country bumpkin

Chapter 218 New Desk Mate

At the dinner table, Yunya ate while sobbing with her head down. Kong Xiujuan listened to her sobs and hiccups, and felt very upset, finding it very noisy.

She said, "No noise is allowed while eating. If anyone doesn't want to eat, then they shouldn't eat."

Yunya tried her best to hold back her sobs, shoveling food into her mouth while silently shedding tears.

She only ate a few bites of vegetables and a bowl of soup, and didn't eat a single steamed bun. She felt she couldn't eat anything more. Usually, she would have a large steamed bun, vegetables, and a bowl of soup.

Yunya ate very little today. It wasn't that she wasn't hungry, but she was crying so much that she couldn't eat. Her stomach was full of air, and she was both hungry and painfully bloated.

My stomach hurts in the front, the needle marks on my buttocks hurt in the back, my calves hurt, and I feel uncomfortable everywhere.

After finishing the soup in her bowl, she went back to her room and lay on the bed thinking about her grandmother.

Sun Limei glanced at the bedroom door, then at her mother, and didn't dare to speak. Her younger brother, Sun Guoqiang, didn't understand what was going on, but he knew that his second sister had been beaten and was in a lot of pain that day.

He took a small spoon and scooped food from the bowl in front of him, putting it into his mouth.

Kong Xiujuan sighed deeply, feeling that the older the child got, the harder he was to manage. Why couldn't she hit her own child?

After Sun Guoqiang and Sun Limei finished eating, Kong Xiujuan began to clear the table. Sun Limei was always lazy; she would watch TV after eating.

She was unusually diligent today, helping to wipe the table. Perhaps she wanted to behave well and make her mother like her more.

Perhaps she felt that her mother was in a bad mood today, so she spoke less and did more work to avoid being beaten.

After cleaning up, another half hour passed, and it was almost time for school.

Sun Fei's voice came from outside the gate: "Yun Ya, are you back?"

Upon hearing her best friend's voice, Yunya quickly got out of bed and promptly put on her shoes.

She slung her schoolbag over her shoulder and went to the yard. Because her bottom was still sore, she walked with a limp.

Sun Fei was delighted to see Yun Ya walking towards her in the courtyard. She smiled and said, "Yun Ya, you're really back! That's wonderful! You know what? We distributed new books this morning, and your art teacher specially saved one for you."

Yunya saw her best friend trying hard to smile, but the pain all over her body made her smile look worse than crying.

Seeing that Yunya was walking with a limp, Sun Fei took her arm and helped her walk.

The two walked side by side. After walking for a while, Gu Yu's voice came from behind: "Yun Ya, Fei Fei, wait for me."

The two stopped and waited for Gu Yu to catch up. Gu Yu said with a smile, "Oh, I finally caught up with you. I thought it was you two from behind. It really is you."

Sun Fei hummed in agreement, then turned to look at Yun Ya and asked, "Yun Ya, what's wrong? Did you twist your ankle? Why are you limping?"

Yunya felt like crying again. The tears she had been holding back kept welling up in her eyes and threatening to spill over when she received care and concern.

Yunya said in a hoarse voice, "When I came back at noon, my mother hit me. She hit the spot on my butt where I got a shot, and it hurt so much."

Gu Yu and Sun Fei both looked at her with pity. They had never been beaten like this at home.

Sun Fei said, "Why don't we walk slower? We still have plenty of time, we won't be late."

Gu Yu agreed to the suggestion and stood on the other side of Yun Ya, taking her other arm. With people supporting her on both sides, Yun Ya felt much lighter when walking.

Now she feels that her friends are the most important people, besides her grandmother.

The three girls arrived at the school gate together. Many students had already gone to their classrooms and sat in their seats.

Yunya walked to her seat from last semester. There was already a backpack in the desk drawer. Clearly, they had changed seats at the beginning of the semester.

Yunya had no seat and had to stand in the aisle. She put her schoolbag on the ground and waited for the teacher to assign her a seat.

The school bell rang, and Tian Bilian swayed her hips and walked into the classroom with a cat-like gait.

The delicate high heels clicked on the cement platform, making a jarring "clack-clack" sound, as harsh as stepping on Yun Ya's heart.

Yunya knew that meeting her in the first class would be anything but good; getting scolded was the least of her worries.

As expected, Tian Bilian saw that all the students were sitting properly in their seats, while Sun Yunya, who only came to school in the afternoon, stood in the aisle, looking out of place.

Tian Bilian scolded, "Sun Yunya, what's wrong with you? What are you doing standing there? Go to your seat."

Yunya cautiously replied in a low voice, "T-Teacher...I don't have a seat."

Tian Bilian then remembered that the seating arrangement had been changed after school that morning. She looked at all the seats in the classroom and found that only two seats in the back row were still empty.

She pointed to the last row and said, "You can sit in the empty seat in the last row!"

Yun Ya looked back and saw two seats. She figured there must be someone who had asked for leave and hadn't arrived yet. She wondered who was as unlucky as her and had been assigned to the last row.

She's not very tall, and sitting in the last row, she can't see the blackboard at all. Last semester, she always sat in the first row, so she was frequently called on to answer questions, and if she didn't know the answer, she would always get hit.

Now, even though you can't see the blackboard from the last row, at least you can avoid being called on and getting punched.

Yun Ya looked behind her. There was an empty seat on the far side and another in the middle. She chose the one on the far side.

Because the tall guy in front of her was blocking her view of the blackboard, she could turn her body to the side and tilt her head to see the blackboard.

She put her schoolbag in the desk drawer of the empty seat and sat down.

Tian Bilian didn't hit or scold her this afternoon, so she seemed to be in a good mood. Thinking this, Yun Ya felt at ease enough to focus on her studies.

Tian Bilian began her lesson, and the students opened their books and turned to the first lesson.

Yunya hadn't received her book yet and could only sit there. Next to her sat a fair-skinned little boy.

She didn't know the little boy's name. She only knew he was a classmate she had seen last semester.

Last semester, she always sat in the front and didn't like to run around during breaks. So she didn't know the names of almost all the students in the back; they just looked familiar.

At this moment, the little boy sitting next to her took the initiative to place his Chinese textbook in the middle of the table, gently tugged at her arm, and gestured for her to read the book together.

Yunya glanced at him, her heart filled with gratitude. She looked up at her teacher furtively and whispered, "Thank you."

Tian Bilian was lecturing and didn't notice Yun Ya talking behind her. Yun Ya breathed a sigh of relief; if Tian Bilian had caught her talking in class, she would definitely have scolded her.

The class ended in a daze, and when the bell rang, Tian Bilian walked out of the classroom.

Yunya thanked her new deskmate again. "Thank you! Classmate."

The little boy had a bright smile on his face, and a small dimple on his fair skin. He was so cute.

He said, "Don't mention it. We'll be deskmates from now on, so it's only right that we help each other out."

He paused for a moment and then said, "What's your name? My name is Meng Fanxing."

Upon hearing his name, Yunya smiled and said, "Your name is so beautiful. My name is Sun Yunya."

Meng Fanxing also praised, "Your name is beautiful too. Yun Ya..."

A ray of sunlight shone in and fell right on Meng Fanxing's fair face, giving him a silvery glow.

At this moment, Yun Ya felt that the person in front of her was not an ordinary classmate, but a ray of "light" in her darkness.

His eyes were like clear lake water, shimmering with a gentle light, warm and full of spirituality.

His smile was like the winter sun, gently shining on everyone who looked at him, making them feel warm.

The slight upturn of the corners of her mouth seemed to possess a magical power, instantly dispelling the surrounding gloom and giving people an invisible sense of comfort.