"When winter break comes, I'll drive you home, and get to know your family."
After buying the car, Xu Lin and Ning Yuhuan prepared to leave.
"Honey, my brother and sister say they want to meet you."
"Really? I'll meet them then!"
Xu Lin patted Ning Yuhuan's little head. Ning Yuhuan was not an only child; she also had a pair of younger twin siblings, just over four years old this year, from a rural family. In farming culture, there's a strong obsession with having sons. Even nowadays, without sons, it's easy to be bullied in rural areas.
City folks might have an idealized view of rural life, thinking it's the idyllic life described in books. In reality, it's not so simple. Beautiful pastoral life and treacherous places coexist; wherever there are people, there are complexities, an age-old truth.
