Chapter 4 Chapter Four

On Sunday, Guan Yinda wanted to sleep well.He asked Secretary Tao, and there was nothing to do today.Secretary Tao is seldom free on Sundays, not in the countryside or in factories, but sitting in the office and reading documents.Secretary Tao said yesterday that he didn't even read the documents this Sunday. Guan Yinda always lacks sleep, but he still has to be active all day long.He was surprised that his energy was not as good as Secretary Tao's.Secretary Tao is in his fifties, always rosy and full of energy.He worked fifteen or sixteen hours a day, and Guan Yinda felt tired just following around.Guan Yinda used to run every morning, so he didn't get up early today, and fell asleep all the time.I didn't even bother to eat breakfast.

Suddenly someone knocked on the door.Asked who it was, but no one answered.He didn't open the door, and the door rang again.He was sleepy-eyed, opened the door to look, and was taken aback.It turned out to be Tao Tao, standing at the door smiling.Guan Yinda was only wearing shorts, so he was very embarrassed and hurriedly said sorry.Tao Tao handed in a plastic bag and said, "My father is looking for you." Guan Yinda didn't know what Tao Tao handed over, took it, and said, "I'll wash my face, and I'll come. You go first." Guan Yinda raised his hand and saw several steamed buns in the plastic bag Tao Tao handed him.He washed hastily and ran downstairs.But Tao Tao was standing downstairs waiting for him.Guan Yinda said, "Secretary Tao said I'm fine today, so I just slept in."

Tao Tao said: "No one blames you. You eat. I guess you must not have breakfast, so bring some by the way." Guan Yinda asked, "Did your father say something happened?" Tao Tao smiled and said, "It's fine if I come to call you on errands. What else do you have to do? Dad was going to call the duty room and ask them to call you. Anyway, I wanted to come down for a walk, so I came here." Guan Yinda was not used to eating on the road, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to grab the buns and start chewing.Wanting to finish eating quickly, I gobbled it up a bit.Tao Tao laughed and said, "Slow down, don't choke."

Guan Yinda smiled and said, "I can't be polite." When meeting some acquaintances, they all greeted Guan Yinda, but their eyes glanced at Tao Tao.They didn't know Tao Tao very well. Looking at their eyes, they must have thought that he had brought a girlfriend.Tao Tao is still in college and not very much at home.There are also those who recognize Tao Tao, and their eyes are a little strange.Their gazes were flying back and forth on the faces of Guan Yinda and Tao Tao.Guan Yinda felt uncomfortable and just wanted to go to Secretary Tao's house as soon as possible. "Tao Tao, I went to your house yesterday, but I haven't seen you back yet." Guan Yinda asked.

Tao Tao said, "It's just a holiday. The train didn't arrive until midnight last night." Guan Yinda smiled and said, "I miss college life very much now. One summer vacation, almost two months, is so enjoyable!" "People can't say for sure. Now we only hope to come out to work sooner." Tao Tao said. Guan Yinda asked: "You don't plan to further study? For example, to study abroad?" Tao Tao said: "I don't have this idea yet." I met Wu Mingxian coming head-on, smiling.Tao Tao knew him and called out, "Hello, Uncle Wu."

"I recognized Tao Tao from a long distance away. Did you just come back?" Wu Mingxian said, looking at Guan Yinda, his eyes sparkling. Guan Yinda said, "Secretary Wu, Secretary Tao is looking for me." Wu Mingxian nodded and said, "I see. Tell Secretary Tao that I'll wait for him in the office." Wu Mingxian walked away, and Tao Tao said, "Xiaoguan, my father likes you very much. What are your strengths? My father rarely talks about cadres at home." Guan Yinda smiled: "You also call me Xiaoguan, how old are you?" Tao Tao also laughed and said, "I can't call you Chief Guan, can I?"

