Li Yincheng rushed up and grabbed her arm, "Don't do stupid things. If you have anything to discuss and solve it, don't be impulsive!"

"Ah!" Di Xiaona was startled by him. While retreating, she tried to break away from his hand. She calmed a little while seeing that it was him. "I don't plan to do stupid things, please let me go."

After such a fright, Di Xiaona's feet were closer to the lakeside. Li Yincheng quickly turned to the side close to the lakeside, then let go of her arm, and asked gently, "What's wrong? I haven't seen you for a day, and Li Meng has been looking for you for a day."

Di Xiaona sat on the stone beside the long dike and covered her face and sobbed softly. Seeing that she had no intention of committing suicide, Li Yincheng felt relieved and called Li Meng to tell her that the person had been found and told her not to worry. Then she sat next to Di Xiaona and patted her back gently, "Look, there are so many people who care about you, Meng Meng hasn't eaten yet in order to find you; just say anything, don't be alone in her heart."

"Tell Mengmeng and let her go to dinner first. I'm fine, just sit here for a while." Di Xiaona raised her head, her face covered with tears.

"Do you think I'm relieved to let you stay here alone?" Li Yincheng looked into her eyes, "What's wrong? Tell me about it. Even if you can't help, you will always feel better."

Di Xiaona has been holding the matter in her heart for a whole day. After hearing what Li Yincheng said, it seemed that she had found a way to talk. She started crying, "Today... Today... the head teacher called me to the office and said that she would not pay the tuition fee again... and then I would drop out of school."

If you can't afford the tuition, you will drop out? Generally, schools won't do this, right? Li Yincheng remembered the document I saw at Dean Wang's house. It was probably because the teacher scared her to pay her debts, but it was so scared that the little girl was good enough. "Hey, don't worry too much about this; even a slightly more formal school will not easily expel students because of tuition fees; at most, your graduation certificate will be temporarily deducted when you graduate."

"A few classmates in my high school were dropped out of school without paying the tuition. I just thought that they left the school crying." Di Xiaona had less knowledge after all, and she could calmly drag the school's tuition fee like Wang Xi.

"If it really doesn't work, let your family help you find a way. It's okay to find a job in our school's art department. You can almost get it back after working for two or three years." Although the job of graphic design is hard, real estate development in the next few years, and advertising companies will also emerge like mushrooms after a rain. As long as designers find the right company, the salary increase rate is still relatively good.

"My family didn't want me to study at first, so the money I signed up for was lent to me by my second uncle." At this point, Di Xiaona buried her head and started crying.

Li Yincheng looked around and said, "You wait a moment, I'll go buy something." He ran to the convenience store more than 100 meters away and bought two bottles of mineral water, two boxes of yogurt, a pack of tissues and a bread, and returned to Di Xiaona.

Hand over the thing, "Wipe your face first, then drink some yogurt. I guess you have been hungry for a day, and if you don't replenish some nutrition, you'll faint again."

"No, no, I'm not hungry." Di Xiaona hurriedly pushed away the things Li Yincheng handed over.

"Hold it, if you don't eat, you'll spend more money to go to the hospital if you're sick." Li Yincheng unpacked the yogurt and put it in a straw and handed it to her.

Perhaps Li Yincheng was moved, Di Xiaona took it over, wiped her face with a tissue, and then began to suck the yogurt in her mouth; seeing that her mood was a little better, Li Yincheng continued, "What's wrong with your family saying that your family doesn't support you in college?"

Di Xiaona was silent for a moment and slowly started talking; she went to a strange city alone, and was out of place with the people around her. There were many things that were always buried in her heart and didn't know who said that today she met Li Yincheng and finally inspired her to talk to her.

In the summer of 2003, Di Xiaona came down from the mountain with a snakeskin bag and a small medicine hoe. When she was at the entrance of the village, she met Yang Kai, the child of the village chief, who came back on a bicycle. When she saw Di Xiaona, he braked suddenly, "Xiaona, the school has posted the admission list, you have been admitted to Shu University."

