On the morning when he went to Chuxi City to take up his new post, Chen Mo came to the editorial department of the magazine early with a very complicated mood.Colleagues haven't come to work yet, the editorial department held a farewell party for him last night, everyone was a little drunk, it is estimated that they will be late as a group today. Chen Mo leaned against the window and looked outside.Looking down from the floor where the magazine is located, you can see the lotus alley winding around the high-rise building like a snake, and you can also see the Wuyi Avenue, which is a little further away, is constantly flowing.Farther away, the surface of the sea is like a piece of brocade drying in the sun, sparkling in the sun.

What a magnificent view.Chen Mo sighed, feeling extremely nostalgic. For three years, before going to work every day, he always leaned against the window and looked out intoxicated for a while, and then forced himself to sit at the desk where the manuscripts were piled up like a mountain, and started the day's work.During that period of time, he became more and more tired of this editing work. He buried himself in the pile of old papers all day long, planning topics, contacting authors, reading boring papers, revising manuscripts, signing manuscripts, and endless proofreading... …life is completely stereotyped.Many times, Chen Mo even feels that this succinctly decorated editorial department is nothing more than a cage, locked in this office that smells of oily fragrance and old paper, he can't help but have a desire to escape, wanting to jump on the window sill And down, flying high above the city.

Now, he is really going to fly, but he feels so kind and reluctant to this messy editorial department.He never dreamed that this place turned out to be a turning point in his life. It was purely a coincidence that Chen Mo came to work as a part-time editor for this provincial party committee publication. Eight years ago, Chen Mo worked in the county party committee office in his hometown county, and held the title of deputy director of the county party committee office, in charge of comprehensive information.A person in his twenties can be promoted to the position of deputy director of the county party committee office. In that small county town near the sea, not to mention one person above ten thousand, he is more or less a popular figure.Chen Mo graduated from a prestigious university, and joined the party at university. In his senior year, he was selected by the organization and joined the civil service team. He was assigned to a county that was a bit remote but rich in mineral resources. He was transferred to the county party committee office, and became the deputy director of the office in less than two years. This kind of promotion speed is really not much.Everyone joked that according to this method of promotion, it would take only a few years to reach the position of general secretary.Chen Mo loves literature. He often publishes small articles in newspapers and periodicals, and occasionally publishes one or two novels in literary magazines. He is a talented person. According to the current popular saying, he is "the first lump of lotus root coal"—the folk humor of that small county Experts compare the promotion of cadres to a coal-burning furnace: the middle-level cadres on the job are the middle lump of coal, which is burning with flames; Go; young, capable, and promising cadres are like the first lump of coal on the top, which is about to burn blazingly, and the future is limitless.However, after being promoted to the deputy director of the county party committee office, Chen Mo stopped moving forward and never moved up even half a block. People who worked in the office together eight years ago were promoted to the directors of the major bureaus. The township secretary is gone, only he is still standing still.

Chen Mo doesn't know where the problem is. The officialdom is like a dark river. It looks calm on the surface, but secretly follows its own unspoken rules.Although Chen Mo was in it, he didn't know the essentials. He believed in the adage that only those who are successful can have a position. They worked hard at work, wrote materials, corrected materials, and submitted materials to higher authorities. After work, they locked themselves in their rooms and wrote their own novels. .Everyone else tried their best to get closer to the leader, but he was like a log, unmoved.Chen Mo thinks that his concentration is good, and his colleagues have been promoted, so he can't help but encourage him when he is leaving. If he puts it on someone else, he will feel a little bit sour in his heart, but Chen Mo is not like that, but he sincerely gives the promotion Congratulations.

However, later he found that he was inexplicably isolated. Others looked at him strangely, as if the problem with his eight years of not moving was his own.Gradually, he also heard some rumors, saying that Chen Mo was so proud of himself that he could write some bad articles, and he didn't take the leader seriously.Some people also said that a certain leader said that Chen Mo has talent, but he does not have enough virtue and bad conduct. In terms of pride, Chen Mo admits that he is a little bit arrogant. Talented people are somewhat arrogant.But when it comes to bad conduct, this is a problem of personality.If he is angry, who can he turn to for reasoning? !

Chen Mo had the idea of ​​wanting to transfer work and change the environment. He called several times to request a transfer report, but was pushed away by the Tai Chi pusher of the leader. He had no one to quarrel with.It happened that his university professor Cheng Yinzhi was calling him. Professor Cheng Yinzhi is a well-known literary critic in China.Cheng Yinzhi told Chen Mo that he recently graduated from university and became the deputy editor-in-chief of "Sea Breeze Literature", a large provincial literary publication.Professor Cheng Yinzhi said, Chen Mo, you are my student, and I understand you. Your novels are well written. Don’t you want to win a place in the literary world?Come on, "Sea Breeze Literature" still needs a novel editor.

