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Thirty-three small vendors Zhou Yu

  Thirty-three, "Small vendor" Zhou Yu

  Lin Fanghua returned from the Lantern Festival, and it was already almost 10:30 when she arrived at her dormitory. Most of the people in the dorm were already in bed, with their curtains drawn, lying on their beds reading books or listening to music or English.

  This scene of "hiding in a small bed as one, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter" is also a characteristic of university dormitories. Because the mosquito net is too transparent, everything done inside can be seen from the outside, so another curtain is pulled up on the outside, and the bedside lamp is turned on to form a private space that belongs to oneself and is not disturbed by others. This phenomenon reflects that people are increasingly pursuing individuality and freedom, and paying more attention to and respecting human rights, which is a further manifestation of China's social civilization after reform and opening up.

  In the dormitory, each person's bed has also become a window for college students to show off their hobbies, interests and tastes. The beds of boys and girls are often pasted with many posters of movie stars or other landscape paintings. In the past, old students even thought of ways to nail wooden boards on the headboard and make a bookshelf, making it more convenient to read in bed.

  This year, the college leadership arranged for the housing department to uniformly order a batch of 2-meter-long wooden boards and apply golden yellow paint. Each student got one, and after taking it back, they placed it at the head and foot of their bed, turning it into a beautiful bookshelf. The old students all said that the new students were lucky and had met an enlightened college leader. In the past, when they installed bookshelves themselves, they were often criticized by teachers during dormitory hygiene inspections.

  Lin Fanghua looked around, all the sisters were there, except for Lao Da Zhou Yu, who was not in the dormitory or the bathroom. This is really strange, this standard house girl actually not in her nest, where did she go?

  She asked Yang Qian who was on the lower bunk. Xiao Pangniu, who was reading a book, didn't even lift her head and said: "She went to the neighboring Meteorological College to sell hair bands!"

  In the 1990s, China was a society in transition. Many people who had "iron rice bowls" (i.e., secure government jobs) jumped into business. These early entrepreneurs attracted even more people to follow suit. It was an era where everyone was talking about doing business. Generally speaking, this was a good thing, as it was a necessary stage of development for the country's prosperity. There is an American proverb that says: "Only when individuals pursue private property can national wealth accumulate." No wonder America became the world's number one power in just over 200 years. If China wants to regain its former glory, it must learn from America - economic takeoff is key. When the people are rich, the country is rich; when the country is rich, the people are strong.

  However, this wave of commodity economy has also affected and influenced contemporary college students living in the ivory tower. Among students, the phenomenon of "diligence and thrift", doing part-time jobs and reselling small commodities is prevalent. I remember that when I first entered school last year, there were often senior students coming to our dormitory at night to sell various daily necessities, second-hand books, magazines, and old teaching materials. At the end of the year, many students set up stalls selling New Year's cards at the entrance of the cafeteria. The students in the medical college are relatively well-behaved, but they still engage in small-scale business activities, after all, their coursework is too heavy. I heard that some students from other universities even go to night markets to set up stalls at night, and some even skip classes during the day to do business.

  Generally speaking, the old men sell things that they ride to wholesale markets and buy small goods, resell them in the campus, actually can't earn much money. But Zhou Yu is different from others.

  It was just a few days ago that she saw Lin Fanghua's hair clips and got inspiration. As mentioned earlier, she is originally a handicraft expert, so it's natural to learn by watching. The next day, she immediately went to buy materials and made 40 or 50 hair clips in a few days' effort, excitedly preparing to sell them at each dormitory today. By producing and making them herself, the total cost was only over ten yuan, while she planned to sell each hair clip for three to five yuan, thinking it would be very profitable.

  But there are thousands of girls in our school, how could she go to another school to sell? Lin Fanghua felt very strange and asked again: it turned out that Zhou Yu only made six or seven styles, although they were selling well in our school, but later she thought it was meaningless for several girls in the same school to wear the same hair accessories, so she sold about half of them and moved to another school after dinner.

