"I've already thought about it, Mr. Ke!" Qin Yang's calm tone made Teacher Ke chuckle in his heart. It's just that he didn't know that his students had secretly wiped their tears and cried in the middle of the night countless times! Such a calm way of coping is also a scene that she has repeatedly recited countless times. Because she was afraid that if she didn't fight for a tear, she would never be able to make the decision to drop out of school again. With my father's illness, there was no hope.

When Qin Yang left, her mother gave her two hundred yuan, and when her mother turned around, she quietly put it on the table again. With a few simple clothes on his back, he said hello and left without calling his mother again!

There was no railway station in the county, so Qin Yang went to the bus station to inquire about how much a ticket to Guangdong cost, and the conductor surprised her with the offer. It costs hundreds of dollars, and you need to buy a ticket a week in advance. And he only had the last 168 yuan left in his pocket. The 168 yuan was saved from her living expenses for most of the semester.

So, Qin Yang retreated and thought about it and prepared to find a job in a hotel in the county first, and then go to Guangdong after saving up the travel expenses.

What she didn't expect was that after wandering in the county for more than two hours, there were more than a dozen large and small hotels and restaurants, and when she saw Qin Yang's student-like dress, they all rejected her.

In the southwest, this small county town known as the "Little Spring City" has low temperatures in the morning and evening, but the sun is hot at noon, no different from summer. Although the temperature is low in the morning and evening, this small city is basically untouched by the cold of winter except for the coast, and you will not see any merchants selling air conditioners here, nor can you see merchants selling down jackets.

The way for ordinary people to spend the winter is simple and straightforward, at most two sweaters and a coat are more than enough. And the winter is also very short, as soon as the Spring Festival passes, the people here begin to enter the summer heat.

After walking for two hours, there was no water, his stomach was rumbling with hunger, and the scorching sun above his head made Qin Yang's eyes hurt. She touched the 168 yuan in the bottom of her clothes, but she was still reluctant to buy herself a bottle of water or a bowl of noodles to eat.

Dragging her tired body, Qin Yang went to several restaurants with recruitment advertisements one after another, and all of them rejected her without exception.

Qin Yang passed by a stall selling workwear, and suddenly she gritted her teeth and took out 50 yuan to buy a set of overalls for a hotel waiter, and spent 10 yuan to buy a pair of rubber-soled black cloth shoes. She quickly found a public restroom, changed her clothes and shoes as quickly as she could, and walked out to look at herself in the mirror above the sink.

Seventeen-year-old Qin Yang is still baby-faced, but this outfit really makes her look a little bit scored.

Sure enough, Qin Yang wore the "overalls" she bought, and only walked through three stores, the first two of which were small restaurants, Qin Yang stepped forward to ask, and the other party told her that she had just recruited the right person before her

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The third store is a small shop, and this is a hotel! This hotel is not small, and the big signboard hangs high on the roof of this building! At that time, the tallest building in the small county town was only seven floors. When Qin Yang was in school, he passed by the door of this hotel with his classmates countless times. She never imagined that she would become a dishwasher in this hotel.

After all, being a dishwasher is not a technical job, so there is no such thing as a tedious and detailed "interview"! Qin Yang became one of the three dishwashers at the hotel called Tiancheng. This is also the first job in the life of Qin Yang, who has just turned 17 years old before completing the first semester of high school. The monthly salary is 1,200 yuan, including food and housing.

As a representative of the catering industry in this small county, the salary of this hotel is relatively high in the industry, and other hotels and restaurants can only open up to 1,000 yuan a month for food and lodging. Yes, even as low as 800. Of course, these were all things that Qin Yang only learned about later.

Put down the simple luggage, change into the hotel's unified dishwasher clothes, and Qin Yang joined the dishwashing aunt! The mountain of dishes surprised Qin Yang. Qin Yang has seen so many cups, plates and dishes for the first time in his life since he was 17 years old. Later, Qin Yang heard from the aunt who washed the dishes together that the people who came to this hotel to eat and consume were all county people with a few dollars in their pockets, and every day when they arrived at the hotel, the private rooms and halls were overcrowded upstairs and downstairs, and business was booming.

