Chapter 010 First Day at Work
Because the children had a misunderstanding about north being up and south being down, the next topic of Mr. Kobayashi’s class was about learning about maps.
She took the rolled-up map from the back of the classroom to the front of the podium and unfolded it, then asked, "Children, do you know what this is called? Oh, yes, this is called a map. Which country is it from? Yes, it's our country's map. Come and take a look, I..."
In the Class 2 classroom, the one who stared most at the map in Teacher Xiaolin's hand was Shi Qiushui, who had been the most dismissive before.
Her eyes widened the moment Teacher Kobayashi unfolded the map.
Map, such a clear map!
Maps have always been a military secret. Ordinary people may not even have the chance to see one in their lifetime, let alone own one.
Now that such a clear map is in front of her, if she doesn't take a closer look, she will be at a disadvantage!
Shi Qiu Shui's eyes were greedily staring at the map at first, but as Teacher Kobayashi's narration became more and more in-depth, her gaze shifted to Teacher Kobayashi.
Because the lecture was for children, Teacher Kobayashi's explanations were not very in-depth. He just roughly explained the names, characteristics and specialties of each province. But even so, Shi Qiu Shui was fascinated by it.
Unlike the mainstream women in the Dayu Dynasty who only read "Nu Xun" and "Nu Jie", Shi Qiu Shui, who followed Shi Yue to read the Four Books and Five Classics as well as inferior storybooks, used to think that her knowledge was broad enough. But after listening to Teacher Xiao Lin's story, she discovered that there were so many great rivers in the world that she didn't know about, and so many strange foods that she had never heard of.
There are places where the specialty is hairy tofu, and in other places, people's favorite food is pickled and smelly mandarin fish. The most outrageous thing is that some places even eat the undigested contents of cows' stomachs...
Oh my god! That's horrible!
One cannot, or at least should not...
No, Shi Qiu Shui really couldn't accept this. She thought to herself, there is such delicious beef, why should I eat beef poop?
You know, she was so happy when she learned from her memory that in the 1990s, you could eat as much beef as you wanted. As long as you had money, you could go to the market and buy as much beef as you wanted. After all, in the Dayu Dynasty, if you wanted to eat beef, you had to wait for a cow to accidentally fall and die!
But who would have thought that people here, who can eat beef as much as they want, are not interested in beef, but are interested in beef poop?
Shi Qiu Shui hid her complaints and prepared to go home and talk to her father about this strange thing.
"Ahhh—"
Shi Yue at the machinery factory sneezed suddenly, perhaps because he sensed Shi Qiu Shui's concern.
A sarcastic voice immediately rang out from the side: "Hey, Shi Yue, you're not catching a cold, are you? You were hospitalized for food poisoning a couple of days ago, and you just came to the factory today and you're catching a cold again. Aren't you a retired soldier? Why do you seem to be in poor physical condition?"
Shi Yue raised his eyelids, glanced at Sun Guodong who was speaking, and didn't respond.
Seeing that he didn't respond, Sun Guodong snorted coldly and turned to leave the patrol.
Zhao Hui, who was standing by, patted Shi Yue on the shoulder and said, "Don't mind Old Sun's attitude. He's been arguing with his wife these past few days and he's feeling upset. He's been sarcastically attacking everyone he talks to."
Shi Yue nodded: "It's okay, I don't care."
Zhao Hui stood up and said, "I'm glad you don't mind. I'll also go and persuade Old Sun not to bring his emotions into his work."
After Zhao Hui left, Shi Yue was the only one left in the security department's office. He looked around the empty office and knew in his heart that he was being excluded.
As for the reason for being excluded, he actually knew it was because of Sun Guodong.
Sun Guodong was being sarcastic to him not because he was in a bad mood after quarreling with his wife, but because he had taken Sun Guodong's position as deputy chief of the security department.
In addition to the chief and deputy chief of the security department of the machinery factory, there are two team leaders. Sun Guodong is one of them. He is not only one of the team leaders, but also one of the most senior employees in the security department. For this reason, he always thought that after the original chief left and deputy chief Zhao Hui took over, he would become the new deputy chief of the security department.
As a result, Shi Yue, an airborne soldier, dropped from the sky and became the new deputy chief of the security department.
In Sun Guodong's view, Shi Yue had snatched away his position as deputy section chief, so of course he was unhappy with Shi Yue.
In fact, during the two days when Shi Yue was not here, he had been muttering about Shi Yue in the security department, and was even still muttering this morning.
As for why Shi Yue knew about this, it was because when Shi Yue came to work in the morning, he heard Sun Guodong's chatter in the office.
Of course, Sun Guodong was not so stupid that he did not complain openly. It was just that Shi Yue had good hearing and could hear Sun Guodong's complaints and other people's responses clearly through the door.
He knew that he was new in the company and his relationship with his colleagues could not compare to that of Sun Guodong, with whom he had worked for many years. So even though he heard their conversation, he did not rush to open the door to interrupt them. Instead, he stood outside the door and waited until they stopped talking about him before pretending to have just arrived and opening the door to say hello.