Guan Yinda blushed and said, "The section chief is such a great official? Please." Tao Tao mischievously said: "If you call me Tao Tao, I will call you Guan Guan." Guan Yinda laughed and said, "Shut up Guan Suijiu! It doesn't sound good." Tao Tao slapped Guan Yinda on the shoulder hard, and said, "Who will shut Guan Suijiu with you!" "I offended the eldest lady, Xiaosheng dare not do anything wrong." Guan Yinda joked. "It can't be called Guan Guan, it doesn't sound good to be called Yin Yin, just call it Dada..." Tao Tao suddenly fell silent, his face flushed with embarrassment.Guan Yinda also blushed, and looked away, as if she hadn't heard anything.He didn't know if Tao Tao had read it, in which the woman called her beloved man Dada.

The two of them were silent, went up to Taoling, and arrived at the small courtyard of the Tao family.Tao Fan is splashing ink on the generous table under the eaves.Hearing that Guan Yinda was coming, Tao Fan didn't look up.Guan Yinda went up to take a look, and saw Tao Fan writing the signboard of Taoyuan Hotel.He found it strange that Tao Fan never wrote inscriptions.I have already written several sheets, Tao Fan lowered his head and thought about it. "Xiaoguan, which one do you think is better?" Tao Fan asked. Guan Yinda tilted his head to look at it for a while, and said, "I like this one better."

Tao Fan nodded and said, "Then choose this one." Tao Tao looked at his father and secretly smiled.She wanted to glance at Guan Yinda, but her eyes only fell on his feet. Aunt Lin came out, and said with a smile, "Xiaoguan is here? Old Tao is also strange, he doesn't believe what I say, he just believes what Xiaoguan says." Guan Yinda looked embarrassed and said, "This is because Secretary Tao trusts me." Tao Tao finally raised his head to look at Guan Yinda, and said, "Guan Yinda, why do your words turn into official accents as soon as they come out of your mouth?"

Tao Fan laughed when he heard that.Aunt Lin scolded Tao Tao: "You are really rude to Brother Guan." Tao Tao stuck out his tongue, as if he thought the word Guan Ge was amusing, and said in a strange voice, "Guan Ge." While talking and joking, Tao Fan finished his breakfast with a splash.He instructs Guan Yinda to take the paper well.Tao Tao had already taken out her father's bag.Guan Yinda reached out to take the bag, and Tao Tao lowered his head and handed it over.Guan Yinda only felt that his face was hot, and his muscles and bones were a little stiff. Guan Yinda turned her head to say goodbye to Aunt Lin, but saw Tao Tao hiding behind her mother, looking at him with a blushing face.Guan Yinda's chest jumped violently.Every winter and summer vacation, Guan Yinda would see Tao Tao, and the two just said hello and said a few polite words.Unexpectedly, he was a little flustered this time.Last winter vacation, Tao Tao went to play in Guan Yinda’s dormitory and asked him, “I heard you are a poet?” Guan Yinda smiled: “What poet? Calling someone a poet these days is tantamount to cursing.” Tao Tao said: "No way! I really like poetry." Tao Tao borrowed all the magazines that Guan Tao Dafa had works.Later, Tao Tao left after school, but did not come to return the magazine.Guan Yinda couldn't explain why, but only hoped that Tao Tao would go on summer vacation earlier.

