Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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Ye Ning looked at the leader’s back and felt that he seemed to know her. Could he be Wang Yao’s uncle? Probably not. Wang Yao’s uncle was the director of the factory, not the deputy director like Director Liu, the real boss. Such a person should not have come to the interview in person.
“Comrade Ye Ning, I heard that you just finished taking the college entrance examination?” Yang Wanqing poked the rice in the bowl and asked suddenly.
“Yes.” Ye Ning swallowed the food in her mouth, “Are you also taking the college entrance examination this year?”
“I’m not a high school student, I’m a technical secondary school student.” Yang Wanqing looked at Ye Ning proudly.
Technical secondary schools at this time were different from regular secondary schools. Today’s technical secondary schools were much more difficult to pass than high schools. You could also get a job just after graduation, which was very valuable. You just couldn’t get into technical secondary schools, so you had to settle for the next best thing. It was no wonder that Yang Wanqing was proud of the high school she attended.
“Then you are very good. I also wanted to take the technical secondary school entrance exam, but unfortunately my grades were not good enough and I didn’t pass the exam.” Ye Ning smiled slightly.
Yang Wanqing was actually very shallow-minded, and her happiness or displeasure showed on her face. Although such a person was not good to get along with, but at least they won’t harm others. Like Wu Xiuzhu, who seemed kind and gentle on the surface, but was more ruthless than anyone behind the back. She should stay away from her in the future. Of course, she should have less contact with that Zhang Yunyun. Innocence and stupidity did not mean the same thing.
Hearing Ye Ning praise her, Yang Wanqing hummed in embarrassment and glanced at Wang Bin proudly. Seeing her looking at Ye Ning from time to time, she immediately stopped smiling and became indifferent to Ye Ning’s softened attitude.
Ye Ning was a little dumbfounded. She was just a child who had not grown up. Forget it, as time went by, she would know that she had no interest in Wang Bin at all.
It was already three o’clock in the afternoon when she left the pharmaceutical factory, and the days were long in summer. Ye Ning was not in a hurry to return to the dormitory, and planned to walk around here to see if there was any suitable house for rent. Originally, it wouldn’t matter if she was alone, as long as she had a single room. The problem was that both Ye Lan and Ye Gu were coming. Ye Lan could live in the dormitory, but not Ye Gu.
There was another problem. The pharmaceutical factory and the second primary school were one in the east and the other in the west, so she had to rent in the middle of the two places, preferably close to the second primary school, so that it would be more convenient for Ye Gu to go to school. She would think of a way to get a bicycle then.
Ye Ning inquired about several houses, but no one was willing to rent the house. Now they were all two-story buildings. Apart from the living room and kitchen, it was good to have four rooms, one for the elderly, one for the couple, and rest for the children, if they didn’t have enough room for themselves, how could they rent it to others?
She wasn’t in a hurry to find a house. If she went out for a walk these days, she could always find a place she liked.
When she returned to the dormitory, except for her and Wu Jing’s beds, everything else had been moved out. It was estimated that after the results were announced and the application forms were filled out, they would not be able to continue living there. She wondered if the pharmaceutical factory had dormitories? The results would be released the day after tomorrow, and she didn’t know when they would notify her to go to work, so Ye Ning simply didn’t want to go back to her home-town.
The next day, Ye Ning went out to look for a house early in the morning. She first went to search near the second primary school. She found two small rooms. They were really small. They were seven or eight square meters in size. They were only enough for a bed. She was fine by herself, but the three siblings would definitely not be able to fit in. Ye Ning politely said that she would consider it, but in fact, she had already ruled out these two rooms.
On the way from the second primary school to the pharmaceutical factory, there was a courtyard for rent. Ye Ning went to check it out. It turned out to be a very nice small courtyard, but it had not been inhabited for too long and was in disrepair. One of the houses had even collapsed. Yes, there were still two good ones that could be occupied by people after some repairs, but they were full of clutter. If she wanted to live in them, she would have to spend a lot of time cleaning them.
