The Educated Youth Is Admitted to University, but the Village Beauty Wants to Marry a Carpenter

In my third year in the countryside, I was admitted to university and was about to return to the city. On the day she left, the whole village came to see her off, but she didn't come. As the oxcart left the village, I looked back - on the slope at the entrance of the village, a girl in a red cotton-padded jacket was waving to me vigorously. Later I found out that her father had chosen a bride for her, and the bride price was fifty yuan and two pieces of cloth. Later I heard that she was married and living a good life. But twenty years later, I received an unsigned letter with a candy wrapped in it—the candy wrapper was the kind I sent back from the city. I still don't know what she wanted to say.