When passing by this house yesterday, Zong Shao only mentioned the Military Family Resettlement Office. In fact, this building is shared by them and the Women's Federation. The former's office is on the first floor, and the latter's office is on the second floor.
One floor sounds like it's quite large, but in fact there are only seven offices, with four doors on each side. There are two doors on the left side of the entrance that lead to connected rooms, which are used as offices. The remaining two doors are the leaders' offices. The four rooms on the right are offices of small departments such as household registration, job placement, relationship mediation, and financial logistics.
Although there was no one in the corridor, there was a wooden sign on each office door. Lin Wei looked at the sign and knocked on the door of the first office on the right.
A voice soon came from inside: "Come in."
Lin Wei pushed the door open and saw a rectangular office with a very ordinary front door and rear window. The office is not big. Two steps after entering the door are desks, two on each side. Further back are two filing cabinets, and old shígG独伽 is placed on the left and right sides of the window.
Two people looked up from behind their desks, and there were two empty desks. Lin Wei wasn't sure whether there was no one there or they had gone out for some reason.
Lin Wei didn't pay much attention and smiled at the two people inside: "Hello, my name is Lin Wei, I'm a new military dependent. May I ask if you are the one who should handle my household registration?"
The two people inside looked at each other. They were both military dependents. Because of their high level of education, there happened to be a vacancy when they came to join the army, so they were arranged to do civilian work in the Military Dependents Placement Office.
They eat and work in the family area, so they are always the first to know if there is any movement in the family area. As soon as she saw that Lin Wei was a stranger, she guessed her identity, who her husband was, and when she joined the army.
Correspondingly, they also heard about what happened in the family quarters yesterday, and knew that although Lin Wei looked gentle, she was actually not easy to mess with.
Thinking of this, the woman in a plaid shirt behind the desk on the right straightened her back and asked, "Have you brought all the information?"
The information Lin Wei brought was prepared according to what Zong Shao said, so it should be complete, but he had never been here to register his household registration, so Lin Wei was not so sure. After telling the two brothers to play in the open space outside the door and not to run around, she walked in with the information and said, "I brought some information. Can you help me check if it is enough?"
The man in the plaid shirt hummed, and when he took the information, he looked up and saw two children who looked almost identical standing by the door whispering to each other. He was surprised and asked, "They look alike?"
Lin Wei explained: "They are twins, so they have to look alike."
"Not all twins look alike." This was said by a middle-aged woman sitting behind the desk next to her. She was wearing a gray-blue navy summer uniform.
The navy has been equipped with new uniforms this year. The summer uniforms for female soldiers are white on top and blue on the bottom. The one she is wearing is the Type 65 summer uniform for female soldiers, but the material still looks bright. It should have been issued last year and has not been worn many times.
Seeing that she was quite friendly, Lin Wei smiled and said, "It seems that there are identical and fraternal eggs. Identical eggs look more alike, while fraternal eggs don't look that similar."
The woman in military uniform was surprised: "Twins are also divided into these?"
Lin Wei nodded: "It should be divided, that's what the doctor said." In fact, these words were not said by the doctor, but were written in the novel.
While the two were chatting, the man in the plaid shirt had finished reading the documents. He stood up and walked to the filing cabinet at the back. He opened the cabinet door and took out two forms. He handed them to Lin Wei and said, "The documents are complete. Fill out these two forms." He then handed Lin Wei a pen and pointed to the empty desk next to him and said, "Just sit here and fill them out."
Lin Wei thanked her and sat down to fill out the form.
Although a single form only consists of one piece of paper, it has both sides, and there is quite a lot of information to fill in, so Lin Wei took quite a while to fill it out.
It was a strange place, so the two brothers didn't dare to make loud noises. It was fine for a few minutes, but after a while they felt a little bored. Lin Wei had just finished filling out a form when Mingming came over and asked, "Mom, are you okay?"
Lin Wei looked up and said, "It will be a while. Can you play with your brother for a while?"
"Okay." Mingming sighed, turned his head and looked out the window, then remembered that there was a big yard outside, and asked, "Can my brother and I go out and play?"
Lin Wei was a little hesitant. After all, it was an unfamiliar place and she was afraid that the two children would run away.
At this time, the woman in military uniform handed over some candies and asked with a smile, "Would you like some candy, kid?"
It is rare for a three or four-year-old child not to like candy, not to mention that the candy she gave was fruit candy. The yellow and green candy wrappers lying in her palms seemed to have small hooks, hooking Mingming so much that he couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
But he still shook his head firmly and said, "My mother said that we should not take things from strangers casually." He looked at the candy and licked his lips, "Especially food."
The brothers' facial features are all the best from their parents. They stand out among their peers. In addition, they have fair skin, which makes them particularly likable.
The woman in military uniform liked children very much, but the two brothers were standing at the door just now and it was difficult to tell their personalities. She was also afraid of scaring them by being too enthusiastic, so she didn't take out the candy until now.
