Chapter 55 Section 1

On the night before the interview, my husband returned home very early for the first time, that is to say, before ten o'clock. She was packing her things, and when she saw him coming back, she jokingly asked, "Did they tell you to come back early this time, or did you come back early yourself?" "They did too, and I thought so myself." He found out the camera and told her to take it with her, and said, "I went there, take some time to go to the prestigious school, and come back after taking some pictures. I always wanted to go there, but I never had the time."

She boasted, "That's not easy? After your wife goes to work there, you will also move there. You can go to famous schools whenever you want." "You think they're really going to give you the job?" "Why don't you pay me so much money for an interview?" "The general interview ratio is five to one. For such a good unit, at least ten to one." "Ten to one? You mean they invited ten people to interview?" "Maybe more than that. When I recruited Xiao Wen, I interviewed seven or eight people." "You paid for them?"

He was at a loss for words. She was proud: "See, it's different. If you ask others to come to the interview at their own expense, of course you can interview as much as you want, but I am paid by the other party. One person is one or two thousand, and they will be ten to one?" "What is this little money to them?" She was a little upset: "Why are you pouring cold water? You're talking nonsense before I set off." He fell silent. In fact, Ding Yi also felt that she couldn't get the job. It can be said that everyone who knew about it thought she couldn't get the job, but she didn't want this to come out of her husband's mouth. Could it be that as a husband , shouldn't you wear a pair of rose-colored glasses to see her?

She pressed: "If you were recruiting, would you hire me?" "Why should I hire you? You don't understand my business." "I'm not asking you to recruit me to your lab, I'm asking you to put yourself in the shoes... Forget it, it's useless to say it, you can't put yourself in the shoes. Let's just say in case, in case I get this It's work, will you come with me?" "There's no chance at all." She got angry and said loudly: "Just in case you do this once, will you die?" He was startled, stared at her blankly for a while, and said timidly, "I won't go with you."

She tried her best not to growl: "Why?" "I'm fairly well employed here, but when I get there, I can only work as a postdoctoral fellow." "If you work, you will work." "I work for others in the United States. I might as well go back to China and become the director of Manjialing Hospital." "Is there a hospital in Manjialing?" "There is nothing to build." sky!It turned out that his dream of building a hospital in Manjialing hadn't died yet, and he would rather go back to that corner of the mountain in order to be a boss instead of working. This sentence is engraved in the bone.

She asked: "We are all here, you go back to the country alone?" He said nothing. She threatened: "I don't allow you to go back alone. You didn't hear that Professor Se said that there are a lot of chickens and ducks in China, and many of them have venereal diseases. A certain research unit in Yunnan has conducted a clinical trial on the treatment of venereal diseases. With just one trick, more than 6,000 volunteers were recruited, all of whom were chickens with STDs." "How does he know about Yunnan?" "It's written on the Internet." "Written on the Internet."

"That's not true. It's the official website of the US Health Organization, and clinical trials all over the world can be found there." As soon as he heard that it was the official website of the United States, he no longer doubted it, and just murmured: "There are so many chickens and ducks in China, what does it have to do with me?" "I'm afraid you'll get an STD." "How could I get an STD?" "Your wife isn't here, why don't you go find those chickens?" "Then you will follow me back home." "How can Ding Ding go back to China with you? She can't even write or recognize Chinese now, and she can't speak fluently. How can she keep up when she goes back to China?"

"I told you a long time ago not to let Ding Ding lose Chinese, you don't believe me." "This is my business alone? I still send her to Chinese school every week. What have you done?" "I speak to her in Chinese." "Tch, you spend all day in the laboratory. When she went to school, you didn't open your eyes; she went to bed at night, and you came back. How many words did you say to her in Chinese?" He fell silent again. She insisted: "Even if she can go back, I won't be able to go back. I'm old and a woman. Where can I find a job?"

"You don't have to work anymore, I will support you." "I'm not so stupid. You raise me, and I eat by watching your face? When did you want to have a mistress? I stare blankly?" "What kind of mistress do I have?" "Then who knows? If I don't have a mistress, I'm looking for flowers and asking willows outside, and I have a venereal disease, so I should be unlucky!" "We Manjialing people don't like those." "Anyway, I won't go back, and I won't allow you to go back." "I'm just saying, I don't believe I'm going to end up being a postdoc."

