Three or Two Things about Rebirth

After listening to Director Li's words, Xiao Ma finally started crying.

Qiu Luming also realized that Director Li respected his father, but he had no good feelings towards this 18-year-old girl who was known to be "stupid", and he had no scruples about her.

Director Li pulled the crying Xiao Ma out of the reading room, turned around and said to Qiu Luming: "Xiao Qiu, even if you have officially taken up the post, work hard. I will go and persuade your sister Ma and let her hand over to you later!" Then the two of them went into the warehouse at the end of the corridor on the first floor.

Qiu Luming picked up Xiao Ma's cardboard box and put it on the windowsill of the guard room. Uncle Li looked at her and said nothing.

Qiu Luming stood in the corridor and moved his ears.

In the warehouse, Xiao Ma was complaining intermittently. After Qiu Luming listened for a while, he finally understood why he was disliked.

It turned out that Xiao Ma had been working in the library for eight years as a temporary worker. Although the work was easy, the salary was too low, which made her feel uncomfortable among her sisters-in-law. Before Lao Liu retired, he hinted that she could use the relationship of Director Li in the office to get this worker position. She really went to ask Director Li for help, but who knew that Qiu Luming would intercept the job at the end of autumn! Not only did he intercept it, but he also asked her to take over the job for two months! How could she accept this?

Hearing this, Qiu Luming strode to the end of the corridor, kicked open the door of the warehouse, and laughed, "It turns out that Sister Ma is also using the back door to do something improper! How could you have the nerve to say that about me just now?"

——In fact, to put it bluntly, everyone hates using backdoors, unless they are the beneficiary!

Director Li and Xiao Ma both changed their expressions. Xiao Ma even forgot to cry and shouted after a while, "What nonsense are you talking about? Be careful or I'll sue you!"

"Go ahead and sue!" Qiu Luming spat, and suddenly saw someone entering the reading room out of the corner of his eye, so he quickly ran back.

A male student entered the reading room and was confused when he saw no staff. Qiu Luming ran back and sat behind the desk. The boy was stunned when he saw her, then he showed his reading card, put his schoolbag on the bench next to Qiu Luming, and asked, "Is the first issue of Reader's Magazine this year here?"

"Huh?" Qiu Luming was stunned by the question. Yesterday's newspapers and magazines were sorted and put on the shelves by Xiao Ma, and today's ones haven't arrived yet. "Well, classmate, go and take a look at the shelves yourself!"

The male student said "oh" and walked straight to a bookshelf. He looked it up and down, picked up a magazine, sat on a chair and started reading it.

Qiu Luming stood up and carefully read the rules and regulations and readers' instructions on the wall, then familiarized himself with all the magazines and newspapers on the shelves, and had a general idea in his mind.

At this time, Director Li came over, sighed, picked up the keys on the ground, and put them on the desk. "Xiao Qiu, Xiao Qiu, why are you so evil? You have to respect the old comrades!"

Qiu Luming looked confused, blinking his eyes and said, "Ah? Didn't you say to take care of new comrades?"

"Uh, oh, okay, okay, let me tell you about my job responsibilities!" Director Li glanced at his watch and sat down on the chair. "I'll make it short so I don't have to go to the Labor Bureau to run procedures for you!"

"Hey!" Qiu Luming smiled, "You've worked hard!"

Director Li sighed again. You can't offend anyone but the doctor. Who can guarantee that they won't get sick? This girl is so fierce. I heard that she always fights with people in the county hospital. Go ahead and do it. You've embarrassed your parents!

The work in the reading room is very simple (this is probably the reason why Mr. Qiu found this job for his daughter), and there are not many tasks that need to be handed over, such as recording the loss of a certain issue of a magazine in the work log, the details of magazines and newspapers put into the warehouse every quarter, the contact numbers of relevant departments of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau, etc., and also making reading cards for new readers and keeping a copy.

After three to five minutes, Qiu Luming had figured out his job responsibilities and smiled as he sent Director Li out to the Labor Bureau.

It was a little after nine o'clock, the sun was higher and the wind was much lighter.

Students came to the library in groups of three or four on bicycles. Some went to the lending room, and some went to the reading room. When they saw the new staff, they all took a closer look. Some of them who knew Qiu Luming even greeted her with a smile.

Qiu Luming looked at their faces and could mostly remember who they were, and responded to them with a smile.

Because it was winter vacation, there were many students coming to the library. Together with the old men and women who came to read newspapers, the reading room was almost full.

The postman came and delivered some newspapers and magazines. When he saw Qiu Luming, he asked where Xiao Ma was. Qiu Luming smiled and said, "From today on, I am the manager of the reading room."

The postman also smiled and said, "Okay, okay."

The two checked and the postman left. Qiu Luming put the newspapers in the newspaper holder. The dates of the newspapers were all from the past few days, and the most recent one was yesterday. She took out the registration book and registered the new magazine under Xiao Ma's crooked handwriting.

Although the reading room is on the sunny side, the room is large and is on the first floor. The limited heat emitted by the radiators has no heating effect at all. After Qiu Luming finished his work, he put his hand on the white Dacron cover of the radiator and looked at the readers reading with boredom.

She was a little thirsty, but she didn't bring a cup, and she was even careless enough not to bring a pen. She borrowed a pen from Mr. Li when she was registering magazines just now.

At half past ten, she asked Uncle Li to watch over the reading room for her. She picked up the guard room phone and dialed five numbers. A clear female voice answered, "Hello, Public Security Bureau."

She said, "Hello, please connect me to the technical department!"

The call was quickly connected, and she immediately recognized it as her second brother's voice. She quickly said, "Second brother! I didn't bring any lunch. Bring me some for lunch!"

