A speeding jeep was speeding down the road, a driver was driving intently, and beside him was a man dressed in a middle mountain, squinting his eyes and quietly closing his eyes.

"Mayor, why is that Haoran so old these days? I used to ask you for a leave of absence for something, but now it's good, you said how critical it is now, he simply didn't even ask you for leave, and just left the job, which is too unusual, right? The driver said unfairly as he drove the car for the mayor.

"Drive your car, you don't know what's going on." The mayor said weakly with squinted eyes.

"Mayor, this is all between you officials, I'm just an ordinary person, but I can't see it! Why do you have the mayor and the provincial elders calling you, and they don't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, they come up and scold them with their heads and faces, how can you say that there is such a thing! Anyway, I just can't get used to it, I can't hold back and ask like this! "The driver seems to be holding on to the fight.

"If you are not in your position, you don't want to be in politics, and you all think that the bigger the official, the better the job." The mayor took a deep breath and said, "It's been ten years, and it's been ten years today!" From liberation to the present, fighting local tyrants and dividing the land, from the Four Qing Dynasty to the approval of forests and holes, I have been the mayor for ten years! ”

"I was a clerk when I was liberated, and I was a research clerk when I was fighting local tyrants. In the middle of the Cultural Revolution, I was appointed as the deputy mayor in danger, because no one did it, and those who could run and hide were gone, and I became the secretary of the municipal party committee in this way! ”

The mayor squinted his eyes and recalled, while telling the sad feeling in his heart over the years and continued: "That time was the most difficult time, it seemed that I was a mayor, but in fact, I was not as good as a mouse in the tunnel, that kind of feeling is indescribable!" ”

"But I survived!" The mayor soothed his emotions again and said: "After defeating the Gang of Four, my honors have come one after another, and all kinds of praise and honors are like snowflakes, smashing me dizzy, so that I don't even know who I am!" ”

"Because of my outstanding work and contributions, I was promoted to full mayor. At that time, I was full of confidence and ambition, and my great ideals and ambitions were beyond words! I think that human dignity can be buried, and human ambitions can be buried, but human faith must not be bowed! I'm the mayor of the city! ”

The driver drove the car, looking ahead, very smoothly and as little as possible not to bump, so as not to disturb the mayor's train of thought.

"But, just when I was in high spirits, the people who had preceded me were rehabilitated, and the tide of an era rose flat, and was suddenly knocked down on the beach!"

"The sea has submerged me, but the waves have left behind. In the past, those who did not show mountains and waters, all of them surfaced all at once because of a grievance. ”

"During the Chinese New Year, the superior leaders asked me to comfort them and give them the greatest comfort for the grievances they have suffered in the past ten years! Set the facts, be reasonable, and seek the greatest balance in their hearts! ”

"The reactivation of the cadre team has given them a great stage, and the country has given them another high honor, and many of them have stood up since then and walked to work again!"

"Do you know this deputy governor who scolded me today? He was two years younger than me and had less seniority than me, but he was the governor of the province and all my work revolved around him. I'm also a human being, I have ideas, I have opinions, but does the nature of work allow you to joke about work with your own personal desires? ”

"To be honest, I feel that I am wronged now, and the most down-to-earth is me, I will do better in any position, especially in peacetime, but why am I like this? I work with historical reflections, and where are they? ”

"History teaches everyone the same lessons, what do you want? Isn't that the truth? But are they seeking the truth? A correct understanding will make people progress, a selfish thought will ruin a country, and only by doing the right thing can we go right! ”

"Look at what they're doing? A grievance has become indignation, a belief has become a creed of power, self-denial has become an ornament, and truth has become a wagging tail and begging for mercy. ”

When the mayor said this, he seemed to feel that something was not speaking, and he closed his eyes and hugged his own person.

The driver drove and glanced at the mayor, he was very grateful to the mayor for saying this to himself today, he thought that the mayor must have been inexplicably wronged, and he had to say this as a last resort! I have been a driver with the mayor for ten years, and my attitude towards work has grown up under the lessons of the mayor!

One centimeter can sustain life, never ask for a mountain of gold for wealth, a drop of water can save lives, and never let the elixir let you lose your way! We are human beings, and it is ourselves that can influence your behavior, right and wrong, right and wrong, just in a thought, it depends on what you think and how you do!

"Mayor, if you want to say it, if you hold it in your heart, others don't understand, I understand, you can just say it!" The driver said.

"As a leader, complaining is to listen to yourself, and working is selfless; As a driver, you think about how to drive a good car and focus on the steering wheel, which is your duty; As far as I am concerned, I am policy-oriented, and this is the steering wheel in my hand. If you take a nap, your car will be destroyed and people will die, and if you are not firm in my faith, it will bring disaster to the people and the country! ”

"We just have a different division of labor, but the responsibilities are the same, you and I are both engaged in a great cause, everything is for the public, abandon selfishness, dedicated to the public, others are happy, you will be great, you must remember this dialectic!"

