Far away in Moscow

Chapter 49
"Can you stop scolding me? My dad said I'm a worthless dim sum. It never made him worry about raising me to such an age. A 20-year-old can't make money and only loses it. It's useless at all." Zhou Dali said with lingering fear : "Fortunately, it's far away, otherwise he would have come out from the phone line and kicked me."

Li Baoqing stuck out his tongue: "Your father is also very good."

"My father is like that, very unqualified." Zhou Dali made a grimace resentfully: "It's fine to scold me, but also scold the school. He said that the management of this poor place is too chaotic, so he asked me to bring more money when I return home. Go out and rent a better house to live in."

Hu Yi said, "Rent a better house? At least three hundred dollars a month?"

Zhou Dali shook his head: "Hey, who cares, I don't pay for it myself anyway, as long as he doesn't think it's expensive."

"Good guy, the monthly rent is three hundred!" Li Baoqing stared at Zhou Dali with a smile: "Dali, your family should be quite rich, right? Is your father the big boss?"

"Bah, how can he have that ability? He works in the office of a public institution. A few years ago, he partnered with a friend to set up a coal washing plant. He can earn some extra money, but he dare not say he is rich." Zhou Dali waved his hands again and again: "Really rich They have sent their children to the United States and Canada, how could they come to such a crappy place."

"That's not bad, that's not bad. If you lose more than 3000 US dollars, you have to give you more money for you to rent a house."

"The money was stolen by thieves, and we didn't lose it ourselves. How can we blame us? The adults can only curse a few words to vent their anger. How can there be a father who doesn't love his son?" Zhou Dali encouraged with a smile Said: "Hurry up and call, or the family will go to bed later. I'll go buy a few packs of instant noodles, let's have a makeshift meal at night."

Li Baoqing hesitantly took off the receiver and held it in his hand, pondered for a while and then hung it back up, repeated this several times, and finally handed the receiver to Hu Yi: "You come first, I'm not ready yet. "

Hu Yi was also quite disturbed. Eighteen hundred dollars was a huge sum of money for his family. If his parents found out about the theft, they would definitely be worried and sad, but they probably wouldn't treat him like Zhou Dali's father did. Instead of getting angry, she sat at home thousands of miles away and worried silently.Parents have been worrying too much for themselves these years, are they going to add trouble to them now?
A sense of depression welled up in his heart, Hu Yi held the receiver and thought over and over again, and decided not to tell his parents the truth for the time being.So he dialed the phone, first chatted with his mother for a few words, and then pretended to be nonchalant and said: "By the way, Mom, can you prepare some more dollars for me?"

"Prepare more?" The mother was very surprised, and paused for a moment: "Have you spent all the money you brought?"

"No, of course not, there is still one thousand and eight!" Hu Yi frowned, but his tone pretended to be relaxed: "Isn't it the New Year, and I have some new ideas. I plan to stay in Moscow this summer to work I’m earning some money and I’m not going back to my country, so I want you to help me prepare for next year’s tuition in advance.”

"Oh, stay and work in Moscow? It's fine. But—" Mother hesitated: "The tuition fee will not be paid until August. Are you in a hurry to ask for it now? Will you have time when the summer vacation comes to you?"

"It's best as soon as possible." Hu Yi felt a little itchy with sweat on his body, and explained along the way he made up: "My classmate named Yu Feifei went home for the New Year during the winter vacation, so she can just give me the money by the way. We won’t be going back to China until the summer vacation, and we can’t find anyone to help. The remittance is slow and inconvenient, and there are high handling fees on both ends, so it’s more cost-effective to let her help bring it over this time.”

"Oh, it makes sense." The mother talked with the father in a low voice away from the receiver, and then asked tentatively, "How much more do you need?"

Hu Yi gritted his teeth: "Three thousand should be enough."

"Three thousand? You just said that you still have one thousand and eight in your hand, and this is four thousand and eight. Aren't you still planning to work to earn money during the summer vacation?" The mother whispered with some worry: "Hu Yi, are you there? What's wrong?"

"No! What can happen to me! Don't worry, nothing will happen." Hu Yi forced himself to laugh and said, "This year is a preparatory course. The tuition fee is only [-] yuan, and it will increase to [-] yuan after entering the department next year." Nine! And after graduating from the preparatory school, you have to move to another dormitory, and the accommodation fee will be higher."

These words were all true, and my mother gave a "hmm", as if she was still a little worried.Hu Yi went on to say: "It is estimated that the homework will be more difficult after entering the department, so I don't plan to go back next winter vacation. I will wait until the summer vacation after my freshman graduation. More than half of the [-] dollars will be used to pay tuition and accommodation fees. The rest of the living expenses will last for a year and a half. As for the money earned from part-time jobs, I plan to buy a computer so that I can look up information while studying, and secondly, I can often contact you online.”

