Chapter 47 Chapter Eleven

The above is a short chapter, which is a necessary cutscene in the novel.Now let's run back to Xinshu Zhao to see what he is doing. This is the same room as the guest room in the guest house. When you open the door, you will find a long corridor with a number coded on the door.The room has an area of ​​fifteen square meters. A pair of simple sofas with a tea table, a writing desk, a single bed and two large bookcases are crowded, but they are tidy and tidy; the space on the wall is also I used it, and hung drawing utensils such as set squares and rulers.The old bachelor is not like the young bachelor. Years of celibacy have taught him to take care of himself.After coming back from City C, under the influence of Qian Ruquan, he even made two pots of flowers and put them on the windowsill, one pot of asparagus and one pot of spider plant, which are not actually flowers, but grass.

Ten days ago, the factory suddenly pulled him out of the design room and asked him to go to a mine twenty miles away to be an "on-site instructor".It wasn't his job, and he couldn't help.But he still obeyed the transfer and went to work on time.There are buses to pick him up and go to and from get off work, but he has to eat at the mine after get off work, because when he came back, the canteen here was closed.Therefore, he can only go back to "home" very late every day.One day, when he came back from get off work, he looked through the information he had brought back. Seeing that there was nothing to do, he spread the chessboard on the coffee table, and studied the chess game by himself according to the "Compendium of Chess Manuals" he bought from Nanjing. Come.

He was studying the second round - "Double Cannons and Two Soldiers Win Cannons and Double Officials", when Li Renzhong knocked on the door and came in. "Ah, Lao Li, why are you here? What's the matter?" He was surprised.Li Renzhong has never been to his residence.It is rare for a married man to visit bachelors. "It's nothing," Li Renzhong shook hands with him, "I'm passing by here, and I'll come and see you." He asked Li Renzhong to sit on the sofa, made a cup of tea brought from the south, and handed it to the factory director inside.The two talked casually, and Li Renzhong asked: "Hans is here and is installing WC, do you know?"

"I know." He thought to himself, maybe he should transfer me to work with Hans again.He really hopes to go and see how "advanced" WC is. "Have you ever looked for him?" Li Renzhong put the teacup on the tea table and glanced at the chessboard. "I've looked for it. The first time I went, the people at the guest house said they weren't there. Last Sunday, the old man at the gate told me not to go again, saying that Deputy Secretary Zhou had told me that Hans was here for work this time, except for the surname. Feng's translator, don't let anyone in, so as not to disturb him. In this way, I didn't go."

"Well, that's what happened..." Li Renzhong seemed to understand something, but he didn't continue. "Old Li," Zhao Xinshu said sincerely, "the last time Hans came here, he told me frankly that WC is actually a very backward thing, and it cannot be sold in Africa. Buying such a machine will not help us. Big. Last time you were on a business trip, I mentioned it at the bureau meeting, but..." Next, he swallowed the words cautiously. "Hey!" Li Renzhong took another sip of tea from his cup.The tea is very good, just like WC, it cannot be bought in S City.

"It was made by the bureau, and I didn't interfere. You know, some of us who go abroad to buy things don't understand the profession at all. They don't look at the needs, but how much foreign exchange they have to buy things; what's cheap to buy What... Now that you have bought something, let’s install it, at least it can still work, can’t it?” After being silent for a while, Li Renzhong suddenly remembered: “Hey, how could he tell you such a thing? What? I heard from people in the bureau that Hans kept talking about how advanced WC is!" "Oh," Xin Zhao said with a bookish smile, "That's not familiar, he just said that he regards me as a friend." "Then,"

Li Renzhong stared at him and asked, "Has he ever asked you to do something? Personal matter?" "No," Zhao Xinshu flatly denied, thought for a while, and then said, "No!" From his demeanor, Li Renzhong could tell that he was telling the truth; from years of experience, he also knew that this person would not lie.Li Renzhong heaved a sigh of relief, and at the same time felt that this person was pitifully honest; he didn't ask why he was not allowed to be an interpreter; Worry about whether WC is advanced or not. Li Renzhong silently put the teacup back on the coffee table.At this time, he noticed the chessboard.With a thought in his heart, he leaned over and looked at it carefully, and found that there was a chess piece on the chessboard, which was replaced by a toothpaste cap. He hurriedly asked, "Old Zhao, what is this toothpaste cap?"

