"Honey, I have something to ask you." In the evening, after finishing their leisure activities, Xu Damao hugged his wife and said.
"What is it?" Hearing Xu Damao's somewhat formal question, Wang Minzhi immediately sat up. The teardrop-shaped bear swayed for a moment, making Xu Damao a little dizzy.
"The branch factory is hiring right now, and I have a quota. You know I don't have many relatives here, but you have quite a few, so I wanted to ask if you need anyone there."
Since there's only one quota available, and I'm worried that your relatives might feel uncomfortable because of it, I wanted to ask for your opinion first.
After playing with the little cutie for a while, Xu Damao finally answered.
"Ah, please stop playing around. I have quite a few relatives, but there's only one quota, and I don't know anything about it." Wang Minzhi was almost speechless.
“Then I’ll go to your house tomorrow and tell your parents what’s going on. Let’s see what they say and leave this headache to them. Now, your brother is coming again. Haha.” Xu Damao recovered.
The saying goes, "Don't let the good stuff go to outsiders." Now that there are plenty of quotas available, Xu Damao will naturally favor his own people. Before, when there were no quotas, it didn't matter; but now that there are quotas, if he doesn't give them to his family, and it gets exposed one day, Minzhi won't feel good about it.
However, the Wang family has many relatives, so the final decision on how to handle the situation depends on their opinion.
The next day, the young couple returned to the Wang family home and spoke with Mr. Wang alone about the matter. He was also conflicted. This was a good thing, but it could easily turn into a bad one, causing rifts between relatives.
In this era, relatives on the father's side are ranked first, followed by relatives on the mother's side, and then relatives on the daughter-in-law's side. However, in terms of poverty, Wang's mother's relatives, such as the third uncle's family who visited last time, are definitely the poorest, struggling to survive. But considering the future harmony of the family, giving the daughter-in-law's relatives the position might give her face and naturally improve her relationship with her son.
The matter was serious, and Mr. Wang didn't reply immediately. A day later, Mr. Wang took the initiative to find Xu Damao and revealed the answer: it was Tiger, the son of his third uncle.
“Sister-in-law Minzhi is a sensible person; she knows this family is truly suffering,” said Mr. Wang.
Having made his decision, Xu Damao instructed the Wang family to notify Hu Zi to come and register immediately with his letter of introduction and other necessary documents.
Because of this incident, the Wang family held Xu Damao in even higher regard as their son-in-law, and even Sister-in-law Minzhi said that Minzhi had found a good family. Comrade Wang Minzhi was very happy about this and rewarded Xu Damao handsomely that evening, having him try out many positions he wasn't familiar with before.
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For the next few days, Xu Damao enjoyed a leisurely vacation. In the mornings, he would go to work with his wife. First, he would check in at the temporary office, listen to the clerk's report, and then arrange the rest of the work.
After that, Xu Damao wandered around the various offices, occasionally trying to become familiar with the factory leaders when they weren't around. Incidentally, the current head of the steel rolling mill is now Yang Zhenhua, the secretary in the later storyline.
He had just taken office this year and was still in the process of getting to know the job. He had no recollection of Xu Damao, this mid-level manager at the branch factory, nor had he ever met him. Fortunately, he knew that the branch factory was going to expand production recently, and the personnel department there was coordinating the work here.
"Young man, you're quite young. How many people are in your family?" Yang Zhenhua asked with a smile.
"Shuji, I just got married and now live with my wife in the Hongxing Courtyard. We don't have children yet, and both our parents work outside." Xu Damao casually revealed his "background".
Xu Damao gave a brief report on the recent recruitment work and then tactfully left. This was such a high-ranking leader; he was several levels below him, separated by several other leaders. This time, the leader was only reporting under the guise of the branch factory; there wouldn't be many more opportunities for face-to-face reporting in the future.
In fact, Xu Damao was also ensuring that the top leader could recognize him, so that if the same names were ever presented to him again, he could easily identify him. As for switching allegiances, that was out of the question. Yang Zhenhua and Li Xuewu were essentially the same kind of people, just with different allies and different political tactics.
"Da Mao, where are you going again?" Xu Da Mao was a little bored at work, so he was about to go out to find a place to go fishing, but he was stopped by Tong Shuai, the deputy head of the security department, when he was about to leave.
"Brother Tong, is something wrong?" Xu Damao stopped the car.
"Something came up, come here for a moment." Tong Shuai pulled Xu Damao aside.
“Your branch factory is hiring recently. Do you still have any openings? My comrade’s son has been messing around outside, and his dad is begging me to find him a job.”
"I was originally thinking of hiring him as a temporary worker here, but since you guys are recruiting everywhere, and he's a permanent employee, I was wondering if you could help me out," Tong Shuai said.
“Okay, have him come to work tomorrow and bring the paperwork directly to me,” Xu Damao replied readily.
"Da Mao, don't worry, that young man is a good person, and... is that all?"
Tong Shuai was about to recommend his comrade's child when he suddenly realized that Xu Damao had already agreed.
"What more do you want? He was introduced by your brother Tong, so his character is definitely reliable. I trust him," Xu Damao said.
"You're a true brother, kid. Alright, I won't say much more. We'll see how you perform in a while." Tong Shuai was very pleased.
Even a worker position, even a permanent one, isn't necessarily impossible for him to secure, but it would likely involve some difficulties. Unexpectedly, with Xu Damao, it was accomplished with just a few words—that was a huge favor to him.
For men, face is more important than anything else.
It's unclear whether someone leaked the news, but in the following days, many people approached Xu Damao to inquire about the available spots, some of whom were complete strangers. Some asked directly during work hours, while others waited outside Xu Damao's door at night.
Since he didn't have any particularly good connections or influential people behind him, Xu Damao pushed all the tasks onto the factory leaders.
Watching one person after another carrying their belongings into the backyard and knocking on Xu Damao's door, Jia Zhangshi's eyes turned red; she was practically suffering from conjunctivitis.
"Why? He's just a deputy section chief in Tongzhou, yet so many people fawn over him. My Dongxu factory is headed by a leader, and no one has ever come to give us anything. Dongxu, have your apprentices give us some tomorrow too." Jia Zhangshi seemed to have opened the door to a new world.
"Mom, people are looking for Xu Damao because they want a job. Those apprentices at Dongxu don't want anything from Dongxu," Qin Huairu said, trying to persuade her somewhat deranged mother-in-law.
"What do you know? If he doesn't want it now, we can make him want it. Does he want to get a permanent position? Does he want to learn the skills properly? Dongxu, give him a hint: from now on, anyone who doesn't give you gifts will be the one you make things difficult for."
"I don't believe they'll still send gifts after we've made things difficult for them a few times," said Jia Zhangshi.
As a good son, how could Jia Dongxu disobey his mother? Sure enough, he later started obstructing apprentices in this area, sowing the seeds of future problems for his studies in the West.
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