Hearing his son talk about the money, the mother seemed to dispel her worries, and after a brief discussion with the father, she agreed: "Okay, your father's company and mine were in good condition last year. We should be able to pay more bonuses before the year. Take out the money in your passbook to make up the money first. If it is not enough, then ask your grandpa and grandpa for help, and find someone to exchange dollars as soon as possible. You can study there with peace of mind. If you need money, you can ask us for it. Don’t do it just for part-time jobs. Delaying homework, do you hear me?"

"Well, I got it." Hu Yiqing had to make up a set of excuses to deceive her parents, and she couldn't bear it at the moment, her eyes were hot and swollen, and her voice was a little choked.

There was a moment of silence in the receiver, and the father's earnest voice came: "Hu Yi, our family's financial conditions are limited, but since we send you abroad to study, we will definitely try our best to guarantee your various expenses. But you have to remember, young man Living alone in a foreign country may face many temptations. Some things are bottomless pits. Once you fall into it, it is difficult to get out. You must control yourself and don’t touch things that you shouldn’t touch. Can you do it?”

Hu Yi knew that his far-fetched reasons and awkward tone had aroused his father's doubts, and he felt uncomfortable for a while, so he forced a calm smile and said: "I can do it, Dad, don't worry, I am no longer the Hu Yi in high school. will disappoint you."

After hanging up the phone, Hu Yi breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't feel relieved.Turning around to look, Li Baoqing didn't know where to go.Hu Yi went upstairs with heavy steps and returned to the room, and saw him lying on the bed with his legs crossed, his head resting on his hands and his hands staring at the roof in a daze.

"You didn't call home?" Hu Yi took off his coat and lit a cigarette.

"No more fights." Li Baoqing's tone was firm: "My parents must not know about this."

"Not telling them? Why?"

Li Baoqing sighed leisurely: "My dad has liver disease, so he can't be in a hurry to get angry. He has a violent temper, and he will definitely get angry after hearing this. Besides, I didn't graduate from the preparatory school last year, and I have already wasted a lot of money. My family is not like Dali His family is so rich, where can I raise so much money? I can't add this trouble to my parents."

Hu Yiting's face was slightly hot, and he touched his chin and muttered: "But it's not an option to hide it from them all the time. How can you live without money?"

Li Baoqing turned over and sat up: "I have made up my mind, I will go out to work to earn money after the exam, and I will save some food for the first half of the year. It should not be a problem to survive the summer vacation, and then my family will give me next year's living expenses. "

"Okay, it happens that I also need to earn some money, so we can be together." Hu Yi stubbed out his cigarette, raised his face and pondered for a while: "What job are you looking for?"

Li Baoqing said: "What else can we do? Go to the market to sell!"

"You know how to sell goods." Hu Yi reprimanded: "You have to lean on the booth from morning to night every day to sell goods in the market. You don't go to class? Don't you want to graduate? Do you want to repeat for another year?"

Li Baoqing blinked blankly: "Then work for three months during the winter and summer vacations, and you should be able to earn a thousand or eight hundred."

"Summer vacation is about the same. Winter vacation is too short, so it's hard to find a job. Besides, it's so cold in winter, how hard is it to stand outside?"

"I want to make money but I'm afraid of suffering." Li Baoqing muttered resentfully: "Then, what do you think?"

Hu Yi walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, and said in a deep voice: "I see, we must focus on studying now, and say that we have to graduate from the preparatory course this year. The market job can only be done during the summer vacation. If there is a suitable opportunity during the semester You can also consider the work, as long as you don't delay the class."

Li Baoqing frowned and muttered: "Today is New Year's Day, and the summer vacation is still early. Besides, how many rubles can we earn from work without delaying class? What do we eat if we don't earn money?"

"It's easy." Hu Yi said: "Feifei brought me [-] dollars from home when she came back to the Congress on vacation. If you don't have enough money, we can spend it together."

"I lost one thousand and eight, and my family gave you three thousand?" Li Baoqing was slightly surprised: "Your parents are really generous to you... really generous."

"You think too much, it has nothing to do with the stolen money." Hu Yi smiled bitterly: "I didn't tell the truth to my family, they thought I still had money, but in fact the three thousand is my money from now until next summer vacation all expenses."

"Then how can it be used?" Li Baoqing frowned and stared at Hu Yi: "After paying the tuition and accommodation fees in September, there is not much money left. How are you going to live?"

"So I have to make money." Hu Yi spread his hands: "Anyway, you will have money in August. If I can't pay the tuition and accommodation fees by then, you can help me pay for it first. As long as you successfully enter the department In freshman year, it will be much more convenient for us to go out to work, and we will return the money to you when we earn money. How about it?"

"Of course it's okay! We brothers share the blessings and share the difficulties." Li Baoqing grinned and said, "Even if we both fall into the pit, we can still ask Dali for help."

As soon as the words fell, Zhou Dali pushed open the door with his buttocks, put a large pot of steaming instant noodles on the table, and said with a weak smile: "Let's eat, brothers, from today onwards, we have to tighten our belts." Have a hard time."

(End of this chapter)