When Bai Xiaoding returned home, Zhang Xiulan and Bai Changshan were waiting for him to eat.

"Ding Ding, quick, wash your hands and eat......" Seeing her baby son coming back, Zhang Xiulan greeted with joy, but at a glance, she had already found Xiao Ding's black eyes, and immediately walked over with a nervous face, holding her son's face with both hands and looking left and right, "What's wrong?" ”

"Oh no, Mom, I accidentally bumped into them while playing basketball." Bai Xiaoding understated that he was indeed often injured because of playing.

"You kid is really!" Zhang Xiulan counted down distressedly. "Playing a little carelessly!"

Bai Changshan, who was at the dining table, glanced at his son, his face gloomy, "How old are you and still so frizzy?" Fortunately, the evening newspaper is scheduled for next week's interview, otherwise what would you do with your face? I know that you hit it with basketball, but I don't know if I think you fought with someone. ”

Bai Xiaoding stuck out his tongue, went to the kitchen to wash his hands, and sat down at the dining table.

"Ding Ding," Zhang Xiulan told her son while picking up vegetables, "Don't go to the barbecue restaurant this week, prepare well at home, and participate in the interview at the evening newspaper." ”

"No, Mom?" Bai Xiaoding disagreed, "I don't think there's any hope, so it's better not to think about it." ”

"Why is there no hope?" Bai Changshan's voice was reproachful, dissatisfied with his son's negative attitude.

"Dad, I've inquired," Bai Xiaoding said to Bai Changshan: "This time, the evening newspaper recruited a total of two reporters, and there were more than 200 resumes received, which is really one in a hundred!" And many of them are graduates of prestigious schools and a first, like me, a second freshman, I'm afraid I can't even give an interview opportunity. ”

"Yes." Bai Changshan said with confidence: "I have asked someone to help me do it, you prepare well at home these days, and you must answer the written test well!" ”

In fact, since Bai Xiaoding was about to graduate, Bai Changshan began to handle his son's employment. In his thoughts, if a person wants to live a good life in this life, he must complete three things: go to a good university, find a good job, and marry a good daughter-in-law, and these three are interlinked and intrinsically linked, whether he can "go to a good university" will directly affect whether he can "find a good job", and whether he can "find a good job" will directly affect whether he can "marry a good daughter-in-law", about this, he and his wife Zhang Xiulan have reached a consensus. It's a pity that Bai Xiaoding didn't achieve the first item of "studying in a good university", so the next step is to "find a good job" for him, which will naturally rank first and become the most important thing in the family at the moment.

The media reports that "the employment situation of college graduates is grim" are not in the absolute sense, but that "good" jobs that match university degrees are hard to find. In the post-80s generation, there is only one single seedling in the family, and before they graduate from college, parents are already doing everything possible to pave the way for their children's future employment. Bai Changshan is one of these thousands of parents, he begged people everywhere with his cheekiness, used all the relationships he could use, and finally helped his son lock in the position of a reporter for the Danbei Evening News, and before the official recruitment advertisement of the evening newspaper was released, the bureau had been laid out.

"Trustee?" Bai Xiaoding frowned, and simply put down the dishes and chopsticks and stopped eating, "Dad, are you giving people gifts?" If you give someone a gift, then I won't go! ”

His father used gifts to find a job for himself, Bai Xiaoding disagreed with it in his heart, he thought that he could find a job with his own ability, but he was not too resistant to his father. The reason why he was so angry today was that he found that his father had not paid attention to his opinion at all.

Seeing Bai Xiaoding like this, Bai Changshan was also angry, frowning and reprimanding: "Why don't you kid understand anything about human feelings?" What's wrong with gift-giving? If you are not a relative, can you do something for us if you don't give gifts? It's so hard to find a job now, not to mention that this is going to the evening newspaper as a reporter! ”

"Dad!" Not to be outdone, Bai Xiaoding said loudly: "I just graduated, I am very young, I have physical energy, what kind of work can't I do?" How do you eat by labor! How many times have I said that I don't want you to give me a job with the money you saved from frugality with your mother! In that case, I'd rather not go to this class! ”

"Bastard!" Bai Changshan put his rice bowl on the table and was really angry, "Work is a lifelong event!" Women are afraid of marrying the wrong man and men are afraid of entering the wrong industry, if the work is not solved well, it will affect your life! ”

"Son, obedient! Mom won't help you this time! Your dad was right! Find a good job to do a career, in order to start a family, you are now a serious college graduate, you can't always go to the barbecue restaurant all day long like those uneducated people to work as a small worker! Zhang Xiulan stood clearly on her husband's side.

Bai Xiaoding looked at Zhang Xiulan and then at Bai Changshan, and lowered his head, in this case, what could he do but compromise?

"Dad, how much money did you give to someone this time?"

"You don't care about this," Bai Changshan waved his hand impatiently, "You just need to prepare well at home and attend the interview on time!" ”

"Dad!" Bai Xiaoding was resolute, "This is my business after all, I have the right to know, you have to tell me the truth!" ”

Bai Changshan was silent. Zhang Xiulan looked at her husband, turned to her son and said, "3000, your father gave 3000 to others." ”

Bai Xiaoding's brows furrowed, he knew best how hard it was for his parents to save some money.

"Dad, who are you looking for?"

"Why are you asking this?" Bai Changshan was very disgusted by the question raised by his son.

"Of course I have to ask, if I do go to the evening newspaper in the future, I also have to know who got me in, and who I should be thankful for, right?"

Bai Xiaoding's rhetoric was reasonable, so Bai Changshan couldn't refuse, he hesitated for a moment and said: "I entrusted one of my students' parents, surnamed Cui, he and Leng Jun, the director of the Evening News Office, are classmates, and they have a good relationship, so they can help with it." ”

Bai Xiaoding was silent with an "oh", and the family of three began to eat again.