Chapter 2 Chapter One

one Huang Jiangbei had predicted that before the age of forty-five, he would accept another crucial appointment.But I didn't expect that this appointment would come so "suddenly" and urgently, and it would directly involve Zhangtai City, my hometown.What was even more unexpected was that for this appointment, the five standing committee members of the Provincial Party Committee actually summoned him together to talk to him collectively.The general office sent a big six-cylinder Audi to the construction site to pick him up, and it was already 2:30 midnight when he arrived at the Provincial Party Committee Building.go upstairs.turn the corner.Go upstairs again.Turn again.As soon as the door was pushed open, the members of the Standing Committee, who looked extremely tired, were already sitting there waiting.The conversation began at 2:45 midnight and continued until about 6:00 the next morning.

Regarding this conversation, the Provincial Party Committee later reported to the Central Committee as follows: Ten days ago, when the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the People's Procuratorate of Zhangtai City in our province was investigating the corruption and bribery case of Xiao Changhai, the general manager of the Municipal Housing Corporation, it accidentally obtained the city's female mayor and famous female model worker Dong Xiujuan for accepting 85,000 bribes in the same case. Thousands of conclusive evidence.Two days later, with the approval of the Provincial Political and Legal Committee and the Provincial Procuratorate, it was decided to file an investigation against Dong Xiujuan and place her in criminal detention.However, when the comrades from the Anti-Corruption Bureau arrived at Dong's house, the female model worker who was famous inside and outside the province in the 1960s and 1970s had already died in her bedroom.The cause of death is unknown.For this reason, the Provincial Party Committee decided to urgently transfer Huang Jiangbei, the forty-two-year-old deputy engineering director, from the construction site of Sino-American Chemical United Corporation, thousands of miles away, to Zhangtai to act as acting mayor...

so and so. Etc., etc. two Forty-two years old, for a man, should be regarded as the most powerful, the most beautiful, and the most capable time in his life.At this time, the old ones will not ignore you because you are too young, and the young ones will not avoid you because you are too old-fashioned.The old ones will entrust you with burdens that they have been unable to carry because you are younger than them, while the young ones will give you the trust they would not normally give to others because you are more mature than them.So you become an indispensable social glue, adhering, inheriting, creating, synthesizing, and opening, and you are watched by everyone, expected by everyone, and targeted by everyone.Forty-two years old, it inherently has the largest heat exchange coefficient, the best price-performance ratio, the strongest engagement force and the largest torque.Whether it is biting others or biting oneself, blood can be seen at the mouthful.Unless sick.

Physiologically?Psychologically?Personality?ability? three But Huang Jiangbei is not sick. Four Huangjiang North: Born on September 13, 1949, in a courtyard where railway workers live together in the old town of Zhangtai City. In 1967, graduated from the No. 3 Middle School of Wugong District, Zhangtai City. In 1969, he joined the army during the queue jumping period. He retired from the army in 1973 and volunteered to work in Inner Mongolia.In that not all "Golden Ranch", I worked as a herdsman, worker, workshop technician, deputy director of the workshop, and deputy chief of the technical department.

In 1977, he was admitted to the Geophysics Department of Tsinghua University.During the school period, he served as the vice chairman of the student union of the school. In 1982, he was admitted to the Graduate School of Peking University, where he studied Chinese philosophy.In 1985, he gave up his quota of staying in Beijing and voluntarily asked to return to work in the province. He successively served as a teacher at the Party School of the Provincial Party Committee, deputy director of the Linshui Heavy Machinery Factory, and deputy director of the Policy Research Office of the Linshui Municipal People's Government.

In 1989, he was transferred to the construction site of Sino-American Chemical United Corporation, and has been the deputy chief commander of the project until now. The comrade joined the Communist Youth League of China in the No. 3 Middle School of Wugong District, Zhangtai City in 1965, and joined the Communist Party of China in the army in 1973. Fives Secretary Sun of the Provincial Party Committee said, I'm sorry, it happened so suddenly, I should have sent someone to ask for your personal opinion in advance, and give you a little more time to think carefully, but now I don't have time to go through this normal procedure .The situation has been formed.The Provincial Party Committee has made its final decision.Don't hesitate any longer.do it.The Provincial Party Committee knows you.I will definitely support you too.We have already greeted Zhangtai Municipal Party Committee and Comrade Lin Chengsen.You just go to work.