Finally, at seven o'clock in the evening, almost all the diners were gone. Finally, it was the turn of the "employees" to eat. Qin Yang finally ate the first and last meal of the day.

I was extremely hungry, and the dishes fried by the restaurant chef were much better than the dishes that were casually put some oil in the pot at home and fooled around a few times. So, Qin Yang ate 5 bowls of rice. Of course, the rice bowl in the hotel is only half the size of the home.

Finally, when it was time to put away the bowls, a kind aunt sitting next to her kindly asked her, "Little girl, are you full?" ”

She smiled embarrassedly at her aunt, "I'm really hungry today!" ”

Auntie seemed to have fiery eyes, "Now is the time for you to grow your body, eat more!" ”

Qin Yang was a little embarrassed by her.

The next day, when the person in charge of personnel asked her for a copy of her ID card, she knew that she was under the age of eighteen, so she lied and said that her ID card had just been accidentally lost a while ago and was in the process of being reissued!

Personnel thought that she was a local, so she was accommodating. It may be that there is a lot of personnel work, or it may be that there is no need to be too harsh in the face of such a harmless little girl who will not make any trouble, after all, more things are also less things.

Qin Yang didn't tell her mother that she was working in the county. I didn't tell my mother that she stayed in the county seat as a dishwasher because of the travel expenses.

It was this first job that made Qin Yang feel that studying is really better than part-time work

Too much. If it weren't for my father's illness, I wouldn't have dropped out of school now.

As soon as he thought of going to school, Qin Yang felt sad in his heart. So, she worked hard every day to concentrate on washing the dishes. Never take the initiative to look up and take the initiative to communicate with the other two "colleagues".

I don't know which talented person coined the idiom "old treacherous and cunning" in ancient times. In the first month of work, Qin Yang had a deep experience. From time to time, the two aunts who washed the dishes together disappeared, and sometimes they didn't come back for half an hour. When the supervisor came to check, they always asked Qin Yang to help them use the excuse of going to the toilet as a cover.

So, Qin Yang, who never dared to be lazy, was so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist every night, and just wanted to lie in bed. However, she found that she could not fall asleep even when she was lying in bed. During the day, the two aunts, who were lazy in the name of going to the toilet, showed their excessive energy at the moment, from complaining about their husband's eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling to complaining about their children's disobedience. It's the same topic almost every day, but they never seem to get tired of talking. This made Qin Yang, who lived in the same room with them, very annoying. But she dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak. Although she told them that she was 19 years old. But I'm still worried that the secret of being only 17 years old may be discovered by these two aunts one day, and when it comes to personnel or the place where the family is in charge, I will be fired. This feeling of trembling is tormenting Qin Yang every day. And she only does three things, washing the dishes when it's time to wash the dishes, eating when it's time to eat, and sleeping when it's time to sleep.

Because of Qin Yang's serious attitude and the youthful Qin Yang's vigorous spirit, the supervisor transferred Qin Yang to the front hall as a waiter. In the second month, Qin Yang's salary rose to 1,300 yuan. It's 100 more than being a dishwasher, and you don't have to bend over and keep your head down all day.

The two aunts said to her sourly, "Little girl, a young and beautiful face is capital, you have to grasp it well!" Don't forget your two aunts when there are benefits in the future! ”

Qin Yang was usually quite dissatisfied with their laziness, but he didn't say anything. Just smiled and said no problem.

Originally, Qin Yang only planned to resign after earning enough travel expenses, but unfortunately the hotel's requirement was that it needed to be done for at least 3 months. She didn't want to break her promise, so she insisted on sitting for three months.

In the first month, Qin Yang only left 200 yuan, and transferred the remaining 1,000 yuan to his mother's bank card. After that, he entrusted a classmate who was far away in Guangdong to call the village chief and said that he had transferred the money to the card.

(End of chapter)

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