Chapter 23 Preparations for Winter Vacation
Unconsciously, this semester is coming to an end, and under Scarface's careful tutoring, Xiaochao's grades have increased significantly, and the three subjects of mathematics, physics and chemistry have risen from about 80 points to a stable 100 points, which makes Aunt Han and Scarface feel very relieved. Scarface goes to Aunt Han's house every Friday to improve her life, and by the way, she also helps Xiaochao summarize the key points in her studies.
On this day, Scarface also arrived at Aunt Han's house at half past five, Aunt Han opened the door for him with a sad face, and when she entered the room, she found that Xiaochao had also gone home early and was lying on the bed.
"Ouch, Brother Lu is here, it seems that he can't go to class today." Xiao Chao's posture on the bed did not change.
"What's wrong with Xiaochao, this is." Scarface asked with concern.
"Playing ball flashed at the waist. What kind of basketball are you going to play at such a critical juncture, I don't care how you play when the college entrance examination is over. Aunt Han said with some complaint.
"Haven't I been active for almost a semester, I've been in a good mood lately, so I'm playing with them, who knows that I will flash my waist within a few minutes of playing." Xiao Chao said.
"That's good, the doctor said that you need to rest for at least a week before you can go to the ground, and you can't ride a bike for a month. You said that you are such a big man, how can I get you, I think I can only stay at home for this month, and my studies have just improved a little. What do you call that? Aunt Han said.
"Massage more, will it be better faster." Scarface asked.
The doctor also said that massage is the best treatment, and he can't move now, and when he came back from the hospital, the doctor gave him strong support after the massage, so he walked these stairs, and the pain was unbearable. He's so old, it's not like when I was a kid I could go to the hospital with my arms, and now I can't hold him, how can I take him to the hospital. I just pressed him, and he said he didn't feel it at all, how could I have the strength of a doctor, how good is this. Aunt Han said.
"I'll try it, I used to massage my dad a lot." Scarface said and sat down in front of Xiao Chao's bed and began to massage Xiao Chao seriously.
"Not to mention that Brother Lu's hand is stronger than that doctor, pressing it will work." Xiao Chao praised.
"Okay, I'm professionally trained, too." Scarface also jokingly said.
"You see I'm in a hurry and haven't even cooked, you two are busy first, I'll hurry up and cook." Aunt Han was in a slightly better mood and hurried to the kitchen. After an hour, Scarface's massage was over, and there was a slight sweat on his head.
"Son, how do you feel, look at your brother Lu's tiredness." Aunt Han asked Xiaochao while wiping Scarface's sweat with a towel.
"It's nothing, I'm not tired at all, the main thing is that the heating is too hot, and I wear a lot of clothes, so Aunt Han is not in the way." Scarface took the towel and wiped it. It's winter now, the temperature outside is below zero, but the house is around 25 degrees, and Scarface can't change up and down like people when he comes back, and he is still wearing thick wool pants, can he not sweat.
"Hey, look at my brain, a few days ago, I saw the sweat on your head when you left every day, and I thought about letting you change your clothes, and I forgot about it at a critical time. Come over and put this dress on, it's ready for you, Xiao Chao wore it a few times the year before, it should be appropriate. Aunt Han took out a pair of home clothes from the wardrobe and asked Scarface to change into, not to mention that Aunt Han is careful, not too big or too small.
"In the future, you will wear this outfit, just put Xiaochao in that house when you leave, the temperature difference is big this winter, how can you do it without changing your clothes, then you won't be on fire." Aunt Han said.
"Thank you, Aunt Han." Scarface felt warm in his heart
"You're welcome, I'm counting on you to give Xiaochao a good massage, right?" Aunt Han was joking. After Scarface's massage, Xiaochao was actually able to sit up, but Aunt Han resolutely refused to let him move more, and lay on the bed and fed him one bite at a time. An hour after eating, Scarface gave me a massage for more than an hour, and I didn't make up for today's class. Before leaving, Aunt Han took out fifty yuan and stuffed it into Scarface's hand.
"I didn't have classes today, so I can't ask for this money." Scarface excused.
"Hold, you deserve it, if you go to the hospital it's even higher. We're taking advantage of you," Aunt Han said with a smile.
