Chapter 46 Chapter Six

Ruan Shijie waited for Zhao Shuang at home. He paced the room leisurely, holding a filter-tipped cigarette in his carrot-like red and thick fingers. Light blue smoke was constantly sprayed out from his flat nose, filling the spacious room.Opposite the door is a large square table. On the table, there are large and small bowls and dishes as if offering sacrifices. Inside the bowls and dishes of different specifications and styles lie the corpses of certain animals. At this moment, some of these corpses After going through the oil pan, some climbed the mountain of knives, washed three times in cold water, and boiled three times in boiling water, all of them emitted fragrant white steam.The elegant and luxurious gold medal brandy climbed onto the table swaggeringly with an aristocratic air, ready to please the host and guests with his talents and ideas.Moutai, with the majesty of a king, wears a bright ribbon around his neck, and looks down at the mighty golden brandy with a condescending gaze, ready to teach him an excellent lesson at any time.Sure enough, when the hostess brought the cool pint, there was a slight misunderstanding between the elbow and the edge of the table, and the table moved a little, and it took the opportunity to hit the belly of the golden brandy with its head.The hostess kindly pulled them away.

This is the masterpiece of the hostess, the Ruan family woman, in an afternoon. Now, it is only waiting for the expert artist to appreciate and evaluate it. This afternoon, she was so busy that her muscles and bones seemed to be falling apart, her waist was sore and her legs were swollen.However, the most tiring thing is the mouth.The mouth fell into a state of extreme fatigue.She likes to say that as long as any cadres come to visit her home, she will always broadcast it non-stop, so that everyone knows how important her family is to this small town, and how much she owes to this family. Great responsibility.In her eyes, her home is the center of the world.

It's not a defect, it's nature, nature vanity. Ruan Shijie doesn't like his wife's mouth very much.If you talk too much, you will appear immodest. Smart people know how to be reserved, but my wife has never been able to understand the relationship between solemnity and reservation.When someone comes to the house, everyone can see it clearly. Is there a car or a small jeep to prove it? Why bother to broadcast it again?This broadcast, on the contrary, seems to be a big fuss.However, today's wife's broadcast did not arouse his dislike too much, on the contrary, he was a little supportive.He felt that this was a disguised demonstration.He wants to let the subjects of this house know that the current world is still his world.

The three-five-card wall clock hanging on the front wall rang, and the hour and minute hands were drawn into a straight line.It's six o'clock.It was already dark, and Zhao Shuang hadn't come yet. For this Zhao Shuang, he has never been able to figure it out, and he is not sure.This person seemed to have always kept him at arm's length, and was a bit stubborn, otherwise, he wouldn't have suffered such a big loss during the Cultural Revolution.What made him intolerable the most was that he almost had a falling out with him for a while.At that time, Zhao Shuang had already become the deputy mayor, and desperately recommended a man from a rich peasant family to be the director of an iron factory.If it weren't for the Cultural Revolution, he might have taken care of him. Yes, he would not allow such rebellious behavior to exist on this land.

During the Cultural Revolution, the rebels also embraced his thick legs.The entire land of China was turned upside down, only the land under his governance was as safe as a rock, and none of the people in his system were affected as long as they were in this small town.As for Zhao Shuang, he threw it out on purpose.But today, he wants to pick up this pawn who was thrown out again. It's not what it used to be. After all, he's back to be the secretary of the town committee who presides over the work! Ruan Shijie lit another cigarette. Those who came up during the Cultural Revolution were no longer reliable, even though they still occupied many leadership positions in the town, even though their ideas were so to his liking, even though they were brought up by him, they were useless!

Smoke hovered over his head like gray dreams. He believed that Zhao Shuang would come. My wife is complaining: "Hey, what kind of guest is this invited? We don't want to draw anything from his surname Zhao!" In her opinion, this is simply too unreasonable. In the past, the guests brought big or small bags here for treats, such as preserved eggs, jellyfish heads, big carp... Now, they eat from her house. And the damn guest didn't come on time.Things in this world are getting worse and worse. "Have you made an agreement with Zhao?" Ruan Shijie frowned, "I didn't see him, I asked Liu from the organization department to tell me!"

"Then, it's unreliable! I said, you go and have a look!" Ruan Shijie hesitated for a moment, and rejected his wife's suggestion, he couldn't lose his status. "Wait a little longer!" The chicken, fish and seafood lying in the dishes have lost their original enthusiasm, and the fragrant steam has stopped, as if they have all entered a state of hibernation.Gold brandy and Moutai were also a little annoyed by the unexpected neglect, and their silence with a high degree of contempt aggravated the cold atmosphere on the table. The ground was littered with cigarette butts.Ruan Shijie became a little impatient. He began to suspect that the subordinate in the organization department was dereliction of duty, so he decided to make a trip by himself.

His wife put a coat on him and told him to go and come back quickly. He nodded in response, and walked out of his house. When he came back, his face was extremely ugly, his eyes were drooped, and his face was stretched out.Zhao Shuang didn't want to come, he was presiding over an enlarged meeting of the town committee. ... Ruan Shijie sat at the table alone, and the whole table of wine and food seemed to be mocking him.He found a big glass, poured a full glass of wine, and drank it all in one gulp. In an instant, a burst of fire swallowed into his stomach, burning his internal organs.

Outside, snowflakes floated in the dark sky...