Most families couldn't afford lard or white sugar, so they could only bring along dry pickled vegetables. The taste was certainly nothing special, but no one complained. It was already a huge deal for their families to be able to send them to school at all, so they could endure eating pickled vegetables every day.
Occasionally, students from more well-off families would bring steamed pork with pickled vegetables. Howard Thorne and Patrick Thorne came from such a family. Not only did they bring meat, they also had some money with them to buy dishes from the cafeteria. In every aspect except for their grades, the two brothers were the envy of all their classmates.
But as the new school term began, the brothers found themselves thinking differently.
Before school started, the brothers had spent a few days studying with Tang Xiaonan at Old Master Tate's, and the experience had a profound impact on them.
