Chapter 17 first quarter

To my surprise, Mi Wei became the receptionist of the reception office of the municipal government.She has found a job. This afternoon, I went to Ningyang Hotel to visit an Englishman who was a businessman who came to Ningyang to invest in education. I met and entertained him in person.Ningyang Hotel is a hotel designated by the Ningyang Municipal Government, and the reception office of the Municipal Government is also located here. As usual, I first went to the reception office to say hello and ask about the guest's board and lodging arrangements. There was only one person in the office, and she was receiving faxes. Although her back was facing me, her figure moved me.How much like Mi Wei!I think.

"Hi." I greeted with a quick heartbeat. When she turned around, it turned out to be Mi Wei!She wore the same outfit as the receptionist at the reception office, with a badge with a number pinned to her chest. I was stunned there, speechless.Twenty days have passed since I returned to Ningyang from Guangzhou. This is the first time I have seen her, and it was by chance. Mi Wei smiled sweetly, "Deputy Mayor Zhang, hello!" She bowed and said, it was the kind of etiquette to treat people. "Be so polite to me." I said. "I'm at work," Mivi said. "Be polite and smiley to everyone who comes, including you."

"So, you should have been cold to me, but you had to force a smile because you were working," I said. "Do you think a person like me is suitable as a receptionist?" She looked at me, then looked herself up and down. "Fit," I said, "a surprisingly good fit." "Unexpected?" Mi Wei said, "I came in after a strict examination, and I didn't go through any back door! Yes, that's why you didn't expect it!" "That's what I mean." "However, sister Jin Hong's recommendation is true." "I thought it was Jinhong." I said.

"Who is talking about me behind my back?" Jin Hong's voice came from behind me. I turned around and saw Jin Hong walking in from the door, playing with a car key with a woolly monkey in his hand. "It turned out that Deputy Mayor Zhang arrived." Jin Hong said. "Let me see how the businessmen from England are doing," I said. "You have to ask Mi Wei about it," Jin Hong said, "She received it." I look at Mi Wei. Mi Wei said, "You didn't ask me." "How are the arrangements for the merchants from England?" I said.

"Live at 608," Mi Wei said, "The dinner will be arranged in the Golden Dragon Room of the restaurant." "Who's at the party?" I said. "You have to ask me," Jin Hong said, twitching her finger without a key, "You, Director Lu of the China Merchants Bureau, Deputy Director Huang of the Education Bureau, and the British guests, there are four in total." "No more?" I said. Jin Hong shook her head, "For a formal banquet, the driver and secretary usually don't accompany the leader to accompany the guests to dinner, you know that. But if you..."

"That's not what I mean," I interrupted, "I mean, don't the city leaders?" Jin Hong looked at me in surprise, "Aren't you the city leader?" I was taken aback, "Oh, once I'm happy, I forget who I am." Jin Hong looked at Mi Wei, then at me, "You should be happy. Your students are now your subordinates." I said, "Do I have to thank you then?" Jin Hong provoked the fluffy monkey on the key and said, "You can figure it out." Mi Wei said: "He is not happy for me!" "Oh?" Jin Hong looked at Mi Wei, "Why is that?"

"The guest is from England, so he is happy." Mi Wei said. I was taken aback, hearing Mi Wei's implication or knowing what she would say next. "Why is Deputy Mayor Zhang happy that the guests are from the UK?" Jin Hong said. "Because his wife is in England." Mi Wei said. "It's my ex-wife!" I said, glancing at Mi Wei. "The ex-wife is also a wife!" Mi Wei said, and she also glanced at me. "An ex-wife is an ex-wife," I said, "an ex-wife is not a wife." "I say yes!" Mi Wei said. I said, "You said yes? Why?"

"Because you still love her!" Mi Wei said, her eyes blinked and became moist, as if she had been tortured and wronged. "If you love me, you won't get a divorce," I said. "What kind of couple would get divorced if they love me? Are you talking about Jin Hong?" Jin Hong said: "I don't understand this." She continued to tease the woolly monkey in her hand. "You are a monkey and you don't understand?" I said. Jin Hong was taken aback, "You know I'm a monkey?" Looking at the woolly monkey in his hand, he understood something and nodded, "Oh, smart."

