Lin Xiao followed the instructions of the navigation and circled back and forth around a residential area twice, before finally riding a small battery car and stopping at the door of the stairs of a unit. She looked up at the residential building in front of her, and her face was extremely solemn.

This area in front of me is not so much a residential building as an urban village. Moreover, there is still a word "city" in urban villages, and the place in front of her can only get a "village" when she looks horizontally and vertically, and it has to be a factory village.

Opposite the residential building is a flat knitting machine workshop, after the freight electric three wheels are loaded, like a small whirlwind, suddenly rushed out, the road that has not yet been smoothed suddenly stirred up bursts of dust.

"Thankfully, today I know what it means to be a rider. Lin Xiao looked at the dust in front of him that hadn't dissipated for a long time, and couldn't help but snort.

The proprietress of the commissary diagonally opposite happened to come out to pour water, looked at Lin Xiaoren in formal clothes and frowned, and after taking the basin in, she couldn't help but look at it curiously again.

It's like looking at some alien creature.

Lin Xiao looked down at the suit on his body and sighed.

It's quite out of place here.

The company is crowded into the office buildings in the city, and the small town and the countryside are filled with all kinds of large and small workshops, which is a relatively unique phenomenon in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Especially in today's rapid development of the e-commerce industry, the threshold for online stores is not high, and the demand for small orders is becoming more and more vigorous.

Put a few machines, the whole family can go into battle or recruit one or two more workers at random, and you can form a small workshop. For individual salesmen or stores with a minimum order quantity of 510 orders, it is a very good partner to work with. The new rural community that was rebuilt after the demolition is separated by rows of passages that are wider than ordinary roads. While there are several rows of battery cars parked at the door all year round, it can also allow large and small trucks to shuttle freely during the electric tricycle.

It's like stepping back in time to a city from a few decades ago.

Lin Xiao has been in this city for six years, and it is not that he has not been to these places.

It's just that in the past, the cooperative factory warehouse would be in remote places, and it would be necessary to run to these places from time to time, but in the end, they still had to go back to those beautiful and atmospheric office buildings in the city. In the past two years, there have been too many things in the company, and after recruiting assistants, she rarely comes out.

Now when I see these dusty scenes in front of me, I still have a strange feeling like a world away.

Not to mention, she still came for the interview. It may be like "clearing the wasteland" and entering here to work.

Three years, five years, or even longer.

Lin Xiao looked at the blurry shadow of himself reflected on the glass door of the small shop stained with cement slurry, and had a rare urge to retreat.

Countless messages that I had seen in the social news section came to mind:

"A young woman became popular overnight and strayed into the wolf's den"

"I was introduced into a pyramid scheme by a small classmate who I haven't seen for many years"

"The well-known luxury film company in the job advertisement turned out to be just an ordinary farmhouse in an urban village"

......

All of this casts a shadow over the building in front of you.

Lin Xiao couldn't help but start speculating that although he and Xu Yuanhang had known each other for many years, they had also done Zhejiang drifting together. But just a few years ago, they symbolically got together, and as they got busier and busier, the only connection was just a thumbs up from the circle of friends and a smirk when they returned to their hometown for the New Year.

Is this person really reliable?

"Interviewed?"

A short question came from above, and the other party's voice was hoarse and even a little indistinct. Lin Xiao was slightly stunned before he realized what the other party was talking about, and looked up to find that there was really a person standing at the window at the corner of the stairs.

The position where the man was standing happened to be somewhat backlit, so that people could not see the specific face clearly. He had a cigarette in his mouth, obviously looking down, but his chin was slightly tilted.

It looks quite unbeatable.

The late autumn wind was so arrogant that it easily rolled up the dust and sand on the ground, and at the same time, it also blew Lin Xiao's shoulder-length short hair that he had carefully cleaned up before going out and even covered his eyes. She felt that her current image must be very stupid, but she didn't have time to deal with it, so she just stood stunned and forgot to move.

