"Yaxin, Panpan, are you really going back to Xinjiang?"

"Yaxin, Panpan, we really don't want to leave you. Can't you stay in Jing City?"

"Yaxin..."

Xinxin and Si Ya hugged their roommates of four years, as well as several of their close female classmates. Xinxin spoke first to explain, "My parents and siblings are all in Xinjiang, and I don't want to stay in Beijing alone."

Female classmate number one, "But, didn't your older brother get into the medical school in Beijing last year and is also studying there now? Besides, didn't your father buy you a house in Beijing a long time ago?"

When school started in the summer of their junior year, it was exceptionally hot, and the dormitory was small with many people living there. Xinxin invited them to stay in her own courtyard house for a few days. It was then that they found out that Xinxin's family was so rich. She had not only one courtyard house in Beijing that cost hundreds of thousands of yuan, but four, and the locations of all of them were top-notch.

Xinxin explained as she packed her luggage, "It's his business to go to school. He also said that he will return to Xinjiang after he finishes his studies."

"As for the house my father bought, the paperwork is complete anyway, so it won't get lost if it's left there, right?"

Female classmate number two pulled Si Ya aside and asked, "Pan Pan, how about you? Are you going back too? I remember your major's teacher really likes you. She even wants you to continue your graduate studies and stay on campus..."

Si Ya smiled and said, "I want to go home too. No matter how good Beijing is, it's not as good as being with my parents. Besides, my teacher wrote a letter of recommendation to Xinda University. I received a reply a few days ago. He said that if I go back, they will ask me to study for my master's degree and teach the new students at the same time."

The female classmates sighed when they heard this, "That's great! Our hometown is too poor, and there's no future if we go back. That's why my parents won't let me go back..."

"There's a university near my home, but no teacher has written me a letter of recommendation. Otherwise, I'd like to go back..."

"I···"

Xinxin turned to look at them and said with a smile, "If you want to be a teacher at Xinda, I can recommend you."

The female classmate was surprised, "Can you recommend it?"

Xinxin nodded. "Yes, my father knows someone who is the vice president of Xinda University. If you go there, you can also continue your graduate studies and teach freshmen at the same time, just like Panpan."

The teaching staff in Xinjiang is really too backward. Xinxin thought that if she could bring some top students from Peking University back to Xinjiang University, Grandpa Qi and the others would surely be very happy.

After hearing this, several people looked at each other. Some of them who had already been assigned jobs just listened, but two of them whose families were not well off and whose hometowns were indeed very backward took it to heart.

Xinxin had just packed her luggage when Pingping came up.

"Sister, Sister Panpan, are you okay?"

Xinxin turned and looked at Pingping, "Okay."

Pingping nodded, said hello to Xinxin's classmates, and picked up the two large bags on Xinxin's bed. "Let's go, then? Let's take these bags to the courtyard first. My aunt also said we'll have lunch together at noon."

Xinxin was stunned. "Eat together? But my classmates and I have an appointment to have a farewell dinner together..."

Pingping glanced at Xinxin's classmates, thought for a moment, and said, "Then let's go together. I'll go downstairs and borrow the phone from the dorm manager. I'll call my aunt and tell her."

After dinner, Xinxin and the other two saw their classmates off and refused Li Jianmin's offer to see them off. After they left, they prepared to walk back to the courtyard. However, less than an hour after they arrived, two of the female classmates arrived.

Xinxin invited them into the courtyard. After listening to their conversation, she looked at them in surprise and asked, "So, you want to find employment in Xinjiang?"

The female classmate nodded. "Well, we asked the teacher in charge of job placements, and we were both assigned to a unit that's even poorer than our hometown. If you're like you and Panpan, and your family has connections and money, don't worry. Even if you're assigned, it's probably just a matter of gaining experience, and you'll be promoted in a few years."

"But our families don't have connections, but we don't have the money to manage it. We might end up staying there forever, and we don't want to spend our lives like that, so..."

"Okay, then, do you want to go back to Xinjiang with us? Or do you want to go back home first and wait until school starts? You can also discuss this with your family during this time!"

The longer Xinxin spent with them, the more she understood the poverty in their hometown, so she could understand why they didn't want to go back to the mountains.

The two said in unison, "We will go back to Xinjiang with you!"

"After we left the hotel, we said goodbye to them and went to the train station to buy tickets for your train tonight. We came here just to tell you."

Xinxin and the other two looked at each other in surprise. After a while, Xinxin swallowed and asked, "There are no sleeper berths on the tickets you bought today, right?"

The two nodded sheepishly, "Well, there are only hard seats..."

Si Ya gasped, "Ten days! You're going to have to sit in hard seats for ten days!"

The two girls didn't care and said, "It doesn't matter. When we went back to our hometown in previous years, we also took hard seats, and each time it took a week. This week is not much different from ten days..."

Xinxin thought to herself, this is what it means to have experienced hardship. If she was asked to sit on a hard seat for ten days, she would definitely not be willing to do so. However, since they were all classmates, she would definitely not let them really sit on a hard seat for ten days. So she smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. You can sleep in the sleeper car during the day. Usually, many people get off the train when it arrives in Xi'an. You can also buy a sleeper ticket then..."

The two girls just smiled and didn't respond. They wanted to save their money and were reluctant to spend more on a sleeper berth.

That afternoon, Li Jianmin came to pick up Xinxin and the others. Seeing that the original three people had become five people going back to Xinjiang, he didn't say anything. Instead, he gave the car to Yao Xiuli to drive, and let Xinxin, Siya and the other two girls get in the car and go to the train station first, while he took Pingping on a motorcycle to the train station.

Ten days later, at the train station, Xinxin and her friends had just walked out of the train station when they saw He Xiangyang standing at the exit and waving at them. Pingping ran towards He Xiangyang with her luggage first, while Xinxin and the other three continued to walk slowly.

"He, He, Senior Brother..."

"Is that Brother He?"

The two female classmates looked at He Xiangyang, Senior He, who was standing at the exit in disbelief!

Xinxin waved to He Xiangyang and turned back to look at the two of them, "Yeah, what's wrong?"

One of the female classmates approached Xinxin and asked curiously, "Xinxin, our classmates have been discussing, are you and Senior Brother He..."

Xinxin tilted her head in confusion, "What is it? What happened between me and Brother He?"

Another female classmate said bluntly, "They all say that you and Senior Brother He are a couple."

Xinxin's face flushed. "You, don't listen to their nonsense."

"We're not in that kind of relationship!"