Chapter 18 second quarter

Huang Jielin embraced me with open arms, like a local politician or an enlightenment coach embracing a triumphant athlete, with an infinite sense of glory and pride permeating his brows and limbs.This is the first official meeting with him since I took office as the deputy mayor of Ningyang, in his office.Although I have been in office for more than a month since I took office, except for those days in Guangzhou, I have been in and out of East and West Universities every day, and I often pass by the office buildings of the universities, but I just don’t have the urge to go upstairs to chat with Huang Jielin.

But today I come, and urgently, like an ungrateful man with a conscience. Three months ago, also in this office, Huang Jielin gently pushed the document "Announcement on the Public Selection of 14 Deputy Department-level Leading Cadres in Province G" towards my eyes. The arena of power.Like a middleweight boxer, I fought hard in the ring, defeated countless opponents fairly, and climbed to the highest step restricted in the announcement or rules-the deputy mayor of Ningyang City. Now, as the vice mayor of Ningyang City, I hugged Huang Jielin, the vice president of Dongxi University, and sat on an equal footing. The two were once classmates of Peking University, colleagues, superiors and subordinates of Dongxi University, and now they are deputy directors. With the deputy department level, half a catty is right.

After the simple greetings, I said to Huang Jielin, "I'm here to discuss business." When Huang Jielin heard it, a particularly relaxed muscle on the left face moved to the right face, and one kind of pleasure turned into another kind of pleasure, "Please tell me." I took out a copy of Yang Wanqiu's diploma from my bag and handed it to Huang Jielin. Huang Jielin looked at the diploma, slowly tightened his facial muscles, and then looked at me quietly. "Excuse me, is Yang Wanqiu's diploma issued by Dongxi University?" I said. Huang Jielin remained silent.

"It was impossible for Yang Wanqiu to study for a master's degree in contemporary Chinese literature at Dongxi University between 1996 and 1999, because at that time I was the only tutor of the subject, and I knew exactly who my students were, that is to say, Yang Wanqiu's academic qualifications It is non-existent, but her academic certificate is real. Excuse me, why did Dongxi University issue her such an academic certificate?" I continued to ask. A smile suddenly appeared on Huang Jielin's face. He stood up and said, "Come on, I'll show you a place."

More than ten minutes later, Huang Jielin drove me to a piece of land adjacent to the Dongxi University campus that was under construction. Huang Jielin and I stood on the ground.He circled his hand and said, "This is Dongxi University Science and Technology Park, do you know?" I thought of the humiliation I experienced or endured for the project report of Dongxi University Science and Technology Park, and said, "I know it all too well. But I don't know it was built here." "Two hundred acres, do you know?" Huang Jielin raised his V-shaped finger, "Two hundred acres!"

"It's pretty big." I said. "Ningyang Municipal Government allocated it to us, do you know?" Huang Jielin said, "When Jiang Chunwen first became mayor, it was allocated to us in 1999." "Hearing what you said, I basically know what's going on." I said. Huang Jielin said: "It's good that you know, we've made it clear, I don't need to tell you anything." "But I want to say!" I looked at Huang Jielin, and then took out a copy of Yang Wanqiu's diploma from my bag, "This degree is related to the 200 mu of land, because Jiang Chunwen was the one who granted the 200 mu of land to Dongxi University The mayor, and Yang Wanqiu is the mayor's wife!"

"The mayor's wife has passed away!" Huang Jielin said, reminding me not to cling to the history of a person who has been buried. I said: "Yes, I know," I held up the diploma, "This diploma has no value and meaning to the mayor's wife. But, I want to know how many copies of such diplomas have been issued by Dongxi University? Others have No?" Huang Jielin turned his face and stared at me, "What do you mean? What do you think of Dongxi University? Is it a diploma wholesale department or a specialty store?" "You said it yourself, I didn't say it." I said.

"You want to come to liquidate Dongxi University, don't you?" Huang Jielin rolled up his sleeves, "Okay, you come! Welcome, warm welcome! You have only been away from Dongxi University for a few days? Huh? You are still living in Dongxi University, Just rebel against Dongxi University? Who do you represent now? Ningyang City Government? Ningyang City and Dongxi University are at the same level, can you control it?" Huang Jielin became more and more angry, scolding me like a father scolding his son.He took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, but he couldn't find something to light the fire.