The peach leaves are the most luxuriant in this season, and the morning breeze blows, rattling, crisp and sweet.Tao Fan walked slowly on the path with his hands behind his back.As long as he doesn't leave the office compound on Sundays, he never works for the driver Liu Ping.People gradually discovered that Tao Fan was very lenient to the general staff, but he was strict with the leading cadres. Tao Fan suddenly asked: "Xiao Guan, Tao Tao and you get on well?" Guan Yinda didn't know what Tao Fan meant by these words, he was a little nervous, paused for a while, and answered the question: "Tao Tao is very lively." "Actually, it's naughty." Tao Fan laughed. "She's almost graduating from university, and she's still like a child. She hasn't thought about what she will do in the future. I mean let her continue her studies, preferably studying abroad. She doesn't have a Tell me the truth. Now my child, I don’t know who to listen to.” When Tao Fan talked about his daughter, his tone seemed helpless, but his expression was kind.Guan Yinda glanced at Tao Fan, the morning light was shining on the father's face, his face was rare and soft. "It's easier for you young people to communicate. Talk to Tao Tao and ask her what she thinks. You can tell her what I think." Tao Fan said. Guan Yinda replied: "Okay, I'll talk to her." Seeing that Tao Fan had gone, Wu Mingxian hurriedly said, "Morning Secretary Tao. I'll call Secretary Zhang." Tao Fan said, "Secretary Zhang, not Secretary Zhang." Wu Mingxian smiled, quickly changed his words and said, "Yes, yes, yes, please." Tao Fan himself didn't pay much attention usually, he either said please or called.But when Wu Mingxian said which prefectural committee leader to call, he felt awkward.Not long after Tao Fan sat down in the office, Zhang Zhaolin came in.Followed by Meng Weizhou.Guan Yinda and Meng Weizhou competed to pour tea for the leaders.The two poured tea and were about to leave when Tao Fan said, "You two don't leave, it's not about studying military affairs." Wu Mingxian asked: "Then I will start reporting?" It turned out that it was to study the renovation of several cadre dormitories.The agency hasn't built cadre dormitories for many years, and housing is quite tight.There is no money in the fiscal pocket, and the higher authorities are very stuck in building houses for the leading organs.The prefectural committee office studied a workaround plan to renovate several dormitories and increase the area.After reporting the plan, Wu Mingxian said: "We have solicited the opinions of the residents of these dormitories. Most of them are very welcome, but there are also a few comrades who disagree. Mainly old comrades. Comrade Chen Yongdong opposed the renovation of the dormitory. He said that his house is now It’s too big, so what else should I add? He also taught me a lesson, saying that when they first entered the prefectural committee, the secretaries of the prefectural committee lived in single dormitories.” Tao Fan said: "The key is to get the renovation plan right, and the work of the old comrades will be done slowly. The above said that we will not build buildings and halls. We must firmly implement this policy. But we must also proceed from reality, not to say that cadres' houses Don’t live here either. We don’t have to consider renovating or building new office buildings for the time being, but we need to pay attention to housing for cadres. I’m afraid I’ll lose my official status, and I don’t even consider the life of cadres. Tao Fan won’t do such a thing. You guys Let it go, the higher-ups will pursue it, and I will conduct a review." Zhang Zhaolin said: "Secretary Tao's guiding ideology is correct. It is not enough to focus on mobilizing the enthusiasm of cadres without fundamentally solving the living problems of cadres. As long as the work of veteran cadres is meticulous, they will be successful. They are all of high political level. The old leader is reasonable." Wu Mingxian said with a smile: "Only Comrade Chen Yongdong's work is more difficult. I have an idea. I just tell him that the house he lives in is already dilapidated and must be rebuilt and strengthened. This is a matter of human life." Tao Fan grimaced and said, "It's up to you how to do the work. I won't agree with you to deceive the old leader." After studying the dormitory renovation, Guan Yinda took out the Taoyuan Hotel inscribed by Tao Fan.Everyone naturally speaks good words.Zhang Zhaolin said, "Secretary Tao, why didn't you lose your name?" Tao Fan laughed and said, "How much is Tao worth? Don't sign it." Wu Mingxian said with a smile: "It's better to be named. Secretary Wu's words are all named." What Wu Mingxian meant was clearly demoting Wu Ziquan.Tao Fan was