Chapter 002 The Poor
At this time, Wu Xiaoming saw a big boy wearing Hongxing Erke from head to toe walking in from outside. In his mind, the other party was not a trendy one, but a rustic no.1.
However, in such an economically underdeveloped inland fifth-tier city and an unknown ordinary undergraduate college, they are already considered to be dressed well.
Wu Xiaoming recognized the other party with the memory of combining two into one. The person who came was named Wang Jian, nicknamed "Bitch". He is from this city. Not only is he a classmate from a vocational high school class with him, but he also teamed up with a team to apply for the same university and major. The two also became roommates.
"I just came out to smoke a cigarette and you woke up." Wang Jian smiled and sat next to him without seeing him.
Wu Xiaoming just looked at him but said nothing. He knew very well that although the other party's family's financial conditions were better than his, they were not better.
As the saying goes, rich people are full of wealthy people, while poor people are full of poor people. The Wang Jian family is neither rich nor poor, they are just ordinary local families.
"At that time, when you fainted, I was scared." Wang Jian said bluntly.
"Why don't you go to military training? Come and be lazy when you come to me." Wu Xiaoming said lukewarmly.
"Why did you forget? It was our instructor who asked me to stay with you alone." Wang Jian had already told the truth.
"I've fainted. Can I know this?" Wu Xiaoming said speechlessly.
"You're right. By the way, on Saturday and Sunday, there's a job where my mother's company distributes leaflets. One person costs 10 yuan a day. One person costs 20 yuan a day," Wang Jianyou said.
After hearing what he said, Wu Xiaoming immediately began to think about it in his mind, and only paid 10 yuan for seven or eight hours. The average hourly salary was only more than one yuan, and it was not even enough to buy a bottle of 1.5 yuan mineral water.
This labor force is really too cheap. However, he thought again that the economic level and consumption level of the city are like this. After all, a big meat bun on campus costs only 50 cents, a boiled egg costs 50 cents, a steamed bun costs 20 cents, a bowl of porridge costs 20 cents, and a plate of pickles costs 10 cents.
Why I know so detailed and clear is that I have had breakfast in the school’s first canteen for three days.
The standard meal for his meals every day is to eat two large meat buns and a bowl of porridge for breakfast, which cost him 1.2 yuan. Two meat dishes (that is, two spoonfuls, one spoonful) at noon cost 1.5 yuan, 30 cents of rice, and 1.8 yuan in subtotal.
The same is true for evening meals. The cost of three meals a day is within 5 yuan. In a month, I personally eat about 150 yuan.
"If you don't want to do it, then there are people who are rushing to do it. There are many people in the market now. I think that we have a good relationship on weekdays, so I left one for you. Why are you still afraid of being embarrassed when standing on the street and sending leaflets?" Wang Jian turned his head and stared at him and said.
"In my current physical condition, do you think I can be competent for the physical labor you mentioned? Could it be that you want to see me faint again?" Wu Xiaoming said seriously.
Wang Jian suddenly realized, "You are right. Then I will give someone the quota left for you?"
Wu Xiaoming is not unclear. For all the time, students in mainland China are not as likely to find hourly workers in developed capitalist countries. For college students, the most easily accepted part-time job is tutoring.
On the one hand, this is decent, and on the other hand, the hourly wage price is high. The market price of hourly tutoring in this market is between 5 yuan and 10 yuan. However, such a job is not easy to find.
Not to mention every weekend, there are many college students in this city gathering to set up stalls at the entrance of Xinhua Bookstore every day. After all, almost everyone in the city knows about it.
Wu Xiaoming decisively said: "Give it to others!"
"It's not that I said you, your health is too bad. In the past, what did you eat at home?" Wang Jian said whatever he thought of.
After a moment of reflection, Wu Xiaoming's mind saw that the food he had in his past was really bad. Before he came to college, he still remembered it when he secretly heard a conversation between his parents.
When I come home on the weekend, their family will buy meat to eat. If they are just parents, they will only eat vegetarian food on weekdays.
Even if they go to work, they only bring side dishes and pickles in the lunch box containing rice. In this way, it would be a little bit of money to save.
If I were the original owner of this body at the age of 18, of course I wouldn't have thought too much. To put it bluntly, this age is just a big boy without real mental maturity.
At present, my parents' monthly income is only about 1,000 yuan, and the whole year is only about 12,000 yuan.
The annual tuition fee is 4,500 yuan, the accommodation fee is 8 people, 600 yuan. The cost of freshmen in the first academic year is even more. Among them, the textbook fee for three years is 800 yuan and the miscellaneous fees are 300 yuan.
This was added up and down, and I paid 6,200 yuan in the first school year, which was the income of my parents not eating or drinking for half a year.
Not only that, my monthly living expenses are 300 yuan. Including the three months of winter and summer vacations, there are still nine months left, totaling 2,700 yuan.
Together, parents need to pay 8,900 yuan for their first school year, which has already accounted for a large portion of their income.
If you really need to continue to make detailed calculations, there will be only a lot of money. This will also increase the amount of money required by the school to buy bed sheets, mosquito nets, meal cards, dormitory keys, military training fees, etc.
As for the remaining 3,100 yuan, they are the annual food expenses for the couple, as well as the cost of water, electricity, gas and other expenses at home.
Fortunately, the bungalow I live in and out with a kitchen, which is less than 40 square meters in total, does not have to pay for the rent. Even so, 3,100 yuan/12 months is equivalent to less than 260 yuan per month.
Even if you don’t have textbook fees and miscellaneous fees for the remaining two years, you will have to pay tuition fees of 4,500 yuan, accommodation fees of 600 yuan and living expenses of 2,700 yuan, and subtotal of 7,800 yuan is unstoppable.
This will also cause considerable financial pressure and burden on parents. Can you blame your parents? Of course not, after all, they have given the best.
Is he poor in his life like this? He must be poor. Before he went to such a university, he originally thought that he was really poor.
After studying in this kind of university, I found that there are more than myself. The two words "more" are added together to those poor classmates from the countryside.
What should I do after three years of living such a hard life? Is it the same thing to find a job that cannot be full and cannot starve to continue the life of my parents in the past?
Wu Xiaoming gave himself a positive answer in his heart, absolutely no. It doesn’t matter whether he reads a book or not. In his mind, there is nothing to learn here.
Reading may not change your destiny, but money will definitely change your destiny. You need to make money the most, making a lot of money.
Wang Jian saw Wu Xiaoming's excitement for a while, and then he spoke: "What's the situation with you?"
Wu Xiaoming naturally would not tell the other person what he was thinking. His right index finger pointed at his head and said, "It hurts a lot."
"Have you taken the medicine?" Wang Jian asked casually.
Chapter completed!