After being reborn, I have seven older sisters.

As soon as school let out at noon, all the boarding students, carrying their lunchboxes and meal tickets, walked out of their classrooms and gradually merged into the main road leading to the cafeteria. In an instant, the dark mass of people resembled migrating wildebeest, giving people a chaotic and oppressive feeling.

Although Qinyuan Middle School cannot compare with the key middle schools in the county seat, it has never fallen out of the top three among the middle schools run by dozens of communes in the county.

Therefore, in addition to the students of this commune, some students from other places also traveled a long way to study here.

The dozens of villages in Qinyuan Commune were already quite scattered, and with the addition of students from other places, the school had nearly a thousand students, 70 to 80 percent of whom were boarding students.

Those boarding students live and eat at the school from Monday to Friday, and can only leave the school to go home on Saturday noon when classes end.

Songjiazhuang Village is at most a mile and a half away from Qinyuan Middle School. If you walk fast, you can get there in less than 15 minutes.

Therefore, compared with those villages that are far away, Songjiazhuang can be considered a school district village. The children in the village have a unique sense of superiority, at least they can go home to eat every meal and stay at home at night.

After school, Chunsheng and Hongqin followed their classmates out of the classroom, intending to go home for dinner.

But as soon as they stepped out of the classroom, they bumped into Chunsheng's second brother-in-law, Zhang Yuejin.

Chunsheng asked with a smile, "Brother Yuejin, what brings you here?"

"Hurry up and come to my place for lunch. I came looking for you twice, but your classroom was locked. I found out that your last class was changed to a chemistry lab!"

"good!"

After Chunsheng agreed to his brother-in-law, he immediately said to Hongqin, "Hongqin, when you pass by my house on your way back, remember to send a message to my mother saying that I won't be going back for lunch and will be eating at my second brother-in-law's dormitory."

"Okay, no problem!"

Song Hongqin knew that Chunsheng would eat at his second brother-in-law's house two or three times a month, supposedly because it was a task assigned to him by Chunsheng's second sister.

The reason was that Chunsheng was growing up and his family's living conditions were poor. So every now and then, his brother-in-law would take him to the school cafeteria for a meal with meat, so that he could get some nutrition and not let studying ruin his health.

Whenever this happened, the task of delivering messages to Chunsheng's family would naturally fall to Song Hongqin.

As soon as Chunsheng followed his brother-in-law into the teachers' dormitory area, they ran into Li Yufeng, the homeroom teacher, who had just come out of the house. She was holding a lunchbox and meal tickets, obviously preparing to go to the cafeteria to get food.

Upon seeing Chunsheng and Zhang Yuejin together, Li Yufeng immediately joked, "Teacher Zhang is taking my student out for a nice meal again today!"

Zhang Yuejin nodded with a smile, "The cafeteria happened to have braised pork for lunch today, so I got two extra portions to improve Chunsheng's diet."

Li Yufeng immediately gave Zhang Yuejin a thumbs up, praising him, "I'm so honored to have such a model brother-in-law like you!"

Just as Li Yufeng finished speaking and was about to turn and leave, she suddenly looked at Song Chunsheng and said, "I was planning to look for you and Hongqin this afternoon. Since you had lunch at your brother-in-law's, why don't you come to my dorm after you finish eating? There's something I want to tell you!"

"good!"

After saying goodbye to Li Yufeng, Chunsheng followed his brother-in-law into his staff dormitory at the school.

The dormitory room is not large, totaling only about 20 square meters.

A tall bookcase, more than a meter high, stood in the middle of the room, dividing it into two parts. The inner room was where Zhang Yuejin slept, while the outer room was where he prepared lessons and spent his time.

After Chunsheng entered the room, Zhang Yuejin immediately opened the two large lunchboxes on the table.

When Chunsheng saw the food in the lunchbox, he was immediately shocked.

He had thought that today's lunch would just be the two servings of braised pork and a few steamed buns that his brother-in-law had just mentioned.

To his surprise, in addition to two large portions of braised pork, the other lunchbox also contained a large portion of crispy pork stew and a large portion of stir-fried radish with cured pork.

Although the meat dishes at the school weren't as expensive as those in the state-run restaurants in the county town, the four meat dishes together would still cost at least one yuan and fifty cents.

Chunsheng was quite surprised that his second brother-in-law, who is usually quite frugal, ordered four meat dishes for lunch today.

"Brother Yuejin, besides the two of us, is anyone else eating here today?"

Zhang Yuejin looked at Chunsheng with some confusion. "Why do you ask that? Who else could it be besides you and me?"

"Then...why did you order so many dishes?"

Zhang Yuejin immediately smiled and said, "I thought it was something serious, so this is what you're asking about!"

"Stop standing there! Quickly wash your hands and eat, the meat won't taste good if it gets cold!"

Soon, Chunsheng and his brother-in-law each had a steamed bun in their hands and started eating with the braised pork and two other meat dishes from the lunchbox.

Seeing Chunsheng wolfing down his food, Zhang Yuejin immediately handed him his enamel water cup, saying, "Don't rush, have some water and eat slowly!"

After taking a sip of water, Song Chunsheng immediately slowed down, smiling somewhat awkwardly, and said, "This braised pork, and these other two dishes, are absolutely delicious!"

"If you think it's delicious, I'll finish all of these dishes for lunch today!"

After a brief pause, Zhang Yuejin said with a sigh, "From now on, if you want to eat meat, you can come to your brother-in-law anytime. You don't have to wait for me to call you every time!"

Chunsheng smiled, glanced at Zhang Yuejin without saying anything, and continued eating with his head down.

After chewing a bite of his steamed bun, Zhang Yuejin sighed softly and said, "Our parents are getting old, and you're the only boy in the family. You have to be careful in everything you do from now on, and always put your personal safety first!"

"Anything like water or fire, stay as far away from it as possible!"

Song Chunsheng knew that his brother-in-law was still shaken by his near-drowning incident a couple of days ago, so he immediately stopped eating, nodded earnestly to his brother-in-law, and said, "Don't worry, brother, I'll definitely be more careful in the future!"

Zhang Yuejin smiled and said, "Okay, brother-in-law trusts you. I know you're sensible and will definitely keep your word!"

After finishing his speech, Zhang Yuejin continued eating, without saying another word.

In Chunsheng's heart, his second brother-in-law was a really good person. He was not only good to his second sister, but also very filial to his parents.

Since my brother-in-law works right next to Songjiazhuang, he goes home two or three times a month, and he never goes empty-handed.

He would either buy two meat dishes from the school cafeteria, pack them in a lunchbox, and bring them to the elderly couple, or he would take out a few yuan from his pocket and force it into his mother Liu Yan'e's hand before leaving!