After three days, the number of applicants finally reached 247.
The farthest one came from Huai'an Prefecture. They were recommended by Zhang Wenbo and his wife, and they also had a letter of recommendation from Chen Zuo's mother - this was an internal referral, the first stage of blind screening of resumes.
The most outrageous thing is that a 19-year-old farm boy told Aunt Zhong that he had 16 years of experience in papermaking.
Aunt Zhong was shocked. Boy’s Kung Fu?
When I asked him again, hey! It turned out that he had followed his father to the mountains to cut bamboo since he was three years old. The boy confidently said, "...After the bamboo was cut, I sat in the courtyard pond to peel the green skin, tied it into bundles and threw it into the pond to soak. After soaking, I steamed it, and then steamed it. After steaming, I had to ferment it... If I hadn't cut the bamboo, where would the rest of the process come from!?"
Xianjin thought what he said made a lot of sense, and with a wave of his hand, he approved his resume, no, his name.
After screening and reducing the number, the remaining 247 people were reduced to 180.
One hundred and eighty to ten, comparable to an examination.
Aunt Zhong drew a circle and reported to Xianjin, "...nine people from Hengji and Baiji have arrived."
Not bad.
Xianjin nodded and whispered to Aunt Zhong, "If he's not particularly useless, he'll be allowed to go straight to the training camp."
This is an SSP who jumped ship from other large companies. Judging from his work experience and educational background alone, he is far ahead of other job seekers. Although it sounds ridiculous, work experience and educational background are the basic criteria for personnel screening.
Aunt Zhong responded loudly and rolled up her sleeves, which had just been striped, looking very motivated. She was about to turn around and leave when Xianjin stopped her.
"...Did you ask Doctor Qu to take your pulse a few days ago?" Xianjin asked.
Aunt Zhong smiled and nodded, "Yes! Aunt Du took me there!"
"Are you okay? How are you?" Xianjin asked with concern.
Aunt Zhong didn't understand what he meant. "It's okay. I'm very strong! I can finish two bowls of rice in one meal!"
Xian Jin took a closer look at Aunt Zhong. She was wearing a short shirt, her hair was tied up high, and her eyebrows were trimmed long and thin. She had the demeanor of a workplace elite. Looking more closely, Aunt Zhong's eyes were clear and there was no dark circles under them.
"I heard from Aunt Du that you go to bed at midnight every day and get up at cockcrow..." Xianjin laughed, "No need to work so hard, we are on the right track step by step, and things will only get better and better in the future... The old boss is going to retire, and you are my favorite candidate to succeed him. Don't die before you succeed, only when you are strong enough can you fight and win."
Aunt Zhong smoothed a few strands of hair between her ears and smiled, revealing two dimples at the corners of her mouth - no matter how serious and upright she was in normal times, she was just a girl in her twenties at this time, and if she lived in later generations, she might still be studying.
"Don't worry about me. I've been miserable in the first half of my life. You gave me a chance to change my fate. If I don't seize it, I'll slap myself twice when I'm lying on my bed when I'm old." Aunt Zhong held the list in her hand, lowered her brows and pursed her lips, as if she was struggling. After a while, she raised her head and said, "In June, Song Baixi came back from the capital. A neighbor who used to be on good terms with me on Shuixi Street in Jing County sent me a letter. It was said that he was unkempt, crazy, wearing a tattered coat, and knocking on the door outside the 'Look'. After being thrown out by the Chen family, he searched for me all over Jing County."
Xianjin slowed down his movements and listened to Aunt Zhong with a serious expression.
Aunt Zhong forced a bitter smile, "First, I went to my mother's town, but when I found no one there, I asked around and even reported it to County Magistrate Cui. Lord Cui is on good terms with you and Erlang Jun, so he just took out the divorce agreement that I had left at the county office early in the morning and forced him to sign it."
Xianjin's expression relaxed.
Putting aside the lawsuit involving Zuo Niang, Cui Heng was a very purposeful and opinionated man in some aspects.
"Later, he couldn't get enough of it. I don't know how he found out that I was at the Zhang family in Huai'an Prefecture, so he went to the Zhang family to look for me." Aunt Zhong's eyes revealed a trace of cruelty. "I finally climbed out of the mud pit, how could I fall back again! Second Madam Bo, it was our Zuo Niang who sent people to beat him up and threw him into the woods. Later, I heard that he was eating dirt, raw mushrooms and grass leaves in the woods. I don't know whether he is dead or alive."
Xianjin lowered his head to sort out the roster, and roughly understood what Aunt Zhong meant - she had finally crawled out of the mud pit, using her hands and feet, her flesh and blood all over, with a hungry baby on her back. For the sake of her future and her son, she would never slow down.
Xianjin's persuasion came to an abrupt end, and was replaced by another set of words of comfort.
"Whether he lives or dies, it has nothing to do with you and Yuanlang." Xianjin raised his head and stood up. With a gentle look, he lowered his rolled-up sleeves for Aunt Zhong, revealing two bright stripes. "You are mine. I watched Yuanlang crawl, walk and run since he was in his cradle. Whatever I, He Xianjin, can do, you, Aunt Zhong, can do. If I have a bite of flesh, you will have a bite of flesh."
Aunt Zhong looked at Xianjin with burning eyes and asked directly, "Will we continue to work in the Chen family?"
Xianjin paused while adjusting Aunt Zhong's sleeves, raised his eyes and smiled, "We haven't been working in Jing County forever."
Aunt Zhong looked at Xianjin thoughtfully.
Xianjin smiled and winked at her.
In the following days, in order to facilitate those who came from far away to register to avoid traveling back and forth, the contents of the preliminary and re-examinations were compressed into three days. After finishing the subjects of paper-collecting, there were only 61 people left out of the 180. The last subject was culture. Each person was given a piece of paper and was allowed to write as many words as they could, regardless of what the words were.
Xianjin appeared in the examination room with Aunt Zhong and Li Sanshun.
A dozen people sitting in the front row were writing furiously. Xianjin looked over and found that although their handwriting was not very good, at least they could write the commonly used characters.
Some people in the back row were scratching their heads and cheeks, looking very anxious; some, although they could not write a few words, were frowning and thinking hard; many people buried their heads, cursing, and when they saw Xianjin stopped in front of them, they stopped talking symbolically, and when Xianjin walked away, they started cursing again.
Among them, the guy who stood on the threshold and said, "The pork elbows at Baizhen Pavilion are not as delicious as those at Hongbinlou" buried his head and kept writing. He had a domineering look of "I have everything planned out and now you can watch me stir up the world."
Xianjin nodded, thinking to himself: Don't judge a person by his appearance, this "Jiang elbow" has a high level of cultural level...
Unexpectedly, after getting the test paper, Xianjin stood there in a daze.
Aunt Zhong tilted her head to look and laughed, "One, two, three, four, five... one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand; ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty... two hundred, eight hundred; big, small, up, down, no, not big, not small, not up, not down..."
I managed to fill up a whole scroll.
Xianjin went to see the name of the "braised pork elbow" - Qi Qiqi.
Xianjin circled his name with a red pen.
I also circled the names of a few students who didn't write many words but remained calm in the exam room and never looked around anxiously.
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