Chapter 15 Chapter fifteen

Xiangmei seemed very angry today, Zhu Huaijing said so, she didn't even bother to argue with her, and just buried her head in eating.Zhu Huaijing didn't say anything anymore, he hurriedly finished eating and put away the bowl, curled up on the bed and went to sleep in the morning.I was still a little dazed when I fell asleep, but I became more and more awake after sleeping for a while.Then I remembered that cadres are going to be promoted now, and everyone is here to ask for favors, which is really interesting.He knew that Liu Zhongxia had always treated him badly, and now seeing that he was appreciated by Mayor Pi and Secretary-General Liu, he couldn't stop him, so he acted recklessly and revealed to him the investigation of the Personnel Department. Repeatedly implying that she had said good things for him.Fang Mingyuan just got the information, he couldn't speak in front of Mayor Pi on the matter of employing people, but he also tipped him off to ask for favors.The one who had the most reason to talk to him was Secretary-General Liu, but something so serious happened that he couldn't get out.But Secretary-General Liu hastily hinted at him in the midst of his busy schedule, as if he was afraid that he would be the first to make a favor.A cadre of Zhu Huaijing's level is simply not enough for Mayor Pi to manage, but Mayor Pi also has to hint at him.Although Mayor Pi only said "Xiao Zhu is good", only four words, and the tone is also light, but the weight cannot be underestimated.Of course Zhu Huaijing knew in his heart who was playing a bigger role in his promotion, but he had to express his gratitude to all those who begged for favors from him.Make one more person happy, and you get more support, which is always good for you.

After a while newspapers and letters were delivered.Zhu Huaijing saw that he had a letter, and the envelope was from the "Jingdu People's Voice", so he guessed that it was Zeng Li's masterpiece, which was a news investigation.When he saw this topic, he thought that things were not going well.The topic is: "The emperor's peach is yellow, who will make it", and the subtitle below is: "50,000 farmers in Wuxian County pay 20 million hard-earned money, three years of hope to become rich finally come true."Zhu Huaijing knew what was going on.When he was still working in Wuxian County, Zhang Tianqi was the county magistrate, advocating the development of special fruits and the introduction of high-quality imperial peaches from other provinces.The county has formulated a development plan for Huangtao, and plans to build a base of 100,000 mu of Huangtao.This plan is too big, but after three years of work, a 50,000 mu Huangtao base has been built.According to the unified call of the county, the farmers who planted the imperial peaches carefully waited on the orchard every day, dreaming of getting rich all year round.The head of the county said that the price of imperial peaches is five or six times that of ordinary peaches, and twice the price of citrus.The cannery in the county is also preparing to process the series of yellow peaches, guaranteeing to purchase all fresh yellow peaches.But no one thought that the orchard was about to bear fruit, only to find that there were many kinds of peaches in the peach orchards, but there was not a single imperial peach.It turned out that people had tampered with the peach seeds.The peasants were outraged, and there were often hundreds of peasants petitioning at the gate of the county government.At one point, several leaders of the county government were haunted by petitioning peasants and unable to leave their homes.But things dragged on like this, and there was no end to it.

Zeng Li's article introduced the ins and outs of the matter, and finally started a discussion: the relevant leaders of Wu County explained to the farmers that the people who purchased peach seeds in the county were cheated by people from other provinces, and the county was in a lawsuit with relevant units in other provinces.But it has been more than two years, and the lawsuit has not had any results.If farmers don't petition, no one will bring up this matter again.This can't help but make people wonder.According to the reporter's understanding, the person in charge of purchasing peach seeds is a well-known fruit expert and senior agronomist in Wu County, and he is not easy to be deceived.

The farmers lost their investment, their hard work, their harvest on the land, and their hope of getting rich.The farmers lost, but someone definitely made a profit, and they must have made a lot of money. Zhu Huaijing knew that the fruit expert Zeng Li was talking about was Liu Yulong, director of Wu County Agriculture Bureau.Liu Yulong is Zhang Tianqi's middle school classmate, and the two have a very good relationship.Zhang Tianqi had always intended Liu Yulong to be the deputy county magistrate in charge of agriculture, and he had recommended it to the prefectural committee many times.But because of the fake planting case of Huangtao, the matter was too big, and Liu Yulong couldn't get on it.Liu Yulong didn't go up, but he didn't go down either, and he was still sitting in the position of director of the Agriculture Bureau.The case of Huangtao was a hot topic in the county, but it was only kept inside, but it was kept a secret from the outside world.Only a few leaders of the prefectural committee knew about it, and no one in the city had heard of it.Now this kind of thing is not a big problem as long as the leaders know it, as long as the public opinion is passable.Some people in the county have long commented that Liu Yulong must have made a lot of money from purchasing yellow peach tree seeds, and that Zhang Tianqi did not protect him so much because of his classmates.Zhang Tianqi slapped Zhang Tianqi on such a big matter, which is too telling.

Zeng Li's article is clearly implying something.Zhu Huaijing thought that this article might cause trouble for Zhang Tianqi.Zeng Li is such a person who only recognizes justice and doesn't care about humanity.Nowadays, people who work in other places usually want to make themselves look better, and get closer to their parents and officials in their hometown, so that everyone can take care of them in everything.But Zeng Li doesn't seem to understand this.Zhu Huaijing admires Zeng Li's integrity in his heart, but thinks that he is not very knowledgeable about current affairs. Now you only care about telling the truth and are not afraid of offending people. In the end, not only will no one say you are a good person, but it will only make your own image funny.He thought he would talk about Zeng Li when he had the chance, and don't push himself into embarrassing situations all the time.

