Shi Zhen ate dinner at Shi Dalin's restaurant.
As soon as Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun met him, they told him about Fang Miyan's pregnancy, expressing their envy.
“Xingchao already has a child, and Xingxing is married, but it’s your sister…” Zhao Meiyun said, then began to worry.
The previous year, they were all busy making money and didn't have time to care about Zhao Qiujuan's marriage, but now that they have some free time, they are focused on this matter.
Zhao Qiujuan is twenty-three years old this year. In Shi Zhen's eyes, she is quite young, but people in their area get married early. Women generally get engaged before the age of twenty and get married when they reach that age. By the time they are twenty-three, most of them have already had children.
Even in Changxi City, people in the countryside get married early.
However, people in the town get married late, and parents usually don't get anxious until their children are 27 or 28 years old.
Zhao Meiyun has actually been affected to some extent, otherwise she would have forced him to get married two years earlier.
But Zhao Qiujuan's marriage is indeed difficult to arrange.
First of all, she doesn't work in a factory; she runs her own small business, so she doesn't have much contact with people, doesn't have her own social circle, and finds it difficult to find a partner on her own.
Secondly... because she's from out of town, even if people around her introduce her to men, the quality of those men isn't very good.
For example, some time ago, someone introduced Zhao Qiujuan to a man from the town who didn't own a house because she had one. The man was just an ordinary worker who earned only four or five hundred yuan a month, and he even looked down on Zhao Qiujuan.
Not to mention Zhao Qiujuan, even Zhao Meiyun was unhappy.
"Sis, why don't you come work for my company in the future?" Shi Zhen suddenly had an idea.
"Go to your company? What can I do there?" Zhao Qiujuan was a little confused.
“You can work as a receptionist at my company and help greet guests. If you’d like, you can also learn accounting or something,” Shi Zhen said.
Previously, even if Shi Zhen wanted to arrange a better job for Zhao Qiujuan, there was nothing he could do.
If she were to become an ordinary factory worker... Zhao Qiujuan wouldn't earn as much money as she does now, running her own business.
Moreover, most factories here require three shifts, which is even harder than her street vending.
But this year, his company has grown bigger, and he just bought a piece of land and built himself a three-story office building... Zhao Qiujuan could actually go work for him and get to know more people.
If Zhao Qiujuan is willing, she can also study accounting or something similar.
Zhao Qiujuan did not finish primary school, but it is almost impossible for her to go back to school.
Primary and junior high schools do not admit adults.
But if Zhao Qiujuan is determined enough to spend more time, she can still learn accounting and pass the accounting certificate exam.
As for the fact that she doesn't have a junior high school diploma... if she tells people that she graduated from junior high school, how could they not believe her?
Often, whether a person can accomplish something depends on whether they truly want to do it.
Moreover, Zhao Qiujuan is actually not stupid.
In comparison, Shi Ting is probably less quick-witted.
However, Shi Ting is doing quite well right now.
The preschool teacher training school in Changxi City had only been established for a short time, and the admission score was low. Shi Ting's grades, which ranked 25th to 30th in her class at the town's junior high school, were already far ahead of students from the rural junior high school.
At that time, the urbanization rate was not high, and most students studied in the countryside, so Shi Ting's ranking in the city was actually quite good.
Her middle school entrance exam scores were even better than Guan Jinjin's.
Guan Jinjin didn't want to study and eventually didn't continue her education, instead learning hairdressing. Shi Ting, however, barely made it into a preschool teacher training school.
That's not all. After entering this school, Shi Ting actually became one of the best students.
Preschool teachers need to learn to sing and dance, and also to play the piano... Of course, there are no pianos for them to learn on, so they usually practice on an electronic keyboard and can play a few nursery rhymes.
In these areas, Shi Ting is surprisingly talented.
She was tall, pretty, and always smiling. Even though she had never learned singing or dancing before, she dared to go on stage and perform confidently. Later, she learned all those courses very well... Naturally, the teachers liked her.
Speaking of which, Shi Ting looks a bit taller in this life than in her previous life. Not long ago, Shi Zhen measured her height, and she was exactly 1.65 meters tall barefoot.
She said she was 1.65 meters tall in her past life, which is most likely a lie about her height.
It's just that she likes to wear high heels and is thin, so others can't tell.
Shi Zhen thought that once Shi Ting graduated, she would definitely be able to become a kindergarten teacher.
As for her first husband in her previous life... Shi Zhen was confident that the current Shi Ting would definitely not look favorably upon him.
"Ah Zhen, your company is in Changxi City, right?" Zhao Qiujuan asked hesitantly.
She's always lived here and thinks it's great, so she's a little hesitant about moving...