six heat. He opens his coat. Some familiar, unfamiliar or half-acquainted comrades in the provincial party committee came forward to congratulate.He dealt with it humbly for a while, then quickly got into the milky white Santana and drove towards West Avenue. seven On West Avenue, there are few pedestrians, and the sun is thin. After a long time, there will be an old-fashioned bus that is covered with dust.Once again he saw the young woman with the dog crossing the road.She is of medium height, always wears white cotton pajamas with rolled lace, and has short boyish, if not entirely boyish, haircuts.A pair of extremely delicate feet were tucked into a pair of fluffy slippers.The white cotton silk pajamas were quite thin, and the tailoring was such a fit that it outlined her extremely well-proportioned figure with clear outlines.She looked back at him, and he thought she was serious.Then she disappeared.Later, she will appear in places where she should not appear.Then she turned around and looked at him quietly.She is so white and pure, as if she will never be contaminated by the dust of this world.They are absolutely strangers, but her smile is absolutely familiar.Where is she from?She will disappear behind which block, which building, which doorway, which window... Someone on the street is decorating the signboard of the store.Someone fried dough sticks in front of the Fifth Law Firm.Two people, or more, stood dumbfounded by the frying pan.Walking tractors with trailers spout black smoke, gray smoke, yellow smoke, red smoke, or a combination of yellow, yellow, and red smoke, and their operators of different ages wear all kinds of cheap wrinkled clothes. Dirty suits, sportswear, or double-breasted coats made mud-stained tractors swarm over the sky and cover the sky, pouring towards the city one after another, just like when the Allied forces landed in Normandy and divided into 120 groups.It's really hard to say.

Eight He asked himself: Really go back to Zhangtai to be the acting mayor? Santana finally drove out of the city.There are many broad-leaved poplars beside the road.It was very dark in the car.We can barely see Huang Jiangbei reclining on the back of the back seat with his eyes wide open, staring at the unremarkable scenery outside the car window.Then, the car drove along the narrow and crowded Wharf Street, and after a while, it stopped beside a noisy and dirty river wharf.He found a bank with one hundred and twenty steps, and walked down.The old brick steps were broken, stained with dark water, and covered with dark moss.A small star of bright yellow flowers actually bloomed in the moss.He went on down.There is a steep bank on the left.There is also a steep bank on the right.A few yellow fruit trees that are not too thick grow out of the brick cracks on the bank wall, and their black and sparse branches stretch out into the eddies on the water surface, sometimes very obliquely and far away.The wind here has a salty smell, a fishy smell, and it is extraordinarily humid and shady.There are several antique teahouses on the bank wall, like houses on stilts, protruding out of the water.Melody full of various modern desires comes out from the antique window lattice.He also saw a piece of rusty iron chimney pipe, dripping smoke oil, like some withered vines with only traces left, wandering in black and yellow on the white and white brick wall.For many years, he always liked to come here to stand.Get closer to the water.Get closer to an old brick wall.hear something.Think of something.Get what you can't get.Find what can never be lost again.Stand still for a while.

Recently, Zhangtai has had a series of accidents, not to mention panic, but also to say that people are impetuous. Teacher Ge's daughter ran away.She must be twenty-four or five years old.A very intelligent girl.leave suddenly.Wanfang Automobile Industry Corporation, the largest Sino-foreign joint venture in Zhangtai, has broken ground for several years, and the state has invested several hundred million yuan, but it still cannot be officially put into production.Mr. Ge, the Chinese general manager of the head office, is said to have fallen ill suddenly.Then came the death of Dong Xiujuan.Secretary Sun said that at a "cabinet" meeting, the central leaders were already talking about everything.If Wanfang can no longer invest in production, the ass will be hit on the provincial party committee.It's time to fight.Is Dong Xiujuan's death related to Wanfang's delay in putting into production?Is Ge Ping's running away just a common mental disorder in puberty?Always walk across the road calmly, lead a gorgeous and cute puppy, and wear white cotton pajamas?What happened?It is said that Dong Xiujuan died of taking poison.real?Was it suicide or homicide?A majestic mayor, after more than ten days of abnormal death, still hasn't figured out whether it was suicide or homicide. Wouldn't the world laugh out loud?The level of criminal investigation and forensic medicine of any municipal public security bureau will not be so bad.

Is it because someone needs this kind of "unclear"? Who needs it? what kind of need? If it is necessary, can it be said that Dong Xiujuan's death is also "someone needs her to die at this time"?It seems that many people in Zhangtai City are whispering behind their backs. The death of a mayor, whether it was suicide or homicide, must involve a long list of people with sufficiently special status and status.This should be said to be common sense.Who are they?For what reason did this "former model worker" female mayor be forced into the alley of abnormal death?for what?

