In addition to buying a bicycle for his sister, Xu Yiyang also did not treat himself badly.
At the video store next door, he spent more than 600 yuan to buy a genuine Sony Walkman with a wired control, and also picked up a few tapes.
There is a real lack of entertainment options these days.
Without access to the Internet or smartphones, listening to music should be the only thing that can help me regain a sense of modernity.
The Walkman at home now is a no-name machine bought for tens of yuan, and the headphones are also no-name products for three to five yuan each. The sound quality is so poor that Xu Yiyang never turned it on again after listening to it once.
With Dou Wei's "Tomorrow Will Be Longer" playing in their ears, Xu Yiyang and his sister each rode their own cars home.
Xu Yishan was riding that beautiful retro bicycle, grinning from ear to ear with joy.
Even at night, this car still turns heads.
With such bright colors and rare retro styling, not to mention the little girl’s eyes shining with envy, even the young men couldn’t help but take a second look.
Xu Yiyang felt particularly comfortable looking at his sister's happy appearance.
He always felt that his sister had made great sacrifices for him in his previous life, and he must do his best to be good to her in this life.
While riding the bike, Xu Yishan looked at Xu Yiyang and said coquettishly: "Brother, can you give me an earphone to listen to?"
Xu Yiyang took off the earphone from his left ear, handed it to her on the right, and said, "It's very difficult. You should ride slower and don't fall."
"I know!" Xu Yishan stuck out her tongue, held the handlebar with one hand, and took the earphones with the other. At this time, Xu Yiyang's favorite part was singing in the earphones:
"Farewell to yesterday and embrace hope, bid farewell to the night and wait for the dawn..."
"The glory of the past is no longer important, tomorrow will be longer..."
Xu Yishan asked curiously: "Brother, who sang this? It's so nice."
Xu Yiyang said casually: "Dou Wei."
"Is it Dou Wei who sang "Shameless" from the Black Panthers?"
"Yes, that's him."
"Wow, he looks very handsome!"
"Yeah, a handsome bunch."
…
The brother and sister returned to the farmyard of the agricultural machinery factory and locked their bicycles in the carport downstairs.
Xu Yishan stared at her new car for a long time, unwilling to leave. She couldn't help but ask Xu Yiyang: "Brother, will the car be lost if it is parked here?"
Xu Yiyang smiled and said: "The door is guarded 24 hours a day, what are you afraid of?"
Xu Yishan stuck out her tongue: "Yes!"
After saying that, he reluctantly followed Xu Yiyang upstairs and went home.
Agricultural machinery factories have experienced a wave of layoffs in the past two years, eliminating many workers with non-professional skills, most of whom are women.
Later, the factory found ways to find some low-income jobs for them, such as looking after bicycles in the bicycle shed, which worked three shifts a day and cost ten yuan a day.
Although the money is not much, many people are still rushing to do it because it is easy and can subsidize their families.
Xu Yiyang's mother originally envied her job of looking at bicycles downstairs.
This job is not tiring at all. You can earn this money while knitting sweaters for a sweater shop and earning some processing fees.
Being able to earn two jobs at the same time without missing the need to buy groceries and cook every day was simply the best job she could think of.
However, this kind of job is an absolute vacancy in agricultural machinery factories. There are only three places for dozens of households in a building.
Xu Yiyang's father was a temporary worker with few connections, and his mother was not a laid-off employee of an agricultural machinery factory, so she could only envy such a job.
…
When we got home, Xu's father and Xu's mother had already set up their posture and prepared for the three-court trial.
Seeing the brother and sister coming back together, Xu's mother said angrily: "Yangyang, I heard you opened a training class?"
Xu Yiyang smiled and said, "Mom, do you know everything?"
Xu's mother said: "You are really good! You didn't even mention such a big thing to discuss it with your parents, but you did it yourself? What if a little girl who worked together in the garment factory hadn't called home and told her about it? , I still thought you were out to start some kind of English interest group!"
Xu Yiyang explained: "Mom, English interest groups are very different from English training classes!"
"It's far behind!" Xu's mother said: "How many times have I told you that your most important and only task now is to study hard and prepare for the college entrance examination. You don't need to worry about other things. Why don't you listen? You said you are holding a training class at this time, if you delay the college entrance examination again, it will be a lifetime matter!"
Xu Yiyang knew that his mother would be angry if she found out about his training class.
That's why when he posted the advertisement, he deliberately avoided his own neighborhood, just to avoid as much trouble as possible, and just started working on the training class first.
At this time, Dad Xu on the side also sighed and said: "Yangyang, your mother and I both know that you want to share some of the pressure on the family, but now is really not the time. If you want to start a training class, you can wait until the college entrance examination is over. We’ll do it during the summer vacation, why rush it?”
After that, Dad Xu said again: "Look, although our family's conditions are average, we are not short of money now. Your mother still has the six thousand yuan you just gave her, and dad still has a salary, which is enough for the family. Yes, plus a little savings from before, you don’t have to worry about tuition and living expenses for the first year of college.”
Xu Yiyang said: "Dad, my training class will be open for eight days. As soon as the winter vacation is over, the training class will be over. It won't delay my study."
