Three or Two Things about Rebirth

Early on January 2, Qiu Luming rode her red 26-inch women's bicycle to work.

At first, when Qiu Jiashu helped her push the bicycle out, she was a little nervous because she was conflicted inside. She felt that she could ride a bicycle, but she also couldn't.

But when she gritted her teeth and put her left foot on the pedal and took a couple of steps, her body's memory quickly took over her wisdom. Although she was wearing a little too much, she still lifted her right foot, stepped over the diagonal beam, and sat steadily on the seat.

Her feet exerted force alternately, and the bicycle wheels rolled over the solid snow, making a slight friction sound, which made her feel nervous and excited. Her eyelashes were frosted again, she could not see the road ahead clearly, and her fingers were frozen, but she was in an exceptionally good mood.

Qiu Jiashu accompanied her to the entrance of the library and asked again, "Do you really not need me to accompany you to register?"

Qiu Luming waved his hand at her, "I told you not to, why are you dragging your feet? Do you want me to accompany you to the technical department to report?"

"You ungrateful bastard!" Qiu Jiashu kicked his long legs and rode away on his bike.

"You nagging ghost!" Qiu Luming shouted at his back.

At 7:45, there were already three or four bicycles parked in front of the library building, and it seemed that everyone was working very actively.

Qiu Luming locked his bicycle and walked into the library building.

I greeted the security guard and he said the director had not arrived yet, so Qiu Luming was standing in the corridor waiting for him.

So, the staff who came to work one after another were like an inspection, and everyone who walked by would look at her a little more, but she didn't care and even smiled at them.

"Director, this girl is looking for you!" The security guard leaned out of the window and said to a middle-aged man in a tweed coat.

Qiu Luming hurried over and said, "Hello, Director. I'm Qiu Luming. I'm here to report today."

When the curator saw Qiu Luming, he immediately smiled and said, "Xiao Qiu, you're here! Come on, I'll take you to register!"

"Hey! Thank you, Director!" Qiu Luming waved to the security guard and followed the director upstairs.

Qiu Luming has been away from home since she was young, so she is quite good at dealing with people.

On the way to escape, she also took the initiative to help the teacher arrange tickets and accommodation. She was good at English, so even in Hong Kong, it was not difficult for her.

After chatting with the curator for a few minutes, she understood why her father insisted that she see the curator before reporting. It turned out that Curator Fang's father had a stroke the year before last and was in critical condition. It was her father who rescued him in time and provided him with an Angong Niuhuang Pill, which saved Mr. Fang from any sequelae. Curator Fang said that he was always grateful and was worried about how to repay her. When he heard Dr. Qiu talking about her work, he took the initiative to say that there was an employee in the curator's office who was about to retire and a position was vacant, and he specially contacted a training quota for her.

Qiu Luming hurriedly thanked Director Fang. Before this, she had never cared about these things and knew nothing about them.

The curator took me to the office to report, and everything went very smoothly. The office director was a woman in her forties. She smiled and said to Qiu Luming, "Aren't you Dr. Qiu's old lady? Your father performed the appendectomy surgery on my brother last year! The incision was sutured very well, straight! Just now on the first floor, I said that you looked haggard. It turned out to be Xiao Qiu. You really look like your father!"

"Hello, Director Li. Please take care of me in the future!" Qiu Luming said modestly and respectfully.

"Okay, I have nothing to say! The director has spoken, I will go to the Labor Bureau in a moment and make sure your work relationship is clear!"

Director Fang took Qiu Luming to the Finance Department and the Security Department for a tour, and soon they toured the entire library. The county library was really not big, with only fifteen staff members from top to bottom. The entire small building had two floors and an area of ​​only 500 square meters. The second floor was the office and conference room, and the first floor had a lending room of more than 100 square meters, a reading room of 70 to 80 square meters, and a warehouse and a guard room.

Qiu Luming couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. The scale of this library was too small. It was not even as big as the library of the No. 4 Girls' Middle School back then.