At this time, Xiao Xiong, the director of Wu County's Jingjing Office, knocked on the door and came in. He hurriedly asked Xiao Xiong to sit down, but Xiao Xiong didn't sit down immediately, and took out a cigarette to ask Zhu Huaijing to smoke.Zhu Huaijing was polite and took one.Little Bear leaned over to light it for him. "What's the matter, little bear?" Zhu Huaijing took a few puffs of cigarettes and asked with concern. Xiao Xiong took out a newspaper from his bag and said, "Let me report this to you. There is a reporter from "Jingdu People's Voice" named Zeng Li who wrote an article about the incident of Huangtao in our county. This incident has happened for several years, and it is still being dealt with, but he was asked to reveal it. You know, this has an impact on the image of our county. Twenty minutes ago, the county called to talk about this incident. The county leader They want me to go to their newspaper office to settle this matter. I don’t know anyone at their newspaper office, so it’s not easy to get in touch with. I think you may have acquaintances there, so I’m here to trouble you. Secretary Zhang also meant the same thing, and asked me to Please report."

Zhu Huaijing had already guessed that Zhang Tianqi must be very sensitive to this article, but he didn't expect him to react so quickly.What's more, he didn't expect such a coincidence, he just read the newspaper, and the little bear came to the door. "Jingdu People's Voice" is only the official newspaper of the CPPCC, and its influence is not very great. The leaders of the county below generally don't think much of it.Someone from the CPPCC must have seen it and reported it to Zhang Tianqi.When Zhu Huaijing was polite to Xiaoxiong just now, he inadvertently covered the "Jingdu People's Voice" on the table with another newspaper.Now he took the newspaper handed by Little Bear, looked at it seriously, and said, "I have a few friends there. Well, let me try." He didn't say that Zeng Li was his classmate.

Xiao Xiong then flattered: "I knew it, Director Zhu, you have a wide network, you have acquaintances everywhere in Jingdu, and you can walk freely." Zhu Huaijing said modestly: "Where, I'm just making good friends." Xiao Xiong added: "Secretary Zhang means that I am very grateful to the "Jingdu People's Voice" for its attention and support to the work of Wu County. Dealing with economic disputes is very troublesome. There is a process. Please understand the comrades in the newspaper office. I think that the scope of publication of "Jingdu People's Voice" is not large, and not many people outside can read it. Just publish it. Secretary Zhang didn't say anything else. , but I understand that he just wants to ask this reporter friend not to contribute articles to other newspapers and periodicals, and to stop making fuss about this matter. May I invite Director Zhu to make an appointment with them? Let's get together and talk about things?"

Zhu Huaijing thought about it, and said: "It's not necessary. I'm a very casual friend with them. It's not convenient to invite them out to talk about this matter. I mean, you don't have to participate. I'll just take the time to ask them out these few days." Come out to play, just to talk about it by the way. It’s smoother, what do you think, little bear?" The little bear was very grateful, and quickly said: "Of course that's good. How about it, you'd better treat them to a light meal. I'm sorry, but I'll give you 3,000 yuan. How about letting you make the decision?" The little bear pulled away Leather bag in hand.

Zhu Huaijing hurriedly waved his hands, not to let Xiao Xiong take out the money.He said: "Little Xiong, there is no need for you now. We have to get together among friends if we have nothing to do, and you need to spend money? Anyway, I haven't got together with those friends for a long time, and I just want to get together to talk. Forget it, I'll take care of it myself." Little Xiong walked over and closed the door, then turned around and said, "How can this be done? It's another matter for you friends to get together. This time, you are looking for someone for the county's affairs. Of course, you can't pay for it yourself!"

