country bumpkin

Yunya, Kong Xiufen, and Shen Changsheng each had a bowl of noodles. Yunya's mouth was watering just looking at the Sichuan-style noodles in her bowl.

She usually eats at home, and had never had such a luxurious breakfast before.

There were breakfast shops like this near her home, but she had never eaten at one of them, even though she was 14 years old.

She had money; her grandmother would give her pocket money every time she came back from the countryside, plus New Year's money. But Yunya was reluctant to spend it.

I had heard Sun Fei say before that Sichuan noodles are incredibly delicious, and today I finally got to eat the Sichuan noodles I'd been craving, and they were indeed delicious.

Yunya quickly slurped up the noodles, eating them clean, soup and all, until her stomach was bulging.

Yunya thought working at her aunt's house was great. There was good food and she got paid.

Kong Xiufen also took the time to buy Yunya three sets of clothes, which made Yunya extremely happy.

When Yunya was in school, she always wore her older sister's hand-me-downs. Except when she went to the countryside and her maternal grandmother bought her a new outfit, she basically never wore new clothes.

This time, Auntie bought her three sets of clothes at once. Yunya touched the clothes in front of her with great affection, not knowing which one to wear.

After struggling to choose for a while, I finally decided to wear that pink pencil skirt suit!

At this time, the TV series "My Fair Princess" had already been broadcast.

Sun Fei bought a thick book of lyrics, the cover of which featured the protagonist Zhao Wei wearing a pink pencil skirt.

Yunya's skirt is the same style as this one. It's a square-neck tank top design.

The skirt below is above the knee, making it inconvenient to ride a bicycle.

Aside from wearing it when I'm taking a walk or having some free time, there's basically no other suitable opportunity to wear it.

Yunya always wears this outfit when she gets off work in the afternoon to visit other people's homes.

She usually wears shorts and a short-sleeved shirt when she commutes by bicycle. The pure white short-sleeved shirt and shorts that Kong Xiufen bought for her are perfect for cycling.

Yunya has finished school, but Sun Fei is still attending school.

Sun Fei made two good friends in her new class, and they quickly became even closer than she was to Yun Ya.

Yunya has been busy with work for a long time and hasn't had time to hang out with Sun Fei. Sun Fei is nowhere to be found whenever she's on vacation; she's always at her two friends' houses.

Yunya felt that her friendship with Sun Fei had faded a lot, and they were no longer on the same path.

Yun Ya didn't have many good friends; Gu Yu moved away. Sun Fei also parted ways with her, and they drifted further and further apart.

Thinking back to her junior high school classmates Li Zhenqi, Ma Qiaohui, Meng Hongcui, and Huang Qingqing, these were all close friends of Yunya.

Besides Huang Qingqing, who also dropped out of school and went home, the other classmates are still in the third year of junior high school.

The bonds of friendship among classmates who had spent so much time together and never met again after dropping out of school have faded considerably.

When Yun Ya has free time, she naturally goes to visit Huang Qingqing, since she doesn't have any other friends now.

Huang Qingqing's family is pig slaughterers; her father slaughters pigs, and her mother helps sell the meat.

The yard is quite large, and there are chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, and a pigsty where a sow is kept.

With so many children and the noise of the livestock, the house was always a mess.

When visiting her house, Yunya always carefully watches where she's going, afraid of accidentally stepping in chicken poop, which would be disgusting.

Huang Qingqing has an older sister who is the same age as Sun Limei. She is the second oldest in her family and is the same age as Yun Ya.

There's a younger sister and a younger brother. Having many children naturally leads to poverty.

Huang Qingqing's mother also favored her youngest son, but treated her three daughters equally.

When Yunya confided in her about how her mother favored her older sister and younger brother, she empathized and echoed her sentiments.

But it seems that Yunya is more pitiful than her, at least the girls in her family are all treated the same.

The front yard of Huang Qingqing's house belongs to Ma Qiaohui, a classmate of theirs.

Their family makes soy sauce and vinegar; it's an old craft they've been doing for many years, so their family is naturally well-off.

Huang Qingqing often took Yunya to Ma Qiaohui's house to play. Yunya was familiar with her, but they didn't have a deep friendship.

Their family had a color TV and a game console. Yunya played games at their house a few times and was very envious of their family's financial situation.

They have only two children, a son and a daughter, and their family structure is simple. Their parents treat both children equally, loving them both the same.

Every Saturday and Sunday, Yunya would go to Huang Qingqing's house to call her and play games with Ma Qiaohui.

Huang Qingqing was worried that Yunya would become addicted, so she advised her not to go every weekend, otherwise her parents would be unhappy.

After listening to the advice, Yunya stopped going to Ma Qiaohui's house to play as often.