"Xiao Qiu, you are young and have little work experience. There are not many positions suitable for you in our library. You can work in the reading room for the time being. Except for Sundays and winter and summer vacations, you are busy at other times. In addition, when we count books, all staff members have to go to the reading room and warehouse to help. Our library is the most suitable place for a girl like you. Just work hard. There will be many opportunities in the future!"

"Okay, Director." Qiu Luming remembered that her neighbors had laughed at her for being brainless and unable to work in an office. She thought it would be better for her to move bricks in a brick factory. She would be in good health anyway. Her parents must have worked hard for her job. The job of a reading room manager was very suitable for Qiu Luming.

As they were talking, they were already standing at the door of the reading room. A female staff member in her thirties, wearing a red sweater with a white turtleneck showing through the collar, stood up from behind the desk and glanced at Qiu Luming with a complicated expression, then at Director Fang, "Director."

"Xiao Ma, let me introduce you to our new colleague Xiao Qiu, Qiu Luming. She has finally returned from further studies, so you don't have to complain anymore! You have done a good job in the past two months, so I commend you! Wait a minute, you two should hand over the work properly, and then you can go back to your original position!"

Xiao Ma smiled and said, "Director, you are really wronging me. When did I complain? It's just that no one has taken my place for the past two months, and I can't have lunch every day. My stomach is not good either. I just said a few words casually. How can I complain? Director, you criticized me by name in the meeting, it's not enough, why are you criticizing me again!"

"Is this your reason? Why can't you eat? Make more in the morning, put it in a lunch box and bring it over. Heat it up in the boiler room. Isn't it easier than running home at noon? Old Liu has worked all his life and never went hungry! Didn't Old Zhang and Xiao Wan in the reading room get through this way?" Director Fang frowned and spoke in an unpleasant voice.

Qiu Luming listened to Director Fang scolding people and felt embarrassed for Xiao Ma, so he looked around the reading room and saw that the huge room was lined with bookshelves and newspaper racks on all four sides. The bookshelves were filled with various magazines, including Readers, Movie Pictorials, Story Club, Contemporary Music, etc. Almost every magazine cover had a big head portrait; the newspaper clips contained a thick stack of newspapers, which looked like at least one month's worth.

There are four huge wooden tables in the middle of the room, surrounded by a circle of chairs for readers to use when reading.

The desk is at the entrance of the reading room, which feels a bit like a one-man guarding the gate. Alas, the security guard is looking after the entire building, and her job from now on will be to look after this reading room.

Sure enough, Director Fang said to her, "Xiao Qiu, you will be in charge of this room from now on. Please pay more attention and don't lose the books and magazines. There are more students and young people coming here at noon and on Sundays. Don't let them damage the magazines and public property. When you have time, take a good look at the rules and regulations posted on the wall. If you have any questions, ask your sister Ma. If you really can't find a solution, come to me. Okay, I have to go to the county government for a meeting later. You two can take over." After that, he went upstairs.

Qiu Luming smiled at Xiao Ma, "Hello, Sister Ma!"

Unexpectedly, Xiao Ma didn't look at her. Instead, he slammed a magazine on the desk, pulled out the drawer with a clang, and took out all his things at once. Every time he took out something, he made a loud noise, which attracted the security guard to come over to see what was going on.

Qiu Luming smiled awkwardly at the old man, which made the old man immediately feel sympathy for the little girl. "Xiao Ma, what's wrong with you? Are you unhappy? Didn't we say that we would second you for two months, and that you would return to the warehouse once the permanent employees arrived? We had already agreed on this, why are you still playing tricks on me?"

"Uncle Li! Why did I act like a fool? The director just scolded me, and you are scolding me too!" Xiao Ma's voice was filled with tears. He was so aggrieved that tears were rolling in his eyes and were about to fall.

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything more. Just pack up." Uncle Li sighed and went back to the guard room.