Chen Mo's heart was moved. Indeed, since his student days, his ideal in life was not to be an official, but to become a novelist, like Lu Yao and Chen Zhongshi, to write long volumes of novels of his own.It just so happens that the county is implementing personnel system reform, encouraging serving civil servants to stay in their jobs without pay.Chen Mo wrote a report on staying without pay. When Chen Mo placed the report of leave without pay on the desk of Li Yiguang, the director of the county party committee office, Li Yiguang's eyes almost fell off, and he even stretched out his hand across the large desk to touch Chen Mo's forehead to see if he was sick and had a fever. Confused.In Li Yiguang's view, although the deputy director of the County Party Committee Office is not an official, it is also a place where young people want to come in. However, Chen Mo filed an application to stay without pay. Isn't it sick?Li Yiguang talked to Chen Mo twice, and seeing that Chen Mo was very firm, he signed the report.

In this way, Chen Mo came to the provincial capital.Chen Mo later reflected on his decision this time, and felt that it was a kind of necessity. It was the conflict between the sparkling ideal and the world full of smoke and dust that made him make such a decision.However, things are so unpredictable. After he arrived in the provincial capital, the work has not yet been implemented, but Cheng Yinzhi suddenly resigned from the position of executive deputy editor-in-chief of "Sea Breeze Literature" and went to Hainan.It is said that Cheng Yinzhi resigned because of a disagreement with the editor-in-chief. It happened so suddenly that Chen Mo was put on the second beam, unable to advance or retreat.

Chen Mo started the difficult process of finding a job, and spent three months running around in various talent markets.At the beginning, he still had his published novels in mind, and recommended himself to literary publications one by one. He loved pure literature, so he felt that pure literature publications were superior to other publications.However, this type of self-recommendation is most likely to be rejected. Several times, the deputy editor-in-chief of the publications came forward to receive him. After reading his works, they finally told him with regret that there is no shortage of editors in the editorial department. Literary magazines are now struggling. Can't feed a few people.Later, he settled for the next best thing and applied to some tabloids and lifestyle magazines. Only when he arrived at these magazines did he feel that he was really old. The editors and reporters of entertainment newspapers and periodicals are all dyed yellow hair and dressed in A fashionable half-old child was mixed among them, and he, who was only in his early thirties, felt so deeply that he was old, and he felt ashamed of himself.

When he was desperate, Professor Cheng Yinzhi called him from Hainan to apologize.Cheng Yinzhi said, Chen Mo, just be your civil servant and don't come out to make troubles.When he heard that he had stayed without pay and hadn't found a job for three months, Cheng Yinzhi was extremely apologetic and said, I'm the one who hurt you.He comforted the teacher and said, "It's okay, I'll figure it out myself and get to know the society."Cheng Yinzhi said, all right.We strengthen ties. More than ten days later, Cheng Yinzhi called Chen Mo again.Cheng Yinzhi told Chen Mo that Zhang Xiao, his fellow apprentice, is now the deputy secretary-general of the Provincial Party Committee Office and the editor-in-chief of the Provincial Party Committee's publications.He had already told Zhang Xiao about Chen Mo's situation and made a recommendation. Zhang Xiao agreed to meet with him and investigate.Responding to the old saying that there is no way out, there is no way out, and there is another village in the shadow of the willow, Chen Mo tried to call Zhang Xiao, and Zhang Xiao agreed to see him.They only talked for an hour that day. Zhang Xiao admired his talent very much and hired him.

