Rebirth 1975: My Wife is Love-Brained

Zhu Dakang didn't expect Xu Zhanyuan to compete with him for the man at this time. He said angrily, "What do you mean he is from the chemical factory? Didn't you say before that Comrade Chen Yan was an educated youth from Zhangzitou? When did he become one of yours?"

"What does that have to do with you? Chen Yan has solved such a big problem for our factory, so he can come to the chemical plant to be a worker! Chen Yan, as long as you nod, I can let you come to work in the chemical plant!" Xu Zhanyuan grabbed Chen Yan's arm and said directly.

"You are such a rude guy!" Zhu Dakang's face turned red with anger.

Xu Zhanyuan is the head of a factory and can arrange people to work in the factory. Nowadays, a position as a formal worker is enough to attract many people.

He wanted to ask Chen Yan to work at Xinhua Bookstore, but he didn't have the right to do so, and Xinhua Bookstore didn't need outsiders now.

Seeing Zhu Dakang's frustrated look, Xu Zhanyuan burst into laughter.

"You are just a bookseller, why are you competing with me? Really!" Xu Zhanyuan said with a proud look on his face.

Zhu Dakang was so anxious that he scratched his head and said, "Chen Yan is an intellectual. What can you let him do in your factory? It's a waste of talent!"

"What do you mean by wasting talent? Does our chemical plant not need intellectuals? What are you saying? What? Do you look down on workers?" Xu Zhanyuan refused to give in!

Originally, he was a little worried about Chen Yan's level, but at this moment, looking at Zhu Dakang like this, as an old friend for decades, Xu Zhanyuan knew that this time he really had picked up a treasure, and this Chen Yan was extraordinary.

"Ahem! Uncle Xu! Comrade Zhu, can you guys just listen to me for a few words first?"

At this time, Chen Yan, who had been swaying left and right, coughed dryly, attracting the attention of the two people.

The two of them stopped immediately and looked at Chen Yan eagerly.

"Uncle Xu! I don't plan to work in the factory! I have received an order to return to the city!" Chen Yan said.

Xu Zhanyuan was stunned for a moment, "Are you going back to the city? Actually, our Lanshan County is pretty good. If you can't find a good place to stay when you go back, I think Lanshan County is not bad either!"

"Yes! Comrade Chen Yan, now educated youth from all over the country are returning to their hometowns, but there are only so many jobs in the city, and there may not be any good places to go after you return! It is better to stay in Lanshan County. Lao Xu's chemical factory is a big factory, and the treatment is not bad!" Zhu Dakang also persuaded.

He and Xu Zhanyuan argued back and forth, but there was one prerequisite: Chen Yan had to stay in Lanshan County!

Otherwise, there will be no one left, so what’s the point of fighting?

Upon hearing the news, Zhu Dakang immediately stood on Xu Zhanyuan's side and persuaded Chen Yan together with Xu Zhanyuan.

Chen Yan smiled in silence!

He didn't expect that such a situation would occur.

"Uncle Xu! Comrade Zhu! I have no intention of leaving Lanshan County! I have already torn up the order to return to the city. My wife is here, and I can't go back to the city alone! Don't worry, what I wanted to say just now is that I will stay in Lanshan for the time being. If you need any help, just tell me, and I will definitely help you if I can! There is no need for you to fight, I'm not some gold nugget, there's no point in fighting for it!"

After Chen Yan's explanation, Xu Zhanyuan and Zhu Dakang realized that they were too nervous.

"Comrade Chen Yan, I'm sorry to have embarrassed you!" Zhu Dakang breathed a sigh of relief and then smiled embarrassedly.

"Then come to work in our chemical factory! If you are married, call your wife over as well! I can get you two positions as chemical factory workers!" Xu Zhanshan said immediately.

Chen Yan said to Xu Zhanyuan gratefully, "Thank you, Uncle Xu! But I want to go back and discuss this with my wife."

"Of course, of course! Then I'll reserve two places for you!" Xu Zhanyuan decided on the matter, and then said, "If you want to come, you can bring your wife to work. If you don't want to come, your family members can come! Anyway, I've said this to you, you can arrange these two places yourself!"

Seeing that Chen Yan didn't seem to have any interest in being a worker, Xu Zhanyuan simply gave Chen Yan two places and let Chen Yan arrange them himself, giving Chen Yan enough face.

"Hey, Old Xu! Now that you've finished speaking, it's my turn now, right?" Zhu Dakang endured for a long time, and finally couldn't help but speak.

"Okay, you guys go ahead and chat first! I'll quickly find some workers to do an experiment and see if it works!"