Xiao Ma angrily put all his things into a cardboard box, picked it up and was ready to leave.

"Eh?" Qiu Luming took a step to the side and stretched out his arm to stop her, "Sister Ma!"

"What are you talking about?" Xiao Ma glared.

"Sister Ma, even if you don't hand over the work to me and don't leave me a page of manuscript paper or any office supplies, you have to give me the key to the reading room, right?"

"Hmph!" Xiao Ma took out his key chain, took off a key from it with a clatter, and threw it hard on the desk. The key bounced on the table, fell on the floor tiles of the reading room with a clang, and bounced twice more with a crisp sound.

"Pick it up." Qiu Luming stared at her.

"Pick up a fart, pick it up, who can you blame if you can't catch it?"

"Pick it up!" Qiu Luming raised his voice.

Uncle Li rushed over after hearing the noise. "Hey, hey, hey, we're all colleagues, we can't fight! What the hell, did you drop your keys on the ground? Come, let me pick them up!"

Qiu Luming grabbed him and said, "Whoever throws it picks it up!"

Xiao Ma glared at Qiu Luming, as if there was a grudge between them from a previous life. "Qiu Luming, what's so great about you? Didn't you just get in through the back door? What's so great about that? Don't think I don't know you. Isn't your mother a teacher at No. 1 Middle School? Don't teachers' children still fight wolves in class? Bah! You are nothing! What else can you do besides getting in through the back door?"

Qiu Luming had never considered the origins of her two jobs before. It was only after listening to Director Fang's words just now that she realized that it was her father who asked someone for help to get her into the library, and there was even a hint of repaying a favor.

Yesterday, her mother warned her that Jiayang County was not big, with a population of 40,000, and there were complicated relationships everywhere. Although they had lived here for 30 years, they still had no roots. She told her not to make enemies easily, because every colleague in the company, even a temporary worker, might have a complicated background.

Qiu Luming really wanted to listen to her mother, but she really couldn't bear it anymore. This person targeted her from the beginning and wanted to intimidate her. If she squatted down and picked up the key today, this little Ma would tell all her colleagues about it. She could even imagine that people in the whole county would soon know that she, Qiu Luming, was bullied on her first day at work!

No! This is intolerable!

"Reflect!" Qiu Luming suddenly remembered his nephew's "spell" last night. This reflection roughly means that whatever you say to me, I will return it to you according to the rules.

After blurting out this word, Qiu Luming laughed out loud. Oh, it's too childish, but it's really simple and practical! I must use it often in the future!

Xiao Ma didn't expect her to say such a stupid thing. He sneered, "Psycho! No wonder people call you a fool!"

Qiu Luming knew nothing about the other party's situation, which really affected her eloquence. She grabbed Xiao Ma's cardboard box, and Xiao Ma was startled, "What are you doing?"

Their quarrel attracted the attention of Director Fang, who had just gone downstairs for a meeting. He stood at the door of the reading room and asked, "What's going on? What are you arguing about?"

"Director!" Qiu Luming immediately put down Xiao Ma's cardboard box and gave up the idea of ​​throwing it to the ground. He turned around and said angrily to the director, "She! Not only did she refuse to hand over the work to me, but when I asked her for the key to the reading room, she even threw the key to the ground!"

Director Fang glared at Xiao Ma unhappily, then turned around and said to Director Li who was coming downstairs after hearing the noise: "It's time. I have to go to the meeting. You handle it!"

Director Li agreed repeatedly. As soon as Director Fang walked out of the door, he immediately made a sound of "tsk". He poked Xiao Ma on the forehead and said, "Xiao Ma, Xiao Ma, you usually look so clever, how can you be so stupid! You can't get a permanent job, and you can't treat your work as a joke. You have to hand over what needs to be handed over, and there can be no difference in the slightest! If you really have any opinions or grievances, go to the director and the union to talk face to face. You are just handing someone a knife handle by doing this."