I took out my lighter.Huang Jielin moved his mouth closer. But what I lit was not the cigarette on Huang Jielin's mouth, but the diploma issued by Dongxi University to the mayor's wife. The diploma is burning in my hand, like a ghost coin for the mayor's wife who has been buried in Jiuquan forever.It is priceless, but it is turning into ashes bit by bit. Eventually the ashes fell to the ground and became the fertilizer for the rich and decaying site of Dongxi University Science and Technology Park. The investigation into the authenticity of Huang Yongyuan and Tang Jin's diplomas in the name of the Office of Professional Titles came to fruition today.

Beijing Normal University sent a fax, clarifying that the graduation certificate numbered "Bi Zi 011788954" and the graduate named "Huang Yongyuan" were fake diplomas. Tang Jin's graduation certificate was confirmed to be genuine by East China Normal University. The educational background of the two deputy directors of the Municipal Education Bureau came to light. The question now is that Huang Yongyuan, who is in charge of the overall work of the Education Bureau, has made a serious mistake of forging diplomas. Can he still take on the important task of the person in charge?

Lin Aizu, a Chinese-British man who visited the countryside, returned to Ningyang.His face is full of benevolent smiles, as if the benevolence brought from a foreign country has fallen into practice. Huang Yongyuan, who accompanied the foreigners on the inspection, had an even brighter face, like a sunny sunflower. At the banquet where the wind and dust were washed away, Huang Yongyuan's report was full of joy and emotion—— On November 18th, we arrived in Zhudan and were warmly received by Chang Sheng, the magistrate of Zhudan County.He welcomed Mr. Lin with good tea and wine and local folk songs, treating Mr. Lin as a relative.The folk song is sung like this, "Hey, thank you, thank you Mr. Lin from England, now we have good tea and rice, hello, and there are more folk songs to respect relatives, respect relatives!" One cup is very exciting and touching.On the 19th of the second day, we went to Jingsheng Township, which is the poorest township in Zhudan County.Only when we arrived did we know that this is the hometown of our Deputy Mayor Dr. Zhang and Deputy Mayor Li Lun!The hometowns of the two deputy mayors have talents!Naturally, we went to Dizhou Village.Following the road that the two deputy mayors walked out, we came to the opposite bank of the village.Looking from the other side, Dizhou Village looks like a shining gem under the sunlight. dragon.What a feng shui treasure!Those who have been there are all so impressed.Then we crossed the river by boat, and the rower was the cousin of Deputy Mayor Zhang.The cousin of the deputy mayor Zhang is a great person, and the poems he exported are quite Tang and Song style. It can be seen that the education of this village has a long history and deep roots.But when we came to the village primary school, we were all shocked.Such a school that gave birth to a doctoral mayor turned out to be so dilapidated!The walls of each classroom are supported by wood, and they are in danger of collapsing at any time!Autumn in the mountains is already cold and windy, but many students are only wearing single clothes and barefoot, listening to lectures and reading aloud tremblingly in the classroom.The situation of the school and students made Mr. Lin cry on the spot!He decided to invest 500,000 yuan to rebuild Dizhou Village Primary School and buy a set of winter clothes for each student.After leaving the village primary school, at the request of Mr. Lin, we went to the home of Deputy Mayor Zhang and met his mother.Deputy Mayor Zhang's mother was very hospitable. Regardless of dissuasion, she entertained us by slaughtering chickens and sheep, and sent someone to invite Vice Mayor Li's father.At the house of Deputy Mayor Zhang, the house is full of various certificates of honor from the primary school to the middle school of Deputy Mayor Zhang, as well as the portrait of Deputy Mayor Zhang’s father and the group photo of his family, which became the target of our admiration, and became the place of our conversation after dinner. content.Mr. Lin also took pictures of the certificates and photos one by one, saying that he would take them back to the UK to inspire others.Deputy Mayor Zhang's mother heard that Mr. Lin was from England. She held Mr. Lin's hand tightly and asked him to make amends to his daughter-in-law who was a lawyer in England, saying that Zhang's family was sorry for her.We don't know why Deputy Mayor Zhang's mother said that.Exactly who is sorry for whom is still a question.Are you talking about Deputy Mayor Zhang?Mr. Lin promised Deputy Mayor Zhang's mother that when she returned to England, she would convey her greetings to her daughter-in-law, if she was lucky enough to meet her.That day, Deputy Mayor Zhang's mother told many stories about