With batches of experienced professionals joining the factories, companies and headquarters departments of Jiangnan Group, the management team led by Lao Shoudao and Zhou Chongan is gradually accelerating like a moving train, and the old Nanchang is full of new looks and vigorous development, and this emerging industrial and commercial base has been running efficiently.

He has become An Yi's plenipotentiary representative, taking over all the business with Lu Lin, Lihe, Dahua, HSBC, Citigroup, and other European and American companies and banks, giving full play to the contacts he had when he was a reporter in Shanghai, and easily establishing good relations with foreign banks and embassy and consulate officials in Europe and the United StatesThe above countries did not know which political axe they would apply to, so they had to delay and wait quietly.

On the edge of the bus station in the southeast of Chengbi Lake, a small two-story Chinese-style building is overcrowded.

This small building is the recruitment office temporarily rented by Jiangnan Group, all the candidates who have entered and failed to enter the Jiangnan Group must first go here for the initial examination, because the general manager Zhou Chongan has been on a business trip to Shanghai, Lao Dao also went to Jiujiang to deal with the company and the expatriates maliciously obstructed the construction of Jiujiang Bus Station, entrusted by them, An Yi had to temporarily come to help, to meet a few professionals who entered the interview stage after two screenings.

An Yi came to the door and met Huang Yingwu's father-in-law, his cooperative shareholder and the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Zhou Dashanren, An Yi warmly invited the red-faced Zhou Dashan people to go upstairs with him, and met a few capable people from all over the world who entered the final interview, Zhou Dashan people were also very interested, and happily followed An Yi to the office on the second floor, took the teacup handed by the orderly, and chatted with An Yi about the expansion of the three major trading markets of the Chamber of Commerce.

The small building of recruitment is located at the east entrance of the bustling street where the county government is located, and several small porridge shops and snack bars diagonally opposite have benefited from the rapid increase in the population of the small town.

Outside the fragrant shop, a tall and thin man in a navy blue suit in his mid-thirties and a slim foreign woman with blond hair walked side by side, and the two looked at the snack bar from time to time, as if they could not decide which shop to eat.

The tall and thin man has a broad forehead, a high nose and a wide mouth, a slightly long and hard chin, calm eyes are quite deep, and his hair is meticulously combed, and it can be seen that he is a man who has drunk a lot of ink. The woman is about twenty-six or seventeen years old, with beautiful facial features, dark blue eyes and fair and ruddy skin, and her body is toned and charming.

These two extremely outstanding characters will attract the curious eyes of the Chinese people in many places, but at this time in the old Nanchang, there is no embarrassment that they often encounter being watched and pointed at, one is because the people of the old Nanchang are now very busy and do not have that idle time, and the other is that there are more and more foreigners in the old Nanchang in the past few months, and all kinds of foreigners in churches, schools, factories and shopping malls have become commonplace, and everyone no longer feels how fresh they are.

The woman gently took the man's hand and sped up, and whispered softly in English, "Let's go, my dear, we may have good luck today, as long as we can get hired, we will have everything." ”

The man looked apologetically at his lover's smile, and then looked at the meat buns that had just come out of the steamer at the door of the shop, swallowed the sour saliva in his mouth and seemed to have made up his mind, and his left hand, which had been placed in the trouser pocket of his suit, pinched the wet gold pocket watch that was caught, stopped suddenly, gently pulled the woman and turned around resolutely, and came to the door of Zhou Ji Pawnshop after a while.

The woman suddenly realized what her lover was going to do, hugged his arm, and said anxiously:

"No, no, dear, you must not do this, I can't bear to send your father's only souvenir to a place like this! No! We're not at the end of the tunnel, we still have hope...... Think about it, my dear, you have a double bachelor's degree from Michigan Business School, you have superb knowledge of financial management and securities investment, as long as Jiangnan Enterprise Group can respect knowledge and respect talent as advertised in the newspapers, you will be able to get a performance opportunity that surpasses anyone else!

Listen to me right, dear, really no, I will go to our Russians to open the new Don Western restaurant to apply later, first work for a while, solve the problem of food and accommodation, and then apply for a foreign language teacher at the newly established Polytechnic, I can speak Chinese, proficient in English, French, German and Russian Chinese, we will not always starve, believe me, dear, believe me!

