Chapter 33: A Gentle and Distant, Man
All the way east, out of the county there are obviously fewer vehicles, seeing that he just drove quietly and did not speak, I felt a little unnatural, and I was also surprised that he was so calm and calm at any time.
"Did you go to the Public Security Bureau today to find Director Zhang?"
I don't have anything to say, but I don't care what he has to do with Director Zhang.
"Oh, it's nothing, it's just that you solved the case of our factory, we want to express a little gratitude, go and talk to your director about it"
He said lightly.
"It's been so long since the case was solved, why did you only remember to thank us now?"
I asked, puzzled.
"Have you always been so straightforward?"
He looked at me with a smile.
"Am I not asking the right question? I thought you had already expressed your intentions to our leaders, and I wondered why you didn't even give us a pennant? It was so boring."
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"I invited your leaders to dinner, but at that time, the secretary of the county party committee Wang happened to go out for a meeting and did not arrive, your director at the time meant to wait for the secretary to come back and invite again, now that the secretary is back, I plan to arrange it"
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"Then just make a phone call, do you still need to run in person?"
I frowned and said disappreciatively.
I thought that this kind of thanksgiving has nothing to do with our penny, and we are the ones who do the work.
"I just wanted to come over and see if I could meet you"
He didn't look at me and stared at the road ahead.
I was surprised, "What if I hadn't encountered it?" Today is just in time for us to break up."
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"Then I can go to your office and find you!"
He said casually, I turned my head to look at him in surprise, how could he do such a reckless act?
He turned his head to look at my expression, shook his head with a smile and said, "I can go and see you Captain Zheng, can't I?" β
I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was impossible for him to be so reckless as a calm person, and then thought about it again and said, "Are you going to invite Captain Zheng as well?" β
He was silent for a moment and said, "Do you want me to invite him?" β
"I know that if the county party secretary participates, his level may not be enough, but it is of course good for you to invite him, the public security bureau now has a position of deputy director, he is fighting for it, and he needs someone above to know him and appreciate him."
"You care about him, huh?"
He said with a smile on his lips.
"I entered the Public Security Bureau with him, and we have worked together for more than ten years, he is a decent and dedicated person, and he is also very capable, and everyone recognizes him in the police and society, but there is no one above, and now it is very difficult to further in the official career."
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"That's why you want to help him?"
He asked, looking at me.
"What else could it be for? I don't want to watch those sacks and rice bags climb up! People like Zheng Duo should be promoted, and the promotion of one or two decent people is also an explanation to the people and improve the image of the party and the government! β
I said with some displeasure.
"Angry"
"Nope"
"Is that called nothing? I'll have someone send you a big pennant tomorrow, do you still like this? β
He looked ahead, a smile on his lips.
"If you don't have sincerity, don't send it, we spent so much effort to solve the case and not to get promoted and make a fortune, if we don't even fight for some honor, it's too boring!"
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"You are a very serious policeman and have a great sense of honor, how old are you?"
He laughs.
Seeing him laughing at me, I suddenly got angry: "What does this have to do with how old you are?" Loyalty, honor is the motto of our criminal police team, what's wrong? Thieves also have a way, thieves have the rules for being thieves, is it ridiculous that we as police officers have our own professional ethics and our own sense of honor? β
"I didn't mean to laugh at you, I think you're pretty good, it's not a good thing to live a simple life with such a simple mind"
He looked at me and said.
This time I was really angry, remembering his expression when I stood in front of him with two portions of spicy chicken and waited for him to speak when I met for the first time, I sneered: "What is simple thought?" Do you think we don't have thoughts? You think I'm stupid and naΓ―ve, don't you? Do you think that people in these small places are very narrow-minded and ignorant? So in your eyes I'm just a simple plaything at your fingertips? β
At this point, I suddenly felt a sense of humiliation: "I don't want to eat anymore, I want to go home"
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He parked the car on the side of the road, turned to look at me and said seriously: "You know I don't mean that, I never think that only people who chase money and power wholeheartedly are thoughtful and intelligent people, this world should have people who pursue a variety of lifestyles and life goals, I like your simple and direct attitude to life according to your own wishes, although you are very serious about being a policeman, but I think your heart is free and free, not bound by fame and fortune, which is different from many civil servants I have seen, They are in the midst of promotions and salaries, bonuses, and all sorts of real-life injustices, and they try to get involved and hate themselves for being in them."
