Lin Shumei started dating someone in college. He was her senior in college, a native of the provincial capital, had excellent grades, a bright future, came from a scholarly family, and most importantly, was very pretty.
Lin Shumei is reluctant to admit that she is a beauty lover, but she was indeed attracted by that face.
The senior is a very nice person with a gentle personality and is friendly. You can always go directly to him if you have any problems in studies or life. Even if he can't help you solve the problem right away, he can still help you come up with ideas.
But there is a big problem, that is, saving.
His parents are both teachers, so his conditions are not too bad. But compared with Lin Shumei, the "daughter of a nouveau riche", he has much less pocket money.
A skirt of Lin Shumei's might cost her father a year's salary, and a bag of hers would cost her mother a year's salary as well.
A new fast food restaurant opened in the provincial capital. She asked to go eat there, so he went with her. As a result, a set meal that was not enough to fill her up cost nearly 20 yuan. The senior said he really couldn't accept it.
Lin Shumei didn't really care who paid. If she had the money, she'd pay. It was him who said he wanted to eat. She'd even sometimes gifted him some fancy clothes and shoes, and he looked really happy when he looked at her.
But unfortunately, the senior accepted the benefits and always wanted to teach him a lesson. It would have been fine if he saved money himself, but he also wanted Lin Shumei to save money with him.
"You're spending your parents' money now, but what about in the future? What if you can't make that much money?"
Lin Shumei tilted her head and thought for a long time, "Then I'll save more money in the future."
The senior was speechless, "Then can't you start saving a little now?"
"Parents' money is also money. They work so hard to earn it. If you save a little, your parents will have an easier time."
"Shumei, I'm not saying anything mean to you, but if you keep doing this, how are we going to live after we get married? We might have to buy a house, have kids, and raise them. It all costs money!"
Lin Shumei was also annoyed by his nagging. Even her mother had never educated her like that.
"I've always lived like this, and my family can afford it. My parents give me the same living allowance as they give my brothers and sisters, and I've never asked for anything extra!"
"Besides, will I never make a penny in the future? Why do you always look down on me?"
The senior probably hadn't noticed the unhappiness in Lin Shumei's tone yet, and continued to sit across from her and earnestly advised, "I don't look down on you! I just think you don't understand the sufferings of this world. You're a grown-up girl who's never suffered since childhood. In this world..."
"How come I'm the eldest lady who has never suffered hardship?" Lin Shumei exploded. This was the sentence she hated to hear the most in recent years.
"When I was working in the fields, you were still taking extra classes at the Children's Palace in the city! How come I don't understand anything?"
She was sure that this person looked down on her.
"Okay, stop talking, let's break up." Lin Shumei picked up her luxury bag and walked out. "My sister is right. Two people with different values about prices just can't get along."
Even if she was so useless that she couldn't make a penny after graduation as this man said, she could just go back to town and open a computer store next to her brother's hardware store! Her mother said that even if she lay down all day, she wouldn't starve to death!
Lin Shumei never told her family about the whole process from her relationship to her breakup. Only her classmates at school knew about it. The first thing she did after becoming single again was to study hard and take the postgraduate entrance examination that she had been preparing for for a long time.
Then she set up a small office with the seniors she had formed a team with and began to study electronic communications. During this period, she also completed the postgraduate entrance examination and undergraduate thesis.
When the notification of her passing the exam came out, her officemate Wu Hua joked that she was unsuccessful in love but successful in her career.
"Sister Hua, I've never been disappointed." Lin Shumei said lazily, raising her chin. "I just accidentally took the wrong road. I found the road ahead was not very good and not suitable for me, so I quickly turned back and took another road."
"Yes, yes, yes. Our Shumei is always good at cutting her losses in time." Wu Hua said with a smile, "Oh, by the way, there's a social gathering tonight. Are you going?"
"What sorority?"
"And the ones from the Engineering College, are you going?" Wu Hua looked around, then leaned over to Lin Shumei and whispered, "That place's nicknamed the Monk's College! They're all boys! Quantitative change always leads to qualitative change! We can pick whatever we want!"
"go!"
Lin Shumei and Wu Hua laughed at each other.
It was also on this night that Lin Shumei learned that Uncle Youqing’s second son, Xu Xuejun, was actually studying at the Institute of Technology.
"No, sister, you really don't care about your neighbors, do you?" Xu Xuejun sat on the chair and rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"At least when I was in high school, I heard my parents talking about it every day. Shumei got first place in the exam again, Shumei got a few more points, ah! Lin Shumei got into the provincial university!"
Lin Shumei touched her nose, feeling a little embarrassed. "That's not... my family moved to the pond later... and I lived on campus in high school..."
"I live on campus too." Xu Xuejun still didn't let her go, "But that doesn't stop other people's kids like you from hanging over my head every day."
"Yeah, you also said that I am someone else's child." Maybe because they were quite familiar with each other, Lin Shumei found that the other party did not intend to let her, so she simply gave up.
"Honestly, if you had better grades, I'd probably pay more attention to you."
Xu Xuejun: "...That must be really hard work for you."
He is actually the same age as Lin Shumei, but he failed the college entrance examination for the first time and had no intention of taking it again. As a result, his father beat him up and said that except for Lin Shuchao, the other three members of the Lin family went to college. Does he have to follow Lin Shuchao's example?
And didn't his elder brother repeat four years and still get in? Why can't Xu Xuejun do the same?
In this way, under the pressure of "role models" both inside and outside, Xu Xuejun repeated a year and finally got admitted, one level later than Lin Shumei, and went to the finance major of the Engineering College in the provincial capital.
But no matter in terms of the number and quality of college entrance examinations, Xu Xuejun is still not as good as Lin Shumei, so what Lin Shumei said now is not false.
"It's okay. School and society are two different things. Just because you're not as good at studying as I am doesn't mean you won't be better than me at work, right?" Lin Shumei smiled and continued to punch his heart.
However, Xu Xuejun was also unusually good-tempered. "You're right. I think I'm quite talented. Besides, the country is working hard to develop finance, and the prospects are bright. Maybe I can create a place for myself in society."
"Then I...wish you a bright future?"
"Okay, okay, everyone wants it to be great."
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