After several years of being the secretary of the Deqing Municipal Party Committee, Peng Qun is no longer satisfied, and even if he enters the Standing Committee of the Haicheng Municipal Party Committee as he wishes, he has not satisfied his appetite, he wants to obtain higher rights and have a bigger stage. [Ran^Text^Library] He used all his resources to look for opportunities, and the opportunity came, but it came with a nightmare, and when he thought about it to this day, it made Peng Qun annoyed and palpitated.

The reason is that the old mother died, and Peng Qun, as a filial son, wanted to bury his mother in a beautiful manner, which changed everything for Peng Qun after that.

The grand and extravagant funeral caused a sensation in the whole county, and also alarmed the relevant departments of the province and city; in addition, some cadres and the masses reported that Peng Qun was wantonly accepting gifts while making a big deal of the funeral, and the province and city soon formed a joint investigation team to investigate, and after a period of careful investigation, the city party committee specially talked to him.

The conversation was personally organized by Huang Qing, secretary of the municipal party committee, and it was a one-on-one conversation, which Peng Qun still remembers vividly. He didn't know much about this new secretary of the municipal party committee, but he only knew that he was the secretary of the Qinghe municipal party committee before, a young cadre who was very bold and accomplished, and his appointment as secretary of the municipal party committee in Haicheng was just a transition, and it was rumored that he would soon be promoted to vice governor. From the new secretary to Haicheng, he only met after the meeting where the organization department announced his appointment, and in addition, he had heard his speech in public, and there were not many opportunities for individual contact. Originally, according to the etiquette and rules of officialdom, the new leader should have visited and had a heart-to-heart conversation within a week of taking office, not to mention that he is a member of the Standing Committee of the Haicheng Municipal Party Committee and the most powerful secretary of the Deqing Municipal Party Committee. Any negligence may be perceived as arrogance and arrogance, a contempt for the new leader, and it is likely to cause unnecessary trouble, and the leader will definitely have ideas. But his mother lives in the hospital, and his life seems to be coming to an end, and it is his greatest wish to be able to accompany his mother to fulfill his last filial piety. These days are busy and dizzy, and many normal things have been put down and delayed, including the visit to the new secretary, but he has no time to explain, and even the consequences of the funeral are clear to himself, and he is ready to accept the organization's punishment.

The conversation was very simple and clear, and it entered the topic at the beginning, and the secretary did not greet him, nor even the necessary courtesy, so he directly put the investigation report of the funeral in front of Peng Qun. Along with the investigation report, Peng Qun was also presented with materials on his acceptance of bribes through the adjustment of cadres over the past few years, as well as materials on the use of power for personal gain for the benefit of his family and relatives, as well as reports on keeping mistresses. Peng Qun didn't know how Secretary Huang had collected these materials in such a short period of time, and they were so detailed. What he has done for a long time, condensed in one material, is indeed shocking, and even Peng Qun feels surprised and trembling. What followed was Secretary Huang's stormy and stern reprimands and criticisms, one by one, Peng Qun had no chance to defend and breathe at all, only nervousness and the apprehension of waiting for the results to be announced. It wasn't until more than an hour later that Secretary Huang stopped his angry reprimand, his tone began to soften, and even some understanding and compassion, and praised Peng Qun's work achievements and innovative ideas for the first time, just when Peng Qun was puzzled by the changes and purposes of the strange secretary, I saw Secretary Huang pick up the materials on the table, light them slowly, and slowly watch the materials turn into ashes in the basin, and heavily signed the opinion of "unforgivable, extenuating" on the investigation materials, and solemnly signed his name. It also made Peng Qun understand Secretary Huang's intentions in the instant change from great sorrow to great joy, although he didn't know Secretary Huang's intentions and purpose to protect him, but it became an indisputable fact that he became Secretary Huang's person.

