Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 436: Encountering Workplace Exclusion

He neither asked anyone to take Hua Lei to the barren mountain to have a look, nor did he ask her to go there by herself. He acted as if he didn't want to make things difficult or help, and didn't care about anything.

Including the plan that was returned by Emperor Shengwu, Hualei was not shown it. So for a moment, Hualei didn't know what the specific requirements for opening up the wasteland were?

Moreover, if Hualei only looks at the topographic map of the barren mountains without visiting the barren mountains in person, she will not be able to make assumptions behind closed doors.

Moreover, with so many barren mountains, which one did the Forestry Bureau want to start transforming? What was the boss's idea? Hualei had no idea.

If she wanted to go see it by herself, could she go there directly, or did she need to report and bring someone with her? Hua Lei had no idea at the moment.

At this time, Hua Lei was sitting in the office room of the Silin Bureau near the door, silent. She had been sitting here for three days, looking at the dozen or so colleagues in the room, each of them seemed very busy.

After three days, Hualei also discovered that in addition to the officials with ranks, the Silin Bureau also had many unranked staff. These staff seemed to be divided into different areas to complete the instructions issued by the officials.

However, as a new employee, her boss did not assign any work to her, and she herself did not know if she could command these people, so she could only watch from the side for the time being.

She picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, lowered her head, and began to concentrate on the topographic map of the barren mountain in her hand.

In fact, Hualei was already very familiar with the topographic map of the barren mountain. When she was reclaiming land for herself, Hualei looked at the topographic map of the entire barren mountain.

However, at that time, as for the barren mountain that did not belong to her, she only took a quick look at the surrounding terrain and knew that her own barren mountain was located in the southeast corner of the entire barren mountain.

The next thing to be reclaimed are the twenty or so barren mountains adjacent to their own barren mountain. These barren mountains are generally shaped like a long gourd, nestled in the northeast area of ​​Shangjing City along the southeast, northwest and northwest directions. The barren mountain in the northwest extends all the way to the official road from the north gate of Shangjing City to the north.

Suppressing her inner anxiety, Hua Lei looked at the topographic map carefully and roughly copied a map of the barren mountains in the notebook she brought with her.

Then, he marked each hill with a number. In addition to his own four mountains, there were still twenty-five barren mountains that needed to be reclaimed.

Another day passed, and still no one assigned anything to Hualei, and no one gave her any guidance. This couldn't go on, and action had to be taken.

So, on the fourth day, after having lunch in the canteen of the Silin Bureau, Hua Lei went to the gatehouse of the government office, found the gateman, Uncle Du, and filled out an out-of-office form. She planned to go to the barren mountain in person in the afternoon.

During these three days, she found that if officials from the Silin Bureau wanted to go out to do business, they had to go to the gatehouse to find Uncle Du and fill out an out-of-office form.

Write down the time you are going out, where you are going, the expected time of return, etc. Then, take this outing form and hand it over to your immediate boss, Mr. Yu.

When Yu Mushi received the outing form submitted by Hua Lei, he just nodded without asking or stopping her. Aren't you afraid that I will go out and fish in troubled waters, Hua Lei thought secretly.

After writing the travel list, Hua Lei returned to her desk, put the topographic map of the barren mountain, her own copy, and her charcoal pencils into her cloth bag, and prepared to set off.

When she reached the door of the office, three staff members caught up with her. One of them, a tall, thin man in his twenties, asked, "Deputy Envoy Hua, are you going to the barren mountain?"

Hualei nodded.

"Then can you take us there? We have nothing to do this afternoon. By the way, my name is Gao Tiedan, and others call me Tiedan. These are two of my fellow villagers. This one’s surname is Yuan, and we call him Little Yuanzi. This one’s surname is Hu, and others call him Little Huzi."

Gao Tiedan looked at Hua Lei, pointed at the other two people next to him and introduced them, while asking softly.

Hualei was startled and asked, "Aren't you divided into different areas?"

"In fact, the staff working there are not divided into different districts. It's just that they have been here for a long time, and some adults are used to using them, so they regularly ask them to do things. Over time, they think they are from the same district.

However, we three did not have any. We were recruited last month through the martial arts competition and have only been here for less than a month. Since we are not familiar with the affairs of the government office, few adults come to see us.

We have nothing to do for now, if Deputy Envoy Hua doesn't mind, please take us with you." Another chubby man named Xiao Yuanzi said.

It turned out that he was facing the same situation as me, being excluded from the workplace.

"Okay, let's go together." Hua Lei was more than happy to have someone go with her.

"Okay, Deputy Envoy Hua, wait a moment, we will also fill out the outgoing form." The three people said happily. The three people came in through the martial arts examination and could read a few words.

Soon, the four of them got on Hualei's carriage and went to the North City Gate. Hualei planned to go to the barren mountain beside the official road in the North City first.

At first, when the three men saw Hualei's carriage, they were very hesitant and said that they could follow on foot and let Hualei go first, but this was too slow.

At Hua Lei's insistence, the three of them got on the carriage, but two of them squeezed on the footboard in front of the carriage, and one squeezed with the coachman and did not enter the carriage.

Since they themselves were unwilling to enter the carriage, Hualei no longer insisted. So, she opened the door and talked to these workplace rookies who had been here a month earlier than her to learn about the situation.

These three people were not from Shangjing City, but from Shengyang Prefecture, three or four days away from Shangjing City. Two of them were from the same village.

The family was composed of ordinary poor people who cultivated a few acres of thin land. During the slack season, they would go to the mountains to hunt rabbits and pheasants, pick mushrooms and other things and sell them at the market to supplement their family income.

This time, he barely passed the martial arts exam, but because his score was poor, he could not go to the government office he wanted to work for. However, because he was a mountain dweller and often went back and forth in the mountains, he was selected to work in the Silin Bureau.

However, after joining the Silin Bureau, he had no background, no acquaintances to help him, and he was not very familiar with the mountains and forests in the capital.

Therefore, when officials assigned people to do things, it was never their turn, so they spent every day doing nothing in the office.

Don't think that they can be lazy just because no one asks them to do anything. If no officials assign them work for three months, there will be no officials' signatures on their evaluation forms.

In this way, they would most likely be considered incapable of doing their job and fail the assessment, and would be sent back to Shengyang Prefecture.