Zhu Huaijing saw that Xiaoxiong insisted on giving money, so he had to say: "If you insist on this, let me give you two thousand yuan, and you don't need three thousand yuan." Xiao Xiong still counted three thousand yuan, handed it over, and said, "Let's take three thousand yuan. I know those journalists are exhausted, and they are not up to the level of Longxing Hotel. The matter will not be settled. Two How can a thousand dollars be enough? Just three thousand dollars is just so-so.” Zhu Huaijing looked embarrassed, took the money, and said, "That's the best. I'll give you the invoice after I invite you." Little Xiong hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Director Zhu, you're out of touch like this. You don't need to worry about the invoice, I have only one way." The matter is settled, and the two of them will gossip if they don't mention it again.Zhu Huaijing asked about some people in Wu County intentionally or unintentionally, and heard some people's right and wrong.Zhu Huaijing discovered that some people were not very good before, but they have developed in recent years.Some people were very successful in the past few years, but they have been quiet in recent years.What impressed Zhu Huaijing the most was that Huang Dahong, the former director of the Public Security Bureau, was quite a figure in the county.But because of his gambling addiction, he was sued by his opponent.Zhang Tianqi talked to him several times in person, and he promised him face to face that he would correct his mistakes and never go to the poker table again.But if they talked in the afternoon, he would go to gamble again in the evening.He also joked while gambling that Secretary Zhang had just talked to me, and I assured him that I would never go to the poker table again.Brothers, prove that I am not at the poker table, I am sitting on a stool!This person was too arrogant, Zhang Tianqi dismissed him in a fit of anger.Zhu Huaijing had long seen that this man had a roguelike air, spoke outrageously and unreasonably, and acted cruelly.He only listened to the top and second in command of the county leaders, and he didn't pay much attention to other deputies.Huang Dahong's post was removed, and his true nature came out.He stopped working and became a "chicken head". He took a group of girls and went to Shenzhen to do skin and meat business.It's really interesting, Huang Dahong originally specialized in catching hooligans, but in the end he became the leader of hooligans himself.Zhu Huaijing had always had a bad impression of Huang Dahong, but today he knew that this man was unlucky and depraved. He didn't have much intention of gloating in his misfortune, but just lamented the impermanence of fate. Seeing that it was getting late, Little Bear got up to say goodbye.Zhu Huaijing asked him to go home to have lunch before leaving, Xiao Xiong said thanks, and he will come to visit another day. Little Xiong left, and it was only a few minutes before the end of get off work, so Zhu Huaijing left the office for a walk.He went to Liu Zhongxia's office and saw a few colleagues talking mysteriously there.He guessed they must be talking about the mayor's death.He didn't evade when he was in the neighborhood, but moved closer.Sure enough, I only heard Liu Zhongxia say that there are unpredictable things in the sky, and people have misfortunes and blessings.Colleagues sighed, shook their heads, and looked solemn.At this time, Liu Zhongxia raised his wrist to look at his watch, and everyone hurriedly said, oh, it's time to get off work, so they dispersed. Zhu Huaijing bowed his head and went home, his mind full of thoughts of fate.The life of a person is really inexplicable! In the evening, Zhu Huaijing waited for Li Mingxi in the office as scheduled.I don't know when Li Mingxi will come, so it's not easy for him to contact Secretary-General Liu first.I thought I had to wait for Li Mingxi to come.In case Secretary-General Liu is not free by then, I will make another appointment next time.As long as Secretary-General Liu's time is concerned, there is no way. It wasn't until a quarter past eight that Li Mingxi came in with his head tilted.Seeing Li Mingxi, Zhu Huaijing couldn't help laughing.Li Mingxi didn't ask him why he was smiling, but just smiled at him.Zhu Huaijing found that Li Mingxi was quite obedient today, so he really had his hair cut.Maybe it's because I'm used to seeing his unkempt appearance, but seeing him with a flat haircut today, it's so funny no matter how you look at it.The funniest thing is that the mouth that has been shaved off feels much thicker.Zhu Huaijing always felt that Li Mingxi was a foolish person, worried about any part of his work, and still told him to open the painting again.Only after confirming that it was the two paintings he had seen yesterday did he feel relieved.But he didn't call Secretary-General Liu right away, but repeatedly told Li Mingxi: "Don't be as nervous as usual. When the leader shakes your hand, you don't know how to extend your hand like a dead person. You don't need to take the initiative to extend your hand, you have to get the leader to reach out to you." Only then do you reach out. The leader usually only stretches out one hand, so you have to lean forward a little, stretch out both hands, hold his hand and shake it