Rebirth of a Fat Girl's Youth Diary

  Grandma is old and her body isn't very good. It's impossible for her to cook for Gu Xiang every day.

  His stepmother was not at home, and his father's culinary skills were still at the level of scrambled eggs with rice, so he simply suggested that the whole family go out to eat.

  Grandma said they didn't care what they ate, and the things outside were too hard for them to eat. So let Dad take Gu Xiang there. Dad wanted to take her to KFC.

  She is really not interested in KFC. This kind of Western fast food, which is now a luxury, will become ubiquitous junk food in the future.

  Gu Xiang decided to take matters into her own hands.

  The fridge at home is full, it should be what stepmother bought before she left.

  Their family members all have a sweet tooth, and their grandparents' teeth are not good. Gu Xiang is preparing to make a mushroom tofu ball, a braised pork belly, and then stir-fry some vegetables and cook a soup.

  Four people should be about right for eating.

  She can't compare with her grandmother and great aunt when it comes to cooking, but compared to Gu's mother, she is not bad either.

  Seeing Gu Xiang being so obedient and sensible, the family members were even more satisfied with their meal.

  "Ya Ya's braised pork is really delicious." Mr. Gu sincerely praised her.

  Gu Xiang gave her grandmother a tofu ball, the ball was made of minced meat, tofu and mushroom dices, cooked very soft, easy for the elderly to eat.

  "Who would have thought that we can all cook now." Grandma was also delighted.

  "I've done a lot, Grandma likes it, I often make it for you."

  Grandma praised her for being sensible, but suddenly her expression changed: "Does your mom often ask you to cook?"

  "No, no, it's not like that. My mom doesn't let me into the kitchen. I was just doing my homework for a long time and got bored, so I found something to do myself."

  "Grandma advised her, 'You're bored, don't go into the kitchen. A young girl like you should go out and play more often. Your mom is like this, always making you study, I think she's going to make you stupid!'"

  Dad chimed in beside him: "Your grandma is right, there's still a week left before the summer vacation ends. Otherwise, Dad will take you out to play for two days?"

  Gu Xiang didn't even think about it and refused directly.

  She also wants to go out and have fun, but she still hasn't made up for a lot of elementary school knowledge, and she needs to cram before the start of school. Besides, she doesn't want to go with her father either.

  After staying with her father for two days, Gu Xiang was ready to leave.

  Grandma was particularly reluctant to part with her and kept advising her to stay for another two days. Although Grandpa didn't say anything, it could be seen that he also didn't want Gu Xiang to leave.

  Gu's father helped her get a phone card and then stored Grandpa and Grandma's landline number and his own mobile phone number in Gu Xiang's mobile phone.

  Grandpa and grandma gave her money, but she didn't want it. Their retirement pensions are quite high, with the two of them adding up to over 5,000 a month.

  Gu's father then persuaded her to take it and said: "If you don't take it, Grandpa and Grandma will be heartbroken."

  They indeed have a custom here of giving red envelopes after graduation, but most are given after being admitted to university.

  Gu's father didn't go to the factory and specially sent her back to Jiefang Road Shopping Mall.

  Before getting off the bus, Gu's father also wanted to give her money.

  Gu Xiang said she wouldn't accept it no matter what, she just started junior high school and wasn't at the age of spending money yet, what's the point of having so much money.

  In the end, I couldn't outdo my dad and ended up with a red envelope stuffed into my pocket.

  She brought two sets of spare clothes when she left and came back with a mobile phone and a portable CD player.

  There were still two unopened red envelopes in his pocket.

  It can be said that it was a fruitful trip.

  After arriving at the store, the customer's mother saw her take out a mobile phone and a portable music player from her backpack, and asked with wide eyes how much they cost.

  Gu Xiang didn't dare tell the truth and underreported the price by 500 yuan for each item.

  It's like this, but Gu's mom still thinks it's a bit expensive, and she doesn't say anything, just takes it and rubs it repeatedly.

  She also thought of buying a mobile phone for Gu Xiang, but it was summer and business in the store wasn't very good.

