Chapter 1076: Boss, Can I Rent This Cello

The female owner thought of Yu Zhouzhou's lack of money,

but did not expect Yu Zhouzhou to be this poor,

needing to rent a domestic cello worth over fifty thousand.

One can imagine,

how poor Yu Zhouzhou's family background must be.

But then again,

the female owner knew from childhood that children from poor families should not practice sports, study music, or learn painting,

because,

each of these three is extremely expensive.

Although if one masters sports, one can later join the provincial team or even the national team; if one truly has the strength and talent, one can even enter the national first team and participate in the Olympics and other international competitions,

but those who can enter the national first team are ultimately only a minority.

Most sports students with a score of 283, the best of whom enter the national team only to become substitutes and sparring partners,

after passing their golden period, gradually leave the team and change professions, go to a corresponding university to study, and after graduation find a school to work as a physical education teacher.

This is basically the future of most sports students.

However,

even such a future,

requires significant family investment in the early stages for comprehensive training.

After all,

sports are an extremely strenuous consuming activity.

First, nutrition must be kept up.

Training plans, monitoring, and other auxiliary measures aside,

there is a very direct question:

in truly impoverished families, whose family can afford to let their child eat two jin of beef and one jin of fresh milk every day?

And this is still the most basic requirement related to sports.

As for music and fine arts, it is the same.

For instruments alone, buying instruments from childhood costs hundreds of thousands, not to mention the fees for hiring teachers for tutoring and guidance.

And although fine arts seem to only require learning sketching in the early stages,

once you start learning watercolor and oil painting, you will know that those colorful tubes of paint are actually ridiculously expensive, not including the fees for every intensive training session.

So,

children from poor families, unless they are truly exceptionally talented, truly love it, and have a benefactor to help them, should just stick to studying hard.

Sighing several times inwardly,

the female owner hesitated; originally she did not want to soften her heart,

but in the end, the female owner still said, "Sister, to be honest, I have never rented a cello before and don't know how to rent one."

"How about this, Sister? I'll set up an installment plan for you. You need a down payment of at least 50%, which comes to twenty-seven thousand five hundred. For the rest, you give me five thousand every month and pay it off within half a year. Is that okay?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yun hesitated somewhat.

She knew Yu Zhouzhou's current situation; paying back five thousand every month would still be very stressful for Yu Zhouzhou.

However,

since Yu Zhouzhou said she would make the decision herself,

Zhu Yun said nothing.

At this moment, Yu Zhouzhou considered carefully, then nodded: "Okay, Boss, let's do as you said. Do I need to provide any credentials?"

"Mm, just tell me your class and your teacher's name. The rest is just payment."

The female owner responded, took out a payment QR code from behind the counter,

and Yu Zhouzhou nodded in response, then said, "My name is Yu Zhouzhou. I am a freshman in the Music Department, Class 23, Class 2. My current class advisor is Teacher Feng..."

Upon hearing the three characters "Teacher Feng,"

the female owner's hand trembled involuntarily. Then, looking at Yu Zhouzhou, she asked, "Teacher Feng? Is it Professor Feng Guomin?"

"Yes."

Yu Zhouzhou responded, somewhat puzzled: "Boss, do you know Teacher Feng? But he only started teaching students at the school in recent years."

The female owner hesitated,

recalling those past events,

then shook her head with a smile and said helplessly, "Teacher Feng was once my teacher, no, my mentor. I just failed to live up to his expectations. Alright, let's not talk about that. Pay up."

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