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I looked at him and said, "It's not that I don't care, it's just that I don't have too strong a desire for material things, I feel that I am too tired to go through the career and it is not what I like, and I can't be the master of salary and bonuses." In fact, the biggest advantage of being a civil servant is to have the stability of not freezing and starving, and the biggest advantage of being a criminal police officer is to have the right and wrong and not care about anything else.
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"So I think you're good, don't you? Wisdom is foolish, loud and sparse, simple is not the best way to live, now the society is so impetuous, can live a simple life also needs a calm and quiet wisdom, isn't it? β
He looked at me with a sincere smile on his face.
I tilted my head and squinted at him and smiled and said, "How many times have you seen me either at the wine table or at the scene of the murder, which eye of yours saw me calm and quiet?" I don't look like the light and elegant person who holds the orchid and sucks the wind and drinks the dew independently. β
He leaned over and looked at me, his hand on the back of the chair, suddenly he stretched out his finger and gently swiped my face, my body tightened, instinctively turned sideways slightly to dodge, he pursed his lips and smiled: "Life is not acting, is it elegant and quiet to be dressed in white, with long hair, and a cold look?" Indifference is a kind of spiritual temperament, people living in this world want to completely avoid the real life is impossible, stepping on the solid earth, but can transcend the outside of the object is the real spiritual indifference and tranquility, 'alone with the spirit of heaven and earth, not arrogant to all things, do not send right and wrong, to the world', after the spiritual independence and freedom, will naturally have a kind of unworldly temperament, even if living in the vast number of living beings, living between the world, but will not be assimilated by the world. "Doesn't that look like a businessman?" "Do we have to be full of money and talk about money when we do business?" 'Four gold' is also the name of the factory! What do you think I look like money? I was also a scholar." I giggled and said, "Deben is crazy? He also smiled: "It used to be, but now it's not in the bones." I looked out the window and said thoughtfully, "I used to be dressed in white, with long hair and a face like a peach blossom, but now I am not." "Still, you're still beautiful," he said, smiling, looking at me. I rolled his eyes and said, "Jiang Xinya is also beautiful." He looked down and smiled, tilted his head to look at me, and said, "Aren't you hungry?" Since he said that he is not an elegant person who can suck wind and drink dew, let's go eat! I looked at him and felt that what he said was from the heart, and the anger just now disappeared: "I was not born so much, but I understand that chasing power may not be able to get power, and chasing wealth may not be able to get wealth. Be a simple farmer and live a simple life. Now the grass people are hungry, go eat." He turned his head and smiled, and started the car: "The weather here is so good, there is a cloud when there is a gust of wind, and the sky will be clear after a gust of wind and clouds." "It's interesting to have clouds, wind, and rain in the sky, and the sky is clear all day and night, isn't it too monotonous?" "Is it going to rain again? Do I need to prepare an umbrella? He looked sideways at me and said with a grin. I smiled and said, "There's no rain, don't worry!" "I lost my temper and felt that the strangeness between us was gone, as if we had been together for many years. During the meal, he asked me if I was drinking, and I said, "You can't drink if you want to drive, I don't drink alone". He smiled and said: Lanling wine tulips, jade bowl with amber light, don't you drink, aren't you afraid of living up to the beautiful scenery of this good morning? You were angry at dinner here that day? β
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"Nope"
I immediately denied it.
"Is there really not? How do I look at you and get angry"
He said with a smile and staring into my eyes.
I felt a little embarrassed, avoided his gaze, and forced, "Is there anything written on my face?" β
"You don't have writing on your face, but the expression on your face does"
He didn't shy away from staring at me.
"Can you read what I'm thinking?"
I looked into his eyes and asked, this was the first time I had looked at him face to face like this, and his eyes had a feeling of looking at me condescendingly, clear but distant.
Yes, it is this faintness that makes me feel like I want to take the initiative to approach him, and I also have a sense of security.
Since Wu Tianyang left, I psychologically rejected that kind of intimate and loving gaze, and I wanted to keep my distance from all men.
"I can read it"
He looked me in the eye calmly and affirmed.
I looked at him for a while, then looked away and said, "The sunset by the lake is beautiful, let's go see the sunset later."
He said mildly, "Good"