Chapter 1095: poor and dejected
Translator: 549690339
lu yinxi came back to her senses. she quickly brushed her teeth and washed her face. carrying her bag, she took the subway to school with lu ziai. this was the first time lu ziai had accompanied lu yinxi to school. it was also the first time someone had accompanied her since her grandmother had pa.s.sed away.
lu yinxi leaned against lu ziai’s junior and couldn’t help but rub her eyes.
when lu ziai appeared at the entrance of luo yang junior high school with lu yinxi, the boys were stunned. when lu yinxi entered the exam hall, she heard people talking about a beautiful girl at the school gate.
lu yinxi couldn’t help but smile when she heard this.
her aunt was so beautiful!
!!
lu ziai accompanied lu yinxi for two days during her exams. after the exam, lu yinxi was still quite nervous. she was worried that she wouldn’t do well. lu ziai replied, ” poor grades are nothing. when i took the college entrance examination, my total score was only 350. i’m doing very well now. ”
lu ziai’s tone was particularly carefree. she lived as if she didn’t care about anyone or anything.
lu yinxi was stunned.
“auntie, your college entrance examination score was only 350?”
“yes.”
lu yinxi found it unbelievable. her aunt looked very smart, but her grades had been so bad when she was studying.
the night before the high school entrance examination results came out, lu yinxi couldn’t sleep at all. in the middle of the night, she got out of bed sneakily and found a dictionary. lu yinxi opened the dictionary and took out a photo that had been glued.
she stared at the young man’s delicate face in the photo for a moment before saying, ” brother, i hope i can get into eighth high school! ”
lu yinxi mistook fang zicheng for fang zikai. she put fang zikai’s photo on her chest and fell asleep. the next morning, lu yinxi opened lu ziai’s laptop after getting his permission.
lu yinxi checked the results online.
she was very calm when she checked her results. in any case, he would be stabbed if he stretched his head out, and he would be stabbed if he retracted his head. he might as well face the results calmly like a real man.
the total score for the high school entrance examination in binjiang city was 580. lu yinxi had scored 518. the results were not bad. no. 1 high school’s cut-off point was 509, while no. 8 high school’s was 495.
lu yinxi had filled in her first choice online, and it was no. 8 high school.
when wan yuting found out about it, she asked her why she didn’t fill in first middle school. lu yinxi suppressed the answer that was almost on the tip of her tongue and told a lie. ” i live near eighth high. ”
wan yuting really believed her words.
“we’re going to be schoolmates again.” wan yuting hugged lu yinxi and said, ” it seems like we are destined to be good friends! ”
lu yinxi’s body stiffened, but she did not push wan yuting away.
actually, it felt good to have someone as a friend.
the country currently had a nine-year compulsory education system. the tuition fees for high schools were much more expensive than that of junior and primary schools. no. 8 high school’s tuition fee was 2400 yuan per semester, and this did not include living expenses and other miscellaneous expenses.
lu yinxi felt helpless.
the first-year students had to register a month in advance. lu yinxi went to register. she only had about 20000 yuan in her savings, and she had spent more than 2000 yuan on the registration. after school started, she had to charge her own money for her meals.
lu yinxi asked around. no. 8 high school had three canteens, and the prices in each one were about the same. the first canteen was slightly cheaper, but the cheapest lunch was four yuan, and the most expensive one was ten yuan.
even if she ate the cheapest food for every meal, which was only two meals a day, it would still cost eight yuan a day. the cost of the bus was four yuan, and she had to pay twelve yuan just to stay alive.
lu yinxi felt terrified.
she didn’t have that much money!
what should she do?
borrow from aunt?
putting aside whether her aunt would lend her money, she had already caused her aunt a lot of trouble by staying at her aunt’s house. she was also embarra.s.sed to ask her aunt for money. to work to earn money?
high school studies were heavy. where would she find the time and energy to work?
the new students who came to report were all very excited. everything in the school was new and interesting. even the ants on the ground were cute. no matter what lu yinxi looked at, it was as if she was looking at chinese yuan.
she needed money!
the weather was very hot. there was a bus at no. 8 high school that went directly to lu yinxi’s aunt’s house. it only cost two yuan and only took twenty minutes to get home. they could even enjoy the air conditioning.
lu yinxi clutched the change in her pocket. when she thought about how she only had 16000 yuan in her bank account, and how she would have to rely on this 10000 yuan to live, lu yinxi suddenly felt that the change in her hand had become a huge sum of money.
it was really extravagant to take the public bus.
those who had never experienced poverty would never understand how desperate and terrifying the word ‘dest.i.tute’ was. to others, the world might be beautiful and wonderful, but to lu yinxi, the world was particularly cruel.
the sun was especially bright, and lu yinxi’s eyes were sore from the heat. she had heard from her grandmother that her parents had been killed by bad people, and she had been lucky enough to survive. at this moment, she couldn’t help but think,”why didn’t the murderer kill me as well?”
it was really tiring to live.
when she was in a public toilet, lu yinxi saw an advertis.e.m.e.nt on it. she stared at it for a while before tearing it off. lu yinxi dragged the advertis.e.m.e.nt sheet and walked to the entrance of her aunt’s neighborhood.
there was a newsstand at the entrance of the neighborhood. the newsstand had a public phone that cost fifty cents a minute.
lu yinxi gave the money she should have paid to take the bus to the middle-aged woman at the newspaper stand and made a public phone call. lu yinxi dialed the number printed on the flyer. the call was picked up rather quickly.
the person on the other end of the line said in a rough voice, ” h.e.l.lo? ”
lu yinxi was silent at first.
the man on the other end thought it was a hara.s.sment call and hung up.
standing under the scorching sun, lu yinxi took a deep breath and called again.
this time, the phone rang for a while before it was answered. ” this is the second time you’re calling, so you definitely didn’t call the wrong number. who are you and what’s the matter? ” the man’s voice sounded impatient.
lu yinxi’s voice was m.u.f.fled, as if she was afraid that others would hear her.
she asked the man, ” i saw the advertis.e.m.e.nt for the toilet. are you mr. zhang? ”
mr. zhang nodded and his tone became a little better. ” i am. ”
lu yinxi continued, ” i saw your advertis.e.m.e.nt. you’re buying eggs at 20000 yuan each. is that true? ” even though lu yinxi’s voice was soft, the newspaper stand’s auntie still heard her.
the middle-aged woman looked at lu yinxi in surprise.
she couldn’t figure out why this girl wanted to buy eggs at such a young age. was she going to buy X’s new smartphone? or should i buy a chanel bag?
lu yinxi realized that the woman was looking at her. she felt her cheeks burning, so she lowered her head. on the other end of the phone, the man’s voice was still recounting. he said, ” it’s true. miss, how may i address you? ” we have a request. miss, is it convenient for us to meet up and have a chat?”