With a lifetime of technical skills as a foundation, the only thing I need to worry about now is music.
In this regard, she can only rely on the system to help narrow the gap between her and those elementary school students from prestigious schools who have learned musical instruments since childhood: because this system is designed to assist her in her cultural and entertainment career, it has its own practice space, which can be adjusted to eight times the speed for her to practice various skills, and is also equipped with holographic projection teaching according to the corresponding practice items.
In the following days, Su Yun lived a life that revolved around So Uk Estate, hospital, school and Ap Liou Street. Before going to bed, she would diligently go to the practice space to practice guitar at eight times the speed.
Fortunately, I am still young, have plenty of hair, and can still work hard...
As they got to know each other better, Zhou Xinheng and Li Jiefen also realized that Su Yun worked so hard to participate in the competition just for the scholarship.
"Work hard. As long as you do well in answering the Chinese questions and performing the music, the points will be enough to enter the semi-finals. If you enter the semi-finals, the school should award you a scholarship of one or two hundred yuan!" The only ways for children to save money are to do some small business or work hard for scholarships, except for taking an unconventional approach like Cui Tianguang and playing the role of a suona player. Therefore, Zhou Xinheng, who often participates in competitions, encouraged Su Yun very experiencedly.
"What about the finals? How much is the prize for the finals? How much is the prize for a single champion? Is there any special prize for the overall champion of all three events?" Su Yun's eyes lit up when she heard that the school would offer a scholarship if she performed well in the competition.
Su Yun's ignorant look stunned her two teammates: their school was originally a rubbish school, so the school board would give some rewards as encouragement to students who participated in the competition and won glory for the school. How could they dare to dream of winning a single championship or even the overall championship of all three events?
The Sham Shui Po district is already full of famous schools, including St. Francis' English Primary School, Ying Wah Primary School and Tsung Tsin Primary School and Kindergarten, which are known as the top three schools in Sham Shui Po. Moreover, Sham Shui Po is the poorest district in Hong Kong. Even if they are lucky enough to pass the semi-finals and represent Sham Shui Po in the finals, they will face famous primary schools from 18 districts.
Not to mention that every participating school from other districts is more famous and powerful than our own school, the most important thing is that St. Paul's Primary School in Central and Western District and Diocesan Girls' Primary School in Yau Tsim Mong District, as well as their respective one-stop secondary schools, St. Paul's Co-educational College and Diocesan Girls' School, are at the level of Tsinghua University and Peking University among primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong.
Even though Zhou Xinheng attached great importance to this competition in the beginning, he only hoped to perform well in the semi-finals to attract the attention of famous high schools so that he could have an easier time in the entrance examination. He never dared to think about beating the top three and representing Sham Shui Po District in the finals.
"You just work hard and take the competition calmly when the time comes. Don't be nervous." After a while, Zhou Xinheng managed to squeeze out a reply.
Seeing Zhou Xinheng return to the store with a speechless face, Li Jiefen could only pat Su Yun on the shoulder to comfort her: "You should work hard."
Being such a kind person, she couldn't directly say that Su Yun was too fanciful, so she could only vaguely praise Su Yun for having big dreams.
Seeing what the two were thinking, Su Yun smiled and said nothing more: No one will believe it if we talk about it now, so we might as well see the truth in the competition.
After seeing off Li Jiefen, Su Yun began to organize the things on the stall.
Schools are now about to start their summer vacation, and more than half of the old books that were collected previously have been sold. Because this business can make a little money, Su Yun bought a lot of old books from classmates' homes at low prices at the end of the semester and brought them here to sell. Together with some second-hand small items consigned by neighbors from various buildings in So Uk Estate, the stall is also filled with scattered books.
Most of the second-hand items in the neighborhood are just one or two from each other. Even if they know they can exchange some for some money, they don’t have the time to set up a stall in Ya Liao Street to sell these one or two small items, so they leave them with Su Yun, and when they are sold, Su Yun will get a 20% commission of the profit.