“Yes, my company is in Changxi City. Sister, if you come to work for me, I can only pay you 600 yuan a month, but I will pay your insurance,” Shi Zhen said. “At that time… if you are willing to learn something, things should be quite different from now.”
At that time, accountants were still very valuable.
Most importantly, if Zhao Qiujuan continues to set up a stall... given her circumstances, at most she will be able to open a small shop selling breakfast.
She'll be exhausted her whole life, and holidays won't be a part of her life.
But if she could pass the accounting exam in this era, her life would truly be different.
Of course, this is not easy.
"Ah Zhen, is this job an office job?" Zhao Meiyun asked Shi Zhen.
Shi Zhen said, "Yes." He hired a receptionist, mainly to help him answer the phone and such. It was actually quite a free job, which gave Zhao Qiujuan some free time to learn something.
He planned to buy a computer... and Zhao Qiujuan even learned how to type on a computer.
These days, being able to type is a big deal; you can make a lot of money opening a print shop. Not long ago, he went to a print shop in Changxi City to print a few pages of a contract, and they quoted him 20 yuan. Later, he said he would type it himself, and it only cost him 8 yuan.
With the two-finger typing technique he learned in his previous life, his typing speed was actually faster than the shop owner's.
It's never a bad thing to learn more.
"Qiujuan, working in an office is so much better, why don't you go! Six hundred a month isn't bad, plus there's pension insurance..." Zhao Meiyun persuaded Zhao Qiujuan.
In the past two years, Zhao Qiujuan has been single-mindedly focused on making money. Zhao Meiyun always felt that she was too tired. Moreover, Zhao Meiyun had a simple idea – she felt that sitting in an office was more respectable than setting up a stall.
Zhao Qiujuan secretly wanted to do a respectable job, since she had been rejected on occasional blind dates over the past year: "I'm afraid I can't do it."
Shi Zhen said, "Sister, don't worry, I'll teach you."
Zhao Qiujuan hesitated for a moment, then finally agreed: "Okay."
Shi Zhen was quite happy when Zhao Qiujuan agreed.
If Zhao Qiujuan doesn't agree, he will suggest that she take their family's shop and open a breakfast shop, which would be better than setting up a stall outside in the sun and rain.
But if Zhao Qiujuan goes to Changxi City with him... then he can enroll her in all sorts of tutoring classes.
The next morning, Shi Zhen took Zhao Qiujuan to Changxi City.
The house he rented in Changxi City had four bedrooms, one of which could easily be given to Zhao Qiujuan.
Shi Zhen recently changed his car to a Santana. He left his old Xiali at the company for the technicians he hired to drive.
Zhao Qiujuan didn't have much stuff; she could pack it all up and take it to Changxi City in one trip. It was just a bit of a hassle to move it. Shi Zhen brought all the textbooks that Guan Baiyu and Shi Ting had used before, intending to give them to Zhao Qiujuan to read, so there were quite a few books.
Books are heavy, and Shi Zhen couldn't carry them all in one trip, so he made several trips, carrying them up and down the stairs.
"Xiao Shi, moving things?" A neighbor saw Shi Zhen and greeted him.
"Mm." Shi Zhen smiled at the other person and quickly ran upstairs.
He is very satisfied with where he lives now.
Because the residents here are mostly government employees, and many of them are of good character, there are fewer messy or troublesome things.
In his past life, he rented a room, and the person across the hall would take Chinese medicine and dump the dregs in front of his door, and do all sorts of other messy things like leaving things all over his doorstep.
He's been renting here for almost a year and has never encountered anything like this.
Not only that, he also got to know quite a few people while living here.
In his past life, he later... in hindsight, was somewhat Buddhist.
His high net worth was due to the appreciation of real estate and various investments. At that time, he didn't like to build connections.
But this life is different; he's happy to meet more people.
The only problem with living here is that... the fifth floor is a bit high, and it's troublesome to run up and down.
He's physically fit and can run up and down stairs without getting tired, but he's a real pain.
Shi Zhen and Zhao Qiujuan made three trips to move all the things.
Of the four bedrooms, Shi Zhen and Guan Baiyu already lived in the two facing south. One of the two facing north was used as a storage room, and the other was empty, which was perfect for Zhao Qiujuan to live in.
The room had a dormitory-style iron bunk bed and two large desks. It must have been a room for a brother or sister. Shi Zhen led Zhao Qiujuan inside and asked her, "Sister, there are other beds next door. Would you like me to get you one?"
"No need, I like this bed." Zhao Qiujuan looked at the bunk bed, her eyes sparkling.
Shi Zhen didn't understand what was so great about bunk beds, but then... Zhao Qiujuan went to tidy up the upper bunk: "Zhen, I've never slept in a bed this high before." She was acting like a little kid.
“Then you can stay upstairs for now, sister. Let me know when you need a different bed, and I’ll help you change it,” Shi Zhen said.
