Xu Qinghuan handed two cigarettes to the gatekeeper of the lighting factory, "Uncle Tu, Uncle Wu asked me to come, saying there's recruitment here, I'm here to sign up!"
Uncle Tu didn't take her cigarette, waved his hand, and said, "Go in, hurry up, the HR department is in the office on the east side on the first floor, sign up then come out!"
Xu Qinghuan still stuffed the cigarette into Uncle Tu's hand, then smiled, swinging her long braid as she entered the factory area.
Not many people came to sign up; they only came because they got inside information. Xu Qinghuan's arrival wasn't considered early, so she registered sequentially.
Among seven or eight people, including Xu Qinghuan, there were a total of three women.
One was a round-faced girl, and the other had a sharp, long face. The former looked kind, while the latter looked sharp and harsh. As they say, appearance reflects the heart, not without reason.
"Really crazy, didn't they say they aren't recruiting externally? Why are all sorts of people coming?"
The sharp-faced girl saw Xu Qinghuan's shabby clothes, sleeves and pants hanging halfway, patches on patches, yet with a face that could allure a crowd. It was hard to appreciate.
Xu Qinghuan pretended not to hear, properly wrote down her name, and filled in the relevant information.
The person responsible for registration was a middle-aged woman, with a broad forehead and inverted triangle eyes, who helplessly glared at the sharp-faced girl, "Mind your own business, why interfere in others' matters?"
The tone was forgiving and full of affection.
Ah, it's a connection!
Xu Qinghuan looked up and saw the round-faced girl looking at her. She smiled slightly and, after confirming that tomorrow's exam was after nine o'clock, planned to leave.
"Comrade Xu, let's go together!" The round-faced girl approached and walked shoulder to shoulder with Xu Qinghuan, "My name is Zhou Xinyan, graduated high school. I heard this time the exam involves foreign languages, how's your foreign language?"
In those days, some learned English, and some learned Russian.
In a previous life, Xu Qinghuan knew several foreign languages. After all, at her level, she often went abroad for academic exchanges; bringing a translator all the time was neither reassuring nor convenient.
Moreover, Xu Qinghuan's learning ability was strong, and over time, she practiced several developed countries' languages to be almost like her native tongue.
"Still... okay, I guess!" Xu Qinghuan was never one to be ostentatious.
Zhou Xinyan was somewhat dispirited, "What to do, I'm not good at it. I hate foreign languages the most. I could still manage to understand if it's written, but speaking and listening are completely impossible."
Xu Qinghuan was somewhat puzzled, "Do they need spoken interviews?"
Zhou Xinyan seemed to have insider information, shook her head, "No, but I heard this recruitment is to prepare for the Canton Fair in October. The factory's lamps need to participate, and being able to communicate face-to-face with foreigners to introduce products is necessary."
Now she was afraid of passing or failing the exam.
Xu Qinghuan thought this girl was really straightforward. You should know that they were competitors, "Then you first pass the written test, and if selected, isn't there still three months' time? By then, you could practice speaking and listening well."
"Comrade Xu, you're really nice. Can I call you Qinghuan?" Zhou Xinyan smiled, revealing a pair of cute little tiger teeth.
"Of course, I can call you Xinyan too!"
The two shook hands and became good friends.
To ensure nothing went wrong, Jiang Chengxu brought Xu Manman into the lighting factory first, looking for acquaintances to help them register, thus missing Xu Qinghuan, so they didn't know Xu Qinghuan came to sign up.
Naturally, Xu Qinghuan also didn't have any interest in the two. Now she successfully obtained the watch, she just needed to retrieve the engagement documents and destroy both documents to smoothly cancel the engagement.
Before doing that, she first went to Yong'an Department Store; Wang Juan was eagerly waiting. Seeing Xu Qinghuan arrive, she was thrilled, hurried over, "Did you miss anything? Do you want to buy anything else?"
Xu Qinghuan pulled her aside to a quiet place, handed her three packs of medicine wrapped in newspaper, "One pack a day, twice daily, boil the medicine repeatedly, drink it for three days. For safety, have intercourse at least twice during these three days, got it?"
Actually, once would do, but twice is safer. If they could do it once a night, that would be best.
Anyway, Wang Juan's husband wasn't a novel's male lead, it's impossible for him to achieve the level of seven times a night.
No, even if Jiang Chengxu is the male lead of this book, he doesn't have that capability.
Wang Juan blushed, quickly agreed, "No problem, I'll be careful. What do you need to buy, I'll take you."
"No need, just put the medicine away, I'm buying a watch then leaving."
"Imported or domestic? It's on the third floor, I'll take you!" Wang Juan carried the medicine ahead, luckily wrapped in newspaper, others wouldn't know what's inside.
Xu Qinghuan accepted the thirty yuan Wang Juan just gave her, went up to the third floor together, spent one hundred twenty-five yuan and a watch ticket to buy a Shen City full steel watch.
Originally, there were plum blossom imported watches, and popular brands like Longines, but since going to the countryside, wearing an imported watch was asking for trouble.
Wang Juan sent off Xu Qinghuan, delighted, her colleague was puzzled, "What's so cheerful about someone buying a watch, it doesn't count towards your sales!"
"You don't know, I won't tell you!"
After work yesterday, Wang Juan calmed down, hesitating whether to buy Xu Qinghuan's medicine. Buying it wasn't cheap, roughly a month's salary, and fearing drinking it unnecessarily harmful, not buying it, what if Xu Qinghuan really had the ability?
She specially went to find Tian Xia, they were good friends, and Tian Xia didn't hide from her, "She should be very capable, I heard the hospital intended to hire her as the attending physician. You try it, she won't harm you."
After all, when they gave a two hundred yuan red envelope, she didn't accept it.
Her medical ethics could be assured.
That's why Wang Juan spent money daringly buying the medicine, waiting for tonight to try with her husband.
Just for this, yesterday evening her husband offered to pay his dues, and she saved it for now.
Xu Qinghuan placed the newly bought watch in the space, planning to wear it when leaving, first going to the auspicious alley on Yuzhong Road mentioned in the book.
This was a somewhat humble alley residence, single-room flat layout, two stories high, walking in the alley, one couldn't see the sun above.
Xu Qinghuan didn't remember where Father Jiang's mistress named Fang Xinrou lived. She walked and looked, suddenly heard familiar voices, quickly hid and peeked, truly effortlessly found it.
"Brother Youliang, isn't this matter rather difficult? Lianxue is still young, it's already hard for her to enter the factory, being a temporary worker is quite good, don't be too troubled for my sake. I heard Chengxu has a fiancée who's unemployed, if sister knew of this, how upset she'd be?"
They talked face to face, gazing at each other as if pulling strings, their expressions akin to parting for life, even cold-blooded creatures would drown in this sea of deep emotions.
Especially the word "sister" was extremely mesmerising, directly fulfilling a man's dream of having multiple wives and concubines.