Chapter 2: Hanging in the Moment
Song Yufang panicked suddenly, looked at the notification letter with a miserable white face, and then stretched out his hand and pointed to the address column: "But this ...... Didn't it say ......"
Xiao Wang looked at it fixedly, and his heart jumped, expecting that there must be some flower heads in it. Considering that the people from the head office were listening to him, it was not good to expose the mistakes of the branch in front of him, so he hurriedly changed his smiling face and patiently explained: "We borrowed a few classrooms from the elementary school attached to the female high school for this exam, didn't you receive the notice?" ”
Hearing this, Song Yufang's heart was half cold, she lowered her head and sniffed, and kept shaking her head.
It wasn't a big deal, but I came an hour early, and I knew that I was in the wrong place, so I could naturally remedy it. However, the thought of the situation downstairs and the situation at home made her whole heart discourage. Her family of four all rely on her father, who is a teacher in Fangshan, to maintain, and those who eat imperial food may not be able to receive a salary every month, and Song Yufang's father has not remitted a penny to his family for three consecutive months, and all the letters are just to let his wives and children endure and endure again. Originally, she was expecting to be admitted to the bank, so that she could make some profits for her family.
However, when he saw the opportunity that he had finally won, he turned into sand and slipped away through his fingers.
Although Song Yufang didn't speak, her dress and her expression had already wordlessly told her difficulties.
When the kind-hearted young man saw her like this, he couldn't bear it. frowned, took out a few pieces of ocean from his pocket, handed them to Xiao Wang, and said in a deep voice: "Hurry up and call a car for this lady, don't delay her exam." Turning his face, he smiled at Song Yufang with a pleasant face, "Madam, I have to apologize to you for the colleague in charge of recruitment this time." Fortunately, the school is not too far from here, and it is still early. Rest assured, we will be able to catch up now. ”
Song Yufang heard the tinkling sound of the ocean, and was a little embarrassed: "It's very close, I ......" She thought to herself, as long as she can be accommodating, take her out of the staff passage that no one is crowded, and run all the way to always catch the exam.
However, where did Xiao Wang have the heart to discuss this, he first accompanied a smiling face, and then rushed to the stairs with Song Yufang in his hand.
At this time, the fat man who was carrying Song Yufang upstairs happened to be holding the document bag, and ran out all the way in pieces: "Who is that, don't delay on the road again, this is our bank...... Hey, what about people? He looked up and saw He Shunqing, the secretary of the office of the vice president of the General Department that he was most accustomed to, and his face suddenly became ugly. After turning around in place a few times, no one was found, and a layer of cold sweat oozed from his forehead in a hurry.
He Shunqing took a deep breath and tried his best to show a good temper to answer him: "The lady just now didn't come to do errands, but to take the exam." ”
The fat man's name was Tong Yinsheng, and he was the counter director of the Bank of China in Beijing.
Tong Yinsheng has always had a complaint about He Shunqing's tricks in recruiting female staff. But in today's days when my feet can't touch the ground, I was busy working in vain, and I collided with my rival again, and my heart was naturally even more disgusted, and I stomped my feet and took the opportunity to let out my anger: "Hey, isn't this nonsense!" I know what good things women can do. ”
He Shunqing saw that he was in a hurry first, so he snorted coldly and asked with a straight face: "Why do some people not know that the exam has changed location?" ”
Tong Yinsheng's lips twitched a few times, his eyes evaded, and his tone was a little fluttering: "Occasional negligence is always inevitable." ”
Seeing him like this, He Shunqing had his own answer in his heart, took a step forward, and said in a tough tone: "I hope that it's not just about neglecting female candidates." ”
Tong Yinsheng didn't want to see He Shunqing the most, and a very important point was that he relied on his uncle Sun Futang, the vice president of the agency, and went directly to the headquarters as a confidential secretary. And Tong Yinsheng started as a low-level trainee and became the counter director step by step. Because he raised his voice and asked, "Secretary He, is it true that in your eyes, today's major event is to recruit trainees, not to suspend the redemption order?" ”
"In my eyes, doing things rigorously and fairly, is the big thing I do every day!" He Shunqing didn't give in, plus some other things pressed on his heart, so he simply shouted at everyone to come out, "Those directors and team leaders who have no news, did they disappear out of thin air, why haven't you seen anyone after looking for a few hours?" It's just a matter of hanging idle on a job, but when it comes to this time, do you still just care about being out chic? ”
The busy crowd, it was rare to see He Shunqing's anger, and they all looked at Tong Yinsheng and told him to go down first to avoid it.
Tong Yinsheng took care of many things in his hand, and didn't want to worry about it, so he took out a key in his bag and poked it into the hole indiscriminately.
###
And Song Yufang, who was carried through the crowd twice within a few minutes, lay on the rickshaw dizzily. Then, with a few dings, there were a few more oceans on the skirt.
