Chapter 38 Chapter 38

"... Let's start with the all-night long talk with me before the eldest brother died..." Gong Zhihe sorted out his thoughts a little, and began to say. "... That day, my elder brother discussed with me for 20 or 30 hours. Except for going to the toilet, we never even went out of the room. His main idea was to ask me not to keep burying my head in the pile of old papers. He said that China is at a very critical moment, and I need to spend more time paying attention to China's social process today, and actually participate in this process, and earnestly take on the social responsibility that intellectuals should take on. responsibility……"

Because when it comes to Zhicheng, Gong Kaichen is much more focused.He asked: "How did he ask you to take this responsibility and go into business?" Gong Zhihe shook his head lightly: "He doesn't care what you do. But he asked me to pay attention to one problem, that is, China's current transition from a planned economy to a market economy In the process, there will also be forks and detours. That is to say, the market economy is also divided into good and bad. If it deviates from the direction of the standardized market economy ruled by law, it may evolve into a bad market economy, or it can also be called For cronycapitalism..."

Gong Kaichen, who had taught himself English but never mastered it, couldn't remember what "cronycapitalism" meant, and asked: "cronycapitalism" Gongzhi Kazuo explained: "Crop capitalism, or it can also be called crony capitalism." "He made up nouns again. Let's talk. Keep talking." Obviously, this "cronycapitalism" still aroused Gong Kaichen's interest.Gong Zhihe said: "Brother believes that our reform is carried out from top to bottom under the condition of maintaining the original administrative power system. Under such circumstances, when adjusting the ownership structure, some people with power are often more powerful than others. There are more convenient conditions to seek self-interest for oneself. In layman's terms, it is "power mixed with buying and selling", or it can also be called "collusion between government and business". This point, in the end, it is not impossible for socialism to be left with only a red flag in theory and an empty shell in reality, and the broad masses of the people still get nothing or very little in the end.”

Gong Kaichen leaned back on the sofa, and habitually retorted: "Our party will never allow this to happen." Gong Zhihe hurriedly replied: "Yes, elder brother is also fully confident about this. But the question now is how each of us is doing. For example, the sons of the brothers and sisters in our family... , daughter, daughter-in-law or son-in-law..." At this point, Gong Zhihe did not dare to speak rashly. But Gong Kaichen reminded calmly: "Go ahead." But his eyebrows trembled slightly. Gong Zhihe was silent for a while: "...don't be angry if I mention specific people..."

Gong Kaichen remained silent, waiting for Zhihe to continue. Gong Zhihe timidly: "You really don't get angry..." Gong Kaichen said impatiently, "Are you talking or not?" Gong Zhihe lowered his eyelids, lowered his voice and said: "I never had the courage to tell you this. Because, soon after the conversation, the elder brother died. The whole family is very sad. I can't go to everyone at this time. In addition, some of the situations that my elder brother told me were just his feelings. There is no sufficient factual basis. I can’t bother you with things that have no basis. For more than a year, I have been in I did some work in private, just to verify the 'feelings' of big brother... But so far, I still can't say that I have mastered any solid evidence..."

Gong Kaichen bent over and sat up from the sofa: "Your opening remarks are really long enough for you to give a report at the conference, and you must tell everyone to run away." Gong Zhihe sped up his speech a little: "Brother suspects that Dashanzi's economic situation has suddenly fallen to an unmanageable level in recent years. In addition to the problems in the system, management, resources, technology, and product marketability, there is another problem. The big problem is that there are invisible and intangible 'black holes'. Through these 'black holes', some people collude inside and outside to divide the cake of Dashanzi. Also because of the existence of these 'black holes', the The economic decline and collapse of large state-owned enterprises. He suspected that someone in our family was involved in a certain 'black hole'."

