In the afternoon of the same day, when he was about to get off work, Guo Yufeng came to Chen Qingdong and asked him to have dinner together in the evening. Chen Qingdong knew that Guo Yufeng was looking for him, so he readily agreed.

In the evening, still in Liu's Hotel, Guo Yufeng and Chen Qingdong ate and chatted behind closed doors.

In recent months, the relationship between Guo Yufeng and Chen Qindong has become closer and closer, and there are some topics that are not easy to put on the table, but the two of them talk about them behind closed doors, and their close relationship seems to have detached themselves from the basis of common interests and become real friends and even confidants.

At least on the surface.

The two quickly got to the point.

"Qingdong, I really don't know how to say hello. Guo Yufeng said in a regretful tone.

"Guo Zhen, what do you mean?" Chen Qingdong pretended to be confused.

Guo Yufeng said bluntly: "What else can it be?

"Guo Zhen, do you mean that I handed over the festival fee given to me by Director Zhou to Secretary Wei?" asked Chen Qingdong.

Guo Yufeng didn't answer directly, but asked, "Qingdong, do you know why Secretary Wei asked you to be in charge of the civil affairs office at that time?"

"Why?" Chen Qingdong asked knowingly.

Guo Yufeng looked at Chen Qingdong, shook his head helplessly, and then asked, "Qingdong, how much money can you receive from your monthly salary?"

"Five or six hundred. Chen Qingdong said casually.

"Five or six hundred, right? Okay, how much can Secretary Wei get?" asked Guo Yufeng again.

"I don't know how much Secretary Wei can get, but I guess it won't be more than a thousand. Chen Qingdong said.

"Okay, even if Secretary Wei can receive a thousand a month, can it be considered a lot?"

Regarding Guo Yufeng's question, Chen Qingdong couldn't laugh or cry a little, and said with a smile: "It's really not much." ”

"Yes! Look at the current society, this price, a thousand yuan can be used as a fart! You have to eat a meal in an ordinary restaurant in the county, at least one or two hundred, if you find a high-end restaurant, add tobacco, alcohol, tea, and spend a small amount of 1,000 yuan on a meal, right?"

Chen Qingdong nodded and said, "It's really normal." ”

"Then think about it, Secretary Wei, as the secretary of a town, can he usually get less entertainment? Is there less reception? plus some other red and white ceremonies, personal contacts, can a thousand yuan a month be used?" Guo Yufeng asked again.

"It's not enough. Chen Qingdong said sincerely.

Speaking of this, Guo Yufeng paused again, lit a cigarette, and said unhurriedly: "Qingdong, I now regard you as my younger brother, so I said these confidant words to you." When we go to this class, we are all deputy mayors, which makes others sound like they are also characters, but with our salaries, can we maintain a decent life? Obviously, it is impossible! So, Qingdong, I am not encouraging you to embezzle, I also know that this is illegal, and of course I will not encourage you to do it. However, in the gray area of laws and regulations, it is still appropriate to play some marginal balls. ”

Chen Qingdong was silent when he heard this, Guo Yufeng's words were really home, and this was also a sign that Guo Yufeng completely regarded him as a trustworthy person, so Chen Qingdong was embarrassed to pretend to be confused anymore.

Guo Yufeng continued: "Qingdong, I'm not afraid to tell you, Secretary Wei asked you to take charge of the Civil Affairs Office, in fact, it is to take care of you, everyone knows that the Civil Affairs Office is a very oily department, take this festival fee as an example, the Civil Affairs Office to the deputy mayor in charge of 3,000 is the practice of the past two years, this is not a crime, you can rest assured and boldly take it! This festival fee will not be worth most of your salary for half a year? But you just took this festival fee and handed it over to Secretary Wei, you are ......?"

"Guo Zhen, let's ...... this"

Guo Yufeng waved his hand, interrupted Chen Qingdong's words, and said: "Qingdong, in fact, I understand what you mean, you think this is an unreasonable income, even illegal income, and you are afraid of making mistakes, so you don't dare to accept it, right? Qingdong, you have a strong ability to work, but you still look too young in the world." When Zhou Quan gave you this festival fee, he must have already told you that not only did you take this money, but many other people would also take this money, right? But you don't accept it now, and you still give it to Secretary Wei, so how can others collect it? This is not a question of not wanting to pay a festival fee, you are completely committing public anger! This is the first thing, if there is anything in the future, you still show such innocence, then who will dare to work with you? After a long time, you will enter a strange circle, you look at others are polite to you on the surface, but in fact, no one talks to you, and no one stands on the same line with you, you don't want to work, when the time comes, you don't need others to squeeze you, you have to be enough, take the initiative to ask to leave Shuangshan!"

