After the greetings, Wang Jiaxin took the initiative to mention her grandmother. In her opinion, Qiao Qingqing was quite caring towards her grandmother. At that time, there were only four families living in Building 4, and Qiao Qingqing was not so nice to others.
"My grandma passed away on the day of the fire. After you left Qinghui Supermarket, we got up and planned to go to the library. That's when I found out that my grandma was gone." Wang Jiaxin couldn't help crying when she talked about the past. Her grandma's love for them was deeply engraved in her heart. Whenever she thought of the half-pill of antipyretic medicine in her handkerchief, the sadness in her heart flowed out uncontrollably.
"I didn't know she had an injury on her hand. The wound was rotten, black and smelly. She definitely didn't want to drag us down, so she couldn't bear to take even half of the medicine and left it for us. I've always wondered if my grandma would have survived if she had taken that half of the medicine..."
Wang Jiale, who was standing next to him, also had tears in his eyes and turned his head away. He also blamed himself. If he had been at home at that time, he would have been strong and would have been able to help his grandmother.
Shao Shengan had met Wang Jiale and his family two years ago, and Qiao Qingqing had long known about the death of Grandma Wang. But this time, when she heard Wang Jiaxin recount the situation at that time, Qiao Qingqing couldn't help feeling sad.
Qiao Songzhi turned her head and wiped her eyes, comforting Wang Jiaxin and the others: "Auntie Wang must be hoping for the best for you. She will be relieved if you are alive and well." If she were in Auntie Wang's shoes, she would make the same decision as Auntie Wang. She has thought about it several times. If she were to... in the future, she would definitely end her life first and not drag down her daughter and son-in-law.
Wang Jiaxin wiped her tears and choked up, "Then I fell ill and took that half pill... I was dazed and felt as if my grandma was sitting by my bed and touching my head. Later, I recovered and I felt that my grandma's life was continuing in me. I will definitely try my best to live on and carry my grandma's life with me."
"It's great that you have such fighting spirit. Come on, Jiaxin." Qiao Songzhi encouraged her.
There wasn't much time for chatting, as after the break, they went their separate ways to train.
At the beginning of the training, Qiao Qingqing was able to handle it easily, and Qiao Songzhi also put in 100% of her energy and concentration. The training was divided into fixed targets and moving targets. With the experience of previous training, Qiao Songzhi was able to handle fixed targets, but she was a little overwhelmed when it came to moving targets. She said to Qiao Qingqing with some sadness: "Maybe it's because of my age, I feel my eyes can't keep up."
Qiao Qingqing was a little sad to hear that. Her mother was already 58 years old... Although she had good food and clothes in the past few years of the apocalypse, the overall environment had deteriorated. Her mother, like Sheng An's parents, had aged significantly. Before the apocalypse, when she and her mother went out, some people would say that her mother was very young, not like her mother, but more like an older sister.
"Well, I was just talking casually. I'll try harder to practice." Qiao Songzhi couldn't bear to see her daughter's expression, so she quickly changed the subject.
The three-day training ended quickly, and such a tight screening process was bound to be very competitive.
On the fourth day of the exam, Qiao Qingqing met Ye Changtian, whom she had not seen for a long time. Like Wang Jiale and the others, he also asked about Shao Shengan after greeting Qiao Qingqing. He said that he was a team leader of the project, responsible for commanding the crossbow teams of three communities including Ping'an Community. He smiled and said, "If you can be hired, I will be your immediate superior in the future."
This promotion came quite fast. Qiao Qingqing congratulated him.
"Good luck to you and Aunt Qiao on your exams."
"Thanks."
After the test, Qiao Qingqing went to find Qiao Songzhi, who looked pretty good: "I'm pretty confident, 70% of the time I'll pass!"
"That's great. The list will be out tomorrow and we can go home after we look at it."
But unfortunately, Qiao Songzhi did not pass the exam in the end, as he was only one point away from the admission score. The competition was too fierce, and just one point was enough to make Qiao Songzhi be pulled down by more than a dozen people and unfortunately fail to be selected.
Wang Jiale and Wang Jiaxin both passed the exam. They said goodbye to Qiao Qingqing and the others happily. Qiao Qingqing looked at their backs and wished them a better tomorrow.
Suddenly, she felt an unfriendly gaze behind her. She turned around and saw a lot of unfamiliar faces. She frowned slightly.
"What's wrong Qingqing?"
"Nothing, Mom, let's go to the dormitory and pack our things so we can go home."
In the office not far away, Ye Changtian slammed the list on the table and said coldly: "Then let him come to me! I, Ye Changtian, am not afraid of anyone! He who comes to me to do something is courting death. I don't care whose son he is!" If he hadn't met Qiao Qingqing yesterday and knew that the mother and daughter were also here, he would have paid attention to their scores. Whether it was fixed target or mobile target, Qiao Qingqing scored full marks in both projects. How could such excellent scores be eliminated? After checking, he found that the name had been crossed out by someone, and the person who made the move was the son of another person in charge of the crossbow project.
The son of the person in charge?
