1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 514 New Pot (1)

On January 23rd, the rain had just passed and the Lantern Festival had not yet arrived.

"Please briefly introduce yourself."

"My name is Zhuomali, Zhuo in Zhuomali, Ma in Zhuomali, and Li in Zhuomali."

"In Dahua Company, you can call me Minister Zhuo;"

"But in Texas City Property Fund, from now on, you should call me Assistant Zhuo!"

It seemed that after seeing how Yang Mo calmly and calmly shocked the whole audience on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhuo Mali began to like this Gu Long-style way of introducing herself.

Facts have proved that when a person has enough weight, even a childish way of introduction will only seem very impressive.

Therefore, a certain assistant general manager who had just officially taken office only introduced himself in a few short sentences, and the nearly 300 young people in the small auditorium were so shocked that they dared not even breathe.

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As a college student who had just been assigned to do an internship, Li Liang did not quite understand why this beautiful older sister on the podium, whose figure made him feel a little excited, had such a reserved and oppressive aura when she mentioned the word "assistant".

The title of assistant doesn't sound like a respectable position. It sounds like doing odd jobs for others. Why did this beautiful sister emphasize it?
But even though he didn't understand, it didn't stop him from sitting up straight, eyes wide open, concentrating fully to remember every word of Zhuo Mali in his mind, just like a model student who listened attentively.

The position of "assistant" certainly does not sound very reliable, but the word "minister" is very intimidating. You can tell at the first sound that it is a high-ranking leader with great power.

Although he and nearly 60 other college students from various universities were assigned to intern at Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company instead of Dahua Company, they only needed to get a position at the fund company; but the problem was...

It has been emphasized in the previous introduction of the organizational framework that Dahua Company is the sole operating manager of Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company, and is also the most important business partner and project contractor of the Urban Property Fund Company. Anyone with a little bit of common sense would not ignore the position of this beautiful big sister in Dahua Company!

However, before I came here, my mentor said that both Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company and Dahua Company were very powerful companies. Even the meeting for new employees, which was not even a welcome meeting, actually had a ministerial-level leader...

It seems that the rumors are not credible!

Why do those large state-owned enterprises not take those chosen ones seriously?
People still value us college students very much!

Thinking of this, Li Liang subconsciously touched the school badge in his pocket, his chest puffed out, and he sat up straighter...

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Unlike Li Liang, who was only five meters away, Hu Yongbo, who was sitting in the front row, looked at Zhuo Mali with eyes full of awe and excitement.

As a member of the second business department of Dahua Company, even though he is just an ordinary front-line employee, he knows how important the position of "Assistant to the General Manager of Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company" is.

After all, he had worked in the same company for a year, and he had a deep understanding of Yang Mo's style and behavior.

When Yang Mo was only the vice president of Dahua Company, he had the ability to make the entire Dahua Company his own boss. What's more, he is now the general manager of Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company?

Facts have proved that it is difficult to change one's nature. Although Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company was only established at the end of last year, as soon as Yang Mo, the general manager, took office, he directly demonstrated his strength with an extremely tough attitude.

Faced with such a general manager with an astonishingly impressive record, can the three teams of Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company suppress him?

Judging from the current situation, it is obviously impossible to suppress it.

Therefore, even though it was established less than two months ago, the structure of the Urban Property Fund Company has replicated the original situation of Dahua Company... The management team's voice and actual influence far exceed those of other teams, and there is no sign of being clamped down on.

Therefore, the "assistant to the general manager", a management position that can definitely be ranked in the top three in terms of real power in the management team, can definitely be ranked in the top five if it is relaxed to the entire urban property fund company... Don't forget, this is the ranking given under the assumption that the urban property fund company will have an executive vice president in the future. If Yang Mo insists on not having an executive vice president on the grounds that there is no suitable candidate, then the assistant to the general manager will be ranked even higher in terms of real power.

From being the head of the legal and compliance department of Dahua Company, who had almost no presence in the main business framework, to the assistant to the general manager of a city property fund company, it is no exaggeration to say that Zhuo Mali has soared to great heights.

