Chapter 8 chapter eight

Every once in a while, I hear rumors again: Tao Fan is really going to be transferred to the province this time.It doesn't mean that he is going to be the deputy governor, that is, he is going to be the deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, and some people say that he will be the head of the organization. In the eyes of some people, Tao Fan looked like a big cadre.People like to think about his appearance, expression, gait, accent, etc.Some people even said that he walked like a dragon and a tiger, majestic, taciturn, and majestic, which is simply the appearance of an emperor.

But Tao Fan was still walking around in the compound of the Xizhou Prefectural Committee.I don't know if he knew about the outside discussion, but Guan Yinda would not tell him these words.Guan Yinda is very clear about what things should be reported to Tao Fan, and what things should be pretended to be deaf and dumb.There is no reason for many subtleties in the officialdom, all in the word "enlightenment".Guan Yinda is a person with high comprehension. Guan Yinda could naturally hear all kinds of rumors outside.He knows that sometimes something happens out of nothing and sometimes something happens for a reason.For example, when the secretary of the Provincial Party Committee came to Xizhou for research, he had a long private conversation with Tao Fan, and some people said that he was going to be promoted soon.Actually there is no such thing.Tao Fan published a signed article on a certain work, and some people said that Tao Fan was leaving soon, and the above was already creating public opinion.That's not the case either.

Those who knew the truth just complained in front of Tao Fan, saying why the higher-ups employ people without principles?Even Secretary Tao, you know how to do practical things, so you don't go up and run.These people were sycophants, but Tao Fan didn't show face, saying: "Official hats are all given as gifts? Didn't the secretary of my local party committee also come as a gift? You all have official hats on your heads, and you give them to me." How much?" It is difficult for anyone to see Tao Fan's heart.Once, Tao Fan was writing in the courtyard, and Guan Yinda went.He leaned over to take a look, and saw that Tao Fan wrote a poem by Lu You:

In those days, thousands of miles were sought for the feudal lord, and Liangzhou was garrisoned by horses.Where is Guanhe's dream broken? The dust is dark and the old sable fur. Hu is not destroyed, the temples are in autumn, and tears flow in emptiness.Unexpectedly in this life, my heart is in Tianshan, and I am old in Cangzhou! Guan Yinda was slightly taken aback: Tao Fan lamented that he was going to grow old in Xizhou.He guessed that Tao Fan's heart must be miserable, but he couldn't confide in anyone.With Tao Fan's personality, he would not complain even in front of his wife.He had no choice but to write Lu You's words to vent secretly.

Guan Yinda saw Tao Fan's heart and felt unnatural.He nodded, admiring Tao Fan's calligraphy.He originally felt that Tao Fan's cursive script was not as good as running script and regular script, but he just said it was better.Tao Fan shook his head and sighed: "Oh, what's the matter? I'm old!" Tao Fan's lonely look clearly wasn't talking about calligraphy.He was afraid that Guan Yinda would see his mood, so he immediately laughed a few more times.After laughing, I want to write a few words at will.After a moment of silence, what was written was: "Although the tortoise lives long, it still has its time".He originally wanted to appear more open-minded, but in such a situation, these two lines of poems are nothing more than helplessness towards life.

When Tao Fan buried himself in writing, Guan Yinda suddenly found that his hair had turned gray.He had watched Tao Fan's hair slowly turn gray, but today he felt that the snow on his head was covered overnight.How time flies, Tao Fan has been the secretary of the prefectural party committee for three years.Tao Tao University is about to graduate.Guan Yinda and Tao Tao have been secretly in love for a long time, but they have never had a formal talk with Tao Fan and his wife.Tao Tao didn't want Guan Yinda to leak the news, she had to tell her parents.In fact, Tao Fan and Aunt Lin had already seen it, and they were just pretending to be stupid.

In the spring of this year, it was rumored that Tao Fan would be transferred away.People saw the signs: Guan Yinda was sent down to serve as the deputy secretary of the county party committee.Before leading cadres are transferred, they usually have to arrange the people around them.Everyone guessed wrong again.It's just that Tao Fan sees that the relationship between his daughter and Guan Yinda is becoming more and more clear, so it's not good to keep him by his side as a secretary. Guan Yinda felt that the past six months had passed too quickly.He has just been promoted, he is always very excited, and everything he does is a gust of wind.There are many opportunities to go to the provincial capital and meet Tao Tao.In the past, they always followed Tao Fan. Even if they met Tao Tao, the two of them could only secretly look at each other at best.