politely. Don’t keep your mouth shut, you have to say thank you leader Take care! Don't laugh, it may sound funny to others when I explain you this way, but you are really too ignorant of the world, if you don't explain it like this, you will be in trouble." Li Mingxi still laughed, and said, "Do you think I'm a kindergarten kid, or do you think I'm a fool? It's nothing else, I'm not used to it. I'm not used to that kind of thing, and you can't teach it!" But Zhu Huaijing became serious and said, "That's not okay! There is no place to put my face when you look like this! Besides, if you embarrass others, your business will be ruined." Li Mingxi looked pained, shook his head and said: "I really shouldn't be on your thief ship! Well, it's up to you." Zhu Huaijing looked at his watch. It was already past nine o'clock, and then he called Secretary-General Liu's cell phone.Secretary-General Liu said that he had just returned home, welcome to both of you. Zhu Huaijing opened the cabinet and took out a box of Qin Gongchun to carry it.After leaving the office, Zhu Huaijing felt his chest pounding.He looked at Li Mingxi, and saw this person as if nothing had happened.Zhu Huaijing took a deep breath to calm himself down.But with things on his shoulders, it's hard to adjust his breath.He put Qin Gongchun down, and Li Mingxi and Li Mingxi each carried a packing strap.This makes it easier to breathe.He couldn't tell whether he was excited or flustered.In fact, he knew that he had no reason to be excited or flustered, but he still felt his heart beating like a drum. Zhu Huaijing chatted with Li Mingxi all the way.Talk and relax.When he arrived at the door of Secretary-General Liu, his heart was basically as calm as a mirror.He raised his hand and knocked on the door, which opened immediately. It was Xiao Wu who opened the door, and he said hello to Director Zhu with a smile.Xiao Wu took over Qin Gongchun and moved into the back room.Secretary-General Liu was scalding his feet, so he couldn't get up, so he waved his hand to the two of them to sit down.When Zhu Huaijing saw this scene, he laughed in his heart that he just taught Li Mingxi how to shake hands with Secretary-General Liu, which was just superfluous.After sitting down, he introduced Li Mingxi.Secretary-General Liu leaned on the sofa, arched his hands vaguely, and said with a smile, "I have long admired your name!" Li Mingxi smiled and shook his head, as if he had said something.Zhu Huaijing saw that he didn't know how to say a word of modesty, and sweat began to sweat on his back.He glanced at Li Mingxi, saw that this person was still like a wooden man, so he changed the subject and asked, "Is Secretary-General Liu dizzy with busy work today?" Secretary-General Liu smiled bitterly, and said: "It's all coming together! At this moment, your aunt Yu was hospitalized again. I had a meeting in the afternoon until after six o'clock, and I rushed to the hospital again. I only had dinner. Thanks Xiao Wu, otherwise I really don’t know what to do.” "What's wrong with Aunt Yu?" Zhu Huaijing asked with concern. Secretary-General Liu frowned slightly, and sighed: "She was lying in the hospital for more than half a year." Zhu Huaijing couldn't say anything, just shook his head.He didn't know anything about the affairs of Secretary-General Liu's family at first, but he only found out after listening to Fang Mingyuan.Not long after Secretary-General Liu married his wife, Aunt Yu, Aunt Yu became paralyzed in the lower limbs, and has not improved for decades.The two never had children.The husband and wife have lived together for decades, and they have a good reputation among cadres. Xiao Wu came over and poured tea for Zhu and Li, and went back to the house.After a while, he took out a dry towel and stood aside. Secretary-General Liu looked at Li Mingxi and said with a smile: "I thought you, a painter, would have long hair and a beard!" Zhu Huaijing hurriedly said: "You guessed it right. He has always been like this. Today, because he had to meet the leader, he ran to get a haircut. Otherwise, he would not even be able to enter the government gate." Secretary-General Liu nodded to Zhu Huaijing, and said, "Huaijing must be the one who asked him to cut his hair, right? You are wrong. An artist must have his own personality. What does it matter if his hair grows longer? If he doesn't have his own personality , they are not creative and cannot produce good works. Mr. Li, don’t you think so?” Li Mingxi just smiled.At this moment, Secretary-General Liu had finished washing his feet, and Xiao Wu wiped them dry for him, then bowed and took away the foot-washing water.Secretary-General Liu smiled at Zhu Huaijing, saying that Xiao Wu is not bad.After all, he was called Xiao Wu again, and his toenails grew.Xiao Wu responded, and came over with nail clippers in a short while.Secretary-General Liu reached out to pick up the nail clippers, but she said, "It's too hard for you to bow, so let me cut it for you."Secretary-General Liu pointed to Xiao Wu with a smile, and then said to Zhu Huaijing, look, this Xiao Wu is such a good boy. Xiao Wu smiled, moved a small stool, sat down in front of Secretary-General Liu, carried Secretary-General Liu's feet over her lap, and cut them carefully.No one spoke for a while, and Secretary Liu raised his hand to