But this is not the point. Hu Yongbo is, after all, just an ordinary grassroots employee of Dahua Company. For him who has no connections or background, who is the director or the general assistant has nothing to do with him, and it has nothing to do with all the other employees like him who have no connections, no money, and no relatives or friends.

However, his appearance here today is a matter of extraordinary significance.

As everyone knows, Yang Mo looks down upon and rejects the Dongying people.

This can be seen from the fact that when he was at Dahua Corporation, he always handed over the projects he designed to drilling departments such as Business Department 4, Asset Preservation Department 2, and those unknown satellite companies for execution, while other departments rarely got involved.

This made these grassroots workers who were transferred from Dongying feel extremely frustrated and desperate.

You know, in Dahua, there is a recognized fact - Dahua's projects are divided into two categories: "Yang Mo-led" and "others'."

On one hand, the success rate is almost 100%, and in the middle, there are a bunch of super projects such as the Commercial Street , Commercial Street , Commodity Trading Center, Isolated Island Project, and Light and Heavy Industrial Products Exchange Plan, which are nominally A-level, but in fact, they can no longer be described as simple A-level projects;
On the other hand, there are endless restructuring, divestiture of bad assets, accounting, filling of holes, continuous investment, and then hoping that God will open his eyes next year or in a few years; occasionally a few Class B or Class C projects come back to life, but they are just returning to their original normal level. Compared with the other side, the results are simply terrible.

As the saying goes, people go to high places and water flows to low places. Those who can be transferred to Dahua Company all have at least a college degree or above, and all of them were the best students in the class or even the department. All of them are arrogant and want to display their talents to blind the eyes of a group of people.

Who would be willing to waste their youth on those meaningless and junk projects that anyone with a discerning eye can see the problems and hidden dangers in, but they are powerless to do anything about it?

And even if you don't care about being in the spotlight or making progress, this is directly related to your income... You should know that Dahua Company is the same as all asset management companies. Each project has corresponding bonuses based on the performance of the project in that year!

and so……

It would be a lie to say that Hu Yongbo is not excited to be one of the many lucky ones selected to attend this newcomer meet-up today!

Don't think that it is shameful and ridiculous to attend a newcomer meeting that seems to be just a face-saving procedure with those rookies who just graduated from campus and know nothing.

In fact, Hu Yongbo dared to guarantee that those colleagues in Dahua Company who were not selected, even those team leaders and even the cadres at the supervisor level, were probably jealous to the point of going crazy at this moment!

Since he was able to attend this seemingly meaningless meeting for new employees, it meant that Yang Mo planned to start accepting some of the Dongying employees who he had previously looked down upon, and would not hesitate to give them a chance to shine.

Of course, this kind of acceptance is limited and has a threshold.

Otherwise, today only myself and dozens of Dahua colleagues from various departments would be able to arrive at the scene.

Being able to catch the eye of that ruthless man and having a legitimate chance to follow him and get promoted, isn't that enough for you to brag about! ?
Thinking of this, Hu Yongbo looked at a certain peach on the stage with more awe...

This sudden change, which was beyond everyone's expectations, occurred after Zhuo Mali became the assistant to the general manager of the Urban Property Fund Company.

In other words, the employees of the Dongying Department 1 were able to have this opportunity, most likely because of the hard work of the new general assistant.

Hu Yongbo, who was well aware of how much of a favor he had received, did not want to speculate on how this beautiful woman with a fantastic figure had convinced Yang Mo.

He only knew two things:

1. This opportunity, for a grassroots worker like him who has no qualifications in Dongying, is like giving him another precious college entrance examination;
2. Minister Zhuo, no, Assistant Zhuo, holds a very important position in Yang Mo's heart!

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Different from Li Liang and Hu Yongbo who were excited for different reasons, Li Li felt annoyed when she saw the head of the compliance and risk control department who was working hard on the podium.