Let's go, let's go and apply, today is the last hurdle, as long as we break in, we will have everything, we will pay off the accommodation fee for a few days in the hotel, and the money we stole on the ship will be slowly earned, believe me, dear, please trust me......"

Sasha...... I'm sorry! I haven't been able to keep my promise, I'm going to starve you anyway......" The man's eyes were red.

The woman stretched out her hand and gently stroked her lover's increasingly pale and emaciated face:

"It's okay, my dear, from the day I married you, I knew that this life was inseparable from you, I didn't expect my family to go bankrupt, and you didn't expect that your wealthy family and relatives would be destroyed by fire due to the struggle between the two factions, it is not easy for you to bring me from the United States to China...... I am much happier than the Russian girls who live on the streets of Shanghai today, many of them have no houses, no food, no documents and no guarantees, many of them live very hard, helping people to do laundry and cooking, and even going to work as a maiden in exchange for meager food, and the slightest mistake is auctioned off by the concession authorities as livestock, and even a pack horse is more expensive than them...... In contrast, I am lucky that I still have you, and God Almighty, with infinite hope! Don't be discouraged, dear, don't be discouraged! Maybe hope is just around the corner...... Let's go, I'll help you, you haven't eaten for two days, how about we have to get through, we still have hope, there is a lot of hope waiting for us......"

Half an hour passed, with the call of "Zhang Xi", the thin man, under the encouraging and concerned gaze of his lover, followed the polite young clerk upstairs, his family had just suffered a great disaster, suddenly had nothing to rely on, and had no food for several days, so his steps were very fluttering and his body swayed slightly, and the polished leather shoes under his feet seemed to be very heavy, almost causing him to trip at the corner of the stairs. Under the woman's worried and distressed gaze, he stubbornly stood up straight with his grip on the handrail of the staircase, and followed the agile and brisk little clerk into the large office.

"General Ann ......"

Zhang Xi found that sitting behind the big table was actually An Yi, a well-known figure in the country and the major shareholder behind Jiangnan Enterprise Group, and he couldn't help but whisper in surprise.

An Yi put down Zhang Xi's resume report, looked at the owner of the report in front of him, and kindly motioned for him to sit down, and the little staff diligently brought a cup of steaming fragrant tea, and gently placed it on the table in front of Zhang Xi.

An Yi didn't seem to see it, smiled politely and asked, "Mr. Zhang, you did a good job on Wall Street in the United States, why did you come back?" And it seems that less than a month after you came back, you hurried over from your hometown in Huanggang, Hubei Province to apply? ”

"I ...... I'm sorry, General, there are some things I'm embarrassed to write on my resume, and the reason why I quit my job in the United States and came back was because something happened at home...... When I came back, my home was gone, my money was gone, all the industries in the three towns of Wuhan were withered, and no one was willing to hire me. Zhang Xiping replied calmly.

An Yi nodded: "Can you tell me what's going on at your house?" ”

Zhang Xi hesitated for a moment, lowered his head in pain and whispered: "My house was burned down, and my grandfather, father, aunt and second mother, pregnant sister, seventeen-year-old brother and fifteen-year-old sister were all gone......"

"I'm sorry! I shouldn't have asked. ”

An Yi shook his head apologetically, walked to the table of Zhou Dashanren, who was sighing next to him, and took the abacus and put it in front of Zhang Xi: "The resume says that you started learning abacus at the age of five, can you show us a demonstration?" ”

Zhang Xi nodded, moved the abacus in front of him, and then took another abacus on the table on the side, stretched out his cold hands and rubbed them a few times, and the slender ten fingers of his hands naturally stretched and moved to the abacus.

Listening to the abacus beads getting louder and faster, the sound became denser and denser, An Yi, Zhou Dashanren, Shen Fengdao in the room and the little staff looked at Zhang Xi's fingers in disbelief, but the sound of the abacus stopped abruptly at this time, and the basic abacus skill "playing a hundred sons" from one to one hundred was completed in tens of seconds, leaving two neat numbers on the abacus five thousand and fifty, which made everyone stunned for a while.

Zhou Dashan, a master of abacus, came back to his senses and was about to sigh a few words, when Zhang Xi suddenly fell, fell to the ground with a "bang" and fainted.