smooth his hair gracefully.Zhu Huaijing wanted to find something to say, but couldn't think of the right words, and felt very uncomfortable.He turned his head to secretly look at Li Mingxi, but he seemed to be fine, as if he was sitting here alone.He really admired this lunatic.Zhu Huaijing felt that he was the only one who was so embarrassed, and it became even more embarrassing.He knew Secretary Liu would not be embarrassed.Zhu Huaijing has seen many leaders like this. When you are alone with him, he will say a few words if he likes to talk to you. Sweating on the back. At this moment, Secretary-General Liu just leaned on the sofa, his eyes narrowed slightly, like a refined man enjoying music.There was only the sound of nail clipping.Xiao Wu looked very professional when he cut his nails, and polished them carefully after cutting.After finally finishing cutting, Zhu Huaijing asked Li Mingxi to open the painting for Secretary Liu to criticize.Li Mingxi didn't get up, but only stretched out his hand towards Zhu Huaijing.It turned out that the painting happened to be placed on the low cabinet behind Zhu Huaijing, closer to him.Zhu Huaijing felt a little unhappy, so he had to raise his hand to take the painting.I thought that Li Mingxi really didn't understand the rules.Thinking about it the other way around, Li Mingxi doesn't talk about worldly etiquette, which is exactly where he is innocent and cute.If it is in the officialdom, this is a big taboo.In the officialdom, everyone has to carefully abide by some rules according to their position, status, and identity, and dare not take half a step out of line easily.In fact, there is no document that stipulates these rules, but it is more deeply rooted than the legal provisions.For example, just now Li Mingxi stretched out his hand towards Zhu Huaijing, this is a normal thing, if you get closer to the painting, it's easy for you to take the painting, it's no big deal.But it doesn't work according to official rules.You, Li Mingxi, are so arrogant!Are you here to command me?I'm still the director! Zhu Huaijing stood up holding the painting, motioning for Li Mingxi to stand up too.Li Mingxi didn't understand what he meant, and still sat still.He had no choice but to call out: "Come on, Mingxi, let's open it for Secretary-General Liu to have a look." Only then did Li Mingxi stand up weakly, and opened the two paintings one by one with Zhu Huaijing.The first one to open was the big one. Secretary-General Liu looked at it carefully, nodded and said yes!Opening the small one again, Secretary-General Liu took a closer look, then stood up and said, "Okay! Generally speaking, both are good, but I like this one better." Li Mingxi looked at it proudly. Looking at Zhu Huaijing, Zhu Huaijing immediately understood what it meant. It meant that his eyesight was not as good as that of Secretary-General Liu.Secretary-General Liu took a closer look as he spoke, then took a few steps back to look at it from a distance, and said: "Not bad, really good. Especially this one, the composition, artistic conception, and brushwork are all very good. Of course, the big one is also very good. Well, it would be best to hang it in the living room. I can't bear to hang this small one!" After watching the painting, Secretary-General Liu started talking to Li Mingxi.Li Mingxi talked more now, but it was just a question and an answer, he didn't take the initiative to say anything.Secretary-General Liu talked with Li Mingxi for a while, and then told Zhu Huaijing: "Huaijing, you should worry more about Mr. Li's art exhibition. If you have any difficulties, you can tell me immediately. We don't have many such talents. It is less. In a city, if there are not a few first-class artists, the cultural taste there will not be improved. I have a point of view, which may be different from ordinary people. That is to say, we must strive to improve the economy, but if Ignoring cultural construction and simply pursuing economic development, economic development will eventually lose its vitality. Because without the support of culture, economic development will not last long. I also believe that the economy can create miracles in a short period of time, while culture Construction must be the result of a long-term historical accumulation. Therefore, my personal opinion is that we must not engage in short-term actions in cultural construction, we must focus on the long-term, focus on the future, and always put cultural construction at the forefront. The location. And this work is very specific. To put it bluntly, it starts with the artists. If you grab a few first-class artists, your city will have a taste. Let’s talk about Roman paintings and sculptures, Vienna music, and Isn’t the literature in Paris the result of several famous writers, musicians, and painters being born there? This... Of course, on the one hand, we must also pay attention to the popularization of culture, and correctly handle the relationship between popularization and improvement. It is necessary to cultivate a group of first-class artists, but also to allow culture and art to enter the lives of the common people. We will never allow art to be aristocratic..." Secretary-General Liu was talking endlessly, but to Li Mingxi's ears, it sounded like he was listening to a scripture, and he didn't