Xu's mother said distressedly at this time: "It doesn't delay your study, but it also delays your rest! You worked hard for half a year last semester. It's hard to have a few days of rest during the winter vacation. Your graduating class only has a few days off in total. You have eight days." You have to go to training classes, what if your body is exhausted? If you are exhausted for the thousands of dollars in tuition, isn’t it like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons?”
Xu Yiyang said: "Mom, it doesn't matter if I have eight days of classes. I am so young and strong, and I will get tired if I get tired."
As he spoke, he looked at his parents seriously and said, "Also, I'm not doing this for a few thousand yuan in tuition, but for tens of thousands of yuan."
"What?" Father Xu frowned and asked subconsciously: "Ten thousand?"
"Yes." Xu Yiyang nodded and said, "There are eighty students in each class, and all eight classes are full. There are a total of six hundred and forty students, and the tuition fee is sixty-four thousand."
After hearing this, Father Xu was so shocked that he couldn't speak, but after hearing this, Mother Xu's first thought was that she felt even more distressed.
"It's hard to take such a few days off. How nice of you. You have to take care of more than 600 students and attend eight classes a day. How can your body bear it?"
Dad Xu also came to his senses and said, "Yes, Yangyang, it's certainly a good idea to open training classes to make money, but you can't make fun of your body. Eight classes a day is too hard!"
Xu Yiyang asked his parents: "Think about it, how long does it take me to go to school every day?"
As he spoke, Xu Yiyang counted on his fingers and calculated without waiting for his parents to answer: "Every morning I get up at six o'clock, go out at six twenty, arrive at school around six forty-five, and then have morning reading classes at seven o'clock. Then there are four regular classes in the morning, each class lasts forty-five minutes, and it’s almost twelve o’clock when school ends at noon.”
"At two o'clock in the afternoon, I will have four regular classes. When school ends, it will be almost six o'clock. Then, starting at seven o'clock, I will have three more classes for self-study in the evening. School will end at nine-thirty. This is much more tiring than holding a training class."
Xu's mother said: "It's just because I'm too tired from school, so I have to take the time to have a good rest during the holidays. Although our family doesn't have much money, you don't have to work so hard to make money. Your health is the most important thing..."
Xu Yiyang said seriously: "Mom, I am so young, can I still not be able to bear it for eight days?"
Xu's mother said: "You are teaching students for eight consecutive days! Even if your body can stand it, your throat can't stand it."
"I can bear it." Xu Yiyang said with a smile: "The school's electronic classroom has four speakers, so speaking with a microphone doesn't waste your voice at all."
After saying that, Xu Yiyang put away his smile and said seriously: "Mom, it's not easy to make money in this world. Since I have the opportunity to make money, I want to make more as soon as possible."
"Look, Shanshan and I will cost at least hundreds of thousands from now until we both finish college, right?"
"Our house is old and small. Since Shanshan has grown up, I don't have a bedroom of my own. If I want to move to a larger house and do some renovations, it will cost tens of thousands of yuan, right? "
"If I don't have the ability to make money, of course I won't try to do it, but don't I just have such an opportunity now? I also want to share some of it with you and dad, so don't stop me."
"Besides, there's nothing you can do to stop me now. Six hundred and forty students have signed up and are just waiting to go to class. I can't go back on my word now, can I? Then the people of Yingzhou don't know what to say about me!"
Xu's mother was so moved by her son's sensibility that her eyes turned red and she was speechless.
Father Xu also knew that the deal was done, and saying so much would not change anything. Moreover, Xu Yiyang made so much money this time, which really surprised him.
The per capita salary in Yingzhou announced by the city government is only more than 300 and less than 400. You can earn 64,000 yuan by doing a winter vacation training class. It is really scary.
So he sighed and said, "Son, you have your own ideas, and dad won't stop you, but you must pay attention to the balance between work and rest, don't hurt your body, and don't delay the college entrance examination."
Xu Yiyang nodded and fully agreed.
Then, he took out all his cash from his pocket.
The more than one thousand I saved as a translator, plus the more than five thousand I didn't have time to save today, and excluding the money spent on buying a car for my sister, there is still just over five thousand.
He took out 500 yuan in cash and some change, gave the remaining 100 yuan bills to his mother, and said: "Dad, Mom, you keep this money first, I have more than 50,000 yuan left in the bank, this amount I will keep the money for now and won’t give it to you for the time being. If there is any suitable opportunity to make money, I will directly use the money to operate. If there is no good opportunity, when I go to college, except for tuition and living expenses, the rest All for you.”
In Xu Yiyang's mind, he was still thinking about the upcoming May 19 stock market prices.
If you seize this wave, even if you don't know how to operate short-term, you can double your funds by buying and selling.
If you add in some short-term operations of selling high and buying low, it is not difficult to make a 200% return.
So before that, keep some more money on your hands.
Xu's father and Xu's mother exchanged a few words in a low voice, and then Xu's father said seriously: "Yangyang, you have your own ideas and the ability. My parents respect you, but our thoughts may not keep up with yours. Maybe we can't keep up with you." If it’s easy to hold you back, just do it according to your own ideas.”
(End of chapter)