Chapter 72 Interview

"Auntie has already made a name for us. Do you have confidence in this promotion?"

Ji Ze stood in front of the crowded old factory door and asked loudly.

In front of him, a dozen tricycles converted from flatbed trucks were lined up, and the salesmen, who had already changed into new vests, replied in unison: "Yes!"

After he finished shouting, an old employee who was familiar with Ji Ze couldn't help laughing and asked, "When can we all meet this elder? We are all very curious."

This guy has been following Ji Ze since the beginning, he is over 30 years old, but he calls Lin Qiao "senior"...

Chen Zhaonan, who only recently found out that Ji Ze and Lin Qiao were relatives, couldn't help but look over and said nothing.

Ji Ze was also a little speechless, "When the new factory is built, I will ask my aunt to come and have a look."

He waved his hand and said, "Let's go! I'm waiting for your good news here!"

"Okay!"

Everyone responded in unison and set off on their tricycles. The petite Chen Zhaonan was among them, and he rode no slower than the others.

She is a hard-working person with a quick mind. When the guards came to drive the people away that day, she came back and told her superiors that the dyeing factory was in need of detergent.

At that time, Ji Ze was unable to spare the time, but after learning about the situation, he immediately promoted her to the sales department, where she became one of the few female salespeople. Although she still speaks with an accent, she has gained courage through training, and she still has a toughness, and her sales have been steadily increasing.

This time she is going to the same place as before.

Dyeing factory, seeing the familiar tricycle and red vest from afar, the guard poked his head out of the guard room, "Why are you here again?"

"I came during working hours this time, so I won't block your door." In the past, she had been subjected to all kinds of cold stares and scolding at her husband's house. The past six months in Yandu have been the most respected six months in her life. She smiled, stopped the car, and handed two boxes of cigarettes in through the window. "Thank you for your reminder before."

The guard had long forgotten what happened before, and was about to push the person out when he saw that he was still a little surprised.

Chen Zhaonan had already left the window and patted the bags on the car. "This is our new degreasing agent. It just won a gold medal at the Invention and Creation Exhibition."

The guard didn't know what invention exhibition was, but he knew about degreasers. "Did you really go back to research detergents?"

Chen Zhaonan nodded and said, "Please tell the factory about this."

When someone came to promote a new detergent, he should have informed the factory. Besides, the other party was willing to help and gave him two boxes of cigarettes as soon as he arrived.

The guard made a phone call inside, and soon someone from the supply department came out and took Chen Zhaonan and the car into the factory.

The gold medal at the Invention and Creation Exhibition is a living signboard, not to mention that Chen Zhaonan brought a small bag for them to try out first, "Our boss said that if it doesn't work, he will compensate for your losses."

The promise of compensating for their losses sounded quite generous. It just so happened that a batch of cloth had just been dyed in the factory and needed to be cleaned, so the people from the supply department delivered the goods directly over.

Chen Zhaonan returned with an empty truck that day. In addition to the truckload of degreasing agent, he also brought back a long-term supply order from the dyeing factory.

The other salesmen also gained something. Even if the products were not delivered, the other party would keep the trial units and even ask for their factory phone number.

Within a few days, the factory received several more orders, and they took over one third of the dyeing factories in Yandu in one go.

The rest had reached an agreement with the suppliers long ago, but the kickbacks they asked for were too high, so they didn't agree. Anyway, they were new factories with limited production capacity, so they could take just one-third, and the profit was even greater than that of liquid soap.

A few seniors from the sales department came over to pay for the goods and couldn't help but say, "These two recipes are really profitable. The boss's uncle married well."

Did the boss's uncle marry well?

Chen Zhaonan thought about the tall, upright, serious young officer and said nothing.

When Ji Ze heard what he said, he was also distracted for a moment. After a while, he recovered and said with a smile: "If you dare to say that in front of my uncle, I respect you as a man."

After signing the contract with Ji Ze, Lin Qiao turned down all inquiries from people who came to ask about the oil removal product. She chose Ji Ze because he offered a high commission, had clean accounts, and had a large-scale factory.