  Besides, she didn't want to buy that green screen for a few hundred yuan for Gu Xiang, and thought about buying her a good color screen.

  Gu Xiang handed over all the red envelopes given by her father and grandmother to Gu's mother.

  Gu's mother opened them and found one red envelope had 800 yuan in it, and another had 1,000.

  Gu Xiang herself was startled, she touched the red envelope and felt it was thick, thinking there was a lot of money, but only guessed around 500 yuan.

  "Your dad gave you so much money."

  Gu Xiang felt that her mother's expression was quite despondent when she spoke.

  "You can have it, anyway I don't have a place to use it."

  "Then I'll open an account for you and you can withdraw it when you need it."

  Gu Xiang didn't mind either and started reciting her Chinese textbook.

  School is about to start in three or four days. She also wants to try the class assignment exam. Anyway, her father said she will definitely be able to get into Class 1.

  The math homework is almost done, and she has checked her English against Tang Lulu's homework.

  She has abandoned all the language subjects, including reciting many ancient poems and texts.

  Can only temporarily hold Buddha's feet now.

  Fortunately, she had some impression of the primary school texts and ancient poems, so it was easy for her to recite them.

  In the evening, after dinner, Mrs. Gu was preparing to close early.

  Gu Xiang thought she had something on her mind, but it turned out that her mother was taking her shopping.

  Gu Xiang thought about her current figure and didn't have much enthusiasm for buying clothes either.

  Besides, summer is almost over, buying short-sleeves can't be worn for many days, buying autumn clothes now can't be worn either.

  Moreover, when Gu's mom takes her to buy clothes, most of the time they still go to stores like Metersbonwe and Semir. From a 24-year-old's perspective, it's really hard to find satisfactory clothes in these kinds of stores.

  But Gu's mom was unusually generous and took her to a pretty expensive mall on their side.

  "Mom, why come here to window shop? The clothes are so expensive on this side. I'm growing taller all the time, and if I buy something it won't fit for long. What a waste."

  Her mother retorted: "The little girl's new clothes are good for a year, how many years do you want to wear them?"

  Later on, I wandered into an AEG specialty store.

  I quite like this brand of Gu Xiang.

  The age range of clothing is relatively wide, she chose a black and white plaid cotton dress, which was over 200 after discount.

  It's considered quite expensive in this era, but her mother encouraged her to try it on anyway.

  The sales assistant handed her an XXL size.

  Gu Xiang thought to herself that she was still relatively short and her bones hadn't fully developed yet. If she were to wait until she grew taller and was still this chubby, buying clothes would be really difficult.

  The skirt makes her look thinner, and with her fair skin, she looks quite elegant in it.

  Gu's mother also thought it was pretty good and almost immediately decided to buy it. She also picked up several brightly colored skirts and asked Gu Xiang if she wanted to buy another one. She still thinks that little girls look good in bright colors.

  Gu Xiang said he had enough clothes and one was enough.

  Their family is not rich now. Mrs. Gu's clothes are all cheap goods worth twenty or thirty yuan, which she bought at the wholesale market when she went to stock up on goods.

  The mother and daughter strolled around on the street for a while. Gu Xiang saw that a hair salon was having an opening promotion, so she wanted to go get a haircut.

  Her current big bun hairstyle is too stunning.

  Her mother usually took her to a small barber shop at the entrance of their house, where a haircut cost only 5 yuan.

  This time I saw Gu Xiang always looking at the salon, and took the initiative to suggest that Gu Xiang go get a haircut.

  The hairdresser with a head of yellow hair was looking for topics while washing Gu Xiang's hair.

  Gu Xiang thought she was only 14 years old and in junior high school, so it would be weird for the two of them to have anything to talk about.

  After washing her hair, the barber asked what hairstyle she wanted.

  "Cut it to shoulder height, don't pull layers, one knife at a time, and thin out the ends a bit."

  Mom Gu was reluctant: "Your hair is almost down to your waist, how can you just cut it off like that."

