Recollections｜Chapter 1286: Moved to an Apartment

Three days later, He Xiyan moved to the campus apartment. According to the school's regulations, the campus apartment is for students who are preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination or students who need to work part-time and are not convenient to live in the dormitory. But most of the people living here are rich students. They don't want to live in a dormitory with a poor environment, so they moved here on the grounds of taking the postgraduate entrance examination.

He Xiyan chose the cheapest room, which is only more than 20 square meters, including a room, a small bathroom, and a small kitchen that looks less than three square meters.

The monthly rent is 800 yuan, which is very cheap in a city like Night City. However, for He Xiyan, this expense still makes her feel a lot of pressure, and she has to take more work.

He Xiyan sorted out the things she moved from the dormitory one by one, folded the clothes and put them in the closet, and placed the shoes neatly on the shoe rack.

Night City is getting colder and colder. Now it is minus three or four degrees at night, and the heating has to be turned on.

The heating fee for the dormitory is included in their accommodation fee, but the heating fee for this apartment needs to be paid by herself. The house she lives in is 28 square meters, and the heating fee is two or three hundred yuan per month. Add the electricity fee and other things, and she lives here for more than 1,000 yuan a month.

She was too tired today. She really had no energy to draw or paint at night, so she ate the noodles she cooked and sat on the bed to rest.

She held a notebook in her hand, which recorded the money she owed in the past three years:

2011:

Borrowed 2,500 yuan from teacher Yang Sulan; borrowed 2,000 yuan from teacher He Fang; borrowed 1,800 yuan from teacher Hu Meimei; borrowed 800 yuan from Aunt Li; borrowed 800 yuan from Uncle Yang. ; borrowed 500 yuan from classmate Mi Qi; borrowed 700 yuan from classmate Xie Yafei.

2012:

Student loan of 18,000 yuan; borrowed 1,000 yuan from classmate Chen Yuan, borrowed 2,000 yuan from teacher Yang Sulan, and borrowed 2,000 yuan from teacher He Fang.

2013:

Student loan of 12,000 yuan.

He Xiyan looked at the debts on the book. Her mother died in 2011. After her mother's death, she had no money and had to borrow money from everywhere to live and continue studying.

She now owes almost 50,000 yuan. Although the teachers and classmates who lent her money, as well as the kind neighbors and uncles and aunts did not urge her to pay back the money, she felt very sorry, especially because it was owed two years ago.

Whenever she thought of these debts, it felt like a heavy stone was pressing on her chest.

When would she feel relieved when she could get rid of this burden.

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More than a month has passed.

During this period of more than a month, He Xiyan went to school to study normally from Monday to Friday during the day, and worked on design drawings in her small room at night. On weekends, she went to the training school for classes. Day after day, even when she was not feeling well, had a cold and a fever, she did not rest.

Today is the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month. The school had already had a winter vacation last week, and the training school where she worked had also stopped classes yesterday.

In the morning, He Xiyan got up very early. She dragged out a big box from under the bed and stuffed some clothes, daily necessities, drawing paper, brushes, computers and other things into the box.

Although her parents were gone, she would still go home during the winter vacation, back to the home where she was alone.

She ordered a train ticket online. She could take the high-speed rail from Yecheng to Shashi, but in order to save some money, she bought an ordinary train ticket, so she would have to sit for 18 hours to get home.