Volume 1 Chapter 4 Endurance

  Yang Bin's current workplace, Yunfeng City is a prefecture-level city, under which there are three districts and six counties. The three districts are Gufeng District, Yunxi District and Yuliang District, and also the newly established Yunkou Economic Development Zone.

  Yang Bin's residence and workplace, Xingye Building, are both located in Yunxi District. Like Gufeng District, it is one of the oldest urban areas in Yunfeng City. However, in recent years, it has been gradually marginalized, and the municipal party committee and government are now located in Yuliang District.

  When Yang Bin rushed into the lobby of Xingye Building, he found that it was already half past eight. He subconsciously took out his mobile phone and wanted to reload Tang Ying's photo again to avoid being late.

  But then the photo was gone!

  "Damn it!" Yang Bin cursed loudly, not daring to wait for the elevator, but instead took the fire stairs and rushed up four or five floors crazily, arrived at the office to punch in, then rushed to the meeting room of Project Three's morning meeting.

  Unlike other administrative departments, there is no such department at the provincial level or above. When cities and counties set up investment promotion agencies, some have administrative staffing, some have institutional staffing, and others are temporarily cobbled together with a mix of administrative and institutional staffing, which is quite confusing.

  Yunfeng City was upgraded from a county-level city to a prefecture-level city just two years ago, and the Yunfeng City Investment Promotion Bureau was established only a year and a half ago. At that time, the three directors and deputy directors, as well as the three department heads, were all transferred from other administrative departments. These people went on a field trip for several months, came back and set up several departments based on what they saw, plus a few personnel who were later forced to join from other departments and some so-called reserve talents recruited through civil service exams... including Yang Bin's batch, formed the current Yunfeng City Investment Promotion Bureau.

  Yang Bin applied for a civil servant position at the Commerce Bureau one year ago, when the bureau had four open positions for clerks. At that time, Yang Bin ranked second in the written exam among the eight people who entered the interview, and as long as he didn't perform too poorly in the interview, he would definitely be able to get into the position.

  With Yang Bin's undergraduate degree, after passing the civil service examination, he should have been a clerk. Coincidentally, Yunfeng City Government changed to a new leadership team at that time. The new leadership responded to the national call and streamlined various departments under its jurisdiction. Yang Bin and his batch were awkwardly reduced directly without being able to enter the establishment.

  But the China Merchants Bureau had just been established for a short time, and the workload was heavy with many tasks, so no one could do anything. Especially on the project side.

  At that time, the formal establishment of the China Merchants Bureau was only the director and the director. Among the 13 people, 12 were leaders transferred from other administrative departments, and only one was a clerk.

  So many complicated tasks, can't let leaders do them, but it's also unrealistic to put all the pressure on one clerk...

  Short and stout Director Huang Weilin instructed Deputy Director Dai Hongfei, who was in charge of the Project Department and Information Department, to solve this problem. The tall and robust retired military officer Deputy Director Dai kicked the problem to Director Sun Piaoyun of the Project Department. Director Sun's brain was still quite bright, after consulting with Deputy Director Dai, he immediately recruited all eight people who had excellent written test scores in the same batch as Yang Bin for the civil service examination and were preparing for an interview.

  These eight people are nominally project department staff, but in reality they are external personnel, with their personnel relations and salaries all attached to a proxy company under China Merchants Group. That is the Yunxing Commercial Trading Company where Yang Bin now works on the 9th floor of the Xingye Building.

  Later, among the eight people, only Qin Liang, who was seventh in the public examination written test at that time, used his family relationship to enter the establishment and became a clerk after one month. The other seven people are still clerks until now, which can be said to be temporary workers.

  After a year of hard work, the Commerce Bureau's work has been carried out very smoothly under the wise leadership of Director Huang and Deputy Directors Dai and Guo. Especially, the Project Department has done an excellent job under the leadership of Deputy Director Dai and Director Sun, with investment promotion reaching over 90 billion yuan in just one year. The originally quiet Yun Kou Economic Development Zone is now thriving day by day, which is very satisfying to the new municipal party committee and government leaders.

  Thanks to the repeated efforts of Director Huang and Deputy Director Dai, the expansion plan for adding a new project team in the Project Department of China Merchants Group has been approved this year, which means two more staff members are needed...two real doers. Because Yang Bin and his colleagues passed the civil service examination last year and have been 'interning' in the Project Department for a whole year, their business capabilities have been honed and recognized, so these two positions will be filled from among the seven of them.

  Yang Bin now belongs to Yunfeng City Investment Promotion Bureau Project Section 3, his direct supervisor is Project Section's officer Qin Liang... who was the only one among the eight people in the same batch as Yang Bin last year, and managed to enter the system after relying on connections.

  Due to the special nature of the project team's work and personnel composition, this project team three is no exception, just like the other two project teams, they do not work in the old building of China Merchants Bureau, but instead work in offices borrowed from outside companies. The office used by Project Team Three is that of Yunxing Commercial Trading Company.

  This is an independent office with an area of about 90 square meters, where six clerks are sitting in the outer large office. Then there is a conference room and reception room, and the innermost one is the independent small office of Qin Liang, the leader of Project Three Group.

