Chapter 65: The Beginning of School (Part II)
When they went out, Zhao Yiming and Zhao Guoqiang went straight to Oriental Computer City. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The computer is the most important thing. Zhao Yiming has long been accustomed to life with computers and the Internet. If he is away for a short time, he can overcome it. But without a computer and internet at home, it's torture.
The Internet aunt's house already has it, and Zhao Yiming's room has an interface, 10M broadband, which is barely enough. So the rest is the computer. As for the washing machine, you can buy one at any home appliance store.
Oriental Computer City is actually not far from Zhao Yiming's aunt's house, and it is about a 30-minute walk. Zhao Yiming and Zhao Guoqiang drove to their destination in less than 10 minutes. The reason why I drove there was not that Zhao Yiming couldn't wait to go crazy. I only chose to drive there because I had to move back after buying a computer, and it was tiring enough to walk back for 30 minutes with a desktop computer.
I parked the car in the square in front of the computer city and paid a parking fee of five yuan. Zhao Yiming and his father went straight to the computer city.
Zhao Yiming is too familiar with Oriental Computer City. In his previous life, he bought three desktops and two notebooks here. And in this life, the status of Oriental Computer City in Jingxing City is not much different from that of the previous life.
Jingxing Oriental Computer City, 4 floors high, covers an area of 12,000 square meters, more than 500 merchants, more than 120 boutiques, tens of thousands of product categories, is the largest IT and digital goods store in Jingxing City.
This familiar sentence is engraved on the right side of the gate of the computer city, and the inscription after the completion of the computer city. However, this passage is not bragging, Oriental Computer City is indeed the first choice for the people of Jingxing to shop for IT and digital products.
As in the previous life, the first floor of the computer city is a store for notebooks, desktop computers, digital cameras and other products; The second floor is a USB flash drive, a hard disk, and a wholesale market for all kinds of computer accessories and consumables; The third and fourth floors are the after-sales points of major brands of computers, and there are also many small and medium-sized repair shops.
Revisiting the old place, Zhao Yiming was originally very excited. But after entering the computer city, he realized a problem that had been ignored before - even the best computers in the computer city were a kind of turtle in the era before he was reborn.
What's the other thing to do now?
He had no choice but to go directly to a familiar store to pick up a computer. I finally picked a dual-core processor, 4G memory, and 500G hard disk configuration. As a result, the configuration of the two computers is the same, with nearly 6,000 desktops and more than 8,000 notebooks. Zhao Yiming bought the two together, and the store was willing to erase the fraction and asked for a whole number of 14,000 yuan.
Too lazy to wander around the audience anymore, Zhao Yiming agreed to the price after thinking about it. After Zhao Guoqiang paid the money, the store immediately greeted the guy and enthusiastically helped deliver the two computers to the car. This is a matter of course, he has earned hundreds of dollars more, can he not be enthusiastic?
According to Zhao Yiming's experience, as long as you are willing to spend a few more hours, you can suppress the price more. This price can also be cut by a few hundred, and if you are lucky, two computers can be traded for 13,000. But who made Zhao Yiming feel that he is a local tyrant now, and his father Zhao Guoqiang is not a master who can bargain. If Mingxiao had been replaced and he had come with him, it would not have been like this.
After buying the computer, Zhao Yiming went upstairs with his father and bought an 8G USB flash drive. Although I can't think of the use of buying a USB flash drive for the time being, I have been used to hanging one on the key ring in my previous life. And the reason why I only buy 8G, that's no way, now the maximum capacity of the U disk is so large. I heard that the 16G USB flash drive has been listed, but the Oriental Computer City obviously did not update the product synchronously.
After coming out of the computer city, the two spent 2,000 yuan to buy a set of computer desks and chairs at a place that sells computer chairs next to the computer city.
The owner of this shop is a capable person, and an ordinary set of computer desks and chairs can also be said to be flowers. What materials are exquisite, the design is novel, and the layout is reasonable; What chair is a rotatable ergonomic low-back chair.
In short, his set of rhetoric made Zhao Yiming and Zhao Guoqiang immediately tempted - buy.
And this time, I didn't let the store move it to the car, because the car couldn't fit it at all. However, the store has a door-to-door delivery service, as long as you pay an additional 100 yuan.
The big money is spent, and this little money is naturally not taken into account. Zhao Guoqiang directly left the address of Ming Min's house to them, and the store promised to deliver it within two hours.
After buying all the computer equipment, the father and son went home. On the way, I met Haier's home appliance store, so I stopped and bought a washing machine with 2,999 yuan, and the washing machine was naturally delivered to my door.
In less than an hour and a half, Zhao Yiming spent nearly 20,000 yuan with his father. This speed, this sour feeling, was only experienced in his previous life when he bought a house.
When I returned to my aunt's house, it was already half past eleven. Zhao Yiming didn't ask Zhao Yiming to copy the knife for lunch, but the Mingmin sisters didn't prepare either. It's a busy day, and they don't want to bother cooking. When Zhao Yatong came back, a group of people went to the restaurant outside to solve it.