"Oh, that's a black cannon." "Did you lose a black cannon?" "Well, this business trip was lost on the way." The nerd was baffled by the factory manager asking what these gossips were for, but Li Renzhong was a member of the factory party committee, and he had no right to disclose to the parties what was discussed at the party committee.Doing so is a violation of organizational discipline.In an instant, he calmed down, leaned back on the sofa quietly, and said with a smile, "Old Zhao, do you still like to play chess?" "Hey!" The nerd smiled embarrassingly. "When I have nothing to do, play two games to pass the time." Li Renzhong still played chess when he was in elementary school, and only knew that "the horse walks the sun and the word resembles a flying field".For the next forty years, he was either busy with studies, or with work and housework. Now that the burden of work has become heavier, he has lost interest in this entertainment even more.Having achieved the purpose of his trip, he raised his eyes and looked around.He found that although the room was neatly tidied up and the books and sundries were put in an orderly manner, somehow it gave people an uncomfortable feeling; Loneliness, loneliness and no thriving business.Even the pot of spider plants and asparagus on the window sill looked weird and limp, as if they didn't want to come, but were dragged here desperately by the owner.

What is missing here?It seems that there is everything, all the furniture is complete, but it seems that there is nothing, it is empty.Li Renzhong picked up his cup and sipped his tea slowly. After pondering for a while, he suddenly remembered: There is a lack of a woman here! Yes.He himself got married shortly after graduating from school and joined the party, and both husband and wife came to this remote mine.Although the living conditions were difficult at that time, the life of the newlyweds was still very happy.After having children, one, two, three, now there is already a big family surrounded by the TV every night.

And what about the nerd in front of him?I graduated two years earlier than myself, and I have been here longer than myself.But for many years he has been living in this deserted, lonely, lonely atmosphere.While the family was watching TV programs lively, he stayed alone in the house and played chess with himself.In the past, of course, it couldn't be said that the organization cared about him, and it was his blessing not to punish him.What now?I remember that in order for him to live alone in such a house, there were still people in the factory chattering gossip: the bachelors in the mine always shared a room with two people, and the workers lived in a room with four people, so why should he occupy a room by himself? between?

Suddenly, Li Renzhong thought again that the factory party committee had never had half a meeting on the life, work, and organizational issues of this nerd who had been immersed in mine construction for a long time and did whatever he was asked to do. When the incident happened, the party committee was hurriedly held three times in two days, tense and solemn.For a moment, the factory director's emotions were agitated, and he was determined to change this unfair thing. First of all, he had to solve the lifelong event of the nerd.This matter does not need to go through the party committee, he can decide by himself. "Old Zhao," Li Renzhong said affectionately, "You should have a family too! To be honest, I came here today just to talk to you about this matter. There is an accountant in the Planning and Finance Department, named Chen Shuzhen, and My wife works together and often comes to my house to play. I think she is a nice person, she is also very upright, she is also a southerner, she must get along well with you. Her husband is the teaching director of the middle school for workers' children. He died of cancer the year before last. There is only one girl who is in middle school, and there is not much family burden. How about it? Are you interested? If you want to talk, I will ask my lover to talk to her tomorrow..." Zhao Xinshu would blush when he saw a lesbian—for example, the last time he dealt with Sun Juxiang, he felt even more shy and uneasy when he heard someone introduce him to a partner.He huddled in the sofa, staring at the chessboard with his head buried, without saying a word. Li Renzhong couldn't get his opinion after asking for a long time, thinking that he agreed, so he stood up and said goodbye.Before leaving, he stared at the black toothpaste cap again. Li Renzhong decided to propose to convene the factory party committee as soon as he got to work tomorrow morning.