I want to be emperor

Chapter 846
December 35, 29th year of Chengshun, New Year's Eve.

Sun Xu, who had been working overtime years ago, finally got a rare vacation. Even though Anhua Textile Company had a tight schedule for the upgrade task, it would not be possible for the technicians to stay in the factory without a day off during the Chinese New Year.

Anhua Textile Co., Ltd. has adopted rotations to allow technicians to take vacations, and also arranged a unified half-day holiday for technicians on the afternoon of New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year.

To be honest, Sun Xu didn't look forward to this day and a half of vacation, and he wasn't even happy about it... because if he continued to work overtime at this time, he could get three times the salary.

In the face of three times the salary, it is not a problem to have a holiday during the Chinese New Year.

But now that it's a holiday, Sun Xu can only take a vacation with other people.

At noon, after eating lunch from the factory, Sun Xu changed out of his dirty work clothes, stained with a lot of greasy lubricants, into cloth business clothes, leather shoes, and his daily clothes. He left the factory area with a duffel coat and a round hat with a wide brim.

It's just that after he left the factory area, he walked for a quarter of an hour to the platform of the public carriage, and waited for a long time, but no public carriage came over, and there were not many people around waiting for the bus.

At first, I was a little surprised why there were so few people today. You must know that when he got off work and waited for the bus yesterday, there were quite a few people.But today there are very few people.

Immediately afterwards he realized, oh, today is New Year's Eve, other people should have had a holiday early, even if they had a late holiday, they usually had a holiday yesterday.

Only a few people such as myself have such a late holiday for various reasons.

Then, many thoughts came to mind.

This year is New Year's Eve, those people should go home early and prepare for the New Year with their families.

Just like in previous years, I had a holiday a few days earlier, and then I prepared all kinds of New Year’s goods with my family. On New Year’s Eve, I got up early to make various preparations. I had to help my mother prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner, and I had to prepare Various matters such as couplets and firecrackers.

It's just that I'm not at home this year, so I'm afraid my younger brother will have to do many things.

I don't know if their New Year's Eve dinner this year is rich or not?

It shouldn't be as difficult as last year, right?

Last year, the family was too short of money. In order to prepare for the medical expenses of his mother, and to prepare for the tuition and living expenses of his younger brother after the new year, the food was not good. When he went shopping for vegetables, he gritted his teeth for a long time before making up his mind to buy them. A pound of pork.

This year, although the mother's body still needs to be recuperated and the younger brother's tuition fee has to be paid for, it is not that urgent after all.

And after the new year, the situation at home should be better, because Sun Xu sent five yuan home yesterday, and Sun Xu will continue to send money home after the new year.

With Sun Xu's income support, the family's conditions can improve visibly.

Whenever he thinks that life at home will be better, his mother's health is gradually getting better, and his younger brother's tuition fees are also settled, Sun Xu will feel very good.

It's a pity that the five yuan he sent yesterday may not be available to his family until after the year, or even after the Lantern Festival.

These days, it is not easy to send money over long distances, especially across several provinces. For large payments, you can use checks, cashier's checks, and bank transfers for large amounts. Many banks will specifically target large enterprises. Customers, open cross-provincial payment, and even overseas payment channels.

But at present, ordinary people and even small and micro enterprises can only send money through postal banks.

It may take more than ten days to send money back to my hometown from Songjiang, which is not so fast.

Of course... In fact, if those big companies want to make cross-provincial payments, even if the banks attach great importance to it and use special channels, it will not be too fast.

After all, there are no telegrams these days, and financial transaction information can only be transmitted through traditional mailed documents. For some large-scale transfers by large companies, at most they will send you a special person to take the documents to go there, but across the border It usually takes a few days to save.

This is limited by the communication method. Before the emergence of electromagnetic communication and its large-scale application, there is basically no good solution.

So even if Sun Xunian sent money home yesterday, the money would not reach home in a short time.

However, a few days earlier or later has little effect. What is important is that the family knows that he has found a good job and received a high salary that the family could not have imagined before.

The monthly salary is ten yuan, and it can even reach twelve or three yuan when working overtime. Not many people in their hometown can get this income level.

Sun Xu's father was already a leather shoemaker with good craftsmanship and a good reputation locally in their hometown. Many decent local gentry would ask Sun Xu's father to order leather shoes, so his income was not low. On average, one The month is about seven or eight Chu Yuan.

This income is already considered a good middle-to-high income in the local area.

