Chapter 642 Leisurely Life in the Library

Zhou Chen walked into the library and explained the situation to the guard, and then he was taken to an office.

"Master Zhao, this comrade said he came to see you."

Zhou Chen looked around and found that this was an independent office, but since he was the deputy director, this was normal.

That's right, the friend his second uncle mentioned is the deputy director of this library, one of the most powerful people in the library of this national unit.

After the guide left, Zhao Lijie put away his serious expression and said to Zhou Chen amiably: "You must be Lao Zhou's nephew. I am your second uncle's old friend. You can just call me Uncle Zhao."

Being given face, Zhou Chen naturally obeyed and shouted: "Uncle Zhao."

"Okay, come and sit."

After Zhou Chen sat down, Zhao Lijie said: "Uncle Er has already greeted me and said that you like reading, so you want to work in the library."

Zhou Chen said modestly: "I prefer reading, but I was too ignorant when I was in school and didn't study hard. Thinking about it now, I feel that I was wasting my time before, but now I am just purely interested in reading."

"This is very good. Young people like you should learn more and see more, and strive to become talents who contribute to the country and society in the future."

Zhao Lijie is obviously used to being a leader and talks in the same way.

"In our library, there is nothing else, but there are absolutely everything you need in terms of books. You can find any book you want to read."

Zhou Chen responded with a smile: "That's really a happy thing."

Zhao Lijie nodded: "For a person who loves books, it is indeed a blessing to work in a library."

The two chatted for a few words and then got down to business.

Zhao Lijie took the initiative and said: "Before coming, your second uncle should have explained the situation to you. Originally, based on my relationship with your second uncle, I arranged a well-established position for you. It was not a big problem; but what you came here is really Unfortunately, one of our employees just retired two months ago, and his quota became vacant. If you could have come two months earlier, I could have arranged it for you directly, but it’s a pity.”

Zhou Chen has been looking at Zhao Lijie. Although Zhao Lijie said it sincerely, who knows whether it is true or false?

"Uncle Zhao, you are so troublesome. In fact, you really don't need to take care of me. No matter what position you assign me, I will work hard and work hard. Anyway, I will contribute to society and the country. It’s the same for any position.”

"good."

Zhao Lijie immediately clapped his hands excitedly and said: "Zhou Chen, you are indeed your second uncle's good nephew. Your second uncle has a high level of consciousness, and your level of consciousness is not bad either. Our library lacks young and smart people like you. He is also a good comrade with an awakened spirit."

Having finished his high-sounding words, he got to the point.

"Xiao Zhou, although our library has many positions, now that you are new here, I can't arrange you to an important position. How about you start from the grassroots level?"

"Uncle Zhao, you don't have to be so polite. I will obey your arrangements. I will do whatever you ask me to do."

Zhou Chen really didn't care too much. He believed that Zhou Liangping must have told Zhao Lijie about his situation, and it should be impossible to arrange particularly heavy work for him.

Zhao Lijie was very satisfied with Zhou Chen's attitude. He was afraid that Zhou Chen would rely on Zhou Liangping's relationship to dictate terms here and ask him to arrange positions.

"Actually, our library already has a lot of people. It's hard to put people in other places. I want you to be the librarian, who will be responsible for organizing and classifying things. It's relatively easy. What do you think?"

Even though the word "management" is in the word "librarian", it makes you think that it is a cadre position, but in fact it is not.

Although there are not as many library positions as there were later, librarian is just a nice name. In fact, he is an ordinary staff member who is responsible for daily sorting of books, classification, inventory, maintenance, shelving and other chores. Customers can't find them. When you get books, you also have to help customers find books, etc.

Unlike later generations, he could also be responsible for procurement, management and other matters. In short, it was a low-level position.

This is normal. He has no establishment now, so it is certainly impossible for him to go to a better position. After all, Zhao Lijie is only the deputy director, not the director.

"I have no problem, Uncle Zhao."

Zhao Lijie breathed a sigh of relief. It's good that Zhou Chen didn't object. Zhou Liangping and he were friends, but there was still a gap in their status. Being able to help him meant that Zhou Liangping owed him a favor. For him, , which is also a great thing.

