Chapter 7 fourth quarter

5 days later. Just after noon, Misawa Junko went to work. Minister Suehiro, who rarely sat in the office, was summoned by the secretary of the editorial chief. "What's the matter? Shave again?" Zentaro Suehiro pretended to be calm and asked his secretary in front of everyone.But still can't hide his uneasy look.When his figure disappeared at the door, Kenkichi Kanemori, the deputy chief who had quarreled with the minister and hadn't dared to slip out, snorted and mocked the minister. Since the incident, Minister Suehiro Zentaro and Deputy Minister Kanemori Kenkichi have not spoken a word even though they met face to face.When saying hello in the morning, Kanemori just nodded silently as a greeting, while Suehiro was also indifferent.Of course, Suehiro doesn't discuss with Kanemori about anything in the department.When there was an urgent matter, he bypassed Jin Sen and directly asked the young Tamura to do it.The cold confrontation between the two made the already dull atmosphere in the ministry even more depressing.Everyone went about their work listlessly, without laughter or banter.

But when the minister and the deputy minister were away, everyone cheered up.They turned their bodies as if frozen in ice, talking enthusiastically about their superiors, and no one sympathized with them. Misawa Junko always thought that such an atmosphere was caused by herself, so she was always depressed.Mitsuko Hanoi comforted Shunzi in private, saying: "It's not just because of you, there are other factors. This situation existed before, and you know it." Even so, Shunzi still felt uncomfortable. The director called the minister away, and the deputy director Jin Sen who stayed in the office seemed calm, but he was not.Because the punishment for this accident has not yet been finalized, as him, he can't feel at ease.

Kenkichi Kanemori sat on the chair.He stared out the window, with a premonition that the Minister was called to announce the punishment decision.Others feel the same way.Although everyone was silently doing the work at hand, their hearts were like fifteen buckets, up and down, and they were waiting for the minister to come back. Ryosaku Kawakita, editor-in-chief, is a notoriously strict figure.Misawa Junko recalled the image of Kawakita Yoshisaku whom she saw when she was riding with Masako a few days ago.She felt that the man in the car was not the authoritative editorial chief of the newspaper office, but an ordinary man who was intimate with the hostess of the nightclub.

Shunzi recalled the scene of riding in the car, the scissors in his hand kept moving.Suddenly, the door opened, and the minister Suehiro Zentaro walked in.There was another invisible fluctuation in the room.The minister said nothing.He sat down in a chair dejectedly.Then, he opened the drawer, took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth, frowning and looking ugly. "Hey, Kanemori-kun!" After a long time, the minister finally spoke. "What's the matter?" Kenkichi Kanemori raised his head hostilely.The Minister, without looking at him, said: "The director told you to go." He threw out such a sentence.That tone has lost its former vigor.

Kenkichi Kanemori stood up abruptly, making the chair rattle.He strode towards the door and closed it again with a bang.The minister's face was still turned to one side.Zentaro Suehiro, who used to yell at Kenkichi Kanemori as an "asshole" at the back of Kenkichi Kanemori, now has no strength to scold him.He leaned back in the chair with his eyes closed, as if he was thinking about something.Wisps of smoke came out of his mouth mechanically. Suddenly, the phone rang.Everyone's attention was immediately attracted.The minister couldn't help opening his eyes, and nervously glanced at the phone.

Mitsuko Hanoi hurriedly picked up the microphone: "Yes, yes, I'm the data investigation department... yo—it's you!...What?... Clothing? I bought it in a big department store. Uh huh. On the corner of the fifth floor... Yes, maybe there are still. Today Get off work?... That's it! You can walk together!...Hey, 5 o'clock? Okay, okay. Where are you waiting?..." Mitsuko's leisurely voice made people even more nervous and breathless. In the evening of the same day, in front of the bulletin board of the newspaper office, the staff of the newspaper office was crowded, and it was dark.There, the mimeographed appointment and dismissal order was just posted.The order reads: "Give Minister Sue Kozentaro a warning; give Deputy Director Kanamori Kenkichi a warning." The next step is: "Transfer Minister Sue Kozentaro to work in the business department and enjoy ministerial treatment ; Transfer Deputy Director Kenkichi Kanemori to work in the Shilun Investigation Office, and enjoy the treatment of the Deputy Director." There is no doubt that this kind of transfer is tantamount to being thrown into the cold palace and demoted of power.Although it is said that he still enjoys the treatment of ministers and deputy ministers, he actually has a position but no power.

