Tang Ning used the *lingzhi* and twenty catties of rice to exchange for money, then bought some fabric and had two sets of spring clothes made. She took apart the thick cotton-padded jacket and trousers she had been wearing to make a thin cotton quilt, which she would need for the dormitory.
After gathering all her various school supplies, three days later, Tang Ning officially started school.
As the weather grew warmer, her thin quilt and spring clothes proved just right. Now in the second semester of the first year of middle school, she went to find Lin Shengwen every morning at five o'clock to exercise with her, returned to school at six for morning self-study, and followed the school's routine for everything else.
Chapter 18