Daily Life in the 70s-Chapter 268 Encounter

Ever since it became known that Ge Sanni was pregnant, things in the dormitory started to feel a little awkward.

Although most people felt she was a pregnant woman and generally treated her with more tolerance, offering a helping hand when needed,

there were a few who were not so happy about it because Ge Sanni’s reactions were intense. For example, during the hour-long break at midday, she would spend half that time throwing up in the bathroom. Her retching was so loud that no one would bring their lunches back to the dorm to eat; instead, they ate in the cafeteria and then returned. There were also those who subtly avoided sharing a table with her during meals, simply because her sounds and expressions made it impossible to eat.

Yang PeiMin also tried to steer clear as much as she could. She felt she might have a bit of a psychological suggestion going on because seeing Ge Sanni made her feel like vomiting too, and she wasn’t in the best state.

Li Yue lived in the neighboring dorm and often dragged her over to hang out. Originally, she didn’t want to go. When she was in university, there was a roommate who loved to visit other dorms. One day, a girl from the adjacent dorm reported her money missing. Various speculations led the finger to be pointed at the roommate who loved to visit. The accused felt wronged and continually protested her innocence. In the absence of cameras or concrete evidence, people just assumed she was the culprit. In the end, nothing was proven, but she was told not to visit anymore, and her reputation was tarnished.

Yet, staying in her own dorm was becoming somewhat unbearable.

As Yang PeiMin hesitated, Li Yue gestured, "Forget it, look at you, all scared. Thinking too much can be a problem sometimes. Where are there thieves these days? If caught, would they still want to study or even show their faces around here? But if you don’t want to, I won’t force you. Why not come with me to the lab?"

Yang PeiMin looked into Li Yue’s eyes, brimming with excitement, and felt curious, "Can we go in?"

Bear in mind that it hadn’t opened up to the new students yet.

"All right, I got it. Let’s go," Yang PeiMin said decisively, grabbing Li Yue and heading out.

Li Yue: "..."

Their department wasn’t just quiet and underpopulated; funding was also limited, which meant the research lab was quite barebones.

And this was a place the professors and directors cherished, reluctant to let first-year students roam around...

However, for Yang PeiMin, who had been relying on her own makeshift devices, it was incomparably better.

But I digress, the reason Li Yue had the key to the lab was that she had touched Gao Lingfeng with her sincerity. After persistently asking him questions, Gao Lingfeng might have been unable to comprehend this student who asked the same question over a dozen times. Instead of lecturing her on theory, he brought her into the lab for hands-on experiments, reasoning that the practical experience would leave a deeper, faster impression...

After a couple of times, Li Yue even managed to get the key to the lab as she was permitted to practice on her own without having to ask Mr. Gao repeatedly.

Because Gao Lingfeng had been keeping a particularly close eye on her, Yang PeiMin hadn’t followed Li Yue to see him for quite some time, so she was unaware of all these developments...

Well, no point dwelling on that now. She was about to dash off to those instruments.

Li Yue followed by her side, looking on eagerly, "Hey, you actually look quite professional. You really know your stuff?"

Yang PeiMin nodded, "That box of face cream I gave you last time was good, right? That’s all thanks to my skills."

"Eh, I remember you were part of the same batch of freshmen as us, how did you get ahead of me? Oh my, this is serious trouble, a privileged kid brought over from home..."

Yang Peimin smiled slyly and put on an air of profundity.

Time flew by quickly on this side, and the bell signaling the end of class rang before she was ready, yet she was dragged out of the laboratory like a dead dog by Li Yue...

She decided then that she would also cling to Mr. Gao’s coattails along with Li Yue, striving for opportunities to go to the laboratory.

Taking advantage of the dismissal time, she hurriedly finished her meal and ran to the school’s small woods to find some wild raw materials. Since she couldn’t go out for the time being, she had to make do with the limited environment available here.

Normally, it was nap time, and with the current cold freezing day, even diligent students would be nestled inside, but what Yang Peimin hadn’t expected was the awkward situation of stumbling upon someone confessing their feelings.

And the female lead in that scenario was her own roommate, Zhu Qing.

Then standing opposite her was a young man, who looked quite talented. He was the one confessing, and he gazed into Zhu Qing’s eyes with deep affection, saying, "...I have admired you for a long time..."

Yang Peimin had taken a wrong turn and come upon them unintentionally, and then the three of them made eye contact—first shocked, then panicked. The male and female pair were panicked because Yang Peimin had seen them, worried she would spread the word; Yang Peimin’s shock was at seeing their expressions, concerned they might ’silence’ her?

So, she quickly found herself an excuse, "What a coincidence, Zhu Qing, are you discussing a topic here? That’s very diligent of you. I’m looking for something over here, you guys continue, I’ll go and check out the area up ahead."

Zhu Qing slightly furrowed her brows, truly unable to tell if Yang Peimin had really not seen anything or was playing dumb. Nonetheless, she had to take the offered step down, and regardless of the truth, she replied indifferently, "Mr. Ma is asking me about submitting articles to the newspaper. We were reciting notes here when you came up, so we just talked a little more."

Yang Peimin nodded in agreement.

By the time she returned to the dormitory, she found the whole incident somewhat amusing. The school expressly forbade students from dating, but there were always people who heard the rules and secretly broke them anyway. She thought that was only true during her own high school days, yet it turned out that current students still did the same.

No sooner had she returned to the dormitory than Zhu Qing followed. When Zhu Qing came back, she stealthily glanced at Yang Peimin, and seeing that Yang Peimin wasn’t looking at her and that there was no unusual reaction from the others in the dormitory, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Yang Peimin, too, had been without a nap for several days, and once she lay in bed, she felt tired. She closed her eyes and fell asleep.

In her drowsy slumber, she felt a noise growing louder near her ear.

It sounded like the voices of people arguing.

Yang Peimin struggled awake after a while and indeed, there was an argument going on.

It was Tan Yan; her voice was quite loud, arguing with Ge Sanni, apparently over the fact that Ge Sanni had mistakenly used her toothbrush.

She heard her say, "This is not the first time, the last couple of times I was puzzled. When I got up in the morning, I had not yet brushed my teeth, but my toothbrush was wet. I thought it was when you guys placed the mouthwash cup that you accidentally flicked water onto my toothbrush."

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