Chapter Ninety-Six: If Life Could Be Started All Over (Part I)
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If Life Can Be Started All Over (Part I) (Novel) Zhang Baotong 2016.4.29
Although I haven't retired yet, I've taken a back seat, and it's actually about the same as retirement, I don't have to go to work anymore, I stay at home all day to write novels for the publishing house I signed with, and then I play ball with a bunch of golf friends. The monthly salary is also about 4,000 yuan. To say that I am quite satisfied with this life now, because I can still get that much money every month when I don't go to work, and I can do whatever I want, isn't this the kind of state I have been pursuing in the past?
I am very satisfied with my current life, but it does not mean that I have no regrets or regrets. I could have gotten a higher position and a better salary, but I didn't take the opportunity and I lost two promotions in a row. So, it keeps me from forgetting and letting go for the rest of my life.
At that time, I worked as an assistant to the Party Committee in the Engineering Department of the Railway Bureau, responsible for news reporting. My position is only at the deputy section level, but my fame is very great, because my news and newsletters are often published in the newspapers and periodicals of the provinces, cities and ministries, and my novels and essays are often published in the newspapers and periodicals of the provinces and cities. Moreover, I work diligently and steadfastly, and the feedback from the masses is also very good, so I think I have made great efforts and made outstanding contributions to the propaganda of the unit, and the leaders will naturally attach great importance to me. However, during the triennial cadre reshuffle, even people who were much less capable than me were promoted, but I remained in the same place.
Although I was devastated in my heart, I was not discouraged, thinking that maybe it was because I was not as senior as others this time, so I worked harder and published a lot of news and newsletters. I think if the leaders make cadre adjustments, it will be my turn.
However, unexpectedly, the second adjustment was only a small adjustment, and my little apprentice was promoted to the head of the department, and I was still a deputy section member. Obviously, the readjustment of cadres does not look at their qualifications, nor does they look at their work ability and achievements. Moreover, I don't know what I'm looking at? If I can't please the leader, why should I clean Secretary Xin's office and mop the floor for him every day?
It hit me hard, but there was nothing I could do. Soon after, I was transferred to the Education Division. Because there is a shortage of people like me who can write in all units, and I am very famous, as long as I want to transfer whichever I want, other units will not be able to ask for it. Actually, I didn't want to leave the Agency from the bottom of my heart, but I hated Secretary Xin because he was playing tricks on me.
Later, I became a secretary at the school, and during a meeting, I occasionally bumped into Secretary Xin, and he took the initiative to explain to me why he didn't promote me at that time. One is that I refuse to write him advanced deeds materials. The second is that others spend 100% of their energy on dealing with others, but I spend 80% of my energy on work.
At the time, I smiled at him with disdain and didn't say a word to him. Because it's useless for me to say anything. But I know that he was rated as an advanced individual by the Road Bureau that time, probably because he wanted me to write his character newsletter. However, he didn't tell me directly, he asked the department director to tell me, and the department director wanted to express himself, so he had to write materials for the secretary himself, and told the secretary that I didn't want to write. As a result, the material was not well written, so it was not published. But he said that I don't understand human accidents, but he was not wrong at all. I have worked in the UNRWA Party Office for nearly 10 years, and I don't know which way the door of the leader's house opens. No wonder the secretary has refused to promote me all these years.
I regret it, very, very much. I often think that if I could do it all over again, I would definitely try my best to serve the leader well, so that the leader would want to promote me when he had the opportunity.
Maybe it's because this incident always makes me haunt and regret it, and somehow I have a dream. I dream that my life will really start over, and that I can remake that life the way I want it to.
That day, I saw an article in the Road Bureau's publication "Green Light" about the report of the leaders of the Luoyang Engineering Office, so I brought it to Secretary Xin. I said, Secretary Xin, have you read this article? I said that our unit is much bigger than theirs, and the results are much more significant than theirs, and if we write the last manuscript, it will definitely have a much greater response than theirs. Secretary Xin said yes. I said then I'll write a reportage of yours too. Also, if I wrote "Green Light", I will definitely publish it, because I know those editors well. Secretary Xin thought about it and said that the Road Bureau has a rule that the deeds of the leaders of the unit should be written to the party committee. I'll discuss it with Director Liu. Within two days, Secretary Xin called me to the office and told me that the party committee had agreed to let me write his reportage, but there were some things that I should pay attention to, not to highlight him too much, and not to credit all his achievements on him alone. I said I knew and started writing his reportage.
