Chapter 18: Grandfather's Story

After getting off work at noon, Yuan Xiaosheng rode a bicycle and went straight to his grandfather's house. Today's matter of collecting firewood for Xinmin cannot be delayed, and a solution must be come up with as soon as possible. Otherwise, when Chai Xinmin told Chai Wenshan about this, it would be difficult for Chai Wenshan to start first, and then think of a way to deal with it. At present, on the issue of Zhao Xuedong, Chai Wenshan and Nan Zhenhai are still behind the scenes, if Chai Wenshan is allowed to hate the house and Wu because of the beating of his nephew, he jumps from behind the scenes to the front of the scene, and directly calls Zhao Xuedong, Zhao Xuedong, the party secretary, will be the end.

The weather was cold, it was snowing outside, and my grandparents were very old, so they basically didn't go out for activities. When Yuan Xiaosheng entered the house, his grandmother was cooking around the stove, and his grandfather was sitting in front of a table under the window and reading an ancient book with a magnifying glass.

"Grandpa, grandma." Yuan Xiaosheng shouted when he entered the door, and drilled on the kang, it was too cold outside, it was estimated that it was minus ten degrees, and Yuan Xiaosheng's face, ears and hands were already red from the cold.

Grandma felt sorry for her grandson, and when she saw that Yuan Xiaosheng was freezing badly, she instructed: "Hurry up and put your feet under the quilt to warm up." ”

Although the countryside has lived in brick houses, but there are still a lot of soil kang, especially the elderly, afraid of cold in winter, under the soil kang stuffed with some straw, corn cob and other firewood, can warm a day, sleep at night is warm, there will be no cold, unlike the current city unit building, winter past twelve o'clock, the heating is basically stopped, completely rely on the quilt and residual heat to maintain the temperature.

"Is there something wrong with you again?" Grandpa asked while reading the book, as if he had already guessed Yuan Xiaosheng's thoughts.

Yuan Xiaosheng stretched his hands and feet under the quilt together, and laughed twice: "Grandpa is an old fairy, I know what is going on as soon as I come?" ”

"Cut-" Grandpa laughed and said, "You little rabbit cub, your mouth is not sweet." Grandpa is not really an old fairy, and he will solve everything for you. Say, what's the matter? ”

Grandma said with an unhappy face: "You old thing, your grandson will ask this and that when he enters the door, he won't ask if he has eaten, just talk about things." I can't talk about it after eating. As he spoke, he sent a bowl of steaming pumpkin noodles to Yuan Xiaosheng's hand, and handed over a pair of chopsticks.

Grandpa said disapprerovingly: "You think he came to cook rarely." ”

Grandpa and grandpa are a lot of old people and often have a mouthful of wars, people often say that old children and old children, the older a person, the more tempered the child, and the more sincere he loves. This is not the same as what Kong Lao Er said: forty is not confused, fifty knows the destiny of heaven, sixty sixties, and seventy ancient rares are two different things at all. According to Kong Laoer's logical reasoning, the older a person is, the more calm he should be, but in fact, that is not the case at all.

Yuan Xiaosheng hurriedly stopped: "Grandma's cooking is better than that cooked in five-star hotels, how can I not be rare." Saying and purring, he took a bowl of pumpkin noodles into his mouth in a few bites, wiped his mouth, and looked sweet and delicious.

When my grandmother saw that Yuan Xiaosheng had eaten pumpkin noodles, she naturally looked at her grandfather happily and didn't say anything. Meaning, see if you dare to say that my grandson is not uncommon. Grandpa grinned and didn't say anything more. Obviously, it has been seen that Yuan Xiaosheng is making a show for his grandmother.

After eating, Yuan Xiaosheng told his grandfather about his recent situation and today's beating.

After hearing this, my grandfather immediately clapped his hands and said, "Okay, it's a good fight." Social scum like this should be fought. It seems that your old man, who was a soldier, taught you that kung fu was not in vain. When you were a child, you taught you kung fu, but you refused to learn it. Later, I was taught by your Lao Tzu, and I refused to use it when I fought with my classmates, and I was always beaten. I thought you were a cowardly kid by nature. ”

Grandma said disapprovingly: "If you don't teach some good ones, you know how to teach children to fight." You think my grandson is going to be a bandit like you. ”

Grandpa immediately retorted: "What's wrong with the bandits, if it weren't for me, a bandit, you wouldn't know what happened to the devil." Besides, I was helpless to be a bandit back then, otherwise I would have been starving to death. ”

Grandma also knew that thanks to her grandfather's timely appearance, otherwise she would definitely be miserable and said to be a devil**, whether she was dead or alive. I didn't tell my grandfather, I turned my face to the stove and washed the dishes.

