Chapter 101 Chapter 101 Internet Addicted Youth
A small square image first appeared in the middle of the screen, then it jumped a few times, flickered, and slowly returned to normal.
However, color TVs do not have built-in antennas like the black-and-white TVs of the past. They need to be connected to a closed-circuit line or a "big pot" to receive TV signals.
Now the picture displayed on the TV screen is full of snow.
But this did not stop all the onlookers from exclaiming "Wow" in unison.
“This can save hundreds of dollars!”
Zhao Ruyue's sister-in-law said, "It's not several hundred dollars, we have to save a few thousand dollars, these two look like 24-inch color TVs!"
Some time ago, she went to the county town to see how much the price of televisions had dropped, and she knew the prices of 21-inch to 24-inch color TVs by heart.
Because she only dares to watch TV of this size, a 21-inch TV costs at least 800 yuan, and a 24-inch TV costs at least 1,500 yuan.
A larger color TV would cost over three thousand yuan.
Zhao Ruyue looked at the two children and asked, "What are you going to do with these two TVs?"
They had already thought about this: "We'll put one in the store for us to watch, and Mom can do whatever she wants with the other one."
It’s enough for them to have something to watch. They have their own TV at home, so they don’t have to go to other people’s homes to watch it all the time.
In fact, my mother had said this time that when she bought a TV for my grandmother’s family, they also had to buy one for their own family.
If they hadn't come across these two TVs this time, they would have had TV to watch soon.
The other Zhao Ruyue didn't hesitate: "Then I'll give this one to grandpa and grandma?"
"Okay." The two children nodded.
My grandparents and uncle and aunt are embarrassed to come to the store often, as they feel that their father would prepare delicious food for them every time they come, which is taking advantage of their family too much, and they are also afraid that their grandparents will have opinions.
But my cousins would come whenever they were free, and would run over when it was almost time for dinner. No matter if it was my grandmother who came occasionally or my cousins who came regularly, they would always help with the work every time they came to the store.
Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia saw all these things and kept them in mind. Both children felt that it was appropriate to give this TV to their grandmother's family.
Since they don't want money and are embarrassed to stay for a meal, it would be ok to give them something that doesn't cost much, right?
Zhao Ruyue's brother and sister-in-law waved their hands hastily: "No, no, this is too expensive. If you fix it and sell it, you can get several hundred dollars."
Zhao Ruyue said, "How can you calculate it like that? I didn't spend much money to buy this TV. If you feel bad about it, just give the hundred yuan to Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia. I didn't spend much time and energy repairing it, so you don't need it."
Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia also nodded to show their agreement with their mother.
They wanted to say something else, but Zhao Ruyue frowned, "Don't say sorry to me. You are my brother and sister-in-law. Do you have to get angry if I say I won't accept you? Don't be polite and try to shun the offer with me, you are my family."
These words directly blocked all the words they hadn't said.
Zhao Ruyue's brother and sister-in-law had no choice but to look to Ning Shaoming.
Neither he nor Zhao Ruyue's parents had a TV at home, so the TV was given to his father-in-law and mother-in-law. They were also worried that Ning Shaoming would have an opinion, and if the couple quarreled, it would be bad if their relationship was affected by a TV.
Ning Shaoming was a little confused by the look on his face: "Why are you all looking at me? I didn't buy this TV, nor did I fix it. I have no right to express my opinion. Just do what Xiaoyue says. I have to listen to her at home too."
Ning Shaoming had understood long ago that the people on his side were not as united as his wife's family.
People on his side, instead of coming to the store to help, would be good enough if they don't cause trouble for him or ask him for help.
Isn't he taking care of the two children of his eldest brother now?
As for Zhao Ruyue's family, they never caused them any trouble.
Take the eldest sister-in-law who has the worst relationship with Zhao Ruyue, for example. Although they had some unpleasantness before, Zhao Ruyue's two daughters came to the store to help whenever they were free, and her eldest sister never said anything.
Sometimes I would ask the children to bring some fresh vegetables grown at home when they come.
Moreover, country children become sensible early. Even though one of the two girls is less than fifteen years old and the other just turned thirteen, they are just as efficient as Ning Danping in working.
Originally, he and his wife wanted to give wages to the children from her mother's family, but those children said they didn't want anything. Their parents wouldn't let them take any money, and wouldn't let them stay for meals.
