rebirth chores

Mom, can you enroll me in a calligraphy class? " Xu Xiaowen asked tentatively.

Ever since he received the admission letter from No. 200 Middle School, the smile on Jiang Yun's face has never faded.It was more than a month before I left school, and I bought him clothes, shoes, and a new set of stationery, which cost more than [-] yuan.Jiang Yun, the second middle school he attended in his previous life, bought him a pair of socks.

Xu Xiaowen sighed that the price of goods 20 years ago was so cheap while regretting that he did not seek improvement in his previous life.

Sure enough, parents are happiest when their children live up to expectations.His mother's salary is only over [-] yuan a month, because he was so willing to spend money after getting into a good school.

wrong!

Xu Xiaowen's father fell ill and died a year before he graduated from elementary school.His impression of his father has long been blurred, and the most profound thing is that the family owed more than 1 foreign debts to treat him.When his father was around, his mother was a professional housewife. After his father passed away, his mother went out to find a job to make ends meet.Moreover, with low education and no work experience, the salary is naturally low.

Jiang Yun is willing to spend money for him, of course he knows, the question is where does the family get spare money?

"What calligraphy class do you enroll in?" Jiang Yun frowned. She also knew what all-round development of quality education is important now, and she is interested in cultivating children's specialties - money-burning stuff. "Aren't you practicing by yourself?"

"What I practiced is the same as what the teacher taught me." Xu Xiaowen muttered, watching Jiang Yun's reaction quietly from the corner of his eyes.

Jiang Yun thought for a while, and asked with a heartbroken face, "How much does it cost to enroll in a calligraphy class?"

"About more than 100 a month..." Xu Xiaowen said with some uncertainty as the prices would shrink and shrink after 20 years.

Jiang Yun exclaimed: "It's so expensive! Then it's more expensive than your tuition!"

"It's not like taking classes all the time. I can practice by myself after I have learned it." Xu Xiaowen said hastily.

Her complexion changed, and she actually gritted her teeth and said, "Then study for two months—no—four months...is that enough?"

Xu Xiaowen nodded, secretly sighing in his heart.It seems that my mother has made up her mind to sell the house, otherwise she would not be able to pay for him to attend calligraphy classes.

It was as if a dark cloud hung over Xu Xiaowen's head, covering the rising sun.Those unforgettable things came to his mind again.Living under the fence, looking at people's faces, mother's haggard face, gray hair, humiliating poverty application, strange eyes...

Xu Xiaowen's heart was full of gloom.He must find a way to dispel his mother's idea of ​​selling the house!However, will the mother listen to the words of a 13-year-old child?

Maybe he shouldn't have cleaned the house so clean, but should have made it more dirty, maybe others would not buy it if they don't like it...Xu Xiaowen's head is full of all kinds of unreliable bad ideas.

After two days of thinking, Xu Xiaowen still only had a bad idea, which was nothing more than a disturbance when the buyer came to see the house.However, even he himself knows that his small fights are not willing to affect other people's decisions.

Or maybe it has influence, others may think that the children of the Xu family are really mischievous and disobedient... right...

Xu Xiaowen scratched the wall silently in his heart.

After thinking about it, it is more likely to convince my mother.

After dinner that day, Xu Xiaowen hesitantly asked while helping Jiang Yun clean up the dishes: "Mom, is our family going to sell the house?"

Jiang Yun wiped the table, and when he heard his question, his hands froze.

Maybe it was Xu Xiaowen's performance during this period that made Jiang Yun feel that he was sensible, so instead of dismissing him impatiently like before, he nodded silently and continued to wipe the table.

Xu Xiaowen put the bowls and chopsticks he had eaten into the pot to catch the hot water, and Jiang Yun started to wash the dishes.

"Can't the house not be sold?" Xu Xiaowen asked innocently, "Why do we have to sell the house? Where will we live after we sell the house?"

Jiang Yun sighed: "If you don't sell the house, where will your tuition come from..." After she finished speaking, she felt that this kind of thing is not suitable for children, so she coaxed: "If you sell the old house and we move to a new one, you can still talk to me. My sister plays with me every day."

The younger sister that Jiang Yun mentioned was the daughter of Uncle Xu Xiaowen, only one year younger than Xu Xiaowen, and the siblings were very close when they were young.

Xu Xiaowen remembered a vague face.

He curled his lips, the cousin is good, but unfortunately the cousin's mother is not.No wonder the first aunt and second aunt would be happy when the married daughter splashed water and moved back to her natal home.After living for less than a year, we moved out because we couldn't stand the idleness, and we were forced to move back because of life, and we kept being angry until you remarried.

"...That's not our house... I don't want to live..." Xu Xiaowen looked at Jiang Yun with sadness in his eyes. "Mom, don't sell the house, okay?"

Jiang Yun's nose was sour from his son's begging.

She also doesn't want to sell the house.But if the house is not sold, where will the living expenses and tuition fees come from?Her little salary is just enough to feed the two mothers and children.

Seeing Jiang Yun's hesitation, Xu Xiaowen hurriedly continued to exert his strength: "I won't buy snacks from now on, and I don't want new clothes or schoolbags, and I won't attend calligraphy classes...Mom, it's okay without selling the house. I heard from the teacher There is a scholarship, No.1 has 300 yuan..."

The scholarship Jiang Yun knows a little bit, it is a reward given to students who pass the exam.but……

"Three hundred? So much?" Jiang Yun was surprised.

Xu Xiaowen nodded vigorously: "I will study hard to get the No.1 bonus..." He hesitated for a moment, but continued: "I can also apply for poverty bursary. I heard that the tuition fee can be reduced or exempted if the application is successful."

