Shi Yang felt even more sympathetic, reached out to hold Zhao ii’s chin, and carefully examined her: "Look at this, my darling is getting thinner from exhaustion." He said, patting Zhao ii’s butt: "No, we won’t be eating stir-fried noodles. Get dressed, I’ll take you for so lamb hotpot?"
In the middle of the night, the only place to have hotpot is Wang’s Fresh Lamb Hotpot on Third Street. This shop is an old brand; it’s said that the hotpot broth was passed down from the older generation. The fire for simring the broth never goes out, with a large stew pot sitting on the stove, filled with a deep-colored, rich-flavored old broth, uncovering the lid reveals lamb leg bones stacked high inside.
The most crucial point is, to keep the old broth simring without going out, this shop operates 24 hours a day.
By late night, there were only a few custors in the shop. Shi Yang and Zhao ii entered a private room with heating, snug against the warm heating pipes. They first ordered a spicy hotpot base, and the two of them started choosing dishes together.
Wang’s only has lamb at. When ordering at, you choose by the cut, not by platter, by weight. You order as much as you eat, and if you can’t finish it, you can pack it up and take it ho to fry later. The whole family is Muslim, so the lamb is particularly authentic.
Zhao ii finished marking the dishes she liked and handed the order to Shi Yang to choose the at. Shi Yang asked Zhao ii, "For the lamb spine, should we go for the large portion or the small portion?"
Zhao ii imdiately said, "Large portion."
Shi Yang asked again, "Do you want so top sirloin along with large tri-tip?"
Zhao ii: "Yes!"
Shi Yang: "What about the cucumber strip hind leg then?"
Zhao ii: "Yes!"
Shi Yang was busy marking when the waitress beside them chuckled. In the middle of the night, there were few custors, and the young waiters couldn’t hold out and went to the backyard to nap. The boss lady on night duty was a fifty-sothing granny, listening to their back-and-forth, laughing endlessly.
The boss lady said, "Just the two of you, you’re ordering too much and won’t finish it. You’re not locals, right? Here we sell lamb by the pound, hand-cut lamb looks small but there’s a lot. How about this, we’ll mix a pound of top sirloin, large tri-tip, and cucumber strip for you; whatever you can’t eat can be packed to go. Does that work for you?"
Shi Yang cheerfully agreed, "Sure, also two bowls of clear soup."
After the boss lady left, Zhao ii reached out to snuggle Shi Yang’s arm, "Brother, what does she an? Does she think I eat too much?"
Shi Yang pinched Zhao ii’s nose tip, "No worries, the more you eat, the happier I am."
Zhao ii giggled twice, "What if I end up a big fatty in the future?"
Shi Yang squinted slightly, grinning mischievously, leaned closer to Zhao ii’s ear, whispering, "If you really beco a big fatty, when we sleep, I’ll just lie on top of you. Soft and comfy, wouldn’t that be nice."
Zhao ii was delighted to hear this, couldn’t help but giggle, oh my, lying on top of , hehehehe...
Since Shi Yang’s return from headquarters this ti, he’s been thoroughly out of leisure ti, constantly looking for places to open storefronts, and every now and then going to Xu Hongbin and Qian Jinqiu’s place to help choose early education class rental classrooms.
The ti was too tight, and with the year’s end approaching, the maternity store was running promotions, busy like crazy, restocking, adjusting stock, managing accounts, everything piled up together, Shi Yang had to oversee everything, orchestrate everything, too busy to even drink water, also having to prepare New Year’s goods, deliver gifts everywhere.
Before the year-end, Zhao ii was also busy to the point of chaos, the foreign language school announced close to New Year’s Eve that school would close on the 29th of the lunar calendar and reopen on the 10th. Before the holiday, she had to assign howork to students, whether the students had ti to do it or not during the New Year, the teachers had to sort out exercises in advance, distribute them, to properly complete the task.
It was Zhao ii’s first ti responsible for assigning howork to students, naturally hoping for less howork, broad coverage, allowing her class’s students to learn the most in the shortest ti every day, because she truly understood, the children’s desire to enjoy the New Year fully.
Shi Yang was busy, Zhao ii wasn’t idle either, besides snuggling together at night to sleep, during the day they didn’t even have ti to text mushily for a mont, sotis when they were exhausted, lying in bed, it’s simply snuggling, kissing, and turning over to sleep separately.
As a result of being this tired, Zhao ii didn’t get any good from it, and the day before school officially went on holiday, the principal ca around to check on the teachers’ assigned howork situation. When she reached Zhao ii, just one look at the amount of howork made her frown, glaring at Zhao ii like a class teacher dealing with a naughty, troubleso kid—such a disappointed look.
The principal scolded Zhao ii: "Teacher Xiao Zhao, it’s not that I’m criticizing you, but you young intern teachers have an incredibly unprofessional attitude. Look at Teacher Liu, your howork’s not even as much as one of her oral assignnts."
Zhao ii explained, "Principal, I screened and listed the key question types on the paper because I was worried students wouldn’t have ti to do howork during the New Year holiday. That’s why I circled the key points. As long as they follow my requirents after returning ho, I guarantee when we reopen and do assessnt tests, our class’s scores will improve."
The principal admonished Zhao ii, "You say you listed the key question types, students take the howork ho, parents check, and it’s just two papers? Isn’t this fooling idiots! The students who co to our foreign language school for tutoring, aren’t the parents just sending them here to improve their English scores, preparing them for junior high? You left such a small amount of howork, can the parents accept this!"
Zhao ii’s eyes were red from the reprimand that day; she felt imnsely aggrieved. Her insistence on standing strong and proud, in front of the leadership, was utterly useless, she could only lower her head, suffered through another night, listing all the previously screened-out exercises on paper, turning two key papers into a thick booklet.
When the principal saw the revised assignnts, her face finally showed a bit of a smile, criticising and praising simultaneously: "This is how it should be! Teacher Xiao Zhao, you’re young, with little teaching experience, so you should humbly learn, be diligent and earnest in your work, always slacking off, thinking others are fools?"
Zhao ii ca out from the principal’s office, crestfallen, feeling incredibly stifled inside. She couldn’t understand why her hard work couldn’t even earn a bit of favorable perspective from others.
During the lunch break, Zhao ii dragged Peng Hui to the spicy hotpot shop near the school, ordered two bowls of spicy hotpot, and asked for two plates of fried skewers, eating while complaining.
Zhao ii said, "I just can’t understand what I did wrong; who said more howork ans better teaching quality? It’s simply ignorant and stupid!"
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