It's late March and early April 2004, and it's time for those seniors to look for jobs.

Wang Bo's friends, except for Zhang Xinyue, Chen Xiang and Wu Xue, are basically juniors. Zhang Xinyue, Chen Xiang and Wu Xue have been preparing for the graduate school entrance examination since last year, and they are still graduate students outside C. All three of them also took the National Unified Postgraduate Examination in December last year and the duplex held outside C in March this year.

At the end of last month, the results of the re-examination came out, and the results were both happy and worried.

The joy is Zhang Xinyue, she was honorably admitted to the graduate school outside C. As soon as the school starts in September this year, I will become a freshman in my first year of graduate school.

It is Chen Xiang and Wu Xue who are worried. Both of their scores passed the national line of the national unified examination, but when they participated in the re-examination held by themselves outside C, they did not pass the re-examination line and were brushed off.

Here, there is nothing boring, it can only be said that the professional level of the two is not enough. If the two of them apply for a graduate degree in Russian, with the usual hard work of the two girls, there is absolutely no problem. It's a pity that under the subtle influence of Wang Bo's "admiration for Britain and depreciation of Russia", the two of them followed Zhang Xinyue, a student of the English Department, to apply for the direction of the English Department across majors. Although the two of them usually work hard and learn English hard, to be honest, the English level is also good, but compared with the English students who have been in the field for four years, there is still a certain gap. After all, language is a thing that takes time for the vast majority of learners, and it takes rote memorization, memorization, speaking, and reading. No matter how hard Chen Xiang and Wu Xue worked, they couldn't change twice as long.

Knowing that they were brushed off the retest line, needless to say, it was a rather heavy blow to Chen Xiang and Wu Xue, who had worked hard for a year to prepare. The vast majority of people who are admitted to graduate school report a kind of "if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent", and the determination to take the exam is just like the college entrance examination in the past, during the preparation period, in order to go all out, many people have not considered finding a job at all.

Therefore, for those who did not pass the list, the reality suddenly became cruel. Because most of the units and companies that want to recruit people go to various colleges and universities to hold job fairs and double selection meetings in the first half of their senior year, and recruit the people they want to recruit. The vast majority of those who really wait until the second semester of the second year to start recruiting are small units and small enterprises that are not very competitive. If it's good to learn English, after all, there are many people who need it, and for those who learn Russian, it's a bit of a sin to learn Russian.

On the day of the list, Chen Xiang was also a little panicked, feeling a little afraid and dazed about the future.

However, after Wang Bo came back from a business trip to Xiangjiang, learned about her retest, and then comforted her with an indifferent face, Chen Xiang immediately burst into tears and smiled, and the gloom turned sunny, and the little panic and confusion in his heart were also swept away at once. She still remembers what Wang Bo said to her word for word:

"Say it's not over, it's not over, even if you get in, it's just a three-year day outside C, and you can't learn anything. It's better if I don't have it this time, I can come out to work after graduation, and don't look for any other jobs, just be my life assistant, responsible for my three meals a day. When the time comes, I will ask your sister Yanzi to sign a formal labor contract for you, five insurances and one housing fund, various subsidies, and then give you a car, and then you will be responsible for drilling the streets and alleys of Shuangqing for a day's work, and find me something to eat. ”

Chen Xiang turned from sadness to joy, no worries about the future, as her friend and best friend, Wu Xue, during this time, her mood was quite depressed and gloomy, it can be said that it was completely miserable, sad all day long, panicked like a lost dog.

In fact, when it comes to work, the Russian language department outside C actually doesn't have to worry at all, because "package work". But the destination of this so-called package distribution work is to go to the "reclamation farm" of Sino-Russian cooperation in Siberia as a translator. Before I met Wang Bo and worked as a "life assistant" for Wang Bo with Chen Xiang, Wu Xue, who came out of the countryside from a poor family, would definitely think that going to Mao Ziguo to be a translator was a good job, at least taking off the farm skin, getting a monthly salary, and being able to go abroad.

However, since he became Wang Bo's "life assistant", he ate big fish and meat every day, ate fragrant and spicy food, and even saw and personally felt the beauty of the "flower world" because of the light of the old incense, Siberia, where the sky was cold and the birds did not, became an infinitely terrifying purgatory.

Wu Xue found that whether in thought or action, she was inseparable from her current life. Mo said that going to the inaccessible place, dozens of degrees below zero, like exiled Siberia, even if she is asked to stay in Shuangqing now and find an ordinary job, she estimates that it will be difficult for her to adapt. Not to mention anything else, most of the students eat the big pot of rice in the cafeteria with pleasure hahaha, and she occasionally tastes it with Chen Xiang, but now she feels that the food is tasteless and difficult to swallow, like pig food.

In the past few years, she has deeply understood what it means to "go from thrift to luxury, and from luxury to thrift".

After seeing that Chen Xiang, who was originally a little sad like her because of her failure, immediately became happy and smiling after a phone call, and after the gloomy clouds were gone, Wu Xue's fear and worry about the future became even worse. Even if she didn't have to ask, she knew who Chen Xiang was calling, and what the other party said to her and promised, which made her friend who was frowning a minute ago immediately smile after a minute.

Sure enough, Chen Xiang quickly told her about her boyfriend's arrangements for her. This made Wu Xue extremely envious, and even faintly jealous.

Then, there was despair, because in Chen Xiang's mouth, there was only Wang Bo's arrangement for herself, and there was no arrangement for her, "Sister Xuexue".

Wu Xue once wanted to beg Chen Xiang and ask Chen Xiang to beg her boyfriend, so that she could continue to be Wang Bo's "life assistant" like Chen Xiang.

But this, she couldn't open her mouth for a while. Now the reason why Wang Bo wants two life assistants is even because they are both part-time and have very little time to work every day. In the future, Chen Xiang will finish his job and can go to work all day, Wang Bo's three meals a day, including the cleaning of his two apartments, Chen Xiang can do it alone, why should people spend another unjust money to recruit another person?

If there is really a need for this, Wu Xue thinks that Wang Bo said it on the phone just now. Now people don't say it, it is estimated that she doesn't need it, she insists on asking for it, and that is difficult for a strong man.

"It's April now, April, May, June, and I have three months to leave school, what should I do?" Wu Xue thought desperately.

Outside, it is spring in March, and the spring flowers are blooming, and the land is full of greenery. However, at this time, Wu Xue, facing a slim future without any landing, felt like thousands of miles of snow drifting, thousands of miles of ice.