In fact, Lin Yufei had long known that there would be today, because when he was in the winter vacation of his fourth year of college, his father once led him to visit this distant relative who was an official.

I remember that day was the Chinese New Year's Eve, and early in the morning, Lin's mother came to ask Lin Yufei to get up, saying that his father asked him to go to the city to meet his cousin-in-law who was the deputy mayor.

As the biggest official in the circle of relatives, Lin Yufei, the name of this cousin-in-law, has long been like thunder. His surname is Gu, and I really don't know what his name is, because everyone respectfully calls him Mayor Gu, and Mayor Gu is the elder brother of the husband of the second daughter of the third uncle's family. Because it's not really a relative, I haven't had much contact with it.

It was only at an award ceremony for outstanding communist party members at the municipal level a few years ago that my father, as an outstanding village party secretary and an advanced individual in farmer entrepreneurship, won this honor through the election. And it was the deputy mayor Gu who presented him with the award, and when they chatted together, they found that there was such a distant relationship, so they got closer all of a sudden.

After that, the two families would walk around each other every Chinese New Year, and Father Lin would bring some agricultural products, such as sweet potatoes, rapeseed oil, smoked pork legs, and so on. Deputy Mayor Gu will give back some famous cigarettes and wine, anyway, they are all given by others, borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, although the price is expensive, it will not be distressed.

In fact, Father Lin wants Lin Yufei to accompany him every time, Lin Yufei naturally understands his good intentions, after all, he is the only college student in the family, if he can get on this "big tree", he will not worry about not having a good job in the future. However, Father Lin also knew that his son had an introverted personality since he was a child, and he was especially afraid of seeing people, so he had to give up every time he hesitated to see him.

However, this time, it involves the important matter of finding an internship hospital, which will directly affect the future job search, and as long as you perform well in the internship hospital, and the relationship is dredged, the possibility of staying in the internship hospital is also great.

Knowing that he couldn't escape this time, although he was very reluctant, Lin Yufei obediently left the warm bed. After going downstairs to wash up and have breakfast, I went with my father to meet a government official for the first time in my life.

Because he asked for it, Father Lin brought a lot of things this time, especially bacon, knowing that Deputy Mayor Gu loved it very much, he almost didn't stuff the whole pig into it.

When waiting for the car in the town, Father Lin suddenly remembered something, and asked Lin Yufei to look at something and trot away, and when he came back, he had an extra lighter in his hand, and took out an unopened pack of Jipin Jinsheng cigarettes from his jacket pocket and handed it to Lin Yufei and said, "I will light a cigarette for Deputy Mayor Gu later." Lin Yufei nodded and put it in his trouser pocket.

When I finally arrived at the city bus station, it suddenly started to rain in the sky. Because there was no sign of rain when they went out, neither the Lin father and son brought umbrellas. Father Lin said that there was still some distance from Deputy Mayor Gu's house, and if he walked over, he would definitely be drenched in soup, but Father Lin was obviously reluctant to spend money to fight it.

After waiting for a while, seeing that the rain had no intention of stopping, Father Lin looked at his watch again, probably worried that it would be rude to go too late and meet the time for lunch, so he stopped a van ruthlessly. Because there is no air conditioning in this van, the starting price is two dollars cheaper than a taxi.

Within a few minutes, the Lin family father and son arrived at their destination. When he walked downstairs and was about to go upstairs, his father specially told Lin Yufei that he must be able to call someone when they meet, not his cousin-in-law, he can't call Mayor Gu, Lin Yufei nodded and whispered that he knew.

The father and son each carried two large bags of things upstairs, and when they arrived at the door of the deputy mayor of Gu, the father rang the doorbell, "Ding Dong, Ding Dong......" After the doorbell rang a few times, "squeak...... The security door was only half open, and a middle-aged woman in her early forties stuck out her head and asked coldly who she was looking for.

"I'm looking for Mayor Gu. Father Lin hurriedly stepped forward and said.

The middle-aged woman glanced at the two of them very arrogantly, and said with a blank face that the mayor was not at home and was about to close the door.

Seeing this, Father Lin hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold the door, and said loudly inside: "You said that Lao Lin from West Village came to visit the mayor." ”

Lin Yufei didn't understand at first, didn't he say that he wasn't at home? Why did his father still talk loudly inside? Just thinking about it, a deep male voice came from inside: "Auntie let him in." At the same time, a sound of footsteps was heard.

At this time, the middle-aged woman immediately changed her smiling face and welcomed the two into the house.

The moment he stepped into the door, Lin Yufei suddenly felt very nervous, and his heart was beating fast, so he hid behind his father.

However, Deputy Mayor Gu seems to be very kind-faced, with an easy-going smile on his face all the time, and he doesn't feel the so-called "official authority" at all.

Vice Mayor Gu cordially came over to shake hands with Father Lin, and Father Lin respectfully asked the mayor how he was doing.

Deputy Mayor Gu nodded and said that it was okay, and explained that the new nanny in the countryside did not know how to be polite. When he saw Lin Yufei, his eyes paused, and Father Lin hurriedly turned around and pulled Lin Yufei out to introduce him as his son, and Lin Yufei timidly said hello to Mayor Gu.

Vice Mayor Gu nodded, said hello twice in a row, beckoned the father and son to come in and sit, and then said in the direction of the kitchen to ask the aunt to come out and pour tea. Father Lin remembered that the things he brought were still at the door, so he hurriedly asked Lin Yufei to open the door and move the things inside.

Deputy Mayor Gu looked at the four bags of things, and said to Father Lin with some reproach: "Old Lin, why did you bring so many things, how inconvenient it is to travel so far." ”

"It's okay, it's all family souvenirs, it's not worth much, but it's not easy to buy in the city. ”

"Well, these are my favorite things. Deputy Mayor Gu said with a smile, it seems that it was a polite word before.

