Chapter 58 Arriving at Anton (edit name) Spring enrollment is here,...
Chapter 57 Arrival at Anton
The train was still the same train, and the conductor and the staff were the same ones I met last time.
The Yan family arrived in Yancheng safely.
Yan Jiuru found a taxi and said to Chen Yin, "You guys go home first. We'll wait to pick up your luggage."
Chen Yin held Nao Nao in her arms and looked at the yellow and white taxi. It could squeeze in enough people. "Okay, let's go back and burn the house down first. If one car can't fit everything, we can hire another one to prevent the things from being crushed.
"Okay, got it. Hurry up and get in the car. Look after the freezing child."
Watching the women get into the taxi and leave, Yan Jiuru took the checked baggage receipt and took the men to pick up their luggage.
This time they checked in all the things that were inconvenient to mail with the car, and only took valuables with them on the car.
The larger items included bicycles, sewing machines, boxes containing iron pots and grains, as well as some farm implements and tools, large bags of grain, rice bran, and other cereals. Anything that couldn't be sent by mail was checked in, otherwise there wouldn't be the need for so many people and vehicles to transport them.
However, Yan Jiuru lent his diesel water pump to the brigade on the condition that it be converted into a certain amount of new grain every year.
***
When Yan Jiuru and his companions arrived at Kuihua Street in a hired cart, Chen Yin and her friends had already tidied up the house and lit the floor heating and kang.
As she was unloading the car, Chen Yin came over with a few mailing slips. "We just got home. The street people delivered them. The stuff we mailed before the New Year arrived early. They told us to pick it up quickly."
"Okay, let's bring them back together on the cart." Yan Jiuru counted the list and put it in his arms.
Chen Yin reminded him, "Wait a minute, go get it with your work permit. We haven't finished processing our household registration yet."
Yan Jiuru smiled: "I understand, housekeeper."
Chen Yin gave him a nudge and said, "Hurry up and come back soon. It will be even colder later. Finish your work sooner and go back inside to warm up."
***
There is a post office on Kuihua Street. They went there and brought all the goods back in less than half an hour, two large trucks!
This attracted everyone on the street to come out to watch the fun.
Some who were not bothered by the cold gathered together to chirp: "I heard about this family coming from the countryside before the New Year, and it seems they are the real ones."
"Look at the big cotton-padded jacket and cotton-padded pants he's wearing, he looks like a country bumpkin."
"Country people aren't bad either. Those sacks look like food to me."
"Oh my god, food is sold in sacks?"
"People cultivate their own land and settle accounts at the end of the year, but they don't care about the sacks."
"This, this is something we can't compare to."
Grandma Yan and Aunt Yan pretended not to hear anything, but people were gossiping about this everywhere.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law brought a basket of freshly steamed rice cakes and gave two hot rice cakes to each family as a greeting to their neighbors.
***
After seeing off the cart driver, Yan Jiuru and a few other men moved all the things into the wing room first, and everyone hurried into the house to relax.
“A-choo——”
The sudden change from cold to hot caused several people to sneeze loudly.
"Here, everyone, have a bowl of ginger soup."
Aunt Yan brought out a large basin emitting hot steam and a strong smell of ginger and spiciness from the kitchen behind the main hall, and Ruyue followed behind with a few porcelain bowls.
This was the Xue family's original porcelain bowl, a beautiful light green one with a red carp and lotus pattern. They were afraid that if they used it, someone would find out and cause trouble, so they packed it up along with the furniture and sold it to them.
Yan Jiuru looked at the old items left in the house, paid for a small yellow croaker separately, and attached a buyout notice.
This will prevent you from bringing up old issues and causing trouble when times get better in the future.
He didn't know whether such things existed now, but Lord Demon had seen a lot of them in the original interface. Some pitfalls were not pitfalls at the time, but they might become pitfalls as time went by.
There is no need to gamble on your luck, and you can save yourself the trouble if you can avoid it.
Yan Jiuru drank ginger tea and said to Chen Yin, "Put these things away someday."
Chen Yin had also received scientific education from him and knew that these things were hundreds of years old and were like cultural relics.
"Well, put it in the warehouse after you clean it up."
Yan's father listened and asked, "What are you putting away?"
Yan Jiuru then said it.
The old man who was holding a beautiful bowl and drinking ginger soup suddenly had a trembling hand and almost slipped.
