There were fewer and fewer people on the street, and almost all the friends at my table had arrived. My table had both men and women, all of whom were good classmates and childhood friends. They chatted casually, and it was particularly lively and full of laughter.

The man saw the little girl drinking alone, not eating much of the food on the table, looking lonely and particularly cold. From the side, she looked a little lonely and sad, but with a look of aloofness.

The man pushed his glasses down his nose and looked back at his table. The man next to him had a tan from working on the farm in his hometown for a long time. He was thin but looked capable. His name was Wang Ming. He touched the man with his wrist and said, "Xu Ze, do you know that auntie?"

Xu Ze looked at her again: "Auntie," and then looked at her clothes. She was really an auntie. Her clothes were not as fashionable as her mother's. She wore the clothes of a rural auntie and rubber slippers that cost a few dollars. Her hair was casually tied up. She was really an auntie.

The woman sitting opposite Wang Ming was his wife, Gao Lan. When she heard them talking, she glanced at the girl at the next table. In her excitement, she forgot that she couldn't understand her hometown dialect and blurted out, "Hey, cousin, why are you here?"

The little girl heard someone shouting, but she didn't understand, so she ignored it and drank her wine alone.

Wang Ming pulled his wife who was about to stand up and said, "Your cousin has just had a few drinks and she's already acting like a bully."

"This is your cousin. She just came back from abroad. As soon as she came back, she was scolded by grandma and some aunts. On the day of Mengxing's wedding, her mother overturned the mahjong table after finding out." After explaining to them, Gao Lan casually came to sit opposite the little gangster girl: "Cousin, it's me..."

"I know you are my cousin's wife. Can you speak Mandarin?" The little gangster girl looked at her and smiled awkwardly.

"Oh, I forgot you don't understand the local dialect. It's okay. Take your time. You will learn it after a while. Come and sit at the same table with us. It's boring to sit alone." Gao Lan didn't care whether she agreed or not. She pulled her and settled her next to her. "Go and bring the things from my cousin's table over here."

Wang Ming realized it later and went to get the wine and food from the little girl. When did this woman become so familiar with her?

Gao Lan was a straightforward person and she introduced everyone one by one, regardless of whether you remembered them or not. After she finished introducing them, she continued: This is my aunt’s daughter, Li Xingmeng, Mengxing’s sister.

When the other guy heard that it was Meng Xing's sister, he thought that they were in the same class, so he asked, "Which class are you in, cousin?"

"When I was in elementary school, I was in the same class with Li Mengxing."

The woman next to Gao Lan, Li Ying, said excitedly, "Really? Meng Xing and I were in the same class from elementary school to junior high school."

"I didn't finish the third grade of elementary school." At this time, the little girl was very upset.

Li Ying slammed the table and pointed at her: "You call her Little Fatty, right? The one who was picked up by her parents before she finished the third grade. We are from the same village."

The woman lifted the little girl's chin and looked at her carefully. She shook her head and tears began to flow. "No, she wasn't that pretty. She was fat and dirty back then. Every day she either climbed trees to steal fruits or robbed bird nests, or went to the river to catch fish or dig loaches in the fields."

Ah... that, I...

She hasn't even finished the third grade yet. She and Li Ying are from the same village. It seems that my cousin is also from the same village as Li Ying. The girl she introduced to me some time ago also didn't finish the third grade. Could it be her? Xu Ze thought as he looked at the little girl. She had fair skin, a delicate baby face, big eyes, and long eyelashes. She was so beautiful even without makeup, a beauty as exquisite as jade. Xu Ze raised the wine glass: This glass of wine is to toast our new friend, and to welcome our cousin.

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