There are no privileges at all here with Ye Changtian!
Qiao Qingqing naturally had no way of knowing what happened in the office, so she and Qiao Songzhi rode home. After they returned home, Shao Shengan and Shao Shengfei went to Yeshan again. Shao Shengan was selected without a doubt, but Shao Shengfei was not.
After seeing the results, Shao Shengfei cried: "But I'm very accurate! I hit all the marks! Brother, why didn't I pass? He shot worse than me, why did he pass?"
Ye Changtian sighed: "It's the rule above, you can go home."
He knew that Shao Shengfei was very good, but someone reported that Shao Shengfei had an intellectual problem and suspected that he might use a crossbow to hurt people in the future. After the leader learned about this, he warned that Shao Shengfei could not be allowed to pass, and he had no choice.
Seeing his elder brother sad, Shao Shengan also felt sad. He was so relieved that the factory was willing to hire his brother and that his brother had not made any mistakes in his work in the past year. But today's incident was like a wake-up call. He knew that in the eyes of most people, his brother was still abnormal. Maybe the factory was willing to hire his elder brother to move goods in the warehouse, but the crossbow team did not dare to recruit a person with a questionable IQ to master dangerous weapons.
He said, "Mom and Qiao's mom need your protection. Qingqing and I will protect the whole community. Can you protect the two moms at home?"
Shao Shengfei nodded with sobs.
The crossbow team was quickly formed and put to work. Mayor Luo intended to assign team members based on where they lived, believing that this would improve work efficiency and allow team members to work more attentively.
Qiao Qingqing and his wife were assigned to Ping'an Community. There were ten other teammates. Because of the best assessment results, Qiao Qingqing was appointed as the team leader and his basic monthly salary was five kilograms of rice more than that of other team members.
Qiao Qingqing and her whole family are very satisfied with this job. It is close to home and she can take care of her family, and the salary is good. It is simply a perfect job and there is nothing to complain about.
In order to complete the work better, Qiao Qingqing called the team members together for a meeting and determined the patrol form.
"Do you have any objections?"
"Dr. Qiao, I have no objection."
"Sister Qiao, I have no objection."
That's how it was settled.
The night before the first day of work, Qiao Songzhi and Shao's mother marked Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengan's crossbow arrows by tying a small knitted bow on the tail of the arrow.
Shao Shengan came down from the seventh floor after feeding the chickens. Seeing this, he said casually, "Don't bother with that. Just carve a mark on it. My last name has too many strokes, so the character Qiao is very suitable. No matter how tight it is, if someone picks it up and cuts it off with scissors, it won't be recognizable."
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The excited Qiao Songzhi and Shao's mother stopped what they were doing, looked at the crossbows in their hands, frowned together, and then took off the bows together.
Qiao Qingqing couldn't help laughing: "Mom, it's okay, you don't have to take it apart. You can also carve words on the bow as a mark. I like bows. Give me these arrows."
Shao's mother was happy: "Really?"
Qiao Qingqing nodded. Qiao Songzhi smiled at her daughter and said to Shao's mother, "Qingqing likes bows. When she was a child, her hairpins had to have bows."
Shao's mother suddenly realized: "No wonder she wears the bow hairpin you knitted for her every day - Qingqing, just wait, mom will make your arrows beautiful."
Finally, only the arrow in Qiao Qingqing's quiver had a small bow with the word "Qiao" engraved on it, indicating that it was her arrow. Shao Shengan said helplessly: "I just said it casually, the bow is pretty."
Every evening, a car would come to collect the crow carcasses. Points would be recorded according to the number of crow carcasses handed in, one point for each crow. This would be used as the basis for distributing bonuses. That's why Qiao Songzhi and her colleagues would mark the crossbow arrows of Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengan to avoid confusion with other colleagues' arrows and conflicts over the ownership of the prey.
"It's useless even if you like it. I'm the only one who has it, and mothers love me the most." Qiao Qingqing pretended to be proud.
Shao Shengan smiled helplessly, with a soft smile in his eyes.
After everything was ready, the candles in the house were extinguished and everyone went back to their rooms. Qiao Songzhi slept in one room, Shao's mother and Shao Shengfei lived in another, and Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengan still lived in the compartment in the living room on the sixth floor. The couple whispered to each other under the quilt.
"I can't figure out why you didn't get accepted last time." Shao Shengan said that this matter has always been on his mind and he can't figure it out. Qingqing was able to make a crossbow by herself after participating in the training, which shows that she has extraordinary understanding. How could she fail the screening?
Qiao Qingqing didn't know either: "My grades were clearly very good. After not finding my name, I went to find the person in charge. The person in charge said he would help me check my grades, but he was driven away before I could get a reply."
"Why does it sound like someone is targeting you, or that your place has been squeezed out by someone else? That's not right. The higher-ups want to maximize the influence of the grassroots, and there is no limit on the number of places at all."
"Don't think about it. There's no point thinking about the past." Qiao Qingqing felt sleepy and her voice began to blur. "Go to bed..."
"Okay, let's go to bed."
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