I’m Xiao Wu, Wu of Dancing (3)

Mo Hen said:

"Tang San, you and Xiao Wu are first year working students, so from now on, you are responsible for sweeping the garden south of the sports ground. Every day you'll get ten copper spirit coins, but remember, you must clean every day. Especially junk must be properly sorted out neatly, otherwise your wages may be deducted. If you seem like delinquents, the academy can expel you. Have you understood clearly?"

Tang San and Xiao Wu nodded simultaneously, expressing understanding.

Mo Hen said:

"Tomorrow is the opening ceremony. The day after tomorrow the regular classes begin. The first year classes are on the first floor of the main school building, so the day after tomorrow you will punctually go to class. Starting from the day after tomorrow, you will start carrying out the regular work. We may do non-scheduled spot checks. Well, take a rest first. Wang Sheng, you're the oldest here, so tell them about the rules."

Holding the bedding to his chest, Tang San felt a burst of warmth in his heart. His mind couldn't refrain from recalling Grandmaster's somewhat rigid face.

"Bedding? This seems to be a problem."

Xiao Wu looked blankly at the bedding in Tang San's hands, in her eyes appeared a somewhat embarrassed look.

Working students are all children from poor backgrounds, but more sensible than noble descendants, a few clever students immediately shouted:

"Boss, for the time being use my mattress, I'll put half my quilt over the divider."

Another student said:

"Boss, then use my mattress. I brought a cotton-padded mattress I can manage to use."

Xiao Wu looked at these working students' bedding, although it could not be determined as to what extent they were dirty, for the most part they were broken, ragged and worn out. Frowning she said:

"You had better not go calling me boss, for it seems that you're calling me old."

Wang Sheng said:

"That's how we say it, those are the rules."

Xiao Wu said:

"Since I'm boss, my word should be treated as a rule. Then it is fine like this: hereafter you call me Xiao Wu jie." (Jie means elder sister).

Speaking towards one side, her gaze finally dropped to the bedding in Tang San's arms.

"Tang San, shall we talk things over a moment?"

Tang San was dazed for a moment, in his heart he understood that Xiao Wu was probably eyeing the bedding in his hands. He had never been a stingy person, but this bedding was Grandmaster's gift to him; in his heart he was somewhat reluctant to part with it. But Xiao Wu was a girl.

"Talk about what?"

Xiao Wu said:

"I see your bedding is quite large, two people don't take up much space. This way is good. If we put our beds together then can't we both use it?"

"Ah?"

Use it together? Tang San looked at Xiao Wu. Mentally he was not a six year old child. Although right now he and Xiao Wu were both still very small, but as for sleeping together...

"Men and women sleeping together without blood relation, that is not good."

Xiao Wu gave a snort, saying:

"What isn't good? I don't care, are you scared? Are you afraid I'll rape you, ah?"

"Eh..."

Everyone said girls were more precocious compared to boys, but this girl before his eyes was only six years old.

Tang San's choked words did not come out. The other students watched them, enviously, having a good show. Everyone had cheeky smiles on their faces, but nobody spoke.

"'Eh' what 'eh'? Hurry up, pull the bed over. Don't you have outstanding strength?"

Xiao Wu urged rather impatiently.

Tang San subconsciously pushed his bed next to Xiao Wu's. Xiao Wu took the bedding from his arms, first spreading the mattress on the beds. This bedding was for an adult person, and indeed very large. Although it was unable to fully spread across two beds, it could still cover more than seventy percent.

Xiao Wu spread her cloth bundle on the seam where the two beds were put together.

"You also put your cloth bundle here. Hereafter, this is the boundary. If you overstep the boundary, don't find it strange if I'm blunt, oh."

Looking at Xiao Wu arranging the border, Tang San was instead relieved. He hurriedly nodded, and put down his bundle. Xiao Wu covered the beds with the quilt, both beds simply taking one shape. Of course, there was a line of demarcation.

Wang Sheng said:

"We should eat lunch. Xiao Wu jie, Tang San, let's leave."

Hearing about food, Xiao Wu immediately leapt up, and excitedly said:

"Great. What's good to eat?"

Wang Sheng and the other working students looked at each other in dismay, and said with a forced smile:

"What good can we working students get to eat? At the dining hall you can just buy any cheap meal gathered there."

Tang San shook his head, saying:

"You leave, I won't go."

His home was rattling with poverty while Tang Hao's money was all exchanged for alcohol, so in order not to starve he had specially brought rations: his homemade coarse flat cakes. To simply fill his stomach was no problem. The day after tomorrow he started working for wages.

Looking at the patches on Tang San's body, Wang Sheng faintly understood his meaning, and would not force him.

"Xiao Wu jie, then let's go."

The rising excitement on Xiao Wu's face abruptly solidified at once.

"Must you spend money to eat? Just how much spirit money is that?"

If not because of her not inconsiderable strength, perhaps Wang Sheng would curse. Wasn't it needless to say that eating food cost money? Who could be given free lunch? Only, he naturally saw that this newly appointed boss was probably the same as Tang San, also embarrassingly short of money.

Wang Sheng heroically said:

"No matter. Like this, for these two days consider your food expenses on me. Tang San, hereafter everyone together are dormitory companions, so let's go. In the worst case until you have money just ask me again."

For a moment Tang San hesitated a little, but still agreed. All along he did not have a concept of money. Wang Sheng was very happy with his appetite, Xiao Wu even more was immediately all smiles, looking meaningfully at Wang Sheng. However recalling her Soft Skill, Wang Sheng kept his distance from her. Earlier, when she threw Tang San, her face also gave off a smiling expression. Who knew when she would get excited, and effortlessly come at him all of a sudden.

Including Tang San and Xiao Wu, a party of eleven people left room seven, heading to the dining hall under Wang Sheng's lead. The dining hall was in the school building, having to cross the whole sports ground to get there.

Right now, the sports ground was already bustling; one could see quite a few academy uniform wearing students going in the direction of the school building. Clearly, all of them were going to eat.

Nuoding primary spirit master academy's dining hall was very large, large enough to hold six grades in addition to teachers, altogether more than three hundred diners. Right now, there was already a crowd lined up by the dining hall serving window. The dining hall was altogether divided into two floors, and the first floor hall alone had three hundred seats.