Chapter 90 Chapter 90 So expensive!
"Brother, please stop for a moment, right in front of that school!"
Ning Shaoming went to the county town to purchase goods and happened to pass by the gate of the Yunshan County campus of Huayun City Technical College.
He had sharp eyes and when he looked out the window, he saw at a glance a line of words written in black ink on a big red paper pasted on the door: Electronic maintenance major, 2 years.
The driver was very familiar with their family, so he didn't mind the trouble and slowly pulled over to the side of the road. "Is your child not old enough to go to technical secondary school yet? Do you want to ask about schools for your eldest brother's daughter?"
Ning Shaoming opened the car door and jumped out. As he turned around to close the door, he said, "No, I'm asking for my wife."
The driver was stunned. After coming to his senses, he looked at Ning Shaoming's back and scratched his head. Isn't his wife the same age as him?
I'm in my early thirties, why should I go to school?
"Huayun City Technician College Night School Training Class Enrollment Brochure..."
Ning Shaoming looked at the red paper and read aloud: "Electronic maintenance major, 2-year program."
"Class time: Monday to Friday, 7:30pm to 9:30pm; Saturday to Sunday, 8:30am to 12pm, 2:30pm to 4:30pm. And they even give out diplomas!"
He read the words from beginning to end, memorizing key information such as the registration time.
There are just some things I don’t quite understand.
I saw a middle-aged man wearing glasses coming out of the school. He looked like a teacher.
Ning Shaoming hurriedly stepped forward to stop the man and asked, "Hello, teacher. I want to ask you something about this night school training class."
The teacher pointed to a five-story building not far away and said, "I'm not sure about this. You can go to the Academic Affairs Office on the third floor of that building and ask. The enrollment brochure has just been posted and the teacher in charge hasn't left yet. You can go there now."
"Thank you, thank you. Can I just go over there directly?" Ning Shaoming asked. He had no experience with this and thought it was just like asking someone to do something for him and he had to prepare some gifts.
"Yes, just go there directly. They are eager to have more people to consult."
Ever since it became a trend for technical secondary school graduates not to be assigned jobs and to go to big cities to work, technical secondary schools are no longer so popular.
Those who are good at studying prefer to go to high school, and then get into a good university. After graduating with a high degree, they will be sought after by various companies.
Enrollment in technical secondary schools has become a problem, and we can only find ways to expand the enrollment groups and channels.
So we turned our attention to adults who had jobs and wanted to get a diploma, and that's how we came up with this night school training course.
Ning Shaoming was unable to continue his studies after graduating from junior high school. He had never been to a school like this and felt a little nervous.
After arriving at the Academic Affairs Office, the person who received him was extremely enthusiastic when he heard that he was there to inquire about night school.
Ning Shaoming then realized that what the middle-aged teacher said just now was true, and that the enrollment brochure had really just been posted.
The teacher in charge of admissions had just posted the admission brochure and returned to the office. Before he could even sit down, Ning Shaoming arrived.
The admissions teacher couldn’t help but think: This is such a good sign!
The teacher told Ning Shaoming to ask whatever he wanted to ask and he would answer whatever he could.
Ning Shaoming asked directly: "Excuse me, is the classroom for the electronic maintenance major in the city or the county? My home is not in the county, and it is difficult to go to the city."
If they were in the county town, they could discuss with their relative who drives a van and hire him to pick up Zhao Ruyue on a monthly basis.
It’s a bit troublesome in the city. There is no special bus to the city in their town. If you want to go to school in the city, you either go to the county town first and then transfer to the city.
Once you get to the city, everything is not over. You still have to take the bus to school, which is too troublesome and tiring.
Another way is to go to a highway service area near the town, wait for the bus going to the city to pass by the service area, and get on the bus there, but this is unsafe and there is a lot of uncertainty.
They don't have a telephone at home, so if a car passing by the service area changes its route at the last minute and they have no way to notify them, they'd be at a loss.
Fortunately, the teacher's answer reassured Ning Shaoming.
