Siheyuan: Starting to work in the street office

The door of the street office was opened. The security guard saw a strange young man with regular features and a sincere face standing at the door, but he didn't pay much attention to him. After all, there were many people coming and going in the street office every day. He came out and said to Zhong Shan: "Hey, man, what can I do for you?"

Zhong Shan turned around and said to the old man, "Hello, uncle. My name is Zhong Shan. I just graduated and was assigned here. I'm here to report to our street office!"

The security guard looked at Zhong Shan, pointed to the west wing, and said, "Sir, see? The director is in the west wing. Just go there."

Hearing this, Zhong Shan took out a Peony cigarette and handed it to the doorman. He smiled and thanked him, "Thank you. I was just thinking about which room to go to."

The security guard looked at the cigarette and his eyes lit up: "You're welcome. Oh, it has a filter."

"Master, you are busy. I will go and report first. See you later!"

After saying that, Zhongshan walked towards the west wing.

"Bang! Bang!" When they arrived at the door of the west wing, Zhong Shan still knocked on the door even though it was open!

"Come in!" A middle-aged woman in the room heard the voice and looked up to see a strange young man coming in. He was about 1.8 meters tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a loyal face. She said slowly. "Comrade, what can I do for you?"

Zhong Shan walked in while looking at the people inside. The man inside was in his 40s and looked kind, but there was a hint of majesty. It was not easy for anyone to become the director of a street office these days.

Zhong Shan took out his letter of introduction, handed it to the director, and said, "Hello, my name is Zhong Shan. I graduated from Yanjing Agricultural School this year and was assigned to our street office. Here is my letter of introduction. Please take a look."

The director of the subdistrict office looked at the letter of introduction, then looked up at Zhong Shan and said, "Welcome, Comrade Zhong Shan. I am the director of our subdistrict office, Li Sulan. On behalf of our subdistrict office, I welcome Comrade Zhong Shan."

After a pause, he turned to Zhong Shan and said, "Since you graduated from a technical secondary school, you will be a clerk at the 22nd administrative level here, with a salary of 57 yuan per month. Is that okay with you?"

After hearing this, Zhong Shan quickly said to Director Li: "Okay, of course, thank you Director Li for your care."

Li Sulan looked at Zhong Shan and said with a smile, "You graduated from Yanjing Agricultural School this year, so you must know Hu Chengyu."

After listening to this, Zhong Shan looked at Director Li again and said with a smile: "Director Li, if you hadn't come in, I would have thought you looked familiar. Hu Chengyu and I sit at the same table. So it's you. When you mentioned it, I remembered that I had seen you at the parent-teacher meeting at school!"

Director Li smiled as he listened to Zhong Shan. This new comrade looked honest and easy to get along with. Now he was his son's deskmate. The more he looked at him, the more he liked him. He said to Zhong Shan, "You must come to our house more often in the future. OK, I'll assign you a job first. Come with me first."

So he stood up and took Zhong Shan to the second courtyard, saying as they walked: "You go to work in our office first. There are only two people in the office now, a section chief and a section clerk, and you are the third one. Your daily work is mainly to assist the logistics department to connect with the newspaper agency, the street office's daily newspapers and some study books, and some management of our street office's small canteen. Since you just came and are not familiar with it, the work here is relatively leisurely, which is convenient for you to learn more. What do you think?"

Zhong Shan was also very happy to hear this. It was obvious that Director Li was quite caring towards him. For someone like Zhong Shan who had just started working, it was still early for him to be promoted, so having a relatively leisurely job was more in line with his wishes.

"Thank you Director Li for your care. I will listen to you."

After hearing this, Director Li also smiled and said, "Call me Aunt Li from now on. You sit at the same table with my kid, so you are not an outsider."

After saying that, he walked to the east wing of the second courtyard. There were two rooms in the east wing. The innermost one was the finance office. Outside the finance room was the street office that Zhongshan and his friends were going to.

When I walked into the office, there were two people inside. One was a 50-year-old, 160 cm tall, chubby man who looked like an old fox. The other was a thin young woman in her 30s. Director Li said to the man, "Demin, this is Comrade Zhongshan, who has just been assigned to our subdistrict office. He will be in your office from now on."

He turned to Zhong Shan and said, "Xiao Zhong, this is Section Chief Sun Demin from the office. He will be your leader from now on."

After listening to this, Section Chief Sun smiled until his eyes narrowed into a line. He said to Director Li and Zhong Shan, "Welcome, welcome. Welcome, Comrade Zhong Shan. You are a good young man. You look like a hard-working person. You can't be wrong."

After listening to what Director Li said to Section Chief Sun, "Okay, I'll leave Xiao Zhong to you and I'll go back."

"Director Li, please go ahead." Zhong Shan and Section Chief Sun escorted Director Li out and returned to the room. Director Sun pointed to the table near the door and said to Zhong Shan:

"Xiao Zhong, you should stay here from now on. Opposite you is Zhang Juan. There are only three of us in our office, so there's not a lot to do. You can sit here first and get familiar with the place slowly. It's okay, don't be shy."

The small house is more than 20 square meters. There are two desks against the wall as you enter the room. The desk inside is Zhang Juan's, and Zhong Shan's is outside by the window. There is a few square meters of space separated inside the room, but it is just a separation, and there is no door. Director Sun's office is inside.

Director Sun entered the office. Zhang Juan looked at Zhong Shan with curiosity. Usually, newcomers would be told which department to go to and then sent there, but Zhong Shan was sent by Director Li, so no one knew what their relationship was.

Zhang Juan looked at Zhong Shan and said, "Xiao Zhong, our department doesn't have much to do usually. We only check when the canteen goes out to purchase goods. Another thing is that we go to the newspaper office every month to check the situation of this month's newspapers. Usually, we are relatively free."

It seems that Zhang Juan's family is not well-off, and she comes here to work because it is relatively free.

After hearing what Zhang Juan said, Zhong Shan also said, "Thank you, Sister Zhang. I just got here so please bear with me if there's anything I don't understand. I'm not used to sitting like this on my first day."

Zhang Juan heard this and burst out laughing: "It's okay, you'll get used to it slowly. Just read the newspaper first, it can also be considered as learning!"

As he spoke, he handed over the newspaper beside him, then took out a novel from under the desk and started reading it, which stunned Zhong Shan.

Zhongshan spent the whole morning reading newspapers and learning and understanding the spirit.

Soon it was noon. Section Chief Sun came out with a lunch box. Seeing Zhang Juan also looking for a lunch box, he said to Zhong Shan, "Xiao Zhong, go eat. You didn't bring a lunch box. The cafeteria should have bowls and chopsticks for you to use first. Bring one yourself when you go to work tomorrow."

After saying that, he took Zhongshan to the canteen. The canteen of the street office was at the innermost part of the front back building. Although there was not much meat, it was enough to fill you up, which was good in that era.

After finishing his meal, Zhong Shan said to Section Chief Sun: "Section Chief Sun, I am planning to renovate my house. Do you know anyone who can help me?"

After listening to this, Sun Demin said to Zhong Shan: "There is a team of bricklayers registered under the name of our street. I'll give you the address. You can go find them when you have time. Don't worry, they won't dare to cheat us."

"Well, thank you, Chief Sun. You don't know that I haven't been back for several years. My house is almost uninhabitable."