"The mayor said so well, you are so great! Mayor, do you know why I have been with you all these years? It's because what you say and what you do are inspiring, and after listening to your words and seeing what you do, there is a kind of power that inspires me, and that kind of motivation cannot be swayed by any temptation! ”

"Mayor, in fact, I am the same as you, I also have my peers, I also have my ideals and goals, there are people in my circle, there are also those who are stronger than me, there are also those who are weaker than me, and there are also those who have been constantly striving for self-improvement for some reason, and there are also those who have been frustrated and made steady progress before!"

"I'm thinking that the world is not because of your efforts to reach the peak of your dreams, nor because you are not satisfied for a while. In fact, I just understood what you said, don't be disturbed by the interests and losses of the outside world to interfere with your beliefs, stick to the right creed is the most important, unswerving, old and consistent, even if you smile at the end, it is beautiful! Are you right, Mayor? ”

"Haha, you little ghost, you really became a little ghost today!" The mayor opened his eyes and said with unusual excitement: "I just wronged you!" I have driven you away several times, your father has also insinuated to drink tea with me, you have hesitated, Xiao Wang, do you remember what you said to me with tears in your eyes that day? ”

"Yes, Mayor, of course I do! That time, you asked my aunt to make a table of delicious food, and said that you would see me off, and you had already told me that as a driver, you can learn anything, but the only thing you can't learn is to drink. I remember that day you took out a bottle of Moutai, I already knew this bottle of Moutai, you said, this is when you were a guard, when you finally left the chief, the chief gave it to you. ”

"The chief said, you are leaving, you are going to work in a new place, you have been born and died with me for so many years, and now the conditions are poor, and I don't have good food for you to eat, you see I have this bottle of good wine, the chief said, this way, you take this bottle of wine first, and when the conditions are good, I invite you to come, you take the wine, I will make you a table of good dishes, and we will meet again and rejoice!"

"The chief looked forward to that day, but a situation changed, he didn't invite you, but he left! You got this news, or the chief's wife asked someone to report it to you! When you heard the bad news, you took this bottle of Moutai and cried! You say, chief, what you left me is not wine, but the truth of being a man! ”

"Mayor, I remember very much that when you sent me farewell, you took this bottle of Moutai and said to me, little ghost, this bottle of wine The old chief failed to fulfill his wish, I want to fulfill his wish today, come, we both miss his old man, and secondly, drink this wine full of sincerity and truth, let's taste it today, what is the taste of this wine!"

"I cried at that time, I said mayor, I don't drink, I won't leave, this is your life, you drank it, what do you say you have left?"

The driver's colorful narration touched the mayor, and the scene depicted made the mayor think about it, and the mayor also said with emotion: "Yes, yes, this is not just a bottle of wine, it is a kind of inheritance of faith, and its truth is to tell us how we should behave and what people should be!" It's easy to drink this bottle of wine, but it's hard to be a person! ”

"Yes, yes, mayor, you see that I have been with you all these years, I haven't learned anything, I have learned to be a man, no one dares to bully me wherever I go, even if the big official sees me, he will tell me, little comrade, don't look at us at work and love to lose our temper with your mayor, in fact, the person we admire the most in life is the mayor next to you!"

"Mayor, my face lit up when I heard these words! Hello, it seems that my face is shining, and I can't be proud! ”

The jeep was parked steadily in the compound of the provincial hospital.

The dean and Haoran had been waiting at the entrance of the inpatient department for a long time, and when the two of them saw the mayor's car arrive, they hurriedly walked over.

"Here comes the mayor." The dean greeted.

"Where's the old secretary?" The mayor asked.

"Let's go, let's go together." The dean said.

After speaking, the three of them walked into the inpatient department together.

"Okay, your old secretary, the taste of lying down is different from standing, right?" When the mayor entered the house, the old secretary had not yet noticed that the mayor was coming, and the mayor's sudden questioning made the old secretary jump.

The old secretary turned his head suddenly, looked at the mayor in a daze, and said to the dean and Haoran: "You two said, why didn't you tell me in advance about such a big thing, ah?" I'm so mentally prepared. The old secretary was about to sit up as he spoke, but was pushed down on the bed by the mayor.

"What do you mean? Do you want me to stay here with you? The mayor said sarcastically.

"Haha, I said mayor, I'm afraid you don't have this blessing." The old secretary said with a smile.

"Yes, sometimes I think so, but God just won't give me this opportunity, even if it's a headache and brain fever, but I'm busy all day, it's just fine!" The mayor said.

