Seeing that Zhang Luyao had indeed left, Li Feier turned around and continued talking to Yang Yun: "Why did you tell her about the braised potatoes with meat? Haven't you seen her always only get steamed buns and vegetables in the cafeteria? When have you ever seen her get meat or vegetables? She always takes them out to eat. She really thinks no one can see! I guess she must be reluctant to spend money on meat and vegetables. She wants to save the money and meat coupons for her family!"
Saving money and tickets to give to family is actually a very common practice among poor college students.
Most of the students from these poor areas are able to come to school by relying on the money saved by their families for travel expenses. Most of their families are very poor and cannot even get enough to eat, let alone meat.
These travel expenses were all saved up by the family.
Normally, whether it is the meat distributed from the annual pig slaughtered in the village or the eggs laid by the chickens at home every day, they are reluctant to eat them and will try their best to exchange them for food, cloth and other daily necessities from others.
Fortunately, these college students who come to college not only receive a monthly allowance of more than ten yuan, but also some food coupons, meat coupons, vegetable coupons, and occasionally cloth coupons.
It is enough for them to finish college safely.
Of course, the bills issued by the school are local and can only be used locally.
You can't take it back home to use for your family.
It can't be used, but it can be replaced!
You can exchange it for national food coupons, money, or cloth!
Anyway, there are still local students from well-off families in the school, so it is easy to exchange money or things.
After the saved tickets are exchanged for physical items, they can be mailed back to my hometown for my family to use, which can greatly reduce the burden on my family!
Zhang Luyao never told anyone about his family background. Those who knew it wouldn't say anything, and those who didn't know it wouldn't know either.
So Li Feier and the others really thought that Zhang Luyao's family conditions were average. Otherwise, in Beijing, as long as the family conditions are good, even if they can't use connections to help their children find a job, they can still spend money to buy a job!
There is no way we would let a girl who is only in her teens go to the countryside to work as an educated youth on the farm!
So on the first day of school, when Li Feier and the others heard that Zhang Luyao had been an educated youth in the countryside not long ago, they immediately guessed that his family background was rather ordinary.
In addition, they encountered Zhang Luyao in the cafeteria several times only serving steamed buns and vegetables, without any meat or vegetables, which further deepened this impression.
It’s not that they exclude each other. They just feel that Zhang Luyao is not in the same circle as them, so the relationship between the two sides has always been weak.
This time, Li Feier heard from a well-informed classmate that the school was planning to organize students to study abroad!
And the place of study is the United States!
The United States is a very prosperous country!
Unlike other regions where foreign countries have been demonized by false information propaganda over the past decade, the more informed people in Beijing still know the real situation abroad.
In particular, there are stores like the Friendship Store in Beijing that specialize in selling foreign goods, as well as foreign films that are only available to insiders, the kind of films produced in Western capitalist countries that are prohibited from being publicly screened.
Li Feier and Yang Yun had the opportunity to visit several times with their classmates, so they knew that foreign countries, especially the developed country of the United States, were very rich, and that foreign people were not living in dire straits as described in the newspapers.
Just like an English text in their high school English textbook, "A Poor English Girl Living in London", which describes the life of "a poor English girl living in London" and describes Britain at that time as still as poor as in the Dickens era.
The content of this article was also published by British journalist Wei De in Beijing in the British Daily Mail on June 20 of that year.
The news began with a sarcasm: "Chinese children are now being taught that Britain is a miserable country with tyrannical bosses, cruel teachers and shady factories that exploit child labor."
Moreover, an English textbook for teenagers in China says that "a poor English girl living in London" still suffers "from the same poverty and oppression as in Dickens's time."
The news excerpted part of the text: "Anna's parents were both workers. They are now unemployed. Anna is a primary school student who has to work long hours in a dark workshop after school."
Therefore, "she had no time to review her lessons because she was always very tired after work. The teacher, Mr. Brown, did not like her and often punished her just because she was poor. Anna loved to work, but she hated the factory and the capitalists. She loved to study, but she hated the school and Mr. Brown."
The text concludes: "Today, in capitalist countries, there are many poor children like Anna. They all live miserable lives."
The publication of this news made China an international laughing stock.
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