As one of the first teachers who took the initiative to go to various villages to provide teaching two years ago, she admitted that the reason why she, a female college graduate who had just graduated, was willing to take the risk of various rumors and go to those remote villages to teach was half because she, a student majoring in mechanical manufacturing at Dezhou University, could not find a suitable employer at once, but she did not want to settle; the other half was because of the promise made by the drilling company that "after three years of teaching, you can become a formal employee of Drilling Company No. 1."

Of course, there are inevitably some young people who are still passionate and want to help the world - after all, judging from the photos taken by the drilling company at the time, those children were too pitiful. Not to mention a decent classroom, they didn't even have a desk that could stand steadily. It was said that some girls didn't even have the qualifications to go to school because of family reasons.

Ok……

She swore that although there were impulsive reasons, they did not account for a large proportion.

But as someone said, the most helpless thing in this world is that after your conscience has been bitten by a dog, there is still a small half left.

So even though she felt deeply deceived after arriving in Xiaoxi Village, she quickly sank into it and became unable to extricate herself.

There is no other reason. Although the Hope Primary School in Xiaoxi Village was built extremely luxuriously, its hardware was so good and its teaching facilities were so complete that it even surpassed his alma mater, Dezhou No. 1 Middle School.

But when she first arrived in your place, the difficult family conditions of those students, the helplessness of their lives, and their thirst for knowledge that could change their destiny were far beyond her imagination.

She couldn't resist the pitiful, fearful yet expectant eyes that looked at her;

There was no way to ignore the little figures who were nervously tugging at the corners of their clothes, half hiding behind the trees, with the rough paper exercise books in their hands crumpled, always following behind her but timidly not daring to say a word;
So, even though she felt unhappy about being cheated, she still stayed.

It’s all about compilation!
This was the reason she used to convince herself.

However, she soon discovered that she was too young after all, and had fallen into the trap carefully designed by the drilling company. She probably would not get the job in her lifetime.

Of course, it’s not all her fault;

Any young person who is not a top student would feel a great sense of accomplishment when faced with faces full of awe and respect, and when he or she just gives a few bits of knowledge or tells a few short stories and receives looks like they are worshipping a deity.
Any young person who is used to having no sense of existence would surely feel elated when he sees the whole village, from the elders to the village women, all bow respectfully and address him as "Teacher Li".

Any girl who is not pretty and no one looks at her twice when she walks on the street, will be moved when a large group of people immediately rush over to her upon hearing that she is going to the country street, and actively and forcefully form a small team, guarding her carefully on both sides as if they were guarding the most precious treasure in the world, for fear that she will get her skin scratched.

Any ordinary person who has no one to care about him except his parents, would surely feel warm in his heart when faced with people lining up every day to come to his door to ask about his well-being, and stubbornly sending him a big basket of food even though they are not rich, and then looking at him eagerly until he accepts the food, takes a bite in front of them, and then leaves contentedly... Although at the beginning, the food was just some corn buns that people in the city looked down upon.

In short, this kind of feeling is something she would never get if she worked in an office. She even felt that she would be willing to continue teaching here even if she didn't get paid a penny.

Of course, children can be naughty sometimes.

For example, he clearly didn't do his homework, but he used an evasive look that could fool even a fool and lied to her that his homework book was eaten by a mouse;
For example, several boys who were already thirteen or fourteen years old, but had to attend the second grade with a bunch of little kids because they had no teacher, actually wrote in their composition books when they wrote the first time that their dream was to introduce a girl to Teacher Li and then marry Teacher Li's daughter in the future.

Sometimes, the children’s family situation also gives her a headache.

There are always some families in the village with outdated thinking. Even if they don't have to pay tuition and food expenses, there will always be some female students absent from class during the busy farming season. So every time this happens, she, a Chinese teacher, math teacher, history teacher and class teacher, always has to go to the students' homes or the fields to persuade those stubborn parents with great effort, and then take the children back to the classroom one by one;

Even with the strong support from the drilling company, there are always some families in the village who are penniless. Although the food for students in Xiaoxi Village Hope Primary School is first-class, the students from these families still show signs of malnutrition after nearly a year of recuperation. So she has no choice but to wait downstairs when she sees these students walking out of the classroom with their school uniforms bulging. She then quietly stuffs the steamed buns and eggs she bought from the canteen into their mouths and forces them to finish their food before letting them go home. Not to mention the troubles caused by the habit of early marriage in the countryside. God knows how many times she has brought the village party secretary, teachers, staff, and even students of Hope Primary School to smash the place and snatch a few kisses. She even threatened that if she dared to let her students get married again, she would report to the drilling company and ask them to send people to arrest these confused parents.

