Chapter 32 Recommendation Qualification
Gu Yihan absorbed knowledge like a sponge every day.
I usually didn't go back to the dormitory until almost bedtime, and the rest of the time I was either doing accounting or asking Teacher Shen questions.
As a result, she quickly became the top student in the accounting major.
Gu Yihan delivered this month's account books to Teacher Shen as usual.
"Teacher Shen, I've finished the accounts for this month. Could you please review them?" She handed the accounts to Teacher Shen.
Teacher Shen took the ledger, flipping through it with one hand and calculating on the abacus with the other, her movements flowing smoothly and beautifully.
After she finished calculating, she looked at Gu Yihan with satisfaction and said, "Very good, your practical training over the past few months has been flawless."
Then he gestured for Gu Yihan to sit down.
Gu Yihan didn't ask, because usually after Teacher Shen finished calculating, she would just let her leave directly, so this time she probably had something to do.
"Do you want to stay in Jinyang City?" Teacher Shen asked casually.
Gu Yihan's eyes lit up when she saw Teacher Shen. Without her having to answer, Teacher Shen knew from her gaze that she wanted to stay.
"My family owns a house in Jinyang City. It's not very big, only about 200 square meters. Are you interested in buying it?"
Gu Yihan was puzzled. What did buying a house have to do with staying in Jinyang City?
Teacher Shen pretended not to see her questioning look.
She had been following Gu Yihan since the first day she enrolled at the school and the day she was assigned to transfer her household registration.
She is a girl who doesn't meddle in other people's business and is extremely calm and rational.
“If you want to stay and work in Jinyang City, I have a recommendation spot. Housing is tight right now, and if you wait for housing allocation, it will probably be a long time from now.”
After she finished speaking, Teacher Shen gestured for her to leave.
Gu Yihan pondered what Teacher Shen had said. As she reached the door, she turned back and asked, "Teacher, how much does that house cost?"
Without even looking up, Teacher Shen said, "800."
Gu Yihan thought for a moment: "Teacher Shen, can I have some time to think about it? I need to tell my family."
Teacher Shen then looked up at her and said, "Of course you can, after all, 800 is not a small amount. Just give me the answer before the New Year."
As Gu Yihan walked back to her dormitory, she kept thinking about what Teacher Shen had said.
When I reached the grove of trees at school, I heard Ando's terrified sobbing.
"Nobody expected that in the new society, private construction of houses was no longer allowed. In the years before the land reform, our family saved every penny and tightened our belts to build several Western-style houses. Now we are going to be classified as rich peasants."
"Brother Jinghe, what... what should we do?" An Duo threw herself into his arms.
Gu Yihan immediately found a tree to hide behind and secretly watched the two of them.
The young man named Jinghe gently patted An Duo's back and said reassuringly.
"Before the work team comes knocking, we need to find a way to get rid of these new buildings. Even if we sell them at a low price, it's better than being classified as one of the 'five black categories'."
An Duo looked up at the man in front of her with a pitiful expression and said, "I don't have the final say. My family doesn't listen to me. Why don't you come to my house and persuade my family, Brother Jinghe?"
Gu Yihan looked at the man named Jing He with a troubled expression.
Ando grabbed the other person's hand and shook it from side to side, saying coquettishly, "You know, our family trusts you a lot. What you say is better than what I say."
“Okay, I’ll come to your house on Saturday, but I can’t guarantee whether your uncle will listen.” Jinghe finally agreed.
Gu Yihan clicked her tongue inwardly, thinking that An Duo clearly had no good intentions.
Back in her dorm, she lay on her bed thinking that it would be incredibly difficult for her to stay in the city on her own.
However, the condition for Ms. Shen to provide herself with a recommendation spot is that she needs to buy a house under her family's name.
This is what she doesn't understand. Even if her family wants to sell the house, there should be plenty of people who want to buy it. Why would they deliberately create obstacles for her?
Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. Although she has less income from submitting articles recently, she currently has 1,100 yuan in hand, and Gu Yihan can still come up with 800 yuan herself.
When Teacher Shen arrived home, he saw Mr. Shen sitting on the wooden sofa reading a newspaper, while Mrs. Shen came out of the kitchen carrying a meal.
"Zihan, you asked us to keep that house, but who are you planning to give it to?" Mother Shen asked her daughter with a puzzled look.
"Mom, this is for one of the students in our class. I asked her today, and she wants to stay in Jinyang City to work. I happen to have a recommendation spot."
"Why not just give her the recommendation spot? Why keep the house for her? Does she have the money to buy it? That's no small amount!" Mother Shen really didn't understand what her daughter was thinking.
As she pulled out a stool and sat down, she looked at Chen's mother and said, "Mom, that girl is a good student, she's first in her major, but she's a bit naive, thinking she can stay here based on her grades."
Mr. Shen put down his newspaper, walked to the dining table, and looked at his daughter: "What are you thinking?"
Teacher Shen sat up straight and said, "Dad, you've seen the state of society right now. Not to mention other places, even our school is in turmoil."
"It's all thanks to our school principal, who used to be a soldier and is now a veteran. He's shrewd and has a strong hand in suppressing dissent. Otherwise, who knows what kind of chaos the school would be in?"
"In my family, my younger brother is still serving in the army and needs to find a wife who won't be a burden to him. This girl is quite good."
Mr. Shen gestured for his daughter to continue, "This girl is smart. Her family is from the countryside, so there's no worry about her class background. The fact that her family is letting her go to school shows that they are open-minded."
"If you can come up with 800 yuan to buy a house, it proves that even if you're from the countryside, your family isn't too bad off, and at least you won't be ripped off by your wife's family."
"Also, if we sell this house to her now, won't she come back to our family after she gets married to my younger brother?"
Mr. Shen nodded and said, "Your consideration is good. On the contrary, if she can't afford to buy a house, then she doesn't need to get this spot."
Shen's mother, a housewife, didn't understand much and said, "That girl is doing well in her studies, isn't she? Can't she stay in Jinyang on her own?"
Teacher Shen looked at her mother with amusement: "Mom, it's not that easy. No connections, no background, so many students want to stay here. There's no way we can assign them all."
"Besides, where is there so much absolute fairness? If that were the case, wouldn't all the children of factory leaders be unable to find jobs?"
Mr. Shen, the head of the family, had already agreed to his daughter's decision: "Alright, let's eat."
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