I started a senior citizen university after being unemployed, and I became the favorite of my uncles

Teacher Xia Xia’s motivation for coming to the senior citizens’ university to work every day is gossip and the food cooked by Chef Wu.

Chef Wu's meal, as Xia Xia said, is "a meal that only exists in heaven. How many times can one get to eat it in the world?"

She is a returned student, and the years she spent abroad eating salads and dry bread have smoothed out all her "edges".

She tried to cook for herself, and after taking the first brave step, she found that her hardware and skills were not enough.

After trying steamed buns cooked in water without a steamer and noodles mixed with salad dressing without sesame paste, she compromised with "white people's rice."

But she still has a "Chinese stomach" and can't do without Lao Gan Ma and spicy strips, and can't give up hot water. This is her last insistence.

The result of the struggle between "white people's rice" and "Chinese stomach" is the creation of dark cuisine, such as stir-fried celery with konjac, baguette soaked in mutton soup and bagels stewed in an iron pot...

When he was a foreigner, his stomach was not treated well. As soon as he returned to the country, he turned into a glutton and attacked Sha County.

After several years of schooling, Xia Xia developed a deep and profound reverence for rice.

So when Xia Xia had her first meal at Changqingshu, she decided to work here for the rest of her life and would not leave even if Principal Lin tried to drive her away.

She was particularly serious during the interview, and after joining the company she paid for her meals and had lunch at school.

English classes are usually scheduled in the morning. She doesn't have many classes, only two a week. She goes straight to the cafeteria after school at noon. Even if she doesn't have classes that day, she will report to the cafeteria on time at lunchtime.

Today is also the second class in the morning.

Xia Xia is teaching English to the uncles and aunts in the primary class.

It was almost time for the get out of class to end, and she was giving individual tutoring to individual students, correcting their pronunciation.

Aunt Zhong was holding the English book with a bitter face. She felt that her tongue could not bend around.

Xia Xia repeated patiently: "Auntie Zhong, let's start from Monday. The English word is Monday. Read it with me: Monday."

"Braised eggs? Monday." Aunt Zhong hesitated.

"Ah? What is that?" Xia Xia was so shocked that she couldn't react. How come Monday turned into stewed eggs?

"Auntie, I'll read it slowly. Please listen to it again - Monday."

"Slow down." Aunt Zhong said more this time, her eyes fixed on the book.

"It's still not right. Why is it arguing with Dan?" Xia Xia was curious about what she was looking at. She took a closer look and saw that Aunt Zhong had written the pronunciation in Chinese next to the English.

For example: hello, she wrote "Hailou".

Monday was followed by a string of other words: "Braised eggs, see-through eggs, warm eggs, astringent eggs, Fulai eggs, and Sante eggs."

"Aunt Zhong, you..." Xia Xia held onto the table, trying hard to hold back her laughter, and quietly praised: "You are simply a genius!"

"But the homophonic memory method can only be used as an aid. We still have to remember the correct pronunciation."

Xia Xia has used this method before.

For example, the English word for ambulance is “ambulance”. She found it long and difficult to remember when she was in school. Later, others told her that as long as she remembered “I can’t die”, she would remember how to pronounce it.

However, the basic words that the uncles and aunts learned still had to be pronounced in standard pronunciation. She explained to Aunt Zhong how to pronounce and read them one by one.

As we learned, we started talking about Aunt Zhong’s “braised eggs” and then the “braised noodles” in the cafeteria at noon.

"Auntie, how do you know that we'll have braised noodles for lunch today?" Xia Xia was curious.

Although the menu is announced every month, Chef Wu will make adjustments and add new twists every time. It was the first time that Xia Xia saw the cafeteria making braised noodles.

Aunt Zhong looked around and whispered, "I have an acquaintance in the cafeteria."

As the "spiritual shareholder" of the canteen, Aunt Zhong feels that going to the canteen is like going back home on her own.

She spent a long time in the cafeteria and knew everything there. If nutritionist Xiao Ding lost her booklet, she would always be able to find it by asking Aunt Zhong.

It’s easy to know about small issues like the lunch dishes in the cafeteria.

She also loves to study cooking and often exchanges ideas with Master Wu. It was she who taught Master Wu the proportions of braised noodles.

To some extent, Xia Xia and Aunt Zhong are "like-minded" people. They both have the same hobby - grabbing food in the cafeteria.

Aunt Zhong turned down the writing class, and Cai Yunyun added an English class for her. Aunt Zhong was not unhappy about it. She happily imagined that she could go abroad and eat delicious food after learning English.

They learned English in their time, but not many, and many teachers were self-taught and had accents. She didn't listen carefully in class and was a half-baked learner.

But it’s still fun to take English classes. Learning pronunciations that I don’t understand every day is like chanting a mantra.

I make some snacks regularly and feed them to Teacher Xia Xia. The two of us chat about gossip together and have a very good relationship.

However, no matter how good the friendship is, when it comes to fighting for food, they will not recognize each other.

Xia Xia was determined to be the first one to arrive at the cafeteria, so as soon as the bell rang, she packed up her books, slipped out of the classroom, and ran downstairs.

She felt that she was very fast this time and would definitely get the first bowl of braised noodles. When she looked up, she was surprised to find that Aunt Zhong, who had left home later than her, was walking ahead of her.

Aunt Zhong came down by elevator. She was an expert in grabbing food and had already mastered the methods and techniques. She had even calculated the distance from the classroom to the elevator.

By this time, the bell for the end of get out of class had already rung, and there were obviously more uncles and aunts on campus, and everyone was heading in the same direction - to attack the cafeteria.

Xia Xia struggled to squeeze past Teacher Su Hao and Teacher Yu, who were also there to grab food, and accidentally elbowed a colleague.