34: Chapter 34 Full Stomach Leads to Wild Thoughts 34: Chapter 34 Full Stomach Leads to Wild Thoughts Youtiao always had a deep obsession with Qu Wenming, the literary arts committee mber of the class next door, or perhaps you could say it was a personal grudge.
According to his own account, they were classmates in elentary school, and even their mothers worked together, often being compared to one another.
Back then, Youtiao was the “child of soone else’s family.”
On the other hand, Qu Wenming was just like bean sprouts: not as white-faced, not tall, with poor grades, and he couldn’t sing or write poetry.
A few years passed, and this guy suddenly beca popular.
Youtiao felt very unbalanced inside.
Chen Yan indeed hadn’t co to ask Wang Yunxiao for help; she hadn’t even co to class and had directly taken leave with the teacher.
Wang Yunxiao’s gang stayed in the classroom and attended classes obediently all day, until the evening ca, when Nurse Liu called them for bricklaying.
No, it was to move canned lunch at.
Previously, Huo Qingyang sohow acquired an entire truckload of military-use canned lunch at, adding a slight hint of aty richness to the school cafeteria’s als.
This batch of lunch at had been piling up in the cafeteria’s kitchen, and on the day Wang Yunxiao chopped soone, he even snatched two cans on the side.
But today, Nurse Liu asked them to move these cans of lunch at into the air-raid shelter.
Behind the teaching buildings of Qinghe Middle School, there was a hidden door connecting to the underground civil air defense shelter.
It was particularly inconspicuous and didn’t seem noteworthy at all.
If it hadn’t been for Principal Zhou ntioning it offhandedly, Wang Yunxiao wouldn’t have even been aware of such a place.
Building an air-raid shelter wasn’t strange, what was strange was building such an enormous underground civil air defense structure in this era.
Could the foreigners’ planes even reach this place?
Without a cell phone or internet, in this era, Wang Yunxiao lacked convenient and quick ans of gathering information; with his current financial situation, he couldn’t even afford to subscribe to newspapers.
His only source of knowledge was the school itself, from the content talked about by teachers in class, as well as books in the library.
But most of the books in the library were ancient texts in classical Chinese, with very few modern texts.
With the special privileges Nurse Liu granted them for knowledge access, they could understand more, but this knowledge was “poisonous.”
And she clearly told them, not to trust this knowledge easily.
This was really botherso.
It was like your mother telling you that green peppers are nutritious, other vegetables are nutritious, too, but since Mom likes green peppers, you can only eat green peppers every day…
That kind of feeling.
There is an abundance of knowledge, and even regarding the sa thing, different knowledge fraworks provide different definitions and concepts, so at the current stage, one can only accept the knowledge within their own cognitive range.
According to the world geography knowledge Nurse Liu introduced in the first lesson…
The war that broke out two years ago is also known as the “Island Chain War.”
Regarding the insider information about this war, it hasn’t been declassified to this day…
The air-raid shelter was built very deep, and the walls were actually made of concrete.
Compared to the civilian buildings above ground, it gave off a strong contrast akin to a loli with white feet and white hair riding an invincible iron ox, standing proudly above the earth.
So, what exactly are you guys guarding against to make the underground civil air defense so extravagantly reinforced?
It wasn’t just Wang Yunxiao who was shocked—Youtiao was, too.
Being rather quick-witted, he set down the wooden crate filled with cans of lunch at, ran his hand along the wall, and sensed sothing amiss.
Looking around to make sure Nurse Liu wasn’t nearby, he quickly leaned over to Wang Yunxiao and whispered, “Big brother, have a look, what material do you think this is made of?”
“Concrete.”
“Concrete what?”
Youtiao had never seen anything like it, but even just touching with his hands he could tell this wall was not made of the sa stuff as the whitewashed brick walls in the school.
“How can there be such construction under the school?”
Who am I supposed to ask?
Wang Yunxiao thought to himself that this thing should not exist in this era, but considering the information he had gathered, there were plenty of things that shouldn’t exist in this era.
One more everlasting bunker material that could withstand machine-gun fire…
right?
Youtiao’s face looked terrible.
The smarter you are, the more prone you are to overthink.
Wang Yunxiao could almost guess what he was thinking, because at this very mont, similar thoughts involuntarily surfaced in his own mind.
Considering the level of weathering and decay, this air-raid shelter must have been here for many years.
If you could use this material to build houses on the surface instead of hiding it underground, could you avoid the tragedy that happened at Muddy Ground that year?
Why is that?
What’s the reason?
Thoughts like these, like wriggling maggots, silently grew in his mind, nibbling away at his heart bit by bit.
Wang Yunxiao patted Youtiao’s shoulder, “Let’s go, move another batch.”
Physical labor is the cure for wandering thoughts.
Scientifically speaking, when the brain is inadequately supplied with blood, thinking becos sluggish.
After going back and forth seven or eight tis and moving all the canned at into the shelter, the whole group collapsed under the wall, not wanting to move even a single finger.
It was not that they couldn’t handle physical work, but rather the lack of energy in their bellies, unable to sustain such expenditure.
Wang Yunxiao couldn’t help asking Nurse Liu, “What are you planning to do with the canned goods after having us bring them here?”
If Nurse Liu dared to say it was for nothing and that they would have to move it back to the cafeteria tomorrow, Wang Yunxiao probably couldn’t help but turn against her.
Are you ssing with us for fun?
Nurse Liu spoke in a low voice, “In a couple of days, so people will be visiting the school, and it won’t look good for outsiders to see this.”
Wang Yunxiao didn’t understand, “What’s so bad about it?”
It’s just canned at.
For the ti he had traveled to, if you dared to add canned at to a student’s al, parents would fight you over it.
The underground air-raid shelter can be built with concrete, so what’s so criminal about stir-frying canned at with shredded potatoes in the student cafeteria?
With profound aning, Nurse Liu said, “If they want to find fault with you, tomorrow morning, if you step into the classroom with your left foot first, it’s a sin.”
Wang Yunxiao had no intention of worrying about tomorrow morning.
Everyone was already exhausted, and he was incredibly tired as well.
Back in the dormitory, as soon as everyone hit the pillow, they just passed out, not having any nightmares.
In the morning, opening their eyes, they couldn’t even rember if they had slept at all.
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