Chapter 154 Hugs, Warmth and Interview at the US Embassy

Lin Qianxue said this, and struggled slightly, but she was reluctant to leave Li Xiaofan's arms. This was the first time that the boy she liked took the initiative to hug her, and she was sober.

The day before yesterday, she drank too much in the hotel garden in Shiba Park. The alcohol gave her courage, and she was in Tokyo, so she was a little open. That night, she almost took the initiative to hold Li Xiaofan's arm...

But now, in this quiet test fixture warehouse, for the first time, she was hugged by Li Xiaofan like this, smelling the good smell of boys on him, the strong youthful breath, and a faint smell of tobacco, she was a little intoxicated...

But after all, she was in the factory now, and she regained her sanity in an instant, gently pushed Li Xiaofan away, and said softly: "Huiyun in the HR department is waiting for you, go quickly..."

"Well, Officer, I remember all your kindness to me!"

"It's good that you know! Go..."

Huiyun, the HR specialist of Singapore Westwood Electronics Factory, is also Malaysian, from Malacca. After graduating from Chinese school and taking the O-level exam, she came to Ximu Electronics Factory as a clerk. Later, she studied a course jointly organized by the Singapore Management Institute and an Australian university and obtained a Diploma diploma.

Huiyun later married a local Singaporean and obtained Singapore citizenship last year. Now she has told the HR specialist that she is responsible for the HR affairs of foreign workers such as Li Xiaofan.

When she interviewed Li Xiaofan and his group of mainland employees in Hangzhou at the beginning of last year, she also went with Manager Gu Weikun. When Li Xiaofan and his group first arrived at Singapore Airport last year, Huiyun was also responsible for picking them up at the airport. Later, she was also responsible for a lot of miscellaneous matters such as physical examinations and dormitory allocation.

She is very familiar with Li Xiaofan and his group of mainland employees, because she also started as a foreign clerk at the bottom, so she understands Li Xiaofan and his group very well. She is very kind and patient, just like a caring elder sister.

In the HR office, Huiyun saw Li Xiaofan again who came to handle the resignation procedures, and said: "Afan, have you really thought about resigning?"

"Well, I have been thinking about resigning for a long time. Sister Huiyun, thank you for taking care of us! Now please help me with the final resignation procedures..."

Huiyun wanted to make a final effort: "Afan, you have been promoted from a level 5 operator at the bottom to a level 2 technician, and you have enjoyed the treatment that others may need to work hard for five to ten years in the factory to get in advance. And this time, we have only one place for you in the NPB Productivity Academy training in the whole factory. I feel that if you continue to work here, you will have a bright future! When your colleagues in the office knew that you were going to resign, they all felt sorry for you. Now, before signing these final documents, do you still want to think about it? It's not too late to regret it now! ”

“Sister Huiyun, don’t think about it, just help me with the formalities as soon as possible!”

“Well, Manager Gu has already informed me. Then you sign these documents now, and then go to the Finance Department to pay the penalty of 2,000 Singapore dollars… After these internal procedures are completed, I will go to the Singapore Ministry of Labor tomorrow morning to help you with the cancellation procedures of the WP permit. The procedures at the Ministry of Labor are estimated to take three to five working days. Once it is done, I will notify you immediately…”

“Thank you so much, Sister Huiyun!”

Huiyun finally shook her head: “Afan, you’re welcome. I feel that you may regret it in the future. Singapore is a small place, and business may not be as good as you think…”

“I know, thank you Sister Huiyun! I am still young now, and I want to give myself a chance to try!”

The resignation procedures today were smoother than Li Xiaofan imagined.

What touched him most was that colleagues and leaders at all levels who knew him well came to persuade him not to be impulsive after knowing that he was going to resign…

It made Li Xiaofan feel that this factory was actually very warm.

Usually, everyone performs their duties in the air-conditioned factory, working silently without much communication. But at the critical moment, the care and warmth between people are revealed, just like a warm big family, which makes Li Xiaofan feel a little reluctant...

The next afternoon, Li Xiaofan continued to follow Song Annie and A Qing to the Flextronics factory for after-sales service. At about three o'clock, he finished all the work neatly, and then asked Song Annie for leave to leave early.

Song Annie and the others knew that Li Xiaofan was already in the process of leaving the job, and they would not care about him at all.

At 3:30 in the afternoon, Tang Xinyi drove Li Xiaofan to the U.S. Embassy in Singapore.

The U.S. Embassy in Singapore is located in the embassy district on Napier Road, adjacent to the Chinese Embassy in Singapore, between the Singapore Botanic Gardens and Orchard Road, and next to the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The location is very good.

In his previous life, during the years in Singapore, Li Xiaofan went to the Chinese Embassy in Singapore once. The only time was before Hong Kong's return to China in 1997. After the death of Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of my country's reform and opening up, on February 19, 1997, the Chinese Embassy in Singapore set up a special condolence area inside the embassy to receive condolences from the general public working and living in Singapore.

That time, all the mainland workers working in the Ximu Electronics Factory, including Li Xiaofan, spontaneously organized to go to the embassy to pay their respects. Their feelings and starting point were very simple: without the reform and opening up led by Grandpa Deng, they would not have been able to go abroad to work and make money in Singapore...

In 1997, everyone in Li Xiaofan's group had at least 100,000 RMB in their accounts, and they could be considered the first group of people to become wealthy when they returned to China.

That time, Li Xiaofan remembered that there was a long queue outside the embassy's condolence area. There were not only a large number of mainland Chinese people working, studying and living in Singapore, but also many Chinese from neighboring countries such as Singapore and Malaysia. This surprised him. Grandpa Deng's influence was huge...

Li Xiaofan's visa interview with the U.S. Embassy in Singapore was scheduled at 4 pm.

In the afternoon, I entered the U.S. Embassy in Singapore, and the security was particularly strict. Because the Tokyo subway sarin gas incident had happened in Tokyo before.

Just before Li Xiaofan and his team went to Tokyo last week, a serious terrorist attack occurred in the Tokyo subway: the Aum Shinrikyo cult members who launched the terrorist attack released sarin gas on five trains on the Tokyo subway line 3, killing 13 people and injuring more than 5,000. On the day of the incident, several subway trunk lines around the Japanese government and the parliament were forced to close, and Tokyo traffic fell into chaos. Later, the mastermind of the Tokyo subway gas incident, Aum Shinrikyo leader Asahara Shoko, was executed.

The visa officer of the US Embassy in Singapore who interviewed Li Xiaofan was a fat middle-aged black woman.

At that time, there was a boom in studying abroad in China. The most difficult one to get was a visa to the United States. It is said that the approval rate of visas to the United States was less than 50% at that time, which means that half of the people's dreams of studying abroad would be shattered at the visa interview.

At that time, outside the US Embassy in China, you could often see people laughing, crying, going crazy, and going crazy after the visa interview...

After seeing Li Xiaofan's visa application materials, the middle-aged black woman had an unfriendly and suspicious look on her face and asked sternly: "Li, you are a WP permit holder working in a factory in Singapore, why do you want to go to the United States to discuss business?"

Oh shit, it seems that today's visa interview is a bit unsuccessful!