So Ning Shaoming could only make more delicious snacks to feed the babies.
As soon as Ning Shaoming finished speaking, Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia nodded again: "We will listen to mom too."
Zhao Ruyue put her hands on their heads and ruffled their hair: "You two clever guys, you're good enough for not making me listen to you all the time! Next time you encounter something like this, don't act on your own!"
She can ignore many of their affairs and let them develop and grow freely, but when it comes to her affairs, she can always take care of it, right?
The two children smiled embarrassedly and promised her that they would not do that again in the future. If they wanted their mother’s help with anything, they would discuss it with her in advance.
Zhao Ruyue knew from their expressions that they had listened to her. Unlike some children, they would not necessarily take something to heart even if they were taught or reminded over and over again. The same went for the promises they made, which they would forget as soon as they made them.
I couldn't help but feel emotional that my two children really came to repay my gratitude.
Zhao Ruyue didn't discuss it with her brother and sister-in-law, and said directly to them, "The flatbed truck that Shaoming usually uses to load things to the night market should be able to carry the TV. You can use that truck to take this one away."
After Zhao Ruyue installed the back shell, Ning Shaoming turned around tacitly and helped them pull out the flatbed truck.
After wiping the dust off the board, he moved the TV into the car without saying anything.
"Okay, you guys drag it back. I'll bring the flatbed back later before I go set up the stall. Tomorrow we'll find time to go to the business hall together to find someone to install a closed-circuit line. I saw it when I asked someone to install a telephone for my home. The closed-circuit fee is 26 yuan a month. If you pay for a year directly, there's a discount, only 226 yuan."
Zhao Hongfa and Chen Fangni looked at their children who were following them with expectant looks on their faces, and they could no longer say no.
After thanking his sister and brother-in-law, Zhao Hongfa gave Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia one hundred yuan each before he, surrounded by his own children, pulled the flatbed cart home.
Before they left, Zhao Ruyue pulled her sister-in-law's arm and whispered, "Sister-in-law, wait a minute. I have something to discuss with you."
Chen Fangni stopped and asked, "What's the matter?"
Zhao Ruyue asked: "Now that we have saved the money for the TV, do you want to buy another DVD player?"
Before her two clever kids got these two TVs, Zhao Ruyue thought this way: when she goes to the city to buy a TV, she can also buy a DVD player as a gift for her parents' home.
After all, her children from her mother's side always come to help without asking for money, so she can't just take it for granted and pretend she knows nothing.
The price of DVD players has dropped a lot now, and the cheapest ones can be bought for just over a hundred yuan. She gave her mother's family a DVD player worth two or three hundred yuan and a few movie discs that her children still watch, as a way of thanking them.
But now that she has given her a TV, her plan cannot keep up with the changes. If she gives her a DVD player as a gift, her brother and sister-in-law will definitely not want to accept it.
Now that her parents' money has been saved to buy a TV, she can persuade them to buy a DVD player. Zhao Ruyue also plans to buy one for her own family, so she can buy a few more discs for them to watch.
DVD players are still very attractive to people today. In addition to DVD players, stereos are also particularly attractive to people today.
As for the reason, Zhao Ruyue herself was not quite sure.
She only knew that, except for the Qingming Festival and the Ghost Festival, during every New Year or other festival, if a family had a DVD player and a pair of speakers, they would definitely play music from morning until night.
Every time this happens, that family will receive countless envious glances from neighbors and passers-by.
After hearing what Zhao Ruyue said, Chen Fangni was also deeply moved.
They made a lot of money from selling grapes a while ago, so they have a lot more money than before, and buying a DVD player is much cheaper than buying a TV.
When Chen Fangni thought about having a TV and a DVD player at home in the future, her heart was filled with excitement. She felt that she had more hope for the future. "I'll go back and discuss it with your eldest brother. If we decide to buy them, I'll give you the money tomorrow."
"Okay." Zhao Ruyue watched her walk away, then turned around and went back to tinker with her own TV.
She returned home and asked Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia: "Do you plan to put the TV in the store or in the back house?"
Ning Shixia said, "Put it in the store to attract more people to the store at home. I see that's what the convenience store does."
Ning Shiqiu shook his head: "I think it's best not to put it in the store."
