Eating melons

Seeing that Wei Wei was asleep, everyone was tired and hungry after a busy day and hadn't eaten yet, so they prepared to go to bed.

Wang Guilan was in trouble because Tiedan and Yaya had diarrhea, and she kept taking them to the toilet without stopping.

Wei Wei wore noise-canceling earplugs, so it had no effect at all. But the others were not so lucky. Not only could they not sleep well, but the door kept opening and closing, and the cold wind blew in, which they could not stand.

Looking at Wang Guilan who came in with two crying children and finally closed the door, Wu Li kicked the quilt hard on the bed opposite.

The sound was not loud, but it was enough to make the already thin air in the dormitory even thicker.

"Some people, can't you be more self-aware? They've been making such a fuss during the day, and the smell hasn't even dissipated yet, and they're starting over again at night?"

Wu Li didn't mention anyone by name, but her knife-like gaze accurately cut through Wang Guilan and the two children.

"This is a university dormitory, not someone's kang."

Li Manli always felt that there was a strange smell in the room, so she took out some cold cream and put some on her hands to dispel the strange smell in the air.

Hearing Wu Li's words, he sneered and continued, "That's right, it smells so bad. I have to learn how to clean the toilet before I can read a book. It's really new."

She was always more direct in her sarcasm than Wu Li. "Some people are taking advantage of others and never get enough. They bring their families to school and think we are all their babysitters?"

Wang Guilan paused while wiping the child's hand, her eyes turned red almost instantly, and her lips trembled.

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Wu... I'm sorry, I really troubled you all during the day.

The child was young and caught a cold, I didn’t expect it… I was already very careful…”

"careful?"

Li Manli raised her voice, her beautiful eyebrows raised. "Be careful and you can still tear the floor? Be careful and we all have to hold our noses and clean up the mess you made. But when those two precious kids tore up my notebook yesterday, you weren't careful at all!"

Speaking of this, Li Manli was filled with disgust. She put the notebook she had just bought on the table, and it was torn up when she came back from the toilet.

"Exactly. You weren't even careful when I asked you to pay me back. The almond cookies I brought from Shanghai were gone in the blink of an eye. No one knew about it. It couldn't have been taken by a rat, right?"

Speaking of this, Wu Li was filled with anger. She put a box of biscuits on the bed and went to send them off to her parents. When she came back, all the biscuits were gone, eaten by Tiedan and Yaya. She asked Wang Guilan to compensate her as if she wanted to kill them, an orphan and a widow.

Wang Guilan's tears fell like beads from a broken string, and her voice was choked with sobs.

"The child is ignorant. I...I will compensate him. When I get the subsidy..."

"Compensation? What are you going to use to compensate?"

Li Manli sneered, "Forget about it. Just take care of yourself and the child and don't cause trouble for us!"

"Okay, okay, just say a few words."

Li Xiaoling couldn't help but speak up to smooth things over. At the door, Wang Guilan was coming in and out, and the wind blew a little, making her voice a little hoarse.

"It wasn't easy for Wang Guilan either, taking care of two children by herself. When a child fell ill, she was the most worried. Everyone contributed during the day and showed mutual understanding and consideration."

"Sister Xiaoling, it's not that we don't understand."

Liu Lin was also tortured and couldn't stand it anymore. "They are really affecting everyone's rest and study. We still have classes tomorrow morning."

"Consideration? How many times have you been considerate? If you continue to be considerate, this dormitory will really become a public toilet!"

Li Manli didn't give any face at all.

In Li Manli's opinion, the fact that Li Xiaoling could say such words now meant that she had not yet been hurt. When all her things were hurt, she would see if she could still be understanding.

Although the other people in the dormitory didn't speak, silence itself is an attitude.

No one likes the lingering odor, no one likes to be woken up by crying in the middle of the night, and no one likes their space and belongings to be invaded at will.

Wang Guilan's excuse of "orphans and widows with nowhere else to go" might have won some sympathy at first, but the day-to-day troubles and her seemingly weak but actually advantageous behavior had already worn away that sympathy.

The two children, due to lack of discipline, were naughty and dishonest, which made the situation even worse.

On the upper bunk at the door, Li Fang, wearing a half-worn flowered cotton jacket, was quietly making her bed, as if she hadn't heard the argument here, and there was no expression on her face.

Only when Li Manli and Wu Li were talking most heatedly did the corners of his mouth curl up almost imperceptibly.

Only after Wang Guilan started crying did she raise her head and look concerned.

"Sister Guilan, don't be too sad. The child is important. Hurry up and comfort him."

Her voice was gentle, but her eyes quickly glanced between Wang Guilan and the two angry young ladies, then she lowered her head, as if she was just saying it casually.

All the noises could not wake up Wei Wei, who was fast asleep in the innermost room. All the noisy sounds were blocked by the thick bed curtains and noise-canceling earplugs.

The quarrel finally died down with Li Xiaoling's persuasion and Wang Guilan's low sobs, leaving only a depressing and uneasy silence.

The kerosene lamp was blown out, and the dormitory fell into darkness. Only the pale moonlight from outside the window seeped in, outlining the vague outline of the bed.

Snoring, teeth grinding, and the creaking of the bed when turning over could be heard one after another.