Everyone knew that her family was in trouble, so not only did they support her business, but they also secretly contributed more than a thousand yuan. Together with the money that the Wang couple borrowed from everywhere, they finally raised enough money for Grandma Su's first surgery.
The surgery is scheduled for early September, and tomorrow Grandma Su will be able to be discharged from the hospital and go home to recuperate. She only needs to go for a physical checkup every week. Therefore, Su Yun also asked a neighboring housewife to take a job of gluing plastic flowers for her. Although this will earn less than setting up a stall all day, it allows her to do it at home during the day, making it convenient for her to take care of Grandma Su.
In the evening, after the Wang couple and several brothers and sisters came home from get off work to take over, she could also take the two brothers Wang Jiaju and Wang Jiaxiang to Yaliao Street to set up a stall to sell things.
Su Yun had just sorted out the old books that the customer had asked for and had just taken the money when he heard a burst of slapping sounds coming from the shop in the back.
Su Yun and Wang Jia suddenly looked at each other, and after signaling Wang Jiaxiang to stay where he was and watch the things on the stall, they quickly walked into Zhou's store to check the situation.
As soon as I walked in, I saw a slightly plump man in a bright-colored floral shirt angrily slamming the counter, "What the hell is going on with you?! I just paid you to fix my radio the day before yesterday, but it stopped working at noon today. You made me lose my bet today, you pay me back immediately!"
"Mr. Chen, we talked about this the day before yesterday. Your radio is seriously broken. It can only be repaired for a while. I originally suggested that you just buy a new one - you see, I recently received a batch of radios in good condition..." Zhou's father explained with a smile.
"Why buy a new one? You can't repair the old one and you defrauded me of my money, so you want me to help you buy a new one?! Do you know how much money I lost because of this broken radio?!" the fat man roared, " I usually buy No. 7 to win alone, but I didn’t buy it today because it didn’t work on the radio. As a result, No. 7 was a big win and I won over 100,000 yuan!”
Su Yun now understood what the chubby man meant: this chubby man named Lao Chen seemed to often buy underdogs to make a lot of money, and today it happened that the underdog he had always bought happened to win when he didn't buy anything. He was very angry and had to find an excuse about the radio.
Wang Jiaju next to him laughed out loud: "What? The gambler's surname is Lai? What does it have to do with Uncle Zhou if you didn't buy anything?"
"Because his radio isn't repaired, that's why I didn't buy it today!" the chubby man glared.
"Oh, I just don't believe it. You horse racing gamblers would not buy horses just because your radio doesn't work? Maybe you forgot to buy one?" Most horse racing gamblers have a few friends who have radios. Wang Jiaju has seen many horse racing gamblers who, even if they don't have a radio, will borrow one from their friends to listen to the results together.
They are all horse racing gamblers, and there is no risk of losing any parts of the radio by listening nearby. As long as they ask to borrow it, even if the person with the radio is a stranger, most of them will generously let the person sit with them and listen to the radio because gamblers are all one family.
So there is a 99% chance that this person is here to cheat money.
"I clearly fixed this radio and had my father check it before I released it!" Zhou Xinheng looked at the radio with a sense of grievance and immediately found something wrong. "There's a scratch on the bottom. Did you drop it?"
Unexpectedly, the kid exposed the truth that he had deliberately placed the radio on its side. The chubby man was so angry that he said, "Where did it fall? What's the mark? This radio of mine is second-hand. It's not strange to have a few marks. It's all because you don't know how to fix it!"
"Also, Old Zhou, why did you ask your son to fix my radio? Why didn't you fix it?!"
"You were in a hurry, and I had other orders to take care of..." This old man Chen was a well-known rogue in the neighborhood. When you were in a hurry and refused to pay the expedited fee, he made a scene in the store. His wife quickly gave it to her youngest son to repair it and then asked him to check and confirm that it was all right before issuing the order. Who knew that this guy would hold on to this point, "Our Xinheng can also repair radios. He is 90% as capable as me, and I checked it later..."