"Why?" Zhao Ruyue had the same idea as her daughter. She thought her son would be able to see the benefits of putting a TV in the store.
Ning Shiqiu explained: "Look at that store that attracts people with its TV, although it attracts a lot of children, there are also a bunch of grandmothers sitting there all day long.
Some of my classmates told me that they no longer dared to go into that store to buy things. ”
Zhao Ruyue understood a little: "They gossiped about your classmates?"
"Yes," Ning Shixia said with an expression that was hard to describe, "Those grandmas and aunties always like to point fingers at them. One moment they say this little girl is plump and has a big butt, so she will be easy to give birth to in the future, and the next moment they say this one is too thin and looks sickly, so it will be hard for her to get married in the future.
My classmate felt uncomfortable after hearing this and had an argument with them, but she didn't win and even cried out of anger. Instead, they accused her of having a bad temper and told her that she would be despised by her in-laws and scolded by her husband and mother-in-law in the future. Now, unless they really need something, my classmate would rather go to a farther place to buy it. ”
Ning Shiqiu paused, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated, and felt that it would be inappropriate to say what he was going to say next.
Zhao Ruyue noticed it: "Just say whatever you want to say. It's okay if it's not right."
As a result, what the child said was not wrong, it was just more realistic.
“I also think that the things we sell are not suitable for customers to stay in the store for a long time, otherwise there will not be enough tables and chairs in the store, and customers may turn around and go to other restaurants to eat if there are no seats in the store.
Mom, think about it, the guests usually finish eating and leave quickly, but since there is TV, they will watch it while eating, so they eat very slowly. After they finish eating, they may still want to watch TV, so they keep taking up their seats. Many of them are regular customers of our house, so how can you have the nerve to chase them away? ”
Although Zhao Ruyue was mentally prepared, she was still surprised by her son's business thinking.
Ning Shiqiu continued, "If you ask someone to leave, even if your tone is polite, they may not feel good about it. People who used to love coming to our house to eat may not come again in the future, which is not worth it."
Ning Shixia also understood: "Then I also think it's better to put it in the main hall. It's a pity that Mom, Dad, Brother Xiaochun and Sister Danping won't be able to watch TV when they are free in the future."
Because even when there are fewer people, there will still be customers coming sporadically. Some customers cannot be seen in the store, so it is embarrassing to call them. They have to wait in the store. We cannot just ignore them just because there are fewer customers during a certain period of time.
Even a fly leg is meat, not to mention the number of customers who come into the store during periods of low customer traffic, when added up, is not a small number.
Zhao Ruyue thought for a moment and said, "This is easy. I'll make a movable shelf and push it out during the time when there are fewer guests. At other times, I'll put it in the main room at the back. There's no need to buy a TV cabinet."
Ning Shiqiu's eyes lit up: "This is a good idea, Mom! This way we can avoid the problem of guests occupying seats when there are many people, and we can also attract more guests when there are fewer people. I just wonder if this will affect Dad and Xiaochun's rest?"
Ning Shaoming said: "No, during the time when there are fewer people, even if there is TV to attract people, it will not be more than the time when there are more people. One cook can handle it completely."
"That's settled then. I'll go to the county town this afternoon to buy wheels, angle steels, angle fixings and screws. Those things are very cheap."
In fact, she also knew how to assemble a "big dish" to receive satellite TV signals, but she thought it would be too troublesome to buy the materials, and the closed-circuit fees wouldn't cost much a month, so she gave up.
Zhao Ruyue took out a tape measure, paper and pen, and measured the length, width and height of the TV. Then the family gathered around the TV in the main room to discuss what kind of shelf to make.
Suddenly, I heard Ning Shichun shouting outside: "Xiao Qiu, your classmates want you to go to school."
Zhao Ruyue asked in confusion, "Isn't it vacation time? Why do we have to go to school after we have received our certificates?"
Ning Shiqiu stood up and ran out, and soon came back in pushing his bicycle: "Mom, the English lessons ordered by the school have arrived, and the teacher asked me to go and help deliver them to the students who ordered them."
"English learning newspaper?" Zhao Ruyue thought about it carefully and finally remembered that before the summer vacation this year, the school asked students to bring a notice back to their parents.
