SIAS Chapter 250.2

The four girls, nicknamed ‘Golden Flowers’, rushed toward their dormitory building carrying their luggage.

Yi Qingqing lived in 403, Li Mengxue in 302, Qian Lailai in 310, and Wang Lingling in 208. Except for Li Mengxue and Qian Lailai, they were all on different floors.

There are ten dorm rooms on each floor, with a public toilet and water room on each floor. However, the water room only has tap water; hot water is obtained from the boiler room behind the canteen in front of the grove of trees.

The dorm rooms don’t have showers; you have to go to the boiler room to get water and then wash in a basin in your dorm room.

The conditions here are even more difficult than in the countryside. Although people in the countryside also use basins to take a bath, at least each person has their own room. Here, it is an eight-person dorm, so the awkwardness of showering is unimaginable.

Yi Qingqing didn’t even want to think about it.

If you don’t want to fetch water back to the dormitory to take a shower, there is another way, which is the school’s public bathhouse. The price is cheaper than outside, only eight cents.

This was told to them when they registered.

Yi Qingqing and her friends might be the first group of students to register. When she climbed to the fourth floor, there were few people on the entire floor, and Room 403 was even more empty, with no one there. She was the first one there.

There are four bunk beds against the wall in the dormitory, two on the left and two on the right. They are not iron beds, but wooden beds.

There is only a piece of wood nailed to the bedpost between the lower and upper bunks as a footboard, and the wood is only as thick as a knuckle.

Such a simple ‘ladder’—climbing to the upper bunk actually requires some skill!

The entire dormitory was filled with dust, except for the beds on both sides, an old, milky white painted desk by the window, a chair, and eight cabinets at the entrance.

The paint on the edges of the desk was peeling.

Once again, she lamented the harsh conditions.

You won’t know until you compare. The comparison will shock you. The educated youth point in Xiangshui Village Brigade is really ‘luxurious’!

Yi Qingqing chose the upper bunk on the left side by the window, mainly because she needed private space so much.

She may have to live in the dormitory for at least half a year, so the quiet upper bunk is more suitable for her.

Yi Qingqing dragged out the chair in front of the desk, wiped it clean with the handkerchief she brought with her, and then put the luggage on the chair.

Next, she picked up the broom propped up behind the door and roughly swept the dust from the entire dormitory room to prevent it from looking too dilapidated, with nowhere to temporarily store her belongings.

After sweeping the floor, she took out her basin, filled it with water from the washroom on this floor, and carefully wiped her cabinet and bed frame twice.

While waiting for the bed to dry, she cleaned the windows and desk.

Then she spread the bedding and hung up the bedspreads she had made in the countryside.

This time was different from before. Back then, she had her own room, and after setting it up, she wouldn’t let anyone into her room except her close friends, so she could use any pretty cotton fabric she had on hand.

But this time, it was a shared dormitory room, and anyone could see the cotton curtains, so it was better to be more restrained.

So, this time, she used the grayish-white coarse cloth she brought from home to make the bed curtains.

She didn’t need to stay up late studying with a flashlight, nor did she need a dark environment to fall asleep, so she didn’t need to block out light. The gray-white coarse cloth was just right.

 

 

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