Soon the summer vacation came, and Tao Tao graduated.When she returned to Xizhou, she told her mother as soon as she entered the door: "I'm going to see Brother Guan." It was the first time that the mother and daughter had formally talked about Guan Yinda.Aunt Lin saw that her daughter really liked this young man, and she was satisfied with seeing it, so she didn't say much.After all, it's a major matter of marriage, Tao Fan also asked a few words.Tao Tao didn't expect his parents to be so understanding, and he agreed with them without saying anything.But she found that her father always looked a little sad, and stayed in the room for a long time.Tao Tao asked her mother, "Why is Dad unhappy?"

Mom said: "Dad is not unhappy, he is reluctant to part with you. The child is about to fly when he grows up, and the parents are a little sad." Tao Tao couldn't help crying: "Then I won't get married." In the evening, Tao Fan called his daughter into his study and said, "Tao Tao, Yinda has been with me for many years, and I have known him well. He is good-natured, talented, and flexible. However, if he becomes Tao Fan's son-in-law, he may not be That's a good thing." "Why?" Tao Tao asked. Tao Fan said: "You don't understand the affairs of the officialdom. If Yinda really loves you, he has to think that his career may be affected, so he has to ignore it."

"I still don't understand." Tao Tao said. Tao Fan let out a long sigh and said, "Father can't tell you too thoroughly. You can ask Yinda, he will tell you." Tao Tao said: "I want to go to Guan Ge's place tomorrow, stay for a few days and come back to accompany you." Tao Fan raised his hand and patted his daughter's head, and said, "You go. Take the bus by yourself. I won't ask the bus to take you off, and you don't need to ask Yinda to pick you up. Your mother and I have never had sex with each other for decades. The airs of the official wife. To you, I will say this."