However, Yuan Xiaosheng didn't come here to listen to his grandfather's praise, so he hurriedly broke through the dispute between the two elders and said, "Grandpa, you better hurry up and think of a way for me." It doesn't matter if you offend Chai Xinmin, the key is that Chai Xinmin is the nephew of Chai Wenshan, director of the county people's Congress, if he starts a rush, your grandson will not want to mix up in the future. ”

Grandpa looked like he was hiding bamboo in his chest and said, "Don't be afraid, tell me, how old is Chai Wenshan this year?" ”

Yuan Xiaosheng thought for a while and said, "I'm probably in my fifties, and it seems that I should retire after finishing this term." ”

Grandpa immediately laughed and said: "This is not the end, he will only be in the position for three or two years at most, when he gets off the stage, who will care about these things with you, don't worry, it's okay." This is called not fighting for qualifications, fighting for destiny. ”

Yuan Xiaosheng originally wanted to tell his grandfather about Zhao Xuedong, but he felt that his grandfather's so-called "don't fight for qualifications, fight for destiny" seemed inappropriate, so he added: "Grandpa, what you said doesn't seem to be right, right?" Chai Wenshan was in power in Hewan County, and he promoted no less than a dozen current cadres at or above the deputy bureau chief level, and coupled with the relationships between all aspects of his usual interactions, it can also be said that he is intertwined. It is often said that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and even if he comes down from the position of director of the National People's Congress, it is estimated that if he wants to rectify my small township civil servant, it will be similar to pinching an ant to death. ”

I don't want my grandfather to sneer twice and say, "! As the old saying goes, a defeated army is like a mountain falling, and a tree is falling and scattered. I don't know how these two idioms were pulled together by my grandfather, but the reason is also very simple and clear, and after a slight pause, he asked: "Do you know who the predecessor of Sun Yimin, the current secretary of the county party committee, is?" ”

Yuan Xiaosheng shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. Before being admitted to this township civil servant, Yuan Xiaosheng had always been bent on reading sage books and ignoring things outside the window, let alone caring about the politics of the county, and it was impossible to know what the name of the county party secretary was.

Grandpa continued: "Sun Yimin's predecessor is called Ma Tiande, that is, when you were from high school to college, we were the secretary of the county party committee of Hewan County. That guy was also an omnipotent figure in Hewan County at that time. When he was in office, Chai Wenshan was still a deputy county magistrate, but he, the deputy county magistrate, was not hung at all in Ma Tiande's eyes. Not to mention that it was Chai Wenshan, it was Fan Shengli, the county magistrate at the time, he didn't pay attention to it. But now, now that he has retired, he still doesn't walk around the street all day with a broken stool, and the ghost will pay attention to him. It's just that occasionally the anger is really not smooth, and he leads a group of old cadres to the county party committee to make trouble, and the county party committee gives him a few money, and he sends it away. Think about it, even Ma Tiande has this kind of ending, how good can he be when Chai Wenshan retreats? ”

Yuan Xiaosheng thought about it and felt that what his grandfather said was not unreasonable. People in officialdom, the power of the eyes is determined by nature, no matter how strong the circle you create, once you lose power, you will be thrown out of the circle, and you will no longer have anything to do with the people in the circle. Everyone still recognizes you and does something small for you, because you used to be a person in the circle, and you are a central figure, and it is absolutely impossible for everyone to bow down to you again. Because once you leave the circle, you will no longer bring any benefits to the people in the circle, let alone play any role in protecting the people in the circle, so it doesn't matter if the circle is there or not. What's more, after your old circle center leaves, a new circle center will immediately be created. The new circle center naturally has new ideas and rules, and if the people in the circle get close to you, the old circle center, it will inevitably make the new circle center feel unhappy. No one will be stupid because they are nostalgic.