She also believed that he would not fall to that step. After packing up her things, she dragged a small suitcase and walked a few steps around the house, and asked her husband, "Do you think people will want me like this?" "I will." "Didn't you just say that I was just used as a foil?" "Oh, I meant work." She raised her eyebrows: "Then what do you mean by 'will want'?" "I thought you asked me if a man would want you." She couldn't help laughing: "Why would I ask that?" After laughing, she added, "You mean a man will want me like this?"

"of course." She was very happy, but deliberately said: "Forget it, don't pretend, you know that no one wants women like us who are going to be four, and deliberately satirized us here." "Who said no one wanted it? They all said that foreigners like women like you the most." "Who? How many women in your lab?" "Ok." "Do you believe that too? They are flattering you in disguise." "It's not flattering, it's true. They say Professor Se likes you very much." "They haven't met Professor Se, how do they know if he likes me? Did you say something to them again?" "How do I know? I went back to the laboratory after having dinner with you that day, and they all said that Professor Se could take advantage of it." "Then why didn't you run back immediately?" "I have something to do, so I can't leave." She laughed and said, "Do you feel a little jealous?" "Have." "Then you have to hold me tight in the future, or I will go to Professor Se." He exclaimed, "Can't I hold on tight?" "Why are you holding on? You spend all day in the laboratory, and you don't care about things at home." "But if I don't stay in the lab, those people won't work hard, they won't be able to produce projects, and they will cut off our research funding." Of course she knows how powerful the scientific research fund is. If her husband can't get the scientific research fund, she and her daughter will have nothing to eat. That's not a joke. She conceded and said, "Okay, it's reasonable for you to go to the laboratory, but what about other aspects? If your wife goes to a meeting, you don't see it off, and when she comes back, you don't pick it up. Are you holding on tight?" "I don't know how to drive to the airport, how can I send it?" "You can't send me to the airport, at least you can send me downstairs before you leave?" "I still have to deliver it downstairs? It's not like you can't find the way, and you don't have any heavy things." "It's not a question of the way, nor is it a question of mentioning things. This can tell whether you are romantic or not." "I'm not a literary student, why should I be romantic?" She couldn't laugh or cry: "If you don't study literature, you don't need to be romantic? Your wife is going out to a meeting, you should feel a little bit reluctant, right?" "Maybe I don't want to give up, so you won't go?" "If you really don't want to give up, maybe I really won't go." He immediately stated: "I really don't want to part with it." She punched him: "It's too late! I reminded you, and you said you were reluctant. That's a lie." "I knew it was useless to say it." "Sophistry! I've made a decision a long time ago, of course I'm going, but you can always come and say goodbye to me when you come back at night, right?" "Didn't I come back to say goodbye to you?" "It's okay this time, how about last time?" "Last time?" He seemed to be unable to remember what mistake he made last time. "Last time you came back in the middle of the night, and you went to sleep in your room as soon as you came back, which means you don't have that kind of heart." "I have the heart but I don't have the strength." She burst out laughing, thinking that the way he complained was honest and cute, with a bit of trepidation, which brought her back to the days of her first love. At that time, he was most afraid that she would blow it up with him. Once she said it, he would Everything is up to her. She put her arms around him: "I hope we will always love each other and never be separated." "It was meant to be forever." That night, the two took a mandarin duck bath, and then went to sleep in the room.She told him about the secret use of the "foreign artifact" last time, and warned: "Have you ever heard that women are like wolves at thirty and tigers at forty? Be careful, I am now the year of the wolf and the tiger. In the future, if you make me half-naked and sleep, I will use that thing instead of you." He didn't answer, he turned up and pressed her directly: "Is it the ovulation period?" "No test." "Why not?" "Why did you test it? Maybe you already have cancer." "You're talking nonsense again." "It's not nonsense, it's true." She repeated Dr. Z's words, and asked worriedly, "Do you think I may have cancer?" "surely not." "how do you know?" "I'm a doctor." His words reassured her a lot, because she knew that he was a straight talker. If he thought she might be a cancer, he would not know how to be tactful, and would definitely say it straight. Now that he said she was not a cancer, So nine out of ten it's not cancer. But she wanted to test him: "If I really got cancer, what would you do?" "It's nothing in case." "Okay, let's not talk about cancer, just talk about the 'funnel'. If I do the 'funnel' and I can't conceive a child, what will you do?" "If you can't get pregnant, you can't get pregnant." "Then isn't your son's dream shattered?" "Then what can I do? Just die." "Will you find someone to give birth to your son again?" "I said a long time ago that if I divorce you, there will be a thunderbolt from the sky." She was stunned, and suddenly discovered that superstition also has the benefits of superstition!Look how cute this superstition is! In that love, he did it diligently and arduously, many