realize it.He just watched Secretary-General Liu speak without smiling or nodding.Zhu Huaijing knew that Li Mingxi would get dizzy when he heard this set of official words, but fortunately, his expression looked like he was listening to the teachings seriously, so he wouldn't embarrass Secretary-General Liu.After Secretary-General Liu finished speaking, Zhu Huaijing hurriedly said: "Secretary-General Liu's leadership awareness is not ordinary, and he is very culturally aware. It's not that I said it harshly. Some of the current leaders, even though they have all graduated from college, some have I got Zhang’s master’s degree, but I lack cultural awareness. Without cultural awareness, it’s hard to talk about modern awareness; and without modern awareness, it’s impossible to talk about pioneering spirit…” Secretary-General Liu raised his hand to signal Zhu Huaijing to speak slowly, and he stopped.Secretary-General Liu took up the conversation and talked about Zhu Huaijing's major events: "That's why I have always advocated the bold appointment of young cadres with a sense of pioneering. Huai Jing, the organization is ready to take the burden off of you." Secretary-General Liu stopped for a moment when he said this, without looking at anyone, he just rested his head comfortably on the sofa and looked at the ceiling.Zhu Huaijing did not expect that the conversation between Secretary-General Liu and him would start like this.He knew that Secretary-General Liu said that he should be promoted in the organization, and of course what he wanted to say could not be to thank the organization for trusting him, but to thank Secretary-General Liu for his cultivation.So he looked into the eyes that were not looking at him, and said very sincerely: "Thank you very much, Secretary-General Liu. I will work hard and never let you down." At this time, Secretary-General Liu turned his head, glanced at Zhu Huaijing, then looked away, and then said: "You have worked as the deputy county magistrate in charge of finance and trade, I believe you have done a good job, the director of finance and trade. I'm very busy these days, so I won't talk to you anymore. Today can be regarded as an official talk. The position of director of finance and trade has been vacant for a long time. You hand in the work here and take up the post immediately. The documents will be soon Send it down. I will talk to the Personnel Department and arrange a time, and I will take you to meet the comrades in the Finance and Trade Department." Zhu Huaijing was continuing to say words of thanks when Secretary-General Liu looked up at the clock on the wall.Zhu Huaijing immediately realized that he should leave.But before he could change the subject and mention his farewell, Secretary-General Liu interrupted him, looked at Li Mingxi and said, "Then thank you, Mr. Li, thank you both?" Zhu Huaijing immediately stood up, bowed and said, "Then let's take our leave first, Secretary-General Liu, please rest." Xiao Wu hurriedly stood up: "Director Zhu, let's go." Zhu Huaijing smiled at her and expressed his thanks.He originally wanted to say that you did a good job here, but seeing this situation today, he felt that this was superfluous.Zhu Huaijing led Li Mingxi out while turning his head and smiling, seeing Secretary General Liu standing up slowly and waving to them.Xiao Wu ran ahead and pulled them away.Finally, Zhu Huaijing turned around and waved, and went out.The door was gently closed behind.Zhu Huaijing learned the lesson from last time, and when he came out, he didn't say anything, just lowered his head and went downstairs without saying a word.After walking for a long time, Li Mingxi suddenly asked without thinking: "Secretary Liu's wife is still so young?" Zhu Huaijing didn't react for a while, he was stunned, and said, "His wife?...Oh, oh, that's his nanny! Really, you wooden fish head, you didn't understand a word I said to him?" "Who cares what you two say? I only heard your leader say that you want to arrest a few artists. This tone is like the 'Cultural Revolution'." Li Mingxi muttered. Zhu Huaijing knew that Li Mingxi was trying to be humorous, so he felt angry and funny.He sent Li Mingxi to the gate and said, "I'm the one who finds something to do on my own! I have to be in charge of planning your art exhibition. This is your business, and I can't help it. Well, you just have to prepare the paintings." , I will raise the funds, and then you can participate in the arrangement by yourself." Li Mingxi chuckled, turned around and left.Zhu Huaijing stretched out his hand habitually, but his hand had no choice but to draw an arc in the air, turning into a head scratching gesture.He watched Li Mingxi walking side by side in the cold wind, and a sense of warmth surged in his heart inexplicably, and his chest jumped a few times with emotion.He walked back for a long time before he vaguely realized what was happening to him just now.He couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, feeling quite emotional in his heart.He thought this might be a friend!It is a true friend without any interest relationship.Only in front of such friends, he Zhu Huaijing is the real Zhu Huaijing.Sigh only sigh that it is too difficult to meet such a friend nowadays! For a moment he seemed to have a lot of things to think