“I returned here just last year. I also have another house. There are people living there all the time, so the house is not bad. I live there with my wife now. The house here is actually good. Later, I am planning to have the collapsed house repaired. Demolish it and renovate the other two rooms so that people can live in them. I will then ask people to remove the debris in the house, and I will also ask people to pull out the weeds in the yard. If you want to rent, you will need to rent the other two rooms and clean it up yourself.”
In this case, this yard was worth renting. It was not that Ye Ning was easy to talk to, but she had seen so many houses, and this one was the only one that suited her liking. The location was also suitable. It was a single-family house. There were two rooms with a kitchen and a living room, and two rooms were enough for the three of them.
“How much is the rent? How long can I rent it for?” These two questions are Ye Ning’s biggest concerns. If the rent was too high and uneconomical, and it would be too troublesome to take it back soon after renting it to her.
“I won’t be using this place for a while. You can rent it for as long as you want.” The landlord glanced at the pretty and outrageous girl and said, “Do you really want to rent a house? Where are your parents?”
“My parents are not here. In the countryside, my younger brother and sister will go to school in the city next semester, so it is more convenient to rent a house.” Ye Ning said half-truthfully.
The landlord nodded, so he could understand, “You have seen the environment here, I will give this to you for four yuan a month.”
“Okay, but we still sign a contract.” Ye Ning wanted to sign for a longer time, it didn’t make much sense to invest in real estate in a small county. The current housing prices in Huanshan County may not be much different from those in the provincial capital or the capital. If she wanted to invest, she would go to places like the provincial capital or the southern part of the capital.
Of course the landlord was happy. The longer the contract was signed for, the happier he would be. Not to mention a few more yuan in monthly income and someone to help look after the house.
She paid a deposit of two yuan first, and then officially signed the contract after the landlord had cleared everything.
Ye Ning went to the pharmaceutical factory before returning to the dormitory. She came twice and the uncles outside the door knew her.
“Uncle, have the recruitment results come out yet?”
“It’s so fast. I’ll let you know when they come out.” The uncle saw that Ye Ning was well-behaved and liked her very much. “Don’t worry, I heard that anyone who passes the exam can enter the factory. Don’t worry about anything. As for the position, it would be great if you could join the factory.”
“Okay, thank you, uncle.” Ye Ning also knew that she was impatient.
Early the next morning, the senior high school students who had left school came back one after another. They gathered in the dormitory again and chatted about their grades. Even thirty years later, the college entrance examination was still a major event in life. Ye Ning had already experienced it once. She originally thought that she would face it calmly, but she did not expect that she would still be anxious. She definitely won’t go to college, but it seemed very embarrassing if her grades were too bad.
The teacher knew that the students were waiting anxiously, so he did not hesitate and sent the report cards to the students.
“Hey, why do I only have 300 points?” A classmate shouted in disbelief.
Ye Ning looked back and saw that he was the deputy monitor of her class. He usually had very good grades and thought he could pass the undergraduate level. Unexpectedly, he only scored 300 points.
Where there was sadness, there was happiness. The person who originally thought she had failed in the exam found that her score was higher than expected, and she jumped up excitedly. Ye Ning took a deep breath and looked down at her score. She found 292 points, out of a total score of 550. So, she scored 292 points in the exam. Although she knew her score would not be ideal, she was still a little disappointed when she saw the results.
Wang Yao looked at her score, which was 437. She closed her report card, came to Ye Ning’s side, and comforted her: “It doesn’t matter, you have worked very hard.”
“Yes, you have performed very well.” Gan Tiantian was Ye Ning’s desk mate. She saw her results earlier than Ye Ning. Ye Ning glanced at Gan Tiantian’s score, which was 406 points, passing the undergraduate level, and said with a smile: “Congratulations, it seems that it is not a problem for you to enter Nancheng University.”
Hearing this, Gan Tiantian narrowed her eyes, “Thank you.”
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