"All the majors we have posted for enrollment will be taught at the Yunshan campus. The teachers are from both the main campus and the Yunshan campus. The electronic maintenance major will be taught by teachers from the main campus. The teachers have rich teaching and practical experience.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that the tuition for this major is 4,500 yuan per semester, which seems to be much higher than other majors. In fact, the tuition already includes the cost of practical classes and teaching equipment. It is really worth it. As long as you study hard, you will definitely learn real things. It is not just a matter of getting a degree and calling it a day. ”
The admissions teacher talked incessantly and Ning Shaoming didn't even have a chance to interrupt.
After he finished speaking, he hurriedly asked another question that he was more concerned about: "I wonder if the school has prepared dormitories for students in the night school training class?
My home is far from the county town. If the weather is bad one day or the person who picks up students is not available, students can also have a place to stay in the county town, and we are willing to pay to rent it. ”
In fact, it is not impossible to rent a house in other places in the county, but Ning Shaoming just feels that the school is safer.
His wife is also a girl, and she will go to school by herself. He is somewhat worried about her living outside alone.
"We haven't considered this issue..." The admissions teacher thought about it and realized that the school did have some vacant student dormitories, so he thought it was not impossible to make some arrangements.
They previously assumed that the students they recruited should be those who had a place to live in the county.
After all, these training courses are mainly for adults, who usually either live in the county town or work in the county town and rent their own houses, so they will not be left without a place to live.
But the school dormitories are empty anyway, so it is better to let night school students live there and charge them some accommodation fees than to leave them empty.
The question asked by Ning Shaoming also gave the admissions teacher some new ideas. The admissions brochure has just been posted, and it is still unknown what the enrollment effect will be.
If the results are not good and not enough people are recruited in the county town, and the school has accommodation, can't they recruit students from nearby villages and towns that are farther away?
"I'll go ask the leader right now. Please wait a moment."
Ning Shaoming: "Okay."
The admissions teacher left in a hurry, and Ning Shaoming sat in the office for about half an hour.
The teacher came back happily and told Ning Shaoming, "It's OK. After discussing, the leaders decided to allocate the old classrooms and dormitories for night school trainees. However, trainees are not enrolled students after all, so the accommodation fee may be more expensive. It needs to be charged monthly, 200 yuan a month. If you can accept it, you need to pay the tuition fee for one semester at a time when you register, which is about three months' fee."
Ning Shaoming was also very happy to hear this: "That's great! I'll go home and discuss it with my family. If they agree, we will sign up as soon as possible."
"Okay, okay," the admissions teacher slipped him a note, "Here's my phone number. You can call me in advance when you come to register so you don't have to wait when you get there." He couldn't let other admissions teachers snatch his application away.
Ning Shaoming returned home and couldn't wait to tell Zhao Ruyue about this.
Then he persuaded her again: "This is a good opportunity. Think about it. If you go find a master to learn from you, which master would be willing to let you learn only at night? Some masters would rather the apprentice work for him for five years for nothing!"
Not to mention whether the master is willing or not, almost all the masters he has seen who can do repairs are men. Even if he finds a master who is willing to teach, he is not willing to let his wife go to the master to learn at night.
But it’s different in school. Although the teacher may also be male, there are dozens of people taking the class together in school, so the meaning is different, and you can also get a graduation certificate and a professional qualification certificate.
Zhao Ruyue's heart began to beat again: "Can I, can I really do this?"
This time, not only she and Ning Shaoming were present, but also the two children.
Before Ning Shaoming could persuade her again, their little girl started to shout, "Of course you can, Mom, you're so smart, if you can't do it, then no one in our family can!"
After she finished speaking, she felt that she had not said enough, so she added: "There is no one else in town who can do it!"
Ning Shiqiu also echoed his sister's words: "I also think mom is very talented. Anyway, I definitely can't repair the rice cooker after seeing it once."
He was not lying. He had tried it on a broken rice cooker from his grandfather's house. The end result was that after taking it apart, there was no way to put it back together.
