Go back to the prosperous days and become a layman

Chapter 553 552 Secretary
After cutting the photos, Xiao Wang was satisfied and started to deal with the soaked stamps with great interest.

The stamps nowadays are all pasted on with paste. After being fully soaked, the stamps can be easily separated from the envelope with a gentle peeling.

Tang Zhitong remembers that when he first started working, a lot of pastes were made from flour. Now that food is in short supply, most pastes are made from cassava flour. Even so, the output is still much lower.

I haven't heard of anyone stealing paste in the city, but I can't be sure about other places. I guess some people will steal paste to eat.

"Is this all right?" Student Wang took a stamp and touched the back of it. It was a bit slippery.

"You have to wash it again with clean water and then stick it on newspaper to dry." Tang Zhitong took a stack of newspapers. Newspapers are very absorbent and are perfect for drying stamps.

"Okay, you go cook, I'll take care of these stamps." Student Wang waved his hand to send the other person away. It was his first time doing this job and he was very excited.

Tang Zhitong did not continue to walk away. Instead, he poured some hot water from the kettle into the basin to make the water warmer. He instructed, "Take it out and put it aside. Use some hot water when you wash it later."

"Enough, stop nagging. Go now. We're waiting for dinner." Xiao Wang was harsh in her words, but the dimples on her face betrayed her. She was very satisfied.

Tang Zhitong naturally followed Xiao Wang's instructions, but he was thinking in his heart: Fortunately, Xiao Wang did not grow up in Sichuan, otherwise he would have said to him, "I'm a Sichuanese".
Tonight's improved meal was rather perfunctory, with a little oil residue and a stewed cabbage.

While eating, Zhang Guifang suddenly remembered the rumors she heard today and asked her daughter-in-law, "The New Year is coming soon. I heard that there will be outside food for sale for a while, such as onions, potatoes, radishes, lotus roots, etc. Jingwen, what do you like to eat? I will buy more when the time comes."

"Mom, I'm not picky. Just buy whatever you like." Xiao Wang replied with a smile.

"Mom, be sure to buy fewer radishes." Tang Zhitong interrupted. Although there is a saying among the people that "autumn radishes are better than ginseng", he really has no interest in radishes.

"Yes." Zhang Guifang nodded in agreement without asking her two daughters for their opinions. If you don't make money, how dare you be picky? Not possible.

On Monday, January 1, after Tang Zhitong arrived at the Post and Telecommunications College, he first collected some information from his classmates about the demand for food transfer.

As expected, only a few of the sponsored students proposed to temporarily transfer their food supply back to their local area, while the other students expressed their desire to stay in school and study hard during the holidays.

Tang Zhitong went to the logistics department to ask Wei Zhizhen to issue a letter of certification. After returning to the classroom and handing it to several sponsored students, he made a cigarette-holding gesture towards Lu Jian.

"Dorm leader, what date will you be back?" Tang Zhitong took out a cigarette, lit one, and took the initiative to light it for Lu Jian.

"Hey, I was just about to tell you. I just got the train ticket yesterday afternoon. The train is tomorrow afternoon." Lu Jian also wanted to find Tang Zhitong and had to bring some food back home.

In order to make it easier for students to go home, the university recently counted the demand of students going home and sent people to contact the station to buy train tickets.

Currently, college students can get half-price tickets for intercity transportation and trains by showing their student ID. The only exception may be the city bus, which charges full fare.

Except for a few major cities that have inter-city passenger vehicles, most places do not have this treatment, so the largest application area for student ID cards is still railway stations.

"What time in the afternoon?" Tang Zhitong frowned slightly. He had an exam tomorrow morning and had to go to the Women's Federation in the afternoon. What a coincidence that their schedules conflicted.

"The bus leaves at six o'clock. What's the matter? Is there something wrong, Teacher Tang?" Lu Jian asked when he saw Tang Zhitong frowning.

"I have something to do tomorrow afternoon, so it shouldn't be late. I'll wait for you outside the station at five o'clock?" Tang Zhitong thought about it and thought that if it was five o'clock, it should be possible to arrange it. The other experts have been in meetings for the whole morning, so they will probably just listen to his opinions in the afternoon, right?
"Teacher Tang, how about this, you bring it to the dormitory tomorrow? I can pack my clothes, textbooks and other things together so that they won't be conspicuous." Lu Jian was already grateful to Tang Zhitong for helping him and didn't want to cause him any more trouble.

"It wouldn't be good if other students saw us. Besides, it would be too heavy for you to carry it to the station." Tang Zhitong considered it from Lu Jian's perspective and did not agree with this approach.