Who knew that the child was so sensible, he was obviously very greedy, staring at the two candies in her hand, but he still reluctantly refused, which made her heart melt, so she smiled and said: "You can't take candies from strangers, but your father and my husband know each other, and my family also lives in the family quarters, so your aunt is not a stranger, if you don't believe me, ask your mother."
Mingming turned and looked at Lin Wei.
Lin Wei looked over and saw the other party smiling and saying, "My name is Shen Qing. My husband Li Boping and Zong Shao are both in the naval forces. They all know each other."
Lin Wei believed this. Although the garrison at Sanlin Base was large and divided into shore support, sea support, and air force, the family members who could accompany the troops were of high rank. Even if she was not familiar with all of these people, she at least knew their names. And according to Shen Qing, her man and Zong Shao are both from Haiqin, so it's not surprising that they know each other.
In fact, it doesn’t matter if they didn’t know each other before. They all live in the family quarters anyway. Even if the houses are not that close, it should be no problem to get to know each other after a long time.
And she could see that Shen Qing gave the two children candy because she really liked them, and she had no other intentions, so she nodded and said, "You should say thank you, auntie, do you know?"
"Thank you, Auntie!" Mingming thanked her quickly, took a candy, looked at his brother who was still standing at the door, and asked softly, "Can I give my brother a candy too?"
Shen Qing said with a smile on his face: "Of course, these candies are for you."
Mingming was immediately tempted, but after thinking about it, he shook his head and said, "My brother and I can each have one. Mom doesn't allow us to eat so much candy." He picked up the candy and waved to Ruirui, "Brother!"
Ruirui, who was standing at the door in a daze, walked in slowly, took the candy from her brother and said, "Thank you, Auntie."
"So well behaved!" Shen Qing praised, "How do you usually take care of your children? You taught them to be so sensible."
Nowadays, people get married early and have children early. Most military wives have children at home, and topics related to raising children have always attracted attention.
The staff member in the plaid shirt immediately agreed: "I also think her two children are sensible. My son is a few years older than them. He is really a jerk. It makes me angry. I get annoyed when I see him."
Lin Wei said: "There is a saying in my hometown that dogs hate children as young as seven or eight years old. I am afraid that they will be difficult to manage when they grow up."
These words touched the heart of the man in the plaid shirt: "Yes, yes, my son is seven to eight years old this year. Even dogs hate him! But my son was not so well behaved when he was three or four years old. Your child should be fine when he is that age."
"I hope so." Lin Wei sighed, handed the completed form to the other party, and asked, "Please check if what I filled out is correct. Is there anything missing?"
The man in the plaid shirt quickly scanned the form and said, "No problem. There is nothing missing for now. But the specific decision will be decided by the higher-ups. I'll hand in the information to you first and let you know if there are any problems."
"That's troublesome." Lin Wei stood up and said, "By the way, after talking for so long, I still don't know your name..."
While packing up the documents, Liu Dan said, "My name is Liu Dan. You can call me Sister Liu or Comrade Liu."
Lin Wei called out "Sister Liu" and asked, "So, I'll go back today. Also, how long does it usually take for the household registration to be issued?"
"I have something to do at the headquarters this afternoon. You can bring the documents over and hand them in. As for when the household registration will be processed, it depends on how the review goes there and whether there are any problems." Liu Dan said, then changed the subject, "But don't worry, if you passed the political review when you got married, there will generally be no problem now. It's just a process. It should be within the next two days."
Lin Wei thanked him and said, "I'll come back the day after tomorrow. Will I still look for you then?"
"Well, come to me. I'm responsible for the household registration."
"Okay." Lin Wei nodded, indicating that she understood, and then called the two brothers, "Say goodbye to the two aunts."
The two brothers still had candies in their mouths, and when they heard Lin Wei's words, they pushed the candies out, waved their hands and said, "Goodbye, Aunt Shen, goodbye, Aunt Liu."
In fact, Ruirui didn’t listen much to their conversation and didn’t know their names. She had originally planned to say “Goodbye, Auntie” directly, but when the words were about to come out, she heard her brother’s voice, glanced at him and quickly changed her words.
Seeing Ruirui's little action, Shen Qing smiled unconsciously: "Goodbye Mingming, goodbye Ruirui."
Lin Wei waved to the two men again, picked up the bag containing the documents and walked out with the two brothers.
Just after leaving the office, Lin Wei saw a young woman in her forties coming in from outside. She had short hair and was wearing a blue shirt, black straight pants, and a pair of round-toed leather shoes with heels.
Looks quite capable.
Although most of the people who come here are military wives, they all live in the family quarters and are neighbors in a sense. Even if you don’t know each other, you can still make friends. But Lin Wei was not the kind of person who would actively make friends, so she just nodded at the person and went out with the two children.
The middle-aged woman looked at Lin Wei twice more, and after entering the job placement office and greeting everyone, she asked, "Is the person who just left the office the new military wife?"
There were also two people working in the office, and the leader had been called to a meeting.