"Pah!" The chubby man immediately felt that he had found a key point to ask for compensation. "If your eldest son who studied at Yinghua University came to fix it, it would be fine. But if you let your youngest son fix it, who knows what he can do? Didn't he break my radio?!"
As soon as these words were spoken, Su Yun and the other two immediately noticed that the faces of the three members of the Zhou family had stiffened a lot.
Everyone around here knows that the eldest son of the Zhou family is the pain in the Zhou family's heart, and generally they try not to mention this in front of them. But the chubby man started talking about everything as soon as he opened his mouth. He is really stupid and vicious.
"We are all preparing to participate in the technology project of the 18th District Knowledge Contest. Not to mention the second brother of the Zhou family, I can fix this thing!" Su Yun didn't say much to this guy. He took the tools that Zhou's father had placed on the counter and disassembled the radio. "Well, there is water in it... Combined with the fact that it rained yesterday afternoon, you were walking and listening to it and accidentally dropped the radio into the water puddle on the street, right?"
This old-fashioned radio was really too ancient. Su Yun handled it based on her experience, and moved slowly and carefully. Of course, in the eyes of others, she looked very confident.
Thanks to the experience of being forced by relatives to help repair computers, she has developed the acting skills to be able to maintain the appearance of a cool and arrogant boss even if she has no skills and has to rely on her hands to try her luck.
After dealing with the water ingress problem, Su Yun carefully spliced the wiring, and this small radio finally played some cheerful and lively music.
"Look, I, who's in the fourth grade, can fix it. The second elder brother of the Zhou family is two grades higher than me, so why can't he fix it?" Finally, she got her luck right. Su Yun put down the things in her hand and asked the chubby man in reproach.
Seeing Zhou's father take the radio and start the follow-up inspection at Su Yun's signal, the fat man, who was afraid that the Zhou family would ask him for repair money again, hurriedly left: "Hello, I'll come back to pick up the radio in two days. Remember to check and repair it carefully before it stops ringing for a few more days!”
"This guy really is..." Wang Jiaju glanced at the chubby man running away with disdain and couldn't help but complain.
"Forget it, forget it. It's solved. Thank you both." Mrs. Zhou waved her hands and took out some small biscuits from the cupboard for Su Yun and the others.
"You're welcome. I'll help those who are in trouble when I see them!" Martial arts movies are all the rage these days, and Wang Jiaju also learned a lot of martial arts from watching TV and movies.
Su Yun took the biscuit and thanked him, then her eyes fell on the pile of second-hand electrical appliances in the corner that Zhou's father had just collected.
"This..." looks like a keyboard, but also like a multi-functional scientific calculator?
"Oh, didn't Intel release a new chip last year? They said it could be used to build a computer, so many enthusiasts spent a lot of money to buy it. But what they received was not a computer, but a pile of parts. After they failed to assemble the computer, they placed it at home..." Father Zhou took a look at the pile of things and explained their origins. "Maybe my parents disagreed with it, so they sold it to me cheaply as spare parts."
My goodness, I am already starting to feel angry and empathetic!
How many children’s treasured collections have been sold or thrown away by their parents as if they were worthless trash!
But...even so, she got a great bargain.
Suppressing the complicated emotions in her heart, Su Yun looked over eagerly: "Uncle Zhou, can you give them to me? I want to try to assemble them!"
"Are you crazy? So many people can't assemble it, and you?!" Zhou Xinheng shouted in surprise.
"How do you know it won't work if you don't try?" Wang Jiaju had no knowledge in this area, but seeing that Su Yun was very excited, he decisively stood on Su Yun's side and spoke for her.
"You have no idea how difficult this is!" Zhou Xinheng was almost angry: he had just started to feel a little bit fond of Wang Jiaju's help, but in the blink of an eye, he succeeded in destroying his nascent favorability by being so messy.
Su Yun looked at him and shook her head. "I know it's hard, so I want to do it. If we can assemble a computer in the competition, who will be the champion of the science and technology project?"