"Wanruo, thank you and the bean sprouts, you two are our pillars, no amount of gratitude can express my feelings at this moment! Wanruo, it's cold outside, be careful of catching a cold, you go back first. Look at my braised eyebrows, look at the phone call, it was Secretary Huo's call, if you come one second late, something big will happen, you saved the whole village, no, not only the whole village, your merits are immeasurable! The old secretary said to Wanruo.

"Okay, then I'll go back first." Wanruo said.

"Okay, don't worry, Wanruo, I will let Haoran go home today!" The old secretary glanced at Qiao'er Niang again and said: "Cui'e, you have to spend more time in this family, take care of the bean sprouts, and now the person who needs to be taken care of the most is her, my old secretary pleases you!" ”

"Don't worry, old secretary, I told Wanruo, as long as I am in Sanjia Hutong, the sky will not fall! Here we go. After Qiao Erniang finished speaking, she got on the tricycle and disappeared into the team headquarters in a hurry.

"Hey, old gangster, are you still there?" The old secretary strode into the office, grabbed the phone and said.

"Time, time, my old secretary, do you know how precious time is, huh? Are you a squatting person with a urine bubble? If there's a fart, hurry up! Secretary Huo yelled at the old secretary.

"Today, no, now you can report to the above, we will hold the groundbreaking tomorrow, we welcome leaders at all levels to come to participate!" The old secretary said confidently.

"Oh, hey, I said old thing, didn't you just say that you didn't do it, you had a big accident, why did the sky clear so quickly, you changed too fast, right? I've been muttering so much that I don't dare hang up on you......"

"You're not doing that! You've just had an accident! Okay, why don't I do it, I'm nervous, I'm nervous, I'll tell you, as long as I have a breath, I must carry the revolution to the end! You old man! ”

"Hahaha! Well said, well said! We not only have to do it, but we also have to work hard, even if we take a back seat, we must also give full play to our residual heat, and never eat idle food! ”

"That's it! During the war years, we dreamed of artillery fire, but now that good days are coming, and now our dreams are waving to us every day with good wine and meat, what kind of situation is that, who doesn't do it unless his brain is in water! ”

"Yes, yes. Hey Lao Zhang, at this point, I really have something to tell you, yesterday the Ministry of Education notified me, saying that I will go to a meeting this Sunday, if the Ministry of Education really throws an olive branch to me, we will have less time to deal with each other in the future! ”

"What? Are you really going to the Ministry of Education? Hey, hey, I can tell you, you call it escapism, and I'm the first to say no! I also told you, if you really go, I'll go up there and sue you, if you don't believe it, you can try it! ”

"Hey, hey, I said you're an old thing, what is escapism, I'm calling it a curve to save the country, give full play to my strengths, use my talents on the blade, and in order to realize the four modernizations as soon as possible, I will send you an inexhaustible supply of useful talents! I have worked at the grassroots level for so many years, and I know very well that our cultural structure is lacking, it is different from the era of holding a gun, as long as you have a brave heart."

"If you look at us now, under the good situation ahead, we will make a fuss from the dirt, what kind of brick burning, building a cement factory, where does the technical content come from? I'm dumbfounded with a little bit of high added value! Why? No culture! I said Lao Zhang, have you analyzed it, our current knowledge structure is very seriously broken, the capable labor force is not educated, and the educated people are still wearing open crotch pants, do you say that we can achieve the four modernizations by relying on these mud legs? ”

"So, I must instill my philosophy into education, not only to cultivate a large number of educated students, but also to cultivate a large number of high-end technical talents with use performance, the culture is up, and the professional and technical level can be fully guaranteed, do you say I am right?"

"Gotta get it! This is your mouth, and you're not a shit without your mouth! What do you like, I can't say anything about you anyway. Hey, but I can tell you, when you have the confidence and cultivate no matter what kind of professional talent it is, you must tell me, the fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, and my heart is big now, and there is no place to put your mouth in! ”

"Don't worry, my ideas will be reported to the above, they will definitely support, you see, if I engage in education, I will do both, I will not use a year and a half of professional technical personnel, you such as the most basic printing, shoe factory, textile, printing and dyeing these are the most urgent professional technology nowadays!"