"Brother Lu, just take it, do you still have time tomorrow? I think it might be good to press it for two more days, and I'm embarrassed to look for you again if you don't take it. "Xiaochao is also very happy. Scarface refused, and finally had to accept the kindness. After that, I went to give Xiaochao a massage for two days in a row, and on the third day, I was basically able to move on my own, and by the way, I made up for the class.
Entering the exam period, Scarface's study tasks have also increased, and the most important thing during this time is to copy notes from each other, and some subject teachers will draw key points, but most of the courses in the freshman year are public courses, and these like advanced mathematics and the like are completely dependent on strength. In the eyes of most people, the most difficult is advanced mathematics, and the high mathematics of the Department of Finance of Binhai University is B-level mathematics, which is not difficult for science students like Scarface, but it is not easy for those liberal arts students in high school. A lot of people have half of their energy taken up by math, but Scarface has spent half of his time in English this semester, and in the end he hasn't made much progress.
People say that the more you learn English, the easier it becomes, and as long as you graduate from high school, all that remains is to memorize words. But for Scarface,It's more and more difficult to learn.,He also holds four or six level words all day long.,Know every word.,But when it comes to cloze-in-the-blank、Reading comprehension、Composition None of them can be used.,Most people have a headache in the final exam The math Scarface scored 92 points.,But in what everyone thinks is the easiest English, it only scored 61 points.,The second-to-last English in the whole department is 80 points.,This score he knows is the result of the teacher's deliberate release of water.。 Because they are ultimately judged by the fourth and sixth level exams, this final exam is for the purpose of calculating credit points.
The winter vacation is coming, everyone is starting to prepare to buy tickets home, Scarface also wants to go home, but there is no place to live after going back, there is nothing else to do except to recover the remaining money from the sale of the house, and you have to go back to open a special poverty certificate during the summer vacation, and you can do it together at that time. Scarface's junior high school boy's grades have not improved much, and the parents have also euphemistically proposed that they will no longer hire tutors after this semester, which means that Scarface's tutoring class will be left with only Xiaochao after the end of this semester. In fact, in Scarface's view, the main reason why tutoring doesn't work depends on the student's learning attitude, if he wants to learn, a good tutor can play a little auxiliary role, if he doesn't work hard, he is a god and can't raise his grades.
Xiao Chao hoped that he could stay and give classes again during the holidays, and the class time was adjusted to Saturday and Sunday. The work of the school library will stop after the examination period, and if you still have to do it during the holidays, you can continue to go and apply to the school. In the end, Scarface decided to spend this winter vacation in Bencheng, at least the living expenses of these two jobs are enough, if you can find a holiday job, then there will be some leftovers, and you can save money for round-trip train tickets.
"Is Xiao Lu going home on vacation?" One day Aunt Han asked him
"I'm not going back, I'm going to work here." Scarface said.
"How's it going? Does the school's work-study center recommend you for a job again? Aunt Han asked with concern.
"In addition to you, there is also a school library that organizes books for two hours from 7 to 9 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and two pieces of five every hour. The others are not available now. Scarface said.
"Students at Binhai University are very popular as tutors, and there should be a lot of tutors looking for tutors during the holidays, so you didn't pick up a few more? If the time is not well arranged, Xiaochao can discuss the wrong time here. ”
"The school introduced a few more, and everyone wanted to do all subjects, but I couldn't speak English, Mandarin was not standard, and I couldn't tutor Chinese, so I didn't have a suitable one."
"Oh, well, if you go to the factory to work as a temporary worker, would you like to? It may be a little hard and tiring, but the income is still reasonable. ”
"I'm not afraid of hardship or tiredness, but I can't find such a job."
"I see, I'm going to figure it out."
A few more days later, there are the last two classes left in the exam, and Scarface will be completely off for another week, and this Sunday he came to Aunt Han's house to give lessons to Xiaochao. After class, Aunt Han asked him: "I have a classmate whose company needs to find a holiday job at the end of the year, are you interested, from 8 o'clock in the morning to 8 o'clock in the evening, the working time is calculated as ten hours, 7 yuan per hour." Only one day of rest is given a week. ”
"That's great, I just don't know what to do, people want me or not." Scarface was a little worried.
"I heard that it is just a simple job of carrying and recording, there are no requirements, and many of them have not graduated from junior high school. It is said that it is very hard, and even going to the toilet and drinking water during working hours are against time. Aunt Han was a little worried that Scarface would not be able to bear it.