Nine heat. ten The gray-black river water was surging, slapping against the solid bank.Some old flat-bottomed barges towed a long string of wooden cargo boats, pushed away the thick ripples, and moved slowly on the river.On the opposite bank of the river stands a huge sign board, on which a huge arrow is drawn, pointing blood red at the bottom of the river.On the top of the arrow there are several eye-catching characters written in black paint: Cable across the river.Because the sky was already overcast, and because the wind pushed over clouds of high-density moisture like mist, the low old buildings and tall, low, round and flat trees on the opposite bank were blurred for a while, and they were in the wind at the same time. Together they are faintly visible, as if they are shaking, and they seem to be stretching.On Dock Street, people come and go.Those individual small restaurants and small department stores competed to shout "I am a wolf from the north" or "Come to Taipei in winter to watch the rain" through loudspeakers of various sizes erected at the door.In the dark and deep St. Joseph's Chapel at the back of the street, there were crowds of people, candles were shining brightly, and the organ played the "Wedding March" solemnly and magnificently.There are twelve young girls kneeling in front of the altar, and the vow ceremony is being held for these female believers.Jesus, who suffered deeply on the cross, looked at the dark roof of the church with half relief and half helplessness.On the altar were twelve sets of black nuns' costumes, and twelve snow-white flower crowns.These are all prepared for the twelve young female believers and the bridegroom of Christ. eleven Half an hour ago, Secretary Xu from the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee tiptoed into the meeting room and told Huang Jiangbei in a low voice that a lesbian named Lu Hua in Zhangtai called him and left a phone number. Ask him to call her back as soon as possible, she has a very urgent matter to find him. Lu Hua is Teacher Ge's wife and Ge Ping's mother. She said that someone saw Ge Ping on Dock Street last night. Ge Ping is her runaway daughter, the talented student who has just graduated from the School of Foreign Languages ​​for only two years. Jiang Bei, you are the most trustworthy and most willing to be close to the person in ordinary times.Maybe you can come forward and persuade her to come back.Please help, I know I shouldn't bother a senior leader like you with such family matters, but I really can't think of a better way.For Lao Ge's sake, and for Ping Ping's sincerity and trust in you, you should make a move.she says. Lu Hua is right.Twenty-seven or eight years ago, Lao Ge, Ge Huiyuan, the only mechanical expert in Zhangtai City who had been to the United States and Germany, and was retained by the Ministry of Machinery Industry, due to the conceivable reasons at that time , was sent back to his hometown from Beijing, and worked as a math teacher and physics teacher at the No. 3 Middle School in Zhangtai Wugong District.Later, he served as the principal for several years, not only teaching Huang Jiangbei's generation, but also his own daughter.Among those brothers who often come and go in and out of his house, Ge Ping respects Huang Jiangbei the most.The reason for respect is that when there are many people, this senior brother never fights over what to say and do in front of the teacher. When he talks about doing it, it is often that no one talks about it and no one comes to do it, but father needs someone to discuss it the most. when helping.After talking, doing, and helping the teacher, he never showed off among his brothers and sisters what he had done, said, and made a difference.But he doesn't show off, but she just can't forget it.He really is like a big brother.Reliable and considerate.She never had a brother.She wanted so much to have a brother. twelve In fact, in many respects, Ge Ping is calmer and more rational than his brother Huang Jiangbei.Tall, with a flat smile.She always looks like a good girl, which makes all the old men and women in the compound like her heart-wrenchingly.In people's minds, she seems to always wear such a pair of clean lime blue jeans. It is strange that she always refuses to wear skirts, especially miniskirts.Ordinarily her age is the best time to wear miniskirts.She has a thousand reasons to show off her two extremely talented long legs, but just like Huang Jiangbei, she is naturally reluctant to show off.It is not uncommon for people not to want to show off but to be noticed.Of course, there must be a premise here, that is, he or she must have something real on him or her, and must have a real unique skill.Then I wore a very bulky natural linen shirt that was pulled down to the knee, white socks, and a pair of very high-end white loafers.No matter what kind of crowd you are in, when you look at her, she is like the only white sail on the thousands of miles of lake. Love someone. Thirteen The rain finally started. no answer.Only the gradually increasing wind rushes over the old roofs of Quay Street, hits the wooden cargo ships moored on the beach by the river, hits the gray spire of the small church, and hits the swaying trees, Strike the undulating land on