He did not enter the apartment building, but sat on a wooden bench beside the grass in the yard.
He felt weak all over, as if he had no strength at all. He was a lively eighteen-year-old boy, hunched over like an old man, with his head in his hands hanging on his legs and knees.
Liu Gen didn't know if he could afford to go to school. Even if Teacher Mei helped him persuade the school leaders and agreed to suspend tuition fees, where would such a large amount of money come from?
Student loans are not impossible. Once the tuition for this year is taken care of, you can earn your own living expenses. For the tuition for the next year, you can earn scholarships through hard study.
Before deciding to apply for the major of Nanhai Medical University, Liu Gen learned from the admission brochure or information about Nanhai Medical University that Nanhai Medical University has a number of scholarships, the highest of which is the 'Outstanding Medical Student Award'.
Students with a subject score of 90 or above, no matter how many students meet this standard, can receive a scholarship of 8,000 yuan. Each college and major also has different levels of scholarships, and various scholarships can be stacked.
To this end, Liu Gen made some calculations. As long as he studies hard and gets a scholarship, starting from the second year, he will be able to pay off the tuition with the annual scholarship without spending a penny from his family, and there will still be enough money to support his younger sister.
Willow Zhi studies and supports her family. After two years of postgraduate study, she will receive a graduate student subsidy every month, which is equivalent to a working person getting a salary. In addition, she can earn a little by working outside in her spare time, and she can bring her parents to Nanhai.
Come and live a good life like a city dweller.
However, things were not as smooth as Liu Gen thought. The first year's tuition fees were gone before they arrived at school. His younger sisters Liu Zhi and Jia He and his younger sister Jia Hehuan were still counting on him for their tuition and living expenses.
Where to get so much money? How to spend the first year?
Liu Gen was so helpless that he really wanted to cry bitterly.
Others are happily going to college, but it is their turn, so why is it so difficult! Do the children of poor people always have to be poor? If they don’t go to college, in addition to going back to the provincial capital to work, they will go back to their hometown of Gangou Village to farm.
, Liu Gen really didn’t think of a third way to go.
"No! I want to go to college! Dad is right, a kid from a poor mountain valley can only live a good life like a city dweller by studying. No matter how difficult it is, I have to go to college!" Liu Gen thought.
What my father said before leaving, he stood up suddenly and said to himself as if he was swearing: "For the sake of studying, even if I kneel down to apologize to that boy Li Tianyi, I will try to stay! Only if I can stay, will I
There is a chance! If you don’t believe me, a grown man can’t make money!”
After figuring it out, Liu Gen's calf-like energy seemed to be back, and he was filled with inexhaustible strength. He quickly ran towards the door of Building No. 9, finishing the three-story staircase in three steps at a time.
This apartment building has a long straight corridor in the middle, with rooms on both sides. At the door of each room, there is a blue plastic bucket covered with a black plastic bag, which contains garbage. Some dormitory doors are open.
, occasionally the chatter and laughter of boys and girls came from the room, and from other rooms, popular music and the melodious melody of the guitar floated out.
Liu Gen thought to himself: In the future, I will become one of them!
There was an odd number on the left and an even number on the right. Liu Gen found room 308 smoothly. The door was open and the lights were on in broad daylight. Wang Jiahe was talking to a boy.
Seeing Liu Gen entering the door, Wang Jiahe immediately introduced the tall and thin boy with a cigarette in his mouth: "Brother Gen, his name is Zhang Jian, and he is from Cantonese."
"Hello, Brother Gen." Zhang Jian shook out a cigarette from the cigarette case and handed it over, speaking in Cantonese Mandarin: "The Wang family told me what happened to you just now. It's my turn.
I have to beat that kid half to death!"
"Thank you, I can't." Liu Gen waved his hand and looked around the dormitory. It was not very big. There were two high and low iron beds on both sides of the room against the wall. Luggage wrapped in oil paper was placed on the bed. On both ends of the bed, there were desks and desks.
The lockers have a glass door that leads directly to the balcony. Liu Gen walked to the balcony and saw a door on the right. He opened it and saw that it was the bathroom. He walked in without closing the door. He untied the homemade cowhide leather strap and spread it open.
My legs splashed and I peed into the toilet.
Wang Jiahe and Zhang Jian followed Liu Gen out of the balcony and stood outside the bathroom. Zhang Jian said, "The bathroom is too small. When I get up in the morning, four people have to queue up to urinate."
"Who's not here yet?" Liu Gen turned around after peeing, wearing a belt, and asked without flushing the toilet. He hadn't learned the habit of flushing the toilet yet, so he walked out of the bathroom and asked.
"Li Chengzai." Wang Jiahe answered, walked into the bathroom, pressed the water tank button, and flushed away Liu Gen's urine.
"Are all four-person rooms in this building?" Liu Gen asked again, "Are there any six-person or eight-person rooms?"
"I asked the senior students and they said that Building 9 is the male apartment building for the School of Basic Medicine and the School of Clinical Medicine. Four-bedroom apartments are the most common student apartments. You can only live in a two-bedroom apartment when you are studying for graduate school or PhD.
"Zhang Jian said while blowing out smoke.
"Brother Gen, wash your face quickly and go to the cafeteria to eat." Wang Jiahe said.
"I'm the host today. Let's go out to have a good meal and buy toilet paper on the way back." Zhang Jian said immediately.
Wang Jiahe looked at Liu Gen, which meant that he could only go if Liu Gen agreed.
"You two go and eat." Liu Gen said, "I'm not hungry." In fact, his stomach was so hungry that he grumbled already. The sorghum pancakes had already fermented in his stomach and turned into dregs that were about to be excreted.