The content of the notice is roughly: Students in grade three and above can voluntarily order English learning newspapers and take them home to read during the summer vacation.
Because this is the first time the school has subscribed to this newspaper, the August and previous months will be distributed together, and the months after August will be distributed on time every month.
They say that they uphold the principle of voluntariness and do not force students to subscribe, but teachers also tell students verbally in class that this English learning newspaper is this year's winter vacation homework and that they must hand in a few English book reviews when they return to school.
Zhao Ruyue saw that it didn't cost much to subscribe to the English newspaper, and her children also wanted to read it. If she bought one for her family, both children could read it, which was equivalent to a 50% discount, so she subscribed for the children.
Zhao Ruyue quickly stood up and chased after her son with his cap: "It's so hot, don't forget to wear your cap."
When she went out, she saw Ning Shiqiu was already wearing a small bamboo hat. When he saw her coming out, he said, "No need, that's useless. I'll be cooler wearing a bamboo hat."
"Are you not afraid of your classmates laughing at you?"
"What are you afraid of? When they are sunburned and sweaty, they won't even have time to envy me." After he said that, he pedaled hard and rode away quickly.
Zhao Ruyu kept shouting behind him: "Slow down, be careful!"
Ning Shiqiu's voice came from afar: "I know——"
After they had agreed on the style of the shelf, Ning Shixia was so sleepy that she took a nap and woke up. Only then did Ning Shiqiu come back with a thick stack of English learning newspapers.
Seeing that she was the only one in the room, he asked, "Where are mom and dad?"
Ning Shixia replied in a low voice: "Still sleeping."
"Then I'll sort out the newspapers first."
Ning Shixia immediately dropped the book in his hand and ran over: "I'll help you, what do you want to do?"
"Unfold the newspapers one by one. There are three pages in one issue. Stack them neatly according to the numbers on the upper right corner of the newspapers. This side is the front side, and this side is the back side. The front side faces up. First, H24, H23, H22... Then G24, G23, G22... Arrange them like this. When you are done, the first page of the first issue, A1, will be on the top."
"Okay, I understand."
When Zhao Ruyue was halfway through arranging the newspapers, she woke up, walked out and saw the newspapers placed in front of the two children.
The pile of newspapers looked thick. If she only looked at the number, Zhao Ruyue felt that the money was well spent. "Eight months of newspapers, that's all?"
"Mom, you're awake. This newspaper comes out twice a week, and each issue has three pages. It's a lot to have eight months' worth of newspapers published at a time," Ning Shiqiu asked happily when she saw she was awake. "After Xiaoxia and I finish organizing the newspapers, can you help me staple them together with needle and thread, like books? This way, it will be more convenient to hold them neatly and won't be easily lost."
"Okay, I'll go find some suitable needle and thread." Zhao Ruyue is pretty good at sewing. People of her generation were relatively short of supplies when they were young.
If you don’t have extra cloth to make a quilt cover at home, you have to take out the quilt cover twice a year, wash it, and then sew the quilt core back into the quilt cover and secure it.
The thread used to sew and fix the quilt cover and quilt core is thicker and is more suitable for binding book papers.
After she found them, she saw that the two children had not finished tidying up yet, so she picked up a few sheets and helped to organize them.
Ning Shiqiu thought she knew the order in which the documents should be sorted, so he didn't say much. However, Zhao Ruyue thought they should be sorted by date, so she searched carefully for a long time before finding the date.
As soon as she saw the date, Zhao Ruyue couldn't help but frown and said, "Sunday, June 1, 2003. Xiaoqiu, did your teacher give you the wrong newspaper? Why is it a newspaper from 2003?"
She looked at the small corner where the date was. The location was so tricky and the font was so small that if she didn't look carefully, she really wouldn't be able to find it.
Ning Shiqiu picked up the first newspaper marked A1, and the date on it was indeed January 5, 2003. He then looked at the last one, which was August 31, 2003. He also randomly checked a few newspapers in between, and the dates on them were all 2003.
Ning Shiqiu was stunned. It turned out to be last year's newspaper. And there was talk of ordering... Which newspaper had such an ordering method?
Coming back to his senses, he put down the newspaper in his hand and put on his small bamboo hat again: "I'll go see if other people's newspapers are like this."
