Star Yan Shi (novella) Zhang Baotong

Because the relationship with the little manager of the wood factory was stiff, Xiuxiu didn't want to stay in the wood factory anymore. www.biquge.info In the past few days, Xiuxiu has no choice but to stay at Uncle Hao's house, but Uncle Hao's house is not his home after all, and it is not a place to stay for a long time. Living in someone else's house means that no matter how good they are to you, you will feel a lot of inconvenience and discomfort when you are good. In fact, as soon as Xiuxiu came out of the wood factory, she wanted to rent a simple house to live in, no matter what, she also worked in the wood factory for a month, and she made some money. However, Uncle Hao and Aunt Hao disagreed, saying that a house would cost 180 yuan at least. Although Xiuxiu lived in Aunt Hao's house, she still wanted to find a job as soon as possible, so that she could find a house to live in, and she didn't have to trouble Uncle Hao's house anymore, and she felt comfortable and comfortable.

Originally, Uncle Hao asked her to rest for a few days and then find a way to find a job for her, but I don't know if Uncle Hao was too busy or if the job was not easy to find, a week passed, and she didn't find a job. Xiuxiu was idle all day, either sitting next to Aunt Hao and watching others play mahjong, or sitting in the house watching TV. However, Xiuxiu didn't like these at all, and felt that it was a waste of time and life. However, she couldn't rush to ask Uncle Hao, because she also knew that there were many people working in the city now, and it was very difficult to find a way to live.

In order to find a job, after she had eaten in the morning, she had to go to the streets and labor offices to see if there were any important places. In order to find a job, "Huashang Daily" has become a must-read newspaper for her every day. Others read newspapers to watch the news and watch the excitement, but she reads the newspaper to find job postings.

That morning, she saw in the newspaper advertising column a news that the Academy of Fine Arts was recruiting for a model. The advertisement is very short, and the content is that the Academy of Fine Arts is looking for young and beautiful women between the ages of 18 and 23 to be models for students of the Department of Fine Arts, and after an interview, they will be admitted, and the hired candidates will be paid well. This is followed by the registration time, address, phone number, and contact person.

This kind of work is ideal for a girl like her. So, she asked for the newspaper and immediately went to a small shop to call the recruiter. A person who seemed to be in charge asked her about the situation and asked her to come to the interview at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning at the address on the job advertisement.

Xiuxiu took the bus to the Oil Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts early the next morning, because she came too early, and the recruits had not yet gone to work. Xiuxiu had no choice but to stand outside the office building and wait. After waiting for about half an hour, the school bell rang. Only then did I see that people who went to work entered the office building one after another. Originally, Xiuxiu thought that there must be a lot of applicants for the job, the competition was very fierce, and the possibility of being admitted was not very high, so she didn't have great hopes, just came to meet the world and try her luck.

However, when the door of the recruitment office opened, Xiuxiu found that there were not many applicants, only twenty or thirty people, and judging from the height and appearance of these girls, they did not quite meet the requirements in the recruitment advertisement, so she felt that her physical condition was much better than theirs. The middle-aged man in charge of recruitment asked everyone to sit down in a large studio, handed out a form for everyone to fill out, and then called people to a small office next door for interviews.

Xiuxiu filled out the form, handed it to the middle-aged man, and sat on a chair in the studio and waited. Because she was idle and bored, she talked to a girl from northern Shaanxi sitting next to her. The girl speaks with a strong northern Shaanxi accent, and she is also a little fat, and she looks quite honest. Xiuxiu thought that this kind of girl was okay to do some physical work and real work for others, but it would be too far away if she was a model for a student. So, she said to the girl in northern Shaanxi, "This model is for students to be a model, I heard that it is one in a hundred, why do you want to be a model?" ”

The girl from northern Shaanxi said, "I don't know what the model is for, but I came when people said that the pay was good." Xiuxiu said, "The painting model is to pose for people to paint." The girl from northern Shaanxi said, "This job is light and can give a good pay, so why are there so few people who come to apply today?" Xiuxiu said, "Because the conditions required by people are high, they must have a beautiful figure, beautiful appearance, and elegant temperament, and ordinary people may not be able to choose." The girl from northern Shaanxi immediately said, "If that's the case, then I'm afraid I won't be able to." Xiuxiu said, "Okay, it's not up to you to say, you have to let the family choose." If someone chooses it, you can do it, and if they can't choose it, you can't. ”

As he spoke, the middle-aged man called the name of the girl from northern Shaanxi. The girl from northern Shaanxi went into the small office. However, within two minutes, the girl from northern Shaanxi came out of the small office, walked past the door of the studio with her head down and shyly, without even saying hello to Xiuxiu. Xiuxiu thought that the girl from northern Shaanxi was defeated.

Xiuxiu was the last to be called to the hut. In the hut sat a thin old man in his fifties, whom everyone else called Professor Fang. The top of the old man's head was bald, and only the edges of the top of his head were still sparsely covered with some thin, soft white hair. The old man's accent was a bit of a local accent, and he spoke quite crisply. He first looked at Xiuxiu carefully for a while with that osprey-like gaze, and then asked in an extremely surprised and respectful tone, "Do you know what kind of profession it is to paint models?" Xiuxiu said, "Isn't it just standing in front of the students and asking them to draw you." Professor Fang smiled and said, "You're only half right. Then, he said to Xiuxiu, "Painting is a noble art, and painting models are not only models for students, but also for art." After saying that, he asked Xiuxiu to wait for the second interview.

Although some of the girls were not qualified, they also made it to the second interview. The second interview seems to be more complicated than the first. In the first interview, everyone enters the office and sits for two or three minutes at most, answering one or two very simple questions, but in the second interview, everyone has to stay in the office for at least seven or eight minutes, and some even take more than ten minutes to come out. Moreover, when they came out, everyone's expressions seemed to be embarrassed, and they all lowered their heads with calm faces, as if they had been told that they had not been admitted.

When Xiuxiu waited for a girl next to her to come out, she asked the girl, "Hey, what's going on?" But the girl said coldly, "No." Xiuxiu asked again, "Why?" The girl said, "You'll find out as soon as you go in." With that, he left in a hurry.

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