Finally, I installed it back with great difficulty, but there were two extra parts.
Ning Shixia was like a little trumpet, surrounding Zhao Ruyue and saying over and over again: "Go, go, Mom, we will send you to school when the time comes, just like you sent me and my brother to school, how great! We can also go to the county town every day to play with Brother Saw and Huanhuan."
Some children were making jokes, and Zhao Ruyue's feeling of nervousness and lack of confidence was dispersed by them as soon as she showed up.
Zhao Ruyue tapped her forehead with amusement: "You clever little thing, you actually want to go to the county town to play every day, right?"
Ning Shixia didn't refute: "Hehe, this is called killing two birds with one stone. I can send my mother to school and go out to play at the same time. How great!"
Zhao Ruyue looked at her daughter and couldn't help but think of her previous life. Her daughter also thought about sending her to a senior citizens' university, wanting to find something for her to do and enrich her retirement life.
It’s best to find something that interests her and divert her attention, instead of staring at her life all day and trying to find trouble.
But I didn't want to go, I just wanted to take care of my grandchildren for my son.
However, her daughter-in-law, who was an only child, did not want to live with her. Besides, her grandson was already in kindergarten at that time, which was near home, and both her son and daughter-in-law’s workplaces were not far from home.
They can pick them up and drop them off at get off work every day, so there is no need for her to take them there.
She was the only one who wanted to devote herself to the traditions of the older generation and was moved by her own efforts.
In the end I realized that it was just a wink to a blind man and no one appreciated it.
It’s not that Zhao Ruyue was unaware of what her interests were, otherwise she wouldn’t have always watched those maintenance videos in her previous life.
It's just that she always habitually puts the things she's interested in last and subconsciously ignores it.
And now Zhao Ruyue finally realized this.
She began to ask herself, is the financial situation at home really so difficult that she needs to continue to ignore the things she likes and support others?
Will doing what I like now put my family in an awkward position?
Doesn't anyone in her family support her?
The answer is obviously no.
Her family members had opposed what she wanted to do.
When they were in Pengcheng before, Ning Shaoming had disapproved of her opening a shop to sell small commodities after she returned.
At that time, besides not wanting to separate from her and go about their own business, he must have also realized that she was not really interested in opening a store and selling small commodities.
Now that he has discovered what she truly likes, his reaction is completely different from that time. Not only does he not stop her, he also actively helps her find a school.
Zhao Ruyue's gaze swept across her family members' faces. Her family members looked at her with sparkling eyes, all waiting for her to make a decision.
She felt that she didn't even know herself as well as they did. They saw what she liked to do and supported her in doing what she liked.
"Okay then, I'll sign up for a semester and try it out. After all, I can't pay for two years at once. If it doesn't work for me, I'll see."
Ning Shaoming happily lifted his daughter up and threw her into the air: "That's right, it's better to try than to regret it later."
Ning Shixia was thrown into the sky and felt like she was flying.
She loved the flying feeling so much that she laughed happily: "Daddy, throw it again, throw it again!"
Laughter echoed in the courtyard until Zhao Ruyue called a stop and urged the two children to take a bath and go to bed.
When Zhao Ruyue returned to her room at night, she finished her account for the day and said to Ning Shaoming, "I plan to use the 100,000 yuan to pay tuition."
Ning Shaoming was stunned: "Is there not enough money at home? You don't have to rush to buy an oven."
He remembered that his family still had some savings, which was actually enough to buy an oven, but he just didn't want to use the savings. The money was also enough to pay for the tuition and accommodation fees for the first semester.
"No, I don't want to use the family savings. You always want me to use this money. If I invest it in myself, it will be considered as my own use."
Ning Shaoming thought about it carefully and said, "Then use it. When you finish your studies, we should have a lot of savings. Then we can buy the land next to our house and open a repair shop for you. If the restaurant at home can be opened in the county like Liu Junhua's mother's barber shop, you can also buy a storefront in the county to open a shop."
Although he supports his wife to study, he still has some old-fashioned ideas and does not want to be separated from his wife.