Otherwise, he couldn't afford his brother to go to high school.

It's just that the cost of middle and higher education these days is too high, and Sun Xu's mother's serious illness cost a lot of money, and it takes a long time to take care of her body, which led to a sharp decline in the family's financial situation.

But now, with Sun Xu's income subsidy, his family's economic conditions will improve a lot after this year, and he can save a sum of money for his younger brother's college tuition.

As for the four-year undergraduate university, don't count on that thing. The tuition fee of several hundred yuan a year can't afford to squeeze Sun Xu's father and Sun Xu dry.

Even if it is a junior college, he has to count on his younger brother to get a part of the scholarship, but if he can get a half scholarship, Sun Xu and his father will maintain their current income. Although the pressure will not be small, the problem is not small. will be too big.

If you fail to get a college scholarship and study at your own expense, even if it is a cheap government-run ordinary college, the tuition fee alone will cost more than 100 yuan this year, plus living, board and lodging expenses, at least [-] yuan. A few Chuyuan...and the annual income of Sun Xu and his father is estimated to be around two hundred Chuyuan... That is really a bit of a grind, the family can't even afford it!

After all, family members always have to eat, and must have necessary living expenses!
Food is not cheap these days!

Even if he can get a half scholarship, he still has to count on his mother's health to improve substantially, and he doesn't need to spend two or three dollars a month on medicine to continue to take care of his status, otherwise it will be very stressful.

But Sun Xu believes that his younger brother won't even get a half scholarship...

To put it bluntly, for ordinary people like them, if their children can't even get a half scholarship for science in ordinary provincial colleges, then they still go to a shitty university...it's unaffordable!
The reason why higher education in the Great Chu Empire became so expensive is that the policy of allowing self-financed students to bear the tuition and even living expenses of scholarship students was adopted.

This has led to very expensive tuition fees for self-financed students... because it means that you, a self-financed student, bear the educational costs of two or even three students.

A family like Sun Xu doesn't look like a family that can afford the education costs of several college students!
That's for the rich.

However, Sun Xu's younger brother's academic performance has always been good, and he is also diligent in studying, and has always been studying with the goal of getting a scholarship.

Sun Xu even knew that his younger brother's goal was never a half scholarship for college, but a full science scholarship for college!

His level of study and study is not much worse than that of Sun Xu who works overtime every day, and his father makes leather shoes day and night... even, he has to work harder!
Otherwise, why do you think that Sun Xu would rather drop out of school a few years ago than give up the opportunity to his younger brother? It's not just about brotherhood... It's because his younger brother is really better at studying than he is, and he also works harder!

Sun Xu has no hope of getting a college scholarship, but his brother has hope of getting it.

Many choices are not unilateral and have only one reason, but are often a combination of many reasons.

No matter what, Sun Xu hopes that his younger brother can be admitted to a junior college and get a half scholarship.

In this way, it will be a little easier for me and my father to confess, and it will also make my mother's life a little better, and Sun Xu himself can expect to find his own new life in the big city of Songjiang.

Although many people said that Songjiang had various problems, especially the environmental pollution problem, which was criticized every few days, Sun Xu still had a great affection for Songjiang.

Even if he has only been here for less than a month!

In his opinion, Songjiang City has good job opportunities, and the whole city is friendly enough to outsiders like him... Well, in Songjiang City, there are not many locals in the true sense, and most of the population in Songjiang City are foreigners population.

After all, before the Great Chu Empire occupied Jiangnan, the entire Songjiang Prefecture had a population of only a few hundred thousand, and most of them were agricultural population.

But Songjiang Mansion is Songjiang Mansion, Songjiang City is Songjiang City... these are two concepts.

The current Songjiang City mentioned by the population of the Great Chu Empire actually refers to the original county seat of Shanghai County as the core and then developed to the surrounding urban areas, and does not include the rural areas in the larger Songjiang Prefecture in other regions.

Not even the Pudong area on the other side of the Huangpu River...

Songjiang City, in terms of geography, is actually not very large, mainly covering the area of ​​about tens of kilometers on the west bank of the Huangpu River.

In this area, the real indigenous population is actually not much, 30 to [-], and then some people who migrated from other counties in Songjiang Prefecture were added.

However, the main population is the non-local population who have poured in from other places in the past 30 years.

Therefore, Songjiang City is a serious immigrant city!

Such an immigrant city welcomes foreigners...

