Chapter 72: Under heavy pressure, Wu Yulan performed poorly in the high school entrance examination...
When Xu Heye returned home with two meals, Xu Hui and Dong Taohua just came downstairs.
"He Ye, did you buy food?"
"Yeah." Xu Heye nodded. "I figured since we came back so quickly, there wouldn't be much food at home. Fresh vegetables wouldn't be available at this hour either, so I just packed up two meals from a small restaurant on Old Street."
Xu Hui took the bag from Xu Heye, looked at it, and asked, "Why are there only two?"
"I ate." Xu Heye patted her round belly and explained, "I had a bowl of hot and sour noodles at Wu Ji Noodle House and bought a small bread afterwards. I'm not hungry at all now. This is for you, Mom and Dad."
Dong Taohua knew Xu Heye wouldn't let her go hungry, so she said to Xu Hui, "Let's eat together. She's grown up in a place where she won't go hungry."
After the couple finished their meal, Xu Hui went to the kitchen to wash the dishes.
At that time, it was not popular to use disposable lunch boxes, so if you wanted to take away the food, you had to pack it up together with the restaurant's bowls.
After eating, wash your own dishes and return them. Living close together, we've been neighbors for over a decade and know each other well, so we don't have to worry about people not returning dishes from the restaurant.
A good night's sleep
It was past nine when Xu Heye woke up. She opened the curtains and saw the sun was high in the sky. She stretched comfortably. This was the first time she had slept so deeply since her rebirth.
It’s really different when I get home.
When she came down from the second floor, Xu Hui and Dong Taohua had already left. Breakfast was set on the kitchen table: a bowl of porridge, a boiled egg, a plate of pickled beans, and a fried dough stick.
There was a small note next to breakfast, left by Xu Hui, which said that his mother had returned from leave to go back to work and he had also gone to school.
Although it was summer vacation, the school was not empty.
Xu Hui is a very responsible person. After getting so much mathematics information about big cities from Hucheng, he wanted to hand it over to the school as soon as possible. The mathematics teachers would verify and screen it, and select the questions suitable for the students in their school as soon as possible, so that they could be distributed to the students when school starts.
Xu Heye put the note aside and started eating breakfast.
The sour beans are pickled by Dong Taohua using the long beans that have just come on the market. They are sour and delicious when eaten with chili oil.
Xu Heye ate a mouthful of sour beans, a mouthful of white porridge, a mouthful of fried dough sticks, and a mouthful of eggs. After finishing her breakfast, she cleared the dishes and went to the sink to wash them. Just as she hung the washed dishes on the rack to drain, she heard a series of footsteps.
Wu Yulan pushed open the door and walked in. "He Ye, Xu He Ye, are you up?" She had come once before, around seven in the morning, but Uncle Xu said He Ye was still sleeping. Wu Yulan had no choice but to suppress her excitement and go home first.
After finally making it past nine o'clock, she had already decided that if Xu Heye hadn't gotten up yet, she would go to the second floor to wake her up.
"I'm up." Xu Heye shook off the water droplets on her hands and responded loudly.
Wu Yulan rushed to the kitchen, very excited: "He Ye, I told my parents my idea as you said. My mother agreed not to sell the family store."
"Really?" Xu Heye was also a little surprised.
Wu Yulan's noodle shop is in a great location, and Uncle Wu's cooking is excellent. If they can keep it going, they won't become rich, but buying a car and a house will be easy. It's not impossible to buy a house in a big city before housing prices skyrocket.
In later generations, many small restaurants were inconspicuous, but the owners all drove Mercedes-Benzes and bought villas.
"Really?" The two of them came to the front hall and sat on the sofa. Xu Heye casually turned on the fan next to the sofa. The half-person-high standing fan began to blow air.
"Didn't I tell you before that my dad has always been against selling the noodle shop and moving the whole family to Beijing? But his attitude has softened recently.
I mentioned it yesterday and realized that my dad was doing this for my mom, but also for me. He thought I also wanted to go to Beijing, after all, it's a big city, the capital."
"After I expressed my opinion yesterday, two votes overruled one, and my parents decided not to open the noodle shop. But—" Wu Yulan shrugged, "I still want to go to Jing City."
"My uncle also supports me going back. He said that the teaching level in big cities is definitely better than in small cities, and there are more opportunities. So after the summer vacation, I will go to Beijing to study in the third grade of junior high school."
Xu Heye nodded. "Are you going back alone?"
"Yes, but my mother will stay with me for a while." Wu Yulan shrugged. "Actually, I don't think it's necessary. It's not like I haven't been there before."
Unlike the Dong family, Xue Yu's brother Xue Jin dotes on his sister, and he also cares about his niece Wu Yulan. Every summer vacation, Wu Yulan would stay at her uncle's house in Beijing for a while.
He didn't go this year because Xue Yu always wanted to send his daughter back to Beijing.
I thought if I wanted to go back, it wouldn’t matter if I waited a little longer.
Xu Heye shook her head: "Yulan, don't take it too easy. Living in Beijing is not like staying at your uncle's house for a short time. It would be better to have your aunt accompany you for a while."
"Don't worry, I'm mentally prepared." Wu Yulan said with a smile.
"Trust me!" If He Ye can take care of herself in Hucheng alone, then she can too.
"I believe you." Xu Heye believed Wu Yulan.
She looked soft and gentle, but she was actually very determined. Xu Heye believed that Wu Yulan could completely resolve the difficulties in her studies and some minor frictions in her family life.
This is indeed the case.
In her previous life, Wu Yulan failed in her studies. The difference between the study content and progress in Beijing and her hometown was only a small part of the reason. The bigger reason was that she was under too much pressure.
Her parents sold the noodle shop they depended on for a living and took a gamble with her to come to Beijing.
Unable to find a suitable job, her father could only make a living by doing hard labor. She could only watch as her father, who used to have straight shoulders, slowly became bent and his face became full of vicissitudes.
The same thing happened to my mother. She used to be in good spirits but now she was covered in dust and looked unkempt.
And Xu Heye, her best friend, also became unhappy after going to Hu City.
She wanted to study hard and change her parents' hard-working fate.
But the pressure is too great.
She finally caught up with the academic schedule in Beijing, but then her father broke his leg. Under the heavy pressure, Wu Yulan performed poorly in the high school entrance exam...
Traveling light in this life, Xu Heye believes that Wu Yulan will have a better future.
Wu Yulan thought so too.
"Oh, my dad said he'll work hard to open a shop and save money, and then go to Beijing to buy a house with a blue-stamped household registration. Then he can transfer my mom's household registration back and she can return to her hometown."
"That's great."
Wu Yulan smiled and said, "He Ye, thank you. I think the biggest reason my parents changed their minds so quickly is the news you brought."
"I think so too." Having choices means more ways to escape. By buying a house and returning to Beijing, Aunt Xue won't have to place all her hopes on Wu Yulan, and Wu Yulan won't feel so much pressure.
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