Chapter 124
The reason why the 656 Factory Kindergarten was chosen by director Zhao Ke is thanks to the little fat taxi.
Fat children are rare these days. Even Huang Li, her mother, didn't expect that she could feed her son to be so chubby.
Everyone said that the child was well-raised, but Huang Li was very worried that her son would develop childhood obesity, so she enrolled him in a gymnastics class at the Children's Palace, hoping that the child would exercise.
Naturally, her decision attracted the ridicule of a group of onlookers, led by Shen Liangmei.
Instead of spending money on exercise, it would be better to let the children run around in the yard.
However, children's gymnastics is a government-subsidized program, and the gymnastics classes at the Children's Palace only charge fifty cents per month.
Huang Li was happy to spend the fifty cents so that his son could see the world and make new friends.
She ignored other people's sour words and rode her bike to take her children to the Children's Palace three times a week.
Then I met Zhao Ke at the Children's Palace.
Zhao Ke is a director at the Beijing Science and Education Film Studio. He is currently preparing to shoot a popular science film about physiology and hygiene, "Exercise from Childhood."
Binjiang has been vigorously developing children's health and physical exercise in recent years.
After exercise, children have obvious effects in growth and development and physical fitness. Even though there has been a shortage of supplies in the past two years, the proportion of healthy children in more than 500 kindergartens and nurseries in the city has still reached 93%.
After hearing about the achievements here, Zhao Ke rushed over from Beijing, planning to shoot in Binjiang.
When he was taken to visit a children's gymnastics class, he immediately fell in love with the taxi drivers who were shaking their buttocks to warm up.
This nimble little fat boy really stands out among all the little kids!
It especially fits the image of the male protagonist in his mind!
When he came to the kindergarten of Factory 656 according to the introduction and saw Wu Yuzhuo playing with the little fat boy, the heroine was chosen!
These two children are the typical flower buds in the garden of the motherland!
"Director Zhao, how long will it take to shoot this science film?" Ye Manzhi asked.
"It could be as fast as two or three days, or as slow as ten days to half a month. It all depends on the child's cooperation."
If the little girl can't take pictures, Zhao Ke plans to move to the Municipal People's Committee Kindergarten.
He also fell in love with a pair of children there, and the environment of the government kindergarten was better.
It’s a pity for this little fat boy who he fell in love with at first sight.
Ye Manzhi discussed with Wu Zhengrong and learned that the new captain Ma and his family had already moved into the temporary housing, so they could move in a few days later.
Wu Zhengrong asked, "Director Zhao, can we learn about the filming content in advance?"
"Sure," Zhao Ke introduced. "Our film is a popular science film, unlike those you see in theaters. We don't have a storyline; we're capturing the real lives of children in kindergarten. According to your Binjiang Education Department, children's health and physical exercise mainly includes air baths, sun baths, water baths, gymnastics, and recreational activities during recess. So we'll focus on these areas."
Wu Zhengrong automatically translated the filming content into getting some fresh air, sunbathing, taking a bath, doing radio gymnastics, and playing games.
Other aspects are ok, but...
"My Wu Yuzhuo is a little girl and will not be filming the bathing part. Please choose another child to film."
Hearing this, little girl Wu Yuzhuo quickly pushed her brother Qiuqiu out, "My brother Qiuqiu loves taking a bath, let me take a bath!"
Qiqiu hadn't realized he was about to be naked in front of the entire nation. He held the biscuit his sister gave him in his mouth and nodded, "I can wash it!"
Of course, a science film cannot only film two children, other children in the kindergarten also have to appear.
Zhao Ke originally just wanted to take a picture of the fat little boy taking a bath in the tub, but now that there was another material, she decided to take a picture of the two boys together.
The parents of the three children had no objections, and the other parents in the kindergarten were also happy to cooperate. The crew from the Beijing Science and Education Film Studio officially entered the 656 Factory Kindergarten the next day.
The child is going to film a movie. Regarding the issue of on-camera clothing, Ye Manzhi and Wu Zhengrong both think that it is not appropriate to wear something too fancy, but just clean, simple and tidy.
Ye Manzhi took out a half-new red sweater from the cupboard and asked Wu Zhengrong to make a Nezha hairstyle for the child.
Carrying a huge military water bottle, she was sent to the kindergarten to film a movie.
The couple were both busy with work and neither of them was watching over the kindergarten, so they didn't see their daughter acting like a big shot on the set.
When Wu Yuzhuo agreed to the filming, the only condition she put forward was to bring her brother Qiuqiu.
At the beginning, her brother Qiuqiu was held back from the middle class to the small class, and she then moved from the small class to the middle class with her brother Qiuqiu.
The two of them have a very strong revolutionary friendship!
Now the three siblings are playing together in the middle class. When there are group activities, she certainly can’t leave brother Qiuqiu behind!
In her understanding, bringing Brother Qiuqiu along means that they have to participate in every activity together.
But according to Director Zhao's understanding, filming the scene of Pilling taking a bath meant bringing him along.