"You're really smart," I said. "No, I mean you're smart." "They're all smart," I said. "I'm the only one stupid." Mi Wei muttered aside. "Okay, okay," Jin Hong gently pushed Mi Wei, "Now take Deputy Mayor Zhang to meet the guests!" Mi Wei didn't move her body or feet. "Go?" Jin Hong pushed Mi Wei again. Mi Wei moved her foot. I thought the British were blond and blue-eyed, but I didn't want to be a yellow man, to be precise, a British Chinese, which was unexpected to me.He is bald, looks to be in his sixties, speaks fluent Chinese, and has a kind Chinese name: Lin Aizu.

I was originally speaking English with him, but as I spoke, it became Chinese. "Mr. Lin has lived in England for a long time, right?" I said. "For more than twenty years." Lin Aizu said, "As soon as China reformed and opened up, I went out." "China is still reforming and opening up, but you came back." I said, feeling inappropriate, "You are welcome to come back to invest and serve the country." Still feeling inappropriate, "Live in London?" "tell him. "Are there many Chinese in London?" I said. Lin Aizu said: "Know some." He looked at me, "Has Deputy Mayor Zhang ever been to England?"

I said, "No." Lin Aizu said, "But I think your English is pretty good." "I learned it in China." I said, "Has Mr. Lin ever been to Ningyang before?" Lin Aizu said: "No. But I know that Ningyang is... a moving place, so I came here." When I looked at Lin Aizu who was inexplicably moved, I was also a little baffled. After a brief meeting, we came to the Golden Dragon Room of the restaurant. The banquet was very grand, with delicious food and wine, the purpose was to let the British businessman who wanted to invest feel that the soft and hard environment of Ningyang City is a good place to do business. "There are a lot of families or parents who send their children abroad in Ningyang," said Huang Yongyuan of the Education Bureau, who is now the deputy director in charge of overall work. "You can open a school that specializes in training students to study abroad, and such investment will quickly return benefits and returns." "No." Lin Aizu put down his chopsticks and looked at everyone, "Are there any poor places in Ningyang City? Are there any children who can't go to school?" I looked at each other with the directors who accompanied me, not understanding what kind of medicine was in the gourd of this Chinese-British man. "As far as I know, there are." Lin Aizu said again. I said, "Yes, there are, but they are mainly concentrated in rural areas below the county level." "Okay," Lin Aizu said, his eyes brightened, as if he saw some hope, "I'm looking for a poor place!" "but……" Lin Aizu interrupted Huang Yongyuan and said, "I don't expect anything in return for my investment." Our pupils are dilated.What's wrong with this Chinese-British man?Isn't he a businessman?If a businessman doesn't do business, who is that?Either a philanthropist or a liar, I thought. "Very well," I said, raising my glass, "Mr. Lin, I respect you for your generosity!" Tomorrow, the Chinese-British people are going to visit the countryside and will be accompanied by people from the Municipal Education Bureau.I said I had a meeting and couldn't go.I'm actually terrified of meetings, but I don't like Britain - it makes me sad. Li Lun is rarely in the office, I finally caught him in the office today.His office is the same size as mine, but the orientation of the desks is different. His office faces north, while mine faces east and west.Did I say that the position of the desk is also particular?He said that, of course, we must pay attention to it.What do I mean by facing north? "I am a person with water in the sun pillar and heavenly stem," Li Lun said. "The favorable orientation is the north, unfavorable to the southwest, black, and unfavorable to red and yellow, so it is right to sit at the desk facing north. Painted black, it was originally reddish-yellow." I touched Li Lun's desk, "It's really dark enough." I said. "Isn't your desk facing north?" Li Lun said. I said, "I'm not like you." Li Lun said, "What does your Sun Pillar and Heavenly Stem belong to?" I said, "I don't know." Actually, I know. "Let me do the math for you," Li Lun sat on the executive chair and raised his head, "how many months have you been since 1964?" I said, "August." "What day is August?" "Twenty-four," I said. "Gregorian calendar?" "solar calendar." "What about the lunar calendar?" "July sixteenth." "July 16th," Li Lun pinched his fingers and meditated on something. After a while, he looked at me and said, "You belong to wood. People who belong to wood on the sun, pillar, and sky are in the east, and they are also unfavorable in the southwest." , but green is good, white and yellow