Chapter 254: Seventies Treasure Appraisal System (28)

You should know, the highest rank currently held by a driver in the Mechanical Factory Transportation Team is only Level 2, and there is one and only one person who holds it: Master Lao Zhao.

There was a Level 1 Driver a few years ago, but later they were transferred to the Provincial Government to drive for the leaders.

Among the younger generation, Qin Zheng's Level 3 is the highest, but purely in terms of driving skill and adaptability, he could have been promoted to Level 2 long ago; he was simply stuck at Level 3 because his years of service were insufficient.

Nowadays, the Combat Readiness Motorcade under the jurisdiction of the Provincial Military District is expanding its recruitment; apart from age and driving experience, as long as one passes the political background check, there are no other restrictions, and the compensation after being hired is equivalent to that of a Special Grade Driver.

A Special Grade Driver!

To say nothing else, it is said that the basic salary alone is over eighty, and with allowances and subsidies added, it easily exceeds one hundred.

"Do you want to sign up?" Xie Yang noticed that Qin Zheng was also somewhat moved.

"Mm." Qin Zheng nodded, his reason straightforward and sufficient, "I want to change the environment, and while I'm at it, earn some milk powder money for our child."

"……"

The child isn't even here yet, but he certainly has plenty of ideas as a father.

But a tree moved dies, a person moved lives; the atmosphere in the current Transportation Team is clearly not as good as it used to be. Since he wants to try, Xie Yang is happy to see it happen.

"Go, go!" She encouraged him, "Since you want to sign up, then prepare well. I estimate they will adopt a recruitment exam that combines theory and practice. Next, take some time to look at driving-related theoretical knowledge. As for the practical side, you definitely have no problem with driving skills, but for more complex car breakdowns... why don't you take a pack of cigarettes and go ask Master Lao Zhao to give you some private tutoring."

"……"

The compensation conditions offered by the Combat Readiness Motorcade are so good that very few qualified drivers would not sign up.

Don't look at the fact that they are only hiring ten people; there are more than ten large-scale factories in Yongcheng alone, and each factory's Transportation Team has at least a dozen drivers, not to mention the motorcades of government agencies and public institutions, so the competition is still quite fierce.

Xie Yang has had several experiences taking civil service exams, and she has deep feelings about this kind of competition for jobs that is like thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge.

The main idea is "strive hard, leave no regrets," and as for what the result will be, leave it to time.

To put it nicely, it's called "man proposes, God disposes," and to put it bluntly, it's "do your best and leave the rest to fate."

Qin Zheng has already worked hard enough to earn milk powder money for their future child, so Xie Yang naturally wouldn't pressure him further; instead, she comforted him: "It's enough that you've tried, don't be under too much pressure. At worst, it'll be just like before; we won't have lost anything."

She even bought meat and large marrow bones to stew red-braised pork and make rich broth to nourish his body.

The rich aroma of meat suddenly wafted from the balcony of 208, enticing the neighbors in the Family Building to start secretly cursing Qin Zheng's wife for not acting like a human being again!

Isn't Qin Zheng preparing for the Combat Readiness Motorcade recruitment? How does Qin Zheng's wife still have time to stew meat?

Cursing her for being gluttonous and lazy really wasn't wrong at all!

At such a critical moment, she is actually still only concerned with eating and drinking well herself!

Hearing the neighbors in the building whispering behind her back, Kuihua Sao couldn't help but call out to Xie Yang, who had just gutted two Lijiang Crucian Carp at the water room and was preparing to return to her own balcony to stew tofu soup.

"Xiao Xie, the recruitment exam for the Combat Readiness Motorcade is in two days. How is Xiao Qin preparing?"

Xie Yang said: "It's alright."

Since he signed up, every day after dinner, she would use a Q&A format to spot-check his driving theory knowledge, asking about some sudden situations, such as how to handle it if the road is blocked and there is no way to detour, or how to respond to human factors like criminals hijacking the car, and so on.