her daughter-in-law and Deputy Mayor Zhang, which made Mr. Lin reluctant to leave. In the end, he simply stayed and stayed at the Deputy Mayor's house.Our companions, of course, also stayed overnight in the village. On the 20th, we left the village and crossed the river by boat.When we went ashore, we still saw Deputy Mayor Zhang's mother, the villagers, and the teachers and students of Dizhou Village Primary School standing on the other side of the river, waving their forest-like hands.Tears welled up in Mr. Lin's eyes again. Looking at the blocked river, he said to the mayor of Jingsheng Township, I want to build a bridge here. Huang Yongyuan stopped talking.Like a master storyteller, he stops abruptly at just the right moment or at the climax, whetting the audience's appetite. Everyone's appetite was really lifted, looking at Huang Yongyuan, looking forward to the next episode. Huang Yongyuan said, "I'm done." Jin Hong said: "Huh? It's over? You haven't said how much it will cost to build the bridge!" Huang Yongyuan said: "I have to ask Mr. Lin." Everyone turned their attention to Lin Aizu, a Chinese-British man, to see how much money he could spit out. Lin Aizu said: "I saw the budget of Jingsheng Township today. The construction cost of Dizhou Bridge is about 1 million RMB, so I will pay 1 million RMB." Jin Hong yelled "Wow", "Including the 500,000 construction fee of Dizhou Village Primary School, that's 1.5 million RMB!?" Lin Aizu said, "Yes." Except for me, all the people present raised their glasses at the same time, vying to toast to the Chinese-British people who had verbally thrown over a million dollars. Finally, I also raised my glass, "Mr. Lin, if you are not drunk, I would like to toast you." Lin Aizu said: "I'm not drunk." He drank the wine. I also drank the wine.But I still don't believe in my heart that this Chinese-British man will keep his promise.Why should he have a soft spot for my poor and white village?There are so many places in China, why did he choose to come to Ningyang and go straight to my hometown?His identity, origin and motives are very suspicious.I don't even believe that he is a philanthropist now, he is a liar.Also, how credible is Huang Yongyuan's report?Since his diploma can be forged, isn't it easy to fabricate the patriotism of an overseas Chinese?If there's a liar's university, he'd be the real deal with a Ph.D., I think. After the banquet, a group of people chose to see off Chinese-British Lin Aizu, but Jin Hong came to see me off.She got into my car and insisted on taking me back to East West University. "Is Mi Wei doing well with you?" I said.The meaning behind my words is obvious, why didn't Mi Wei come to accompany me for dinner tonight? "Today she rests." Jin Hong said. "I said why didn't I see Mi Wei today?" "You haven't," Jin Hong said, "I don't want to say that Mi Wei and Jiang Xiaoyong are together now, but I have to." I looked at Jin Hong as if hearing bad news. "Jiang Xiaoyong started chasing her after returning from Guangzhou," Jin Hong said. "I think they are already living together." "Really?" I suppressed my sorrow, "So it's not your fault that Mi Wei came to the reception." "My credit is only that I protected your future." Jin Hong said. "My future?" I looked at the road illuminated by lights under the night, "You are my guiding light, right?" Jin Hong said: "Young and beautiful girls are bad for you, not good for you, and the same is true for men in politics." "But the girls you receive are younger and more beautiful than the other, and all the girls you receive are men who are in politics." "That's just the reception," Jin Hong said. "Anyone who has a deep relationship with the girl in the reception office will always end up paying a heavy price." "Like?" I said. "For example?" Jin Hong sneered, "If I'm not mistaken, the car you're using now was used by a man named Lan Yingjun. He used to be the deputy mayor, your predecessor." Stretching forward, "Is that Xiao Wei?" The driver Wei Hai drove the car and said, "Yes, but Deputy Mayor Zhang and Lan Yingjun are different. Lan Yingjun is greedy for money and sex, and both. But Deputy Mayor Zhang has neither problem. How can you compare Lan Yingjun and Vice Mayor Zhang? How about the mayor?" Wei Hai connected the past with the future, it seemed that he was not concentrating on driving. "Yes, Deputy Mayor Zhang is different from Lan Yingjun," Jin Hong said, "so I dare to sit next to him and send him home." "Talk about my predecessor, how heavy is the price?" I said. Jin Hong said, "Xiao Wei, tell me." Wei Hai said, "No, you say it." Jin Hong said: "After Lan Yingjun got well with Xiaoliang, our receptionist, it got so bad that he had to divorce his wife. The divorce was over, but his ex-wife revealed that Lan Yingjun took bribes. People went in when they were getting married. Xiao Liang left the reception office because she hid the passbook cash Lan Yingjun gave her, and was fired." I couldn't tell