are bad, your orientation should be sitting west and facing east!" I said, "I'm sitting east facing west now." "On the contrary, you have to change it quickly!" Li Lun said, "Also, the desk has to be painted green. Yours is still red and yellow, right?" I said, "Any desks painted green?" "If you don't paint, you have to paint!" Li Lun said, "It's your life, turn your desk around first when you go back." Seeing that I didn't move, "I'll go with you!" He stood up. I said I'll talk about it later. Li Lun looked at me, "What can you do with me?" I said, "The bridge." Li Lun stared, "What bridge?" I said, "Don't forget, when you promise to become the deputy mayor, you will find money to build a bridge for our village." "Oh, so that's the matter," Li Lun said, "There's no rush, we'll talk about it later." I said, "Li Lun, you are not allowed to go back on what you promised. Let me tell you." I pointed to the tall chair, "You are sitting in today's seat on good terms." "I know, I know," Li Lun stood up from his seat and came to me. "You prevent Mi Wei from suing me. In exchange, I will be responsible for finding money to build a bridge for our village, right? I must find this money." Yes. It doesn’t cost much, five or six hundred thousand is enough to build a bridge over the small river in our village, and it’s a piece of cake.” "Since it's a piece of cake, what are you waiting for?" I said, "The sooner the bridge is built, the sooner the villagers will end their days of climbing up and down on both banks and crossing the river by boat." "The Federation of Literary and Art Circles, I think so," Li Lun said, "We both came from the same village, and now we are deputy mayors, and it is our duty to benefit our hometown. However, we have just become deputy mayors, and we immediately change money. What will leaders, cadres around, and organizations think of us when we build bridges for our village? To say that we are biased is to use power for personal gain, do you know that? There are so many villages that need to build bridges and roads, why don’t you help find money?” He pointed at me like someone else, "Oh, my village has been paid for in threes and twos. I have built bridges and repaired roads. What does this mean? What is the principle?" He slapped the table One shot, "Where is the public heart?" I was taken aback. Li Lun changed back to himself and touched my shoulder, "Brother, we are still in the probationary period, and our status is still unstable. Now we are in a hurry to find money to build a bridge for our village. It is not good for us and has a bad influence. dont you agree?" I don't say anything. Li Lun said: "That's right." He looked at his watch, "Oh, I almost missed a big deal by talking to you!" He picked up his bag and went out. I yelled: "Li Lun! You are not afraid of folks prying your ancestral grave, you can build a bridge without asking for money!" Li Lun stopped like a car that had suddenly stopped.He turned around and stared at me like an overbearing hit-and-run driver stares at an innocent victim, "Who the hell would dare?" "If the folks don't dare, I dare!" I said. "What's the matter with you?" Li Lun said, "Where did I offend you again?" "You don't keep your promises. You said that after becoming the deputy mayor, you would find money to build a bridge for our village, but now you find excuses to shirk it. Are you still human?" I said. "I'm not a human being, but you are!" Li Lun said. He was obviously irritated. "I don't change money now, you look for it? You are also the deputy mayor. If you have the ability, you can find money to build a bridge for our village. The merit belongs to you!" "I don't have your ability to change money, but I'm not as shameless as you either!" "Am I shameless? Am I fucking willing to be shameless?" Li Lun said.When he saw someone passing by the door, he immediately shut up, and when there were no more footsteps, he looked at me again, "What did I just say?" "You said you were shameless." I said. "How can I be shameless?" Li Lun said, "How can I say that I am shameless? Impossible! I still have this bit of self-knowledge." "You said the money for building the bridge, are you looking for it, or not?" "What's the matter with finding it? What's the matter if you don't find it?" "Look, your ancestral grave is still in good condition," I said, "No, I'm ready to pry the steel rods for your ancestral grave. I don't have the ability to find money to build a bridge, but I have the guts to move your ancestor's bones, and I will do it too." Come out!" Seeing that I was serious, Li Lun was a little scared, and his tone eased, "The bridge will be built sooner or later, and the money must be found. I promise not to change," he said, "But