a little unhappy when he heard this, thinking that Wu Ziquan had only been down from the position of secretary of the prefectural committee for a few months!Meng Weizhou also said: "It's better to lose the name. Secretary Tao's characters can be handed down to the world." Tao Fan knew that if he went down, his characters would definitely be removed.He felt a little emotional in his heart, but just shook his head with a smile.Only Guan Yinda did not speak, and bowed his head to appreciate the charm of these four words.Signboard characters are difficult to write, and not all calligraphers are good at it.Tao Fan is not a serious calligrapher, but his calligraphy is perfect for a signboard.Guan Yinda thought to himself, why leave a name?If the name is left, the word will be replaced in a few years.Anonymous?Maybe it will stay.The four characters of Taoyuan Hotel written by Tao Fan have a broad body and dripping ink, and Guan Yinda secretly admires them.It's really strange, looking at Tao Fan's handwriting, the more you look at him, the more he looks like him, calm and majestic. Throughout the summer vacation, Tao Tao always went to Guan Yinda's dormitory to play.Tao Fan wanted to find Guan Yinda temporarily, and it was Tao Tao who rushed to report the letter.Aunt Lin saw something, and asked Tao Fan: "Old Tao, don't you think Tao Tao is a bit strange? She is usually very arrogant." Tao Fan said: "Tao Tao is getting old too, we can't let us go. I see, Guan Yinda is not bad." Aunt Lin smiled and said, "So, you agree with them?" Tao Fan said: "If you don't have a shadow, just talk about it. Seriously? Xiao Guan is a good seed. In a year or so, I will consider letting him go down to exercise. This kid Tao Tao doesn't know how to make progress. I want her to continue her studies, she just wants to come out to work earlier. I asked Xiao Guan to talk to her specifically, and that's what she meant." Aunt Lin sighed slightly: "Daughter's family, as long as someone has the ability to eat, let her do it." After dinner that day, Tao Fan suddenly thought of going to the office.Tao Tao hurriedly said, "Father, I'll call Brother Guan." Tao Fan looked at his wife and smiled, then turned to his daughter and said, "I'm just going to deal with a few documents, there's no need to call Xiao Guan." Tao Tao said, "It's more convenient for you to have him by your side. I'll call him." Tao Fan patted his daughter's head and said with a smile, "Go ahead. Tell Xiao Guan to go to the office, I won't wait for him at home." Tao Tao spoke in such a hurry, she got into the room but didn't come out for a long time.When she came out, Dad had already left.Tao Tao changed into a beautiful dress and dared not look at her mother.Mom pretended she didn't see anything, and only told her to go early and return early. Tao Tao walked down the mountain at a leisurely pace, fearing that her skirt would be wet with sweat.Seeing Guan Yinda's dormitory, her chest thumped.Knocked on the door, Guan Yinda answered, but it took a long time for the door to open.It turned out that Guan Yinda had just finished taking a shower and had just changed his clothes. "Tao Tao, sit down, I'll do the laundry first." Guan Yinda looked at Tao Tao and smiled innocently. Tao Tao said: "You don't have time to do laundry, my dad is waiting for you in the office." Guan Yinda said, "Okay, I'll wash it when I get back." Tao Tao said: "You go, I will wash your clothes for you." Guan Yinda panicked: "How can this be done?" "Why not?" Tao Tao snatched the washbasin after saying that. Guan Yinda blushed and smiled, "Then thank you." Just as Guan Yinda was about to leave, Tao Tao said again: "I'm going back to school tomorrow." "Tomorrow? What a quick summer vacation." "I didn't go anywhere this summer vacation, and it passed in a flash." "I'll come and see you when your father goes to the province for a meeting." "Are you going to see me alone, or with my father?" Guan Yinda joked, "Following your father is like accompanying a tiger. Dare I desert?" Tao Tao suddenly lowered his head and handed Guan Yinda a note.Guan Yinda felt his palms burning.He walked downstairs for a long time, not daring to open the note.The evening wind blows on the face, soft as brocade. Life is really wonderful, many inadvertent things may just be mysterious hints.One morning five years ago, Guan Yinda was exercising in the woods behind the guest house when he suddenly heard voices coming from somewhere.Looking through the forest, I saw a middle-aged man getting out of a black car.Immediately another lady led a girl out of the car.Zhang Zhaolin and the organization director of the prefectural committee were shaking hands around the middle-aged man.The girl was white and quiet, and the