He and several classmates delivered newspapers separately, and he remembered who he delivered the newspapers to.
When I asked them after I found them, they said they didn’t notice the date either: “I thought there was no date, and they were just arranged in order according to the combination of letters and numbers.”
Several classmates said so. Ning Shiqiu originally thought that the school had given the wrong amount, but now he felt that it was not a mistake at all, but was done on purpose.
The combination of letters and numbers may be a trick to make them look at the number instead of the date when sorting, so that it is difficult to find out that this is an expired newspaper.
If his mother hadn't been careful, even he wouldn't have noticed the date printed in super small font in an inconspicuous corner.
I guess there are not many parents like his mother who would help with tidying up.
Many parents do not care about their children's studies. They even feel dizzy after reading a newspaper that contains only a few Chinese characters and a bunch of bird calls. Their eyelids seem to have a heavy weight hanging on them and they fall asleep in a few minutes.
"Xiao Qiu, what should we do now? Should we go to the teacher together to report this?" Ning Shiqiu's classmate asked.
Ning Shiqiu's first reaction was to call his classmates and go to the teacher to ask what was going on. There is strength in numbers, and if the situation gets out of hand, the teacher will have to give an explanation.
But after calming down and thinking carefully, he felt that this method was not a good one.
What’s the point of them going to see the teacher together? The teacher has no right to decide on the matter of ordering English learning newspapers. This is a decision made by the school leaders.
The teacher is only responsible for sending the notice to each student.
"No need, I'll go ask the teacher myself."
"Then we'll wait for your news at my house!"
Ning Shiqiu waved and rode his bicycle to the teachers' dormitory
His homeroom teacher Ji Huixuan saw him coming again and asked in confusion, "Is someone's newspaper missing? I only have one copy that I ordered. If there are several copies of the same issue missing, I have to ask other teachers."
Ning Shiqiu asked in surprise: "Teacher, do you want to order it too?"
"Yes, the school requires every teacher to order one." Ji Huixuan herself was helpless.
The annual subscription fee for this newspaper is not cheap. Coupled with the fact that their salaries are not paid on time, subscribing to this newspaper simply adds insult to injury to many teachers’ already tight wallets.
The situation was better for her because she could earn some extra money by taking photos for people, and her whole family would not be hungry if she fed themselves.
Teachers who have families have to buy one copy for their own children in addition to their own. The only thing they are asking is for teachers to buy one copy for their spouses and parents as well.
After hearing what the teacher said, Ning Shiqiu felt that it was true and it was right not to let other students come to see the teacher together.
Ning Shiqiu handed over a few newspapers he had brought with him: "Teacher, please take a look at the dates on those newspapers."
"Date?" Ji Huixuan took it and searched for a long time, and finally found it with the help of Ning Shiqiu.
Then she too was so surprised that she was speechless.
"Teacher, in this case, I wonder if the newspaper can be returned or exchanged?"
Ji Huixuan sighed and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go ask the leader."
The school leader in charge of newspaper matters also lived in a house allocated by the school, which was easily accessible from her dormitory.
However, Ji Huixuan did not bring the newspaper that Ning Shiqiu brought, but brought her own newspaper.
On the way there, Ji Huixuan met her deputy head teacher, who was an experienced teacher who had taught in the town’s central primary school for many years.
Seeing her walking towards the school leader's house with a pile of newspapers, he stopped her and said, "Xiao Ji, are you still going to talk to the leader about this?"
Ji Huixuan was surprised and asked: "Teacher Chen, you also discovered it?"
"If your family doesn't have powerful connections, I advise you not to go, otherwise it will be useless."
In other words, the young new teachers are still passionate and will take care of these things, but the old teachers have already seen through it.
If she didn't get along well with Ji Huixuan, and if this girl wasn't hardworking and saved her a lot of trouble, she wouldn't have said these words.
"How can I explain this to my students? They are still waiting for my reply..."
Teacher Chen said: "You don't need to tell the students, just go to the parents and give them a hint. The parents will understand. For the sake of their children, they will most likely not make things difficult for you."
Teacher Chen had said all she wanted to say. If Ji Huixuan insisted on going to see the leader, she would not care.
Ji Huixuan stood there and thought for a long time, and finally turned around and went back to the dormitory.