Wang Jiahe looked at Zhang Jian: "Forget it, let's just go to the school cafeteria and eat something. We will have a long time in the future."
Liu Gen saw that the note with his name on it said "upper bunk", so he took off his pair of star-black sneakers. He didn't wear socks, and his feet were a little sweaty. He climbed into bed, opened the luggage wrapped in oil paper, and first put oil paper on the bed board.
Then put on the mattress and sheets. There are two sets of sheets and quilt covers, which are blue. There is also a towel quilt and a dome mosquito net that can be propped up on the bed. There are many mosquitoes in the summer and autumn in the south, so it comes in handy.
Before Wang Jiahe went out, he asked Liu Gen: "Brother Gen, how about I bring you a copy?"
"No, I'm not hungry." Liu Gen made the bed and replied without raising his head.
"Then let's go." As soon as Zhang Jian finished speaking, he heard someone knocking on the door.
"Ouyang Xue, what are you..." Wang Jiahe saw Ouyang Xue standing at the open door with a smile, and glanced at Liu Gen, knowing that he was here to see Liu Gen; "Brother Gen, Ouyang Xue is here."
Zhang Jian, on the other hand, looked dumbly and stared at Ouyang Xue.
When Liu Gen heard Wang Jiahe say that Ouyang Xue was here, he looked at the door and saw Ouyang Xue standing there with a smile and asked, "Are your dormitories not all here yet?" Her eyes met Liu Gen's.
"There's still one more person to go, please come in quickly. You are our first female visitor in 308. Are you here to see Brother Gen?" Wang Jiahe replied, letting Ouyang Xue come in, and pulled the somewhat demented Zhang Jian and said: "
Come on, let’s go eat.”
"Oh..." Zhang Jian agreed, and with Wang Jiahe's pull, he looked back at Ouyang Xue who walked in the door.
Ouyang Xue walked into the dormitory and heard Zhang Jian's Cantonese Mandarin coming through the door: "That girl is so pretty..."
Liu Gen smiled at Ouyang Xue: "You find a place to sit for a while while I finish making the bed."
"The bedding for you boys is blue, and the bedding for us girls is pink." Ouyang Xue put her hands behind her back and walked, looking here and there: "Just like our girls' dormitory, there are four people living there..."
"You really don't want that guy to pay for your suitcase?" Liu Gen climbed out of the bed and asked while putting on his shoes.
"It's not worth much. If it dies, it will die." Ouyang Xue answered lightly, walked to Liu Gen's desk, pulled out a chair and sat down, saying, "The bed and desk you sleep on are the same as mine."
, I also sleep on the upper bunk."
Seeing that Ouyang Xue was still wearing the same clothes, the only change was that a band-aid was put on her scratched palm.
Liu Gen took the remaining set of sheets and quilt covers and was about to put them into the locker. Ouyang Xue helped him open the door of the locker, took the items from Liu Gen's hand, and put them into the locker: "Put your clothes from
Take it out of the bag and put it inside." Ouyang Xue said.
"Don't be busy yet." Liu Gen replied. He was not sure whether he could live here. Even if he could go to school, he planned to find a cheaper apartment to live in.
Ouyang Xue smiled and seemed to understand what Liu Gen meant: "Now, is it time to go to dinner?" She knew that Liu Gen hadn't gotten the meal card yet, so she came to Liu Gen specifically for dinner.
There were two knocks, and someone knocked on the door. Liu Gen and Ouyang Xue looked at the door at the same time, and saw a boy with glasses and long hair walking in, carrying a bag and pulling a suitcase: "This is the 99th-level clinical medicine
A dormitory for Class 1 of the Seventh Year System?" He spoke with an authentic Shandong accent.
"Yes, are you Li Sungjae?" Liu Gen walked up and asked.
"You are... Liu Gen, right?" Li Chengzai stared at the band-aid on Liu Gen's left face and said with a smile.
Liu Gen smiled. He knew that Li Chengzai's name was mentioned by Wang Jiahe just now, but the other party knew his own name, which was a bit strange: "How did you know it was me at a glance?"
Li Chengzai put down his suitcase, took off his bag, glanced at Ouyang Xue behind Liu Gen, and replied jokingly: "It's because you have a label on your face, haha... Teacher Mei told me, and she asked me
I leave this to you." As he said that, he took out a receipt and a meal card from his pocket and handed them to Liu Gen.
Liu Gen took it over with confusion and saw that it was a payment receipt issued by the school. It clearly stated that the payer was Liu Gen.
"This is..." Liu Gen looked at Li Chengzai in disbelief.
"Oh, Teacher Mei said that you forgot your receipt and meal card at her place." Li Chengzai replied nonchalantly.
"But I..." Liu Gen was really confused with the receipt in his hand.
Ouyang Xue didn't wait for Liu Gen to continue. With a smile on his face, he took a step forward and introduced himself: "Hello, classmate Li Chengzai, my name is Ouyang Xue, and I am also in Class 1." He extended his hand generously.
Li Chengzai was stunned for a moment, and finally stretched out his hand to lightly shake Ouyang Xue's band-aided hand: "You are Ouyang Xue. I saw the list of classmates in our class from Teacher Mei."
"The accent sounds like you're from Shandong?" Ouyang Xue asked.
"Yes, from Linyi, Shandong." Li Chengzai replied.
…
While Ouyang Xue was talking to Li Chengzai, Liu Gen stared blankly at the receipt in his hand, wondering in his mind: Did Teacher Mei pay the tuition for me?