"Well, because I did very well in the college entrance examination, my mother was very happy. To reward me, she bought me the most expensive phone," Jiang Ting explained embarrassedly. "I told her not to buy it, because there would be many places to spend money in the future, but she just wouldn't listen. She said I was bringing honor to the family, and asked me to work hard and repay her double in the future."

Xia Junan smiled and said, "Auntie loves you so much. By the way, is uncle's illness healed?"

Jiang Ting said quickly, "Thanks to your brother Fu for helping to find a doctor and the funding allocated to us, my dad recovered well after the operation and is now very healthy."

"That's good." Xia Jun'an also felt relieved.

Jiang Ting's cell phone rang again, and she hung up impatiently again. This time, she turned it to silent mode while Xia Junan wasn't paying attention.

Xia Junan asked curiously, "Whose phone is this? Why don't you answer it?"

Jiang Ting said helplessly, "It was a scam call. I don't know if my information was leaked when I registered on the school forum. These days, I've been called by a phone number that looks like a scam number. I answered a few of them, and they were all trying to scam me out of money, so I don't want to answer them anymore."

Xia Junan understands, "Although the school's mobile phone numbers are quite safe, sometimes information leaks occur, so it's right not to answer them."

Jiang Ting smiled and nodded. After getting the hot water, Xia Junan helped her carry the kettle to the dormitory door. "I won't go in. The girls' dormitory is a bit inconvenient after all. I'll go back first. You should have a good chat with your roommates."

Jiang Ting nodded with a smile and watched Xia Junan leave.

She pushed open the door of the dormitory and another roommate came in. Now, including her, there were five people in the dormitory.

The new roommate was a very unfashionable girl with short hair, dark and rough skin, and a slightly plump figure. She wore obviously old clothes, and her pants were washed white. There was a snakeskin bag in front of her bed. She was making the bed, and the bedding she brought had very old-fashioned patterns.

Several other roommates were chatting with this girl.

"Youyou, did you really get through Daliangshan? That's amazing. The admission score for our school there is not low, right?"

"Well, I scored 730 points." Xia Youyou smiled shyly and said, "I have liked soldiers since I was a child. When I was a child, a landslide caused a mudslide and our entire village was in trouble. It was the People's Liberation Army who dug the mud and sand with their bare hands. I don't know how much effort it took to rescue us. In the end, more than half of the people in our village survived. We kowtowed to the People's Liberation Army, and the People's Liberation Army was very nice. They told us that this was a soldier's duty and refused to accept even a piece of bread. I want to be that kind of person."

She smiled shyly, but her eyes were full of excitement and bright.

Several roommates immediately stood in awe.

Everyone who can come here, big or small, has a dream of becoming a soldier. Now, after hearing Xia Youyou's story, they can't help but admire the People's Liberation Army and have even more respect for Xia Youyou.

A girl who grew up in the most backward place, worked hard for her dream and finally reached a place she never dared to imagine before. How can she not deserve respect?

Except for Xia Youyou, the other five people here are all girls from the city. Even Jiang Ting, although from a poor family, could not imagine what it was like to walk three hours on a mountain road to go to school and get up at three o'clock every morning to cut grass and feed pigs.

"Youyou, you have set an example for your younger classmates now that you have been admitted here. In the future, more students will come out. When more of you come out, there will always be people who choose to go back. Slowly, your hometown will become better and better."

Yang Jiao's family runs a factory. She has been influenced by her father since she was a child. She is very good at speaking polite words and will not embarrass others.

Xia Youyou smiled very simply and nodded vigorously, "Yeah!"

Jiang Ting glanced at them, too lazy to blend in, and silently sorted her things with her back to them.

Xia Junan had already made the bed and the mosquito net, so the only things he had just bought needed to be sorted out.

Several roommates changed the topic without knowing when. Yang Jiao asked curiously, "Tingting, can I call you that? Is that senior student really your boyfriend? Haven't you been dating since high school?"

Jiang Ting said "hmm" and replied with her back to them, "I have been with Brother Jun'an since my freshman year in high school. He is two grades older than me, and we agreed to reunite in college."

Cheng Anbo is a quirky girl who loves to read romance novels. When she heard this, she couldn't help but sigh, "How romantic! From high school to college, from school uniforms to wedding dresses, wow—"

She held her chin with both hands, very immersed.

"That's great. Your boyfriend must be very famous in school. I just went downstairs to buy something and saw a lot of people saying hello to him." Li Qing is a girl with a very generous look. Compared with Cheng Anbo, she is much calmer and more mature. She smiled and said, "He is handsome, capable, and has a bright future. We are so envious of him!"

Jiang Ting finished packing her things, sat on the bed, and said with a smile, "I feel very happy too."

She casually took out her cell phone and placed it on the bed, then rolled up her sleeves.

Cheng Anbo exclaimed, "Oh my God, Tingting, is that the latest fruit brand phone you have? I wanted to buy this one, but it's too expensive and my mom doesn't agree. I was in a hurry to get to school, so I had to buy a rice brand. You can actually buy this phone, your parents must love you very much."

Jiang Ting smiled and said, "Yes, my parents have doted on me since I was a child. I am the only daughter in the family, and I have everything I wanted since I was a child. As soon as I was admitted to university, my mother bought me a house, saying it was a reward for me. This phone is nothing."

"Wow, that's great. Your parents really love you. You must be the little princess described in novels, right? You have loving parents and a great boyfriend. You have everything you want."

Xia Youyou said enviously.