Secretary Huang spared no effort for this, and directly made a special report to the provincial party committee, because from the death of his mother to the end of the funeral, Peng Qun and his family and relatives were in great grief. The funeral arrangements and gift money were all made by the director of the county party committee office, and until the investigation began, the gift money was still under the control of the funeral committee and was not handed over to the Peng family, and Peng Qun did not know about it from beginning to end. Peng Qun is a well-known filial son, many people know that after his mother's serious illness and death, in fact, Peng Qun was no longer at work, although he did not explicitly ask for leave, but he had no time to ask about anything, so it was recommended that the provincial party committee give Peng Qun an administrative warning and dismissal, and the director of the county party committee office was removed and demoted.

The provincial party committee accepted Secretary Huang's suggestion and gave Peng Qun a warning within the party, in view of the fact that this matter has caused a huge adverse impact in Deqing, Peng Qun is no longer suitable to work in Deqing, and it is recommended that the Haicheng Municipal Party Committee and the municipal government properly handle it.

Although Peng Qun's matter was dealt with without danger, although he lost the opportunity to work in Deqing for this reason, and even invisibly blocked the promotion road from the secretary of the Deqing Municipal Party Committee to the Haicheng Municipal Party Committee, but all his problems seemed to be burned down with the end of this matter, and no one mentioned it again, and he was able to leave Deqing City safely and decently. For this reason, he prepared a generous gift and sent it to Secretary Huang's lover Yu Jie, and soon after, he also went to the Central Party School for training under Secretary Huang's arrangement.

The position of secretary of the Pingyuan County Party Committee is not so much a temporary arrangement as Secretary Huang's punishment for Peng Qun's betrayal of loyalty. During the study period at the party school, although he maintained contact with Secretary Xiang Huang and constantly expressed his heart, through the dredging of the villagers in the Beijing Office, he still got to know some Deqing villagers and leaders working in Beijing, especially Qian Xiangzhong, the mayor of Qinghe, who was also studying in Beijing, and it is said that it is very likely to take over as secretary of the Qinghe Municipal Party Committee after the end of this study. Under the arrangement of the villagers and the leaders of Beijing, Peng Qun gave Qian Xiangzhong a lot of benefits, and Qian Xiangzhong also suggested that he work in Qinghe, because the aftermath of Haicheng's affairs has not stopped, and it is unlikely that he will go up directly, and during the study period, Secretary Huang has become the vice governor of the provincial government as he wished, Haicheng has lost its backer, and there is no point in going back, and Secretary Huang also hinted that after he finished studying, it is best to settle in another place, and Qinghe is the best place, because not only Secretary Huang has been operating for many years, but the foundation is relatively solid. And there are many places where you can be placed.

It is with such an arrangement, especially knowing Qian Xiangzhong, the future secretary of the municipal party committee, Peng Qun is full of confidence in the future, waiting to take over as deputy mayor of Qinghe, or assistant to the mayor and director of the transportation bureau, or vice president of Qinghe College, but the work arrangement after graduation made him dumbfounded, only to re-clarify the level of an assistant inspector, but the actual position is the secretary of the Pingyuan County Party Committee, not even a member of the Standing Committee of the Qinghe Municipal Party Committee, and Qian Xiangzhong did not become the secretary of the municipal party committee as he wished, but went to the people's congress as a deputy director. This also confirmed the rumors of Huang Qian's incompatibility rumored in Qinghe's official place, and finally understood Huang Qing's wrist and energy, and Huang Qing's text message to him "cherish yourself, do it yourself", also made him regret it for a long time.

Since then, Peng Qun has clearly felt that he is no longer Huang Qing's person, but a pawn in his hand that can still be used, because of betrayal, he must bear the price, he knows this, and he is also disheartened about the future. Many people reflect that he Peng Qun is tired of politics, but in fact, to be precise, he is tired of politics and disgusted in his heart.