"In our library, we manage books. Everyone has his or her own area. Xiao Zhou, if you are most interested in books, I will arrange for you to go to that area."

It would be great if you could choose by yourself. Zhou Chen replied without hesitation: "Then the history one, okay?"

"Is it about history? Okay, no problem. Let's go. I'll take you there now. I'll find someone to take you there. He was in charge of the history books section before."

Zhou Chen, led by Zhao Lijie, came to the second floor of the library. The area for historical books was on the second floor.

The first and second floors of this library are used for storing books, as well as reading rooms, exhibition halls, etc., all on the first floor; the third and fourth floors are offices, conference rooms, bathrooms, water rooms, etc.

"Song Bo, come here."

At this time, the library was not officially open for business yet. After Zhao Lijie came to the second floor, he shouted loudly.

"coming."

A man in his thirties ran over from the bookshelf. When he saw Zhao Lijie, he immediately stood up straight.

"Director Zhao, are you looking for me?"

Zhao Lijie didn't waste any time and said directly: "Song Bo, I'll give you a task. This is Zhou Chen. He just arrived today. From now on, he will be responsible for the history book area. Then I will hand him over to you. You Tell him carefully about the situation here. If he doesn’t teach him seriously, you’ll have a good time.”

Song Bo responded with a smile: "Director, don't worry, leave it to me, I guarantee there will be no problem."

The person who could bring Deputy Director Zhao over in person to give instructions was obviously a well-connected person. He still had this kind of discernment.

Zhao Lijie was very satisfied, and then said harmoniously to Zhou Chen: "Xiao Zhou, you will learn from him next. Song Bo has been in our library for several years and is very familiar with it. If you don't understand anything, just ask him directly." Ask him, you’re welcome.”

"Yes, Uncle Zhao, I understand."

Hearing Zhou Chen call Zhao Lijie Uncle Zhao, Song Bo blinked his eyes and the smile on his face became brighter.

"Do your best. I have something to do, so I'll leave first."

"Uncle Zhao, goodbye."

"Director Zhao, walk slowly."

After Zhao Lijie left, Song Bo looked at Zhou Chen with a smile on his face and asked in a low voice: "Your name is Zhou Chen, right? Hello, my name is Song Bo. You can call me by my name directly, or call me Lao Song. "

Zhou Chen didn't ask for help, he just said with the same smile: "Brother Song, I'll ask you to take more care of me from now on."

Seeing Zhou Chen call him brother, Song Bo's smile became even brighter.

"Brother, you're welcome. We will be colleagues from now on. Zhou Chen, you are very familiar with Director Zhao. I heard you call him uncle?"

Song Bo asked casually, and began to inquire about Zhou Chen's origins.

Zhou Chen replied calmly: "Uncle Zhao and my second uncle are good friends, so he takes care of me."

"Oh, I see."

Song Bo nodded, a little unsure of Zhou Chen's situation, but this did not hinder his enthusiasm.

"Come on, brother Zhou, let me take you to get familiar with this place first. Our library is ranked in the whole Yanjing. There are many people who come to read and borrow books, but this has nothing to do with us employees. It’s not big, but if there are a lot of people, we will be busier.”

Song Bo was a very eloquent person, and he soon told Zhou Chen a lot about the library.

From books to personnel, from men to women, he even talked about a lot of gossip, as if there was nothing he didn't know about in this library.

This surprised Zhou Chen very much. If you want to say that Song Bo is a woman, then forget about such gossip, but he is obviously a man, and there are more gossips than women.

Zhou Chen had only one comment on Song Bo.

Talent.

This guy shouldn't be a librarian, he should be an entertainment reporter. Oh, by the way, there is no so-called entertainment industry yet...

But Zhou Chen is also very grateful to Song Bo because his help helped him quickly adapt to this position.

There are quite a lot of history books in the library, with more than a dozen bookshelves, at least tens of thousands of books.

According to Song Bo, the number of books in their library reaches hundreds of thousands.

This is not the library of a few decades from now. In this era of turmoil, a library with hundreds of thousands of books is really impressive.

This is also in the capital Yanjing. If it were changed to other cities, it would be difficult to achieve this number. It would not be easy to have tens of thousands of copies.

