While An Jianping was still busy in Jiang Village, it was also time for An Songyu to go to work.
After arriving at the hotel, she did not immediately go to look for Sister Xia.
Instead, she first finished all the tasks at hand, and only took advantage of a quiet moment to explain her request to Sister Xia.
Wan Lixia did not ask for the specific reason.
However, she also did not agree right away.
After all, matters involving shift scheduling were not something the two of them alone could decide.
Especially since it was already Sunday when An Songyu made the request.
Throughout the rest of the day, An Songyu kept thinking about this matter.
Fortunately, she had already sorted out her work over the past few days, so even while distracted, she could still handle her tasks smoothly.
During dinner, An Songyu quietly told her close friend:
“Yingying, I’m planning to go back to school sometime next week. There are some things I need to take care of.”
Yu Yingying was startled for a moment and quickly asked, “Which day next week? Have you already been scheduled for leave?”
“I’m not sure yet. I just spoke to Sister Xia today, and I don’t know which day she’ll arrange for me to rest,” An Songyu said, looking rather troubled.
Yu Yingying was extremely disappointed. “Then it’ll probably be hard for us to get our days off together.”
“My day off next week is already fixed—it’s Thursday!”
“That’s not necessarily the case!” An Songyu hurried to comfort her friend.
As it turned out, before the evening shift even ended,
Sister Xia, the shift supervisor, announced the rest schedule for the following week.
An Songyu’s rest day was arranged as the very first one—she would be off tomorrow.
This arrangement naturally made An Songyu extremely happy.
Before getting off work, she quietly went over to thank Sister Xia.
“There’s no need to thank me,” Wan Lixia waved her hand indifferently, but still kindly reminded her:
“Next time, if you have something like this, you need to come to me earlier.”
“Although the schedule is posted on Sundays, it’s basically finalized around Friday.”
“This time, it was only because the person originally scheduled for Monday was willing to swap shifts with you.”
“But if you truly have something urgent in the future, you can also communicate with your coworkers in advance, and then come to me to arrange it.”
This time, she had helped coordinate mainly because An Songyu had only recently come to intern and was not yet familiar with their scheduling procedures.
Otherwise, she would not have gone to such lengths to help An Songyu coordinate.
Hearing this, An Songyu felt even more grateful.
She quickly assured her that she had remembered and would definitely speak up earlier next time something like this came up.
Wan Lixia was also pleased with An Songyu’s tactfulness and gestured for her to return to work.
An Songyu had been able to intern at the hotel not only because of a recommendation from the hotel’s finance director, but also because she was genuinely a university student.
For ordinary front-desk staff, this did not make much difference.
But for a small supervisor like Wan Lixia, it did create a certain sense of pressure.
Fortunately, from beginning to end, An Songyu had never displayed arrogance from being a university student, nor any domineering attitude as someone with connections.
On the contrary, her conduct was very down-to-earth.
Moreover, she did not seem to intend to develop long-term at their hotel.
This was why Wan Lixia had been willing to put in the extra effort this time.
When An Songyu returned to the front desk, her coworkers could clearly sense her good mood.
Taking advantage of a lull with no guests, they quietly asked about it.
Upon hearing that An Songyu had successfully gotten tomorrow off, everyone was genuinely happy for her.
Strictly speaking, An Songyu was not on exactly the same shift pattern as the others.
Because she majored in hotel management and picked up the hotel management system unusually quickly, her working hours were not entirely the same as the rotating front-desk staff.
Together with another senior colleague who had been responsible for the front-desk system even before An Songyu arrived, she was assigned to early and late shifts.
The early shift ran from six in the morning to two in the afternoon.
The late shift started at two in the afternoon and ended at ten at night.
The other colleagues, however, rotated through three shifts.
The morning shift ran from eight in the morning to four in the afternoon.
The middle shift ran from four in the afternoon to midnight.
The night shift was a full overnight shift.
An Songyu had been interning for nearly a month now and had worked both early and late shifts.
Combined with the fact that the other colleagues rotated through all three shifts, she got along well with most of them.
Yu Yingying worked in the pastry department, and her schedule was not entirely the same as An Songyu’s, but her off-work time was also quite late.
At ten o’clock that night, as soon as An Songyu finished handing over her duties, she hurried off to find her friend.
When Yu Yingying heard that An Songyu would be off tomorrow and returning to school, she felt both envious and regretful.
“It’s such a pity our days off aren’t the same!”
“Otherwise, I’d go back to school with you.”
“What’s so fun about going back to school now? Everyone’s gone out to intern already. Even if you go back, you’ll only see teachers and underclassmen,” An Songyu quickly said in consolation.
“I’m not going back for anything complicated tomorrow. Is there anything you want me to bring back for you?”
“Whether it’s something from the dorm or something you want me to buy in South City, just leave it to me!”
Yu Yingying was amused by her friend’s take-charge attitude.
But after thinking it over carefully, there really didn’t seem to be anything she particularly wanted.
There were some specialty foods from South City that she really missed, but unfortunately they weren’t easy to bring along.
So Yu Yingying didn’t bring it up at all.
She felt a bit regretful about her friend’s lack of wants, but considering that An Songyu was returning to school for serious business,
An Songyu gave up the idea of persuading her further.
She would just handle things as the situation allowed.
If she had the time, she would naturally prepare whatever her friend needed.
After all, the two of them had lived and eaten together for nearly four years and knew each other very well.
That evening, An Songyu quietly informed An Songxiang that she had the next day off.
An Songxiang immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
She had already inquired about the household registration transfer procedures today.
For situations like theirs, the most important step was first obtaining the acceptance documents, which were required before the household registration could be transferred.
And when An Jianping returned earlier that day, he had already completed these procedures for the two sisters.
The next day, once the sisters finished handling their side of the paperwork, when An Jianping went back to Jiang Village again, he would be able to complete their household registration there directly.
However, the household registrations An Jianping planned to transfer were not limited to just the two sisters.
At present, An Songyu and An Songxiang were unaware of this.
Early the next morning, An Songyu boarded the long-distance bus to South City.
The distance between Shuncheng and South City was not very far.
After just two hours on the bus, An Songyu arrived at South City University.
With the acceptance documents from Jiang Village in hand, she first went to see her class adviser, and quickly clarified the file-transfer procedures.
Overall, the process was not very complicated.
However, during the process, she was questioned several times by school administrators.
After all, the place where An Songyu intended to register her household was neither a work unit nor her original registered address.
Instead, it was a rural area outside the city.
For the school’s leadership, this was something particularly difficult to understand.
It was only after An Songyu repeatedly explained that it was her father’s hometown, and that this household registration transfer was decided by her father, that the school leaders, though still unable to fully understand it, processed the paperwork for her.
After all, with the implementation of the dual-selection system, and the abolishment of welfare housing allocation, registering one’s household at a work unit was no longer mandatory.
Of course, many students still chose to do so.
After all, most universities were located in fairly good cities.
Being able to obtain household registration in a decent city was far better than, like An Songyu, moving it back to the countryside.
(End of chapter)