Therefore, disagreements arose between the two sides when filming the exercise scenes.
Director Zhao wanted to move another slightly chubby boy to the front, standing on both sides of the girl, one on the left and one on the right of the taxi, so that the picture would look better.
However, this request was strongly opposed by Wu Yuzhuo, who grabbed Qiqiu's hand and refused to let him go.
"Brother Qiuqiu has been standing next to me and can't leave!" They usually do exercises together, why do they have to separate this time?
Director Zhao tried to negotiate with her: "For the next shot, you two should stand together again!"
Wu Yuzhuo frowned and looked at him for a moment, then held the ball in his left hand and the taxi in his right hand and ran to tell the teacher.
"Teacher, that uncle doesn't keep his word. I don't want to take the picture anymore!"
Teacher and director: “::::::”
*
Ye Manzhi from the Industrial Department didn't know that her daughter had complained to Director Zhao about her teacher seven times in one day.
In her opinion, shooting a science education film has no lines and is similar to shooting a documentary. The director only needs to hold up the camera and shoot some moving scenes. It is not difficult at all!
Instead of worrying about her daughter and nephew, she should worry about herself.
There are no secrets in the agency. Even the old man in the boiler room can hear the slightest movement.
The news that the province was planning a quality product competition had spread throughout the department a long time ago. This large-scale competition required a large number of staff and experts, and many cadres from various departments were eager to join the evaluation team to score the results.
Ye Manzhi is a college student who was newly assigned this year. He has been in the Industry Department for less than half a year, but he was effortlessly brought into the Quality Award Review Committee by his superiors, which naturally attracted a lot of attention.
Several senior students from the provincial university congratulated her when they saw her. Wu Jie, who joined the unit with her, even jokingly called her Section Chief Ye.
These were all private jokes, and Ye Manzhi just replied to him, "Director Wu," and they were even.
However, some people's jokes are obviously not jokes.
At the end of the month, Shen Lina came to the business department again to distribute letters from the people.
As soon as she entered Comprehensive Section 3, she said with a smile, "Manzhi, I heard that Section Chief Zhao brought you onto the review committee? Congratulations! Being able to participate in such a large project, it won't be long before they call you Section Chief Ye, right?"
"Hey, you help us distribute letters from the public every month, which is considered an improvement to the work process. I heard that Director Hao even praised you. With such great contributions, you will be promoted to deputy director soon, right?"
Shen Lina waved her hand, “I’m just an errand boy, how can I be a deputy director?”
"Yes, I'm just an errand boy on the review committee. If running errands could make you a section chief, wouldn't we have a room full of section chiefs? Who in our Comprehensive Section 3 doesn't have several major projects under their belt? I haven't even taken the first step in this long journey!"
Except for Zhao Guilin, everyone else from the Comprehensive Department 3 was present, and Ye Manzhi certainly couldn't allow her to talk nonsense in the office.
The selection of section chief is a sensitive topic in Comprehensive Section 3, and no one in the office ever discusses personnel appointments or dismissals.
Everyone knows that within two or three years, there will be at least one deputy director position vacant in the Chemical and Light Industry Department.
Zhao Guilin is the favorite candidate. If someone were to start a betting game and bet on the future deputy director candidate, then Zhao Guilin and Chief Lu of the Comprehensive Section 1 would definitely have the lowest odds.
Once Zhao Guilin is promoted, the other four people in the three comprehensive subjects will be in competition.
Although their administrative levels are slightly different, all four of them are deputy section-level cadres!
Everyone has similar conditions, so who wouldn’t want to be a section chief?
Therefore, few people in the office talk about topics such as section chiefs and department heads, and a delicate balance has always been maintained.
As if realizing her own slip of the tongue, Shen Li Na said to the other three, "Haha, I was just joking with Man Zhi. I didn't mean anything else. I really didn't mean anything else..."
Ye Manzhi was so annoyed by her behavior that who cares what you mean?
She no longer allowed this kind of troublemaker to mess around in the office and took him out to the bathroom with her.
She had just arrived at the company and it wasn't her turn for a promotion, so she didn't want to focus all the attention on herself so soon!
After leading the person out of the office, Ye Manzhi asked slyly in a low voice: "Lina, did you hear any good news?"
“What good news?” Shen Lina was stunned when she heard it.
"It's news from our Chemical and Light Industry Department."
"No."
"No, you must have heard something!" Ye Manzhi whispered firmly, "Otherwise, how could you say I want to be the section chief for no reason? If our Section Chief Zhao doesn't get promoted, how can I become the section chief? Did you hear something?"
“…” Shen Lina shook her head, “No.”
She felt bad when she heard that Ye Manzhi had joined the Quality Award Review Committee.
Ye Manzhi was extremely lucky. Not only did she squeeze out her partner and join the Chemical and Light Industry Department, but she also happened to catch up with the quality evaluation for the light industry system's tenth anniversary celebration. She easily followed the department leader into the evaluation team.
