Chapter 20, a chance lover
When the vehicle to pick up and send relatives to Liu Yan to Yang Xiaobin's house in Ping'an City, it was 8:00 a.m. the next day, and everyone was busy again, but Wu Xu completed his task, he simply deleted Liu Yan's phone number and QQ number, bought a shuttle bus to Qianjiang City, and then took the bus to Qianjiang. Because he didn't sleep all night, he fell asleep directly after getting in the car, and the driver didn't wake him up until he arrived in Qianjiang and got out of the car.
Walking on the streets of Qianjiang City with heavy luggage, although this familiar city is far away from his hometown, he slowly fell in love with it after three years of studying. The only drawback is that the classmates who used to study hard with him have all returned to their hometowns to look for jobs, so this place is also very unfamiliar, and there are basically no familiar people.
Yes... Why are you, Wu Xu?
Wu Xu: Xiaojuan, it's been a long time, I'm glad to see you, it's such a coincidence. When Wu Xu was walking with his head down, Ma Juan, who suddenly came back from work, passed by.
Ma Juan: I didn't expect to meet you in Qianjiang, why don't you say anything when you come, I'll pick you up?
Wu Xu: I've been here for two or three months, and I've rented a house here to prepare for the civil service exam. Why don't you go to my rented house.
Ma Juan: Okay, it just so happens that I'm fine, I'll go to you to see if the golden house is hidden. After arriving at Wu Xu's rental house, the two chatted with each other.
Ma Juan continued: It seems that you are really alone, I thought you had found a girlfriend, so you didn't contact me, you didn't contact me for a few months, you didn't answer calls, you didn't reply to messages, and I thought you disappeared.
After Ma Juan finished speaking, Wu Xu looked at his mobile phone, it turned out that when he didn't call Ma Juan for a few days, Ma Juan made more than a dozen calls to him, but because he happened to be arrested by the police station at that time, he didn't receive it, and then Ma Juan got angry and deleted his phone. At that time, Wu Xu and Liu Yan happened to be in love, so he had no contact with Ma Juan.
Wu Xu: Compared to Ah Xiaojuan, something has happened for a long time, so I haven't contacted anyone, so I have to worry about you.
Ma Juan: It's nothing, just make it clear when I see you. Do you want to come to Qianjiang City to develop this time?
Wu Xu: Yes, I applied for the civil service examination in Pingyang Town, Tianlong Development Zone, Qianjiang City, and I will have an interview next month, so prepare well, if I pass the interview, it is very likely that I will work and live here. How have you been for a long time, are you still working in that private hospital?
Ma Juan: It's okay, after you went back from Qianjiang last time, I quarreled with my eldest brother Ma Hua, moved out of his house, and rented a house downstairs for myself to live in. In the first two months of Qianjiang People's Hospital's recruitment, I asked relatives to help, and I did well in the exam, so I went to work in Qianjiang People's Hospital. Commuting to and from work every day, two o'clock and one line, although simple, but also very satisfying.
Wu Xu: That's good, you have a stable job now, your income has also increased, and the future is promising.
Ma Juan: You too, how good a civil servant is, if your mother-in-law is the judge, it is definitely the best profession in the world, how enviable, you are the future can be expected.
Wu Xu: I wish I could have done the interview, I have taken the test for many units for a long time, especially the Longxi Town Safety Supervision Station in our hometown last time, and the written test was the first, but the interview was surpassed by others. The public police officers of our Ping'an District Public Security Bureau passed the written test and interview, but they were fouled during the physical fitness test, so let's see your luck. If the civil servants in Qianjiang City have not been interviewed, the special family planning post in Guanshan County and the public institution of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau Archives of Ping'an District have also entered the interview with high scores.
Ma Juan: You have a bright future, I think you can use a few other places as an alternative, and do your best to be a civil servant in Pingyang Town, Tianlong Development Zone, which is more promising, and it is also very close to Qianjiang City, and it is very convenient to live in the future. The main thing is that I work in Qianjiang City, and if you are close to me, I will call you. After speaking, Ma Juan laughed.
Wu Xu: Okay, I'll work hard. Why don't we go out and have a casual bite to eat and talk while we eat. After speaking, Wu Xu and Ma Juan came to the barbecue stall outside the rental house to have supper, because Ma Juan didn't drink, so the two of them ordered some drinks in addition to some barbecue and meals, ate very simply, and went back soon after eating.
Ma Juan was lying on the bed, thinking about everything recently, hasn't this Wu Xu been pursuing himself? It's been more than two years, and the last three months have been like disappearing, and I don't give myself a letter, in fact, the last time he came to see him, he was a little tempted, but the place where he worked was too far, otherwise it was quite a good choice to be with him with his ability. But because the distance is too far, so I try not to think about it, I lost contact with him during this time, and the only illusions I had have disappeared, and now I met him by chance, and the work has stabilized immediately, can I help him through my own efforts.
Thinking about it, he called his eldest brother MCA and asked if he needed to contact his uncle to see if he could improve the success rate of the interview through his uncle's relationship. Because her eldest brother was outside and there was no signal, she couldn't be contacted. After making several phone calls and not being able to get in touch, he turned on his computer and browsed some information about the civil service interview on the web until the night was quiet.
After Wu Xu returned to the rental house, he first habitually listened to the news of the Central Committee and Qian'an Province, and picked up books on interview skills for civil servants and public institutions to read him for half an hour. Then pick up the notebook and insist on writing every day, recording your life and refining your life experience. While comprehending his own life, he was also accustomed to listening to other people's stories, so he turned on the radio and watched some stories that portrayed his life.