"I'll take it in, where do I put it?" Father Lin asked, lifting the two largest bags.

"Just put it in the room inside. Deputy Mayor Gu came to pick up the other two bags himself, checked them, and then said, "It's quite heavy, Lao Lin, you are always so polite." Lin Yufei was about to help lift it, but Mayor Gu was already holding it in his hand and said to Lin Yufei: "I can hold it, you can sit and watch TV first." ”

Lin Yufei responded, sat on the sofa a little unnaturally, and took a cursory look at the furnishings in the room. The living room is not too big, the layout is very simple, the most conspicuous is a row of large porcelain vases placed against the wall, each one is two meters high, the print on the porcelain vase is very old, giving people a sense of simplicity and elegance.

The TV is a 25-inch flat screen color TV, the sofa is a very ordinary fabric sofa, not the kind of luxurious leather material, and there is a glass coffee table in front of the sofa. Other than that, there is nothing else in the living room.

Soon, the two walked out of the room with a smile, Father Lin took out a cigarette from his pocket, took out a respectful hand and handed it to Vice Mayor Gu, Vice Mayor Gu took it and glanced at it and put it on the coffee table, took a box of Chinese cigarettes from the coffee table, handed it to Father Lin and said, "Let's smoke me this." He took out another one and handed it to Lin Yufei, and said with a smile: "Xiao Lin, do you want to come and play with it?"

Lin Yufei hurriedly got up from the sofa, he didn't know whether he should pick it up or not, and was about to say that he wouldn't smoke it, but when he caught a glimpse of his father's eyes, he seemed to signal to take it, so he took it with both hands and said thank you timidly.

Next, Father Lin and Deputy Mayor Gu sat down as guests and began to talk about some situations in the countryside of their hometown. Vice Mayor Gu listened with great interest to Father Lin's talk about some interesting and new things in the village, and the two laughed lightly from time to time. Only Lin Yufei sat there awkwardly watching TV, feeling uncomfortable.

After a while, Father Lin looked at his watch, it was almost noon, so he pulled Lin Yufei to get up and say goodbye. Deputy Mayor Gu politely asked the two to have lunch together, but Father Lin just blindly excused himself, and was at a stalemate when the doorbell rang.

The nanny aunt hurriedly ran out of the kitchen and opened the door, this time without command, and soon welcomed in two middle-aged men, the slightly older one had a big belly, smiling like a Maitreya Buddha, holding a black briefcase, a cadre style, and the other tall and thin like a hemp pole, looking very nervous, holding a black convenience bag in his hand, a long square like a cigarette.

After the two came in, they respectfully said Happy New Year to Mayor Gu, who seemed to be very familiar with Maitreya Buddha, and greeted him warmly: "Xiao Li is here." ”

Maitreya Buddha hurriedly stepped forward to shake hands with Deputy Mayor Gu, and suddenly saw the Lin family father and son, and then a trace of unnaturalness flashed across his face. The hemp stick only followed behind, silent.

Deputy Mayor Gu immediately realized that it was okay, it was a pro-authority from the countryside. After taking the two of them into the dining room in the middle, he turned around and explained to Father Lin Wait for him to leave in a while, Father Lin nodded a little mechanically.

Father Lin walked to Lin Yufei's side, and muttered in a low voice that he had just seen a mountain of gifts in Vice Mayor Gu's room, no less than fifty Chinese cigarettes alone, in addition to precious tea, foreign wine, etc., too many to count.

Lin Yufei just nodded, no squeak. His eyes touched the cigarette of Jipin Jinsheng lying quietly on the table, and suddenly thought that he would definitely not be able to escape the fate of throwing it into the trash can later, so he reached out and took it and put it in his pocket. Father Lin looked at his move with some surprise, but he didn't say anything. After a while, Father Lin said that he would go back after the two guests left, and it was too inappropriate to eat at the mayor's house, let alone the Chinese New Year's Eve, Lin Yufei nodded and sighed.

In the dining room in the middle, the sound of their conversation could be faintly heard, as if the water pipe in a neighborhood had burst. Then Deputy Mayor Gu asked the crowd how the reaction was now, and one of the male voices immediately replied that Mayor Liu, who was in charge, had gone to the scene to personally direct the repair.

Then I heard Mayor Gu instruct that when it was critical, we must ensure that Lao Baisheng had a happy New Year, and the two were busy saying yes. But then, several people deliberately lowered their voices, and with the interference of TV sound, they couldn't hear clearly at all.

The conversation lasted only about ten minutes, and the three of them came out of it. Maitreya Buddha took the black convenience bag from the hemp pole and handed it to the deputy mayor Gu, who said with a serious face What is this for?

Maitreya Buddha smiled all over his face, saying that it was just two cigarettes, and it was not good to come empty-handed during the New Year. Vice Mayor Gu wanted to resign, Maitreya Buddha simply put the cigarette on the table, and then pulled the hemp pole and walked away, Vice Mayor Gu did not insist anymore, only said that the problem of the water pipe should be solved as soon as possible, and the situation should be reported at any time. Maitreya Buddha hurriedly said a few hellos. Stretched out his hand to open the door, and when he was about to go out, he glanced back at the Lin family father and son, and walked out with the hemp pole.

Vice Mayor Gu came over and explained to Father Lin that the director of the Urban Construction Bureau came to report to the work just now, and the water pipe in one community was broken, and the residents of the Chinese New Year's Eve could not use the water The scene was a little chaotic, but there was already a deputy mayor in charge to deal with it. Father Lin complimentarily said that the leader is really hard, and he can't rest well during the New Year, but Vice Mayor Gu just smiled and didn't answer.