Unexpectedly, the state-owned factory she had interviewed before called again and asked her what she thought.

It was obvious that the other party was more anxious and wanted to buy the recipe from her, but he was still unwilling to let go of his attitude and gave such a low share.

Lin Qiao smiled and repeated what she had said to others before, "Sorry, I have already sold the formula. If there is a chance, we can cooperate again next time."

"It's already been sold?" The other party was obviously stunned.

But before he could say more, someone from the factory came to him and asked, "Has the other party sold the formula?"

The factory found out so quickly, and he had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, the factory leader who came to see him said, "Yandu No. 3 Dyeing Factory and No. 9 Dyeing Factory have stopped placing orders with us. The No. 7 Dyeing Factory is willing to continue placing orders, but they want us to increase the rebate they give them by another 10%."

"The kickbacks we give them are already high enough, why raise it?" He couldn't help but frown.

"So what did you talk about when I asked you to negotiate? The new degreasing agent requires less dosage and saves time. The cost is about the same. Who wouldn't want to buy theirs?"

When Muzi Chemical Factory's degreasing agent was completely sold in Yandu, no one came to Lin Qiao. Lin Qiao followed his promise and bought a lot of things for his colleagues in the office.

There was really a lot of it, including various snacks from Daoxiangchun, as well as melon seeds, peanuts, walnuts and other roasted nuts. They were all packed in paper bags and placed in a large paper box that was more than half a meter long. When Lin Qiao took it off the car, she wanted to carry it herself, but Ji Duo didn't let her, "Chen, I'll help you carry it in."

After returning from the hospital that day, the relationship between the two seemed to have eased a little, but it also seemed not to have eased at all.

Lin Qiao never mentioned the divorce again, nor did she deliberately avoid communicating with the other party, but compared to before the incident was exposed, there was something missing.

Ji Duo didn't say anything like that again. He was not a talkative person to begin with, and he almost used up the three-day supply of medicine that night in the hospital.

Lin Qiao woke up in the middle of the night, only to find the man leaning against the railing outside, smoking one cigarette after another, his figure rarely showing a hint of gloom.

She stared quietly for a while, unable to fall asleep, but she didn't say anything. When the man disappeared and was about to come back, she closed her eyes and pretended that she had never woken up.

However, the other party still stayed by the bed for a long time, and even quietly poured a cup of hot water. Only after his body was warm did he lift the quilt and get into bed.

Lin Qiao felt someone took her out of her single quilt and wrapped her in a large double quilt, wrapped in his warm chest. Someone touched her head and kissed her on top of it.

When she woke up in the morning, there was nothing beside her. The double quilt had been folded up like a tofu block and placed at the head of the bed, so she went back to the single quilt.

Seeing the man wanted to help her deliver the packages, she didn't say anything. She walked to the gate, took a few packages and delivered them to the security office.

The guard had never expected that she would send him something. She just smiled and said, "I have received a lot of phone calls these days. Please come and call me. Take these and eat them when you are free."

"It's just a small matter. Is there any need for you to be so polite?" The guard said this with an honest smile on his face.

When we got to the office, a group of colleagues came around to choose, "Did our big client sell the recipe?"

Some came to get snacks, some came to get roasted nuts, and even Lady Bi from the liberal arts office next door came over to get a bag for free, and it was obvious that she was very familiar with Lin Qiao.

Lin Qiao seems to have always been like this. No matter where she goes, no matter what other people's initial impression of her is, after a while, they can get along well with her, except for a few people.

Ji Duo moved the things in diligently and conscientiously. When he saw someone was looking for something, he would take it out and pass it to them.

The other party was simply flattered. Looking at the stars on his shoulders and his serious aura, I thought he was difficult to get along with.

Someone even nudged Lin Qiao with his arm and whispered, "Your lover?"

Lin Qiao said "hmm".

"You're not bad." The other person winked at her.

There are so many female comrades in the school, but I have never seen anyone ask their lover to help deliver things, especially those soldiers in the army. Xiaolin even married a regiment commander.