Since then, he has been a part-time editor of the provincial party committee publication for three years. He did not expect that his fate had changed here, as if there was a hand in the dark, holding his future. Half a year ago, Zhang Xiao went down from the Provincial Party Committee Office to Chuxi City to serve as the Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Acting Mayor.Before Zhang Xiao took office, he had a conversation with him. Zhang Xiao cut to the chase and asked, "Chen Mo, I'm leaving. What do you think?"He just smiled, not knowing how to answer.Zhang Xiao said again, how about we go together?You are from Chuxi, and you are the deputy director of the county party committee office in You County, so it is only natural to go back.Zhang Xiao didn't wait for him to express his opinion, patted him on the shoulder and left.Zhang Xiao said what he said. There was no news for half a year. He occasionally called Zhang Xiao to say hello. Both of them seemed to have forgotten about it. Unexpectedly, half a year later, Zhang Xiao called him, saying that his job transfer had been settled, and he was directly transferred from You County to the Chuxi City Committee Office as the deputy director.When he received the call, he felt like he was in a dream. From the deputy department to the deputy department, he had crossed a whole level!This level, no matter how smooth it is in the county, it will take three to five years to climb it. If it doesn't go well, I'm afraid I won't be able to climb it in my lifetime!It really conforms to the old saying, the prime minister's family slave is the prime minister of a small country. Chen Mo stood in front of the window for a while, guessing that everyone was going to work, so he turned and walked out of the editorial office. The car that came to pick him up from the Chuxi Municipal Committee Office had already parked downstairs.He doesn't have anything to take care of. What needs to be packed has already been packed yesterday. A large box of books, a few pieces of clothing, and the bedding in the rental room. The colleagues in the editorial department suggested leaving it to the landlord. Chen Mo was reluctant and used newspapers. Wrapped it up and stuffed it in the trunk of the car.There is also a brand-new fishing bag, which contains some fishing tackle that is as new as the bag and has not even been soaked in water once. This is a gift from his friend Ma Ning, who is the editor of the magazine "Sea Fishing World" , a well-known fishing fan.Hearing that he was going to work in an area adjacent to the sea, Maning specially bought him a large bag of fishing tackle.Ma Ning said, Chen Mo, you have entered Vanity Fair, I have nothing to give you, I will give you these fishing tackles, go fishing when you have nothing to do. Ma Ning didn't explain what he said, but Chen Mo could still hear the intention. Ma Ning wanted him to put his fame and fortune indifferently. Chen Mo went downstairs, and as soon as he got out of the elevator, his cell phone rang. He took it out and saw that it was the number of Youxian County Party Committee Office. It must have spread throughout You County. In this information age, there is really nothing that can be kept secret. Chen Mo lifted the phone cover and heard Li Yiguang's voice, Hey, Director Chen, congratulations!You kid won't even call me when you get promoted.Chen Mo said with a smile, what kind of promotion is it to serve the leader.As he said that, he was also taken aback. No matter how these words sounded like clichés, he used to laugh at others for saying clichés.It turns out that when people reach a certain level, they can learn clichés without a teacher.Li Yiguang asked, when will you arrive in the city?Chen Mo thought for a while and said, probably in the afternoon, around 3 o'clock in the afternoon.In fact, it takes only four hours to travel from the provincial capital to Chuxi City by high speed, and it will arrive at one or two o'clock in the afternoon if you go slowly.Chen Mo didn't want to be in such a hurry to meet Li Yiguang, as if he had been favored by him as the deputy director of the Office of the Listing Committee.He knew that Li Yiguang was definitely not thinking about Chen Mo, Li Yiguang just wanted to use him as a bridge to the acting mayor Zhang Xiao.On the other end of the phone, Li Yiguang didn't give up, saying, that's fine, I'll wait for you, our brothers haven't been drinking together for three years, and I'll welcome you when I come back. After hanging up the phone, the driver Xiao Xiang had already opened the car door for him and said, Director Chen, get in the car. When the car slowly drove out of the yard, there were already people coming to work outside the door one after another.Chen Mo didn't want to be seen by acquaintances, otherwise, he would have to spend a lot of time talking politely.So he said to the driver, Master Xiang, drive faster.The driver stepped on the accelerator understandingly, and the car picked up speed all of a sudden, leaving the automatic control door far behind. Chen Mo took out his mobile phone, called Zhang Xiao's wife Peng Guizhi, and asked if she would like to go to Chuxi to visit Zhang Xiao together.The phone was connected, Chen Mo said, Aunt Peng, I'm going back to Chuxi today, do you have anything to explain?Peng Guizhi said, it's Xiao Chen, I have nothing to explain, please take care of Lao Zhang for me, but Yuan Yuan said that she wants to go to Chuxi, you can call her, if she wants to go, you Just pick her up and go with her, and there will be a caretaker on the way. Chen Mo was stunned for a while before pressing the phone button.Zhang Yuan is the only daughter of Zhang Xiao and Peng Guizhi. She just graduated from university and works in the Provincial Design Institute. She majored in science, but she loves literature and wrote a lot of poems and essays.Knowing that Dad had a writer under his command, he went to the editorial department with his own work and asked Chen Mo to correct him.After going back and forth, the two became familiar with each other.A few days ago, Zhang Yuan pestered him and said that he would go to Chuxi with him to have a look, but Chen Mo refused, fearing that it would cause unnecessary suspicion.Now that Aunt Peng has said it herself, it's not easy for him to push. Go to the Provincial Design Institute.Chen Mo said, Xiao Xiang nodded, the car turned around, and soon came to the gate of the Design Institute.After Xiaoxiang parked the car, Chen Mo called Zhang Yuan and said, Zhang Yuan, are you at work?Zhang Yuan was still angry because Chen Mo refused to take her to Chuxi a few days ago, and said angrily, what can he do if he doesn't go to work?Chen Mo laughed and said, if you don't go to Chuxi, I will leave alone.Zhang Yuan's childish voice came over the phone, saying, really, where are you?Chen Mo said, stick your head out and look.Sure enough, a fluffy head protruded from a window on the fifth floor. Zhang Yuan raised his hand at him, gave a very modern high, and the head retracted and disappeared. After a while, Zhang Yuan appeared at the uniquely shaped gate of the Design Institute. Zhang Yuan smiled at him, opened the car door with one hand, and said, let's go. Just go like this?Chen Mo said. If you don't walk like this, can you still walk upside down?Zhang Yuan made a playful face. I mean you don't do anything to prepare, after all, it's such a long way. Dad is there, stupid. Chen Mo shook his head secretly, got into the car, and sat in the back seat with Zhang Yuan, leaving the passenger seat empty.Zhang Yuan glanced at him with satisfaction and smiled.After getting on the expressway, Xiao Xiang put on the DV, it was a saxophone, listening to the soft music, an old saying popped up in Chen Mo's mind, "BMW car carvings are all over the road, and it feels like returning home after a good clothes."