Chapter 1421: Chapter 1007: Full-time Mother’s Counterattack 15 (four thousand)_3
She also really wants to be like Jin Xing, moving around and renting houses everywhere, but she doesn’t have the strong financial backing like others. The issue of household registration needs to be resolved; otherwise, she and her son will have to hold temporary registration every day. Without registration, it means no qualification for good education. So, she is not working hard enough now, she should be even more diligent.
Now, all of what she earns is money after tax deductions.
According to Beijing’s household registration policy, she must first meet the requirement of paying social insurance for seven years. So, saving enough money is not enough; she also needs to hold a series of conditions for the points card. It’s extremely difficult, and the best way is for her to find a better company for talent introduction, which is why she’s working so hard to attend college. If you can’t even attend college, what is there to talk about regarding taking the graduate school entrance examination or civil servant exams?
However, before elementary school, it’s possible to first go to the talent market for collective registration. It’s temporary registration either way, but isn’t it more convenient to be placed in Beijing’s talent market than in a village?
Qi Yang was born on December 22, and he’ll be five years old in 2023 and attend middle class (while she’s in sophomore year). In 2024, he’ll be six and attend senior class (while she’ll be in junior year). Only those born before September 1, 2024, are eligible for elementary school, so he’ll have to wait until 2025 to begin elementary school. By then, he’ll be almost seven, and she’ll be entering her senior year. She can apply for an external work residence permit in advance to let him attend a public school, or she can pay for a private elementary school without meeting any conditions.
Qi Qi has to think carefully about this. It’s more appropriate for boys to start elementary school a year later, after all, he was born on December 22, 2018, even starting school in 2025, he won’t be the oldest.
Actually, she doesn’t plan to let him attend a private elementary school since it’s too expensive; one hundred thousand a year is considered little, and it’s unnecessary.
If he can go to public school, it’s better to choose public schooling. Only when it comes to middle school is when financial resources need to be competed.
Sometimes, lying in bed at night and closing her eyes, envisioning the future, she feels that her pace of earning money is too slow. But the principle of not compromising for the sake of haste must be kept in mind constantly. Only by staying steady and persistent can stability be maintained. So, she constantly reminds herself to take it slow, not to rush, and that she has at least two and a half years more to work hard.
She has calculated that the annual expenses for both her and her son, including rent, tuition, living expenses, and miscellaneous fees, won’t stay below two hundred thousand.
Xingchen Company still pays her five insurances and one gold, based on a monthly wage base of fifty thousand, and gives her two thousand yuan a month for living expenses. This is actually quite good. There will only be dividends at the end of the year. In order for others to feel that this money is good value, she goes to the company whenever she has time, sometimes even bringing her son with her after school. If she encounters others working overtime, she will help out whenever she can.
That’s why Qi Yang is already used to sleeping at the company; there’s a folding bed in her office, which is prepared for Qi Yang.
The mother and son even have toiletries and a change of clothes at the company.
Such high-paced work and life have made Qi Yang realize early on how incredibly difficult it is for his mother to earn every cent.
When he sleeps, his mother is working. When he wakes, she is still working, along with those older siblings who are also very hardworking, from night to morning, which seems to become routine. Perhaps such early exposure to society has made Qi Yang unafraid of crowds from a young age, optimistic, and more advanced in emotional intelligence, adaptability, and other abilities than his peers.
Whenever Qi Qi has time, she incorporates English into their daily life. She attempts to converse with Qi Yang in English, and even though he can’t write now, his spoken English is already at the level of a third grader.
Even though he can’t understand words, Mandarin, or pinyin, reading, listening, and practicing have become part of their daily lives. Listening to fairy tales at three or four years old and idioms stories, historical records and other stories at five or six years old have also become routine. There are times he doesn’t understand, but he asks questions, and she engages him through these stories, asking about his thoughts and feelings.
Mother-and-son communication before sleep involves far more engagement than the entire day’s interactions, thanks to various story apps. If she were to narrate using books, she might not do as well as others.
Educating children is an extremely difficult and demanding job, more exhausting than working, especially with boys. But their family is a single-parent household, and she’s both father and mother, taking him everywhere. Being tested early by society has normally made him more mature than peers his age.