As expected, outsiders only watch the affairs between husband and wife for fun. Lin Qiao smiled and took out a few packages from the box. "I'll also send some to Principal Zeng and Vice Principal Qi."

"Go ahead." Team leader Gao had already opened a bag of walnuts and started eating them, and he also left a few bags for other colleagues who had not come.

Just as Ji Duo was about to leave, the two of them went out together and ran into Vice Principal Qi who came over. "I was just about to look for you. Xiaolin, the result of your recommendation is out."

Ji Duo paused, and Lin Qiao showed some expectation on his face, "What's the result?"

"You've been recommended." Vice Principal Qi laughed, "You should get ready and go there to take the exam next Wednesday."

If you are allowed to take the exam, then there will basically be no problem as long as you don't answer too badly.

Lin Qiao also smiled, her eyes bright, "I will prepare well." She quickly handed the things in her hand over, "Today is my treat, everyone can have some."

It was a genuine smile, without any gloom, full of longing and expectation for the future.

It's like a fully-fledged bird that is finally about to spread its wings and fly into the sky that belongs to it.

For a moment, Ji Duo felt that she was getting further away from him, but she also became more dazzling.

On Wednesday of the second week, Lin Qiao skipped classes with other students in advance, left home in the morning, and took the bus directly to National Tsing Hua University.

This old school has not even reached its hundred years old, but the years have left countless traces on it. Compared with the new schools with tall buildings in Lin Qiao's previous life, it has a different flavor.

Lin Qiao walked in along the ginkgo trees on the roadside, found the door according to the address given by the school, knocked, and the person inside verified her identity and took her to another office not far away.

This didn't look like a written test, and sure enough, the other party asked her to wait on a chair in the middle of the room, and soon went out to call someone.

Soon, several examiners arrived one after another. Judging from their ages, they were all between 40 and 50 years old. The last one to come in, Lin Qiao, looked familiar. It was Professor Yan Maoshan, whom Lin Qiao had met at the exhibition that day.

That front

The identities of these people are easy to guess. Maybe this is not an entrance exam today, but a selection of people by the tutor.

Lin Qiao quickly guessed what was going on, but he was not panicked at all. He was calm, composed, and greeted a few people and gave a brief self-introduction.

This made Yan Maoshan look at her again. He didn't believe that the little girl's smiling eyes meant that she didn't recognize him.

I recognized him and guessed who the examiners were, yet I remained so calm. Apart from anything else, I can tell you that he really has a good mentality.

After both parties sat down and the interview really started, I found that Lin Qiao's goodness was definitely not just in his mentality.

Knowing that she was a high school chemistry teacher, they didn't ask any profound questions at first. After chatting for a few sentences and finding that she was fluent in her answers, they started to touch upon some university knowledge.

I didn't expect that she could answer two questions accurately, and judging from her expression, her answers didn't seem forced.

This is a bit surprising, after all, she is only 19 years old this year, and most people of her age would only be in college.

She had only been working at the school for less than a year, so she should not have been exposed to university knowledge. If it weren't for the fact that they were really short of people and her two awards were really impressive, everyone would have decided to come and take a look, and even prepared to make up for the basics she needed in her first year of graduate school.

The youngest examiner asked Lin Qiao, "Have you ever specifically looked at university courses?"

"I read some of it after I heard that the school was going to recommend me to take the postgraduate entrance examination directly." Lin Qiao couldn't say that she had learned all of this, right?

The man stopped talking and another person came over to ask other questions.

Lin Qiao didn't answer the questions quickly, but his words were concise and always got to the point. It was obvious that every word he said was carefully considered.

When someone looked through her profile and asked her about her suggestions, she didn't show any pride, saying, "They are all based on my own work and some ideas."

He has a solid foundation, the ability, and, rare for him, is not impetuous. He is a promising talent who can concentrate on research.

Two of the three examiners showed satisfied expressions, and then someone asked her: "Have you ever thought about what direction you want to study as a graduate student?"

Lin Qiao had already thought about this, "I want to study materials-related."

In her previous life, she studied materials, making soaps and degreasing agents. It was purely out of her own interest that she learned how to regulate her mood in her spare time.

