Chapter Fifty-Eight: Maturity and Discomfort
Seeing the girl, Gu Qiaona nodded lovingly, pointed at Zhang Muzi and said, "Taixi, this is your Aunt Xiangzhi's brother Zhang Muzi, who will stay at our house from today until the end of the joint entrance examination, say hello." β
"Yes," the short-haired girl heard this, bowed to Zhang Muzi with no different face, and said softly: "Hello, I am Kim Tae-hee, the second daughter of two men and two girls in the An family. β
Zhang Muzi couldn't be surprised, and bowed and replied with a somewhat flustered 'painting scoop compared to a gourd': "You, hello, I am, Zhang Jiayi, well, the only son Zhang Muzi." β
"Then you know each other, so let's get along well in the future. Gu Qiaona smiled and nodded, "Muzi, although Tae-hee is a few months younger than you, because both the elementary and middle schools have a relationship of skipping grades, he is now a first-year student at Seoul University."
Since your dream is to become an 'interstellar reporter', you have to catch up with your sister who started first. Walking into the house.
"Ah, oh, yes..."Hearing this, Zhang Muzi recalled that Gu Qiaona had just said that her second daughter's wish from childhood was to be an 'interstellar reporter', so she was admitted to the 'Han University' School of Media and Communication, and hurriedly agreed, and followed Gu Qiaona into the cement room.
After a short entryway, there is a living room divided into two parts by an invisible line, a slightly smaller part on the left, an LCD TV hanging on the wall, and a set of second-hand sofas around a glass coffee table on the wooden floor;
On the slightly larger right, in addition to a 'island' kitchen, there is a rectangular dining table that is already full.
Both parents are only sons and only daughters, and when the whole family gets together for dinner, there are only 'two or three birds' Zhang Muzi, although he has heard that Gu Qiaona's family has many children, but he is still frightened by the scene in front of him that looks like a small company dinner.
In his astonishment, he heard Gu Qiaona point to a man sitting at the head of the dining table with a slightly wooden expression, gray hair, medium height, between middle age and old age, still wearing a black straight suit at home, and said: "Muzi, this is your uncle An Yihuan, and your father's best chess friend on the Internet." β
"Ah, hello uncle. "After coming to the 'Han Dynasty', Zhang Muzi, who had gradually realized the importance of politeness and 'rules' on the peninsula, hurriedly bowed ninety degrees and greeted.
"Your father and I don't see each other often, but we're very good friends, so living here is like your own home, don't be inhibited. An Yihuan nodded, and his voice was almost plain and polite, and he stopped speaking after saying a word, and he could see that his personality was quite strict.
And after he finished speaking, Gu Qiaona no longer continued to introduce Zhang Muzi in person, but said to the other people around the dining table like she told her daughter: "Children, you all say hello to Muzi." β
"Yes. A tall, handsome man who looked the oldest of the group of young people stood up and said with a smile: "I am An Qingzai, the eldest son of two men and two girls in the An family, and I am now in the fourth year of economics and law at 'ZhengzhΓ¬ University'. β
As soon as he finished speaking, a young man sitting beside him with facial features that looked very similar to him, but he was much fatter and a head shorter, immediately stood up and answered: "I am the youngest son of two men and two girls in the An family, An Qingyan, a third-year student of the 'Korean and Korean Normal University'. β
After he finished introducing himself, he saw a tall girl with long hair, a pair of narrow-rimmed black-framed eyes on the bridge of her nose, and delicate facial features on the bridge of her nose standing up and saying coldly: "I am Ahn Tae-jin, the eldest daughter of two men and two girls in the An family, studying medicine in the second year of 'Seoul University'..."
The group of young people sitting around the table stood up and sat down one by one, and when they all finished greeting them, Zhang Muzi learned that in addition to the two husband and wife of the An family and their four children living in this house, a boy and a daughter of An Yihuan's second brother's family, An Qingzhou, who is in the first year of high school at the 'National Ocean University', and An Taeyan, who is in the second year of high school at Jifu Middle School;
The two sons and one daughter of the third brother's family, twins An Qingzhen and An Qinghao, who are also in the third year of high school at Jifu Middle School, and An Taiya, who is in the first year of high school, also live here.
Such a family structure would never have existed in the 'round platform', and unless both parents died, no one would live in their uncle's house all year round.
However, this is not the case in the Korean Dynasty, because according to the practice of Korean society, the eldest son of a family has always been born with a heavy moral responsibility, and it is his unshirkable duty to support his parents and maintain the integrity of the entire family.
As the eldest son of the family, Ahn Yi Hwan worked hard in Seoul for decades after graduating from university, and although he is now considered to have achieved something, he has never served his parents for a day except when he returns to his hometown during the New Year's Festival, which is a huge flaw in his personal character in the 'Han Dynasty' and is easily criticized.