Reportage is a prose style that uses literary techniques to write about real people and real events. Writing essays and novels is also my forte, so I wrote his reportage in just two days and named it "Loyalty Builds Glory". He read the manuscript twice in a row, and then said, "You wrote me too well, I'm afraid I'm not so good? I said it's because you're too strict with yourself.
It didn't take long for the reportage to be published in the ministry-level journal "Railway Monthly" and the "Green Light" of the Road Bureau. At that time, the leaders of each station called him one after another to congratulate him. For this reason, he was also rated as a model worker of the Ministry of Railways by the Road Bureau that year.
On the other hand, I know that if you want to get the appreciation and satisfaction of the leaders, you will just bury your head in the cart and not know that it is absolutely impossible to look up at the road. Because our former department director was a driver and had no skills, but he was busy buying tickets for the leaders all day long, and the secretary not only mentioned him as the department director, but also arranged him to be the branch secretary of the engineering branch. On the contrary, there are people who have graduated from college, worked diligently in the department all their lives, and are still working as clerks. Therefore, I set a system for myself, that is, I would go to Secretary Xin's house every other week to deliver some pork knuckles and cured beef that he likes to eat. If there is a happy event in his family, I will send another red gift bag. His family lives in the cadre building of the Southern Suburbs Railway Bureau, while my family lives in the northern suburbs of the workers' family area. It took almost a whole day from the time I bought something to the time I gave it away, and I usually stayed at home on Saturday and spent the whole day writing a novel, but that was nothing compared to my promotion.
In this way, in less than a year, the original department director was transferred to the engineering sub-office below as a secretary, and I became the department director smoothly, and my position was promoted from the deputy section level to the main section level. At this time, I had a separate office, and soon, the road bureau gave the cadres above the department a house, and our family also moved from the workers' family area in the northern suburbs to the cadre building of the road bureau in the southern suburbs. In the past, I used to commute to and from work by bicycle. Now, I don't have to ride my bike to and from work anymore, because the company has a special car to pick up and drop off our people who live in the southern suburbs. In the past, after eating at noon, I had nothing to do, so I would dig holes or play chess with others, or find someone to play table tennis. Now I have my own separate office, and I can sleep in my cot at noon.
As the head of the department, the content of the work has changed. In the past, I was in charge of news reporting, and I had to go down to interviews and sit in front of my computer all day to write. Now that I am the head of the party office, I can't just go down and do interviews and write news and newsletters for the workers below. But I still have to write some big drafts, because the new Xiao Huo is only a graduate of middle school, and it is okay to write a newsletter, and the slightly more difficult manuscripts are confused.
I am a person who understands Entu Bao, and when Secretary Xin promoted me, I kept it in mind and always wanted to repay more. In the past, I knew that the original department director used the department's 20,000 yuan of publicity money to buy many books for Secretary Xin. Therefore, I tried to use the publicity money to decorate Secretary Xin's house. Because after Secretary Xin divided the new house, the old house was originally to be handed back to the unit and then distributed to others, but Secretary Xin refused to hand it over, so after a long time, the unit asked Secretary Xin to buy out the original house for more than 10,000 yuan. Secretary Xin has a son who is already working and has reached the age when he should find a partner and get married. Therefore, Secretary Xin is going to decorate the house for his son.
At this time, the Literature Editorial Department of the Road Bureau organized a pen meeting for literature lovers for about ten days, and the location was in Meixian Tangyu, that is, the Meiwu where Dong Zhuo took Minchan to Meiwu in history. PEN has always been a holiday for those of us who love literature, where we are on vacation, talking to each other, discussing literary themes and writing, then creating, and finally commenting together. Every time I participate in a pen meeting, I feel that I have gained a lot and made great progress. However, Secretary Xin wants to renovate the house, and I think it's better for me not to go. So, I didn't go to it.
Renovating a house is a headache. Since I moved in, my own house has been simply painted with walls and tiles. Of course, decorating Secretary Xin's house can't be so simple. I first found an expert and let him see Secretary Xin's house, and then asked him to design renderings for Secretary Xin to see. Secretary Xin felt satisfied, and then found someone to decorate according to the renderings.
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