Early the next morning, Tao Tao went to the coach station with her bag on her back.I bought a ticket, waited for more than two hours, and bumped for more than three hours before arriving in Guanyinda County.It was just after one o'clock in the noon, and no one came to work in the county party committee office.I asked the old man in the reception room, and he said that he didn't know where Guan Shu remembered it.Everyone in the reception room looked like a petitioner, so they had nothing good to say.Tao Tao had no choice but to stroll in front of the county party committee office.The sun is very old, and the skin and flesh are raw and painful.It wasn't until after two o'clock that a middle-aged man came rubbing his eyes.When he saw Tao Tao, he wanted to ignore him, but he seemed to feel sorry, so he turned around and asked, "What are you doing?" Tao Tao said, "I'm looking for Guan Yinda." The man stopped, looked at Tao Tao in astonishment, thinking how dare this man call Guan Yinda's name directly.But his face gradually turned warm, and he said doubtfully, "Excuse me, you... belong to Secretary Tao..." "My name is Tao Tao." Tao Tao hurriedly replied. "Come in and sit down, it's hot." The man hurriedly opened the office, "I'm the director of the county party committee office, my surname is Wang." Director Wang poured tea for Tao Tao, and hurriedly said, "Little Tao, this and this, what do you call you? You are younger than me, so I don't mind calling you Xiao Tao? You sit down, and I'll get Secretary Guan right away." "It's okay. It's time to go to work soon? Don't go looking for it." Tao Tao said. Director Wang waved his hand and ran out.After a while, Guan Yinda came and reached out his hand when they met.Tao Tao smiled and said, "Who shakes your hand? I'm not your subordinate." Guan Yinda chuckled and said, "It's the superior, it's the superior." In the evening, Guan Yinda led Tao Tao for a walk on the street, but he passed by people shaking hands along the way.Tao Tao said: "How can this be a walk? It's like Mao Zedong meeting the Red Guards." "It's all acquaintances, why don't you say hello?" Guan Yinda said, "Okay, I'll take you to the alley to the river outside the city. It's quiet there." Tao Tao said: "You have to learn from my father in this respect. When he walked through the prefectural committee compound, others only dared to greet him from a distance, and few people dared to come up to shake hands." Guan Yinda said: "Your father is a tiger. Few people can be like him. But you have to know that tigers don't grow up in a day." Tao Tao looked at Guan Yinda and said, "Why are you talking in a mysterious way like my father?" Guan Yinda smiled: "How can I be mysterious? I mean that your father's prestige was formed slowly, or it can be said to be formed in history. What about me? I just entered the official career, so I can't be like your father." "How is my dad?" Tao Tao said, "It seems that there is something in your words." Guan Yinda said: "Tao Tao, you are overthinking, I respect your father very much. But to be honest, his personal charm is his scholarly spirit, and in the end it may be because of his scholarly attitude that he will not be too successful. Mood." Tao Tao said, "I really don't understand." Guan Yinda said: "You probably don't know your father well. He is an old man who is both literary and capable, and more thoughtful. But he is too self-confident, so he is inevitably a little conceited or arrogant, and he refuses to ask for help. Being an official, It has to be facilitated by various opportunities, and it is not enough to be able to do it alone." Tao Tao said: "You know so well, why don't you speak to my father? So you are a tricky consultant!" Guan Yinda said: "I'm not sure what I said is right, I'm just guessing. Everyone says how good your father and the secretary of the provincial party committee are, but I don't see how he takes care of your father. Your father and the secretary of the provincial party committee used to be old colleagues. , it's true." Tao Tao said: "I don't know either. Dad never talks about work at home. Dad said that it may not be a good thing that you really became Tao Fan's son-in-law. But he refused to talk about it." Out of the alley, the river wind blows in, very cool.Looking up, it turned out to be a crescent moon like a hook.City people always forget the moon and stars.Guan Yinda said: "It's unnecessary for the old man to worry. Maybe I don't know which is important, my wife or career?" After hearing this, Tao Tao's body became limp, and her head stuck into Guan Yinda's arms.Tao Tao said: "Dad is sometimes in a bad mood, and I can see it. But I don't know how to persuade him. Mom can't handle him. Mom smiles in front of her face, but sighs behind her back. How is Dad doing in Xizhou?" Guan Yinda said: "Your father is very good. Of course, every new leader will find that we have the best leader. This has almost become a rule. But your father is really good. But, he I have stayed in this position for too long. As the saying goes, a housekeeper for three years is considered a dog." "So, many people hate my father?" Guan Yinda said: "When you are an official, you have to do things, and you have to offend people when you do things. The more you do, the more mistakes you will make. The longer the time, the more doubts the myth of good leadership will be. Chinese people are used to deified leaders. Also, if you stay and don’t leave, people who want to get on can’t get on, and people hate you. I used to be your father’s secretary, but now everyone knows that I’m his son-in-law, so I can’t hear a lot of things Yes. But it is conceivable that there are so many rumors spreading. When he comes down and his successor comes, people will find that Xizhou has the best prefectural party secretary. This is a ridiculous rule.” Tao Tao nodded and said, "No wonder Dad said that it might not be a good thing for you to be his son-in-law. When Dad offends the people in Xizhou enough, he will retire. You may have to stay in Xizhou for the rest of your life, and others will punish you. Yes Does this make sense?" Guan Yinda smiled and said, "It's not that serious, don't worry about it." Tao Tao didn't care about this matter in his heart, but he deliberately said: "If this is the case, I think you should think about it last. I can't miss your future." Guan Yinda held Tao Tao's face and said, "I like you, don't care so much!" In fact, Guan Yinda had already thought about this over and over again.He knew that he was not stupid, but because he would be the son-in-law of the secretary of the prefectural committee, others would look down on him a bit, thinking that he was just helping Laozi Yue to make a fortune.If he wants people to believe in his abilities, he has to spend more effort than others.If Tao Fan really became the leader of the Provincial Party Committee, Guan Yinda would be in a different situation.However, Tao Fan will most likely step down as the secretary of the prefectural committee, and Guan Yinda's life in the future will not be too easy.Guan Yinda repeatedly thought about his future, which only added to his helplessness.But he never thought of giving up his beloved for the sake of being an official. Tao Tao sighed softly: "When I came back this time, I saw that my father's hair was almost gray. Looking at him like that, I really feel sorry for him." Guan Yinda was also very emotional, saying: "A man is like this all his life, he has to stand upright in everything until his head is covered with snow." Tao Tao stroked Guan Yinda's hair and said, "I won't let your hair turn gray." Guan Yinda said, "Okay, I'm not gray. If I live with you, my hair won't turn gray." "Then don't regret it!" Tao Tao looked up at Guan Yinda with a coquettish expression on his face. Guan Yinda held Tao Tao's face up again, and stroked it: "Silly boy, how could I regret it? You are my greatest achievement. Do you know? When you set foot on the land of Xizhou, you have eyes Watching you. As I told you, I was watching you that morning in the woods behind the guest house. What a miracle of fate!" Tao Tao said, "Let them assign me to your county. From now on, wherever you are transferred, I will go with you." The river wind stirred up water splashes, slapping the embankment with a crackling sound.Fireflies dance and frogs sound everywhere.Guan Yinda thought of Xiao Quan for no reason.On the eve of graduation, it was also such a summer night, he and Xiao Quan took a walk on the river beach outside the campus.Somehow, the two talked about the moon and the stars.They say that the moon and the stars go in their own orbits, relying on the force of gravity.In fact, this is common sense, but they are as serious as talking about philosophy.Xiao Quan said: "The only way a star can escape gravitation is to turn into a shooting star. But this is death." Guan Yinda corrected: "A dead shooting star cannot escape gravitation. This is the ultimate destiny of the universe."