After coming to the plain, Huang Qing almost didn't answer Peng Qun's calls, but only because of his sister's contact with him, and the link between Sister Yu and him was Gao Shan, not only Sister Yu's contact, but also seemed to have the responsibility to monitor him. Therefore, he hated Gao Shan to the core, but he was helpless, and which of Gao Shan's bad deeds, which one was enough to put him to death, but he saw him run rampant, all he could do was to scourge Gao Shan, make him embarrassed, uncomfortable, as his bad deeds to play with women, in fact, he also slapped Gao Shan's face openly and secretly. He knew very well which waiters changed from time to time, especially the waiter who served his room, took the salary of the hotel, and also took the benefits of Takayama to ventilate him and inform Takayama of his daily work. He had repeatedly found signs of things in his room being turned over and moved, and he had found that his work notes were often moving. For this reason, his things, especially important things, are never put in the hotel, they are all in the secret safe in his office, only he knows what is inside, and what can those things bring to him at a critical time? For these people who monitor themselves, Peng Qun hates them to the bone and is helpless, these are the traitors, and the traitors are the most hateful people, they sell their conscience and sincerity, they should be punished. After all, it is not normal and inappropriate for a county party secretary to interfere too much in the work deployment of the hotel and the arrangement of the staff, so all Peng Qun can do is rape and violence. Not only to the waiter of the hotel, but also to the person who thought that he might report to Takayama, whether it was day or night, he was mercilessly violent, which not only solved his hunger and thirst as a man, but also retaliated and attacked Takayama. Not only that, Peng Qun also often goes to Gao Shan's company or hotel, as long as he sees the woman around Gao Shan, whether it is Gao Shan's female secretary or Gao Shan's caring woman, he openly asks Gao Shan, and undoubtedly brings it to the room, and then returns it to Gao Shan when he is tired of playing, he wants to disgust Gao Shan like this, see what he can do.

Peng Qun knew that the consequence of doing this would be that his reputation would be completely ruined, but where would the reputation of those who had lost their souls come from. He believes that his reputation has stayed in Deqing, by his mother's side in his hometown. He misses himself very much when he was in Deqing, and he misses the enthusiasm and integrity of Lingnan Township, as well as the enthusiasm that soars to the sky. But those who have been forever left in the distant past with the years, and now they are the walking dead, not only do not know what to do, but also do not know why to do it. Sometimes he really hates himself, feeling that he is a heinous scum with no faith, no goals, and no future, not only smearing his past innocence, but also smearing the image of the party and the government, but he doesn't know what he should do and what he can do. Harming women is one of his bad deeds, and buying an official is also a crime that can put him to death, but he doesn't do the thing of selling officials, because he thinks it's not necessary, he can accept some cigarettes and alcohol on weekdays, and he is not interested in money and things, not to mention that he has a high mountain as a cash cabinet, and he can just ask for it if he needs it, and there is no need to be greedy for ink. Besides, he has no hobbies, and he is not interested in antique calligraphy and paintings, so some low-level mistakes in Deqing have never happened in the plains again, and the adjustment of cadres is only to establish authority, in order to make the cadres obedient, it has nothing to do with money, and the monopoly of power is only to prove his existence and power, and there is no money scheme. To a large extent, he has already felt the powerlessness and powerlessness of money, and the upward channel cannot be opened by money alone. In order to make his sub-prefecture substantial, he took out more than a few million yuan, from the central government to the provinces and cities, and more than one person, but gradually found that what is needed to go up is not money, but circles, but loyalty and trust, and what you can play is your value and the role you can play. A simple war needs warriors, and the final victory needs to be resourceful and capable, not a battle on the battlefield, nor a sword and sword, but a greater power struggle, what is needed at this time is not courage, but absolute loyalty, and absolute group interests. In these aspects, he has in fact been labeled as a betrayal and abandoned, and the reason why he can still exist temporarily is because he can still use it, and there is still the value of use, at least he can shield their behavior, at least he can carry the black pot for them, this is his current situation, and it is also the situation of his existence.

Peng Qun often feels powerless, in addition to Gao Shan, there are also Huang Qing's lawless relatives, relying on Huang Qing's power to fish and flesh the people, scourge the township, but there is no way. can only watch them do evil, and sometimes even hope that the bigger they do evil, the better, when it is so big that it is difficult for him to control or cover up, naturally someone will intervene and deal with it. In desperation, he still firmly believes that it is impossible to let these people be evil for a long time, but it has not reached the limit, not to the point of intolerability, and many times it is just a matter of degree, so he is looking forward to the arrival of this day, and even a little urgent.

