sjar Chapter 66 Entering the City (Yu Han enters the city alone to attend night school and start earning
Chapter 66 Entering the City (Yu Han enters the city alone to attend night school and start earning
After finishing the autumn corn harvest this year, Yang Yuhan and her mother Liu Shulan spent a few days in the summer weeding the cornfields and then riding her bicycle to sell popsicles in villages and towns not too far away to earn money.
After harvesting the corn and threshing the grain, they used their own red horse-drawn cart to load several bags of corn kernels. Liu Shulan drove the cart behind them, while Yang Zhi and Yang Chong each drove their own newly bought white horses behind the large sacks of grain. Together, they went to the grain bureau of Tuandingshan Township, eight miles away, to hand over the annual public grain.
The annual tax that farmers were obligated to pay on their contracted land was later exempted.
The owners of the grain trucks queuing to deliver grain to the government also had to appease the monitoring personnel, who carried a thin, long, pointed, silver-white iron probe, before they could pass the grain quality inspection, unload the grain, get a receipt, and rush home.
On the other hand, even if the grain was of good quality, it would take several horse-drawn carts and ox-drawn carts to complete the process.
The following year, after helping her mother plant soybeans in the spring, Yang Yuhan did not plant corn, as the soybeans would be easier to harvest in the autumn.
The process involves placing a large pile of harvested soybeans outside the yard, then using a horse-drawn blacksmith's roller to roll and crush the soybeans, stems, and leaves from the pile of soybeans in the yard.
After sowing soybean seeds in the spring, Yu Han packed her bags and set off alone for the Sanjiang Art School in Qimei City.
Yu Han initially wanted to bring Liu Shulan along, and Liu Shulan initially agreed, but she was worried that Yu Han, a young girl who was almost twenty years old, would be traveling far from home for the first time.
After Yu Han tried to dissuade her again, she agreed to wait until Yu Han settled down at a night school in another city before coming to pick her up. Once she had settled things at home, she would never come back again, unless she came to check on her family's land and house in the compound.
And she'll take good care of herself; she's not a girl in her twenties anymore, she's a grown woman in her thirties. Of course, she only said this to herself.
In any case, Liu Shulan's timing was terrible. It was her first time going to a place she didn't know, and she had nowhere to stay. She couldn't let her mother stay with her in the night school dormitory. She could manage on her own, and there were other students in the dormitory.
After hearing this, Liu Shulan listened. On the first day Yu Han left, she felt empty inside, knowing she would have to harvest the corn alone this autumn. Yu Han said she could ask the school for a few days off to go home and harvest the corn during the autumn harvest.
Yu Han had heard a recruitment advertisement on the small radio her father left behind a few days ago. She remembered it. Her love of painting was also her only love in her previous life. In her previous life, she was a gynecologist, which was also her parents' wish to fulfill her mother's unfulfilled dream.
After being reborn, one must not only complete the original owner's own tasks, but also fulfill one's own ideals from the previous life.
Yu Han took a bus for more than three hours from the West Bus Station in Tuandingshan Township. She got off at the Qimei City terminal, picked up her large luggage, walked for five minutes, and then took the No. 8 bus. After about ten minutes, she arrived at the Qimei City Center, at the bus stop to the left of the Night University gate, where the bus stopped and she got off.
The school's four-story teaching building has a snow-white lime exterior.
Outside the compound stood two rows of tall poplar trees with yellowing, somewhat withered leaves! And on the red brick wall were several large red characters: "Learn from Dazhai in Agriculture!"
She looked on with great excitement; her goal was finally within reach!
She had to complete both the painting and the preliminary courses in English translation.
She chose to attend night school so that she could study at night and spend her days earning money. She no longer had her father as a support, and her mother, besides farming a few acres of fertile land, also relied on her help to make ends meet.
She works hard for herself, for the original owner's mother, and for her parents from her previous life—if they were still alive, so they could live a good life and enjoy the fruits of her labor!
She admired the new school. Although it wasn't a professional art school, she was still overjoyed! Sanjiang Art Academy in Jiamusi was the place she and her cousin Yumei had always longed for, but in order to earn money, she had no choice but to work part-time while studying.
