CHAPTER 384: CHAPTER 130: WHEN FALSE IS TRUE AND TRUE IS FALSE (PART 3)

He said, "Perfect, five students, we can each take one."

"You all go first, I’m okay with anyone." The group’s eyes all fell on Du Xixi, clearly wanting her to choose first. But having taught countless students and feeling they’re all the same, Du Xixi just smiled and shook her head.

Du Xixi refused, moving down the line, the second to choose was Chen Si standing to the right of Du Xixi. He looked up at He Yuan, who had already put away the Light Computer, with a warm smile: "Why don’t you two go ahead and choose, just leave a girl for Yuan Yuan."

Why leave a girl for He Yuan? Because Chen Si was worried that if He Yuan took a male student, he’d get jealous...

Du Xixi and the other three: ...speechless.

Zhang Ye and Wenren Yu exchanged glances, seeing He Yuan ahead had already given a few instructions to the students and was coming their way, waved their hands and decided to wait for He Yuan to join them to select together.

After all, once He Yuan arrived, Chen Si, who still hadn’t won over his future wife, certainly wouldn’t dare to say anything with a dog food vibe in front of He Yuan.

When He Yuan came over and heard they should each choose a student, she wasn’t pretentious at all, and after a subtle glance at Chen Si, she said first, "Why don’t I take that little sister named Shan Zhi? She looks tender and obedient, and teaching her should be easy."

Shan Zhi was the shy girl, the youngest among the five students, but due to family upheavals and some incidents during school, she developed a timid and evasive personality.

Shen Yiyi and Shan Zhi were students from the same senior school, just three months older than Shan Zhi, originally taking good care of Shan Zhi, knowing Shan Zhi also liked food, encouraged the academically successful Shan Zhi to join her in applying to the Food Department of Blue Star University, hoping to look after Shan Zhi more in the future.

He Yuan didn’t fully understand what had happened to Shan Zhi, but remembered that Shan Zhi had written "like" in the reason column for applying. He Yuan was quite optimistic about such pure and intense affection.

Being timid was okay, He Yuan was confident she could help Shan Zhi become more confident, as long as Shan Zhi was a keen, capable learner, He Yuan was determined to teach her well!

These five students were originally strangers, each one’s temperament and character were still unclear. He Yuan chose Shan Zhi, which didn’t stir any feelings in others, only let Chen Si breathe a sigh of relief, and under He Yuan’s intentional or unintentional attention, he chose Fu Lu.

Boy with boy, girl with girl, now Chen Si and He Yuan could both rest easy. Seeing through everything, Du Xixi and the other three felt speechless, thinking that being more than friends but not quite lovers was rather frustrating.

But they didn’t intend to point it out, and after Du Xixi chose another girl, Shen Yiyi, Li Shengyu and Wu Feng were divided among Zhang Ye and Wenren Yu.

Every day of the following half month, the five of them took their chosen students and started practicing basic skills—peeling potatoes, slicing meat, training wrist strength... Half a month might not be enough to create much of a sensation, but it was enough for Du Xixi and the others to view these five students anew.

Fu Lu had thoughts drifting to the Architecture and Arts Departments, but his basic skills were unexpectedly solid. Chen Si shared gossip with Du Xixi in secret on the first evening, saying Fu Lu’s palms were covered with thick calluses, clearly used to hard work, or perhaps always focused on practicing.

He’s a good candidate for cooking, cultivated through effort.

Wu Feng and Li Shengyu were reportedly neighbor brothers, having an incredibly good relationship. But their basic skills were remarkably poor, such that they washed away a potato’s dirt with water and ended up washing away the potato.

To this, the pair explained: a potato that had bathed was too slippery, wanting to explore the vast interstellar.

Fortunately, despite being somewhat clumsy, they were quite serious, and after just a few days, the two, who were considered to have "decent" talent, could easily bathe potatoes without letting them "escape."

But they were indeed diligent! As long as effort is spent later, they can become good candidates for cooking.

Compared to the boys, the two girls were much more worry-free. Du Xixi felt quite good about Shen Yiyi, thinking this girl with an apparently cold personality was quite serious about practicing basic skills. Even accidentally slicing a finger, she’d just disinfect a bit, spray some protection spray, and continue peeling potatoes.

This perseverance reminded Du Xixi of herself during Blue Star Time.

Shan Zhi, the shyest and most timid girl, had the best talent among the five students. Although her basic skills needed polishing, she quickly got the hang of things and even kept pace with He Yuan, a "seasoned worker."

He Yuan felt heaven was really too harsh on her. Her basic skills practice back then was much harder compared to Shan Zhi’s. Without experienced food predecessors to guide, without innate talent as foundation, she had to rely solely on continuous effort to make up for her shortcomings.

Although the five students’ basic skills and talents varied, they were all genuinely eager to study food in the Food Department, so all their clumsiness seemed amusing.