Every time she was driven crazy by the stagnant progress of the experiment in the laboratory, or scolded by her tutor, she could only find the original intention and meaning of studying chemistry by doing these practical things.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, all the examiners remained silent.

Finally, Yan Maoshan asked with a smile: "Why don't you consider other things? Several professors who specialize in materials science at our school are quite busy this year and can't spare the time to teach students."

After all, the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination would not graduate until early 1982. Lin Qiao's was an early recruitment, and some people had not made any preparations for the current recruitment.

He recommended himself to Lin Qiao without any airs, "I think it's good to work on fertilizers. It will solve the major issue of ensuring food and clothing for the people of the country."

Then he pointed to another person beside him and said, "Petrochemicals are not bad either. Our country has abundant oil reserves, but we lack technology in this area."

Lin Qiao was silent for a moment, then looked directly at them, "If possible, I still want to learn about materials."

Her advantage is that she can travel through time forty years. She can learn the things she is good at and find a way to bring the technology from forty years later.

Giving up on learning the materials would be equivalent to giving up this advantage. Wouldn't that mean that everything she learned in her previous life would be completely useless?

She wants those technical problems to be solved earlier, rather than having to struggle forward through generations of trial and error.

Having said that, the atmosphere in the office became stagnant for the first time.

After a while, the examiner who spoke the least raised his wrist and looked at his watch, "Let's stop here for today." He was the first to stand up and leave.

The youngest one also stood up and told Lin Qiao to go back and wait for notification.

Only Yan Maoshan fell behind. Because he had met Lin Qiao once before, he spoke to her a few more times. "Are you really only planning to learn materials?"

Lin Qiao no longer lacks money, so he chooses to continue his studies, and his main consideration is no longer just himself.

She looked determined and said, "Professor Yan, if the school doesn't recruit this year, will it recruit next year? I think that only by doing what I like can I exert my subjective initiative to the greatest extent."

He does have a bit of stubbornness, perhaps because he doesn't get discouraged after failing again and again and is devoted to research. Who doesn't have a bit of stubbornness?

Yan Maoshan put his hands behind his back and pondered for a while, "Let me ask for you again."

Lin Qiao was a little surprised.

"Ask someone in the hospital who is willing to take you, but I can't guarantee that it will work."

"Thank you very much." Lin Qiao smiled and even bowed to him sincerely.

After seeing the old man off, Lin Qiao did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he walked along the corridor of the School of Chemistry and read the introduction of the school.

First, there is no need to rush, and second, it is just to adjust your mood a little.

Before she finished reading, someone suddenly called her from a distance, "Student, come over here and help me with something."

Lin Qiao looked over and found that it was a man in a white coat. He was of medium height, in his forties or fifties, and he was not very well groomed, especially his beard, which looked like he had not shaved carefully for many days, and was tangled around his lips.

However, the other person's white coat was quite clean, and wearing a white coat in the School of Chemistry obviously meant he was doing a chemistry experiment. He must be a teacher in the school.

It was class time, and there was no one else in the corridor except Lin Qiao, so Lin Qiao walked over and asked, "What do you need me to do?"

"Help me clean up." The other party pointed to the floor of the laboratory, paused, and showed some hesitation, "You can clean up, right?"

"Can."

Having spent his entire life in the laboratory, Lin Qiao had done this kind of work many times and could quickly clean up the mess on the floor.

The man in the white coat was watching from the side and actually looked relieved.

At first glance, this teacher seemed to have poor skills in life skills. Things on the experimental table were neat, but other places were in a mess. Even the lunch boxes after eating were not packed away.

After Lin Qiao cleaned up the ground, he was ready to help the other party take out the trash. "You don't want these anymore, right?"

"No more." The other party nodded, thought about it and looked around to see if there was anything else to throw away.

Without paying attention, he bumped into the laboratory table next to him, and a reagent bottle placed on the edge of the table slipped down.

Lin Qiao was close by and immediately took a step forward.

