bookbashuk Chapter 218 is here.
Chapter 218 is here.
Looking at so many books, Xu Fei was stunned and didn't react for a moment.
"So many... do we have to see them all?"
How long will it take to find out?
Xu Sui nodded and said seriously, "Yes, you have to read them all. Not only do you have to read them, but you also have to memorize them perfectly. If you want to become a technician in a machinery factory, in addition to these, you also have to pass the entrance exam for a vocational school to study mechanical engineering."
What if Xu Fei, at his age, doesn't have a job after graduation and happens to be sent to the countryside?
Life in the countryside is tough. You have to go to work almost every day, and there's little hope of returning to the city. Some people can't even accept life in the countryside and choose to go to extremes.
As the older sister, and since they were born of the same mother, she really didn't want Xu Fei to be unable to find a job and have to go to the countryside in the future.
Holding a bag full of books, Xu Fei hesitated for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Sis, is a technician's salary really more than Mom's monthly salary?"
Wang Yinhua is a group leader in the textile factory workshop. She has worked in the factory for many years and has won the honor of advanced worker several times. Her current monthly salary is more than 30 yuan, which is considered high among the workers in the workshop.
"Of course, technicians also have professional titles. For example, if you graduate from a vocational school and start working in a factory, even if it's just your first month of internship, you'll be at level 16 and earn more than 30 yuan a month. Once you become a full-time technician and your title is promoted to level 15, you'll earn a few more yuan. As you work your way up in professional titles, your salary will also increase."
Xu Sui chose this profession because of her passion and love for it, and the pay is indeed good, but it's also incredibly tiring.
Upon hearing this, Xu Fei's eyes immediately lit up.
"real?"
"Of course it's true."
"Okay, then I'll go back and work hard." Xu Fei got excited. He didn't necessarily like this line of work that much, but he liked the money.
If he had money, he could give his mother a better life.
Although his mother often beat him, scolded him for being stupid, and complained that he wasn't as smart as his sister, she was actually quite good to him.
My older brother can't be relied on to take care of Mom in her old age. After all, he's already quite old, his children are all grown up, he doesn't even have a job, he's divorced, and he has children to raise.
I still need my mother to support me.
Although my sister and brother-in-law are wealthy, it is the son's responsibility to take care of our parents in their old age, and it has little to do with their married daughter.
So from now on, the burden of the whole family will fall on his shoulders. He's not very old, but he knows a lot. In short, if he doesn't work hard, he won't be able to support his mother in the future.
And then there's Jinbao. His older brother isn't capable of earning money to support the family, so Jinbao is now being supported by his mother. Now that his mother is old, he'll probably have to support his useless older brother and his young nephew.
After returning home that day, Xu Fei didn't go out to have fun anymore, but instead started reading books seriously.
Wang Yinhua was a little unaccustomed to seeing her youngest son like this, but it was also a good thing.
The eldest son is already ruined; we can't let the younger son become ruined too.
……
Another month or two have passed in the blink of an eye.
After the college entrance examination ended and she sold her job, Xu Sui basically had nothing to do and was very idle. She originally thought that she could take her two children to the army to find Qin Yunzhou and reunite the family of four.
For this reason, she even spent a lot of money to make a phone call to Qin Yunzhou at the military base to tell him about it. Little did she expect that Qin Yunzhou would go on a mission as soon as he returned to the base. After finishing one mission, he immediately started the next one, working harder than anyone else.
She took the child there, but after all that trouble, she wouldn't see him, so she had to give up on the idea.
Seeing that some people in the county town had already received their university admission notices, while Xu Sui had yet to receive any news, Wang Yinhua became anxious and couldn't help but worry. Every day when the postman passed by the compound, she would always take a few glances at him, her worries growing day by day, fearing that something unexpected might have happened.
Despite Wang Yinhua's concern that the long-distance relationship between the young couple might affect their feelings, she hopes even more that her daughter can get into university and become even more outstanding.
A woman's greatest source of confidence is not her own family or her husband's family, but herself.
She has lived for so many years, and it was only gradually that she came to understand this principle.
No one in this world can accompany you for a lifetime; the only one who can truly be with you is yourself.
Just like her two husbands, they were both good people and treated her well, but so what? They still left her early, leaving her to raise the children alone and struggle to make ends meet.
The saying "A widow's door is always a source of gossip" is absolutely true.
In the first few years after Wang Yinhua became a widow, quite a few men secretly tried to climb into her bed in the middle of the night, and some even took advantage of her at work.
If she hadn't had some skills of her own, she would have been forced by those men long ago.
Just as Wang Yinhua was extremely worried and was thinking of talking to her daughter about it,
Postman Uncle Liu, riding his old-fashioned bicycle, arrived at the Qin family's door.
He was a long-time employee in charge of this area. As a local, he knew every household in the neighborhood like the back of his hand. He remembered exactly how many people lived in each family and what their names were.
Grandma Qin and her group of sisters were listening to the radio and gossiping in the yard.
"Aunt Qin, where's your Sui Sui? Is she home?" Uncle Liu parked his old bicycle at the entrance of the courtyard, carefully took something out of the vehicle, and called out to her.
Grandma Qin looked up and saw the familiar messenger she usually saw. She didn't think much of it, assuming it was another letter from the army. She smiled and nodded, "Hey, I'll call him for you."
After saying that, she turned her head and shouted into the house, "Sui Sui, your Uncle Liu has brought a letter."
Inside the house, Xu Sui, who was breastfeeding her child, had a pretty good idea of what was going on when she heard this.
It's almost the end of the month now, and letters from the military usually arrive around the middle of the month.
The letter from the military arrived a while ago.
Xu Sui called Du Mei over, "Xiao Mei, can you watch the child for me? I'm going out for a bit."
Du Mei skillfully took the child from her arms. "Okay, cousin-in-law, you can go now."
I went out the door and walked to the courtyard gate.
Uncle Liu knew Xu Sui, after all, she was a native of this compound. Back then, everyone in the compound knew that Xu Sui was a very good student, and everyone thought she would get into university.
Unexpectedly, this person dropped out of high school and went to the army to get married. He was quite disappointed when he found out.
"Sui Sui, come quick! Your university acceptance letter has arrived!"
"You're really amazing, daughter. You didn't take the exam, but you got into Peking University, one of the top universities in our country."