Chapter 65 Big Freezer
After Shen Pandi settled the family affairs, she went to find Shen Qingyue.
Shen Qingyue asked: "Is everything resolved?"
Shen Pandi nodded and hugged Shen Qingyue with an intimate attitude as if Shen Qingyue was her own sister.
Shen Qingyue took a piece of sazi, which was fried yesterday. Fried things can be kept, so you can keep it and eat it whenever you are hungry!
As she was always late for food when she was busy, she gave it to Shen Pandi as a snack.
Shen Pandi held it in her hands with great trepidation, she was reluctant to eat it.
The Shen family would also fry some snacks during the Chinese New Year, but girls were not allowed to touch them at all. It was the first time she had her hands on such a precious snack, and she didn’t know what to do!
Shen Qingyue had also come here and could fully understand Shen Pandi's mood. She said, "Eat."
It was the first time that Shen Pandi put the sazi in her mouth. It was crispy and coated with a little sugar. She had never eaten anything so delicious.
I can’t bear to swallow the chewed food, so I just want to hold it in my mouth and let it stay in my mouth for a while longer.
Shen Qingyue said: "I plan to send you to junior high school."
These days, the tuition for junior high school is only 20 yuan a year, and living there is more expensive, more than 30 yuan.
Chen Pandi was anxious and quickly swallowed the food in her mouth. She said, "Second sister, I want to help you with something."
Shen Qingyue said: "You are just a half-grown child, what can you do to help me?"
Chen Pandi said: "I can do anything. Second sister, please don't look down on me, I can endure hardships."
Shen Qingyue touched Shen Pandi's head and said, "I know, but society is developing. You, who haven't even graduated from the fourth grade of elementary school, will be illiterate in the future!"
Chen Pandi said stubbornly: "I am not illiterate, I know a thousand words."
Shen Qingyue said: "Be obedient, you don't listen to the first thing I said?"
Shen Pandi said nothing, and glanced at Shen Qingyue stealthily: "I can't be a burden!"
Even her parents didn't let her go to school, but an older sister from the next room actually spent money to send her to school. If she were in the past, she would be so grateful.
But now, the better Shen Qingyue treats her, the more anxious she becomes. She wants to create value.
Shen Qingyue said: "You are not a burden. It would be great if you can learn some knowledge and arithmetic before helping me."
Shen Pandi was finally persuaded.
The next day, I followed Shen Qingyue to deliver lunch boxes and found Shen Xiu's teacher together.
The county junior high school is very remote. It has three grades in total, three classes in each grade, and only nine classes in total.
The source of students is not very good. Only some people from the suburbs of the county will send their children here. There are very few from rural areas, and even if they do, they will drop out halfway!
Shen Qingyue said to her homeroom teacher, Shen Xiu, "This is also my sister. She stopped studying after graduating from the fourth grade of elementary school. Her foundation is a little weak. Can she study here?"
When the head teacher heard this, he said, "Okay."
Shen Qingyue prepared a lot of words, but she didn't expect the other party to agree so easily.
Shen Qingyue was stunned. Is it so careless to accept students these days?
She followed the ideas of later generations, but at that time in 1985, the school had no students at all. As long as the children wanted to study, they could come to study!
The head teacher coughed dryly and felt that he had agreed too readily, and was looking for other ways to make up for it.
But Chen Pandi said, "Hello, teacher. Although I'm older and my foundation is weak, can I study with the eighth graders? I did well in elementary school. I will study very hard to make up for the lost time."
The head teacher said, "No. Learning is something that can't be digested if you bite off more than you can chew.
How can you catch up on the courses you’ve fallen behind in for so many years in just one year?
Let's put it this way. You can take the first grade classes. Summer vacation is in two months, so when you go back to school, you can start the second grade and catch up. Even if you don't get into high school, a junior high school diploma will be fine."
Shen Qingyue said: "Okay!"
Chen Pandi added: "Then I won't live on campus, I'll go to school as a day student."
Seeing that Chen Pandi agreed, the teacher took her directly to apply for admission. Seeing that there were only two months left, she didn't even ask for tuition. Instead, she found a set of old books from the previous class and told her to pay in the second year of junior high school!
It was done. Shen Pandi wanted to go with Shen Qingyue, but was stopped by the teacher and stuffed directly into the class that was in session!
Shen Qingyue gave her a box lunch and said, "Study hard."
Shen Pandi nodded heavily, as if she was carrying out some kind of mission. Just by looking at her eyes, you could tell that she was extremely serious.
As soon as Shen Qingyue left, the head teacher returned to the classroom and distributed lunch boxes to everyone.
The head teacher said, "This is great news. I just accepted a student."
Everyone's reaction was lukewarm.
This is a public school, and they all get the same salary regardless of the number of students.
I am almost done with my studies for the next year and I am joining a new class. My teacher is worried about my progress.
Seeing no one else react, the head teacher said, "Guess who it is? It's Miss Shen's younger sister, the one who delivered the lunch boxes. Her name is Shen Pandi. I've assigned her to the first and second grade classes. Our lunch boxes will be renewed for another two years."
Upon hearing this, the teachers around became happy again: "This is good."
"I'm worried about what to eat."
"I've gotten so used to eating her boxed lunches that I've become so picky that I can't eat anything else."
"You are a good student, so I commend you."
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Shen Qingyue went to the steel mill to prepare for the work. Unexpectedly, an old acquaintance came.
When Shen Qingyue heard someone was looking for her, she went out to take a look and found that it was Xiao Liu from the recycling station.
Xiao Liu said, "Miss Chen, do you still want some pig intestines? I asked someone to use their connections and searched for a long time, and finally found my old friend's place. They're also a recycling station, and they have several thousand kilograms of pig intestines. I've checked it out, and you can trust the quality. The price is the same as ours."
After he sold it, his buddy gave him 200 yuan as a commission, enough to buy a bicycle.
Xiao Liu had been searching for Shen Qingyue for a long time. It took him a lot of effort to find such a place.
Shen Qingyue said: "If it's good, I want it!"
Xiao Liu laughed when he heard this: "I won't introduce you to anything bad. I have high standards, and the ones I like must be good."
Shen Qingyue said: "Then let's transport 500 kilograms every day."
Xiao Liu said, "Okay, I'll have the goods shipped here and put them in the cold storage. Then you can pick them up anytime."
Speaking of cold storage, Shen Qingyue remembered something: "Xiao Liu, I know you are a capable person. I need freezers for cooking. Can you think of a way to help me get two?"
Freezers are currently produced and allocated to large factories, and are basically used for commercial purposes.
Small civilian refrigerators are not suitable and cannot hold much stuff.
If freezers don’t have purchase orders from large manufacturers, the freezer manufacturers won’t sell them to them even if they have money.
Xiao Liu said, "This..." He was also in a dilemma: "Our recycling station doesn't have any freezer quotas this year. The discarded freezers we had in the past were taken away by pig farms, chicken farms, and so on!"
A freezer is a big item, and if you want to get one, you must have a title like deputy station manager. Xiao Liu is just a small figure in the recycling station.
However, Xiao Liu really wanted to maintain a good relationship with Shen Qingyue, so he gritted his teeth and used his connections. He said, "Our recycling station has the largest and most advanced freezers in the country, 600 liters. A brand new one costs 1,500 yuan. We only bought it a little over a year ago, so even if you buy it, it won't be less than 1,000 yuan."
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