After studying with Song Bo for a few days, Zhou Chen officially started his work.

I have to say, this job is really easy.

You just need to arrive at the library before nine o'clock every morning. There is no clocking in. Sometimes it doesn't matter if you are a little late. The off-duty time is five o'clock in the afternoon. Sometimes you are on duty and you may not get off work until around eight o'clock.

I only work five days a week, and I have two days off, but they are not fixed days off, but rotational days off.

As for the night shift, that doesn't exist.

All things considered, a day's working time is only seven or eight hours.

Although the library has many books and is quite large, in Zhou Chen's opinion, the number of people who come to the library to read is really not enough for such a large library.

In short, there are not many people reading, which means there are more people on rest days. On normal days, it is relatively relaxed.

Zhou Chen likes this situation very much. For him, the easier it is, the better. He will have more time to fish, read books and drink tea freely.

That is to say, the library is under state control. If it is private, it may always have to lose money.

Of course, even if there are private libraries, most of them are probably not doing it for profit, because it is difficult for an institution of this nature to make a lot of money.

As for the salary, it is really low, seventeen and a half yuan a month, which is the salary of a factory apprentice.

I heard from Song Bo that this is the minimum salary for libraries. If it can be established, it will be greatly improved.

Zhou Chen didn't have much idea about wages. Even if it was 1975, if he wanted to make money, there were plenty of ways.

Not to mention anything else, just the food stamps, meat stamps, industrial coupons and the like that were awarded in the previous world in his system backpack can be sold for a lot of money if you take them out casually.

Therefore, he is not short of money for the time being, well, it should be said that he is not short of big money.

In this way, Zhou Chen started his own fishing job in the library. He went to and from get off work on time every day. During work, he spent most of his time reading books, drinking tea and reading newspapers.

With his memory and hands-on ability, things like organizing books and helping customers find books are all easy tasks.

The work that was not busy in the first place, coupled with his strong abilities, naturally made him more relaxed and comfortable.

When Zhou Chen came back from get off work that day, he saw Han Chunming sitting on the threshold of his home.

"Chunming, why are you here?"

Han Chunming smiled and said, "I came here specifically to wait for you and have something to say to you."

"What's the matter? Let's go in and talk."

"No, I'll leave as soon as I'm done and I won't go in."

"Okay, then you say it."

Zhou Chen held the bicycle with both hands and waited for Han Chunming to speak.

"It's like this. In two days, the aunt from our hometown will bring people to stay at our house for two days. As you know, my house is so big. If they come, our house won't be enough to live in, so."

"So, you just want to come to my place to stay for a few days? That's it?"

Zhou Chen looked suspicious. With this guy's face, if he really wanted to stay, he would definitely not say hello to him in advance.

"Yes and no."

"Don't talk nonsense. If you have something to say, say it quickly. Are you tired from all the grinding?"

Han Chunming laughed a few times, and then said: "If you have any spare money, lend me some. You don't know, every time my aunt comes to our house, she comes empty-handed. My mother doesn't care, but my brother, sister and the others I have an opinion, I want to borrow some money from you and help them buy some things to take to my house, so that it will look better then."

Zhou Chen was very speechless after hearing this, "Good guy, I didn't think about bringing anything with me when visiting relatives, but your relative was ready to help."

He thought of the TV series Under the Zhengyang Gate. There seemed to be such a scene at the beginning. Thinking about the character of Han Chunming, a good old man, he understood.

"How much to borrow?"

"Ten dollars, Zhou Chen, don't worry, when I find a job, I will pay you back the first month's salary."

Zhou Chen blinked his eyes and asked tentatively: "How about I lend you twenty, and you bring those old objects you collected for me to appreciate?"

Han Chunming suddenly looked wary: "What do you want to do?"

Zhou Chen kicked him over and scolded: "Look at how cowardly you are, I just want to see what kind of treasures your kid has collected. Do you think I am like you, even thinking about my own friends?" "

"Hey, get used to it, get used to it."

Han Chunming smiled shamelessly, "Ten dollars is enough. Next time I will bring two babies to open your eyes, okay?"

Zhou Chen took out a big unity card from his pocket and threw it to Han Chunming.

"Take the money and get out of here."