Chapter Ninety-Seven: If Life Could Be Started All Over (Part II)

If Life Can Be Started All Over (Part II) (Novel) Zhang Baotong 2016.4.29

It was the height of summer in July, and the weather was very hot. In order to reassure Secretary Xin and his wife, I sent Xiao Huo from the office to the decoration site to monitor all aspects of the decoration construction to prevent the decoration workers from stealing corners and cutting corners. In order not to make Xiao Huo feel at a loss, I gave him a subsidy of 50 yuan a day, and asked him to insist on supervising the construction of workers in the renovation house every day. I also asked the driver Xiao Mu to be on standby at all times and follow me to the market to pull materials at any time. It can be said that in the whole more than 20 days of decoration, Secretary Xin's family did not worry about it a little, and spent a penny, and his house was decorated very beautiful and beautiful. That day, when Secretary Xin and his wife came to see the house, they were not only very surprised, but also very grateful. After the renovation was completed, I asked someone to change the invoices for the materials I bought into promotional materials and take them to the finance office for reimbursement. The director of the finance office also pretended to be confused, so he reimbursed me for the 20,000 yuan. Although there was nothing wrong with this, I still worried about it for a long time, because once something happened, it would be a big deal, not to mention the dismissal, maybe there would be a prison sentence. However, in order to repay Secretary Xin, I am still willing to take this risk.

I am loyal to Secretary Xin, and Secretary Xin does not treat me badly. After two years, a deputy director of the unit died of cancer, and the unit had to promote a deputy director. Secretary Xin pushed me to a leadership position and became the deputy director in charge of the Agency's logistics management.

The promotion from the head of the department to the leading cadre in the unit can be said to be a major change in my life. My house was restructured and moved into the upper echelons of the road bureau leadership. It is full of cadres at and above the deputy department level. I have my own car, and the driver Xiaoqiu is responsible for picking me up and going to work every day. My office has also been replaced by a large office, with desks, leather chairs and sofas.

The greater the officer, the less things he will manage. I am now in charge of the Agency's logistics and general services, as well as the diversification and logistics management of the sub-engineering services under it. Actually, they can manage themselves and don't need me to manage too much, so I don't need to worry too much, as long as I take the time to go down to them once or twice a year, and take a look. That's why I feel like I'm in a panic all day long. I was so bored that I would close the office door and kill time by digging holes or playing mahjong on my computer.

In the past, I always felt that I didn't have time to write, but now I have time, but I don't want to write. Because I can't write any news and reports for others anymore, it will fall off my frame and lose my identity. Also, I don't write any prose novels anymore, because it's more difficult to write those things, and I don't know if I can publish them. Even if it is published, it is only a few tens of yuan or two or three hundred yuan. Although I used to write news reports and literary articles, at that time, I only had a salary of 1,500 yuan a month, and a bonus of only 120 yuan a month. Therefore, if you can earn three or five hundred yuan a month, your pocket money is enough. But now, the money that is sent openly and secretly every month is seven or eight hundred yuan, so I can't look down on that manuscript fee.

If people don't use their brains and are not very active, it is easy to gain weight and gain weight. In the past, I was always very thin, and I couldn't get fat by eating a pig a day. However, since he became the head of the department, especially the deputy director of the Agency, he has not only gained a lot of weight, but also has a noticeable bulge in his belly. This summer, the leading cadres of the Road Bureau did a relatively comprehensive physical examination, and the report said that my blood pressure was high, my blood lipids were viscous, and my heart beat rapidly. It made me a little nervous. So, I felt that I should participate in some physical exercise to get my blood pressure, blood lipids, and heart rate normal.

Usually, my favorite is table tennis, and I used to play with people in my unit at noon, but since I had the habit of taking a nap at noon, I have never played ball again. Especially now that I don't write manuscripts anymore, I am idle on Saturdays and Sundays, and sometimes I want to play table tennis. The stadium here is much better than the northern suburbs, where I used to live in the northern suburbs, and there was only one old table in the entire family area, and there were still a lot of people playing. But the stadium in the southern suburbs is very large and there are many tables, but few people play.

On a few occasions, I went to the stadium with a racket, only to see three or two retired veteran cadres playing, and their level was extremely poor. So, I went into the arena and walked around and came out. I haven't been in the arena since. For a while, I wanted to get up early and run, but after running twice in the morning, I was full of acquaintances along the way, and they were all higher and older than me, so I didn't run much along the way, and they were all saying hello to people. It made me never want to run anymore. So, sometimes I would get together with a few of my people to take a shower, eat, and play cards. Over time, it becomes a habit.

In this way, three years passed in a daze, and before I knew it, Director Liu of our Engineering Agency retired from the second line, and I became the director of the Engineering Agency again through the recommendation of Secretary Guò Xin. That's something I never expected. Because this position made me feel too far away, and I didn't even dare to think about it. Within two years, Secretary Xin also took a back seat. After that, I worked for three consecutive years in the Agency's highest position. It was the pinnacle of my career and the pinnacle of my life. I am very fortunate and happy about this.

However, just as I was about to take a back seat, I was drinking at a banquet when I suddenly fainted and fell to the ground, and when the ambulance took me to the hospital, the doctor checked that I had severe coronary heart disease and that I was going to have coronary artery bypass surgery. This procedure involves creating a passage between the proximal and distal ends of the coronary artery stenosis to bypass the median of the coronary artery and reach the distal end to improve the blood supply to the heart muscle.

I was terrified when I heard that I was going to have coronary artery bypass surgery because I was so timid that I would tremble at the sight of someone bleeding from the nose and getting an injection. I cried out loud and shouted, "I'm not going to have surgery, I'm not going to have surgery." However, the doctor said that if the surgery was not performed, it would be life-threatening. So I asked the doctor, is there any other way?

I regretted it very much, and felt that if I had not been the officer, how could I have gotten this disease? If I had known that this was the case, I would have preferred to be my deputy section member. However, people can't take regret medicine, and life can't be repeated. When the doctor took me to the operating room, I was so frightened that I cried and shouted, "I don't want surgery, I don't want surgery!" But the doctor didn't listen to my shouts and pushed me straight into the operating room. When the doctor pushed me into the operating room, I was desperately shouting, "I'm not going to operate, I'm not going to have surgery."

At this time, my wife pushed me awake and said, "What's wrong with you, what are you shouting in the middle of the night? I woke up from my dream, looked at the house, looked at my wife, and then I woke up and realized that I was dreaming. I gasped for breath and it took me a long time to regain my breath. I let out a long sigh of relief, thinking about how fortunate I was in this dream.