During the day at the Transportation Team, Master Lao Zhao would call him to the side when repairing cars, cramming before the exam, teaching as much as he could.

This time, the Combat Readiness Motorcade obtained an approval slip from the Provincial Military District for recruitment, and all levels of units in Yongcheng must cooperate with all their might, so during this period, the transportation teams of various units did not assign tasks to their drivers.

Anyway, it's just the beginning of the year, and the factories have no urgent orders that need transporting, so they simply let the drivers prepare for the exam with peace of mind.

If they pass, they can bring fame to their original unit; if they don't pass, they still have to come back to work, and the unit loses nothing.

Therefore, the drivers who signed up have been looking for venues to practice their driving skills every day these past few days; of course, they have to pay for the gas themselves—it's already good enough that the unit is willing to lend you the car to practice.

Only Qin Zheng didn't go anywhere, going to work on time every day, except that he spent his time at work learning in-depth auto repair knowledge from Master Lao Zhao.

Master Lao Zhao's apprentice and nephew, Zhao Weijun, also signed up, but he didn't have much confidence.

Because when he entered the Transportation Team, Master Lao Zhao had already retired from the driving group to the maintenance group.

In these few years, what he learned most was car maintenance; his driving experience was not yet three years, and his driving skills were far less proficient than Qin Zheng's.

Master Lao Zhao looked at his dispirited nephew and felt frustrated that he wouldn't live up to his expectations: "Since you don't have confidence, then why did you sign up?"

"Everyone is signing up, and Mom and Dad also told me to give it a try, so I signed up."

"……"

Master Lao Zhao turned his face away, not wanting to look at this useless nephew: "Xiao Qin, let's continue!"

Having accepted a whole carton of Wutaishan cigarettes and two bottles of good liquor that couldn't be bought locally from Qin Zheng's wife, he had to teach him wholeheartedly.

Qin Zheng nodded and focused on learning from Master Zhao.

As a driver, one knows a little bit about basic maintenance, but one doesn't know the more complex stuff; after all, every trade has its master.

He cherished this opportunity to learn deeply and systematically from Master Zhao.

Zhao Weijun felt cold, his hands tucked into his sleeves, and he squatted to the side, asking curiously: "Brother Zheng, how did you know they would definitely test maintenance? What if they don't? Wouldn't you have wasted these days? I see everyone else is strengthening their driving skills."

Qin Zheng carefully noted down Master Lao Zhao's maintenance techniques before saying: "My wife said that since they are recruiting experienced drivers, the exam content won't be limited to driving. There is a high probability they will bring up practical problems like vehicle breakdowns on the road, road blockages, or even car hijackings. Being prepared for both possibilities is never wrong."

Hearing this, Zhao Weijun choked, thinking to himself: Doesn't Brother Zheng's wife barely have a primary school diploma? Can she understand these things? Won't Brother Zheng be misled by his wife? Wasting so many days for nothing... Sigh!

It wasn't until two days later that the Combat Readiness Motorcade posted the list of admitted candidates.

This expansion recruitment admitted a total of ten people, and Qin Zheng was prominently ranked in first place.

With three rounds of exams, whether it was the score of a single round or the total score, his was the highest; if the first place wasn't him, then who else could it be?

The drivers from the Mechanical Factory who went to take the exam were all envious:

"Our factory only had Qin Zheng pass."

"Congratulations, brother, you'll be able to get a Special Grade salary from now on!"

"Xiao Qin, did you know what questions would be on the test? I heard you were learning maintenance from Master Zhao before the exam, and it just so happened that they really tested emergency plans for serious car breakdowns. When I saw that half of the practical questions were related to maintenance, I was stunned."

"There was also a practical question about encountering a car hijacking in the wilderness. Qin Zheng just encountered that before the New Year, so he has more experience than us; it's normal for him to get a high score."

"I heard from Master Zhao that Xiao Qin's wife predicted these questions before the exam."

"……"