Chapter 452: Throw It Out

When Zhao Jingmiao returned to the dormitory, the door of the dorm across was open, and Liu Miao’s voice came from inside, "Tian Dan, I’m warning you again, hurry up and throw away all your bottles and jars, you country bumpkin. I’m covered in the smell of your stinky pickles."

Tian Dan said nothing, holding tightly onto her jars.

Her family was poor, and the reason she got a job at the transformer factory was because she was smart. Unlike Liu Miao and the others who could eat at the big canteen at the transformer factory, she had to save her food to send back home to feed her big family.

The pickles in these jars were made after she spent a long time every night collecting vegetable leaves to pickle them.

They were her food supply.

With these pickles and a little cornbread brought from home, Tian Dan felt much better off than her younger siblings at home.

At least she could occasionally go to the canteen to improve her meals, see if there was any leftover broth to bring back for a treat.

Of course, she didn’t take advantage of the public resources for free. After eating, she would voluntarily help them clean the canteen.

"Tian Dan, did you hear me?" Seeing her silence, Liu Miao grew even angrier, tugging Tian Dan’s arm, "Throw these things out for me, get rid of them."

"I don’t want to." Tian Dan begged bitterly, "Can I...can I put them outside the window? Or outside? I promise to ventilate the room every day so you won’t smell them anymore."

If she threw them away, what would she eat?

Besides, so many pickles, how wasteful to throw them away, it would break her heart.

"Window? Don’t you think it stinks enough? You want to suffocate everyone together?" Liu Miao screamed, "My clothes are covered in your smell now, can you afford that?"

Liu Miao said while pulling Tian Dan.

"Liu Miao, just talk it over calmly." Zhao Jingmiao could no longer stand it.

In this era, no one’s family was affluent. Just looking at what Tian Dan usually wore, it was clear her family conditions were worse than hers.

Making some pickles to eat was reasonable, besides, these pickles weren’t as exaggerated as Liu Miao said, making even clothes smell like them.

Moreover, there were many people cooking in the hallway. During mealtimes, the mix of thick oil smoke and food smells was much stronger than Tian Dan’s pickles.

Yet you’d never seen Liu Miao say anything about that.

"This is our dormitory’s issue, it’s none of your business." Liu Miao said irritably, "Anyway, our dorm can’t have these things."

"If you want to be a good person, let her put her bottles and jars in your dorm." Liu Miao said mockingly.

"You..." Zhao Jingmiao angrily glared at Liu Miao.

If the dorm was hers alone, letting Tian Dan store those things would be no problem, but Zhu Jing also lived there.

"So don’t talk so carefree without effort on your part." Liu Miao sneered.

"Tian Dan, why don’t you store your pickles in our dorm from now on?" Zhu Jing’s voice came over, "But if we get a craving for some of your pickles, you can’t be stingy."

Zhao Jingmiao turned around surprised, only to see Zhu Jing and Gu Lingling standing in the hallway.

Obviously, they had heard everything just now too.

"Hmph..." Liu Miao glared at Tian Dan, grabbed her coat, and pushed through the crowd, leaving.

"Really?" Tian Dan said moved, "As long as you don’t mind, you can eat as much as you want."

At worst, she’d just get more vegetable leaves to pickle.