"It's okay, I still have some strength. Besides, I can just take a ride. There are exams these days and students are coming to the classroom early in the morning to review. You can just take it directly to the dormitory when you come." Lu Jian waved his hand, looking like he had made up his mind.

"Okay. Do you want corn kernels or cornmeal?" Lu Jian understood himself, and Tang Zhitong also wanted to save Lu Jian some trouble. It was easy for him to turn corn kernels into cornmeal, but it might not be convenient for Lu Jian after he returned.

"Do you have cornmeal? That's not a big deal, right?" Sure enough, when Lu Jian heard it, he subconsciously wanted cornmeal.

"No trouble. I'll bring it to my dorm leader tomorrow." Tang Zhitong agreed happily. Corn kernels could be put in sacks, but cornmeal could only be put in flour bags. Fortunately, he had flour stockpiled at the construction site two years ago, and also flour bags picked up from the Yalu River.

As for the cornmeal I picked up from the riverside last time, it can only be considered cornmeal, which is crushed with corn bones. Not only does it weigh a lot, but it also tastes bad.

"Thank you so much, Teacher Tang." Lu Jian was grateful and in tears. If he was not afraid of the bad influence, he would have bowed to Tang Zhitong to express his gratitude.

"Don't be polite. It just so happens that you need it and I also have it. It's just a coincidence." Tang Zhitong said calmly. As for favors, most of the time, there is no need to state them clearly. Those who know the situation will naturally understand.

After returning to the classroom, Tang Zhitong found the sports committee member again and left him the phone number of his work unit so that he could find him easily if he had any problems.

Luo Zhiping and Lu Jian are both going home, and they will leave after the exam tomorrow. The winter vacation is not short, and there will be a wave of meal tickets and water tickets to be distributed at the end of the month. I'm afraid it will be more troublesome for other students to deal with this.

Tang Zhitong didn't want to trouble Wei Zhizhen again because of such a small matter, and of course he didn't ask the Sports Committee not to look for him unless necessary.

"Come to me if you need anything" is mostly a cliché, but a few times it has another meaning: "Don't come to me if you don't have anything to do."

Close friends often don't say this to each other. If there is a real difficulty, they will just rush through it.

While Tang Zhitong was taking the exam, Ye Zhijuan's secretary finally received news.

"Director Ye, we have found three candidates this time." The man's surname was Liu, and he was the deputy of the organization department. This time he came to see Ye Zhijuan in person and gave Ye Zhijuan a brief introduction of the three candidates.

Ye Zhijuan glanced at the materials of the three people, listened, nodded, and did not interrupt.

The three candidates are about the same age, all are women, one is in foreign trade, one is in health, and one is in culture and education. One of them is a college student, and two are technical secondary school students.

"Director Ye, when is a convenient time for you? I'll coordinate and you can meet in person?" After all, they were looking for a secretary for Ye Zhijuan, and Ye Zhijuan had voluntarily given up on having a special car. In addition, the previous secretary had performed poorly, so the organization was under a lot of pressure because Sister Li had said that they should "select carefully" in this regard.

To say that it was carefully selected is already giving the organization face, but in reality it is almost the same as criticism.

"Liu Bu, let me take a look at the materials first and write to you later, okay?" The interview was only one aspect. Ye Zhijuan wanted to start with the materials to see if she could find out something. "Of course, I'll go back and wait for your letter." Liu Bu was very tactful and left time and space for Ye Zhijuan.

Ye Zhijuan saw her colleagues off and sat back in her chair to look through the materials of several people.

The organization department did a very solid job this time, with photos of each of the secretary candidates attached to each of the three sets of materials.

The content of the materials is quite detailed, including not only the basic information of the individual, educational background, and job responsibilities, but also evaluations from various departments.

Ye Zhijuan first looks at the candidate's family members.

There are many things to pay attention to here. If there is an elder of a higher rank among the family members, it is fine if the work is done well, but if the work is not done well...

Of course, some people like this kind of thing. At least they can establish a relationship with the person. They can serve the person well for two or three years, help him or her get on the right track, and this is a good relationship and a kind of loyalty.

Ye Zhijuan does not need this kind of incense and does not want to raise a big Buddha, so she looks at this aspect very carefully, especially the family relationships of college students.

Some situations are special. Whether for confidentiality reasons or because the level is too high, a pseudonym may appear in the family relationship column. At this time, it depends on whether the child takes the father's surname, the mother's surname, or neither.

Ye Zhijuan didn't find any loopholes in this item, so she carefully read the other introductions of the three candidates.

Ye Zhijuan carefully read the materials of the three people, and finally took out the materials of the candidate for foreign trade, put them on the top, and read them again.