The other party's bangs are a little longer, and when they poke their heads out, they are also blown messy, and they are estimated to be on par with their current self.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiaocai suddenly came back to his senses, tilted his head and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say, he just subconsciously hummed. Ying Wan felt that his voice seemed to be too small, and the other party should not have heard it clearly, so he had to clear his throat again and said, "Ah, yes." ”

"Come on. The man nodded and didn't continue, but took another puff on his cigarette, as if he didn't want to continue to talk to her. forehead

Lin Xiao looked around in confusion, and when she walked into the dark corridor, a thought quickly flashed in her heart: when she came in just now, there should have been other people watching. If something happens and you are killed, you can also find a few eyewitnesses.

It's just that it shouldn't be.

The environment is similar to the scene of murder for money, but how can a bad guy be arrogant and let the prospective victim pass by himself?

With these messy thoughts in mind, Lin Xiao took a deep breath, adjusted the facial expressions on his face, tried not to look so stiff, and stepped on the last step.

The man had just finished his last puff of cigarette, pressed the cigarette butt hard against the window, and when he saw her come up, there was still no obvious expression on his face, and said, "Come in." With that, he turned around and entered a nearby house with a wide open door.

On the door frames on both sides of the room, there are still only half of the faded couplets left, and the words on them can still be vaguely recognized

On the right, business is thriving, and on the left, wealth is abundant.

Lin Xiao: ......

Lin Xiao hesitated slightly, but still walked in after the other party.

The residential buildings here are a little different from ordinary commercial housing communities, even if they are rebuilt after demolition, the area is much larger. Usually there are only two households on the first floor, and the inside is very spacious, which is more suitable for the needs of semi-civil and semi-public studios.

Of course, the main thing is that it is cheap.

You can not only enjoy the benefits of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, but also enjoy the prices of third- and fourth-tier small cities.

When I walked down the stairs, I didn't feel much of it, but when I got to the door, I could hear a faint voice coming from inside the house. The rustling of the friction of the plastic packaging bag is also mixed with some human voices.

is similar to what the other party said on WeChat before, this is indeed just a relatively small sparrow workshop. When Lin Xiao turned to go in, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the position where he had stood just now, and there was an ashtray that was already full of cigarette butts on the bed next to him. The size of a palm, just enough to fit on the edge of a windowsill.

Well, it looks like a sparrow with a big addiction. Even the ashtray can spread from the house to here.

With such a distraction, Lin Xiao looked up again after entering, and then he was stunned.

The man who had brought him in was gone.

The layout of the house is similar to what you imagined.

The original house was supposed to be a relatively large three-bedroom and two-living room, and the two living rooms were converted into a relatively large workshop. In the middle of the room, like a factory, there are two very large and flat work tables, which are used for packing clothes, ironing, etc. On all sides, against the wall, there are rows of shelves, on which are piled up with folded and packed clothes. The position between the shelves and the work table is not wide, and when the chair is placed, only one person can pass through.

It's like a standard small warehouse.

There was a man and a woman sitting on both sides of the work table at this time, the girl didn't look very old, and she was talking to the boy opposite, but she was interrupted by the sudden appearance of herself, stopped what she was doing, and looked at it with a curious face. Sitting on the opposite side of the wall was a middle-aged woman who looked a little older, glanced at Lin Xiao lightly, continued to do what she was doing, and said in a calm tone without raising her head: "Interview?"

"Ahh Lin Xiao was a little embarrassed and cramped, and only after a little click did he react, and repeated again: "Well, for the interview." ”

She really can't cope with this kind of home-based working atmosphere and environment.

"Let's go inside, the one with a lot of clothes is hung. The eldest sister raised her hand and pointed to the left, then put it down, flipped up and down with a sweater in both hands, and suddenly pushed the things in her hand to the middle position, and threw a packaged piece of clothing in the center of the workbench.

It's kung fu.