In fact, for the consequences that Guo Yufeng said, Chen Qingdong had already thought of it when he sent the money to Wei Hailong, but in order to ensure that he did not make mistakes, especially if he could not leave a little handle for Wei Hailong, he still chose to hand over the money to Wei Hailong.

So now after listening to Guo Yufeng's heart-wrenching words, Chen Qingdong could only sigh and say: "Mayor Guo, you are right, I really didn't think about it, but it may be that I haven't worked for a long time and my experience is not enough, so ...... I really can't accept this amount of money. ”

Guo Yufeng was holding a peanut with chopsticks, and when he heard Chen Qingdong's words, he couldn't help laughing, pointed at Chen Qingdong with chopsticks, and said: "Qingdong, I knew that you were such a person! So when Secretary Wei told me about this, I made a guarantee to Secretary Wei! I said that Qingdong had absolutely no other purpose in doing this, he was such a person, his thinking was still too simple, and he had not turned around. When he works for a few more years and sees more things, it won't be like this. ”

Chen Qingdong said gratefully: "Guo Zhen, thank you for your kind words in front of Secretary Wei!"

Guo Yufeng waved his hand and said with a smile: "Qingdong, tell you a real story about me back then, it's a joke." I was in my class in 1981, when I had just graduated from teacher college and was working as a math teacher at Matun Village Primary School, which happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, and a child's parents sent me a basket of eggs hoping that I could take more care of his mischievous son. ”

"Qingdong, you must think that a basket of eggs is nothing, but in my time, especially for me whose family conditions are very poor, a basket of eggs is a great thing! My mother went to hemorrhagic fever when I was seven years old, and died without proper treatment, in fact, the main reason is that I have no money to see a doctor, my mother knows this situation, so she is sick and insists on not letting others see it, and when she really can't hold it and falls, it will be too late. Since then, my father has relied on a few acres of thin land at home to pull my brother, my sister and me three people up, in order to provide for me to go to school, my brother and my sister have dropped out of school early, hehe......"

Guo Yufeng suddenly smiled bitterly, and then continued: "When the student's parents sent me a basket of eggs, I hadn't eaten eggs for a long time. Not only me, but my father, my brother, and my sister had never eaten anything good, and my brother was already twenty-five at the time, and he couldn't marry a daughter-in-law because his family was poor. Qingdong, you may not know that in that era, if a man couldn't marry a daughter-in-law at the age of twenty-five, he would be laughed at and treated as an old bachelor. My brother didn't save any money, it was all for me to go to school......"

Chen Qingdong was very shocked by what Guo Yufeng said about the past, he never knew that now in the Shuangshan Town Government, Guo Yufeng, who was almost the most glamorous all day long, still had such an unbearable past.

In addition, he didn't understand why Guo Yufeng suddenly talked about his past today, and he looked so emotional, it seemed that he was not in the same rhythm at all when he educated himself just now.

He guessed that maybe it was the fact that he handed over the festival fee to Wei Hailong, which stimulated a soft nerve in Guo Yufeng's heart! Or perhaps, these past events had been buried in his heart for too long and too long, and they were slowly fermenting in his heart, and he had long wanted to spit out these things, but he couldn't find a chance.

And today, all of a sudden, there is such an opportunity.

So Chen Qingdong listened to Guo Yufeng's words, silent, waiting for him to continue.

"After the student's parents gave me the basket of eggs, one of my thoughts was to keep the basket of eggs, improve my family's food, and add a little nutrition to my family, but at the same time, I felt that as a people's teacher for the purpose of teaching and educating people, I couldn't do this, if I did, then how should I face my student in the future, how should I face so many of my students, and more importantly, how should I face myself?"

"Hehe, Qingdong, you must not have imagined, just for this basket of eggs, I had insomnia for a whole night, that is really called a tossing and turning, sleepless night! But the next morning, after dawn, I suddenly knew what I was going to do. Hehe, the feeling of that night, I really remember it vividly in my life!"

Speaking of which, Guo Yufeng's story came to an abrupt end, he didn't tell Chen Qingdong what kind of choice he made in the end, just picked up his wine glass and said: "Qingdong, no one can say right or wrong about this kind of thing, and I don't advise you anything, just say a word to you, as long as you don't break the law, it doesn't matter if you take it away in the gray place." I called you out today and told you this, it's not what Secretary Wei meant, it's all my own thoughts, and you should think about it yourself in the future. ”

"Guo Zhen, thank you, I remember your words. Chen Qingdong said seriously.