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Chapter 164 - 163. Give the Mother-in-Law a Surprise! (Second Update)_1

Chapter 164: 163. Give the Mother-in-Law a Surprise! (Second Update)_1

Ren He was chatting with Yang Xi while searching online for the methods to obtain Capital household registration in this parallel world. Many aspects were the same as in his previous life, but there were also many differences. He summarized: How difficult is it for students from Luo City to go to school in Capital? Very difficult.

However, if you truly want to get in, you only need a transfer certificate and an acceptance letter from the school. Non-local residents can apply for temporary enrollment, though the fee is quite expensive.

But the key point was that the school Yang Xi wanted to attend was Capital Fourth Middle School, and one particularly stubborn policy of Capital Fourth Middle School was: It does not accept temporary enrollment, only students with Capital household registration!

Now that was a real pain. So if Ren He also wanted to enroll in Capital Fourth Middle School, the first thing he needed was a Capital household registration, which was incredibly troublesome to obtain. Even with money, getting a Capital residence permit was very difficult!

No one knows when the restrictions on Capital household registration began, but generally, there are only three ways for an average person to obtain it:

First, get a job directly with the national ministries and commissions after graduation. These units are managed directly by the National Ministry of Personnel and are not limited by the quota for entering Capital. But Ren He was merely a high school student right now – who would want him after graduation?

Second, become a specially categorized individual eligible to remain in Capital. Currently, this category mainly includes 13 professions that are in high demand among undergraduates from non-Capital sources brought in by Capital. This, like the first condition, was not applicable to Ren He, as he didn’t even have a major, let alone being among those 13 professions.

Lastly, join a state-owned enterprise with relatively relaxed "Capital entrance indicators"!

Every one of these methods was rather challenging for Ren He at present. Of course, these were just the standard methods; there were also unconventional ones such as investment. But investment was assessed on tax standards, and even if he moved Qinghe Games company to Capital, how long would it take to pay enough taxes to handle a Capital household registration? It was well known that Qinghe Games didn’t make money in its early stages.

One could also try the black market, but this route was incredibly risky and prone to fraud, presenting a major problem.

Even if he succeeded in getting registered, how would he enter the highly selective Capital Fourth Middle School? That was another problem...

So Ren He was somewhat troubled, but he had his reasons for needing to go.

Otherwise, Su Ruqin wouldn’t have come up with such a method to completely punish the relationship between Ren He and Yang Xi. For Su Ruqin, it was intolerable that her daughter had been led into early romance in middle school; such a thing was utterly unacceptable.

Therefore, last night, even against Yang En’s firm opposition, she insisted on having Yang Xi return to Capital for school. Two strong-willed people argued all night, and in the end, Yang En gave in. Actually, he understood Su Ruqin’s thoughts; he too didn’t want Yang Xi to be involved in a relationship so early.

How many parents would want their daughter to be in a relationship in middle school? Probably very few in the world.

Ren He could hear the anticipation in Yang Xi’s voice; he too really wanted to go to school in Capital, so Ren He felt he needed to give it a try! For a time traveler to be trapped by a household registration, wouldn’t that be a laughingstock in the time travel circle?

And although he couldn’t confront Su Ruqin head-on, she had truly awakened Ren He’s competitive spirit: You think this will separate us? Well, I’ll just give you an even bigger surprise...

Ren He didn’t tell Yang Xi what his plan was, but he said, "Just follow their instructions and transfer schools, I’ll be right there after you! When I say I’ll do something, I do it!"

For some reason, when Yang Xi heard Ren He say "When I say I’ll do something, I do it," her heart settled down.

After hanging up the phone, Ren He stopped considering other methods and started frantically copying ’The Kite Runner’. What should have been a ten-day workload, Ren He finished the entire book in a state of almost fasting, holed up in the hotel!

This time he was really playing for keeps, because he had an unformed plan that he had to go all-in on!

Eating was a matter of directly dining in the hotel restaurant, and water was also purchased from the hotel. By the time he completed "The Kite Runner" three days later, even a contestant with a physical and mental state far beyond that of ordinary people like Ren He was feeling a bit dazed...

At the same time, the Divine Punishment System issued a task: "Task: Climb the CCTV headquarters building with bare hands, deadline one week, or the host will be punished to dance on the Tiananmen Square."

Holy crap, dance on Tiananmen Square? Would I not be shot on the spot? Is this what they call dancing with your life?! This task leaves no room for failure!

And which one is the CCTV headquarters building? Ren He looked it up online and was stunned: wasn’t this the famously notorious "Big Pants"! The building lacked a traditional base and top, neither beginning nor ending, and didn’t have any spire reaching into the sky. Instead, it was formed by two slanting towers serving as pillars, which leaned outward about 180 meters in the air for several tens of meters to "meet mid-sky" and form a massive, continuous loop.

He hadn’t expected the task to involve climbing this place. Thinking about it, the building’s exterior was all lightweight steel frame structure, so climbing it probably wouldn’t be especially difficult, just a bit more dangerous.

With this in mind, Ren He let out a sigh of relief. This was certainly better than dancing on Tiananmen Square. The Divine Punishment System really got around; wherever he went, it issued tasks there.

This trip to the Capital was indeed fraught with hurdles. He had originally planned to come over just to help launch Yang Xi’s career, but ended up agreeing to finish "The Kite Runner" for Elder Zhou, participate in Kunlun’s auditions, commit to writing three songs for Liu Erbao, and now think about how to manage accompanying a student to the Capital. Ren He personally had no need for a Capital household registration. He didn’t need it for his children to take advantage of the college entrance examination policies or to struggle for a living in the Capital, so for him, the Capital hukou was purely a means to overcome the obstacles set by his mother-in-law and reunite with Yang Xi.

With everything piling up, even Ren He’s thick nerves were beginning to tire. All he wanted now was to sort out these issues one by one and get Qinghe Games back on track in Luo City.

Then he could make his way back to the Capital to accompany the student and continue to enjoy his student life and indulge in extreme sports.

Rush to wrap up all these matters, starting with the first one!

The reason Ren He was in such a hurry to finish "The Kite Runner" was that his shot at a Capital household registration lay with Zhou Wumeng!

You see, the Capital Journalism Group is a state-owned enterprise under the Capital’s financial system, and it has quotas for Capital residency every year! This was the only reliable short-term solution Ren He could think of: to take a nominal position within the Capital Journalism Group and trade "The Kite Runner" for his goal. If one book wasn’t enough for the trade, he still had many ideas in his head.

Zhou Wumeng was the chairman of the Capital Journalism Group, and it was really up to him whether or not to give the quota, so Ren He had to make a deal with him. Su Ruqin probably never imagined that the young man she looked down upon actually knew Zhou Wumeng and was in a position to negotiate with him!

To be honest, saying Ren He was in a position to negotiate with Zhou Wumeng was already putting it nicely. It’s just that Zhou Wumeng valued talent and also thought highly of Ren He, plus "The Kite Runner" was originally meant for charity.

Otherwise, it would be delusional to think of threatening Zhou Wumeng with anything — after all, he was a literary giant! And Ren He needed Zhou Wumeng’s help to secure an acceptance letter from No.4 Middle School.

Su Ruqin would never expect the huge surprise Ren He had prepared for her.

Ren He called Zhou Wumeng’s phone, his tone slightly weary as he spoke, "Elder Zhou, ’The Kite Runner’ is written ahead of schedule, but I would like to ask you for a Beijing hukou quota, and also an invitation for enrollment at the Capital Fourth Middle School."

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