adults were chatting, so she casually looked around.She looked in the direction of the forest for a while, Guan Yinda thought she saw him, so she turned around. After breakfast, Guan Yinda heard that a deputy secretary of the prefectural committee was sent here, named Tao Fan.The deputy secretary of the prefectural committee was the middle-aged man Guan Yinda saw early in the morning.After two days, Guan Yinda became Tao Fan's secretary.He guessed that the girl must be Tao Fan's daughter, but he hadn't seen her for a long time.It wasn't until Tao's family moved into Taoling that Guan Yinda saw her in his courtyard from time to time.Hearing Aunt Lin call her daughter's name, Guan Yinda knew that the girl's name was Tao Tao.Tao Tao is in high school.She likes to sit on the stones in the courtyard and read a book. No matter how outsiders come in and out, her head will never be raised.The less she looked up, the more Guan Yinda wanted to see her face clearly.But she always makes him unable to see clearly, she is as mysterious as a fairy.He has seen her many times, but still can't remember her outline.Sometimes, he thinks of Tao Tao for no reason, and his mind is just a blur of whiteness. One autumn afternoon, Guan Yinda and Tao Fan sat in the courtyard and talked about calligraphy.Aunt Lin brought up the watermelon and said, "Don't talk too much, your mouth is dry, eat the watermelon." Guan Yinda was being polite when he suddenly felt itchy on the left side of his cheek, as if a butterfly was scratching it.He turned his face away and saw Tao Tao was sitting on the rock on his left, staring at him with wide eyes.His chest was suddenly empty. At that moment, his ears were deaf and his eyes were also blurred.Tao Tao also blushed, and hurriedly lowered her head to read a book. I remember that it was Sunday, and Tao Fan rarely had a free time.The two chatted for a while, and when they got excited, they spread out the paper to write.Tao Fan always gave Guan Yinda his pen, telling him to show off.The louder Tao Fan's haha, the more kindly the smile on Aunt Lin's face.Guan Yinda thinks Aunt Lin looks like her own mother.Tao Fan concentrated on writing, and no one made a sound.The grass insects squeak, but the breeze does not speak. Guan Yinda went up the steps in front of the office building, finally couldn't bear it anymore, and opened the note by the streetlight.Seeing that there was not a word on it, Tao Tao only wrote down the mailing address of her university. Guan Yinda's mind was buzzing suddenly, and his chest was thumping.He understood what Tao Tao meant, but he thought of another girl.That was his college classmate Xiao Quan.During his four years in college, the female classmate he got along with the best was Xiao Quan.The classmates all regarded them as a pair, but neither of them understood the meaning.When he was about to graduate, he took a walk with Xiao Quan on campus every day after dinner.The night before leaving school, the two still walked together.When we broke up in the middle of the night, Xiao Quan suddenly stuffed a note into his hand.Watching Xiao Quan disappear into the corridor of the girls' dormitory, he couldn't wait to open the note, and looked at it under the dim light, it turned out to be her home's mailing address.Guan Yinda had heard Xiao Quan talk about her hometown countless times, a small county town that was beautiful and exquisite.At that time, no one knew which unit they would be assigned to.Guan Yinda's family lives in the countryside, and communication is not convenient, so he didn't leave his address.He only knew his rough assignment, but he didn't know where he would go. Guan Yinda returned to his hometown in the countryside and wrote a letter to the address Xiao Quan left.However, until he reported to the Xizhou Prefectural Committee, he did not hear from Xiao Quan.Half a year later, it was already winter, and on a cold and rainy Sunday, Xiao Quan suddenly knocked on the door of Guan Yinda's dormitory.The two froze for a moment, then hugged each other abruptly.Xiao Quan just kept crying and didn't speak for a long time.Guan Yinda still couldn't figure it out, and the two started to quarrel for some reason.It seems that Xiao Quan blamed Guan Yinda for not writing the letter, but Guan Yinda said that his letter was muddled.It was late at night, and Guan Yinda wanted to send Xiao Quan to the guest house.Xiao Quan didn't say go or say no, just sat still.The two sat all night, reconciled for a while, and quarreled again for a while. The next day, Guan Yinda went to work with red eyes.Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the office, Zhang Zhaolin asked him to go to the county to investigate.He was in a hurry, and lied that he wanted to go back to the dormitory to pick up some clothes.Zhang Zhaolin said it wasn't a hot day, so he came back in a day or two, what clothes to pick up!The car had already started, and it stopped outside the office building with a bang.He had no choice but to bite the bullet and got into the car.It was said to be a day or two, but it would be four days after he left! When Guan Yinda came back from the county that day, it was already dark when he arrived at the prefectural committee.He got out of the car in front of the dormitory building, and looked towards his window almost in fear.God, black!Under the twilight, he ran upstairs like flying, and hurriedly opened the door.There was no movement in the room, and he dared not turn on the light.He closed the door and stood alone in the dark for a while before turning on the sixty-watt incandescent light bulb.It wasn't until then that he was sure that Xiao Quan had left. Guan Yinda still doesn't know how long Xiao Quan waited for him.It's just that since then, there has been no news of Xiao Quan for a long time.I suddenly received a letter from her last year, but it was her wedding invitation.Guan Yinda didn't attend her wedding. He was Tao Fan's secretary, so it was impossible for him to take a few days off to go to Beijing.Xiao Quanyuan married Beijing, and her husband is a scholar doing economic research. Guan Yinda carefully put Tao Tao's note into the bag.Back in the room late at night, he wrote a letter and sent it to Tao Tao Tao School according to the address.He sent an express mail, and Tao Tao rushed to the school, and the letter also arrived. There is no impenetrable wall, and soon, many people will know about Tao Tao's correspondence with Guan Yinda.Because of Tao Fan's majesty, they didn't dare to discuss this matter, but they privately regarded Guan Yinda as the son-in-law of the prefectural committee secretary.It seems that Tao Fan is the only one who doesn't know about this.But one day, Tao Fan suddenly asked Guan Yinda, "Have you received any letter from Tao Tao these days?" Guan Yinda panicked, and hesitated, "Yes, yes!" Never wrote to me." Looking at Tao Fan's smile, Guan Yinda felt warm in his heart.Maybe it was from that moment that Guan Yinda felt that he and Tao Fan were connected by blood.Tao Fan is like his father. Half a year later, at the end of the year, the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection came to an investigation team, greeted each other from different district committees, and stayed in the newly opened Taoyuan Hotel.When Tao Fan heard about it, he felt a little ominous.But he pretended to be deaf and dumb and ignored it.There is no ghost in my heart, what are you afraid of?I was afraid that it was aimed at other prefecture-level leaders, so I guessed one by one in my heart, and I was really not sure who would have any problems. A few days later, the investigation team of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection met with Tao Fan.Only then did he realize that there were still people who were still holding on to the renovation of the guest house, and later added the renovation of the government dormitory.Tao Fan was calm, and answered whatever the investigation team asked.The people in the investigation team paid attention to the way they spoke, and tried not to mention Tao Fan himself, only talking about the Xizhou Prefectural Committee.Tao Fan has repeatedly expressed his attitude, saying that he personally bears the main responsibility. Another month later, Tao Fan was criticized by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.Wu Mingxian sent a notice, very embarrassed.Tao Fan acted as if nothing had happened, he didn't look carefully, just glanced roughly, then handed it back to Wu Mingxian, and said with a smile: "Old Wu, this is the first time I have been punished, it is worth commemorating. Please make a copy of this notice to me. Me." Wu Mingxian shook his head and smiled, "Secretary Tao, what kind of punishment is this?" There are many folk versions of any story in officialdom.Some people were happy that Tao Fan was punished.Most people respect him even more.This matter spread among ordinary cadres, and many interesting details were added.They said that Tao Fan was arguing with the Provincial Commission for Disciplinary Inspection by beating the table, saying that he would do nothing wrong to improve the housing conditions of cadres, and he would not do anything wrong to improve the reception conditions in Xizhou. Some people hated in private: Tao Fan is too powerful!Within a year, the county-level cadres made him replace him slowly without anyone noticing. At first, everyone thought that he would not play the old trick of one emperor and one courtier.