The girls' dormitory.
A glass filled to the brim with milk sat in front of Xiaoxiao, with a Binding Puzzle Cube beside it. A photo glowed on her phone. In it, her older sister stood by a doorframe, her face still a little youthful and her expression blank.
Xiaoxiao lowered her head and studied the photo carefully.
The photo had been taken in 2016, when her sister was sixteen. Even comparing her against the doorframe, it was hard to judge her height...
The main difficulty was accepting the result.
A faint glimmer shone in Xiaoxiao's eyes. She said nothing.
Could her sister really have been that tall at sixteen?
How was that possible?
She'd only been 1.6 meters tall at sixteen!
She ate potatoes every day, sure, but she'd heard that her sister often skipped meals as a child too. When Mom and Dad were too busy to look after her, Uncle Chen and Aunt Wei sometimes invited her over to eat. Other times, Brother-in-law made sure she ate, or prepared pickles for her baths and spicy-sour yardlong beans so she could cook herself a pot of rice porridge at home. But if Mom and Dad were too busy, she didn't go to Brother-in-law's place, and he didn't repeatedly remind and supervise her, then her sister couldn't be bothered to eat. She didn't care about it either.
And she'd still grown that tall...
I must have calculated it wrong!
Maybe they'd replaced the doorframe later!
That thought finally put Xiaoxiao at ease. She picked up the milk and tipped her head back, gulping it all down. Then she gave a little burp. The rich milk had left a white film on her lips.
She'd had three glasses of milk today.
Two of them just now.
And the potato-and-chicken stew she'd