wait for me, after we become regular. Okay? ?” He pinched the dangling bag to his armpit, “I’m going to build another bridge first, this bridge is very important, once this bridge is built, the bridge in our village will not be a problem.” "What bridge did you build?" I said. "Magpie Bridge." Li Lun said. "Magpie Bridge?" "right." "Who did you build the magpie bridge for?" I said. Li Lun's eyes were as careful and vigilant as a mouse, and then he went to close the door.He came back to me and said softly, "Mayor Jiang." I looked at Li Lun in shock, "Did you make a mistake? Mayor Jiang's wife has not passed away for a full month, and you are busy trying to marry him and be a matchmaker. It's too...not plausible, right? " Li Lun snorted, "I'm afraid it's too late. There are so many people who want to be matchmakers to Mayor Jiang now! There are so many flowers, and everyone is vying to see who is lucky." "I don't think you may be lucky," I said, "It depends on the time to flatter. Mayor Jiang is still in grief, or the old relationship is not over. It is impossible for him to find someone new at this time. What's more, with Jiang With the mayor's status and personal charm, there is no need for others to match him, right? If he wants to start a family again." "You don't understand that," Li Lun said. "Whether Mayor Jiang has a heart is his business. Whether I have a heart is my business." "You didn't go to the mayor's wife's memorial service, but you were very active in introducing the mayor's new wife. What are you so worried about?" Li Lun said: "I didn't go to the memorial service because I was visiting Japan and I couldn't come back. I told you that. Because I couldn't go to the memorial service, I felt guilty and disturbed, so I wanted to Make up for it! The position of the mayor's wife is now vacant, and it depends on who fills it up." "Then who is the happy woman that you will replace as the mayor's wife?" I said. "You'll know when it's done," Li Lun said.Like a person in a hurry for a meeting, he opened the door and walked out, then suddenly turned around and told me to remember to close the door when I left. I stood blankly in Li Lun's office for a long time, like an uninvited visitor being ridiculed.I seem to be left alone in the master's room, which is worse than being rejected.I was originally here to collect debts, because Li Lun owed me a favor, and I ended up becoming a beggar instead—Li Lun, who had sworn to find money for our village to build a bridge before taking office, is now cheating and arrogant.He pushed down the bridge connecting my impoverished village to the Cotai Strip, but he was busy working on a happy magpie bridge for two people—when I was working day and night on the mayor’s wife’s illness and future affairs in agony, But there are already a group of people rushing back and forth to choose a new wife. The mayor's wife who has died, I hope you are in the spirit of heaven and don't care about everything that happens in the world, because I thought that there is a mayor in heaven. I have received an anonymous letter. The anonymous letter stated that Huang Yongyuan, the deputy director of the Education Bureau, has a fake diploma. If such a person is appointed as the director of the Education Bureau, it will be a disgrace to Ningyang Education. This letter burns my hands like a soldering iron. I showed the letter to Secretary Mengfei. Mengfei said that the anonymous letter can be ignored. I said what if the letter said the truth? Meng Fei said that it depends on who wrote the letter and the purpose of writing the letter. I looked at Mengfei and didn't quite understand what he said. Meng Fei said that the person who wrote this letter must be Huang Yongyuan's opponent, or that he is the one who wants to be the chief. Who am I talking about? Meng Fei smiled and said who else, Tang Jin, at least had something to do with him. I decided to go to the Education Bureau for a walk. The Education Bureau is like a cold palace.The walls of the office building are still pasted with slogans saying "Deeply mourn Director Yang Wanqiu" and "Comrade Yang Wanqiu will live forever".I saw that everyone who came in and out of this place was top-heavy and had a stiff expression, which was undoubtedly the result of the slogan. I told the driver Wei Hai to tear up these slogans. Deputy Director Tang Jin received me calmly, as if he knew I would come. "Director Huang accompanied foreign businessmen to the county for investigation, and the bureau leader was at home alone." Tang Jin said. "Huang Yongyuan can't be called Director Huang yet." I said, "He is just the deputy director who presides over the overall work." Tang Jin looked at me with bright eyes, but said in his