"Mayor, that's God favoring you!" The dean took over the conversation and said: "Look at the old secretary, he was lying on the hospital bed, he should have rested for a few days, this is good, it is better not to lie down, there are a lot of things at home, the phone in one of our duty rooms is specially occupied by them, as soon as there is something, I have to report to him, I have to deal with it, I know what it means to be in a good day when I see him!" ”

"Yes, the dean is right. Those of us who came from that era did not develop other habits, but developed a habit of working hard, dedicated to the public, self-denial, and work in our hearts! There's no way, I can't change it, no, it stands to reason that I, the mayor, come to see a village party secretary is not equal, but I am uneasy in my heart, if I don't come to see it, it will be as uncomfortable as a crime, you say it's not strange! The mayor said from the bottom of his heart.

"Thank you, thank you, Mayor! You say if I don't work hard, who am I worthy! The old secretary said gratefully.

"What's the matter, I heard Haoran say that the family is going to be messed up, you said that this muddy boy has to sing against me, go on strike, and say that he wants to go home to work first, and then come to me when the family is stable. Old secretary, you give Ping Ping this reason, is he right to do this? The mayor said with a blank look.

"Hey! According to the words of our people, he is salty and eats radishes and worries lightly! Although we are the last level to lead the government, we are also extraordinary talents, so why look for him! After speaking, the old secretary said to Haoran: "Haoran, what should you do, you don't have to worry about family affairs, aren't you smearing our village, ah?" ”

"Look at it, look at it, our old secretary is still highly conscious and understands righteousness! It seems that I didn't come in vain. After the mayor finished speaking, he said to Haoran: "Haoran, what's wrong, why don't you speak?" You haven't said a word since I came here, what do you mean? ”

"Mayor, I listen to you, I'll go with you in a while!" Haoran had nothing to say.

"Really?" The mayor asked, staring at Haoran.

"Not before, but now!" Haoran replied.

"Why? Is it really for the public? The mayor asked.

"I don't know, I don't want to say it!"

"I just said that you are on strike, but it is better to say that you are rioting!" The mayor said: "One of your attitudes shows that an intellectual's education is above all else, he can accommodate all rivers, and all his behaviors can be flaunted by the world." ”

"But what are you doing, huh? When you don't have an idea, metaphysical nerds are supporting you, and one of our comrades has a saying called 'low-level taste' to see the truth, no matter what you do, you can't be separated from the essence of things! Floating means detaching from reality, forgetting the root and leaving you with the reason that is not reasonable, you can understand my words well, who is wrong? ”

"The governor has been slapping the table and scolding me since the morning, tell the truth in front of the big guys, I'm not here to see the old secretary, I'm here to invite you, I'm here to beg you to go to work immediately, if you don't go, I'll throw away the black yarn hat!"

"I'm sorry Mayor!" The mayor said all this, he really didn't know what to say.

"You are not sorry for me, you are sorry for your work, and you are sorry for your relatives!" After the mayor finished speaking, he looked at the indifferent Haoran and raised his voice and said, "Don't you leave, are you addicted to being scolded?" Go directly to the province to report! ”

Haoran lowered his head and walked away without a temper.

"Hahaha, mayor, mayor, you really have a level of speaking, no wonder you can be the mayor, we are all out of the smoke of war, you see that I can't do it, I'm still walking in place after a lifetime!" The old secretary said.

"Old secretary, I've complained all the way, I've sought the truth all the way! Where is the truth? It's me standing in front of you, it's you lying on the hospital bed, what you and I do is the purest truth! The mayor seemed to want to speak, but he opened his mouth and swallowed again.

The incisive language is inspiring, and the truth of the scum of the soil is exciting, and the dean, who was listening on the side, actually applauded at this time, and then the old secretary also applauded despite the liquid hand that was being lost!

"Okay, I'm not making a report, I'm chatting from the bottom of my heart, I chatted with the driver along the way, talked about a truth in my life, and understood the truth that my old chief taught me to be a man for a lifetime, we talked about a bottle of wine, I hope today's chatting can pass on the truth of this bottle of wine!" The mayor said.

"Yes, there was a big incident at home while I was lying in the hospital bed, and I was deeply touched by this incident, and I was dispatched all of a sudden, and it was the same as what you said." The old secretary said.

"Oh, what's the matter?" The mayor hurriedly asked.

"Gou Yu ran home in the morning, and he picked up the girder at home!"

The mayor recalled the old secretary's words for a while, and suddenly knew what the old secretary meant: "Dog leftover? Haoran's son? ”

"Yes, mayor, fifteen-year-old can take the lead!" The old secretary said excitedly!

"Nonsense, it's just playing the piano!" The mayor said with a sinking face.

didn't connect the words, didn't say the words thoroughly, and understood the meaning, but the old secretary still said: "But everything is settled?" “

"Is that what you say? Is that how things are done? I didn't hear anything, and I'm gone! The mayor said, with a sinking face.

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