The candidate for foreign trade is called Miao Xiaoqin. She has short hair in the photo and looks very capable.

The basic personal information is as follows: female, 25 years old, unmarried, graduated from technical secondary school, has been working for five years, joined the organization in the first year after work, and is currently at the deputy section level.

After all, the materials are not archives and their content is limited, but we can still see a lot of information that is not written on paper from these limited texts.

Putting down the materials, Ye Zhijuan leaned back in her chair, tapping the materials lightly with her fingers, thinking about Miao Xiaoqin.

Graduating from a technical secondary school means that the family environment is open-minded and the family economic conditions are good, but there will not be too many high-level direct relatives in the family.

Children from high-ranking families usually go to college, unless their stepmother prevents them from doing so.

Even my family originally wanted to let our eldest daughter go to college, but Wenwen was too stubborn and insisted on going to dance school.

Short hair. Although there are unmarried women like this in administrative units, it is not universal. Miao Xiaoqin is one of them who is ahead of others.

From the time of joining the organization, we can see Miao Xiaoqin's attitude and actions of actively moving closer to the organization.

Combining the evaluation issued by her department and Miao Xiaoqin's level, Ye Zhijuan felt that this girl was quite ambitious and that an ordinary girl would not be promoted so quickly.

Ye Zhijuan was more inclined to Miao Xiaoqin, but she did not reply to the organization department immediately. Instead, she waited for a while before going to the organization department's office.

"Minister Liu, are you busy?" Ye Zhijuan knocked on the door and asked with a smile.

"No rush, welcome Director Ye, please take a seat." When the deputy minister surnamed Liu saw that it was Ye Zhijuan, he stood up to greet her.

"Thank you. I have carefully read the materials of those three comrades. They are all excellent comrades. I am sorry for your trouble." Ye Zhijuan expressed her gratitude as soon as she came up.

"You're welcome. It's all work needs. Don't blame me for taking so long to find the right person. It's really not easy to coordinate with such an outstanding comrade." Minister Liu poured Ye Zhijuan a glass of water and placed it on the table in front of Ye Zhijuan.

"I understand. How could I blame Liu Bu? I was the one who caused trouble for Liu Bu.

This is what I think: it is a bit of a waste to let college students be my secretary. They have studied and learned in college and can play a greater role in the position than a secretary.

In addition, I deal with foreign trade more often. If I have a secretary from the foreign trade department, it will be much easier to coordinate work in the future.

So, I would like to contact Comrade Miao Xiaoqin first. "

Ye Zhijuan did not engage in excessive hypocritical courtesy and directly stated her choice, but she did not say anything final. Once they met, if she felt that the person was not good enough, it would not be too late to change to someone else.

"Oh, Director Ye is very thoughtful and has a good eye for people. Among these three comrades, only the foreign trade department was reluctant to let go, and I had to work very hard to convince him." When Minister Liu saw that Ye Zhi had a preliminary candidate, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time complained a little, saying how difficult the job was.

"Thank you for the trouble, Minister Liu." Ye Zhijuan said politely.

"This is what we should do. Director Ye, when is convenient for you? I will coordinate Comrade Miao Xiaoqin to come over, would you like to meet her first?" Minister Liu decided to stop complaining and made an appointment with Ye Zhijuan instead.

"This afternoon, or the day after tomorrow, which time do you think is convenient for you to coordinate? I have a meeting tomorrow, which will probably take a whole day." Ye Zhijuan said with a hint of apology.

"Then I'll contact you and come this afternoon." Liu Bu could hear Ye Zhijuan's urgency. She didn't want to wait any longer and thought it was right to hurry up and get this matter done.

"Okay, then I'll go back and wait." After finalizing the matter, Ye Zhijuan stood up and said goodbye.

"Director Ye, I have informed the fleet today and asked them to give priority to your use of the vehicle." When seeing Ye Zhijuan off, Liu said quietly.

"Thank you, Minister Liu, for helping me think about this matter. I am very grateful." Ye Zhijuan took Minister Liu's hand and shook it to express her gratitude. As for the matter of ensuring the use of the vehicles, Minister Liu didn't even need to ask, and the small fleet would not dare to neglect her.

Although he had reached the level where he could be equipped with a car, he refused. The reason was that there was a big gap in small cars at the moment and he did not want to cause trouble for the country.

In 1958, the "Dongfeng" and "Jinggangshan" cars were successfully trial-produced. Even Tsinghua University produced a micro car, which attracted great attention at the time.

Dongfeng sedan was renamed "Hongqi" sedan that year. Although there were constant good news about the localization of sedans, Ye Zhijuan knew that there was still a long way to go before true mass production.

(End of this chapter)