Facing Ning Shiqiu's questioning eyes, she couldn't even smile: "The leader is not here, so things can't be resolved so quickly for the time being. You go back first. If there is any news, I will inform you."
Ning Shiqiu nodded hesitantly and left with his newspapers.
"Xiao Qiu, what happened?" After returning to his classmate's house, several classmates who were waiting there couldn't wait to ask him.
Ning Shiqiu could only relay the teacher's words to them.
One classmate couldn't help but wail: "Ah~~~ I thought if I could return this newspaper, I could have one less summer homework to write!"
"Xiao Qiu, are you really not going to take over the ghostwriting?"
Ning Shiqiu shook his head firmly. He used to charge people for doing their homework because his parents were not around and his grandmother gave him too little pocket money, and even less for his sister. Of course, his pocket money was not enough to spend together with his sister, so he helped people do their homework to earn some money.
Now he is no longer short of money, and he feels that the way of earning pocket money by ghostwriting homework is an inefficient, time-consuming, and physically demanding way of making money.
He only has these two hands, and his hands are sore every time he writes, but he only earns a little money, which is not cost-effective.
At the end of the week, he earned less than the dividends that Sister Danping used to give him when she lent him her bicycle to carry people every week.
Although Sister Danping is no longer working there, Ning Shiqiu has already thought of other ways to make money.
After returning home, Ning Shiqiu told his mother what the teacher said, and he also described the teacher's expression when he went out with the newspaper and came back, but he did not tell this to his classmates.
After he said this, Zhao Ruyue roughly understood what was going on.
This reminded her of an incident in her previous life, which happened after her son went to high school.
One time he came back from school and told her that he had received a refund for elementary and junior high school.
Not long after that, she heard that the principals of the town's primary and junior high schools were arrested, and the convenience stores opened by their wives in the primary and junior high schools were also closed down.
Zhao Ruyue said to her son, "Since your teacher said so, then don't worry about it. If you want to read the newspaper, you can read it. If you don't want to read it, put it away."
"Well, mom, can you buy me an English-Chinese dictionary when you go to the city? I also want an MP3 player like Sister Danping to listen to English."
Zhao Ruyue: “…” What a familiar excuse.
However, since it was her child who said this, she felt that this excuse was much more credible.
"You can buy an English-Chinese dictionary in the city, but you have to wait for an MP3. How about I buy you a recorder first? It can record your English reading and correct your pronunciation errors. You can also listen to the radio."
"That's fine." Ning Shiqiu is not picky, as long as it's available, it's fine.
Zhao Ruyue looked at her daughter again: "Where's your sister? What does your sister want?"
Ning Shixia thought for a long time but couldn't think of what he wanted to buy, so he just said he wanted the same thing as his brother.
Ning Shiqiu poked his sister's chubby face in disdain: "Follower!"
The touch was so good that I couldn't help but poke it several times.
Ning Shixia poked back without showing any weakness: "I am a follower, and you are the king of farts!"
"A follower!"
"The King of Arrogance!"
"A follower!"
"The King of Arrogance!"
…
The brother and sister soon started a childish fight.
Zhao Ruyue knew they were just joking, so she ignored them and took the pile of outdated newspapers to the study and put it in the cabinet.
But in the evening, when she got home from get out of class, she saw her son took out the pile of newspapers again and was teaching her daughter to read a short article in the newspaper in the study.
Zhao Ruyue walked in quietly and saw that there were no traces of pen and ink on the newspaper paper, but there were a lot of notes in the notebook next to it.
Hearing the noise, the two children stopped and looked at her: "Mom, you're back!"
"Well, it's so late, let's look at it tomorrow, and be careful of myopia."
Ning Shixia pointed to the short article in the newspaper: "I'm almost done learning it."
"Xiaoqiu, can you understand this kind of article?" Zhao Ruyue knew that her son could teach himself, but she didn't expect that he had learned to this level.
Although the town primary school starts teaching in the third grade, they just teach for fun and do not test students on memorizing words, sentences, or paragraphs. Students can just look up the answers in the books for the exams.
Zhao Ruyue didn't expect that Ning Shiqiu had already taught himself to this level.
She suddenly felt a little guilty, as if she had delayed her child's development again and had never even thought of buying him any extracurricular tutoring books.
