Chapter 4 3. Part-time work-study college

I said to Engineer Liu: I came to Beijing to go to school, but my family is poor and has no money to support me. Please find me a job to earn a living.He said: Your brother also trusted me.A few days later, Engineer Liu said: You want to introduce me to Haijing Factory as an apprentice, and ask me if I would like to go?I said: willing to go.In this way, I moved to the Haijing factory.The factory has a foundry, a blacksmith, a planer, a repair shop, and a garage.There are two cars and a big truck; they can be used by the factory or rented out.I was assigned to work in a garage, with two meals of steamed buns a day, 1 yuan of pocket money per month, and no salary.He began to wash auto parts with Master Jia and learn how to repair cars; then he learned to drive a car with the driver Master Wei.The odd jobs that apprentices have to do every day are cleaning the garage, scrubbing the car, washing the work clothes for the master, and so on.

In August 1930, some of my classmates from Huangxian Chongshi Middle School came to Beijing and entered Beijing Chongshi Middle School (now Beijing No. 21 Middle School).The school is separated from the Haijing factory by an alley.After I got off work in the factory, I went to play with them.They knew that I couldn't go to school with them because I had no money, and they sympathized with me.Wang Zhengshou (currently a professor at Guangzhou Southern Medical University) offered to lend me 25 yuan, which is enough to pay for meals for one semester.Of the 15 yuan travel expenses my father gave me, there was still 8 yuan left, which was enough to pay the tuition fees.Engineer Liu lent me 5 yuan to buy books.In this way, when Beijing Chongshi Middle School started in early September, I also entered the third grade of junior high school in the school.When I was about to move from the factory to the school, I said goodbye to the factory manager, and he said: You can still find time to learn to drive a car; learn to drive a car, and you can earn a living.So every Saturday afternoon and Sunday, I went to the Haijing factory to learn how to drive a car from Master Wei.

The first semester has passed, what about the meal and tuition fees for the second semester?Beijing Chongshi Middle School is a school run by the American Jesuit Church. The original principal, Pastor Lai (American), ran a sheep dairy farm with more than 100 Swiss sheep.Hundreds of catties of milk can be produced every day, and the milk is all sterilized by the students, bottled and delivered to users' homes.Dean Liu of Chongshi Middle School often travels to Xishan by car from Haijing Factory on Sundays.I am an apprentice with the car, and also his student. I often bring the fruits he bought from Xishan to his home; Workers delivering goat milk.

Get up at 4 o'clock every morning, ride a bicycle, bring more than 30 bottles (more than 40 kilograms) of goat milk, and deliver it to the homes of users (mostly foreigners) in Beijing's Dongdan and Dongjiaominxiang areas.After a distance of about 40 miles, you can return to school at 6 o'clock.After washing up, go to the cafeteria to have breakfast, and you can go to class with your classmates at 8 o'clock.After class at 4:00 p.m., I will deliver goat milk according to the original route, and come back to have dinner, so I will not miss the evening self-study.The goat dairy farm is responsible for paying my tuition (8 yuan per semester for junior high school and 10 yuan for high school), and pays me 3 yuan per month as salary.In the first semester, the total average score of my homework ranked second among all the students in the junior high school, and the school awarded me a scholarship of 8 yuan.Plus my salary of 18 yuan for half a year is enough for a semester's food expenses.The tuition and meal expenses for the second semester have been settled, and I can study with peace of mind again.Not long after school started, my third brother Ge Pan Zhenqi, who was working as a part-time student in Japan, gave me 5 yen, which is equivalent to 10 silver dollars, enough to buy books and pocket expenses.I worked and studied like this, and finished my second year of high school.

Since I have to deliver goat milk to users every day, I can't go home during winter and summer vacations (and I don't have travel expenses to go home).Staying at school during the winter and summer vacations, in addition to delivering goat milk twice a day, I seized the time to study.It took me two years to complete the three-year course of high school.In the summer vacation of 1933, I jumped into the Department of Physics of Peking University from the second grade of high school. In order to solve life problems, I accepted the invitation of Mr. Wang Xiaoqing, a fellow from Shandong, to work as a tutor in his home.Stay and eat at his home.His home is about 3 miles away from Peking University. I walk to Peking University for classes before 8:00 every day; at noon, I eat a bowl of noodles or fried pancakes at a small restaurant near Peking University; Tutored his two sons with homework.After dinner, I read or do homework in the study with my students.Wang Tongxiang is from Zhucheng County, Shandong Province; he was the county magistrate of Fangshan County in Beijing and a member of the Forbidden City Management Committee.He has a lot of friends, and he is loyal and hospitable.Almost every night, guests come to his house to eat and play cards (mahjong).In order to respect the teacher, but also to show off.Tongxiang Wang always invites me to dinner and play cards with guests in the upper room.I only eat with my guests, not play cards with them, so I still don't know how to play cards.In order to save time, I later asked the master cook to bring me meals to the study, so I stopped going to the upper room to accompany the guests.

The curriculum of the Department of Physics of Peking University is very tight.Although Wang Tongxiang's whole family treated me very well and politely, I couldn't concentrate on my studies.So when I was in my second year of university, I said goodbye to fellow Wang and moved to the Xizhai dormitory of Peking University.In order to solve the problem of eating, I was introduced to a middle school and taught mathematics. I attended classes for 6 hours a week and paid 6 cents per hour, which was enough to make ends meet.When I was in the fourth year of university, there was a Japanese pastor, Shimizu Yasuzo, who set up a middle school for virgins outside Chaoyang Gate in Beijing, and invited me to be a teacher of physics and chemistry. The monthly salary was 36 yuan, and my life was relatively rich. .The above is the process of my part-time work-study program.