Because he didn't go to work, he developed the habit of sleeping lazy, and the next day, Wu Xu was still dreaming, but he didn't expect to be woken up by Ma Juan's phone.
Hey..., Xiaojuan, why do you get up so early?
Ma Juan: Is this still early? It's almost ten o'clock, open the door, I'm at your door. Wu Xu opened the door of the rental house, Ma Juan quickly walked in and said: You slept very soundly, I knocked on the door several times and didn't hear it, and I thought you were going out.
Wu Xu: I'm sorry, Xiaojuan, I haven't been to work for a few months, and I'm used to going to bed late and getting up early.
Ma Juan: It's okay, it's okay to be lazy before you have a formal job, and you just need to work harder after work. After I went to bed last night, I consulted many friends and relatives with regular jobs, and they recommended these two books to me to study materials for interviews, and I went to the bookstore early this morning to buy them for you. To you, I hope you succeed.
Wu Xu was taken aback and said embarrassedly: How can it be good? If I don't pass the exam, won't I even dare to see you in person. I still don't want it.
Ma Juan: So what's the matter, I bought it, you used to be so good to me, I ignored you, to be honest, I didn't mean this, I always felt that this was very bad, now that you are so close to me, I will try my best to help you. Work hard, don't let me down, after speaking, Ma Juan's face turned red and she ran out embarrassed. Wu Xu said thank you loudly, because he didn't wash up, so he didn't chase out.
After more than ten minutes, Ma Juan called and said that she had something to do tomorrow, and together with her sister Ma Li, she would go back to her hometown tomorrow, hoping that Wu Xu would go back with her. Wu Xu couldn't refuse, so he had to go back with her.
"If the heart is there, the dream is there, but it comes from the beginning", Wu Xu picked up the phone and said: What's the matter, big scholar, is there anything good?
Yang Kuan: It's not a good thing, just ask how you have been preparing for the exam recently?
Wu Xu: It's okay, since listening to your words, I first took the make-up exam to get my graduation certificate, took several exams, and I missed a single shot, and all of them were able to enter the interview. At present, I am preparing for the civil servants of Pingyang Town, Tianlong Development Zone, Qianjiang City, the Archives of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Ping'an District, and the special family planning post of Guanshan County. What about you? Big Scholar.
Yang Kuan: I'm right, your situation is the kind of legendary one who failed the exam when he was studying, and when he took the job exam after graduation, he is very suitable for this job. I'm luckier than you, and since I listened to you, I only took the teacher's test, and never considered anything else, but fortunately I passed the test. At the beginning of next semester, I will work at Ping'an Normal College, a proper university lecturer, envy.
Wu Xu: Don't you envy that? Anyway, in the future, my child will go to study with you before he is admitted to school, and he will graduate with two books.
Yang Kuan: Talking nonsense, why didn't you get admitted to me, I can say, Ping An Normal University is a second university, what you want is those who study well, don't beat my idea if your child is not promising in the future. After saying that, the two laughed.
The next day, Wu Xu, Ma Juan and Ma Li took a shuttle bus back to Ma Juan's hometown of Pingxi Town. This is the eldest sister, hello, my name is Wu Xu.
Ma Li: Hello Wu Xu, I often hear Xiaojuan talk about you, I finally met you today, and I am very happy to meet you.
Ma Juan: Get out of the car, it's here. After the three of them got out of the car, they walked for about half an hour to reach Ma Juan's hometown. Ma Juan's family of five, in addition to her father and mother, there is an eldest brother named Ma Hua, who is married and has children, and her sister-in-law Liu Xiaomin teaches in a middle school on the outskirts of Qianjiang City. The eldest sister, Ma Li, worked in a state-owned enterprise in Ningcheng, the capital of Ningyang Province, after graduating from university, and her boyfriend served in the army after graduating from college and rarely came back.
Wu Xu grew up in the countryside since he was a child, and farm work such as rice planting, fences, sowing, and harvesting are his strengths, and seeing Ma Juan's parents working hard in the fields, he can't help but think of his parents, who should be preparing for the autumn harvest at this moment. He quickly and skillfully helped Ma Juan's parents do this and that, and he couldn't see that the young college student in his twenties in front of him had such skillful skills in farm work. Wu Xu, Ma Juan, and Ma Li also chatted with their parents about this and that, and also learned about Wu Xu's family situation and work situation from the chat.
After eating, Ma Juan's parents were very enthusiastic and made a big table of dishes, Wu Xu also drank some with Ma Juan's father, and everyone chatted very closely. Because of drinking a little, Wu Xu fell asleep early.
About two hours later, Wu Xu was woken up by a noise, and after listening carefully, it turned out that Ma Juan, Ma Li and their parents were arguing, because they were arguing in a local dialect and minority language, so Wu Xu couldn't understand a word. However, with years of interaction with local ethnic minorities, he can conclude that their quarrel is related to him, mostly because Ma Juan has taken him home as his boyfriend. And her parents and Ma Li felt that Wu Xu's hometown was in the countryside, which was far away and unrealistic, and Wu Xu had not focused on his work now, so they persuaded Ma Juan to keep a distance from Wu Xu, because the words were not speculative, so they quarreled.
Therefore, Wu Xu couldn't sleep when he thought about it, but people quarreled in their own language, and they didn't want to let themselves know, so the best way at present was to pretend that they didn't understand anything, drink and fall asleep, let them quarrel by themselves, so they continued to have their own dreams. Early the next morning, Wu Xu got up early, pretending not to know what to do, and continued to help her parents do farm work, after eating at noon, the three of them returned to Qianjiang City by car, Ma Juan had to go to work in the afternoon, and Wu Xu fell asleep after returning to the rental house.