At this moment, Xu Zhanshan didn't think about verifying whether Chen Yan's translation was accurate or not. Although Zhu Dakang was a half-baked old man, he was still quite reliable in doing things. Just looking at his attitude towards Chen Yan, it said it all.

Xu Zhanshan excitedly took Xu Haidong to the production workshop, leaving only Chen Yan and Zhu Dakang in the office.

"Comrade Zhu, what did you want to say to me just now?" Chen Yan asked Zhu Dakang.

He was also curious.

This Zhu Dakang doesn't seem very reliable. He keeps asking for help from me. What could he possibly want from me?

"Chen Yan, you said you called Xu Zhanyuan Uncle Xu all the time! How come he becomes a comrade in front of me? We can be said to be acquainted through fighting, so why don't you call me Uncle Zhu too!" Zhu Dakang said with a smile.

Chen Yan is looking forward to it!

Calling him uncle is not a big deal, and Zhu Dakang is the person in charge of the county Xinhua Bookstore, which makes him a leader in Lanshan!

You never know when you'll be promoted.

It is definitely a good thing for Chen Yan to know such a person.

"Uncle Zhu!" Chen Yan called out with a smile.

Zhu Dakang laughed immediately, "That's right! This is much more comfortable than calling comrades!"

Then he said to Chen Yan, "Your level of foreign language translation is really not low! Have you ever thought about doing this kind of work in the future?"

Chen Yan was stunned for a moment!

Zhu Dakang came to me because he valued my translation skills and wanted me to do some translation work?

Some special circumstances of this era suddenly came to his mind.

Today, the entire society is in a state of disrepair and in urgent need of development.

There is a serious shortage of talent and information in all aspects.

This is especially true when it comes to translation!

Formal translation talents are scarce, and everyone from top to bottom has to seek professional translation talents in the society to participate in translation work outside the regular translation establishment.

Xinhua Bookstores at all levels have some tasks in this regard!

Zhu Dakang...he has taken a fancy to me!

Chen Yan didn't expect that after being dragged by Xu Haidong to the chemical plant, he would have such an encounter waiting for him.

He was originally a little troubled, wondering what else he could do besides the popcorn business.

Right now, a brand new road seems to appear in front of me.

This is like giving a pillow to someone when they are sleepy!

Although Mr. Zhu’s foreign language skills are not very good, he is a very lovely person!

"I'm not usually very busy, so I can do the translation work!" Chen Yan thought for a moment and said directly, then asked tentatively, "Well, do you pay me?"

When Zhu Dakang heard Chen Yan's question, he immediately smiled and said, "The remuneration is not low! The country still values ​​talents! Don't worry about this! But if you want to do it, you can only be a junior translator at the beginning! After accumulating a certain amount of translation, you can become a senior translator, and the price of the translation manuscript will naturally go up by then!"

"For entry-level translation, the price varies for different manuscripts. Some are calculated based on the number of pages translated, while others are calculated based on the number of words! On average, it's about ten yuan per thousand words."

Listen to Zhu Dakang’s introduction!

Chen Yan's eyes began to light up!

Ten yuan for a thousand words? Wouldn't that be a hundred yuan for ten thousand words?

According to my translation level, it is not difficult to translate tens of thousands of words a day!

After all, translation is not creation, and for someone like Chen Yan who is familiar with foreign language writing, it is basically not too difficult.

And the most important thing is that doing this job is equivalent to working for the country, and there is no danger at all.

"I'll do it! Uncle Zhu, do you have any translation tasks on hand? If so, let's go now!" Chen Yan said and pulled Zhu Dakang out!

Zhu Dakang didn't expect Chen Yan to be so active, and his impression of Chen Yan became even better!

In the past, those translation experts would be very hesitant when asked to translate something, unlike Chen Yan who was so straightforward!

"Yes! There is a task right now. Let's go to the bookstore first! I'll show it to you!" Zhu Dakang suppressed the joy in his heart and took Chen Yan directly to Xinhua Bookstore.

He felt that with Chen Yan's help, the translation task assigned to him by his superiors should be completed quickly!

After Xu Zhanyuan operated the machine according to the instructions translated by Chen Yan, he found that the machine was fully operational!

Excitedly, he took Xu Haidong back to the office and wanted to tell Chen Yan the good news.

By the way, I would like to thank Chen Yan very much!

But when the father and son pushed open the door and went in, they looked at the empty room and there was no trace of Chen Yan!

"Oh no! That bastard Old Zhu took the person away! Let's go to the Xinhua Bookstore!" Xu Zhanyuan exclaimed, turned around and ran out.