Chapter 13: Pickup

However, even if Qi Min really becomes the person who influences the world before Nick, who is engaged in the labor movement, at this time, she and Anton can still only live in a rented apartment and do a doctoral job similar to 996.

People like Qi Min who are used to working hard all the time, have no special endowment, and rely on luck in everything, there is a high probability that they will not mix up anything good. SO SHE HAS LONG AGREED WITH THIS, ALTHOUGH SHE HAS TO GO TO THE LABORATORY DUE TO THE PRESSURE OF STUDYING FOR A DOCTORATE, BUT WHEN SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO STAY IN THE LABORATORY, SHE IS STILL KEEN ON RUBBING YELENA'S PARTY AND PLAYING AROUND WITH ANTON.

Yelena's PARTY doesn't cost her money, and renting a car with Anton to hang out has to have a bit of a financial foundation. Fortunately, she and Anton only have to pay one rent, and the daily expenses of the two Rao together can also be met by Anton's salary, so Qi Min's salary is like an extra "bonus", which can be spent casually.

Yes, the two of them still lived a relaxed and happy life. I spend the whole week researching food, rent a car every two weeks to go out, and don't have to be too vague about buying non-necessities. Qi Min's little salary must be tight for living, but it is more than enough for fun.

But the bad thing is that consumption will escalate, and even if the Bolsheviks are resistant to consumerism, they will not be able to resist some unexpected increase in spending.

When Andong was delivering food, he took the road under the river embankment in order to take a shortcut, and when he rode his motorcycle past an iron bridge, a package under the bridge made a thin and strange sound.

It was because Anton stopped to watch at the time, and when Qi Min came home, he found that he had an extra girl for no reason.

Anton found an abandoned baby and temporarily picked it up and went home to save his life. The child may have just been born, so he can't tell what he looks like. But from the quilt wrapped in the baby, a note with crooked English and Chinese written on it, asking passers-by to adopt the child, so it seems that he is also Chinese, or at least Chinese-American.

As an orphan who was trafficked to the United States and lost his relatives and homeland, Anton has great compassion for this baby. Originally, I wanted to wait for the child to recover and send it to the welfare home, but because the child was so thin, I was afraid that she would not survive if she was sent to the local welfare home, so I kept her at home for a week and did not send her out.

Qi Min originally hated children very much, especially bear children and crying babies. But the miracle is that the child that Anton picked up didn't like to cry at all, but liked to laugh. Although she looks a little ugly, she can't stand being ugly and cute, and she doesn't pick a brand when she drinks milk powder.

Qi Min felt that this child was quite easy to raise, which made her feel that she might not necessarily have to be sent to a welfare home. And considering that as a child with Chinese ancestry, she is likely to be discriminated against in this red-necked place. Even her future situation will be worse than Anton, after all, Anton was adopted and taught by him as the owner of a Chinese Raozhong restaurant in China, and if this child goes to a welfare home, he will face the fate of being raised by white people, and there will be a gap between appearance and identity in the future, I am afraid it will be a bit fatal.

So she consulted with Anton and did a very Bolshevian thing - they decided to adopt the child, and bypassed the complicated adoption process altogether, and registered her as if she were their own.

Because the child has not been born for a long time, this operation will not attract much attention as long as the birth certificate is confused. And if you don't get married and put the identity of your children in Qi Min's name, according to the policy, the local government will also give food stamps and rental subsidies to single mothers (referring to those who are not legally married), and this money should not be in vain.

The specific operation still requires a little skill, but the government management of "good" in this broken place is also quite chaotic, and after some operation, Qi Min's empty glove girl succeeded, and by the way, she got food stamps and rental subsidies with a total value of half of her graduate salary.

She also discussed with Anton how to name the child. Although they are the descendants of two Bolsheviks, in order to survive in the American environment, they cannot be named with ideological overtones. Eventually, they decided to call this kid a meme, just Mimi, which sounded neither mainstream American, nor very Chinese, nor ideological, and a little trendy, and they felt good about themselves.

Because Mimi was obedient and quiet, it didn't take much effort to raise it. Anton and Qi Min tried their best not to anger their bosses and ask for leave, so that they could cope with the past by taking turns to be "on duty".

Anton was very conscientious and responsible when he was "on duty", although he was not professional and scientific, but at least he was dedicated. But there were many days when it was Qi Min's turn to be "on duty", and when he came home from work, he saw Qi Min playing with her daughter, as if he couldn't see that the rest of the house was in a mess. This kind of thing happens too many times, and no one can stand it, but seeing that Qi Min and Mimi are indeed having a good time, Anton has to silently clean up all the garbage they created.

And for Qi Min, the biggest embarrassment is that she really has to use the food stamp card to buy things. Although it is true that the money earned is a low-income standard, in her mind, people who are doctoral students should never receive such social benefits. Although this is the money of the US government, it is indeed withheld from the people who pay taxes. But for the poor, superfluous ideas should not be had, no matter how it came from, money has to be spent.

It's just that every time she took out this card at the checkout, the salesperson's encouraging smile at her made Qi Min feel a little embarrassed.

But whether it's embarrassing or spineless, anyway, her income level doesn't allow her to refuse the subsidy of a single mother. And originally Anton's salary could cope with two rao expenses, and Qi Min's salary could be the icing on the cake, but after one more meter, not only did he have more expenses for raising children, but Anton also had to take frequent leave to deduct his salary, and it would cost more money to find a temporary nanny when neither of them could take leave, plus Qi Min's salary and subsidies were also stretched.

You can't just go out every two weeks, and spending time a week researching food has become a time to study food for your baby. The money for buying non-necessities is simply saved, anyway, even if you have money, you don't have time to buy it, and it is better to push the cart and take Mimi out for a walk.

After such a month, Anton and Qi Min took out the income and expenditure records to take a look, and even if the food stamps and rental subsidies were spent, the surplus for this month was only double digits.

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