"It doesn't matter, these are not problems for me, I have done all kinds of work in the countryside, and the workers are not as hard as the farmers." Scarface actually hasn't done any farm work at all, but he is very eager to have such a job, seventy yuan a day, and more than two thousand yuan in a winter vacation, which is better than doing anything.
"Then I'll talk to my classmates, when you have time next week, I'll make an appointment with someone for an interview."
"I'll finish the exam next Thursday, and if it's convenient, I'll have time all day next Friday to see when it's convenient for the other party."
"Okay, I'll call and ask now, you go and tutor Xiaochao first."
By the time Scarface finished giving Xiaochao a lesson, Aunt Han had already set a time with that side. "At two o'clock in the afternoon next Friday, you go to this place and say at the guard that you will find Minister Du Meijuan of the Administration Department." As he spoke, he gave Scarface a piece of paper.
Scarface took it and took a look, and it read, No. 56, Miyun Branch, Binnan District, Bincheng Factory, Nagano Clothing Co., Ltd. "Thank you, Aunt Han, Xiaochao's class may have to be adjusted." Scarface said a little embarrassed, but he felt that Xiao Chao didn't need to attend classes so often now, and it was enough to have an hour or two a week to answer questions. It's just that Aunt Han doesn't understand the situation, and Xiaochao may be embarrassed to mention it for the sake of face.
"It's okay, you can discuss it with Xiao Chao, Xiao Chao's learning will improve quickly this semester, I believe you will arrange it." Aunt Han said with a smile.
The students calculated the time at the beginning of the exam period and prepared their tickets home, and many people couldn't wait to rush to the train station after the exam on Thursday. By Friday, almost everyone in the dormitory had left, and after lunch, Scarface rode his bicycle to the area around the factory according to the address given by Aunt Han. I looked at my watch, and there were nearly forty minutes left before the appointed time, and I walked around. Next to this factory is a food factory, and then there is a packaging factory and an electronics factory, these scarfaces don't understand, and he knows by name. On the opposite side of these factories, and further down the city center, are old-fashioned residential areas. The houses look very shabby, the streets are not very tidy, there are low bungalows on both sides, either small restaurants or small shops, and there are quite a lot of people coming and going.
"Hello, I'm here for an interview, I'm looking for Minister Du from the Administration Department." Scarface said to the doorman who arrived at the doorman ten minutes early and sat down in the room for tea.
"Interview for a position?" The doorman was an old man of about fifty years old, and he spoke the local dialect of Bencheng.
"I don't know what position it is, Minister Du asked me to come." Scarface blushed, how did he know that he still needed to explain the position of the interview at the doorman.
"I don't know what the job to interview for, so I told the leader to call and ask clearly." When the doorman saw Scarface, he was a little hairy boy who had never seen the world, and with an impatient expression on his face, he deliberately made things difficult for him.
"Don't you have a phone, can't you call and ask? I don't have her phone, and besides, what did I call for, and people asked me to come at two o'clock, and I said that I came and the doorman wouldn't let me in? Scarface also saw that the old man was deliberately making things difficult for him, and greeted his immediate family in his heart, and then said a little angrily. He knows that this kind of laborer at the bottom can't meet a few people lower than him in a day, and it is easy to meet a person who can be bullied at will, and he must give full play to the little power he has in his hands. The more polite you are to him, the more arrogant his attitude will be.
"Well, I don't know, it's quite horizontal." The old man muttered as he dialed the phone.
"Hey, Minister Du? There was an interview at the door, and he asked him why he ...... "Before the old man finished speaking, the phone was already gone." I guess it was the other end who said let him in or something, and people didn't bother to listen to him.
The old man was a little unhappy, and said to Scarface: "Let's go in, the white building in front is an office building, go inside and find the front desk to ask." ”
Scarface said thank you, walked to the front of the office building, pushed open the brown glass door, and there was a beautiful woman with a beautiful face standing inside. As soon as Scarface entered the door, the beautiful woman bent down and bowed, and said, "Welcome to Nagano Clothing, who are you looking for?" The voice was sweet and made people feel like a spring breeze, and Scarface was suddenly blushed.
"Well, that, I'm here for an interview, looking for Minister Du." Scarface crampedly states his purpose.
"Please go up to the third floor, someone will receive you at the door." The beauty said with a professional smile.