Misawa Junko stood at the back, lost sight of the notice from a distance, and trembled slightly.She thought: Minister Hiroshi Sue was demoted to the Business Department, and Deputy Director Kanemori was assigned to the Shilun Investigation Office. Of course, the head of the Organization Department related to this matter would also be punished in the same way.But why didn't he see the punishment order for himself?The announcement also notified that the deputy head of the sorting department was transferred from the sorting department to the proofreading department, admonished Kazuo Kiuchi, a staff member of the sorting department, and transferred to the local edition to do the sorting work.But why doesn't it have its own name?

Editorial director Ryosaku Kawakita has always advocated "strict rewards and punishments", and seems to want to achieve the purpose of rectifying discipline.Because his predecessor was a rather loose character, his casual and laissez-faire style made the editorial bureau loose and unmanageable.In the newspaper office, there are actually two forces.Here, there are both the opposition of the former editorial chief and the opposition of the current editorial chief. It has been less than three months since Director Chuanbei took office.Before that, he was Minister of Political Affairs.The new director is unwilling to follow the strategy of the former director, so people guess that sooner or later he will implement the "Northern Sichuan personnel" policy.It will take about four months for this policy to be implemented after the work in the bureau is determined.The disciplinary announcement this time is only a prelude to the implementation of the "North Sichuan Personnel" policy, and it may not be the entire deployment of Northern Sichuan.The fact that a subordinate was punished so harshly just for posting a photo by mistake is enough to illustrate this point.It would be more accurate to describe "punishment" as "kill the chicken and show it to the monkey".

Sunja quietly left the crowd.She felt an unforgivable responsibility.Because of her, so many people have been hurt, which made her unable to calm down anyway. The order was drafted on June 3 and issued four days later. It is conceivable that Zentaro Suehiro, the data investigation director who was transferred to the business department, was depressed.His expression when he returned from the director's office can also prove it.Even he didn't expect the punishment to be so severe.It is said that he enjoys the treatment of the minister, but in fact, the business department has long had a highly respected minister.His ministerial treatment is almost synonymous with sitting on the bench.This is undoubtedly a thorny obstacle for Suehiro Zentaro, who is on his way to becoming an official.It will take at least a year or two to recover even a little.If he realized that the mistake was not his fault, and blamed it on the negligence of his subordinates, perhaps he should not be depressed, and he might rise again.However, it is obvious to all that from the fact that he has been frequently active in the key departments of the newspaper, even if his career stagnates for a year or two, it is still a painful blow to him.

Vice Minister Jin Sen's situation is even worse.The World Theory Research Office has a low status in the newspaper office, not to mention it.No matter from which point of view, the core and mainstream of the newspaper office are the political department, economic department, social department and finishing department.They take the lead, deciding, scheduling, and organizing the day's news coverage.And what is the world discussion room, even the budget is not rich.To put it bluntly, when they need to ride in the vehicle of the newspaper office when they go out on business, they are not even allowed to print the banner of the newspaper office.Most of them are by tram and bus.