She believes that miracles can happen anywhere as long as you work hard!
A mountain is not sacred if it is high and there are immortals living there; water is not sacred if it is deep and there are dragons living there.
Today is a few days before the end of August, and there are many students who have signed up for night school. There are women holding young children, middle-aged men and women, and most of them are young and middle-aged working people who are busy with work during the day and study at night.
The day after tomorrow is the official start of the night school for this group of students!
The school officials received all the new students who came to register, and Yu Han was also received. She completed the enrollment procedures, paid half a semester's tuition, and enrolled in painting, foreign language translation, and business management classes.
Yu Han and all the other students were assigned to female dormitories.
The student dormitories are located not far behind the teaching building. After everything was arranged, it was already late. The school hadn't set up a canteen yet; meal tickets would be distributed to all students when school started on September 1st.
Students from other places who signed up either brought their own dinner, ate out, or bought instant noodles from a nearby convenience store and cooked them with hot water from the school dormitory.
Yang Yuhan went to a commercial street about 500 meters away from the school. It sold everything from food and drinks to clothing and daily necessities. As she walked, she saw a small eatery with two signs hanging at the entrance. Looking up, she saw a small wooden sign that read "Kelaiduo Restaurant". There was a small red paper poster on the outside of a glass window, recruiting female waitresses. She pushed open the door and went inside.
Upon entering, she saw that there were five large dining tables in the main room. Four of the tables were full of male and female diners, while only one table was left unused. Behind the main room were three private rooms separated by a partition wall, and there seemed to be some noise coming from one of the private rooms.
In a short while, most of the male and female diners cast admiring glances at her for her beauty. In her previous life, she was already used to such behavior from others, and even worse behavior, because she was just too outstanding!
Others looked at her as if she were admiring a peacock displaying its tail feathers at a zoo, but she ignored them and walked over to an unused dining table and sat down on a wooden chair.
A moment later, I was warmly greeted by a waitress dressed in casual clothes.
"Hello, miss, what would you like to eat? I can help you." The waitress looked to be about seventeen years old. As soon as she finished speaking, she was called over by the diners in the private room.
Then, the middle-aged woman who owned the place walked over with a smile. "Miss, what is it?"
Yang Yuhan looked up at her and then said, "I want a bowl of milk noodles."
"Okay, I'll go prepare it for you right away."
A short while later, the proprietress brought over a steaming hot bowl of milk noodles.
Yu Han then asked, "Excuse me, do you know if we need any waiters here? Are you a waiter here?"
"I'm the owner of this place. Would you like to work as a waitress?"
"Yes, I want to be a waitress." Yu Han was about to say that she was studying at night school, but then she swallowed it back. She decided to keep quiet and not let others know about her.
"You're so pretty, you don't look like a working girl. You look like a movie star, it's a bit of a waste for you to do this kind of work," the landlady said before heading off to the kitchen.
Yu Han could tell that the landlady didn't want to keep her working.
Yu Han, start eating! We'll talk after you're full.
When she was halfway through her bowl of noodles, the waitress came out of the private room, looking flustered and with a slightly flushed face, and quickly went to the kitchen to help.
There is only one head chef, and he is the female owner's husband; the couple runs the restaurant.
The proprietress asked the head chef in the kitchen if the girl eating noodles outside wanted to work as a waitress. She was just asking to test her husband's opinion. The girl was too beautiful, and she was actually a little hesitant to hire her, fearing her husband might be betraying her! She didn't want to end up inviting trouble!
I was the waitress who took the original boss's position back then, and the only problem is that she's younger and prettier than the original boss!
She's aged more than ten years now. She's getting older, so she shouldn't become the next one to be dumped by her male boss!
Before she could finish her thought, the man immediately said, "What are you still thinking about? Just hire them. Aren't we hiring right now?"
"Wow! You really have a wild idea, using that girl."
"What's wrong with that girl? Does she have three heads and six arms?"
"That's not what I meant, she looks..."
Before the two could finish speaking, a man's voice suddenly came from the main living room. It was the voice of the man who had called the waiter into the private room.