Of course, in the next few decades or even a hundred years, it may become different. A large number of foreigners who have moved to Songjiang in the current period, after two or three generations of settlement, will regard themselves as Songjiang people, and then turn Songjiang City into a city. A city with more locals than out-of-towners.

But at present, Songjiang City is still a very typical immigrant city. It is very friendly to Sun Xu, who comes from outside to seek a new life. Sun Xu will not feel some rejection from the locals in his daily life and work. ...

Well, in the past month, Sun Xu hadn't actually met a few locals... Maybe he had, but he didn't recognize them.

After all, in Songjiang City, everyone generally speaks the standard Mandarin spoken throughout the country, but no one speaks the local dialect... People don't speak the local dialect, and they don't take the initiative to tell you. You don't know whether they are locals or not.

Sun Xu very much hopes to find his new life in Songjiang City, a city full of vitality and hope!
The best thing is to be able to save enough money to buy a house of your own in a suburban community, settle down, marry a wife and have children, and be a decent person like other senior technicians in the factory.

I have to say that even though he has only been here for a month, Sun Xu still has enough experience of the bad environment in the center of Songjiang... He likes this city and can accept the bad air environment, but that doesn't mean he likes it...

With many thoughts in mind, Sun Xu returned to the apartment in a public carriage with few passengers.

The street in front of the apartment was deserted, with few people walking around, but the apartment was more lively than usual. There were many people talking upstairs and downstairs, but there were also many rooms with closed doors that made no sound.

Many people in the apartment went home for the New Year, just like his childhood friend and roommate Sun Dawei, who got on the train early and went back to his hometown for the New Year.

After stepping on the wooden stairs to go upstairs, he was about to take out the key to open the door when he heard footsteps behind him. He immediately looked back and saw the female neighbor, Ms. Meng, walking up slowly.

Immediately, she involuntarily stopped taking out the key to open the door, but turned slightly and said, "Miss Meng is also on vacation!"

Sun Xu knew that Ms. Meng usually came back from get off work in the evening, and this morning she saw her rushing to work ahead of him.

Apparently, just like myself, those who celebrate the Chinese New Year are also working overtime.

Ms. Meng said softly: "Yes, the vacation starts this afternoon!"

Sun Xu held the key in his hand: "I only started my vacation this afternoon, and I have to go to work again on the second day of the new year!"

Ms. Meng had already reached the stairwell, she rummaged through her handbag for the keys and said, "Yeah, I'm very busy, I have to go to work on the second day of the Lunar New Year!"

Sun Xu pinched the key repeatedly with his right hand, and after a few seconds, he only heard him say: "I have been working overtime years ago, and I didn't have time to buy New Year's goods. Since the shops on Ximen Street are still open in the afternoon, I am going to wait Go to Ximen Street to buy some New Year's goods!"

Having said that, Sun Xu looked up at Ms. Meng: "I don't know if you have prepared the New Year's goods, Ms. Meng. If you haven't...will you go shopping together later?"

While speaking, Sun Xu was holding the key with his right hand, already exerting some strength.

Ms. Meng had already opened the door with the key. After hearing this, she paused. Instead of pushing the door open with her hands, she turned her head and looked at Sun Xu...

At this time, Sun Xu's breathing was a little short, and he immediately said: "If it is not convenient for you to go out, if there is anything you need, I can buy it for you when the time comes."

Ms. Meng continued to look at him, looking straight into his eyes, and after a few seconds she smiled slightly: "I haven't bought any necessities for the New Year yet, let's go together later!"

Hearing this, a smile appeared on Sun Xu's face immediately, and he quickly said, "Okay, I'll call you after I change my clothes!"

Miss Meng nodded, then opened the door and went in.

When the door on the opposite side was closed, Sun Xu picked up the key with a smirk on his face and prepared to open the door, but his hands were trembling, so it took him a long time to open the door.

After entering the room and closing the door, Sun Xu took off his clothes while picking up his well-preserved fine cashmere business attire, leather shoes and hats, which he was reluctant to wear every day, and a complete set of decent clothes. All dressed properly...

In the past few minutes, besides getting dressed, he also sneaked in, took the time to wash his face and hands with cold water, and recombed his hair by the way, and tied it with a hosta.

Just when she was about to go out to call Miss Meng, she stopped again and muttered: "It's too soon, she also needs to change and tidy up, not so fast, wait...wait... Wait!"

Unfortunately, only ten seconds later... he opened the door!

(End of this chapter)