really… sure you’re not participating?”

He had known it would have been better not to ask Xia Shi in such a polite manner.

Song Jiawen thought about it seriously and asked, “Then, if I stay a while longer, can that count as not participating?”

Xue Weisong: ….

Seeing her genuine and unpretentious expression, for a moment he really didn’t know what to say.

In the end, he could only say, “Alright then, you can stay a bit longer.”

In just a few words, spoken quietly between them, Xue Weisong then stood up to let Song Jiawen go first. He tossed his backpack to a roommate to take back, and then went with Shen Mengfei to Jinkuaizi to order first.

“What was that just now? Is Song Jiawen not going?”

Shen Mengfei was attentive. From the moment Xia Shi agreed to go, he was watching Song Jiawen, and Xue Weisong’s changes in expression were quite apparent.

“It’s not that she’s not going, it’s just that she said she would sit for a bit and then leave without having dinner,” Xue Weisong explained.

Shen Mengfei frowned, “You shouldn’t have invited Xia Shi.”

He obviously misunderstood, believing Song Jiawen’s absence was due to Xia Shi.

“If the whole class is going and she’s the only one not invited, do you think that’s appropriate?”

Xue Weisong had a realization at that moment; knowing Song Jiawen’s character, she wouldn’t care whether Xia Shi was present or not. Hence when she said she had dinner plans, it was probably arranged with someone else beforehand.

“Forget it, we’ll just persuade her to stay longer when she arrives, to eat her fill before leaving.”

But what he didn’t know was that after Song Jiawen returned to her dorm to put away her backpack, Jiang Yan picked her up as soon as she went downstairs. He merely reminded her gently, “Brother Two started stewing the lamb this afternoon; by now the meat must be falling off the bone. If you want to add glass noodles, go tell him.”

She had to tell Brother Two to add glass noodles, and lamb soup had to be consumed hot; once cool, it would become gamey and waste such a delicacy.

So, the class gathering… with so many people, one more or one less didn’t make much difference, did it?