But he shouted, "Don't move, there's..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Qiao had already picked up a pair of gloves, accurately caught the reagent bottle through the gloves, and put it back on the laboratory bench.

The movements were done in one go and with sufficient caution, as if he were someone who was very experienced in this area.

The other party was relieved and looked at Lin Qiao again, "Which department are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?"

This kind of student with rich experimental experience should be at least a junior in college. He has taught classes to juniors before, so he should not be completely without any impression.

"I'm not a student at the school." Lin Qiao put his gloves back on the table. "I'm a high school chemistry teacher. I'm here to take the postgraduate entrance exam."

Taking the postgraduate entrance exam?

The other party figured it out after a moment's thought, "Special examination?"

"Well, I won an award. I was recommended by the school."

Lin Qiao didn't say much. He helped the other party dispose of the garbage and returned the bin before saying goodbye and leaving.

After an hour or two on the bus, it was already noon when we returned to the unit.

Lin Qiao went straight home and happened to meet Ji Duo who was getting off the car at the door. When he saw her, his eyes swept across her face.

"Sister-in-law." Xiao Fang greeted her in the car.

Lin Qiao responded and gave the other person two oranges she had just bought, saying, "I don't know if they're sweet or not." Then she turned around and went into the yard as the other person thanked her awkwardly.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the living room, I heard the man behind me ask, "Not going well?"

This eye is really getting more and more poisonous. Lin Qiao thinks she is calm enough and good at covering up. When she went to buy fruit just now, she met other teachers from the school. When they asked about it, they didn't see anything from her face.

She did not hide the fact that "the few graduate supervisors who were willing to recruit me were not interested in the field I wanted to study."

"It's okay. If it doesn't work out, just apply to other schools, or apply again next year."

Ji Duo took off his military cap and hung it up, showing no sign of asking her to consider changing her major.

In fact, if you want to talk about this guy being a male chauvinist, he is really a male chauvinist in some things, but when it comes to Lin Qiao's own affairs, he seems to respect Lin Qiao's own choices.

For example, Lin Qiao wants to be a teacher, Lin Qiao wants to go to college, what major does Lin Qiao want to study...

Sometimes Lin Qiao couldn't help but wonder, if he was like other men, thinking that she was married and there was no point in going to college, just having a job would be enough, and he had a high salary and could support the family, so the right thing to do was to have a child as soon as possible. Would she still want to live with him, and would she really be that angry after the truth was exposed?

Perhaps it was because he was different from the men of this era in many ways that she had higher expectations of him, and when her expectations were dashed, she felt a sudden chill, as if she had woken up.

She didn’t let herself think about it. “It’s not completely hopeless. I’ll meet someone on the day of the exhibition.

Do you remember Professor Yan who came here? He said he would help me ask which subject to teach and see if anyone is willing to take me on.

Ji Duo said "hmm" and said nothing more. When he came back in the evening, he was holding a net bag of prawns in his hand.

No, why did he buy raw shrimp?

Lin Qiao looked again and again, making sure that she was not mistaken, and couldn't help asking the man, "Who can do it, you or me?"

"Aren't you complaining that the food in the cafeteria is not tasty enough?" Ji Duo carried the shrimps into the kitchen.

Perhaps it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality. When Lin Qiao first came to the army, he thought the food in the cafeteria was really delicious, especially the prawns.

Then after eating there every day for a year, and having tried the food at her hometown restaurant and the Hyatt Regency, she began to feel that the food at the cafeteria was not so good.

But she never said it, and she didn't show it consciously, so how come this man still found out?

And isn't he going to make it for her himself?

It would be better to go to the cafeteria. She had never seen this man use a kitchen knife...

Lin Qiao watched the man roll up his sleeves with a serious face and tie an apron. She was wondering whether to remind him to go to the shrimp line first to cook shrimps, when Ji Ze arrived.

This was the first time my eldest nephew came to visit me since I accidentally let the cat out of the bag last time, and his expression didn't look right.

He didn't even look carefully when he entered the room, and followed the sound to the kitchen, "Uncle, there's a problem with the production line that Chen Weiguo bought."