Chapter 186: No Good Thing_1
Translator: 549690339
Li Qiao said thanks and bid farewell as he turned the corner.
After the afternoon class ended, he returned to the library and did not leave until nine o'clock.
The roommates in the dormitory had already gone to bed.
Xue Sufen was telling everyone about her travels with her aunt, who was in the army, making everyone envious.
Li Qiao poured water to wash up and was coming back from the washbasin when—
Xue Sufen said, "Li Qiao, have you ever been there? Seen anything of the world?"
Cheng Shuqin: "What could Li Qiao, a country bumpkin, have seen? Nothing but from the head to the tail of his village. Fiddling with the family's scant plot of land."
Li Qiao: "The countryside is rich with poetic pastoral scenery; in the summer, fireflies dot the reed marshes, both romantic and beautiful. When there's no meat to eat at home, we'd go fishing in the river or climb trees for bird's eggs, a hundred times happier than in the city."