People outside the Chemical and Light Industry Bureau did not know the inside story of the "Provincial Excellence" project. She just thought that Ye Manzhi was extremely lucky.
Ye Manzhi showed a skeptical look and asked tentatively, "I heard that your uncle is Director Liu from the Commerce Department. Did you really not hear any inside information?"
Shen Lina's heart was suddenly pulled, and she opened her eyes wide in surprise.
I don’t know how Ye Manzhi found out so much about me.
There have always been rumors in the unit that she got in through the back door, and some people say that she is a relative of a certain director.
When others asked her about it, she denied it verbally, but her tone and demeanor were a bit evasive.
Her colleagues don't know her background and suspect that she is a relative of the leader, so they generally don't make things difficult for her at work.
Shen Lina gradually discovered that such an ambiguous relationship was actually more beneficial to her than a clear one.
Therefore, she never revealed to anyone that the director of the personnel department of the Department of Commerce was her uncle.
Shen Lina panicked for a while, then forced herself to calm down, “I’m just an errand boy in the office, what inside information can I have?”
"Hey," Ye Manzhi said disappointedly, "I thought you heard something from Director Liu. If our section chief is really going to be promoted, I have to tell him the good news as soon as possible!"
"Don't tell Zhao Ke nonsense! How can you tell your boss about something you haven't confirmed? You'll just offend him!"
Shen Lina hurriedly grabbed her, thinking that this college student was only good at studying, but knew nothing about the ins and outs of the government!
"Information from other people is unreliable, but if it comes from you, it's probably true!" Ye Manzhi's words were full of trust.
"I really don't have any inside information! You're mistaken!"
Ye Manzhi had an "I understand" expression on her face. "Don't worry, I'll report the good news to the leader once you give me the accurate information!"
“…” Shen Lina was speechless for a long time, and suppressed the urge to roll her eyes and said, “I’ll go back to the office first. Anyway, don’t tell the boss nonsense, let alone say it’s me who said it, because I won’t admit it when the time comes!”
Ye Manzhi happily sent the person away, went back to the office to get the meal ticket, and went directly to the cafeteria for lunch.
She didn't want to bring up her colleague's relationship background.
But Shen Li Na said in front of everyone in the Comprehensive Three Department that she was going to be the head of the department, so she didn't believe that the other party didn't have other ulterior motives.
Section chief is a sensitive topic. Ye Manzhi doesn't want to stand out or cause trouble now.
If Shen Li Na were to come and mess things up a few more times, she would become a target sooner or later.
Instead of being the only one worried, it would be better to let Shen Lina be worried with her.
Shen Lina's origins were first mentioned by Liu Wenli from the Personnel Department when she was rehearsing with the dance team.
Logically speaking, the director of the personnel department of the Department of Commerce is her uncle, so this relationship is actually quite strong.
But colleagues at work privately spread a different version.
When Ye Manzhi started working at the street office, the four people with connections were all confused about the relationship between them.
She still doesn't know how Zhuang Ting got into the street office.
Therefore, she understood Shen Lina's thoughts too well.
The director of our unit is indeed more effective than the director of another unit!
Since she didn’t want her to announce the good news to Zhao Guilin, then Shen Lina had better stop talking about her becoming the section chief.
*
In accordance with the requirements of provincial leaders, the provincial excellence evaluation work should be carried out as soon as possible.
The next day, Ye Manzhi followed her leader to the general office for a meeting.
Leaders from various units were sitting in the conference room. Only leaders at the level of deputy director and above from the Department of Industry could be given a seat at the conference table.
Zhao Guilin, He Ping, and Ye Manzhi were all errand runners, sitting behind Xia Zhuyun and Deputy Director Qin.
The situation in other units was similar. Ye Manzhi looked around the conference room and unexpectedly found his fifth brother's mother-in-law, Director Cai, at the supply and marketing cooperative.
After nodding to the other party, she looked away.
The content of today's meeting was exactly as Zhao Guilin said. It was to discuss the selection method for provincial quality products and arrange the division of work among various units.
Ye Manzhi took out his notebook and the materials he had prepared in advance, ready to provide ammunition support to the leaders at the front at any time.
Then, not long after the meeting began, the units had a disagreement on a small issue.
Should enterprises take the initiative to apply for provincial quality product selection, or should the competent departments of each city and district recommend famous brand products?
The Provincial Department of Industry will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the light industry system next year, so naturally it wants to make the event grand and as influential as possible. By having companies actively submit applications, more outstanding companies and products can participate in this evaluation.
However, the Provincial Department of Commerce and the Supply and Marketing Cooperative are only co-organizers of this "Provincial Excellence" evaluation. If the competent departments of each city and special district are allowed to directly recommend products, it will save them a lot of trouble.
While the leaders at the front were arguing, Zhao Guilin turned his head and asked the two assistants beside him, "Have you two made preparations for this issue in advance?"
Ye Manzhi nodded quickly, tore off a page from his notebook, showed him the contents, and then handed it to Director Xia in the front row.
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