"Okay." Zhao Qiujuan was very happy.
Shi Zhen was free today, so after Zhao Qiujuan finished tidying up, he explained in detail the tasks that needed to be done at the front desk.
Basically, my job involves answering the phone, boiling water, making tea for visitors, and cleaning the office.
Although he bought land and built an office building, his company didn't actually need staff to stay in the office. There were very few workers in the office building on a daily basis, so Zhao Qiujuan's workload wouldn't be heavy.
She often had to stay in the office building alone.
"Sister, I'll buy a computer later, so you can learn to type first," Shi Zhen said. Once Zhao Qiujuan has mastered typing, she'll be able to recognize most characters, making it easier to learn other things later.
"Okay." Zhao Qiujuan agreed, then suddenly remembered something: "Azhen... there's something..."
"What is it?" Shi Zhen asked.
"Ah Zhen, don't tell anyone I'm your sister," Zhao Qiujuan said.
She felt she wasn't up to the task and was afraid of embarrassing herself if she couldn't finish after a few days.
It's one thing to embarrass yourself, but it's even worse to embarrass Shi Zhen. It would be better if people never knew she was Shi Zhen's sister.
Moreover... she didn't want anyone to know that she got in through connections.
Shi Zhen agreed. He didn't know why Zhao Qiujuan brought this up, but it was a small matter.
Zhao Qiujuan started working at the company the very next day.
Shi Daniu and the others who knew Zhao Qiujuan were all at the construction site; no one at the office building knew Zhao Qiujuan at all.
There's nobody here!
Zhao Qiujuan's worries about not being able to do it... she was really overthinking it.
Because there was simply no work for her to do.
After sitting there all morning, Zhao Qiujuan was filled with anxiety.
She used to be so busy that she only earned a little over a thousand a month, but now she sits all day and earns six hundred.
This is practically Shi Zhenbai giving her money.
Zhao Qiujuan had nothing to do, so she spent the afternoon cleaning.
Shi Zhen's office building is three stories high. The ground floor is the office area with several offices. As for the second and third floors, Shi Zhen has temporarily prepared some building materials and architectural models for storage.
Zhao Qiujuan had to guard the telephone on the ground floor, so she didn't go up to the second floor to clean, but the ground floor... she cleaned it so thoroughly that it was sparkling clean.
That evening, several technicians from Shizhen Company returned from the construction site, and for a moment they were hesitant to step onto the paving stones.
As a result, Zhao Qiujuan won everyone's favor as soon as she arrived.
The next day, Shi Zhen bought a computer and a printer and placed them next to Zhao Qiujuan... Now, Zhao Qiujuan no longer had to worry about having nothing to do.
She's busy learning to type every day.
When Guan Baiyu tutored Shi Ting before, Zhao Qiujuan also learned pinyin. Her pinyin was actually better than many of her peers who didn't study hard when they were in school.
After that, she got busy, but she would flip through her textbooks when she had free time, watch TV every day, and even speak Mandarin fluently... Now, learning to type is not as difficult as she imagined.
Moreover, typing... if you're willing to put in the effort, you can speed it up.
After practicing for a few days, Zhao Meiyun's typing speed became quite good.
Every night, she would copy a text from her elementary school textbook and bring it to the company. Then, at the company, she would repeatedly type it on the computer... In the end, she not only learned the text but also learned how to type.
Zhao Qiujuan was patient and didn't find typing boring at all. She practiced whenever she had free time. As a result, the employees of Shizhen Company who only came to the office building occasionally soon discovered that their receptionist was actually working on a computer!
That's amazing!
Before you know it, it's Friday.
Guan Baiyu has already asked his teacher if he can go home.
Because Shi Zhen had told the teacher about this beforehand, the teacher readily agreed.
So, after school on Friday, Guan Baiyu carried large and small bags and came to the school gate.
As soon as he stepped out of the school gate, he saw Shi Zhen.
“Brother!” Guan Baiyu said.
"Xiaoyu." Shi Zhen smiled and helped Guan Baiyu load his things into the car.
The two quickly returned to their rented place.
Guan Baiyu had already brought home the quilts and other winter blankets, so there weren't many things to carry. Shi Zhen carried them upstairs, leaving Guan Baiyu to walk behind with his schoolbag.
Guan Baiyu was in a good mood and slowly walked upstairs. Halfway up, he saw a door open and an old lady he had seen a few times came out carrying trash.
"Xiaoyu, you're back!" the old lady greeted with a smile.
"Mm," Guan Baiyu said with a smile.
"You're about to take the college entrance exam, right? Are you tired? By the way, did you know your brother found a girlfriend and she's staying at your house?" the old lady asked again.
Guan Baiyu was stunned when he heard this.
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