As Zhao Qingzhou spoke, he looked at Wen Qiao and saw her hesitant expression.
"What? You don't want to?"
"Or is it that your family doesn't want you to go? Wen Qiao, your career should be something you dedicate your life to. Besides, you've been married for several years now, and your children are all grown up. You don't need to make any more sacrifices for your family."
Putting aside his unrequited love for Wen Qiao, Zhao Qingzhou felt that he hoped more for ambitious women like Wen Qiao to put aside their families and devote themselves to their work.
Wen Qiao immediately explained softly, "Director, you misunderstand. My husband won't stop me. On the contrary, he has always been very supportive of me."
“But I still want to discuss this with him. After all, I have three children at home, and as you know, my stepfather is sick, and my mother has been taking care of him. The elderly in my family are sick, and if I just leave, I'm worried about them…”
Zhao Qingzhou nodded.
He then spoke earnestly to Wen Qiao:
“Wen Qiao, your three children are not young anymore. If you talk to them, they will understand. As for the elderly in the family, they do need someone to take care of them, but even if you are in China, you can't take care of them every day. If you are really worried, you can hire another caregiver.”
“This trip abroad to study is an opportunity for you, and there will also be subsidies and allowances. These subsidies are enough to hire a caregiver for the elderly.”
"You are someone I mentored, and I hope that in the future, you can take my place."
Zhao Qingzhou was genuinely teaching Wen Qiao how to do things.
After all, the Information Department was newly established, and they were the first cohort. Zhao Qingzhou hoped that the people in the Information Department would become the backbone of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the future.
It's not just about finding a job that pays a salary.
Wen Qiao's face showed a hint of seriousness.
"Yes, Director, I understand what you mean."
Zhao Qingzhou nodded slightly. "Then you should go back first."
Wen Qiao got up and walked out, turning around and closing the door behind her. Just as she was about to leave, she saw Zhou Jia coming from elsewhere with documents in her arms.
Upon seeing Wen Qiao, Zhou Jia quickly walked over to her with small steps.
"What does the director want with you?"
Wen Qiao went straight to the point: "I'm asking about some further education matters. How many people from our Information Department are going this time?"
Zhou Jia immediately said, "How many more? Comrade Wen Qiao, it's already good enough if each department sends one. Let me tell you, if you really are going this time, you can't just not go because you're the army commander's wife."
As Zhou Jia spoke, she glanced around and whispered, "I heard that everyone who went for further training this time will be promoted when they come back."
"If you get promoted in the future, I'll follow you around."
Zhou Jia was a clerk in charge of document processing. She was not good at translation, and she was not as good as Wen Qiao. She had nothing to be jealous of Wen Qiao.
"Oh, right, I also heard something else. Our department is about to get new translators. They're said to be top students who graduated from foreign language schools, and they're all women. They got in on their own merits, they're really impressive."
Wen Qiao smiled and said, "That's great. Nowadays, college degrees are highly valuable."
Judging from Zhou Jia's words, it seems that more than one person is coming.
The Information Department is becoming increasingly mature.
Many matters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been transferred to the Information Department, and with only Wen Qiao as the translator, there are indeed many things to do.
If we have two more, there will be people to share the workload in the future.
Wen Qiao thought there was another reason: Zhao Qingzhou had recommended her to study abroad, and the translation department needed people, so they recruited someone in advance.
After Wen Qiao goes for further studies, the Information Department will definitely need translators; they can't keep borrowing people from the Translation Department every time.
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