Gong Kaichen raised his voice and asked, "Who?" Gong Zhihe hurriedly said, "Don't get excited..." Gong Kaichen scolded with wide eyes: "Why are you so wordy?" Gong Zhihe took a breath and said, "He suspects sister-in-law..." "He suspects that Xiao Mei is playing the piano indiscriminately, she is an ordinary physician..." Gong Kaichen flatly denied it. "Dad, can you bear with me and listen to me? I should have forty-seven minutes." Gong Kaichen also looked at the old electric clock on the wall: "Say." At this time, the phone rang suddenly.Gong Kaichen motioned for Gong Zhihe to answer the phone.But what was strange was that when Gong Zhihe picked up the phone and asked, "Hi. This is the Gong family. Who is it?" The other party just gasped on the phone without answering.Gong Zhihe asked again: "Hey, which one please speak." The other party still did not answer.Gong Zhihe asked again, and with a "click", the other party hung up the phone.Gong Zhihe reluctantly put down the phone in doubt.The phone rang again.

"Who is this?" Gong Kaichen muttered unhappily. "I think it might be sister-in-law..." "Don't blame your sister-in-law for everything" "Probably she doesn't want me to know that she wants to come to you today too..." "It is very likely that a lot of things are broken by your various 'probable'" At this time, the phone rang again.Gong Zhihe immediately picked up the phone.This time it was Guo Liming who called.He handed the phone to Gong Kaichen: "Secretary Guo." Guo Liming told Gong Kaichen: "Secretary Gong, Miss Xiu called the office to find you just now. I think she is from your family, so I told her and asked She called you at home. Doesn't it affect your discussion? She said she would call you." After putting down the phone, Gong Kaichen sat silently for a while, and told Gong Zhihe what Guo Liming said.Gong Zhihe immediately asserted: "Then the mysterious phone call that didn't say anything just now must be her." "It's her...why didn't she say anything?" Gong Kaichen asked. "Maybe...she doesn't want me to know that she wants to see you. Maybe...she's just testing to see if I'm with you right now." "She's guarding against you" "She's guarding against me It’s not been a day or two." "Why" "Because she has already felt very clearly that I am investigating her problem and the relationship between her and the famous private entrepreneur Zhang Dakang."

Gong Kaichen was taken aback for a moment, sat blankly for a while, and hurriedly asked: "The relationship between her and Zhang Dakang?" "yes." "Zhicheng also knows the relationship between her and Zhang Dakang" "yes." "When did Zhicheng feel that Xiaomei had a relationship with that Zhang Dakang?" "He can't remember this anymore. It must have been a year or two..." "one or two years" "At the beginning, the eldest brother didn't care. You should know that the eldest brother is a very generous person. He is not feudal. He never cared about his sister-in-law's contact with the opposite sex. When the relationship between the two was quite harmonious, the sister-in-law even had sex with him. This kind of joke: You don't care who I hang out with so much, just watch, one day I will let the old monk carry me away, and you will have nowhere to buy regret medicine if you want to buy it."

Gong Kaichen hesitated for a moment, then said: "If it's just a normal exchange, it should be nothing..." Gong Zhihe said: "The problem is that later, the elder brother found out that Zhang Dakang, through his elder sister-in-law, established a relationship with some former leaders of the Dashanzi Mining Bureau and the Metallurgical Corporation, and formed a mutual interest relationship..." Gong Kaichen became alert: "Is it possible for Xiaomei to come forward to help Zhang Dakang? Xiaomei is so introverted and afraid of strangers..." Gong Zhihe took a deep breath and said: "After discovering this, the eldest brother was also quite shocked. Once, they invited several experts from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and booked a private room in Hongbin Building, Times Square... "

That day, the quaint Hongbinlou restaurant was as usual, elegant and noble, radiant, brightly lit, and full of guests.The female receptionist in a red satin embroidered cheongsam gracefully led Gong Zhicheng and his party to a private room upstairs.At this time, bursts of laughter came from another private room: "Sing one. Sing one. Come, give some applause. Welcome." From the sound, it seemed that a group of people were expecting a woman to sing.The woman shyly shy away: "No, no. I've never sung..." The woman's voice sounded familiar to Gong Zhicheng, but he couldn't be sure for a moment.So he went on again.And the woman actually sang.After hearing the song and the voice, Gong Zhicheng immediately decided that it was Xiu Xiaomei.Because this is a song she likes very much, she often hums it softly at home, often very affectionately: "...If your life is destined to be impossible to chase, I can only bless you..."