Now, Takayama's fate has been clear, and the result of coming down will naturally be himself soon. Thinking of one day in the future, he will live in the prison, thinking of his current situation, plummeting, how can he adapt to the days of no freedom and no dignity within the big wall, thinking of these Peng Qun shuddered, many times he thought that instead of spending time in the prison, it is better to die clean, and this thought has become stronger and stronger recently, but he is still a little unwilling. I hope there will be a turnaround, just like when Deqing was a few years ago, even if it is a serious deal, even if it is to be dismissed and go home, so he can only look forward to a clear change tomorrow, to have a good turnaround, although from Huang Qing's expression and style today, he feels that the possibility is not very large, but he still wants to try, even if there is only a glimmer of hope, he has to try.

Thinking of his family, Peng Qun was full of guilt and resentment, very conflicted, and helpless.

Perhaps the rift between husband and wife begins with the resignation of his wife, who complains about his stubbornness, and he complains about his wife's selfishness and unkindness, and although there is no quarrel, it hurts each other more than quarrels. So much so that after the death of his mother, Peng Qun began to leave home, and his wife also went to the plain by himself, and then he simply went to the United States with his son and baby, who was in high school, under the arrangement of Gao Shan.

It has been nearly two years since his wife and son went to the United States to study, and in the past two years, except for occasional phone calls to talk about his son's situation, his wife has almost no contact with him. Paying too much attention to his mother's body and mood, ignoring his wife's emotions and emotional life may be a certain reason, and the more important reason is that Peng Qun has another woman outside, and there is more than one, and resignation is just the fuse of all these events.

Peng Qun and his wife's acquaintance and union did not have a trace of romance, and they even got married after meeting a few times. There is no foundation for feelings, but it does not prove that they have no feelings, but they inherit the past pattern of getting married first and then falling in love, which is actually the common pattern of rural youth in that era.

At that time, he was a clerk in the Lingnan Township organ, and his wife was a teacher in the county primary school, Peng Qun was 24 years old at the time, and his wife was 22 years old, which was a more desirable age gap between men and women. His wife's family is from a neighboring village, his father is a teacher in the village primary school, and he has a younger brother and a younger sister, who are also the eldest in the family. After graduating from high school, his wife replaced his father as a teacher in a village elementary school, and later became a teacher in a county primary school due to her excellent grades. After the introduction of the matchmaker, they met, and the mother asked someone to match the eight characters, a very good match of the Wangfu Xiang, and agreed with satisfaction, and bought a few clothes in the market in Lingnan Township, and got engaged after a meal, and married after the autumn, from the first meeting to the marriage, only half a year. If you want to talk about the conditions of Peng Qun's family, the wife's family is unwilling, a widow with four small children, life is tight, not the type of teacher in their family, the family still hopes that their daughter can find a solid family in the county, but the first time I met my wife, I fell in love with Peng Qun, not only Peng Qun's burly figure and handsome appearance, but also the upright body cultivated by the army, and Peng Qun's good conversation. Although Peng Qun had just returned from the mountains on the day of the meeting, and the clothes on his body were dirty and unpresentable, the green military uniform still added a lot of color to him, and his wife made her own decision to rely on this person in this life. The wife's parents were not very satisfied at first, but seeing their daughter's resoluteness, coupled with Peng Qun's work in the township, they reluctantly agreed.

After the marriage, although Pengjiaao had their new house, it was said to be a new house, but in fact it was just two shacks built with the help of the villagers with bluestone, wooden sticks, and straw curtains. After marriage, his wife still lived in the school's staff dormitory, and Peng Qun also lived in the township, although it was only a few miles of mountain roads, but he did not live at home except for often coming back to visit his mother. In fact, their marriage room has become the boudoir of the younger sister, after all, she is already a big girl, and it is still inconvenient to live with her younger brothers, which also forms the status quo that the young couple can't go back to their home in fact.