Lin Xiao sighed silently in his heart, and when he turned around and walked towards the room that the other party was pointing to, he remembered that he should have thanked him just now.

To the left of the workbench are two bedroom-turned-offices.

One room is separated by a glass wall, which can be seen directly from here, and the desk and computer are placed next to the wall. And the other room is the room where the clothes are hung as the eldest sister said.

When he raised his feet and walked in, Lin Xiao's footsteps paused slightly, and he took a hard breath without a trace, and then he walked in and raised his eyes and began to look at the environment in the room.

Huang Lu was sitting next to the tripod with his back on his back, and was concentrating on debugging something, when he heard the sound behind him, he said without looking back: "You can take a look at it casually, get familiar with it." ”

"Hmm. Lin Xiao nodded, still a little restrained.

The environment inside the live broadcast room and outside have reached a high degree of unity, and there are not many things, but there is a "chaos" word everywhere.

On the left hand side of the door, there is a tripod, and a little bit against the wall, there is also a tripod with a flat plate on it. About 50 centimeters behind the slab, there is a large mirror that occupies almost a third of the wall. On the right-hand side and on the wall directly in front of you, there are clothes rails like in a store. There were a lot of clothes hanging on it, not a little sparse, and there were two poles next to it that were still empty.

"This is the new streamer who came to interview?"

"Be confident, and get rid of your doubtful tone. Qin Yueyue slammed Lin Fang with his arm with the cup, smiling brightly, and with an obviously excited voice, he even raised uncontrollably: "This figure and temperament, isn't it here to be an anchor, or is it here to partner with you to do operations?"

"Mainly this outfit, have you ever seen someone wearing a formal suit to come to the interview live broadcast before?"

"Yes," Qin Yueyue nodded approvingly, and sighed: "If I hadn't heard Brother Lu shouting outside just now, if she had been wearing black-framed glasses, I would have wondered if Brother Lu was going to file for bankruptcy the first moment she came in, and she would have provoked a lawyer." ”

"What are you talking nonsense?" Chen Su glanced at her reproachfully and said, "When Huang Lu hears you say such things, be careful and be scolded again." ”

Although the studio is small, Huang Lu has also been tainted with the essential character of a businessman: superstition.

You can't take money from him early in the morning, you can't sigh casually, you can't loudly proclaim that business is good, and the mantra has always been only one sentence: business is hard to do.

Qin Yueyue stuck out his tongue, turned his head to look at Lin Fang and asked, "By the way, isn't it always you who have been contacted by you by sending recruitment messages?"

"I don't know, I didn't find this person. Lin Fang waved his hand, still stretching his neck to look inside.

"What? Brother Lu finally couldn't get used to you, so he decided to go to the sea to pick it himself?"

"Why do you hear this more and more strangely?"

Lin Xiao: ......

After all, this is just an ordinary residential room, and the sound insulation of the room is not good, not to mention that the people outside have become accustomed to the current mode of getting along, and there is no consciousness that people should lower their voices behind their backs.

Huang Lu glanced up at her in the interval of debugging and said, "Listen to Xu Yuanhang, you used to make foreign trade fabrics, you should also know some about clothing." ”

"Hmm. Lin Xiao nodded, thought about it and added: "But it's more inclined to the characteristics of the fabric and the fashion trend, and the version size is a little simple." ”

"It's okay, just know some basics and be able to bluff people. ”

It is mainly based on the face and body to eat.

Lin Xiao: ......

Lin Xiao silently filled in the other party's unfinished words in her heart, and before Xu Yuanhang introduced her, he also said it very simply.

Good looking, good looking, good talking. Stand in front of the camera and simply explain a few words.

Especially now that the Taobao live broadcast industry has just started, and the anchors of many stores are bosses or even operators in person. In the live broadcast room, you can see fat strong men with beer bellies and bald early years, holding up a cute children's or women's clothes, pulling their throats and starting to shout.

One bite at a time, new babies, remember to pay attention to likes.