But most of the time, the children were very well behaved, so well behaved that it made her feel a little distressed.

For example, sometimes when he couldn't recite the entire text, he would burst into tears and apologize to her, begging her not to ignore them;
For example, when she was eating in the school cafeteria at noon, there were always students who took advantage of her not noticing and secretly put the fattest pieces of meat and the eggs that were given to each student into her bowl;

For example, sometimes when it rained and she didn't bring an umbrella, there were always a few larger students who would protect her in the heavy rain, and then take off their school uniforms to cover her head despite her objections, and escort her back to the dormitory without getting wet, and then disappear in the rain like drowned rats.

Various things...

Many times, she felt that although she was only a 23-year-old girl and didn't even have a boyfriend, she was already an experienced mother... a mother with hundreds of children.

So, when she received a call the day before asking her to rush to Texas to attend a new employee meeting that might directly confirm her job position, she was not as excited as she had imagined. Instead, she felt full of anxiety and trepidation.

She could not forget the heart-wrenching reluctance and regret of the whole village who rushed to her upon hearing the news when she returned.
She also could not forget the pale, almost bloodless little faces and the helpless and pitiful eyes like abandoned little rabbits that followed her closely.

What she could not forget even more was that when the minibus started moving, the group of people followed it in the rearview mirror for several hundred meters, until they could no longer catch up with it, and then they heard faint cries.

I guess, in the minds of those villagers and children, once they get on the bus, they will be gone forever, just like their teachers before them?
Thinking of this, Li Li leaned over to look at the tightly closed door of the small auditorium, as if she could see the sky outside through the wooden door.

Early tomorrow morning, I have two Chinese classes, one math class, and one history class. The second grade is the time to lay the foundation, and the children's ages are uneven, especially those who are already in their teens. There is no time to delay, and every class is very important to them.

Damn it, the last bus from Dezhou to Ningjin is at 5pm, and the ride takes at least three hours;
After arriving at the county seat, the latest bus to Xiaoxi Village leaves at 4 o'clock;
In other words, I have to arrive at Dezhou Bus Station at least before 1:00 p.m. so that I can get back to Xiaoxi Village today and catch up with the class I teach the children tomorrow morning.

I didn't buy a watch and was in a daze all the way, so I actually forgot what time the meeting started. However, I vaguely remember that the sun was already high when I entered the venue, so it should not be later than ten o'clock in the morning.

When I was doing internship, I also attended several similar meetings. These crappy meetings were always long and boring. I believed that they would not be over in a short time, and it was even possible that they would continue in the afternoon.

Fuck you!

Fuck you, this shitty club!
Fuck your organization!
I don’t want it anymore!
Li Li was in a very irritable mood. Having been a class teacher in Xiaoxi Village for a year had brought about a great change in her personality. She straightened her waist and wanted to stand up.

Unexpectedly, she hasn't stood up yet...

There was a slightly harsh sound of tables and chairs clattering, and a young man on the left side of the front row stood up and walked towards the door of the auditorium without saying a word.

This is a young man who looks a little strange.

I say he is a young man because judging from his physique and appearance, he is no more than 20 years old;

But if you say he is a middle-aged man, probably not many people would doubt it... This man's skin is really too dark and rough, so rough that it is not much different from that of an old farmer in the fields.

What's even more strange is that although he is obviously a young man, his waist is somewhat hunched to the left, and even his left leg is a little uncoordinated. If an experienced farmer or doctor is present, they can tell at a glance that this is movement deformation caused by severe lumbar muscle strain and lumbar disc herniation due to long-term heavy physical labor.

"Stop! Who's that? The meeting isn't over yet, where are you going?"