He thought it would be best if the two stores were close to each other, so that they could be seen within a few steps.
Ning Shaoming thought that this was the limit he could accept.
Zhao Ruyue suddenly had an idea: "It will take two years for me to finish my studies and become a master. Why not use the 100,000 yuan to buy it in advance? I heard from Ruyu that the rent in the county town is getting more and more expensive, and so are the house prices. If I buy a shop, even if I don't open a store, I can rent it out to others and earn back my tuition every year."
Ning Shaoming had said that she could spend the money however she wanted and had not raised any objections now.
Anyway, after spending all the money, I can still use the family savings to pay her tuition.
"You can go to the county town with Danping tomorrow, and you can ask Ruyu where there are shops for sale. I remember that the shops in the county town should not be expensive."
"Well, let's take a look at the house."
Ning Shaoming was puzzled: "Why are you looking at houses?"
“Buy it.”
Ning Shaoming didn't understand: "Don't we have a house to live in? There are only four of us. If we buy so many houses, we won't be able to live in them all. And renting them out won't be as expensive as renting a shop, right?"
“Who would complain about having too many houses?” If Zhao Ruyue hadn’t been worried that buying a house as soon as she returned would be too ostentatious and attract too much attention, she would have bought a house in the county town as soon as she returned.
She doesn't have any big ambitions. She has never fantasized about becoming a big shot. She doesn't have high material desires. Her biggest wish is to have enough money to spend and save some.
"And you forgot that Xiaoqiu will be going to junior high school in two years. What are junior high schools like in town? What are junior high schools like in the county? If you don't have a house in the county, no matter how well your child does in the exams, he or she won't be able to get into a good school."
Ning Shaoming: "I remember that several top students from the town's central primary school were recruited by the county's junior high school. Our Xiaoqiu is so outstanding and always ranks first in the grade. She should be able to do it too, right?"
"Things are different now than they were before. Besides, there are too many uncertainties when it comes to recruiting people from good schools in the county. We can't just pin all our hopes on them. We have to make other preparations to be safer."
Zhao Ruyue didn’t know whether the county had divided school districts now, but whether or not, she had to make preparations in advance.
There are two children in the family. The eldest one cannot be used, but the second one can always be used.
She didn't know much about Pengcheng, but she had lived in the county town for decades, so she knew which schools were good and which housing prices were expensive.
"That makes sense." Ning Shaoming was convinced by her and silently took note of this matter in his heart. He became more motivated to make money. He couldn't rely solely on his wife to buy a house for the family.
After turning off the lights, Ning Shaoming vaguely planned in his mind before going to bed that it would be better to separate bread, cakes and other things from restaurants in the future.
It would be best if I could open a bakery and a restaurant separately.
Unfortunately, the kitchen is too dependent on him now, and Xiaochun is unable to take charge on his own for the time being. What's more, he is thinking of letting Xiaochun open his own shop in the future.
I was still thinking about these things before falling asleep, so much so that all my dreams were about various cakes and breads, cooking and frying noodles, and how to open a shop and how to run it.
I had a dream all night, and when I woke up in the morning, I breathed a breath of fresh air and tried to think about it again, but I had forgotten everything.
When Ning Shaoming went out to buy meat, he bought himself a notebook out of depression and decided to write down his thoughts in time in the future.
As usual, Zhao Ruyue was preparing today's side dishes in the yard.
Ning Danping walked in and greeted her.
Zhao Ruyue looked at her in surprise: "It's so early, why don't you sleep a little longer?"
She told Ning Danping in advance that she would only be able to take her to the county town after she finished the morning peak period for guests to eat.
I told Wang Haiyan that it didn't take much effort to take Ning Danping to the county town, just ten yuan, and asked Ning Danping to help with moving things and would pay her ten yuan.
Wang Haiyan directly asked her to take the ten yuan and asked her not to tell Ning Danping that it was ten yuan.
Zhao Ruyue was afraid that Ning Danping would know that she had spent more money, which would burden her, so she really didn't plan to tell Ning Danping.