Ning Shiqiu opened an unopened cardboard notebook on the table and showed it to her. Inside were sheets of paper with words written on them.
Zhao Ruyue took a closer look and found that the words were not handwritten, but looked like a vocabulary list torn out from a book.
"I have learned the English phonetic symbols. My sister helped me find them from the back of some English textbooks at the recycling station. I look for words I don't know on them, but it's too troublesome. It's not as convenient as an English-Chinese dictionary with a search index."
"Do you want mom to buy you some tutoring books in the city?"
When Ning Shiqiu heard this, he quickly shook his head and refused: "No, no, I can't use it now." He felt it was a waste if he bought it but didn't write with it, but he felt tired if he wrote with it, so it was better not to buy it.
Ning Shiqiu said seriously, "Next time you and dad are free to take us there, I will choose it myself. Otherwise, I don't know what books are available in the city and which ones to buy. The teacher didn't recommend anything to us."
"Yeah, I'm going to take a shower now. You two should go to bed early after reading this."
After finally coaxing his mother away, Ning Shiqiu breathed a sigh of relief and continued teaching his sister to read.
Zhao Ruyue asked her two children to go to bed early. After taking a shower and returning to her room, she picked up a computer-related book and started reading.
The job of settling the accounts was thrown to Ning Shaoming.
After reading it, Zhao Ruyue turned to Ning Shaoming and said, "I've heard that buying a computer involves many tricks and it's a difficult process. If you're not careful, you'll fall into a trap. Unfortunately, there are too few books on the subject available in the county, and most of them are theoretical. It would be great if I could get more practical information."
Ning Shaoming looked up from the account book: "Why don't you ask your night school teacher?"
"Yes, how could I forget the teacher? I will go ask after class tomorrow. If the teacher doesn't understand either, if we have time after shopping in the city, we can go find an Internet cafe and search online to see if there are any computer experts who post learning and assembly tutorials online. I think it is likely that we can find them online. Then why don't you come with me?"
"Okay." Ning Shaoming had never been there, but if she wanted to go, she was willing to accompany her.
Zhao Ruyue had never been to an Internet cafe, and her impression of it was all hearsay.
And she was the kind of parent who thought the Internet was harmful.
Although I’m not crazy enough to send my children to an internet addiction treatment school, I really don’t like my children going online.
For a long time, she also had a stereotype about Internet cafes.
I think Internet cafes are places where bad students who have dropped out of school go. Anyone who goes there is depraved and his or her life may be ruined.
Later she was severely slapped in the face.
Because after owning a smartphone, she herself became addicted to the Internet.
It was only after Zhao Ruyue herself went online that the information barrier was broken.
Zhao Ruyue only then realized that in the early stages of the development of the domestic Internet, because the threshold for Internet access was quite high and the quality of netizens was relatively high, a large proportion of the netizens during this period were truly capable.
If she cannot find the search result on domestic websites or forums, she can first learn a few related words and try to search the Internet using keywords. There are no firewalls on the Internet now, so she can get out without climbing over them.
It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t understand what she found. She can print it out, take it home, and try to ask her son if he can translate it for her.
If my son doesn’t know how to translate, he still has a teacher. He can pay the teacher to help translate for him. If the elementary school teacher doesn’t know how to translate, he can still ask the junior high school teacher.
There are always more solutions than problems. It is better to earn some extra money for the teacher than to be cheated by the owner of the computer mall.
Zhao Ruyue thought so and did just that. On the day she went to the city, she couldn't even wait to buy a pager and a DVD player before looking for an Internet cafe.
As soon as they arrived in the city, she dragged Ning Shaoming straight to the nearest Internet cafe: "I think it's better for us to go to the Internet cafe to check the information first. What if we buy something first and it gets stolen in the Internet cafe?"
The Internet cafe was not as bad as her initial stereotype of it, but it was also a mixed crowd of all kinds of people, and if you were not careful you could really lose something.
Unexpectedly, after playing for more than an hour, I actually met an acquaintance here.
Zhao Ruyue identified it for a while, and in confusion, she tugged at Ning Shaoming, who was typing with two fingers at another computer next to her: "Look at that person, is he Xiaoqiu's head teacher, Mr. Ji?"
Ning Shaoming looked in the direction she pointed: "That's true, but why does Teacher Ji look sneaky?"
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