"Hey, I said you're an old gangster, these are all real economy, and they have a half-dime relationship with your Education Bureau? Are you a little suspicious? ”

"Look at you, look at it, foreigner, aren't you? This is the appeal of the times, let's not talk about anything else, just say how many literate and hyphenated people are there now? These high value-added industries do not have a culture and they can't understand the instructions alone, how to solve these problems? This requires the coordination of our Ministry of Education, with our people, first to train you as soon as possible to understand the drawings, can design talents, can we do it? It's the same as the literacy campaign we had back then, can't it be done in three or five years? ”

"Well, there is some truth in letting you explain it like this, so you are still fragrant!"

"Haha, that's not either, pull the general out of the. But you don't have to worry, you have Haoran by your side is enough for you to use, this is a one-in-a-million talent, you have to cover it, don't let people snatch it away! ”

"Gotta get it, don't mention him to me! I'm going to be busy, hang up! After the old secretary finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

The old secretary turned off the phone, glanced at Haoran on the side, lit a cigarette and said, "Did you hear it, you are talented!" Hello a talent! ”

Haoran bowed his head and didn't speak, and he didn't have the face to speak.

"Old Yao." The old secretary turned his gaze to Lao Yao and said: "Lao Yao, this stone has finally landed, don't say much, you see it's almost ten o'clock now, it is estimated that the mobilization meeting will delay the villagers to have lunch, you go back first, go back to the rest meeting, let's talk about something later, what do you say?" ”

"Okay, then I'll be back." After Lao Yao finished speaking, he raised his legs and walked out of the old secretary's office.

"Hey, see, what am I talking about? I said that Haoran's family has something to do, and it's a big deal, you see that even Wanruo is here, if it wasn't for the glue, could she come? The security director said.

"Pull it down, you don't see that they are all here to save Haoran, if Haoran makes a mess at home, can Wanruo and Bean Sprouts come to intercede for him? What a brain, you! Someone rolled a glance at the security director and said.

"I said you don't have a brain, you just don't have a brain, don't you see that it's a bias? You look at the look on the bean sprouts when they leave, and why did she wipe her tears when Wanruo left? Pay attention to the details, the knowledge is in the details, what do you know, cut! The security director said unconvinced.

"If you want to say yes, what the director said still has some truth. You look at the old secretary's face, it was a donkey face at the beginning, and when the bean sprouts and Wanruo came, after a few words, you looked at his expression again, and immediately changed, and he was still bowing to them, you said that this is not a problem with Haoran, right? Someone else said.

"Hey, this is reasonable, this is the truth in the details, the layman looks at the excitement, the expert looks at the doorway, you guys, you go to learn a lot!" This time, the security director had a step down, and he lost no time in becoming proud.

"Who's chewing the root of your tongue, huh?" At this time, the old secretary led Haoran to push the door in and said: "Look at you, ah, all of them are the pillars of the village, look at what you said, ah, are you still like a servant of the people, ah?" We people are different from ordinary people, and everyone knows that it is immoral behavior behind our backs, as a national cadre, we don't set an example for the world, and we have retrograde morality, which is inverted, what crime do you think you should bear?! ”

The crowd was dumbfounded!

"You think my old secretary is dizzy, huh? Security officer, especially you! You have a set of solving cases, and I hope you will also have a set of life, and morality is the most important, you know? ”

"Yes, yes, I know the old secretary."

