Chapter 1494 - 1493: What’s So Respectable About a Country Bumpkin?

Chapter 1494: Chapter 1493: What’s So Respectable About a Country Bumpkin?

Chapter 1493 What’s so respectable about a country bumpkin.

"Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!" Shen Qi and the other one said, full of gratitude.

Mengyu laughed and said, "Alright, no need to thank me. Starting tomorrow, you have to call me big sis, you can’t call me Master anymore. I’m still young and you’re making me sound old."

Everyone burst out laughing.

Shen Qi and his companion thought: So the reason she won’t let us call her Master is because it makes her sound old.

Meanwhile Qingshan, off to the side, was quietly mocking her: I’m already several thousand years old. Calling you Master would only make you sound older — how come you never tell me to call you big sis?

Mengyu walked Shen Qi and the other out, and saw people chatting at the entrances of all the courtyards. Her neighbor Granny Long had a girl of about twenty standing beside her, staring eagerly at Shen Qi and the other one as Mengyu saw them off. The girl walked over and asked Mengyu, "Hey, the ones you just saw off, what are they to you? Where are they from, and where do they study?"

Mengyu turned her head, glanced at the girl, and didn’t answer.

Granny Long proudly introduced, "This is my daughter Long Xiaomei, she’s in her third year of college."

Mengyu gave a small smile. "First, my name is not ’hey’. My surname is Nan, you can call me Xiao Nan like the other neighbors in this lane do, or Miss Nan. Second, neither of those two is suitable for you."

Long Xiaomei’s face instantly turned red, out of embarrassment: this girl had seen right through her thoughts!

"I was just asking a question, how can your mind be that filthy?"

Mengyu smiled. "Oh? I saw you staring at them just now, eyes burning, which really makes it easy for people to misunderstand that you want to get to know and latch onto one of them. Fortunately, that’s not the case."

She was basically saying that the filth showed in her own eyes, yet she was blaming others for being filthy.

After speaking, she greeted Granny Long with a "We’ll chat when there’s time," then went into the courtyard and closed the door.

"Where did that country bumpkin come from, she’s got no manners at all." Long Xiaomei said angrily.

She didn’t stop to think about how polite she herself had been when she yelled "hey" at Mengyu and started nosing around about strange men.

Granny Long sighed. "You were impolite first, so how do you expect others to be polite to you? From now on, you need to show a bit more respect to the people in Courtyard No. 6."

"Hmph, just a country bumpkin, what’s there to respect?"

Granny Long was a bit frustrated, hating that the iron wouldn’t turn into steel. "You—do you even know who she is?"

"Who could she possibly be? Didn’t they say she’s just a freshman at the Chinese Medicine College who got in from the countryside?" Long Xiaomei said with disdain. "A country bumpkin is still a country bumpkin, even if they come into the city."

In Long Xiaomei’s eyes, a country bumpkin was a country bumpkin. Even if they washed the mud off their legs and entered the city, in their bones they were still bumpkins.

Just like the country bumpkins at her school — she had never shown them a good face. Even talking to them was like granting them a favor.

Of course, most of those country bumpkins wouldn’t come up to her to bother her anyway. Only one or two, thinking they might be able to stay in the Capital City after graduation, tried to cozy up to her, and she strung them along, getting them to do her laundry and carry water for her.

At that time, jobs were still assigned by the state, but if you had the ability to find a work unit yourself, you could get that unit to speak up and have you allocated to them.

In reality, Long Xiaomei herself didn’t even know whether she’d be able to stay in the Capital City, so how could she possibly help other classmates stay there?

But she had no psychological burden at all about using those kids from the countryside: Hmph, serves them right for being cheap.

Granny Long reached out and slapped her. "That’s what you get for looking down on people!"

Xiao Mei covered her head. "Mom, how can you hit me? Today’s the first day of the New Year!"