  Lin Fanghua was speechless, this Zhou Yu actually still self-taught, even in marketing strategies using the "limited sales" approach to grasp customers' "rare is precious" psychology. What a genius!

  Before the lights went out, Zhou Yucai returned to the dormitory. Sure enough, all her hair clips were sold out, not one left. Everyone asked her how much she made, and she only said that it was over a hundred yuan, refusing to elaborate. But from the smile in her eyes, it was clear that she had made a lot of money this time.

  Lin Fanghua understood why she was so excited. After all, the salary and consumption level of this era were still relatively low, and a college student who saved a little could barely make ends meet with a monthly living allowance of less than 100 yuan, while a recent graduate's salary was less than 200 yuan. Zhou Yu herself came from a rural area, not a particularly impoverished family, but absolutely not wealthy, and the school's scholarship loan was not enough to meet the standard. This income was really considerable for her.

  However, she still had to remind Zhou Yu: "Boss, you can sell this headband a few times, but don't spend too much time and energy on it. Don't delay your studies!"

  "Alright! I'll make a few more batches and distribute them to several other universities. After that, I won't do it anymore. I reckon soon enough someone else will follow suit!"

  What a person! Born with sharp business acumen and risk crisis awareness!

  Lin Fanghua couldn't help but exclaim: "I say, why don't you go to a university of finance and economics? It's really a waste of talent for you to be in medical school!"

  "Haha, I think so too! Who made my parents think that studying medicine was good back then? Alas, once you enter the medical field, it's like being in a deep ocean. From now on, Xiaolong is just a passerby."

  "What a mess," Fang Hua said with a laugh, then turned serious and said, "Seriously, I'm not joking. Eldest brother, if you don't study hard this semester, be careful of getting a red flag at the end of the term!" She said so because she "knew" that such things had indeed happened.

  "You're talking about dissection! Don't worry, I know that's the main event, and I'll pay attention!"

  Lin Fanghua shook her head: "Do you know about the four great tonics?"

  "Who doesn't know that? Iron hands are ruthless and cold-blooded!"

  "What I'm talking about is the four major remedial courses of the Medical College, also known as the four most difficult subjects that most people fail and need to retake, abbreviated as the 'Four Major Remedials'!"

  Sisters also heard this statement for the first time and couldn't help but be very interested: "Lao Yao, quickly tell us, which ones are they?"

  Lin Fanghua raised her voice and said: "Everyone listen up, our medical school's four major subjects are organic chemistry, human anatomy, biochemistry, and pharmacology!"

  Zhou Yu's face changed: "I've flipped through the anatomy textbook, I know there's too much to memorize, it's definitely not easy. Didn't expect organic chemistry to be tough too? Inorganic chemistry last semester wasn't that hard!"

  "Actually, anatomy class is okay, there are specimens and corpses to study with, just need to memorize a bit more! Inorganic chemistry last semester wasn't difficult, that's because many of the concepts were already learned in middle school! If you take another look at the organic chemistry textbook, you'll see how disgusting and headache-inducing those organic compounds are! But next semester's biochemistry is going to be the worst, during the most terrible time, one-third of the students in a class didn't pass!"

  When she said that, the dormitory was filled with wails: "Heavens! Are we going to be driven to death!"

  Zhou Yu suddenly collapsed on the table: "I'll never learn medicine again in my next life! If I have kids in the future, I absolutely don't want them to learn medicine either! It's too bitter!" Everyone echoed in agreement.

  Lin Fanghua sighed: I was a doctor in my past life and this life, it seems that's just my fate.

  "She finally said, 'Stop yelling, it's useless! This semester everyone should pay attention, or else next semester when school starts again you'll have to come back and take make-up exams, and the whole summer vacation will be ruined!'"

  That's right, the answer is - Huang Xing! Haha, one riddle has brought out several hidden readers! I also hope other hidden classmates will come up and make some noise. Thank you for your support of my humble work!

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