  "It's only when it grows long that you want to cut it short, later on when studying gets busy there won't be time to blow dry hair. Cutting it short and washing it will make it dry quickly." In fact, she was using studying as an excuse, Gu Xiang knew her neck was long, cutting a BOBO hairstyle would make her look thinner.

  "Give me a slanted fringe again, in layers, 30% to 70%." Gu Xiang continued to say to the hairstylist.

  Mom Gu was unhappy: "Why do you still want to cut your bangs? It's best to keep it as it is now, clean and refreshing."

  Gu Xiang said: "Tang Lulu still has a straight bob haircut, didn't you keep praising how good she looked last time?"

  The barber cut according to Gu Xiang's intention.

  Gu's mother felt that Gu Xiang had been quite determined lately, and once she made a decision, it was hard to change her mind.

  After cutting, the barber asked Gu Xiang how he felt.

  Gu Xiang glanced at the mirror, her hair reaching shoulder length with a slight natural curl inward. Her slanted bangs covered half of her beautiful face, elongating her facial features.

  She was quite satisfied, but her mother was not satisfied.

  Mom said: "How come your bangs are cut so long? They'll be covering your eyes in two days!"

  The barber cut it a bit shorter again.

  "Mom Gu continued directing: 'No, it's still long... you have to show your eyebrows... right, a little shorter... a little shorter, even shorter...'"

  She thought this phrase would only appear in the pervert's demands on a train towards schoolgirls' skirts.

  Gu Xiang really didn't suspect that if Gu's mother had a pair of scissors in her hand, she would have done it herself.

  In the end, Liu Hai landed 1 centimeter above Gu Xiang's eyebrows.

  Although it's not as good as before, she feels very satisfied that it can decorate her broad forehead.

  One haircut cost 35 yuan, and Mrs. Gu paid without batting an eye.

  It wasn't until then that Gu Xiang felt a little better.

  Although Gu's mother was also willing to spend money on her daughter, most of it was spent on food and drink. She was still very frugal in daily life.

  It's obviously inappropriate for him to take her out and spend money on these things now.

  It's probably because of how much effort Mom put in taking care of Dad back then.

  Gu Xiang didn't say anything, she just refused when her mother wanted to buy her something again. She even gave her phone to her mother to use.

  Gu's mother was unwilling to use her daughter's new mobile phone.

  Gu Xiang said: "We definitely don't allow middle school students to bring mobile phones now. I'll just put a phone in my backpack, in case something happens and I need to call you. I won't use the functions of this phone anyway, so you can use it, and I'll take your old one. As long as it can make calls and send texts, that's fine. Besides, this phone is too expensive, if I lose it later, I'll be heartbroken."

  "Then you can use this phone of mine, and leave the new one at home for when you get back."

  Gu Xiang cried and laughed: "Why do I need so many phones! You can just use it, anyway electronic products are updated very quickly, when I go to high school and am allowed to bring a phone, you can buy me a better one then. Or is the phone bought by my dad, you don't dare to use it?"

  "Why didn't you hurry? Alright, I'll accept it as a token of my daughter's sincerity."

  Just as Gu Xiang thought this was the end of it, two days later, her mother bought her a Nokia phone!

  A little over 1,000 yuan, it's not expensive, but also not cheap.

  Kan Gu Xiang cried with a face, Gu's mother said: "Don't you like the color? This colored shell can be changed, if you don't like it I'll change the shell for you."

  The shell is apple green, which Gu Xiang likes very much. But isn't this a matter of entanglement with color, liking or not liking?!

  Mom Gu continued to explain: "Ya Ya, what you said is right. The one your dad bought for you is too expensive and it's not safe to carry around with you. But my old mobile phone still has a green screen, if you use that, your classmates will laugh at you."

  They've all been bought, so Gu Xiang could only accept them.

  How come she didn't discover it earlier? Her mother was worried and felt insecure.

  She loved going to her father's place every time she was on vacation. Because her dad took her to eat delicious food, play fun games, and buy whatever she wanted without scolding her.

  Her mother would be heartbroken.