about, so he didn't go home right away.He went straight to the office.When I entered the office, the first thing I thought of was talking with Yuqin on the phone.As he dialed the phone, his chest couldn't help jumping wildly.It was a beautiful thing that this woman always gave him this feeling.The phone was connected, and Yuqin gave a flat hello. When she recognized him, her tone immediately cheered up, and she said, "Hey, Huai Jing, are you busy today? You haven't called me all day. It's my turn tonight. I’m on duty.” Zhu Huaijing was inconvenient to go there tonight, so he said, “I’m a bit busy. You know what happened. I’m also working overtime in the office. Let me tell you, Mayor Pi and Secretary Liu both talked to me today. , I want to go to the Finance and Trade Department to be the director, and I will go to the Finance and Trade Department in a few days, and the affairs here must be handed over." Yuqin was silent for a while, and said, "Congratulations! How can I comfort you?" Zhu Huaijing She laughed and said, "What do you think?" Yuqin understood what he meant, and said, "You're bad! I won't tell you anymore. You should work overtime. Don't be too late, go to bed early." Putting down the phone, Zhu Huaijing felt happy for a while.Wanting to get up and go back, I feel like there is something else.After thinking about it for a while, he remembered that Mrs. Liu was hospitalized, so he thought he should visit the hospital.There is nothing to think about just looking at it, the problem is how to look at it.Secretary Gu died, judging by the situation, Secretary-General Liu must be in the top position.Secretary-General Liu is really nice to him now, and he should show the necessary respect to such a person.How to respect the law is up to you.Zhu Huaijing thought that the last time he gave 20,000 yuan to congratulate the second son of Mayor Pi on his study in the United States, according to his position and grade, after that, he should also give at least 10,000 yuan to visit Secretary-General Liu's wife.His heart skipped a beat.This amount is indeed too big for him, it is equal to his salary for two years, plus the 20,000 last time is 30,000, which makes him even more reluctant, alas!But there is no way, this favor still needs to be done. Zhu Huaijing patted his head, gritted his teeth hard, and left the office.Once in the corridor, he immediately regained his composure and strode forward.There are also armed police standing guard at the entrance of the hall. On the way home, he thought it would be better to send five thousand yuan, but she would only stay in the hospital, and she was often hospitalized.After thinking about it carefully, I felt that five thousand yuan was passable, so I thought: If there is no change, just five thousand yuan. Xiangmei was still awake, watching TV by herself.Seeing that he came back, she was not very enthusiastic, she just looked at the clock on the wall.Zhu Huaijing understood that she blamed him for coming back late, so he casually talked about the death of the mayor and the others, implying that he was busy with it.Xiangmei asked him if he had eaten, and he said that he would be hungry if he didn't eat so late.Xiangmei got up and poured water for him to wash his face and feet. After going to bed, the two gossiped for a while, and the atmosphere got better. Zhu Huaijing talked about going to visit Mrs. Liu Secretary-General.Xiangmei heard that it would cost another 5,000 yuan, so she sat up immediately, but she refused to accept what Zhu Huaijing said.Zhu Huaijing tried to persuade him left and right, all of which were based on the principles he said last time.But this time it's not very effective, Xiangmei is not going to live or die.Zhu Huaijing lost his temper.As soon as he got angry, Xiangmei got up, angrily took out the passbook and threw it to Zhu Huaijing, saying: "Okay! I will give it to you, and you can give it as you like, regardless of my business! From now on, you are not allowed to talk about money in front of me!" Xiangmei angrily went to sleep in her son's room.The passbook was beside Zhu Huaijing's pillow, and he didn't bother to get it.No wonder Xiangmei is angry, spending so much money is really heartbreaking.My father has worked his buttocks in the countryside all his life, and he has never had twenty-five thousand yuan in hand!No matter how generous Zhu Huaijing is usually, no matter how much he eats and drinks, he dare not be extravagant.He always thinks of the countryside he is familiar with from time to time.He bought a pair of leather shoes, bought a piece of clothing, or went to a restaurant.I always suddenly think of the money spent, my father's hard work for half a year or a year.My father often gnawed at the loess and turned his back to the sky for a year, but he still couldn't earn the money for a meal he ate outside.He is too familiar with those villages, too familiar with farmers like his father!The still impoverished vast countryside is the background he will never get out of, the hinterland of his heart and emotion. However, Zhu Huaijing left the countryside after all.Leaving the country is almost the wish of all country people.The folks and elders hope that he will be promising, and he will be very promising.But after being out for so many years, he has seen more and more clearly that