Chapter 178: Adding Feet to a Snake (Part 1)
Captain Shu was already waiting at the door. When he saw An Zhixia, he greeted her enthusiastically and held her hands tightly. "Comrade Xiao An, I finally meet you. When Hongye talked about you, I thought it was an exaggeration. I didn't expect that you are really beautiful. None of the girls in my group can compare to you.
More importantly, you are so talented, and the programs you write are deeply loved by employees in various units. The leaders always praise the screenwriters!"
An Zhixia smiled and said, "Hello, Captain Shu."
"Hey, okay, let's go in and sit down," said Director Shu, pulling An Zhixia into the office, personally pouring her tea, and sitting opposite her. "Comrade Xiao An, are you here to do something?" Then he touched his cheek a little embarrassedly, "Well, Comrade Xiao An, did you receive the letter I wrote to you before? Everyone and the leaders have high hopes for our Fuxing Performance Troupe, and they are looking forward to us to come up with new shows and go to Kyoto and even the surrounding areas for a tour.
You see, the price I gave you is not low. We don’t have any new programs for this Spring Festival, and the Lantern Festival is coming soon..."
An Zhixia was not polite and said directly: "Captain Shu, this matter is not urgent. My brother and I have returned to the city and live in Dongcheng District. I came here to discuss the program with you and ask if you are still recruiting people?"
"It's good to go back to the city. I'll go and get to know the family someday, and we can also be distant relatives." Director Shu smiled. "Our group is in urgent need of programs. To be honest, the story given by Comrade Xiao An is both novel and interesting, and it is particularly touching and educational. Every link is handled meticulously and reasonably. The plot is not arranged for the purpose of moving and educating, but rather the plot is expressed to the extreme to highlight the moving and educational significance.
Leaders all said that everyone should watch more programs like this, and even children can benefit greatly from them.
However, Comrade Xiao An, you are asking about recruiting? Who is it? Our performance troupe is large, and there are occasionally one or two vacancies. They have been spotted early on, and it is difficult for me to arrange them for the time being. Even my niece is still waiting in line for a temporary position. "
An Zhixia raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "Captain Shu also knows this person, Comrade Fang Hongye, my current sister-in-law. My brother and I have returned to the city, and my sister-in-law is still at home, so I came to ask if there is a job suitable for my sister-in-law.
Since your group has no vacancies, I will go ask somewhere else."
Upon hearing this, Director Shu quickly said, "It's Hongye. She is also a pretty and talented girl with great potential. She is better than many people in our group. However, she entered the industry a little late and lacks basic skills. She has to learn again bit by bit.
Well, if Comrade Xiao An and Hong Ye don’t mind and are willing to work hard, I can ask someone to get a quota for our art troupe, and still transfer your sister-in-law’s household registration.
However, I will also explain the pros and cons to you.
The competition in the art troupe is very intense. There is a two-year period for new students. If Hongye performs well, she can stay and become a regular employee, with a stable job and good salary and benefits. At that time, I will transfer her to my troupe to take care of her. This is a change within the system and is easy to implement.
However, Hongye was overtaken by others and did not meet the standard for regularization, so he had to be demobilized and his household registration would be returned to his hometown. "
"If I'm not mistaken, the benefits for new students are better than those for temporary workers, right? Why doesn't Captain Shu's niece give it a try?" An Zhixia asked with a smile.
Director Shu choked and said awkwardly, "Comrade Xiao An, I can arrange for my niece with ordinary qualifications to join the art troupe for training, but she can't endure hardships, and she definitely can't stand out among the outstanding girls with her own abilities. Am I going to sacrifice my reputation and ask someone to pass her through the back door? The eliminated girls will be the first to refuse and will drag me down from this seat."
An Zhiqiu squinted her eyes and looked at the expression of Captain Shu carefully. As an actress, she had experienced thousands of subtle expressions and movements of people. She could be said to be a walking psychological tester. Otherwise, she would not be able to rely on this keenness to get important information from the other party's words and expressions, and thus unravel the truth.
"Is that all? Captain Shu has been in this system for a long time, right? And the plan of you and your family to let your niece enter the system is definitely not something that came up in the past one or two years. A girl who has received professional training since childhood, even if she lacks appearance, as long as she is not deformed and ugly, can definitely be evaluated as a beautiful woman with temperament and elegant as a chrysanthemum by dressing and elegant posture. Why can't she crush the new students with basic skills and stand out from them?
After all, stage plays are not like TV dramas, where the actors are heavily made up and you can’t tell what the actors actually look like from the audience.”
Every time An Zhixia said something, Shu felt a little pressure. Sure enough, the girl who wrote such a popular program was no ordinary person. And she felt a little regretful. Why did she bring up her niece for no reason?
"Comrade Xiao An, you may think that I am a big shot as the head of a group of 1,800 girls. But in Kyoto, the head of a group is too insignificant. There are a lot of them. Just talking about our Yongyi Performance Troupe, there are more than 20 heads of different sizes!
There are at least hundreds of performance troupes of the same size in Kyoto, if not thousands.
I am a small team leader with limited abilities. Which of those new students doesn't have a background? They are all higher than me. Except for Hongye, who is a good seedling and will not be buried, the others..."
Without waiting for Captain Shu to finish, An Zhixia said calmly, "I understand what Captain Shu means. A delaying tactic? Keep our sister-in-law stable first, and then see if we are still valuable in two years."
"Hey, Comrade Xiao An, what you said is wrong. I really am thinking about you. My ability is indeed limited. Let's wait for two years, let your sister-in-law come over, and then we can make long-term plans." Captain Shu said a little panicked.
An Zhixia's sparkling eyes held a faint smile, "No, according to what you said, the students in the art troupe climbed up the shore with their backgrounds, and they had already been selected. Why did they recruit so many foils? Is it a waste of national resources? Or is there another hidden story?" Her voice suddenly turned cold, "Captain Shu, you'd better speak and act openly. Since I can promote you from deputy troupe, I can also easily step on you and even rule you out.
I hope that our cooperation will be a win-win situation, rather than your greed tipping the scales. I'm afraid that the weight will eventually crush you to death!"
Captain Shu shuddered at what was said, but then her face turned serious.
(End of this chapter)
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