whether it was sad or embarrassing, and I didn't speak for a while. "I don't want you to make the same mistakes again," Jin Hong said, she touched the handle of the car door, "but with the lessons learned from the past, you probably won't." I looked at Jin Hong who was beside me like a protector, and said: "You don't want to see me fall under the pomegranate skirt, but you are willing or conniving that Mi Wei, who you regard as a beauty and a disaster, is dating our Lord Mayor's son. I don't know what's on your mind?" "Jiang Xiaoyong is different!" Jin Hong said, "He is not a politician, but you are. They are suitable, but you are not." "That's right," I said, "Jiang Xiaoyong is not the mayor, he is the mayor's son! The mayor's son has a beautiful woman, it was created by heaven and earth, jackals match beautiful women!" Jin Hong looked at me, "Deputy Mayor Zhang, your Mandarin isn't good enough? It's Cai, not Chai. You've been a Chinese professor." "It's an associate professor," I said, "do you know why I have been rejected as a professor?" Jin Hong said, "I don't know." "Want to know?" "Think about it." "Because I don't know the jackal," I said, "but now I know, wit and jackal. Unfortunately, it's too late." "It's a blessing in disguise, but you don't know it's a blessing." Jin Hong said. I was stunned, remembering that another woman told me the same thing.Her name is Mo Xiaoping, my ex-wife's divorce lawyer, and Mi Wei's half-sister. "Why do women who interfere with my happiness always comfort me with this sentence?" I said. Jin Hong said: "It turns out that I am not the only woman who loves you." "Fortunately, she's not as explicit or as pretty as you," I said. I asked the driver Wei Hai to stop, and I want to get off.Wei Hai said, did Deputy Mayor Zhang want to urinate?But there are no toilets nearby.I said I wasn't going to the bathroom and I was going to walk home.Wei Hai said that would not work, the area is not safe and the law and order are not good.He continued to drive.I said I have nothing now, who can do anything to me?Wei Hai said that you are the deputy mayor and you have been on TV, so someone will recognize you.If I say I am a corrupt official or a corrupt official, am I afraid that the people will poke my spine? Jin Hong said, "Xiao Wei, just stop the car and let him get off." I was walking back to Dongxi University on foot like a gambler who has lost all his money.I feel that I really have nothing left, because I have completely lost Mi Wei.In the gamble of love, I lost to Jiang Xiaoyong.A publicly elected deputy mayor lost to the mayor's son.And all of this is my fault.I was indecisive, and I led wolves into the house—I should never have let Jiang Xiaoyong know Mi Wei.What happens when a tiger meets a frivolous sika deer?What is the end of meat buns beating dogs?Is there anyone as stupid as me in this world of the jungle?I stood on the side of the road, made a trumpet shape with my hands, and shouted at pedestrians, "Is there anyone as stupid as me?" and shouted "Silly B!" at the stars. The pedestrian didn't answer, just looked at me like a madman. There is an echo in the starry sky: silly——B. A car pulled up next to me, honking its horn. Jin Hong's head protruded from the landing window, looking at me silently. Wei Hai jumped out of the car and forcibly pulled me into the car. I sat in the car sluggishly, motionless. Jin Hong said: "I have a brother, when he is crazy, he is just like you." The place I invited Mo Xiaoping to come was the Xuangong Restaurant in the Hawaiian Hotel.I know very well why I invited her here, because her half-sister Mi Wei treated me to a meal of 6,000 yuan here, and then she got drunk, but I wasn't.Mi Wei got drunk because she wanted to give me her body but I didn't want it. She thought I thought her body was dirty.And I wasn't drunk because I couldn't get drunk with Mi Wei. I thought I should be like my wife Cao Ying who was waiting for my reunion in England, and I couldn't do anything wrong to Mi Wei.So that day I dragged and carried the drunk Mi Wei from this restaurant back to the room, and then slipped away.I did something that I regret very much today.But Mi Wei's sister Mo Xiaoping didn't know about it. Mo Xiaoping is here.She saw me raising my hand to her and came over.I asked her to sit down across from me. She looks better than the last time I saw her, but she is still not beautiful. Compared with her alluring and beautiful sister, Mi Wei, there is still an essential difference. gene.Although I haven't met their fathers, I can imagine that Mi Wei's father must be a tall, handsome and dignified person, while Mo Xiaoping's father is the opposite. Seeing me staring at her in a daze, Mo Xiaoping smiled and said, "It's rare for you to look at me like this. Have I become more attractive?" I said, "You are indeed better looking than the last time I saw you." Mo Xiaoping said: "Being pleasing to your eyes, I think you don't hold grudges against me anymore." "Why