When he heard his colleagues agreeing with Sun Guodong's painting, he knew that these people would definitely stand on Sun Guodong's side to intimidate him. Sure enough, after he pushed the door open and came in, although everyone in the security department greeted him with a smile, if you look closely at their attitude, you can only say that they were indifferent.
His attitude was even more obvious when he was eating in the cafeteria at noon. There was clearly an empty seat at the table where the security department members were sitting together, but when he walked over, he got a response that it was occupied.
If he still can't see that everyone is ostracizing and isolating him, he would be a fool.
The only person who treated him better was Section Chief Zhao Hui.
It is also hard to say whether Zhao Hui's good attitude towards him is because Zhao Hui, as a section chief, cannot take the lead in following his subordinates in engaging in divisive activities.
To be honest, Shi Yue doesn’t really care about being ostracized and isolated by his colleagues. He goes to work to make money, not to make friends. He doesn’t care about other people’s attitudes. As long as he can earn a salary, that’s enough!
Moreover, even if he was excluded, he was still the deputy section chief, half a level higher than others, and others had no qualifications or rights to make things difficult for him.
Besides, the way these people were ostracizing him was really childish! They just didn't talk to him, the patrols kept him back, and they didn't eat with him.
It's so funny. If being excluded means he can sit in the office and drink tea leisurely while others are patrolling outside in the scorching sun, he hopes he can be excluded forever!
Shi Yue sincerely hoped so. After all, it was really a blessing to get paid just by sitting in the office and drinking tea!
There's even free tea in the office!
He picked up the teacup, took a sip of the tea, and frowned with some dissatisfaction.
Although the free tea tastes a bit ordinary.
Forget it, let’s not drink tea for now, I’d rather read the newspaper.
Shi Yue picked up the newspaper on the table, looked at the neat ink characters on it, and sighed: It's no wonder that it's the 1990s, newspapers can be so innovative.
There were also newspapers in the Dayu Dynasty, which were divided into official gazettes and private tabloids.
The selection of content, copying, and subsequent sale and transportation of official reports were all managed by people sent by the court. The audience of the reports were also officials within the court. Ordinary people did not even have the qualifications to read the reports.
As for privately founded tabloids, their content is much richer than that of official gazettes. They cover everything from court policies and war situations to folk legends and anecdotes.
However, no matter how rich the content of a tabloid is, it cannot be compared with the daily newspaper in front of us.
A double-page daily newspaper is densely packed with various news items, including international situations, notices of rising vegetable prices, supermarket promotional advertisements, and... there is even a collection of three short jokes in the gap between the opening and closing.
If only the Dayu Dynasty had such a newspaper...
Thinking of the many poor people in the Dayu Dynasty who even had trouble getting food, Shi Yue shook his head again. Even if the Dayu Dynasty had such a newspaper, it would be useless.
For people who have trouble even getting enough to eat, who would spend money to buy newspapers?
"Bang—"
Suddenly a loud noise interrupted Shi Yue's thoughts. He looked up and found that it was the sound of Sun Guodong, who had just gone out, pushing the door open.
Sun Guodong, who had just returned from outside, had an obvious look of anger on his face. When he passed by Shi Yue, he snorted in dissatisfaction.
Shi Yue: ???
He hummed when he went out and he hummed when he came back. What's going on? Was he reincarnated as a pig?
Zhao Hui, who followed Sun Guodong in, saw his actions and pinched his nose bridge with a headache.
Zhao Hui sighed and said, "Old Sun, come out with me for a moment. I haven't explained what happened just now to you clearly. Let's talk it over."
Sun Guodong: "What else can I say? I..."
Before he could finish his words, Zhao Hui interrupted him: "Old Sun! Come, let me talk to you again!"
Regardless of whether Sun Guodong was willing or not, Zhao Hui dragged him out of the office.
Shi Yue looked at the backs of the two people leaving the door and rolled his eyes.
If he guessed correctly, when Zhao Hui said he was going to persuade Sun Guodong not to bring his emotions into work, he actually meant to persuade Sun Guodong not to bring his dissatisfaction with himself into work, right?
After all, as the head of the security department, Zhao Hui certainly doesn't want his subordinates to have a quarrel that is too ugly, as it would be inconvenient for him to carry out his work.
Then Sun Guodong came in angrily just now, probably because Zhao Hui failed to persuade him?
So Zhao Hui took Sun Guodong out again?
Shi Yue shook his head, Zhao Hui’s efforts would be in vain this time.
He knew at first glance that Sun Guodong was a stubborn person. How could he easily change his attitude towards him just because of Zhao Hui's few words of persuasion?
If Zhao Hui insisted on persuading Sun Guodong, he would have a headache.
But what did this have to do with him? He wasn't the one with the headache anyway. He just had to act like he was doing now, pretending he was oblivious to everyone's ostracism.
Who knows, those people might even get angrier because you didn't express anything!
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