both sides of the river.The clouds became thicker and thicker, rolling and rushing over.A window hastily closed.The second window was also hurriedly closed.Then there is the third fan, the fourth fan... fourteen When the milky white Santana stopped in front of the Chinese and Western-style villa in the Provincial Party Committee Guest House in the heavy rain, Huang Jiangbei didn't get off the car immediately.He likes to look at the Provincial Party Committee Guest House in the rain. He has been to this "manor" with lush forests many times. With the different status, status and tasks to be accepted each time he enters, this "manor" is in his heart. The feelings produced will also change accordingly.Sometimes it looks gloomy, sometimes it seems too cold, sometimes it gives so much gentleness and open-mindedness, and it is full of September sunshine everywhere.Of course, most of the time, it is more like a celibate and rich old girl, with weird and emptiness that is unbearable.Over the years, with the change of his status, Huang Jiangbei has almost lived in all levels of rooms in this "first" guest house, from triple rooms, to double rooms, to single rooms, loft rooms, suites, and even this time. The "luxury high-end suite" arranged by the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee has gone through the whole round.What needs to be explained in particular is that, no matter what status he is in or what grade of room he lives in, after each stay, he has to find some time to take a walk around the small building dedicated to receiving the heads of the central government.That's in another yard.It was separated by another fence, and it was a gently undulating slope with green grass and denser trees there.In spring there are sure to be apricot and pear blossoms, and later in the day, there will be apple blossoms and crabapple blossoms quietly blooming.Towering plane trees and ancient pavilions, quiet and wide driveways and closed gates.He has to stand in front of that gate for a while.He knew that for more time, no one lived in that door.He knew more of the time it was quieter than anywhere else.An orange-red iris grows in tall, dark broad-leaved forests.Even in the season when there are no flowers blooming, the overlapping, high and low, deep and shallow green one after another is an eternal flower.On foggy or fogless mornings, you can always hear the crisp birdsong here. This is childhood.He couldn't explain why he had to take a walk in front of this gate, to experience the unique tranquility and calmness here, as well as the grandeur and magnificence he imagined.Then, the car drove past.Especially the south-facing room on the second floor, bathed in the golden color of the setting sun.The granite walls, the wide wooden lattice, and the brown windows tightly sealed with thick green velvet are already middle-aged and elderly. For a long time, what Huang Jiangbei has longed for most is to find a sunny rest day and let himself lie among a large number of newly published physics works (please note that it must be a work on "physics") , smelling the pleasant fragrance of ink as one likes, flipping from one book to another, accepting the impact of one new trend of thought and new concept after another, looking for these new trends of thought The connection between new ideas and reality.He once liked two books very much, one was Cosmogenesis by D. Layzer (some people also translated the title of the book as "Creation Theory-Unifying Modern Physics? Life? Thinking Science"), and the other One is Design for a Brain by W. R. Ashky.Physics was originally his specialty, while cybernetics and life sciences have always been the two fields he has always been most interested in. (In fact, he studied geophysics in college, specializing in storm surges, a very specialized branch. Xia Zhiyuan often joked with him, saying that it was because of his failure in Philosophy at Peking University in those two years that he was swept away by storm surges in nature. into the political "storm wave".) He has always hoped to find a new "scalpel" that can thoroughly analyze the world from the full combination of these three, a piece of precision that is far beyond Galileo's imagination. lens.Cross the swamp of the scientific worldview, and then enter the muddy world of the humanistic worldview.The great Ashka actually described such a large piece of theory (which absolutely effectively pushed cybernetics into the fields of biology, psychology, economics and social sciences) so clearly, so concisely, so simple and clear. Behind is two, what is behind two?You immediately shouted with him in pleasant surprise: Three! Can politics be so concise and clear? It had been a long time since he had been able to enjoy this kind of reverie with such ease.He is too busy. fifteen Xia Zhiyuan was urgently "called" by Huang Jiangbei.He was a classmate of Huang Jiangbei during Tsinghua University.Since the time of the student union, he has been "following" Huang Jiangbei for many years, working as his assistant, moving from east to west, north to south, and working all the way to the construction site of the Sino-American Chemical Corporation.Borrowing a sentence from the mouths of the "hutong stringers" in the north to define their