times it was on the verge of breaking out, and he insisted on enduring it.She felt sorry for him and told him to let it go, but he refused: "No, you said, if I can't satisfy you, you have to go to Professor Se." She wanted to correct him, I didn't say to go to Professor Se, I said to use "foreign artifacts", but she didn't want to talk to him at this time, so she swallowed it back.But unfortunately the weather was not beautiful, she couldn't get to the peak all the time, so in the end she had to pretend to be one, and got rid of him.Although she didn't reach the peak physically, her psychological peak was higher than ever before. It went smoothly, and the on-site interview went smoothly. There was a written test, but it was not difficult. I gave her a few practical questions, asked her to design a model, or interpret the results, and the formulas and calculations were provided, which greatly relieved her. Because she is from a liberal arts background and is learning English, it is not a problem to understand the questions and interpret the results.What she is most afraid of is those tedious formulas and calculations. Since the exam has done all the formulas and calculations for her, she has nothing to fear. After the exam, Ms. Cooper asked how she was feeling, and she answered honestly: "I'm just afraid of formulas and calculations, and this exam did it for me, which is great." Ms. Cooper laughed: "We design the test questions based on reality. In the future work, you don't need to do the formulas and calculations yourself. They are all in the software. You just need to know when to use which formulas." She was overjoyed after hearing this, and felt that this unit was too suitable for her.When she was taking classes, she was most afraid of formulas and calculations.The formula is better. Some teachers allow a cheat sheet to be brought in during the exam, and the formula can be copied on it.But those calculations really gave her a headache, and she always lost points on it.Those classmates who are younger than her are just the opposite of her. They are very good at formulas and calculations, but weak in reading and interpretation. She thought complacently: It seems that people like me are needed to find a job in this industry. No matter how familiar you are with formulas and calculations, it is equal to zero. You can’t be better than statistical software, right?But if your language is not good and you are not good at expressing, then you are at a disadvantage, because you can't understand what the customer wants, and you can't explain the analysis results to the customer clearly, so why should they hire you? In addition to the exam that day, she had several interviews. In her profession alone, three people, old, middle-aged and young, interviewed her, representing three different technical levels. She also had an interview with a leader. Light meal, the employer invited her to a restaurant for dinner in the afternoon, accompanied by several people. The next morning, Ms. Todd from the personnel department met with her and talked with her about visas and green cards, the benefits provided by the unit to employees, and even the parking lot. Ms. Todd said apologetically: "There are limited parking spaces in the parking lot near the unit, but we have other parking lots that are far away from here. New employees like you can only park in a farther place, and then take the shuttle bus from the unit to work." Ms. Todd's tone was so sincere and full of apology, as if she was begging her not to dislike this unit because of the parking space problem, she was almost moved to tears, thinking that as long as you are willing to hire me, I will be very grateful and unforgettable , who cares about parking.Not to mention that there are parking spaces and shuttle buses, even if you don’t have parking spaces and let me ride a horse to work every day, as long as you have a place for me to tie my horse, I have no problem. Finally, Ms. Todd asked her what she wanted for an annual salary. She didn't dare to say it, she was afraid of scaring people away if she said it too high, and she was afraid of losing money if she said it too low. Ms. Todd offered to count and asked how she felt. That number was higher than she ever imagined, even higher than Lu Ping's annual salary. If she hadn't heard from her sister that 40,000 in a small city was equivalent to 60,000 to 70,000 in a big city, she would definitely be crazy! She was so excited that tears filled her eyes, and she agreed: "Very good, very good, as long as you are willing to hire me, I will be very satisfied, and I don't care about the annual salary." Ms. Todd looked at her with a smile, like a child who just came out of the country and was completely satisfied with a bubble gum, and then said: "We still have some people who haven't interviewed. When we finish all the interviews, we will make decide, and we will inform you of the result at that time." Before leaving, she said that she was going to visit a prestigious school. Ms. Cooper enthusiastically found a map for her and told her how to get there. She also asked her to keep the taxi receipt to the prestigious school and send it along with the air ticket for reimbursement. , can be regarded as part of the travel expenses for her leaving the unit to go to the airport. She walked on the campus of a prestigious school, taking photos everywhere, imagining the scene where she got this job and her husband was transferred here, and also imagined the scene where Tintin went to a prestigious school, thinking it was so wonderful, if she wasn't afraid of making a fool of herself, she would I really want to face the sun, close my eyes, stretch out my arms, and shout a few times: "Life, I love you!"