After eating lunch outside, Zhao Yiming teased Xiao Mengmeng for a while.
When the computer desk, chair and washing machine came to the door, Xiao Mengmeng also arrived at nap time. He just had time to tinker.
Installing computer desks, chairs, and washing machines is something that the workers who deliver to their homes don't care. One is that they only earn the cost of transportation, and the other is that the job is too simple.
To install a washing machine, just connect the faucet, put the drain pipe, and plug in the power cord. Installing a computer desk and chair is a little more troublesome, because it is not the whole table and chair that is delivered to the door, but the parts, and you need to screw it yourself. It's okay to assemble it yourself, tighten the screws where they should be tightened, and if they are not loose, rest assured.
It took me an hour with my dad to get the washing machine and computer desk and chair. After connecting the two computers to the network cable and trying it, Zhao Yiming breathed a long sigh of relief: it was finally all done.
However, when I looked at the time after I finished it, it was two o'clock in the afternoon. The registration time for new students at No. 1 Middle School is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There were only two hours left in the blink of an eye.
Zhao Yiming hurriedly prepared to go out. Zhao Guoqiang came to send his children to school, so he naturally went together.
It is a 20-minute walk from Myeongmin's house to No. 1 Middle School. This time they didn't drive, but walked all the way through. It's not that I don't want to drive, but I just think about the traffic situation when I pass by the gate of No. 1 Middle School in the morning, and I can give up the idea of driving.
In fact, before they reached the school gate, they had to sigh from afar.
The periphery of the gate of No. 1 Middle School is densely packed with cars, ranging from 30,000 or 40,000 national cars, to hundreds of thousands of ordinary cars, and then to hundreds of thousands of luxury cars. To be sure, almost all of them are cars that send high school freshmen to sign up for their parents.
When I entered the school, I heard from the school security guard that this is okay now, but when the freshmen reported the peak in the morning, the school gate was simply flooded.
However, when I entered the school gate, I felt that it was suddenly opened.
Outside vehicles are not allowed in No. 1 Middle School. No matter what kind of car you have, you can only park it outside the school honestly. Freshmen and parents of freshmen with large bags had to walk to school.
After entering the school gate, Zhao Yiming began to look for the registration office. The registration office is actually very easy to find, it is located on the first floor of the school's large complex, and there is a big sign in front of the door.
When I found the registration office, there were not many people in the registration office, and there were only a dozen figures in the queue of applicants.
Zhao Yiming queued up with his father for a few minutes, he signed up with the admission letter, and his father paid the fee for him.
The empire was a twelve-year compulsory education, and this payment was not for tuition, but for books, as well as miscellaneous expenses including school uniforms and school insurance. If you are a resident student, you also have to pay a boarding fee, and apply for a campus card to charge money for eating and shopping on campus.
The registration fee was relatively smooth, but a small accident happened when it was almost completed.
Because of the poetry contest, he is a celebrity. The teacher who accepted his application did not react at first, and only exclaimed when his enrollment procedures were almost completed: "Aren't you the student who won the poetry contest in our school?" ”
When he shouted like this, he attracted the attention of other teachers in the registration office, and other high school freshmen and parents also began to watch him strongly. There are more and more people, and many people are still pointing at him and whispering.
In this case, Zhao Guoqiang is honored. But Zhao Yiming can't stand this kind of feeling like a gorilla being watched in a zoo. Finally, I waited for the admission procedures to be completed, and apologized to the teacher. He hurriedly dragged the smiling Zhao Guoqiang and fled. Leave the chaos far behind.
Coming out of the registration office, according to the procedure, Zhao Yiming can take the allocation form to find his class.
But his father, Zhao Guoqiang, suggested going to school together. When he sent his daughter to school, he accompanied his daughter around the school before going back. This time his son started school, and he also wanted to follow the previous example.
And Zhao Yiming thought that his father was reluctant to himself and wanted to find a chance to stay with him for a while. I was so moved that I immediately agreed.
Father and son began to wander around the school from the direction of the stadium. Soon they walked to the dormitory, and the two stopped to enjoy the busyness of the boarders and their parents.
Boarding students are not an ordinary busy, first of all, they have to go to the designated place of the school to pick up the accommodation supplies. This is a mandatory purchase by the school, and like school uniforms, it is standard for boarding students.
At the temporary pick-up point, the boarders will receive a large blue bag, which contains a mattress, a thick and thin quilt, two sheets, a set of mosquito nets, a pillow, two pillow towels, in addition to a mouthwash cup, a teacup, and two plastic basins, one blue and one green. After receiving the big bag, a hot water bottle will be stuffed in his hand before leaving.
There are a lot of these things. But it's still a little bit small compared to what they bring themselves.
Dormitory students don't need to bring futons or anything like that. But clothes, shoes, socks, toothbrushes, toothpaste, towels, hangers, and so on are a lot of things.
Carrying these on the dormitory, cleaning, hanging mosquito nets, making beds and quilts -- some of them are busy anyway.