Grandpa Yan was reluctant to use it himself, for fear that a small yellow croaker would be gone with a crisp sound.
After working for half a day and an entire night, the family finally managed to tidy up the house.
***
Now the Chinese New Year only lasts until the second day of the Lunar New Year, when all units are already back to work.
After dinner that day, staff from Kuihua Street and the affiliated police station came to the door.
They have been notified that they must "take good care" of the newly moved family and give them the best possible treatment.
In the wave of others going to the countryside, their family moved to the city, but it was said that they made great contributions to the country. Moreover, the young man in charge's file was top secret, and the street and police station attached great importance to it.
A dashing middle-aged woman introduced herself: "My name is Wang Hongxia, and I'm the director of our neighborhood committee. These are Xiao Zhao and Xiao Su from the neighborhood committee, and this is Director Jin and Comrade Chu from our local police station."
Father and Aunt Yan hurriedly invited the guests to sit inside, and Chen Yin poured a few bowls of brown sugar ginger water.
"The room is still a bit messy, drink some water to warm yourself up first."
The middle-aged female comrade in the lead smiled brightly, "Oh, this is ginger syrup, please help me."
Aunt Yan smiled a little reluctantly, "They are all grown at home. I've been out a lot these past few days, and I'm afraid I'll catch a cold, so I cooked more."
After taking a few sips of scalding ginger tea, the female comrade said, "I received a notice from above a while ago. I know you guys have been busy these past few days and haven't been here. How are you settling in? If you need any help from our neighborhood, please let me know."
Aunt Yan looked at her son and said, "My eldest son and his wife are very capable. They have been busy for two days."
"This is Comrade Yan Jiuru and Chen Yin, right?"
"Yes, Director Wang, we are planning to take some time to go to the street office. We're sorry to bother you with the migration materials." Yan Jiuru and Chen Yin took out their work IDs, as well as the family's household registration and food relationship migration materials.
"No trouble, no trouble. This is our job, it's our duty." Director Wang flipped through the documents and found nothing wrong. However, Comrade Chu, who was in charge of household registration at the police station, said, "Zhuangzhuang is a nickname, right? You have to use your full name when registering."
Yan Jiuru slapped his head and said, "Oh, I just picked one, called 'Yan Heming', the crane as in crane, and the startling cry."
This came to me on the train.
The whole family thinks it’s good.
Director Jin looked at Yan Jiuru's work ID. He knew more or less what this research institute was about. He extended his hand to Yan Jiuru and said, "Maybe we'll have a chance to cooperate in the future. Please take care of me."
Yan Jiuru also extended his hand and shook it. "Don't dare, don't dare, if we have to trouble the police station, there might be more."
Director Wang: “…” What’s going on?
Fortunately, Director Wang was quite experienced. She looked at the younger ones and asked kindly, "Are these still in school? What grade are they in?"
Aunt Yan pulled the two youngest children over and said, "The second child is in the eighth grade now. These two are in the fourth and second grades respectively."
"Oh, that's quite early to start studying. Have you found a school yet?"
"They say school starts on the first of next month, but I haven't found one yet."
Director Wang nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "It's a bit too late for you to look for it after school starts."
Father Yan, Aunt Yan, and the others all looked at Director Wang: "What do you mean? Who can we turn to if school isn't starting?"
Director Wang smiled and said, "Here in Yancheng, transfer students have to take an exam. Don't worry, you will definitely be accepted. The exam will be based on your grades and you will be placed in classes. Besides, good schools are very selective and won't accept students if their grades are not good enough."
The elders and children of the Yan family looked at each other in bewilderment: This... I wonder if what the children learn in their hometown is much different from what they learn in Yancheng?
Chen Yin thought for a moment and said, "Director, do you know where we can find similar exam papers? We can do them in advance and catch up on the shortcomings while we still have time."
Yan Jiuru also asked: "When is the exam? Do you have any idea which schools will accept us?"
"I'm not busy, just listen to me..."
After seeing off the street and police officers, the Yan family remained silent for a moment: "Big cities are truly different." While school was supposed to start on March 1st, the school's logistics and academic affairs offices were already back at work.
You can transfer schools now, and you can take the exam at any time. If you wait until school starts, you will have to join a new class.