Speaking of which, the proofreading department, data investigation department, and world theory investigation department are all indispensable departments in a newspaper office, and they should also be taken seriously.They worked hard and sweated profusely behind their backs.But what is special is that this is not the case in the Shilun investigation room of R Newspaper.The investigation room is a place where a group of deputy chiefs who can no longer be promoted and demoted from various ministries gather, and some people who are considered incompetent are also stuffed here. The research room of world theory is not far from the review department. Looking through the window, the light there is very dark, and there are only four or five desks in the room.A few middle-aged people or elderly staff who have completely lost their vigor are working there lifelessly, sorting out postcards for consultation, summarizing them, or making statistics on reports issued by various agencies and non-governmental organizations. Kenji Kanemori was transferred to the Shilun Investigation Office, and he was treated as a deputy chief in name, but he didn't have any job in fact.Not having a job should be the most painful thing for a journalist, a wage earner.Some people will say that if you don’t work, you can still receive your salary every month, so you should be lucky!actually not.A person doing nothing in the work unit and eating cheap food is no less than begging for nothing and being raised half-dead by others. I feel uncomfortable!Because, as Kanemori Kenkichi, if he is punished like this regardless of his usual grades, he will have even less hope of looking up than Zentaro Suehiro.He will spend the rest of his life in obscurity in that dimly lit corner without a job until he retires. There is another thing that makes Junko Misawa feel more guilty, that is, Kazuo Kiuchi from the finishing department was transferred to the local board to do the finishing work.For the same job, whether you assign A or B, the value judgments may be different.It is the same sorting work, but the work of the sorting department of the agency and the sorting room of the local version is very different.In any case, the finishing department is responsible for the main issue of the newspaper, which is the facade of the newspaper, and it is the essence; while the local edition is just to fill the gaps in the newspaper and enrich the buttocks of the newspaper. Each newspaper office has a metropolitan or city edition, as well as a prefectural edition for suburban counties.The news published in the column of the county edition is mostly events that happened in the county.The county edition kept in the newspaper has only a small section.It carried local reports drawn from police departments, county and city governments, and various groups. The so-called collation of the local editions refers to the collation and editing of local manuscripts sent from various branches or liaison officers.Then a small section of the page can only publish some news such as cattle competitions in animal husbandry, reports on vegetable production, or a primary school was built in a certain place, or the fire department held a commendation meeting, or other cultural gatherings, etc. that is it.It's very boring to organize. Shunzi thought, Kazuo Kiuchi must be very depressed after reading the notice!When I met him on the platform of Youle Street Station, I knew that he bought books and poetry collections to chat about masturbation. Now, I don’t know what method he used to free himself. Shunzi was punished for Kazuo Kiuchi, but she was a little confused and uneasy that she was not punished.Maybe it's because she's a newbie at the newspaper?Maybe the newspaper office didn't take the female staff seriously at all, and felt that they were not worthy of punishment?Thinking that female staff can only do some auxiliary work, and always treating female staff as half-persons, Shunja also feels unfair. Even if she excused herself like this, Misawa Junko didn't feel relaxed.Not punishing her further embarrasses and embarrasses her.She had to think of resigning. Shunzi didn't want to return to the data investigation department immediately.She clearly knew that she was emotionally impulsive and wanted to calm herself down. Instead of taking the elevator, she wobbled down the stairs on the third floor.She wanted to go to the gate to get some air. Publication of the disciplinary order was not only carried out within the editorial bureau, but was also notified to the printing bureau, business bureau and other departments.Even if the editorial bureau does not pay much attention to this matter, other ministries and bureaus will also have a strong interest in the announcement.People who didn't know much about the inside story of the incident in the past often went to ask the staff of the editorial bureau after seeing the announcement, pointing fingers and muttering.Misawa Junko didn't take the elevator because she wanted to avoid these people.However, when she came down the stairs, she still felt that many people she didn't know passed her by and cast strange and reproachful glances at her. She planned to write a letter of resignation after returning home.Write as soon as you get home!Bring it to the minister early tomorrow morning.But today she had to pretend nothing had happened anyway.Especially when going to work, pay special attention.All those involved in the accident were punished, but she, the "culprit", was not touched, no matter what the reason was, she would be blamed.She felt more and more unforgivable.If she was given a clear punishment, maybe she would not think of resigning.But what would she do after resigning from public office?Misawa Junko doesn't even have 100,000 yen in savings now.Although R Newspaper is a top-notch newspaper, for a female employee who has only been in the newspaper for a year, the retirement salary is very low; and on the eve of her graduation, Shunzi regards the newspaper as the only target for the test.Now, even if she plans to change doors and join another company, she still needs time to find a door.It is still unclear when it will be possible to resume work. Misawa Junko walked up and down in front of the reception room at the gate, at a loss for what to do.She tried to calm herself down.Her meaningless pacing was seen by a female employee named Lin Tian in the reception room.Lin Tian looked at this beautiful woman in surprise.She is five years older than Sunja. Junko Misawa returned to the stairs.With heavy steps, she moved up step by step.Maybe it's nervousness!She still felt that the people coming down from above were staring at her unfriendlyly.It was hard to get to the third floor.There was a disciplinary announcement posted at one end of the Sanhou corridor, and there might still be a lot of people watching it.Sunja avoided the crowd and walked to the other side.Going back to the data investigation department from here will take a long circle, but you will meet fewer people. Just