The old secretary looked at the time and said to everyone: "It's almost ten o'clock now, and the production captains will immediately go to the underground of the old locust tree to take place and organize your members." Haoran, you take the materials, put your ideas and specific implementation plans and project arrangement plans, you have to read them out at the conference, and make it clear to the big guys, so that the big guys can see hope and work hard. Okay, let's go our separate ways. ”

"Attention members, attention members!" The cadres left, the old secretary came to the broadcasting room, turned on the loudspeaker, and shouted loudly into the microphone to the whole village: "Members of the society, please pay attention, the spring breeze blows the drums of war, this year is the first day of the spring breeze of reform, after the unremitting efforts of the party branch, we have formulated a series of measures and plans." Today, we held a grand mobilization meeting of all the villagers under the old locust tree, which is a great thing for the present and the future, please be sure to participate! I repeat ......"

The loudspeaker kept repeating the old secretary's encouraging broadcast, and the village suddenly became lively, and they all walked towards the old locust tree.

When the old secretary finished broadcasting, he turned off the loudspeaker, locked the door, and walked out of the gate. When he walked to the infirmary, he stopped, he remembered the dog leftover, the scene of the bean sprouts and Wanruo just now was still churning in his heart, the dog left itself was a victim, this news should tell him, don't look at others small, the things in his heart are no worse than adults, if he gets this news, maybe he will get some comfort.

"Left, are you better?" The old secretary came to the infirmary, brought a chair and sat down and asked.

"Pull it down! You don't know that illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread, and you don't have back pain when you stand and talk! The old secretary said with a blank look.

"Isn't it just a stomachache, what's the big deal? It's a big fuss, right? ”

"Stomach ache? I have a heartache in my stomach and a pain in my liver, and I feel pain everywhere in my body! Still making a fuss? I said that you, the old secretary, are getting more and more bored, you don't know what's going on, don't you know how much it hurts? This is your old man, if there is another person, I will not be too lazy to deal with him! The old secretary said with a blank look.

"Okay, okay, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, can't I? But let me tell you, it's all right! The old secretary said the sentence "It's okay" very seriously.

"What, it's okay? Is that big a thing okay? I said, my big secretary, how did you learn to talk nonsense? "Gou Yu doesn't believe it's true, is this possible? He couldn't think of a reason!

"Look at you, you didn't hear the bean sprouts talking, you didn't hear your mother scolding me, didn't you hear Qiao'er's mother's loud voice?"

"Here are the sprouts? My mother is here too? I didn't hear it, if it weren't for the spring breeze blowing the war drums in the loudspeaker, I would still be asleep there, and I would have been trapped to death! ”

"Oh, I said that. Then I'll tell you, it's okay, it's really okay! Bean Sprouts is really a good boy who understands the overall situation, and the spirit of the bean sprouts girl who endures humiliation and burdens is so touched by me, Bean Sprouts ......"

"Gotta get out of here! Don't mention that name to me, I'm disgusting! Tell the old secretary, the first thing I did when I got home was to get her away! If she doesn't leave, then don't blame my slingshot for not having eyes! Gou Yu said through gritted teeth.

"You dare! I'll tell you the dog leftover, if you do that, but I won't spare you, your father, your mother, your three alleys, the whole village will not forgive you, you just wait to find death! The old secretary said sharply!

"What's the matter? If you say that, I'm going to respect her? Yes? Huang Mother, she? I don't want to see her again in my life, I! Gou Yu said indignantly!

"One yard to another, bean sprouts are victims, do you know how noble her actions and words are? Yes? How many such people can there be in the world? Would you be able to do it if you were replaced? Yes? ”

"Ahh Just her? Just her? I hope there are as few such people as possible! It's good to be extinct! ”

"I said that you kid is a very smart person, and the concept of right and wrong still makes me admire, why did you make a mistake when you were locked up?"

"Go, go, don't put on a top hat for me, bother that!"

"Who likes to take care of you, I'll go to the mobilization meeting, I can tell you, don't mess around, don't make trouble anymore, it's not a big deal? I'm leaving. ”

After the old secretary finished speaking, he walked out of the infirmary, and the dog Yu dreamed of the quilt on his head and didn't move!

This book was first published in Reading Rim