should I hate you?" I said, "Because you and I went to divorce?" Mo Xiaoping laughed again, probably because of my humor. "If I were your wife, I would never divorce you. Too bad I'm just a lawyer." "But lawyers have the ability to turn other people's wives into ex-wives." "So you should hate me, if you still hate your ex-wife." I said: "In the Chinese idiom, there is only love for the house and a bird, there is no hate for the house and a bird." "So we can still sit and eat together," Mo Xiaoping said, she stared at me, "Why invite me?" I couldn't tell the reason for a moment. "Did you inquire about your ex-wife through me?" Mo Xiaoping said, "But it is very difficult for me to get in touch with her now. Her contact information has changed, but I can try." I shake my head. "Remember you sent me a text message?" I said.I picked up the mobile phone on the table, "On the day I passed the cultural examination at the deputy department level and entered the interview." Mo Xiaoping said: "Remember. It's a blessing in disguise." "There was another person who texted me almost at the same time as you," I called out the text message on my mobile phone, "She said, if you want to go to heaven, you'd better be an officer; if you want to go to hell, you'd better be an officer." .” "This person seems to be cursing you?" "Not a curse, but a wake. And you are a congratulation." "People are different." Mo Xiaoping said. "It was sent to me by your sister Mi Wei." Mo Xiaoping's eyes widened, but she didn't look surprised, "Only she dares to say such things to you." "Your sister invited me to dinner here." I said. "Why didn't you invite her here today, but me?" "How is she?" I said. Mo Xiaoping said: "Well, I don't know, I haven't seen her for almost a month." "Really," I said, "I thought you knew more about Meeve than I did." "It seems that you have paid for this meal for nothing," Mo Xiaoping said, "But I can pay the bill, so I, as a sister, will pay for it." "Yes, if you bring enough money." Mo Xiaoping said: "Joke, I am a lawyer, can't invite a deputy mayor to dinner?" I pointed to the food and drink already on the table, and said, "Look clearly, the bird's nest alone costs two thousand, and this bottle of wine is XO, at least three thousand. Do you have so much money with you? No Swipe your card." Mo Xiaoping took out her wallet and looked at it, then shook her head. "But I have, seven or eight thousand in cash," I said.I took a wad of cash out of my pocket and showed it to her, "It's not enough for me to swipe my card." "What are you doing?" Mo Xiaoping said. "It's nothing, I'm afraid you'll pay if you order less. I'm afraid you can afford it, so I'll order expensive ones." I said. "You have only been the deputy mayor for a few months? You are already so rich!" "No," I said, "your sister told me what you said just now, and I'm just repeating it. Take a closer look at this wine, it's not XO, it's ordinary whiskey, and this soup isn't bird's nest, it's Chrysanthemum tofu soup." Mo Xiaoping really looked at the food and wine carefully and shouted that he had been fooled. "If you don't tell me, I really thought XO and Bird's Nest, I was almost fooled by you!" "However, whiskey is also foreign wine, and chrysanthemum tofu soup is also a tonic. It can not only worship foreign things, but also refresh the brain and filter the lungs." I said, and motioned the waiter to pour the wine. "Come on," I raised my glass, "Cheers!" Mo Xiaoping looked at me without moving, "Why cheers?" "Happiness." I said. "Happiness?" Mo Xiaoping was taken aback for a moment, her frown furrowed away quickly, as if there was something really happy about it.She raised her glass, "Cheers!" I poured her a glass of wine myself, and poured it myself. "But I can't drink anymore," Mo Xiaoping said, "I'm driving." "Okay," I said, "you watch me drink." I drank several glasses myself. Mo Xiaoping began to persuade me, "Don't drink too much." "I drink to the past," I said, "as much as the past!" Mo Xiaoping wanted to persuade me, but her cell phone rang.The phone's caller ID brightened her eyes, and her mood and voice were energized by incoming calls. "It's you," she said, "Hey, I'm having dinner with Deputy Mayor Zhang, who I knew before, and chat about my sister, who is his student. Hey, I don't drink, you Can you drink less too..." Mo Xiaoping was talking with the person on the phone, her tone and expression were infinitely sweet and happy, like a woman in love.She chatted with the man on the phone tenderly and lingeringly, completely forgetting that there was an extremely sad and painful man sitting opposite her. I just kept drinking. After Mo Xiaoping finished making the phone call, I thought I was already on the ground. Who exactly sent me home I don't know.When I woke up, my body was already on the bed in my apartment at Dongxi University, and no one else was there.Then I started to suffer from insomnia, and when I couldn't sleep, I wrote in my diary.