A cadre on the rostrum's face changed slightly and he drank it out on the spot.

People have urgent needs, and going to the toilet during a meeting is actually a very normal thing. However, other people go to the toilet with their backs bent, for fear of being seen by the leader on the stage. How can you stand up openly like this and drag the chair with a creaking sound?
Isn't this a mess?!
and……

The toilet in the auditorium is not in that direction at all!
Hearing the leader's question, the young man dragged his left leg and turned around with some difficulty, with a reserved and proud calm on his face: "I'm sorry, leader, I probably don't have time to attend this meeting today... Sorry, I have something urgent to do and I have to hurry back to Qihe Liudaohe!"

After a slight pause, the young man said with a hint of relief: "Although I don't know the significance of holding this meeting today, your Urban Property Fund Company is also a good company, but maybe I am not suitable for your company, so... I'm sorry to disappoint the kindness of all the leaders!"

As soon as this statement came out, the whole audience was in an uproar.

Does that mean you don't want this opportunity, or even this position?

You have to understand that although Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company is nominally given the establishment of an ordinary public institution, it enjoys the treatment of a central enterprise. Moreover, from the content described in the meeting just now, its treatment is even better than that of the second-level units of ordinary central oil enterprises. Such a delicious pie is in your bowl, and you actually say you don’t want it?

The young man glanced at those faces that were either stunned, confused, or even mocking, and pursed his lips reservedly, but turned around, dragging his somewhat inconvenient left leg, and walked towards the auditorium door in a hurry.

Looking at the young face that was still memorable but already looked much more unfamiliar, Li Li felt a burning sensation in her chest.

She knew who the other person was, and could guess why he left in such a rude and hasty manner.

Beautiful~!

Li Li's lips curled up with a hint of pride that no one else could understand. She glanced at the young faces in the same row who were eager to try, and was just thinking about getting up and leaving after them...

"Qihe? Liudaohe Village?"

"You are... Yang Jian?"

An appreciative voice came from the podium. Turning around, it was Zhuo Mali.

"Eh? Minister Zhuo, do you know me?"

The young man looked back in surprise, his not-so-handsome face full of disbelief, as if he couldn't believe that this powerful leader actually knew about a humble little ant like him.

Seeing this, Zhuo Mali laughed, stood up and slowly walked down the podium, her voice full of curiosity: "Are you the teacher who rides a bicycle 30 miles round trip every day and teaches in two primary schools at the same time?"

Yang Jian looked a little embarrassed and quickly explained, "Minister Zhuo, although I also teach at the primary school in Shitan Village, I don't get paid extra... and I always go there when I have time, and I don't delay the teaching progress of Liudaohe Hope Primary School. You can ask the principal and other teachers, they can testify to that."

In this day and age, part-time jobs are very much criticized, and people will think that you lack professionalism. If you are receiving two salaries at the same time, it will be even more criticized, and may even be considered as having problems with your work style. Therefore, he must make it clear that he did not receive any salary from Shitan Village and that he was only teaching on a voluntary basis.

Zhuo Mali smiled and nodded: "I know, not only do I know that you didn't take the money from Shitan Village, but I even used my own salary to make up for it... Am I right?"

Yang Jian's rough face flushed slightly. "Well... there are not enough teaching props over there, and there are not even many textbooks. I can't just watch seven or eight children squeeze together to use one book, right?"

Zhuo Mali approached and hummed softly, then stretched out her hands and shook hands with the other party without hesitation: "But the salary and bonus paid to you by the drilling company's operating and management fund every month is not small, at least more than 150 yuan a month, which is even much higher than the salary of ordinary workers... If you just buy textbooks for the children, you need to spend your own salary every month, and even have to work part-time on the county construction site every weekend?"

As she spoke, Zhuo Mali shifted her gaze to the man's obviously inconvenient left leg, her eyes full of pity: "Teacher Yang, is this how you got your legs and waist in trouble?"