relationship, that is the real "iron buddies" and "ferro magnetism". Upstairs, Room 205 has golden teak floor and brown-black Filipino wood wainscoting, a complete set of ash mandshurica polished piano lacquer furniture, a complete set of European-style office appliances on the large boss’s desk, and the pure wool saffron carpet ...Xia Zhiyuan walked up and down the carpet comfortably with the soles of his socks on, without even wearing slippers.He left the construction site of Sino-American Chemical United Company and returned to Zhangtai half a year ago, and the relationship was restored. The reason he gave at the time was to return to Zhangtai to solve personal problems.He is two years older than Jiangbei, and has always been single. He has a girlfriend named Shan Zhaoer, who was originally a flower of the Zhangtai Municipal Party Committee.I have been with Zhiyuan for many years and have a good relationship, but I am not married.It's not his fault, it's all Xia Zhiyuan's own fault.He really likes Zhao'er.He didn't want to wrong her.He felt that Zhao'er was able to be good to such a "black-faced guy" like himself, and persisted for many years without changing his mind. It can be said that he had suffered a lot of grievances.If you really get married, you have to do a good job for her, and you have to be serious and worthy of others.It must be at a particularly suitable time and under a particularly suitable situation to find all the friends, colleagues, relatives and even old classmates that need to be found.You can't spend a penny of Zhao'er, you have to spend all of his.He was going to completely renovate the two old houses left by his grandfather. He asked someone to draw several designs. In the end, he believed a certain tabloid (this college graduate did not know when he got it) "Problem", I believe in the small informative columns in various newspapers), saying that a man does not get married until he is over forty, so he must pay great attention to the age of the other party, otherwise it will be very bad for eugenics.If the woman is over twenty-five years old at this time, then simply wait until twenty-eight.If the woman has passed the big bar of twenty-eight, then the age of thirty-three is the best fertility period.At that time, Zhao'er had just turned twenty-five, so he had to let people wait until twenty-eight.This time, something happened, not because of a change of heart, but because her cousin Tian Manfang, who is very capable, instigated her into the sea.The cadres of the municipal party committee were all gone, which made Xia Zhiyuan puzzled at first.Lao Xia, who has always been a kind and orthodox person, feels that it is okay to go to sea, but he must not give up his work in the municipal party committee.After all, it is the municipal party committee organization (Shan Zhaoer is still an excellent party member in the organization).In addition, no matter how he thought about it, he felt that Zhao'er must have gone to sea because he thought his salary was low.This made his manly mentality, which was already somewhat inferior, even more unbalanced, stubborn, stubborn, quarreling, fighting, and once or twice broke out, which hurt Zhaoer's heart.Once, twice, he became indifferent and ignored Lao Xia.Both threatened to choose another spouse.But two years have passed, no one has "chosen", no action has been taken, and the bachelor is still alone.But Lao Xia can't rest easy on this, because Zhao'er returned all the confession letters he wrote in the past.He felt that he had to take major measures to show his heart to the other party. If he didn't do this, it might be too late (Zhao'er was almost twenty-eight).Only then did he insist on being transferred back to Zhangtai, so that he could be close to Zhao'er, so that he could do more in-depth and detailed "ideological work" nearby. "Have you stopped Pingping?" Xia Zhiyuan asked. "Run away..." Huang Jiangbei sat down on the leather sofa wearily. Xia Zhiyuan was taken aback: "That's all you can do?" Huang Jiangbei: "Let's not talk about this matter..." Xia Zhiyuan: "Hey, you let her run away like this?" Huang Jiangbei: "Then what do you say?" Xia Zhiyuan: "Hurry up and take measures!" Huang Jiangbei: "I have asked the relevant departments here to assist in the search. If there is any news, they will notify me immediately. Now let's talk about the matter between us..." "What's the matter between us...?" "Don't worry..." "Don't worry. I have to catch the last bus back to Zhangtai." "I've already arranged a place for you to live here. In the evening, go to Tongheju, and I'll treat you to shabu-shabu..." "Don't come with me. What's the matter, tell me quickly." "Look at your virtue..." "Hey, buddy, I'll put the ugly words aside for now, you can talk about anything today, it's that kind of thing, please don't talk about it." "What kind of thing? It's so scary." "Don't pretend to be garlic!" "Hey, hey, you haven't said it yet, how do I know?" "It's fine if you don't know!" "Zhiyuan..." "Go, go, don't beat me up! Today you say to break the sky, but it won't work. Except for this matter, everything else is easy to discuss. Just this matter, no!" "But it's for this matter that I was in a hurry to find you." "Then let's not talk, goodbye." "Zhiyuan..."