Chapter Twenty-Three: The Decent Poor

This speed of graduation legend has kept public school teachers and students busy for a long time.

This also made Bonnie ignore him for three days......

Bonnie never expected that as a half-scumbag, she would meet a peerless genius! If it were someone else, forget it, what she couldn't see or touch, the result would be by her side, still under the same roof.

The most important thing is that Chris has not received a serious education before, and at best he can read.

In a public school that others take five or six years to complete, Chris actually took four and a half months to graduate.

This devastated the little girl, who had been depressed for several days.

In fact, Chris is quite helpless, since he was stuffed by Scar into that dazzling stone transformed from a corpse, his memory and understanding have become incredible!

Not only can you remember it, but you can also understand and grasp it quickly. Before he knew it, Chris had completed all the courses of the public school junior high school, and was personally escorted by the excited principal to the only comprehensive university in Fedlenburg!

After learning about Chris's family situation, the enthusiastic principal also helped him apply to the university for a full tuition waiver for three years at the university.

This is a subsidy from the University of Federenburg for some students who excel in their studies but have family difficulties, and the number of places is naturally very small.

This made Chris both happy and a little worried.

If the abnormality of your memory is discovered by others, will you be caught as an evil existence?

I have to say that growing up, Chris does feel that he has some evil.

However, it was later found that it did not cause much of a sensation, and the boiling sound only existed in public schools, coupled with the fact that the reaction of the two Bert siblings was not violent, Chris thought about it and felt at ease.

No matter which world there will be no shortage of geniuses, scholars and geniuses or something, surely any city will have them, but the difference is just in the number and size.

Fortunately, Bonnie was depressed for a few days, and she was no longer entangled.

No matter what, Chris is also the closest person to him now, except for his brother. Bonnie is still very proud of her friends who are so good.

That morning, Chris received a letter from the University of Federenburg informing him to report to the school the following Monday.

When Bonnie saw this, she thought that Chris would be going to the University of Federenburg in the South End in a few days. Seeing that Chris was still wearing some shabby clothes, he took Bert and Chris to a "Jekell clothing store" in the southern district of Federenburg.

Bonnie said that she had bought herself a few new clothes, but in fact, it was mainly for Chris, after all, she was going to study at the university in the South Side in the future, and she couldn't wear them too shabby.

Your own face is also very important.

Bert and Chris tried on different styles and materials in the men's section, while Bonnie tried on a few new ruffle dresses in the women's section.

Chris looked at the price marked on the hanger, and secretly said, although the price is not very expensive, it is still unacceptable for the people at the bottom.

For most poor people, a piece of clothing can often be passed from father to elder brother and finally to younger brother, and as long as it can be worn, it will not be thrown away.

If it is so tattered that it can no longer be worn, it will become an object used by the homeless people on the side of the road to survive the cold, because it is too tattered to be described as clothes.

And for those nobles, it was not only necessary to wear different clothes on specific occasions. The same garment often has only a few lifespans.

In addition, some new clothes that have become old will be silently eliminated by the master, and some will be given to their favorite stewards and capable servants.

But more families will sell or pass it on to others, because the mistress is unwilling to steal the limelight from the maids by making them look too fashionable.

In addition to this, if a young woman was doing the work of a waiter, usually her mistress would provide her with a set of clothes, which was one of the main channels through which these garments circulated among the classes. The average aristocracy would issue uniform uniforms to the servants of the house, which would make them appear more elaborate and decent in front of the guests, which also provided great help to the laborers of the lower classes.

For ordinary working-class families:

If you need several outfits of the same type, such as a dress for every woman in your family, you can also take apart the old clothes and re-cut them to make a new one.

When it comes to economic constraints, this method of production is extremely affordable. One thing is for sure, though, your attire will look a little dated.

If you can't afford any of these options, you can go to the second-hand clothing market. So people are not surprised to see poor people on the street wearing slightly shabby, outdated clothes.

For the middle class, they are more likely to come to the ready-to-wear stores in the mall to buy new clothes, imitation clothes that follow aristocratic trends. Although they are very different in material, they are generally similar in style.

After all, people of every class have a love of beauty. If you can't keep up with the times, you may be recognized as a servant by people you don't know.

Besides, for every worker who is looking for a job, if you can still make an effort to look decent, then you will have a better chance of getting a job offer. But if your level of dress is too much for your boss to accept, the door to opportunity will slam shut before your eyes.

Wearing a beautiful outfit, you are worthy of being hired, and few people will choose someone who is ragged and unkempt.

After all, well-cared for old clothes are more acceptable than dirty or unkempt clothes, but they also need to be complete, which means that all parts of a garment must be complete.

Generally speaking, it is one thing for a costume to be worn by one person, and it can be a very different meaning for another person to wear it.

If a desperately poor person had received a delicate and fashionable dress from a charity and had worn it without shoes and socks, no one would have felt that such a dress was worthy of respect.

So it's wiser to sell the gown and buy a cheap but complete outfit. This makes it much easier to find a job or rent an apartment.

In the Republic of Ireland, even the poorest workers wear shirts, vests, coats, trousers, and shoes and socks when they go out.

So no matter how hot it is outside, you won't see workers on the streets without coats, while the cash-strapped middle class still struggles to maintain their decency.

Even beggars follow the same facts.

Chris has testified to this strange truth on the side of the road many times:

A beggar, who is slightly well-dressed and clean, and who looks like a serious laborer, earns more than a scruffy beggar in rags, wrapped in strips of cloth, and covered in mud and sweat.

People understand and sympathize with those who are unlucky and temporarily depressed, so they are willing to help them generously. But for those beggars who do not want to dress themselves up decently, there is no respect for them, and they are not willing to give half a loaf of bread.

Therefore, the poor here are trying to play the role of "decent poor", and even "desperate and decent poor".

Regardless of the world, some things are often strikingly similar.

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After shopping for clothes, Chris and his family went to the vegetable market to buy meat and vegetables for the week.

Although Chris is about to go to the University of Federenburg in the South End, fortunately he is not too far from his residence in the West End. So Chris gave up the school's free student dormitory and went home every day to eat and sleep.

Because the three of them are now dependent on each other, because there is the warmth of home here.

The admission process after a few days was also smooth, because Chris was escorted by the principal of the public school, and Chris was free to choose the department he wanted to study when he entered the school.

After a few days of preparation, Chris immediately chose the best major here: steam and mechanical engineering.

One of the two major churches in the Republic of Ireland is the Church of God of Mechanics and Wisdom, and it is conceivable that the steam engine and other industrial machinery manufacturing technology here is at the leading level in the world.