After all, Yang Jian was only a young man under 24 years old. He was not used to such a beautiful female leader speaking softly to him. He scratched his head shyly and said, "I can't help it. The conditions in Shitan Village are too poor. They lack textbooks, stationery, exercise books, and everything... Those children can't even afford pencils. As a teacher, I naturally have to help as much as I can."

Zhuomali laughed when she heard this. "I'm afraid it's not just textbooks and stationery. I heard that the reason you have to go to the city to move bricks on weekends is to earn more money so that you can buy more food, vegetables and meat to improve the meals for those children... It is said that the primary school in Shitan Village also has a stone mill that you bought with your own money so that you can grind the wheat you bought into flour and save more money."

When everyone heard this, their faces couldn't help but change. They looked at Yang Jian's slightly hunched waist and his already lame left leg with awe in their eyes.

It is obvious that the reason why this young man is like this is entirely due to excessive heavy physical labor.

Cycling thirty miles back and forth between the two villages is a very physically demanding endeavor;

Carrying bricks on construction sites in the city is also a heavy physical labor with a heavy load;
Changing the money into wheat and then grinding it into flour with a millstone was a physically demanding job that city dwellers could not understand.

As for other things, such as one person having to cook for dozens of children, it is also an extremely physically demanding job.

For one person to be responsible for so much work is a heavy burden that can make people collapse, even for someone who grew up in the countryside. What's more, most of the teachers who provided educational support were those who grew up in the city and had never done much physical work.
Suddenly exceeding the limit of his body's functions, the result was Yang Jian's current state.

But what is both admirable and terrifying is that this young man actually persisted for a whole year?
Yang Jian didn't like the looks people gave him. He just followed his heart and did what he thought he should do. Even though it was more difficult, more tiring, and he had more pains, he never felt that he should be looked up to by others.

Just as patriotism is a person's most basic moral requirement; as a seven-foot-tall man from Qi and Lu, he does not think that as a college student, there is anything admirable in doing something for those children within the scope of his ability.

Thinking of this, Yang Jian felt uncomfortable all over, and he forced out a smile somewhat unnaturally: "Minister Zhuo, I'm really sorry, I have classes tomorrow, and I have to prepare breakfast for those children tomorrow, so...thank you for your kindness. I'm just an ordinary person, and the only thing I can do is to teach the children to read. Your unit is so good, you should give the opportunity to those who are more capable!"

After saying that, he turned around with his body slightly tilted, and was actually planning to say goodbye.

The implication was obvious: he had no interest in the establishment of Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company, nor did he plan to change his job as an aid teacher, which made him feel extremely fulfilled and satisfied.

After all, in this world, money is not everything.

so…………

Love so and so!

Don't delay his class tomorrow.

Zhuo Mali naturally knew what this young man, who looked twenty years older than he actually was, was thinking. She stopped him again and said, "Teacher Yang, are you sure that today's meeting is not as important as going back to prepare breakfast for the children tomorrow?"

After saying that, the peach put her hand on Yang Jian's shoulder without any hesitation, and half-reluctantly invited him back to his seat: "Teacher Yang, the people who were invited here today have all been carefully selected... You can't think that our President Yang invited you teachers back at this time when he knew that the children had already started school, and he just made a random decision on the spur of the moment, right?"

As she spoke, Zhuo Mali glanced at the teachers who had been absent-minded since the beginning of the meeting, and smiled sincerely: "Everyone, please believe us, the reason we invited you back is that we must have more important and more valuable work for you than teaching the children tomorrow!"

Eh?
Is there any job that is more important and valuable than a teacher teaching children?

Are you sure you're not talking nonsense?
Including Yang Jian and Li Li, a group of teachers who were transferred back from various Hope Primary Schools looked at the charming general assistant in surprise, and they were completely confused about what the Urban Property Fund Company was up to...

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PS: Although there are some differences in details, the character Yang Jian has a real prototype, not YY. It was even reported on TV at the time. Of course, unfortunately, the prototype of this character is not from Qilu, but somewhere in the northwest.

As I said, this world is full of disparities. There are people like the author who are greedy and despicable, and there are also many unknown people who are quietly mending this world.

　　over!

(End of this chapter)