the so-called great promise of a countryman can only be realized through the efforts of several generations.Zhu Huaijing's generation can only complete the step of changing from a countryman to an urbanite.He can only create conditions for his son, making his son more noble than him.In the future, the grandson is more noble than the son.Only in this way, his family will slowly enter the upper echelons of society.Regardless of whether you admit it or not, there are already social classes in fact.For those who live in the lower class, you can proudly despise the upper class, but you can never approach and walk to the upper class easily.The so-called upper class has always referred to people who have become high-ranking officials, but in recent years a new element has been added to the ranks of the upper class, that is, people who have made a lot of money. called the boss.These bosses are probably the so-called "people" that Secretary-General Liu mentioned when revising the government report.Zhu Huaijing thought that the word "personage" may not have much special meaning literally, but there seems to be a faint breath in it: some people are really becoming more and more aristocratic.Thinking about this, he got up and turned on the light, found a dictionary, and turned to the word "person". 【People】People who have a certain social influence: democratic ~ from all walks of life ~ outside the party ~ patriotic ~. [Personnel] A person who holds a certain position: office work~armed~on duty~equipment~. A person can be called a character, but a person can only be an ordinary person.Zhu Huaijing closed the dictionary, and suddenly felt that he was very pedantic and ridiculous, and actually flipped through the dictionary seriously to research what is a person and what is a person.Dictionaries are dead, but languages ​​are alive.And official language is often implicit, obscure, and full of symbolic meanings. What's the use of looking through a dictionary?Zhu Huaijing just really felt that this society is indeed becoming more and more stratified, and some people are becoming more and more aristocratic.Although officials are still called public servants, although rich people still respect you as God, facts are facts.People from the lower class want to quickly enter the upper class. To use fashionable official words, to achieve extraordinary development, you must have extraordinary means.Zhu Huaijing reached out to pick up the passbook and held it in his hand.存折冰凉的，一股寒气直蹿他的全身。他闭着眼睛，体验着一种近似悲壮的情绪。存折在他的手心被捏得发热了，他的心情也就平静了。 也不知有多晚了，他没有半点睡意，索性起床了。听听隔壁没有香妹任何声音，他便开了门出来了。户外很冷，路灯白得发青。这种灯光下的一切似乎都蒙上了一层魔幻色彩。朱怀镜知道自己这时的脸色也许很恐怖。他去了办公楼，站岗的武警奇怪地望着他。他便装模作样地同人家招招手，像个日理万机的领导。进办公司坐了会儿，心想还是回去睡了。可一出办公楼，却向大门的方向去了。 朱怀镜走在寒风中感到莫名其妙的悲壮，泪水模糊了双眼。他想这个时候有谁惹了他，谁就倒霉了，他一定将这人揍个半死！寒风迎面吹来，叫他不能呼吸。他便顶着风呜呜地怪叫，像一只孤独的狼。 他这么叫喊着，就到了龙兴大酒店附近。见了酒店门厅外面那通明的灯火，他不再叫喊了。可今天这红红绿绿的灯光让他感到从未有过的凄艳和伤感，便又忍不住潸然泪下。 他沿着僻静的小道，去了玉琴屋子。开了门，他没有开客厅的等，而是径直去了卧室。他开了床头的等，却见床头摊着些照片，全是他同玉琴一块儿照的。原来他不在的时候，玉琴就依偎着这些照片入睡。 朱怀镜躺在床上，一张一张端详着这些照片。这些照片让他想起他同玉琴夜夜厮守的那些日子，每一张照片几乎都有一个令他心旌飘摇的故事。像是幻觉，他拿手抚摸着照片上的玉琴，看着看着玉琴就从上面出来而来，同他一起说话儿。一会儿又偎着他睡下了，伸出温润的舌头舔他的脸。他的脸被舔得痒痒的，伸手抓了一下。手一抬，他真的实实在在感觉到了玉琴的身体。他猛然睁开眼睛一看。God!玉琴真的睡在他的怀里！ 见他醒了，玉琴噘嘴巴说：“你真是坏呀！来了又不说声，害的我一个人在那里值班冷冷清清。知道你来了，我也可以早点儿过来陪你。这下可好，天早亮了好半天了！” 朱怀镜摸摸玉琴身子，还是冰凉的，就知道她才躺下没多久。他抬腕看看手表，却已是早上八点过了。“这下好了，上班也要迟到了。”朱怀镜说。 玉琴似乎有些难为情，笑笑说：“我进来时已是七点五十了，想你怎么睡得这么死，一定是昨晚太累了。我想让你多睡一会儿，也就不叫醒你了。再说，我也倚着你睡一会儿。” 朱怀镜便搂着玉琴，说：“傻孩子，还怕我怪你不叫我？我也巴不得同你呆久一会儿哩！迟到就迟到，我俩再睡一会儿吧。”他想这会儿正是人们进进出出的高峰期，索性等会儿再出去算了。他挂了刘仲夏电话，说有点事要办，迟一点再去。刘仲夏很客气，说没有事得，你放心办事吧。玉琴在他怀里甜甜拱了一阵，逗他说：“坏家伙，你说要办事，办什么事？”他早喉头起火了喘着气儿说：“办你！办你这个天下第一大事！”两人只隔了十几个小时不在一起，却像八辈子没见面似的。 朱怀镜出了龙兴大酒店已是十点多了。走了一会儿路，才觉得饥肠辘辘。他和玉琴都没吃早饭。玉琴说去弄饭来吃，他不让她离开他半步，两人便只顾着搂着温存。这会儿却真有点饿。可是怕耽误时间，他只好忍住饥饿，拦了辆的士。在政府大门口下了车，见了大门口站岗的武警威风凛凛，他精神猛然抖擞了，似乎也不怎么觉得饥饿了。 当他挺直腰板，甩着手臂，潇洒地走过大院里那宽阔的大坪时，他已显得精力格外充沛了。刘仲夏听见了他开门的声音，过来跟着他进了办公室。“有事吗？”朱怀镜客气地问道。可他感觉自己这口气有些像在问一位下级，便马上谦恭地笑笑。他见刘仲夏没有什么特别的表情。心里就妥帖些。 刘仲夏在他对面坐下来，说：“怀镜，同你商量个事。快到春节了，同志们都盼着早点发福利。我的意思，今年物价涨得快，大家都觉得手头紧，是不是比往年多发一点？我想法是没人发个六杆。估计厅里也会发个三四杆。每人一共有个近一方水，过年也差不多了。你看如何？” 朱怀镜说：“好好，就依你说的吧。同志们辛辛苦苦干了一年，就盼着年头年尾有个响动。” 刘仲夏又说：“好吧，我俩就统一这个意见。不过我想多做几次发，免得太显眼了。今天先发两千吧。上面又发通知下来了，禁止年底滥发钱物，禁止年底突击花钱。通知是年年发，票子也年年发。就我们办公厅的规规矩矩，发个几千块钱还做贼样的。” 朱怀镜便感叹道：“是啊，我们是首脑机关，什么事都讲究影响。外面那些单位，谁还讲影响不影响？只要是票子，就敢往腰包里塞！我就知道有几个部门，早在几年前过春节就发几万块了！” 两人便感慨了一会儿政府首脑机关的形象问题，认为形象的确太重要了。谁叫你在首脑机关工作呢？在这里工作你就得舍得牺牲。 刘仲夏坐了一会儿，说声你忙吧起身走了。朱怀镜从刘仲夏的语气里仿佛感觉到什么。仔细一琢磨，发现刘仲夏对他比平时多了些客气。一个处的同事，进出办公室很随便的，不用说你忙不忙之类的客套话。尤其刘仲夏又是站在处长的位置上，平时从不对哪位下级讲过客气。朱怀镜想，这一切都是因为自己即将去财贸处当处长了。 不一会儿功夫，小向笑眯眯地进来了。朱怀镜知道他是发钱来了。小向是处里小钱柜的出纳，他要发钱了就是这么表情。果然小向神秘兮兮地将门轻轻掩了，贼虚虚地从腋下取出一个大信封，拿出一张表来让朱怀镜签字。小向望着朱怀镜签了字，便一五一十地数了两千元钱交给朱怀镜，说：“朱处长再数数？” 朱怀镜觉得小向这人死板得可爱，硬要望着你把字签好了才知回头数钱，好像生怕你写不好自己的名字。他把钱往口袋里一揣，笑着说：“少给了不问你要了，多给了你就赔吧。”小向便嘿嘿一笑，又把大信封揣进腋下夹着，一声不响出去了，就像个地下工作者。 小向一走，朱怀镜忍不住掏出钱夹。数数里面的票子。昨天小熊给的三千块还没有动，刚才发了两千，原来自己还有五百来块，一共有五千五百多块钱。朱怀镜觉得奇怪，刘仲夏这回怎么一下子大方起来了，他是办事非常谨慎的人，以往春节发钱从不敢超过三千块。朱怀镜总认为他不是自己不想多拿些钱，而是怕万一大手大脚，到时候小钱柜空了一时没有财源，干部们就会意见纷纷的。而这回一下子说要发六千，也许是看着他要走了，做个人情吧。也好，就拿手头这五千块钱去看望余姨算了，懒得同老婆闹得不畅快。 他见这会儿才十一点多钟，又没有什么事做，就想干脆去医院看一下余姨，了却这个心愿。他拉上门就出来了，也不同刘仲夏打招呼。才进办公室没多久，又说要出去有事，不太好，就干脆不同谁说算了。 出了政府大院。才想起不知余姨住哪家医院。按说应在第一人民医院。到问讯处一问，知道余姨这类病人应住八病室。他跑去八病室护士值班室一查，见有个38床余娟。再问问护士正是余姨。他不忙去病房，跑到大门外，花八十块钱在摊上买了个花篮。 余姨斜靠在床上坐着，显得很孤独。床头只有一个茶杯，没有鲜花，她没有马上认出朱怀镜，表情漠然。朱怀镜微笑着躬下身子，说：“余姨，您好！我才知道您住院了，今天才来看您。” 余姨眼睛一闪，笑道：“你们那么忙，不敢惊动你们啊。坐吧。坐吧。”余姨脸色苍白，就连笑起来都似乎很吃力。朱怀镜感觉余姨好像仍然没有想起他是谁，就索性自我介绍：“余姨想不起来了吧？我是综合处的小朱啊。” 余姨忙摆摆手。说：“哪里啊，我记得你。”