Fortunately, Peng Qun gradually became the deputy head of the township, the head of the township, the township has a fixed office, and there is a separate dormitory, and the days when the small couple get together less and leave more are somewhat relieved, but they can only be together for a longer time during the winter and summer vacations. At other times, his wife still lives in the school, after all, dozens of kilometers of mountain roads are not reunited every week, and Peng Qun at that time was the most energetic and busiest time. Perhaps it is for this reason that they have never been able to raise their children, which has become a mother's heart disease, in fact, they all know that they are just busy, but they don't have the time and the right time. So much so that my sister's children were more than two years old, and their son baby was born, which was also the second year that Peng Qun was transferred to the county as a deputy county magistrate. The big fat boy of the old Peng family, and it was long overdue, so the mother was overjoyed, and personally gave a nickname of "Bao'er", everyone called Baobao, and when he went to school, he simply took the big name Peng Baobao, although it was like a girl's name, but he felt comfortable.

After a few years of marriage, I have a stable home, and it is the housing of the county-level leaders, which is very magnificent and glorious, and my wife cherishes such an opportunity and cherishes this rare reunion. In the first few years, especially when the child was born, with the birth of a new life and the beginning of a stable family life, the harmony and happiness of the family continued for a long time, and the relationship between the husband and wife also warmed up rapidly, reaching a very happy and harmonious level, and both husband and wife enjoyed this strong family affection. With the passage of time, especially after the wife was transferred from the county primary school to the education commission, the feeling was also quietly changing, the wife's temperament began to become impatient, sometimes even anxious, and there was some impatience with the mother, and there was a sense of collision in the words from time to time, especially for the younger brothers and sisters who came to the house, it became cold from enthusiasm, and then it was simply not to be seen. As for the villagers who came from Pengjiaao, whether they came to walk around or just came to visit, they were very cold and tired. At first, Peng Qun didn't care very much, thinking that his wife had lived in the city for a long time after all, and her living habits and hygiene habits had developed into the style of people in the city, and he didn't look down on the habit of spitting and squatting on stools at every turn for the villagers from Pengjiaao, which was normal, but it was absolutely impossible not to let them come and go. The villagers, if there is nothing to do, who wants to come to the county by dozens of kilometers of mountain roads, although there is a highway and a shuttle, but it is not very easy to spend money to enter the city, and Peng Jiaao has produced a big cadre of Peng Qun for so many years, how can he not come to see it. The younger brothers and sisters came to the city to work one after another, can they not ask him, the eldest brother, for ideas about such and such things? And the mother lives with him, what's wrong with the children coming to see the mother? Peng Qun always felt that being an official and a cadre was for his family, and he couldn't seek benefits for his family, and he only cared about himself as an official, isn't that a white-eyed wolf? What's more, after entering the county seat, she not only arranged jobs for her younger brothers and sisters, but also arranged jobs for his wife's younger brothers and sisters in the county seat, and also arranged her younger brother into the public security bureau, and her sister became a state cadre when she arrived at the transportation bureau. But these are useless at all, she is not only cold to Peng Qun's younger brothers and sisters, but also ignores her younger brothers and sisters, it seems that there is only this small family in her heart, as long as she closes the door and lives a good life in her own small family, she doesn't want to care about anything else, and don't bother her. Peng Qun is reluctant to interfere with his wife's thoughts, and he is too lazy to interfere, but he is resolutely unable to treat his mother badly, which is an unforgivable problem. Therefore, Peng Qun's method is also extreme, that is, the always deep-rooted machismo idea, "the land must be shoveled, the wife must be managed", and the best way to manage is to beat, often see the wife against the mother, Peng Qun is like no one, at night and wait for the mother and children to sleep, cover the wife's mouth is a violent beating, found that a beating, and are all beaten in a secret place, never leave scars on the face and other obvious places, on the surface is still affectionate and loving, there are talking and laughing, but the inner feelings are getting thinner and thinner, The rift is getting bigger and bigger, and there is basically no warm conversation and intimacy, and there are fewer and fewer things between husband and wife, and gradually they begin to separate in one room.