I heard Xiao Wang explaining to whom: "Unlucky, really unlucky, I was busy with all fours in the morning, and I was caught by Secretary He of the General Office, and asked me to send this little girl to the car." ”
Another person smiled: "People are not romantic teenagers." ”
After the car was pulled out for a while, Song Yufang sat up straight in a daze and counted the oceans scattered on her skirt. There are five in total, not to mention a ride, which is enough to take care of a month's rations for her family. I can't take this money.
But now is not the time to think about that.
The quota for this exam, Song Yufang was completely incidental. Another friend of hers, Fu Yongxi, is also on the exam list. I wonder if she received a notice to change the location?
You must know that although Fu Yongxi's family does not point to her to make money, her future is also in this exam.
It all started a month ago, when the female students who had finished their school worship that day heard that the Beijing Women's Foot Fair was holding an event in Central Park, so they all flocked to it.
Upon arrival, a professor with a Shandong accent analyzed the fundamental reason why Chinese women are lagging behind: their inability to socialize and work. The reason why I can't participate in these things, in addition to the inconvenience of walking with my little feet, is also because of the bad habit of combing my hair, which takes up twenty-one of the day's time. And the hair ornaments on the head will also consume unnecessary physical strength, making women tired when they go out and stand for a while, let alone anything else.
Although the female students present nodded frequently, no one dared to implement it as dare to do so, and went straight to the hair salon when they left the park.
It would be nice to say that Peiman Girls' High School is a church school after all, and it will not stick to the old Chinese morality. But Fu Yongxi simply followed the man's example and shaved his head.
This shocking vulgarity really made the school embarrassed.
As the reporter investigated and found out that Fu Yongxi's father was a congressman, a group of people in society who were not accustomed to asking for Westernization in everything, a group of people who wanted to find fault with parliamentarians in everything, and a small number of people who only wanted to target their father's political views, all kinds of limericks were published in the newspaper. Some people even sharply ridiculed that some foreign schools are simply producing foreign slaves, and the nature of the whole thing has changed greatly.
The principal of Beiman Girls' High School also thought that it was just enough to cut her hair short, and it would be overkill to shave her head, so she wanted Fu Yongxi to come out and make a statement. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is to let her admit her young and ignorant mistakes, so as to calm down this turmoil.
Who knew that Fu Yongxi not only did not agree, but criticized the principal for being pedantic and conservative, and then refused to go to school for three days in a row. Her teacher really wanted to be a peacemaker from it. Don't say anything else, it's not too late to get your graduation certificate first and then talk about reasoning. And because Song Yufang has a good relationship with her, this task is naturally not sidelined.
After several years of friendship with classmates, Song Yufang knows that a daughter like Fu Yongxi is illiterate, and she can be a broad wife and enjoy all the glory and wealth. But if the life Fu Yongxi wants is just to be a virtuous and virtuous old-fashioned woman, why shave her head?
Therefore, Song Yufang used a trick to watch people put down dishes with kindness. took all kinds of unfair treatment that women are suffering, and reminded Fu Yongxi that if she didn't graduate, there would only be two ways in front of her, either stay at home and embroider, or go to the factory to sell coolies.
Song Yufang grew up watching the faces of the elders in the family since she was a child, and she knows the hearts of the people best. A new-school figure like Fu Yongxi who is open-minded must want to gain a foothold in society and find a job that can reflect personal value. It is better to be a representative of women and prove to the conservative school that what men can do can also be done by women. And these positions, without exception, have diploma requirements. Fu Yongxi may say that she can put down her diploma, but she must not let go of women's liberation.
This method really worked, and in order to thank Song Yufang, the Fu couple who were sad all night used their family connections to win a place recommended to the Bank of China for the examination on the principal's side.
I have long heard that employees in the bank can get seven or eight yuan a month at the lowest level. This is a pie in the sky for Song Yufang, who has lived a hard life, and if she misses it once, there will be no chance to do it again. A few days earlier, she practiced abacus and memorized English at home day and night, and almost pinned the hope of the rest of her life on this exam.
If Fang Cai didn't have the help of that kind gentleman, Song Yufang would probably want to die at this time.
While she was recalling this, the rickshaw had already pulled hard into place.
Song Yufang took out a few hundred copper tickets from her pocket and hurriedly stuffed them to the coachman. Then, Yu Guangwang saw a black car parked at the school gate, which was very familiar.
She didn't go to the school first, but approached the car and confirmed that the license plate number was indeed the one Fu Yongxi often sat in, before turning back and running to the school gate.
It was a coincidence that a gatekeeper wearing a melon skin hat and gray sideburns came out of the gatehouse, playing a gong and shouting to the sky with a loud voice: "Close the door ten minutes before the exam!" ”
"Don't close it, don't close it, there is another one, and there is another one......" Song Yufang sprinted all the way, so anxious that two lines of tears fell into the wind.