There is spring enrollment here. Those who take the exam first will be admitted together with the new students. If you want to join the class, it depends on the situation.
Another good news is that Yancheng primary schools have abolished the practice of repeating a grade, and some schools only have half-day classes, which is called the "two-part system", which means that students do not have to take "physical education, music, art" and so on.
But it was obvious that the Yan family's children had never been to school in the countryside, and they were quite envious of those who could learn these things.
Father Yan looked at his son and daughter-in-law and said, "I think city people are a bit snobbish. You two should take them three to find a school later. We old farmers don't know what to study, whether it's the second or the whole program. You two should discuss and find a school so that we don't delay things."
"Okay." Yan Jiuru said without hesitation.
***
I ran for most of the day on the sixth day and for the whole morning on the seventh day.
"There are so many large compounds in our area, and many units have their own schools that we can't enter. Currently, Rushan can only choose the nearby No. 15 Middle School and Yingcai Middle School, while Rusong and Ruyue can apply to Zhengyang Experimental Primary School and No. 10 Primary School."
"Here are the midterm and final exams from last year, along with the answers. Do them on your own. If you're lacking in any areas, hurry up and buy some books and resources to cram. Take the exams on the 22nd and 23rd of this month. If you don't pass and have to repeat a grade, you can't blame anyone else."
This was said to scare the younger ones.
They have also noticed it after visiting the school these two days. Now the schools focus on learning industry and agriculture, and it is considered good if they can learn Chinese and arithmetic well. They do not force students to have good grades. Of course, some good schools still focus on grades.
One school even asked children if they could speak Mandarin, fearing that they would have language barriers after entering school.
***
After finishing the important matter of sending the little ones to school, the family hurried to the market to buy things.
Walk two alleys away from Kuihua Street and turn a corner to reach Dongfeng Market.
This is the largest grocery market in Yancheng. It has more things than the department store. It has everything that the department store has, and it also has things that the department store doesn’t have.
Moreover, it is a planned economy now, and the same thing has the same price no matter where you buy it.
There is no such thing as more expensive in department stores and cheaper in the market.
But because of the variety of things, this place is always bustling and lively.
The Yan family couldn't help but sigh: "There are so many of these!"
***
Yan Jiuru was making a fuss with great energy, Yan's father was looking at Rushong, and Yan's mother was holding Ruyue tightly.
The two children were repeatedly warned not to run around, lest they be abducted by human traffickers and taken to the mountains.
After hearing the police warnings many times on the train radio, the two little ones were also very scared. They held the adults' hands tightly and didn't want to go to the mountains to be someone's stupid son or child bride.
They had a lot of tickets that Yan Jiuru had "picked up", so they bought all the big things they needed while moving without making any big purchases.
If this bag were to be sold in the village, it would be conspicuous and Grandpa Yan and his family would definitely not agree. But after seeing the spectacular sight of the million bicycles in Yan City, it was no big deal for their family of ten to add a few big items.
***
Yan Jiuru and Chen Yin each bought a bicycle to ride to work, and they also bought one for Rushan to ride to school. The original bicycle at home was enough for everyone to use for the time being.
This time, Grandpa Yan chose a three-wheeled cart: "We'll need it for buying groceries and transporting firewood in the future. It's more convenient and can carry more things than a bicycle."
"purchase!"
All the men in the family ran to pick up the three-wheeled carts, and Nao Nao followed his father to watch the fun without looking for his mother.
Chen Yin was happy to go for a stroll with her two mothers-in-law and sister-in-law.
***
The women picked out a new schoolbag and new stationery for Ruyue and Rushong at the stationery store. Rushan asked him to buy them himself. After all, the boy was grown up and knew what he needed for his studies.
Grandma picked out several stacks of bowls, plates, pickle jars, cans, casseroles, ceramic pots and other household items, which were easy to break on the road, so she didn't bring them with her.
Chen Yin brought enough cloth coupons, so Yan Niang bought some cloth and made new clothes for the family.
They did make new clothes at the end of last autumn, but they only had one set and didn't even have a change of clothes. After all, Yancheng is not as good as the countryside.
Then a lot of daily necessities such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, sugar, tea, onions, ginger, garlic, cigarettes and alcohol were added.
After a round of shopping, Yan's father took Rushan on the newly bought cart and made two trips to transport the goods before they were done.
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