Qiu Jiashu agreed immediately, but Qiu Luming heard a slight change in the current in the phone and immediately suspected that someone at the Public Security Bureau switchboard was eavesdropping on the call, so he shouted, "Brother, is anyone eavesdropping on your end?"

Qiu Jiashu was puzzled, "What?"

Qiu Luming snorted and hung up the phone. Don't think she doesn't know that there are many women in Jiayang who are staring at her second brother like flies! Now the two of them even eavesdrop on the phone, how uncultured!

It was eleven o'clock, and some readers went home to eat, but there were also seven or eight who ate two meals and continued reading.

A retired lady walked into the reading room and said that she had just applied for a library card and was coming to apply for a reading card.

Qiu Luming took her two one-inch black-and-white photos, registered the information on her ID card, took out a three-inch card, carefully filled in the number, personal information and validity period, and pasted the photo on the upper right corner of the card. Then he took out the official seal, dipped it in ink, stamped it on the corner of the photo, and fanned it with his hand.

The aunt received the reading card and praised, "Little girl, your handwriting is so beautiful!"

"It's just okay." Qiu Luming was very happy that he received praise from readers for the first reading card he applied for.

"How long have you been practicing? Is this Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy?"

"Well, it wasn't long, I just wrote randomly, randomly." Uh, who is Pang Zhonghua? I only know Zhao Mengfu and Wen Zhengming.

At this time, Uncle Li shouted in the corridor, "Xiao Qiu! Qiu! Your brother brought you food!"

"Got it!" Qiu Luming replied.

Qiu Luming looked at his watch. It was eleven fifteen. The meal was delivered so early. His second brother definitely did not go home to get it. He most likely got it from the company cafeteria.

The aunt put away the library card and put the two books she had just borrowed into the cloth bag she was carrying. "Hurry up and eat. I'm going home."

Qiu Luming was so hungry that she followed her aunt out of the reading room, intending to quickly retrieve her lunch. There were so many readers in the reading room, and they were watching each other, so no one would be so shameless as to steal anything. She pricked up her ears to listen.

As a result, when I turned around the corridor, I didn't see my second brother, but I saw Xiao Ma holding the cardboard box. He swept across the windowsill of the guard room and knocked an aluminum lunch box to the ground with a bang. The lid of the box fell open, and the food was scattered on the ground. A strong aroma of chicken spread out. Xiao Ma said to Uncle Li with a guilty look on his face: "Oh, what's going on? I really didn't mean to do that! I'll come and clean it up right away!"

When Qiu Luming smelled the aroma, his stomach immediately growled in response.

Suddenly she thought of something. No! This was the meal her second brother had sent her!

She rushed forward, grabbed the scattered food on the ground, and smeared it on Xiao Ma's face. Poor Xiao Ma was holding the cardboard box in both hands and had no time to react, so he was smeared.

She let out a panicked cry and tripped to the ground again, with the fragrant rice smeared all over her face again.

Qiu Luming shouted in a pretentious tone, "Oh, I didn't mean to do that, I didn't mean to do that!"

Xiao Ma threw the cardboard box away and tried to fight back by waving his hands and feet randomly, but he didn't even touch the corner of Qiu Luming's clothes.

Qiu Luming wiped her hands with a handkerchief and picked up the half-eaten lunch box on the ground. What a pity, most of the chicken nuggets, potatoes and stir-fried pork with black fungus were scattered, and there was not much rice left. She shook her head regretfully, asked the stunned Uncle Li for a pair of disposable chopsticks, and carried the lunch box back to the reading room.

The readers in the reading room heard the noise in the corridor and came out to watch. Qiu Luming glared at them one by one and said, "Go back, I need to check the magazines!"

Several students were shocked by her domineering attitude and went back to the reading room obediently. Qiu Luming put the lunch box on the heater, quickly checked the bookshelf, and counted the magazines on the readers' hands. Only after he had counted everything did he feel at ease and went back to his desk to eat.

——On the first day at work, you can fight, you can go without water or food, but you must never make mistakes in your job!

Qiu Luming took a bite of the sweet and glutinous potato and shook his head happily.

In the corridor, Xiao Ma was still crying. Uncle Li didn't know how to pull her up, so he could only keep telling her to get up on the cooler ground. Xiao Ma slapped her thigh and cried, saying that she couldn't do this job anymore. She was bullied by a young man.

It was 11:30, the time when the staff upstairs were supposed to get off work. The guard room was a must-go place. Xiao Ma hadn't been sitting on the ground for two minutes when she was helped up by several people. Looking at the rice grains and greasy soup in her hair and listening to her complaints, someone said angrily, "Why are the young people nowadays like this? Can we still count on them for future national construction?"

Qiu Luming smiled and chewed slowly until he heard the sound of a reader swallowing saliva, then he quickened his pace and finished eating.

The corridor was filled with the aroma of chicken and the sympathetic discussions of colleagues. Qiu Luming was guarding a room full of readers and could not leave her post to defend herself. She actually hoped that someone would really see the injustice and come to the reading room to argue with her.

Unfortunately, although those people disliked the new colleague who was aggressive and disrespectful to her seniors, no one dared to criticize her in person, which made her somewhat disappointed.

Qiu Luming left Fengtian at the age of twelve and studied alone in Peking. In the past six years, she has faced bullying several times. She has always been a person who sympathizes with the poor and the weak, and becomes stronger when facing strong opponents. When facing bullying, she never cares about her own or the other party's so-called face, and she does not hesitate, show mercy, or show any mercy in her actions or words.

In the evening, Qiu Jiashu came to pick her up after get off work. He walked into the library and came to the door of the reading room. Looking at his sister who was wearing a down jacket as if nothing had happened, he shook his head and said, "Qiu Luming, Qiu Luming, do you know what it means to become famous in one battle?"