Lovers (novella) Zhang Baotong

A few years later, the cadres were reshuffled again, but the result made me even more sad and disappointed. The position of deputy director still has no chance for me. Maybe it was to comfort me, but just to promote me to a deputy section member. I was 35 years old at this time, and I was the youngest clerk in the district committee office, but now I am the oldest. What worries me the most is that the leadership style is not correct, and the promotion of cadres is not based on achievements, but on the basis of recognizing people and money as relatives.

However, after nearly a month of painful reflection, I think I can't blame the leader for not paying attention to himself, because he does have serious problems in dealing with the world. In the past, I always thought that as long as I worked hard, dedication and outstanding achievements were the greatest support for leaders, I never thought that on the road to promotion, the ability to deal with others is often more important than the ability to work.

Looking back, I have never experienced such a thing since I was a child, and this kind of content has never been taught in school, and after graduating from college, I buried myself in books all day long, and I remembered that for the sake of my future and promotion, I should learn to give gifts and money to my leaders. When I went to the Party Office of the Education Bureau as a secretary, the leaders asked me to go because they urgently needed someone who could write articles. It's the same when I go to the district party committee office. So, I'm not good at ushering in send-offs, exchanging gifts, and giving money and gifts. These daily life skills should have been taught to me by my father, and my mother said that this was my father's forte, and he was most enthusiastic about welcoming and inviting people to eat and drink, and often called his colleagues to his house to eat and drink. But he left me before I could remember. All my impressions of him come from the picture in that frame. But I don't blame him, how pitiful, how lonely, how miserable he was lying in that cold and stiff graveyard. I only blame myself for focusing too much on ideals and despising reality. Therefore, reality is going to punish me with its laws.

At this time, I seemed to see Lin Yuqing looking at me with a very sympathetic and worried look. Her expression is still so serious, serious, upright and beautiful, like a beacon in the boundless sea of suffering, conveying strength, courage, hope and strength to me. It made me suddenly understand how many people die for justice and how many people live for shame. A thief can be complacent about the treasures he has stolen, but is this worthy of envy? I remember a classmate in my class became the manager of the engineering department, and in order to embezzle millions of project funds, he actually messed up tens of millions of projects in the country. Speaking of this, his classmates all felt contempt and contempt for him. I also interviewed a lonely old man who picked up decades of rubbish, and in the end, used all the money to feed the orphans he had taken in. If these two outcomes were in front of me, I would not hesitate to choose the latter.

My soul was comforted, but I was still indignant. So, I took two large copies of the press releases pasted with me published in various newspapers to the newly appointed Secretary Wu, and while letting him look at these manuscripts, he said sadly, Secretary Wu, you used to be the head of the district, you should know the great contributions and brilliant achievements I have made for the news reporting and propaganda work in our district. Secretary Wu said that I know that the leaders of the municipal party committee have praised us many times. I said, "Why have I worked for 10 years, and why have people who are not as good as me in ability and who are not as good as me in my grades have been promoted, but they have left me alone?" Speaking of this, I cried sadly and said in a pleading tone, Secretary Wu, you send me down to the street below, I don't want to stay here anymore. Secretary Wu frowned for a while, and said to me, Baocheng, don't be sad, I know about you. At present, you are indispensable for the news reporting and propaganda work in our district, so you should do a good job here, and as soon as you have the opportunity, I will find a way to adjust it for you. Of course, I knew he wouldn't let me leave right away, because as soon as I left, the news reporting work in the district would plummet, which would have a big impact on his work performance. Hearing Secretary Wu's promise, I said with great gratitude, Secretary Wu, with your words, I will do my best.

A year later, the deputy director was transferred to the street office below as the deputy secretary, and I became the deputy director of the district party committee office. After another two years, Secretary Wu was transferred to the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, and before leaving, I was transferred to Wenchang Street as the deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee, because my age was almost 40 years old, and this age was no longer suitable for continuing to stay in the District Party Committee Office.

I thought that I could also become the secretary of the district party committee or the district head, but then I realized that this goal was so far away from me, far away from the moon. If you want to become the secretary of the district party committee or the district head, you must become the secretary of the party working committee of the sub-district office at the age of 35 or 6. However, I am in my forties, and I only became the deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee. Don't look at the fact that it is only a step from deputy secretary to secretary, but once you pass that age, this step becomes an insurmountable gap.

It is often said that human aging begins with the legs, and some people say that human aging begins with sexual function, but in fact, human aging begins with human mental strength. If a person's mental strength is gone, then he has no energy at all. Transferring from the district committee office to the neighborhood office was the beginning of my aging. I no longer submit articles and write articles for newspapers and magazines, and I don't have those rules and assessments to restrict me, and my work is so much easier that I don't know what else to do. I was in charge of the party building work of the neighborhood office, and these tasks were simply too easy for me, and it took me a while to complete the work of sometimes a week or even a month.