Therefore, when he could not give up his career in Seoul and his parents were stubbornly unwilling to leave his homeland, he brought the children of his two younger brothers, who were filial to their parents in their hometown, to Seoul, whose education quality was far better than that of his hometown, so that his younger brother and sister-in-law could take better care of their parents, which was completely a way to get the best of both worlds, and no one could criticize his character.
Zhang Muzi naturally didn't understand that the reason why the An family raised five children of their relatives when they had four children contained the deep-seated ethics of the 'Korean and North Korean' society, just to live in such an exaggerated family with many members and seemingly rule-heavy in the next few months, I felt a headache.
So much so that according to the order of men, left, women, and age, after sitting down to eat in a regular manner, the mouth is completely unsavory.
Finally got to the end of dinner, he finally made up his mind not to think about it anymore, and after a while, he would use the excuse of familiarizing himself with the situation in Wenchang Cave for a while, sneak out and eat a good meal of high-quality barbecue, and then call Charles to send him a cash of 200,000 or 300,000 yuan, and spend it slowly with him.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Muzi was about to speak, when he suddenly heard Gu Qiaona smile and ask his child: "I looked at Muzi's previous results, and the scores in foreign languages and Chinese are not bad, but mathematics and science and 'scientific inquiry' are a little worse."
Kyungyeon, Tae-jin, Tae-hee, the three of you all had good grades in math and science and 'scientific inquiry' in high school, who would like to help Muzi make up for two hours of class every night from Monday to Saturday.
Your Aunt Xiangzhi has given a salary of 1,500 yuan per hour. β
In the 'Korean Dynasty', college students can be said to be the highest-paying and best part-time job opportunity to help junior students make up classes, and the hourly salary ranges from 800 to 1,200 yuan depending on the university.
Judging from the school level of 'Seoul' or 'National Chengchi University', it is natural to be able to get a maximum salary of 1,200 yuan, which seems to be much less than 1,000 yuan.
But in fact, this kind of one-on-one make-up lessons, usually need **, if you are unlucky, the time and cost spent on transportation alone are quite expensive, and it is difficult to find a reassuring long-term employer, so although it sounds like a good hourly wage, but in fact, it is busy for a month, and the income may only be one or two thousand yuan.
It's like making up for someone at home, easily pocketing 3,000 yuan a night, and making a net profit of 15,000 a week, which can be regarded as a pie falling from the sky, so as soon as the mother's voice fell, the three children of the An family immediately said in unison: "I am willing to help." β
"Well, since you are all willing to help Muzi make up for the class, I will choose the best of the best," Looking at the three children scrambling, Gu Qiaona said with an unchanged smile: "Qingyan originally learned to be a teacher, and the 'scientific inquiry' was a full score in the joint entrance examination, so he tutored Muzi alone on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights for 'science';
Tae-hee, you are the best at math, Tae-jin is very strong in science, so for the remaining three days of the week, you will help Muzi tutor 'math and science' respectively, and the time will be allocated half and half.
Today is Monday, so it's up to Qingyan to start first, Muzi, come, come with me to see your room, and then start making up the lessons. β
"I have to make up classes at night..."After listening to Gu Qiaona's arrangement, Zhang Muzi opened his mouth and muttered: "Gu, aunt, I have already taken seven classes for a whole day, even if it is a sprint for the joint entrance examination, there is no need to live so 'tight'." β
"Muzi, after the third year of high school in the 'Han Dynasty', study for another two or three hours in the evening, but it is the most basic," Gu Qiaona said disagreeably with Zhang Muzi's words: "Isn't there also many students in the 'Yuantai' who will go to the cram school after school in the afternoon to make up for classes." β
"There are a lot of such students who are good, but they are 'nerds'..."Zhang Muzi opened his mouth again and blurted out, but was interrupted by Gu Qiaona, "Muzi, if only the kind of 'nerd' you said can be admitted to public universities and fulfill your dreams, then from today onwards, you should be a 'nerd' and study hard."
That won't disappoint your mom and dad's expectations of you, right?"
Gu Qiaona's earnest teachings made Zhang Muzi speechless, so he could only nod depressedly, and after going to the second floor to see his room, he made up the lesson with An Yanqing.
In the days that followed, he lived an awkward life at home, and washed his own clothes in the washing machine for the first time;
For the first time, when I was hungry late at night, I boiled egg ramen (instant noodles) with my own hands against my back;
The first time I got up early to line up to go to the bathroom... In short, after experiencing many firsts, Zhang Muzi gradually got used to the days of leaving home, learned how to get along with others better, and slowly became independent and mature.
The only thing that he couldn't adapt to for a long time was that although the children of the An family were friendly to him, when five of them went to college and talked to him, they often unconsciously revealed an inexplicable sense of superiority, which was unpleasant.
In fact, Zhang Muzi didn't know that this was a normal thing on the Korean Peninsula, because according to the view of Korean and Korean society, regardless of their actual age, the difference between college students and middle school students is almost a world apart, equivalent to the difference between adults and minors.
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