If you can't get it at home, you can make up for it outside, but prostitution to find Miss Peng Qun is absolutely not done, he feels disgusting, but the fire in a man's heart always has to be vented, and later he developed Xiao Ding in the county party committee office, a pure and beautiful little daughter-in-law, as well as Xiao Liu, a nurse in the county hospital, and Xiao Wang in the hotel, and slowly there are more than a dozen women who are often in contact. Peng Qun adheres to a principle, not looking for a big girl, only looking for a little daughter-in-law, because the little daughter-in-law who has a family has more worries and is not easy to have accidents, and she can not talk about marriage, and more importantly, the married little daughter-in-law knows more about customs. Because Peng Qun has mastered this principle, it has been calm for several years, as long as it is a woman who has slept with him Peng Qun, as long as it does not involve marriage, he asks for money, he wants to transfer his job, and even a house and a car, as long as it is controlled within a certain limit. Although there are a lot of rumors, there is no one who really dares to seriously investigate him, the secretary of the county party committee. Often, when he came home, he washed his mother's feet, and when his mother fell asleep, Peng Qun would quietly go out, drive himself to a tryst, quietly enter the door in the morning before his mother got up, and then go out to work after having breakfast with his mother. This has been the case for several years, and the wife is also happy, so that after all, there are fewer beatings and family life is calmer.

Divorce is a bottom line that Peng Qun and his wife are unwilling to touch, not only can they not be divorced, but they can't even have such signs. Divorce and remarriage are the passes that cannot be passed by the mother, and they also bear the political risk of not being serious in their life style. It is impossible for the wife to agree and accept it at all, she married the biggest official in the county, this is the glory and pride of the whole family, she can't let the pride of the family collapse, let alone let the rest of her life run around without food and clothing. As long as this name is maintained, everyone has to look up to her, not to mention that the child is gradually growing up, the child is all she has, as for the relationship between husband and wife, the joy of the bed, there is not much, there is no more, there is no less, as long as the child is taken care of. Therefore, when Peng Qun forced her to resign and leave the position of deputy director of the Office of the Education Commission, she hated Peng Qun very much at first, hated him for being selfish, and hated him for being ruthless, but then she gradually figured it out and worked hard, although she had the title of deputy director of the office, but people still looked at his Peng Qun's face, and she was nothing without Peng Qun. Resting at home, getting a lot of salary, taking care of children and old ladies easily, going around the streets on weekdays, doing beauty, not lacking nothing. After thinking about this, I also enjoyed a relaxing and comfortable life.

The death of the old lady completely hit Peng Qun's feelings, and also made their relationship between husband and wife drop to the freezing point, so that after Peng Qun arranged to go to the plain in a different place, his wife resolutely refused to come to the plain with him, on the grounds that his son could not be distracted and had no time and energy to go to high school. Later, I don't know how Gao Shan met his wife, and encouraged his wife to take the children to study abroad, and used the American company to send an invitation to send his wife and son to the other side of the ocean, and it was not for money that they could rarely hear their voices. Sometimes Peng Qun also thought vigilantly about what purpose he had after Gao Shan's enthusiastic help, and even came up with the terrible idea of kidnapping, controlling the mother, and actually indirectly controlling him Peng Qun, the mother spent more than 100,000 US dollars in the United States every year, without Gao Shan and other inputs, it was difficult to cope with his annual salary income alone, so he was destined to honestly cover up for Gao Shan, and seek benefits for Gao Shan and Sister Yu, which was a dilemma that no one could get rid of.

Peng Qun is very clear about his current situation, but he still can't help but recall his wife's goodness, recalling the beautiful moments of the past, after all, more than 20 years of husband and wife, there are still a lot of beautiful things, let him be nostalgic, so the relationship between husband and wife, both the wife's selfish temper, Peng Qun's domestic violence, and more cheating and abuse, for this reason, finally came to the extent that the husband and wife are strange, whenever I think of these, Peng Qun has a deep sense of guilt and remorse in his heart.

In such associations and expectations, Peng Qun fell asleep, and although he didn't sleep very well, he never had any terrible nightmares