In her world, parents will build a house for their son if they have money, but they will not build a house for their daughter no matter how much they love her, let alone buy a house in the city. Her parents are willing to support her education, and she is already the envy of girls in the surrounding area. It is really hard to imagine that parents would buy a house for their daughter.

Yang Jiao grew up in a wealthy family, and her horizons were broader than the others. She said, "Don't just stare at your phones. The bracelet Tingting is wearing is a classic model of the Ka family. A bracelet costs hundreds of thousands. It's not something that ordinary people can afford. At least my family won't buy it for me."

She asked curiously, "Tingting, what do your parents do?"

Jiang Ting paused, then smiled and adjusted her hair, saying calmly, "My father runs a technology company, and my mother is a civil servant, a section chief or a department head, I'm not sure."

She smiled brightly, "I don't care much about my parents' work, and they rarely talk to me about it."

Yang Jiao was immediately envious. "That's great. He's not like my dad. He emphasized to me from a young age that I would have to take over the family factory in the future. He took me to meetings at the company when I was less than ten years old and asked me to write minutes. My dad almost cut off ties with me when I applied to the military academy this time. He wanted me to study finance."

The smile on Jiang Ting's face froze for a moment, but soon returned to normal.

They were all freshman girls. Although their family backgrounds were different, no one looked down on anyone else and they all had a very enjoyable chat.

In the afternoon, the last roommate arrived. She was a petite girl named Zhang Mengdi. She was the only girl in the dormitory who was not majoring in military meteorology. She studied military psychology.

Zhang Mengdi came with bodyguards. As soon as she entered the room, she said to her roommates, "Hello everyone, my name is Zhang Mengdi. Please take care of me in the future. I brought you a little gift. I hope you don't mind."

Then with a wave of her hand, two bodyguards moved out her suitcase. Zhang Mengdi opened the suitcase, took out exquisitely packaged boxes from it, and distributed them to the people in the dormitory.

Cheng Anbo opened it the fastest, her cherry lips opened into an O shape, and she said in disbelief, "Am I seeing things? Is this... a bag from the Ma family?"

Yang Jiao added in shock, "And it's very hard to buy. It seems like they have to match the goods, right? Oh my God, this is my first luxury bag!"

God knows she had been asking her dad for money to buy some expensive bags, but her dad insisted on hard work and made her endure hardships, practicing anti-frustration education... It's hard to put it into words.

Li Qing and Xia Youyou didn't understand luxury goods. After hearing what Cheng Anbo and Yang Jiao said, they were shocked and quickly handed the bag to Zhang Mengdi. "This is too expensive. I can't accept it. Mengdi, you don't have to give us such an expensive thing. We will get along well with you."

Seeing this, Cheng Anbo and Yang Jiao were reluctant to give up the bag, but they also returned it. They both said, "Yes, this is too expensive, at least hundreds of thousands. We are all students, this is really not appropriate."

Jiang Ting held the bag in her hand, unable to let it go. Seeing that no one was willing to accept it, she hesitated for a moment and advised, "This should be a small gift for Mengdi. It is a token of her love. If we don't accept it, wouldn't it be too disrespectful to her?"

Yang Jiao disagreed, "But this is too expensive——"

Zhang Mengdi glanced at Jiang Ting with a half-smile, then said with a smile, "Tingting is right. This is really nothing to me. It's no different from giving me a keychain. Just accept it. I've already bought five identical bags. There's no use for me to take them back."

Except for Jiang Ting, everyone else felt that such an expensive gift was a bit too hot to handle. Zhang Mengdi blinked and said, "Oh, don't be polite. You guys are just being greedy. My dad has plenty of money. He runs a technology company. You must know how much money technology companies make, right? You are contributing to common prosperity! You have to raise your level of thinking!"

Everyone couldn't help but burst out laughing when they heard this.

Now that the other person had said this, they couldn't refuse any longer and could only silently remember this friendship in their hearts.

Suddenly, Yang Jiao looked at Jiang Ting and said in surprise, "By the way, Tingting, didn't you say that your father also runs a technology company? Just like Mengdi's father!"

Jiang Ting's expression froze.

Zhang Mengdi looked at Jiang Ting in surprise when she heard this. "Really? Your father also runs a technology company? What does he do? How about exchanging family contact information? Maybe we can cooperate in the future!"

Jiang Ting smiled awkwardly, "I don't know much about the family business, and my dad doesn't tell me much either - forget it."

But she couldn't help thinking, Zhang Mengdi's family runs a technology company, and when they come, they bring five bags worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, which add up to hundreds of thousands of yuan. But when she came, she didn't get anything, and even the things she bought were very ordinary.

Looking at the skin care products that appeared in Zhang Mengdi’s suitcase, they were all big brands that cost several thousand yuan a bottle.

Jiang Ting unconsciously sat aside, covering the toiletries under the bed.

Zhang Mengdi was very enthusiastic and eager to try, "It's okay. I don't know what's going on at home, but let them solve the business issues themselves. We're just a matchmaker - this is my dad's cell phone number, give me your dad's cell phone number."

Jiang Ting said awkwardly, "I-I don't know if my dad is willing, so forget it."

"Who wouldn't want to do business?" Zhang Mengdi said with a smile, "Your father would definitely want to. The more cooperation with technology companies, the better."

Jiang Ting smiled nervously, "Really? I don't think this is a good idea. Cell phone numbers are private—"

She couldn't continue making up stories. Her cell phone rang at that moment. She quickly picked up the phone and said, "I'm going to answer the call. You guys talk first."

Then he pushed the door open and ran out.

The atmosphere in the dormitory was a little subtle for a moment, and everyone looked at each other in silence.

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