  Today is Saturday, the project leader Qin Liang doesn't need to go to the office for work, but he wants to make achievements and gain experience in order to be promoted to deputy director in three years. So he keeps a close eye on Yang Bin and his team. Normally, on Saturdays, Yang Bin and his team would still have to work a full day, Qin Liang would use this time to listen to their reports on the week's work and urge them to plan for next week's work.

  Qin Liang and Yang Bin took the civil service exam together last year, when Qin Liang's written test score ranked seventh, far behind Yang Bin's second place, but he later entered the system, while Yang Bin only became an external staff member.

  This small difference is a world of difference. Now Qin Liang is Yang Bin's direct superior, and Yang Bin's work is specifically arranged by Qin Liang, and his work performance is also evaluated by Qin Liang. If he is not satisfied with Yang Bin, he can even suggest that the leadership of the China Merchants Bureau dismiss Yang Bin.

  Of course, if he is particularly satisfied with Yang Bin's work, he can recommend that Yang Bin be converted to a formal establishment in the bureau.

  Didn't they add two new clerical positions this year? It's going to be announced next Monday.

  But Yang Bin had already given up on him. Especially a week ago, he and Qin Liang had an unpleasant incident...

  Yang Bin and his girlfriend Zhou Xiao Yi, who had been dating since their sophomore year in college, took the civil service exam together. Zhou Xiao Yi ranked fifth in the written test, so she also became a non-staff member of the China Merchants Bureau, and later worked under Qin Liang along with Yang Bin.

  One afternoon a week ago, Yang Bin, who didn't smoke much, climbed up two floors in the stairwell, preparing to secretly smoke a cigarette behind people's backs... unfortunately, he bumped into Qin Liang and Zhou Xiao Yi, who were also hiding in the stairwell, embracing each other and kissing wildly, with Qin Liang's hand even inserted into Zhou Xiao Yi's pants.

  Yang Bin had thought that only his hand had ever gone into Zhou Xiao Yi's pants.

  The scene was very awkward at that time...

  Qin Liang left nonchalantly, leaving Zhou Xiao Yi and Yang Bin standing there in a daze.

  Yang Bin was indeed in a daze at that time, his first reaction was... this girl, is she really my girlfriend Zhou Xiao Yi who I've been with for four years? Am I seeing things?

  If Yang Bin hadn't been distracted at that time, Qin Liang might not have been able to walk down the stairs.

  After Qin Liang went downstairs, Zhou Xiao Yi simply laid her cards on the table and said that she had been with Qin Liang for a long time. Moreover, Qin Liang and Director Sun had already recommended her to the bureau leaders, and next Monday at the meeting in the bureau, she would be officially transferred into the establishment and become an officer of the China Merchants Bureau.

  She also said that all this was not Qin Liang's fault, but she actively seduced Qin Liang. So, let Yang Bin come to her for everything, don't go looking for trouble with Qin Liang.

  Yang Bin cursed and called her a "cheap person", then proposed to break up with Zhou Xiaoyi and turned around to leave. Of course, whether he mentioned the breakup or not didn't matter at that time, taking the initiative was just to save face a little.

  With his former personality, at that time after going downstairs, he really wanted to rush into the office, kick open Qin Liang's office door with one foot, press him to the ground and beat him up violently, or lift him up to the ninth floor window and throw him down to the street below.

  But in the end he still endured it.

  If he doesn't endure, all the efforts his parents made to get him into the system will be in vain.

  Can he enter the system? A whole year of hard work, a whole year of effort, a whole year of humiliation and hardship, only one week is left, he really doesn't want to make his parents sad because of his impulsiveness.

  Yang Bin also had a sister Yang Lan studying in medical college, and his parents, who were teaching at the township middle school, were heavily burdened. The tens of thousands of yuan spent on helping Yang Bin find work almost emptied out their family's savings.

  So, in any case, he must endure.

  Even if teeth are broken and swallowed with blood, one must endure!

  In fact, for men, the humiliation of being cuckolded is more unbearable than the humiliation of having their teeth knocked out and swallowing blood.

  But I couldn't bear it, so unless I decide not to take this road again...

  It's not that Yang Bin is determined to get stuck in this dilemma of life, but his father has high expectations for him. From the moment he graduated, he kept spending money to find connections and pave the way, emptying out the family's savings, step by step pushing him into this predicament.

  Yang Bin even began to suspect that the student who worked at the Cultural Bureau was a swindler, only wanting to cheat his parents out of their money. But his parents didn't think so, they said that in society, it's all about connections, if you don't do things this way, who would be willing to help you for no reason?

  Next Monday, at the meeting in the bureau, it will be officially announced which two of the seven non-staff personnel who passed the public examination last year will obtain the quota to enter the system and become formal clerks. The Yang family is holding great hopes for this.

  The student who works at the cultural bureau of Yang's mother said that he has already given several tens of thousands of yuan they sent to the leaders of the commercial bureau. As long as nothing unexpected happens, Yang Bin's transfer into the system this time should be a done deal.

  Of course, the premise is that nothing unexpected happens, but Yang Bin thinks so, generally speaking, this world will always happen unexpectedly, and if things go wrong, he will be unexpected next Monday.

  No matter what, the parents' hard work and savings over the years, as well as his own efforts and hardships for the past year, must be endured for these last few days.