"Ah! Really?" Di Xiaona suddenly became excited, threw the thing on the ground and ran to Yang Kai for two steps.

"Just sticking it to the wall at the school gate, there are only twenty-three key points in our school, you are the only one in art." Yang Kai looked at Di Xiaona with a slightly envious look.

She then reacted and asked embarrassedly, "What about you? Where have you been in the exam?"

"I just left a junior college. Di Bowei is also a junior college. You are the only undergraduate in our village." Their village mainly consists of Di and Yang. By seniority, Di Bowei has to be called Aunt Di Xiaona.

After saying a few more words, Yang Kai went home to report the good news, and Di Xiaona rushed home quickly. When she arrived at the door of the house, she heard the mother's voice. Di Xiaona slowed down, "I think the second daughter of the Wang family in Xicun is quite suitable for us. Why don't you find someone to propose a marriage?"

"Now I have a wife and no new house, and I can't get a bride price of 30,000 or 50,000 yuan. I can barely build a house after I fight my life. Where can I find the money for the bride price?" My father said in a muffled voice while smoking a dry cigarette.

After a moment of silence, the mother hesitated and said, "Why would you find a husband-in-law for Xiaona first? We girls are high school students, so we can ask for more brides. We can still give the brides for the eldest brother to save some for the second brother."

When Di Xiaona heard this, her nose felt sore, and two different people in her mind were spinning around like a lantern. One was listening carefully in the classroom with clear windows, and the other was busy carrying a child on the side of the pot; I wanted to study, but I didn't want to get married so early, Di Xiaona mustered up the courage to walk into the house, "Dad, mother, Yang Kai just said I was admitted to university."

The expected smile did not appear on her parents' faces. The father smoked a cigarette. After a while, he knocked the pipe pot on the stool twice, "Oh, have you been admitted to that school?"

"Shu University is a key university." Di Xiaona emphasized.

"Shu Da? Is it in Shuzhong Province? It's a little far from us." My father seemed to be answering her, and he seemed to be talking to himself.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit serious, my mother stood up and took the snakeskin bag and medicine hoe from Di Xiaona's hand, "The sun is so big outside, hurry up and drink some water; are you hungry? What do you want to eat for you?" When I lifted the kitchen curtain, my mother gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Compared with their family, Yang Kai’s family is much happier. Village Chief Yang was radiating cigarettes to his relatives and friends who came to hear the news. "It is not easy to have a college student in our village. In a few days, there are three days of sauna for Kaiwaer and Di Bowei. You are here to support him!"

Yang Kai smirked and suddenly felt something was wrong, "Dad, Di Xiaona has also passed the exam, and she is still a key undergraduate."

"Oh, undergraduates, I remember that there was no undergraduate in our village yet."

"No, it seems that the second child of the Di family's third-bedroom family took the undergraduate degree when the college entrance examination was just resumed in the 70s. Last year, he drove a small car to come back during the Chinese New Year."

"You remembered it wrongly, he was also a junior college student back then."

Everyone started talking, Village Chief Yang knocked on the table, and after they calmed down, "A woman is from other people's family sooner or later, and she can't be considered from our village; I don't think his father looks like he is willing to go to college; I will go out to burn incense and fulfill his wishes for the landlord, and come back and let the teacher show him a good day to squat."

Three days later, the whole village was filled with drums and gongs and firecrackers, and twenty eight immortal tables were set up at the entrance of the village. The women in the village were busy at the temporary stove. After the guests who came to eat the tables came, they first went to Yang Kai and Di Bowei's tables to congratulate, "These two kids are promising, Village Chief Yang and Lao Di, in a few years, I will bring you back to the girls in the city as their daughter-in-law."

The two fathers were so happy that they couldn't stop, so they stood up and picked up the wine glass, "I'll do it first, you can eat and drink well."

Di Xiaona, who had the best grades in the village, seemed to have been forgotten by everyone. She stood alone on the hillside behind the village and looked at it from afar.
Chapter completed!