Hearing her question, the short-haired woman sitting at the desk on the left asked curiously: "Did you ask this question again just now?" She was asking her colleague next to her.
My colleague thought for a moment and said, "She left from the office next door, right? Just now when I passed by their door, I saw someone applying for a household registration there."
The short-haired woman remembered: "Is she the wife of Deputy Battalion Commander Zong? I heard that she arrived yesterday and had a quarrel with Gao Xiulian."
"Why are you arguing?" asked the middle-aged woman.
"It seems that Gao Xiulian felt that it was a waste for the Zong family to build a toilet in the house. I am not sure about the details. Anyway, in the end, Deputy Regiment Commander Zhao took Gao Xiulian to the Zong family to apologize." He lowered his voice and said, "Everyone said that Deputy Battalion Commander Zong's wife, Shi Dujia, has a bad temper."
The middle-aged woman didn't care: "If someone comes to me and tells me how wasteful my family is, I won't mess with them."
Gao Xiulian was not popular in the family quarters. The short-haired woman did not mean to speak up for her. Hearing her say that, he said, "That's true. By the way, why are you here today, Director Chen?"
Director Chen recalled the business and said, "It's like this. Xiao Hu's husband from our hospital's Chinese medicine pharmacy has retired, and she wants to go back to her hometown with him. The pharmacy is short of people, so I came to ask if you have any suitable people."
The short-haired woman said, "Of course there are people, but I don't know what your requirements are."
"You know, working in a pharmacy requires you to prescribe medicine for people. You can't be illiterate. It's best to have a junior high school education or above, and you need to be meticulous. Otherwise, if you prescribe the wrong medicine, it can kill people." Director Chen paused and said, "Just these two points, that's about it."
This is because the military hospital had just been built, and Sanlin was not a big place, so the conditions were difficult. The young girls who had just graduated from medical schools and had connections at home all tried to get into the big hospitals, while those who did not have such strong connections would rather go to health clinics in small places, resulting in a shortage of hospital staff.
Otherwise, even if it was to work in a pharmacy, the recruitment requirements she listed would not be just these two.
But in Director Chen's opinion, her requirements were too lenient, but the short-haired woman was in trouble, because there were not many military wives with a junior high school education. These few military wives are basically recruited as soon as a job becomes available, and currently there are only a handful of unemployed military wives who have the required educational qualifications.
Seeing the short-haired woman looking embarrassed, Director Chen asked, "Why? There are so many unemployed military wives in the family quarters. Can't you pick one with enough education?"
“There are people with high academic qualifications, but this person…” said the short-haired woman, handing the information of the person who met the requirements to Director Chen.
Director Chen took the information and frowned when he saw the resignation on it. He asked, "Besides her, there is no one else?"
The short-haired woman shook her head: "No more, but if you only require literacy, I still have a few candidates."
Director Chen thought that a junior high school education was too low, so he didn't like the candidates she gave. He frowned even more tightly and hesitated whether to call the principal of the county middle school and ask him to arrange someone from this year's graduates.
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the person sitting behind the desk on the right say, "Maybe there's another person."
"Who?" the short-haired woman quickly asked her colleague.
A colleague said, "Deputy Battalion Commander Zong's wife, didn't she just come to join the army? She should also be looking for a job."
"She?" The short-haired woman frowned, "We don't even know what her education level is!"
"It's not difficult to find out what her education level is. Just go ask the neighbor next door and you'll know. It's all on the household registration form."
The short-haired woman was still a little hesitant, but Director Chen had already made a decision. He stood up and said, "I'll go next door to ask about her situation." As soon as he finished speaking, he went next door.
As soon as Director Chen left, the short-haired woman said to her colleague, "Why did you mention Deputy Battalion Commander Zong's wife just now?"
A colleague was transferred to the Family Resettlement Office not long ago. Hearing this, he was a little confused and asked, "Director Chen requires a junior high school degree. We don't have any suitable candidates, so I thought of her. Is there any problem with this?"
There is no major problem with this operation, but it does not conform to the process.
They have a fixed process for arranging jobs for military wives. Usually, the wives come to register, and they hand over the information of suitable candidates to the recruiting unit. If the recruiting unit finds them suitable, they will arrange a trial job for them, or directly start the job.
Also, because there are only a few state-owned factories near the Sanlin base, or even in the entire Ya County, recruitment positions are scarce. Many military wives have registered for half a year or even a year but have not found a job. Therefore, when they submit their information, they will limit their choices to those military wives who have been with the army for a long time but do not have a job.
Zong Shao’s wife has just joined the army and her household registration has not yet been completed, so it would be inappropriate to submit her information now.
Moreover, because there are so many people and so few positions, there are a lot of people competing for any slightly better job nearby, not to mention that this is an easy clerical job in the hospital pharmacy... but it was so casually assigned to a military wife who had just arrived to join the army.
The short-haired woman couldn't help but sigh, she just hoped that her conditions wouldn't meet the requirements!
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