Shen Fengdao quickly stepped forward, helped him to the mahogany sofa on the side, looked at his closed eyes and took the pulse, raised his head and said to An Yi:

"This guy is prostration, probably so hungry that he has no strength."

An Yi instructed the little staff to bring a glass of water and feed Zhang Xi personally, Zhang Xi swallowed two mouthfuls of hot boiled water and slowly opened his eyes, and saw that An Yi was instructing the little staff to go below to call his lover up, and hurriedly stopped An Yi and asked in a low voice: "...... Don't let her see, don't let her see me like this, I'm sorry general, don't call her, I'll be fine in a while......"

An Yi let out a long sigh, asked the little clerk to go out to buy a bowl of porridge and came back, pulled a stool and sat opposite the weak Zhang Xi, and laughed in a low voice:

"The surname is in love, at this time you can still consider the feelings of your own woman, you are a man with affection and righteousness! Okay, I've hired you, stay in the general manager's office for the time being, and when General Manager Zhou comes back from Shanghai, he will arrange your work. General Manager Zhou, like you, has come back from abroad, and I believe you will have a common language. Now that you're a member of the company, just say what you want. ”

"General, I don't have a place to live, and I want to advance some salary and rent a house to settle down." Zhang Xi said unceremoniously.

An Yi smiled slightly: "This is very simple, I will ask someone to send you three hundred yuan later, you also know that the minimum salary of our headquarters financial staff is three hundred yuan, as for the salary for you, I can't decide, it has to be determined by General Manager Zhou, even if I lend it to you first, I will return it to me when you receive your salary."

As for the place to settle down, you don't have to bother to find it, our residential area has a house for you professionals, a two-and-a-half-story townhouse, you can live in it by simply moving your clothes and saluting, and there is no rent for water or electricity. ”

Zhang Xi nodded gratefully: "Thank you, General!" ”

The little clerk came in with a bowl of porridge, Zhang Xi's beautiful woman followed behind with a panicked face, she was very nervous when she heard the sound of falling upstairs just now, and when she saw the little clerk running out and quickly brought a bowl of porridge, she immediately realized that it was not good, and rushed to Zhang Xi's side when she came in the door, hugged his arm tightly, and looked up and down anxiously.

Zhang Xi showed a sweet smile, clasped her hand, and said gently: "I was hired, Sasha, you are right, we have hope, the general gave us a generous treatment and gave us a home...... General, this is my wife, Sharapova, a Russian-American, who came back from the United States with me. ”

An Yi smiled appreciatively and greeted Sharapova politely: "Can you listen to Chinese? That's great...... Mrs. Zhang, it's a pleasure to meet you! Many of you Russian fellow villagers have come to work in our old Nanchang, the club I am building in Nanchang City, the school under construction here have just come to the Russian staff, there are many talented doctors, military officers, musicians, dancers, architects and writers, many of them are proficient in the languages of two or three countries, very rare, our staff is still recruiting all kinds of talents in Shanghai, it is estimated that there will be many Russians to work in old Nanchang in the future, as long as they come, I will give them permanent residence documents to ensure their safety and human rights, please rest assured. ”

Sharapova stood up gratefully: "General, allow me to thank you!" You are a kind person. ”

An Yi smiled and nodded lightly: "I saw the cross on your chest, I am a Christian who has just returned from the baptism ceremony of St. Paul's Church in Nanjing, I don't know if it is the same origin as your religion?" ”

"I'm sorry, General, but I converted to Orthodoxy." Sharapova smiled politely.

An Yi saw Zhang Xi staring at the fragrant meat porridge and swallowing his saliva, so he casually made an excuse and walked out with Zhou Dashan and others, leaving this space for this young couple who shared weal and woe.

Coming to the balcony railing, An Yi immediately instructed Shen Fengdao to inform the secret team of the Daomen, and quietly went to Huanggang to thoroughly investigate Zhang Xi's family background, and then chatted with Zhou Dashan, who admired Zhang Xi, and smoked a cigarette, then turned around and returned to the door of the office, and the scene that appeared in front of him made An Yi can't help but stop - the smiling Zhang Xi held the meat porridge, served it with a spoon, and slowly sent it to Sharapova's seductive lips......

(To be continued)