Jiang Yun was not only surprised, but also joyful.Even if tuition fees and living expenses are reduced to one third of what they are now, they don't need to sell the house.

Jiang Yun temporarily gave up the idea of ​​selling the house. If the scholarship and tuition fee reduction fail, it will not be too late to sell the house.

Xu Xiaowen breathed a sigh of relief temporarily.

It is true that the tuition fees for poor students are exempted, but the scholarship is nothing but nonsense.

He didn't know about the situation in the No. [-] Middle School. In his previous life, he studied in the No. [-] Middle School until the third year of senior high school. The school set up scholarships only for high school students in order to improve the rate of admission.

Well, let's coax mom first.The boat is naturally straight when it reaches the bridge!Xu Xiaowen comforted himself very much.

It's been almost a month, and Xu Xiaowen has a full understanding of his family's financial situation through insinuations and scattered memories from his previous life.One word - poor!Xu Xiaowen washed his feet early every night and shrank to the bed without even watching TV (in fact, the black and white TV was ugly), racking his brains in the dark to think about ways to make a fortune.

Buy lottery tickets?Never remember the number.

Do business?No money.

Write a novel contribution?The classics I have read in a busy life can only be remembered roughly.

The home also contained no undiscovered antiques of value.

Xu Xiaowen found out that there is no way to get rich quickly.Unless he has a life with twists and turns and ups and downs, otherwise, he can only follow the pace of more than one billion Chinese people step by step.

What is the way for ordinary children to earn pocket money?

He really thought of a painful way for the things that almost disappeared in the depths of his painful memories.

Tobe OR nottobe

Xu Xiaowen crouched a few meters away from the trash can with his nose in his hands, complex expressions such as struggle, pain, aggrieved strong man breaking his wrist flashed across his fair face.Pedestrians occasionally noticed this strange child with facial twitches suspected of being sick.

That's right, the only way that Xu Xiaowen's limited brain cells can think of to make money is suitable for a 13-year-old child is to pick up, trash, trash! ! !

Before targeting the trash can, Xu Xiaowen went to several department stores in the county.What he wanted was to ask people to sell discarded cardboard.I wandered around the back door of other people's shops a few times, but finally dared not speak.He is timid, introverted, and things that take advantage of him are always only in his head and can't be put into practice.

I didn't dare to ask for it, so I had to comfort myself in my heart. Maybe someone has a special partner for recycling, so it is impossible to give it to you for free.

Therefore, Xu Xiaowen set his target in the trash can very uselessly.

The trash can exudes a strong odor. Xu Xiaowen touched his clean white shirt, army green shorts, newly bought sandals... and his clean white palms.

Forget it, come back tomorrow!

Xu Xiaowen suddenly changed his mind.

The next day, Xu Xiaowen thought about it before going out, and decided to move the garbage after digging, and finish the poverty application first.

With the experience of previous life, Xu Xiaowen is familiar with various matters.He first went to the village committee, explained his family situation, and then begged the village secretary to help him issue a poverty certificate.

They were all acquaintances in the same village, and he still called the secretary "Uncle". The uncles and aunts of the village committee didn't know the situation of his family, so they issued a certificate for him on the spot and stamped the official seal.The so-called proof is actually a piece of letterhead printed on the village committee of XX Village, XX Town, XX County, XX County, with handwritten words such as "There are villagers in XX Team XX Group of this village whose families are poor, and hereby apply for tuition fee reduction."

Taking the certificate and thanking him, Xu Xiaowen immediately went to the Civil Affairs Bureau of Quan Town, handed in the certificate from the village, opened two official poverty forms, and stamped them.The last stop was the County Civil Affairs Bureau. The same procedure was followed, and the procedures were basically complete.

I just don't know if there are any regulations for poor students.

After thinking about it for a while, Xu Xiaowen went to the house of Mrs. Li, the head teacher of the primary school, explained his purpose, and then asked her about it.

Teacher Li was slightly surprised by Xu Xiaowen's unassuming narration.There are also a few impoverished students in their elementary school. Every time they count, they always look awkward and embarrassing, even their parents will not be natural when they talk about it.But Xu Xiaowen openly confessed that her family's financial conditions are not good, and asked her sincerely if she knew the regulations on poor students in No. [-] Middle School.

Embarrassment and shame Xu Xiaowen naturally has, but he still has it.But that was a matter of the previous life.

At that time, Xu Xiaowen was in high school, and the tuition was expensive. His mother and stepfather were struggling to provide for their two children, so they asked him to apply for poor student qualifications.Xu Xiaowen, who is really a teenager, has high self-esteem like his peers. Poverty is even more strange than poor grades.Moreover, at that time, every new semester, there were several poor students in the statistics class.The head teacher sat in front of the podium during self-study, and said lightly: "The poor students raise their hands, and count the number." Xu Xiaowen below had to raise his hands in front of the whole class.The feeling of spreading one's own desires is also one of the reasons for Xu Xiaowen's increasingly introverted personality.

In middle school, poor students were still treated differently. Xu Xiaowen suffered profound mental torture because of the word "poor".Unexpectedly, when I went to university, there were various preferential policies for bursaries, scholarships and tuition fees for impoverished students. Many students submitted poverty applications even though they were wealthy and wealthy.At that time, being poor was no longer something to be ashamed of. Schools counted the number of impoverished students, but they were not under the eyes of the public, but were counted privately.

After rebirth, Xu Xiaowen recalled his original state of mind and smiled lightly.Poverty is not a crime, only the concept of laughing at the poor but not at the prostitute is the problem.Psychologically mature, Xu Xiaowen, who is no longer a sensitive and immature child, will naturally not feel ashamed because of his own poverty. (Do you feel ashamed that you can even figure out the garbage?)