mouth: "It will be a matter of time before he becomes the chief. It's better to call him sooner than later." "Wouldn't it be to see who has the last laugh?" I said. Tang Jin's eyeballs were like eggs stuck in a bird's butt, he was in a dilemma. "If Deputy Mayor Zhang has any instructions, please tell me." He said. I spoke bluntly and said, "What university did Deputy Director Huang Yongyuan attend in the end?" Tang Jin said, "I don't know." "have no idea?" "Now you can study in college like a lantern, who knows." Tang Jin said. "What about you yourself, you should know what university you are studying in, right?" When Tang Jin heard this, he straightened his back, "Of course I know!" He said, "I graduated from the Department of Mathematics of East China Normal University, a genuine undergraduate diploma! Unlike some people, I went to a certain university to study a certain degree. Years later, when I came back, I stuffed the copy of the diploma into the file, and the completion certificate became a diploma, and the junior college became a bachelor’s degree.” "Some people you mentioned, who are they?" Tang Jin said, "It's not me anyway." "I see," I said, "Can I check the cadre files of your bureau?" Tang Jin said: "The files of our bureau leaders are all placed in the Organization Department." "I didn't say to look at the file of your bureau leader." I said. Tang Jin was taken aback, and said, "Oh, I heard wrong, I didn't hear clearly. I'll go and get the cadre file for you to see." I waved my hand and said, "I didn't make it clear." After leaving the Education Bureau, I called Wei Chaosheng, the deputy director of the Organization Department, in the car and asked if he could show me Huang Yongyuan's file.I thought it would be logical for a deputy mayor to look at the file of a deputy director-level cadre in his own industry, but Wei Chaosheng clearly answered on the phone that he couldn't. "Deputy Mayor Zhang, according to the regulations, only the standing committee members of the Municipal Party Committee in charge of the Organization Department can access the files of cadres at any time, sorry." He said.I said yes, then can you tell me which university Huang Yongyuan obtained his undergraduate diploma from?Wei Chaosheng hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Why are you asking this?" I said, "As the deputy mayor in charge of science and education, can't I even ask a cadre of the Education Bureau what university he went to?" "That's not what it means, old leader." Wei Chaosheng said. "Old leader?" I said in surprise. Wei Chaosheng said: "When we were in Guangzhou, you were the team leader of Comrade Yang Wanqiu's treatment leadership team, and I was the deputy team leader. Then you are my old leader." I said, "Oh, you remember." "That's right, Deputy Mayor Zhang," Wei Chaosheng said, "It's not convenient for you to look at my files here, but there is a place where you can look." "Where?" "Professional Title Office," Wei Chaosheng said, "there are archives of materials for every technical professional to declare their professional titles, and you have the right to read them." I say thank you. When I got back to the office, I asked my secretary, Meng Fei, to call the Office of Professional Titles, saying that I wanted to see the files of the education bureau's professional title declarations, including the files of the deceased Director Yang Wanqiu. I also wanted to see them. Half an hour later, the file I needed was on my desk.My desk is still stubbornly facing east and west, like a ship that never changes direction, and I am like the captain. I made another copy of the diplomas of Huang Yongyuan, Tang Jin, and Yang Wanqiu, kept them, and asked Meng Fei to return the files. Throughout the afternoon and evening, I was pondering and studying the photocopied copies of diplomas, like a cultural relic appraiser, identifying the authenticity of cultural relics. Because they were not originals, I did not find any flaws in the diplomas of Huang Yongyuan, Tang Jin, and Yang Wanqiu.That said, their diplomas are real, or at least they appear to be. However, how could Yang Wanqiu's diploma be real?She has no postgraduate experience in Eastern and Western universities, which I am sure, so where did her graduate diploma and degree certificate come from?On Huang Yongyuan's Beijing Normal University undergraduate diploma, the schooling system is written as two years (upgrading to a junior college). Did he study for one year or two years?Tang Jin’s undergraduate diploma from East China Normal University was written for four years, but the handwriting was blurred. Is the original copy outdated or intentional?Among the three of them, which one is true and which one is false?