There is a greater demand for anchors with good looks and figures.

Even if you know that this is an industry characteristic, just like a model, you always have to make yourself look good, so that consumers will notice that the clothes you are wearing look good, and then have the desire to consume.

But Lin Xiao still had an indescribable awkwardness in his heart.

Over the years, almost all of her work experience can be regarded as behind the scenes. Fabric salesman, you don't have to wear it to show others, at most, you can take the calico and make a gesture on yourself. Now let all eyes be on yourself.

None of the knowledge and experience accumulated in previous work seems to be of much use here.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao felt a rare suddenness in his heart.

Even the interview is very different from before.

Serious resumes, one-sided, two-sided, non-intense interaction between English and the interviewer, all of which do not exist here.

At that time, Xu Yuanhang directly pushed someone to her, saying that it was the owner of the store, and the other party casually asked a few words about height, weight, age, and let her come directly for an interview. And in the interview place, there is only a person who is unkempt, very casual and cleans up, and has not introduced himself for half a day, and a messy live broadcast room.

"Okay!" Huang Lu finally raised his head from the tripod in front of him, stepped on the ground with a slight force, slid the chair back sharply, and raised his chin towards Lin Xiao: "Come on." ”

"What?" Lin Xiao didn't react yet.

"Pilot. Huang Lu got up and pushed the chair to the back of the door and pointed to the place where he had just been sitting.

Lin Xiao only noticed at this time that in front of the position where Huang Lu was just sitting, in addition to the tripod holding the mobile phone, there was also a slightly taller, similar to a round incandescent lamp, which didn't know when it lit up, emitting a faint white light, which was a little dazzling.

It happens to be some above the phone, and it is estimated that it is used for lighting.

That's all there is to live streaming?

Lin Xiao didn't have much contact with this before, but he just saw his rough studio in Xu Yuanhang's circle of friends. Compared to the scene in front of me, it only feels as if the roughness here has doubled.

Everywhere there is a smell of a poor small workshop.

"What's wrong?" As if finally noticing her hesitation, Huang Lu leaned forward slightly with his arms wrapped around him, and asked suspiciously.

Lin Xiao only reacted completely at this time, and after looking back and forth with the other party's face now, he couldn't help but speak: "Now, go live directly?"

Huang Lu still hugged his arms and nodded, like an image of the ruthlessly exploiting landlord class. The nervousness and crampedness of being scrutinized by the interviewer when I first left school only crept in.

Lin Xiao stood in front of the mobile phone, and the light left a faint halo on her face, but at this time, she couldn't care about the nervousness and apprehension at all, and she was more at a loss.

How should it be broadcast, and what should it be broadcast?

Is it difficult to introduce yourself directly in English?

"Broadcast. After Huang Lu finished speaking, it is estimated that he also felt that he was a little too eager for quick success now, so he hesitated, thought about it and spoke again.

Hope suddenly rose in Lin Xiao's eyes.

Before she came, she had watched a one-hour live broadcast, and she also watched a replay, the kind that barely watched it by pulling the progress bar at double speed.

Now, it's been less than twenty minutes since she arrived here, so let her go up directly to the live broadcast, isn't that a joke!

In the next second, Huang Lu really said as if he was joking with her: "It's uncomfortable, isn't it?" ”

Lin Xiao nodded subconsciously.

"Okay," Huang Lu looked at him with a clear expression and said, "Then you brew and prepare for a while, I'm in the next office." After the live broadcast is started, I can also see it synchronously, and if you have any questions, you can communicate with me directly. When you're ready, just press directly on the screen to get started. I feel that the color temperature of the fill light is not appropriate, too dazzling or not bright enough, the adjuster is behind the back, and the button is rotated, and you can understand it after two tosses. ”

After speaking, Huang Lu turned around and slammed the door shut, and the whole room instantly became extremely quiet.

Lin Xiao felt that his brain was completely quiet at this time.