Ning Danping took a small stool and sat down to help.
Zhao Ruyue hurriedly said: "You are in a special period, don't touch cold water."
Ning Danping blushed and whispered, "It's okay, Third Auntie. The amount is very small now, so it should be almost over."
After hearing her say this, Zhao Ruyue stopped trying to stop her. She knew the principle of repaying kindness with resentment, and that blindly giving was not a good idea.
I helped Ning Danping, and Ning Danping also came to help. I felt comfortable and Ning Danping also felt at ease.
After finishing her morning work, Zhao Ruyue called the admissions teacher in advance to confirm that she could register today, and then took Ning Danping on the bus to the county town.
Zhao Ruyue had the money she needed to register and pay the fees with her, and as she was worried about accidents on the way, she rushed to the school to register and pay the money.
The admissions teacher saw that she had a child with her and thought she was registering the child, but she didn't expect that she was registering herself.
After the explanation, the admissions teacher was even more surprised. It turned out that the person who came to ask yesterday was also asking for her.
He thought that the man came to ask because he wanted to learn.
The admissions teacher looked at the application form and confirmed with her: "Do you really want to study this major? Majors such as accounting, nursing, and human resource management may be more suitable for women."
Zhao Ruyue smiled and declined his suggestion: "I like this major, I'll definitely apply for it."
"Okay, pay here. You want to stay here, right?"
"That's right." Zhao Ruyue took out the money and put it on the table. After a while, she got a few receipts and an admission letter.
"Remember to pick up your textbooks with your receipt the day before school starts."
"Okay." After finishing, Zhao Ruyue took Ning Danping away.
After leaving the school, Ning Danping came back to her senses from her shock: "Aunt San, you want to go to school?"
This completely overturned her imagination. According to common sense, the word "school" had nothing to do with someone who had two children.
Zhao Ruyue didn't intend to hide this matter, so she didn't tell her not to tell anyone when she got back.
He just nodded and said, "I go to night school, which is specialized in adult education and training, which is different from the school you go to."
Ning Danping nodded in understanding: "So that's how it is. I wonder if the admission score for this school is high. If I can't get into high school, I also want to go to a technical secondary school."
This was the first time Zhao Ruyue heard her talk about her plans for the future.
Zhao Ruyue said: "It shouldn't be too difficult to go to a technical secondary school now, but if you get a higher score, you will have more schools to choose from."
There was one thing she didn't say: if she did well in the exam, she would be able to convince her family to send her to school.
After all, given her family's current situation, it's hard to say whether they are willing to continue supporting her schooling.
And if she does well in the exam, the school might be willing to waive her tuition, which would give her a greater chance of continuing her studies.
"Where can I buy the MP3 player you want? Have you asked your classmates about it?" Zhao Ruyue had never paid attention to this before, and she really didn't know where to buy it now.
When talking about the things she wanted to buy, Ning Danping's face lit up: "In the Xinhua Bookstore, the only one in the county that sells them!"
"Is it the only place that sells it? Isn't that the kind of mobile phone repair shop that sells it?"
"Are you talking about the shop that repairs PHS? The only place in the county that sells PHS has a repair shop. How can they sell MP3s there?"
Zhao Ruyue has the impression that some repair shops also sell second-hand and counterfeit mobile phones, MP3 and MP4 electronic devices.
But on the way from school to Xinhua Bookstore, none of the stores she remembered appeared.
According to common sense, there can't be no such store near the school.
Zhao Ruyue suspected that there might be something wrong with her memory. Could it be that it would take a few more years for it to appear? Or is their county too backward?
When she arrived at the Xinhua Bookstore and saw the price of the MP3, Zhao Ruyue once again doubted whether her memory was wrong.
“MP3s are so expensive!”
The cheapest one at the counter costs more than three hundred yuan, almost four hundred yuan!
Ning Danping said: "It's still cheap now. It was more expensive before, about 700 to 800 yuan each. If it hadn't been for the significant price reduction this year, I wouldn't even dare to think about it."
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