In the end, only Lin Shuying, Yang Yunqian and Yan Guilan were left to go out and buy curtains.
Yang Yunqian walked on the campus holding Lin Shuying's arm, pouting and muttering,
"Shuying, why are you calling those guys? They look like a bunch of country bumpkins who don't have the spare money to buy anything..."
Lin Shuying looked at her in surprise. Before she could speak, Yan Guilan's voice rang out.
"What are you talking about! What do you mean by 'country bumpkin'? Do you mean their village?"
Yan Guilan didn't seem very happy after hearing this. She also had relatives in the countryside and they all got along very well. What could the country people do to Yang Yunqian!
"We're all in the same dorm and will be living together for four years! They'd be so sad if they knew you said that!"
Yang Yunqian curled her lips nonchalantly.
"What does it matter to me whether they're sad or not? Look at how poor they all are. Zeng Juhua doesn't have a single thing that hasn't been patched, even her bedsheets. Isn't she just a country bumpkin?"
Guilan, you are not from the countryside, why are you angry on their behalf?
"I……"
"I'm from the country." Lin Shuying said lightly, and immediately received two surprised glances.
"Didn't you say you were from Yue City..."
"Sihe Village, Qingjiang Town, Shanyin County, Yue City. I submitted my household registration to the reporting office yesterday. It's clearly written there." Lin Shuying gave her address. "Any questions?"
Yan Guilan was the first to shake her head. "No, it's just that you don't look like a country girl at all."
The radio on the table, the daily necessities in the cabinet, the camera on the bed, the schoolbag on the hook, the watch on her hand, the clothes and shoes on her body, everything is full of the smell of money, new and expensive.
What country girl would act like this? A landlord?
Lin Shuying smiled slightly. "Maybe my parents are good at making money, right? That's why I came to study trade."
Yang Yunqian really didn't expect that she was not from the city, but, but, but anyway, she liked Lin Shuying and felt that they were in the same group.
She was also a major in International Trade, and didn't want to lose this nice classmate and roommate for the time being, so she racked her brains to think of something to say to save face, but she really didn't have any, so she abruptly changed the subject.
"Ahahahaha...your parents are awesome. Hey, where did you buy this skirt? It looks great. I want to buy one too..."
The letter Lin Shuying sent home was very thick, and she basically said everything she could say.
[…Everyone wants to go to college, but I think the benefits of going to college are not just for the future.
Only on the university campus can I come into contact with classmates from all over the country, and the customs and habits of various places that my father had talked about before are now officially presented before my eyes.
There are some things that even the dad doesn't know much about, and only the locals can understand them more clearly.
So my brothers and sisters all need to study hard. Only when you get into university will you know how big the world is...
But just as Dad said, having a camera really does make it a lot easier to make friends and get around at school.
During military training, I took a lot of photos for the class. Our head teacher praised me for my good photos and recommended me to be the propaganda committee member, which was approved by the whole class.
There were also several seniors who invited me to participate in their activities. I suspected that they also wanted me to help take photos... Of course, they would always treat me to a meal or buy me something as a reward.
The good thing is that my photography skills have improved rapidly recently. The bad thing is that it's very expensive. Color film is really too expensive. On average, taking a photo costs 40 cents, but developing a photo is also 80 cents. I think this is unreasonable.
So I recently switched to black and white film, and I can save 30 cents on developing photos.
(I'm not saying I'm short of money here. I'm not short of money at all, really. I already have the highest living expenses among the people I know, even in our dormitory and in the whole class! I can't spend it all!)
…
My roommates are all very nice to me and I can get along well with them, but I don’t quite understand the relationships between them.
Zuo Qiumei, whom you met that day, often helps me in life. She is four years older than me, and I think she is a very warm-hearted older sister.
I also remember what my mom said, and I never took her kindness for granted. Whenever I bought some fruit or snacks, I'd bring her some too. Unfortunately, she was a bit reserved, quiet, and always blushing. She was the type who was cold on the outside, but warm on the inside...
...There was a roommate named Li Ximei. She seemed a little resistant to me at first, and I wasn't sure why. But during military training, I offered to take some solo photos of her so I could send them home to show her parents her campus life. Then she seemed to warm up to me again...
There are two local classmates in the dormitory, and they are both very nice... Zhong Fangfang likes to eat delicious food, and Yang Yunqian likes to be beautiful. Following them, my life now is just as my grandma hoped, with good food, good drinks and good clothes.
But they seemed to have some issues with country people. At first, Yang Yunqian even called Zuo Qiumei and the others country bumpkins...
But after I said I was from the country, she stopped talking about it. Yan Guilan also said that I didn't look like a country girl. Well... they all seemed to think so, because they thought I had good food, clothing, and other necessities.
So, is whether one is a country dweller determined by whether one's family is wealthy? Then there must be quite a few people in our town with an annual income of 10,000 yuan now, right? Is there no poor people in the city?
And I think there are good and bad people in cities and the countryside, just like everyone has strengths and weaknesses, it just takes people to discover them...
But these conflicts don’t seem to have much to do with me. They are mainly because Yang Yunqian and Li Ximei and the others usually ignore each other.
I don't know if it's because I'm now a "rich countryman", but both urban and rural people are quite polite to me.
I don't know how to ease their conflict, but I'm glad that I seem to be popular. However, when I'm bored and my mind is empty, I worry that I'm actually being rejected by both sides...
I thought this idea was ridiculous, so I tried to distract myself by studying, and I actually succeeded in improving my foreign language vocabulary...
One night the atmosphere was quite harmonious. Yan Guilan organized a ranking of ages and found that I was the youngest.
This feeling is very strange. I have been the older sister for sixteen years, and suddenly I became the younger sister. Maybe because of this, I feel that they are taking good care of me...
All in all, I am living a good life in college, and my parents and grandma don’t have to worry about me.
You should stay healthy and eat well at home, and don't overwork yourself just to make money. If my family really needs money, I can learn from that guy on the Bund and set up a stall to take photos for people to make money...]
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