a few steps away, Misawa Junko regretted it. The offices here include the commentary committee room, the editorial director's room, and the main office.Staff members often refer to this corridor as the "Road to the Blue Clouds".This is called after the "Silk Road".It means that the road is only for the upper class to walk, and it stands to reason that there should be no pedestrians here.Misawa Junko trotted through the offices one by one, as long as he walked through the main office, the conference room, and the general affairs department, he was near the data investigation department.Just as Misawa Junko passed by the door of the Discourse Committee Room, suddenly, the opposite door opened, and a person walked out from inside, making Shunzi feel as if his heart stopped beating immediately. She bumped into the person she feared the most—Ryosaku Kawakita, director of the editorial bureau.Chuan Zhiliang seemed to be in a hurry to do something, when he suddenly met Junko Misawa, he was also taken aback.Shunja rolled her eyelids, and bowed to the short and puffy body of the chief editor as she walked. "Yes." The director simply returned the gift. Shunzi was surprised and couldn't help raising her head.She didn't expect the director to say "hmm". Usually in the newspaper office, no matter who bows or greets him on any occasion, he always silently nods and forgets.It makes people feel that he is arrogant, and even more that he is majestic and formidable.There has never been a return of salute like today. Director Chuanbei took a look at Shunzi.Just a glance, also surprised Shunzi quite a bit.She lowered her head and hurried away as if fleeing.The heart was beating up and down.Shunzi did not expect the director to look at her. It is said that the biggest characteristic of this editorial director in the editorial bureau is that no matter who bows or greets him, he always ignores them, and his eyes always stay where they were. seat.Especially the female staff is even more dismissive. I don't know why, but this attitude is today. Shunzi thought that the chief may not know that she and Masako were in the chief's car until now, and the chief did not recognize her that night.The director glanced at her, maybe it was not intentional; maybe it was accidental to return the salute aloud.But she thought again, did the director recognize her that night, or at least knew that she was an employee of the newspaper office, and deliberately pretended not to know her?But she immediately denied this view.Judging from Director Kawakita Ryosaku's attitude at the time, it was indeed like meeting a completely unknown person for the first time.The director will clearly know that it would be disrespectful to be close to a woman of Mihara Masako's profession if the female staff of the unit sees it.He will cover himself and behave less naturally.For an ordinary man, he would not have such auspicious acting skills. So, how to explain the director's eyes just now?Those eyes were indeed staring at her consciously... In short, those eyes did not seem like a memory of deja vu.It was so strange, Sunja didn't know why she was obsessed with this issue. Junko Misawa returned to the data investigation department, still feeling restless.There were four or five people in the ministry talking about something, and the conversation was cut off as soon as they saw her come in.Mitsuko Hanoi was also talking with Tamura, who was sitting next to her, and when she saw her coming in, she quickly stopped talking, and her eyes fell on a piece of pasted foreign newspaper. Sunja saw that the seats of Minister Suehiro and Deputy Chief Kanemori were empty, and knew that they were not there.Those two empty seats made Shunzi's heart feel like a needle prick. Now, what is the mood of the minister and deputy minister?What did they do?Sunja was thinking about it.After Deputy Chief Kenji Kanemori was called by the chief, he must have known the punishment for himself, and he probably gave up on himself.But he never returned to the ministry.Where did you go to relieve your boredom, or have you gone home?No, probably not home.He was at the mahjong shop during the day and went to the tavern at night, so he must have come home very late.Minister Suehiro Zentaro may be even more depressed now.Perhaps he was staying among those friendly ministers, skillfully maneuvering, scratching his head and saying with a smirk: "Oh, I got fucked again!" There, the minister was politically minded.He would claim that it was not his own dereliction of duty, but the responsibility of his subordinates. In short, it was bad luck that caused the bad luck.Perhaps he was expecting those fellow ministers to comfort him: bad luck!That's just a formal punishment. Once the limelight passes, maybe the official will be reinstated. Shunzi planned to go back early today.The atmosphere in the office made it impossible for her to sit until the end of get off work.Neither the minister nor the deputy chief was there, so she greeted Hanoi Mitsuko and said that she was not feeling well, so she took a step forward.Shunzi quickly tidied up the things on the table, and said to everyone: "I'm sorry, I'm leaving first." After saying that, he left. Sunja came to the corridor, and Mitsuko Kawauchi chased after her shaking her curly head. "Sanze, wait." Kawachi Mitsuko put his hands on Shunzi's shoulders: "I can fully understand your feelings." Saying that, he took her into the deserted teahouse as if hugging her. This teahouse is considered a big teahouse in Sanping, and an old woman in charge of general affairs was arranged to boil water for the workers.At this time, a thin layer of dust fell on the stove, and a kettle sat on it. "Today's incident will hit you hard, I know that." Hanoi Mitsuko said like a big sister, "I understand your feelings, but don't get overwhelmed, even if you make a mistake, everyone will make a mistake. But, The crux of the problem is that the editorial director's punishment is too harsh. You didn't give you a punishment because you haven't been here for a long time, and I think that's the case." "This makes me more embarrassed and uneasy. I caused the trouble." Shunzi didn't want to cry at first, but finally she couldn't control herself and burst into tears. "Don't be sad." Kawachi Mitsuko said, "You don't need to take any responsibility for that matter. To be honest, colleagues in the ministry are all happy. Don't you also hate the minister? As for Jinsen, he is so foolish. Everyone can't stand it anymore. This person is a soldier in the army, and a veteran and senior in the newspaper office. Usually, everyone reluctantly follows him because they have to. It's so happy. Speaking of it, it's thanks to you Ah! If it weren't for your lucky mistake, I don't know how long I'll be trapped by these two guys." "..." Shunzi didn't speak. "Hey, it's better to go back earlier today. Tomorrow, you must cheer up and go to work. Don't have other ideas. Everyone is very grateful to you! You have to come to work in a big way, you know?"