# 简单的生活 | Slow Chinese Stories Upper Beginner | Chinese Listening Practice HSK 3/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415vFu39dsA

[00:01] Xiao Mei has lived alone in Beijing for 5 years.
[00:06] She works in Beijing for a large company.
[00:10] Xiao Mei is a simple person.
[00:14] When she is not working, she likes to read books and watch movies at home.
[00:20] On weekends, she goes out with friends to eat and drink tea.
[00:26] Xiao Mei likes Beijing, but in the future she does not want to stay in Beijing because, compared with the big cities, she prefers the simple life of small towns.
[00:41] She plans to work a few more years in Beijing, and then go back to [her] small town and open a small bookstore.
[00:52] Every day, after getting up, she will go for a walk and buy ingredients.
[00:59] When she returns home, she will have breakfast.
[01:02] Drink tea and read the newspaper.
[01:06] Then she will go to work at the bookstore and chat with customers.
[01:12] After work, she will cook alone at home, watch TV, do the cleaning and think about the things she has to do tomorrow.
[01:25] On weekends she will go to see her parents, eat and talk with her parents.
[01:33] Or she will meet with friends, go to the seaside to take the sea air together and talk about their worries.
[01:43] Every year, in the summer, she will take a vacation, go on a trip and see the outside world, see different landscapes, try different delicious foods and experience a different life.
[02:04] For Xiao Mei, such a life is simple but also happy.
[02:12] In order to [fulfill] this small dream, she works hard all the time.