Chu Tianshu only briefly talked about what happened inside, especially mentioning that Lin Guodong went to visit him in the hospital and persuaded him to give up making trouble for Tang Yifu on **, so that the election could be held smoothly.

Yi Haitao said, Minister Lin told me, I told him, you have a clear mind, a firm will, take into account the overall situation, and you are a talent that can be created.

"The teacher has won the prize." Chu Tianshu said with guilt: "It's just like this, let Tang Yifu pick up a mayor for nothing." ”

Yi Haitao said with a smile: "Ha Luha, if you are not the mayor, you can still serve the people and contribute to the development of the city." Besides, even if Tang Yifu can't be elected this time, it won't be my turn to be the mayor. Rather than that, why embarrass Minister Lin. ”

Chu Tianshu was a little surprised, seeing that the mayor who was about to be handed over was easily taken away by others, how could Yi Haitao still act like he had nothing to do, just by virtue of this, Yi Haitao's mind was far more open-minded than Tang Yifu.

Chu Tianshu half-jokingly said: "Teacher, the leaders of the province all know that you have been treated unfairly this time, so you should always be comforted, right?" ”

"Xiao Chu, what you said is wrong." Yi Haitao's face turned pale, he put down his chopsticks, and Yi Haitao said solemnly: "Why do the provincial leaders sympathize with me and comfort me?" The leader was supposed to train you, but you didn't grasp it yourself, who can blame me, it can only show that I am not capable. ”

Chu Tianshu said: "Teacher, you shouldn't say that, right?" Your mayor was killed by someone else's conspiracy, and the provincial leaders should compensate you. ”

Yi Haitao shook his head and said, "Xiao Chu, you remember, there will never be comfort, sympathy and compensation in officialdom. Any action of any person has his starting point and has a certain motive. This starting point and motivation is for my use. If the leader thinks you are incompetent and cannot be used by him, why should he compensate you? ”

Chu Tianshu felt that it was reasonable, and it was not good to say anything, so he asked, "Teacher, Minister Lin talked to you, didn't there be any hint?" ”

Yi Haitao smiled and said, "Minister Lin is engaged in organizational work, how can there be any hints or promises?" But it's you, and being able to support Minister Lin's work this time can be regarded as an important political capital. In the eyes of Minister Lin, in the future, the southeast officialdom will gallop, and the hope and space for progress are not small. ”

"I'm lucky to be able to come out of it alive, how dare I have extravagant hopes for the future?" Chu Tianshu said: "Teacher, don't just talk about me, you should also care about yourself." ”

"Those who are clear are self-purifying, and those who are turbid are self-turbid." Yi Haitao said open-mindedly: "Tang Yifu is in charge of the municipal government, how can I still sing?" **I hardly ever went to work before and after, so I won't trouble the organization, just wait for the organization to be arranged. Again, if it's not for this mayor, at least no one can die. ”

Chu Tianshu smiled and said, "Teacher, then I will continue to follow you and learn from you." ”

Yi Haitao glared and asked, "I'm all the ones standing aside, what are you still doing with me?" ”

Chu Tianshu tapped the plate with chopsticks and said, "I have nothing to do now, I can just follow you to learn cooking and tea ceremony." ”

"Ha Luha, you have also been recuperated." Yi Haitao said: "Xiao Chu, you are still young, and Minister Lin is also very optimistic about you, you can't go on like this." Honestly, what are your plans? ”

Chu Tianshu didn't hide it, and said directly: "Teacher, if you become the mayor, I am still willing to continue to work by your side." Now, if I have the opportunity, I hope to go to the grassroots level to do something practical. ”

Yi Haitao nodded and said: "From the current point of view, I am afraid that you will not be able to stay in the city government, instead of messing around in the organs, it is better to go to the grassroots to do something practical, this is called defending as an offense, and another plan for development." ”

Chu Tianshu said: "There is no hope for development, it is good to be able to do something practical, I am afraid that I will not even have this opportunity." ”

"Xiao Chu, don't be discouraged!" Yi Haitao said with confidence: "Grandpa Mao once taught us that our comrades should see the achievements, see the light, and improve our courage in difficult times. ”

Yi Haitao's optimistic, open-minded and positive attitude greatly infected Chu Tianshu, and the complaints after coming out of the city government building gradually disappeared.

After saying goodbye to Yi Haitao's house, Chu Tianshu went to the newly completed Book City, planning to select a few good books to go back to cultivate his self-cultivation and temperament.

It was during the winter vacation, and there were really a lot of people in the book city, almost all of them were children who were about to start school, and a few adults also came with their children.

The most lively is the children's book area, where people are standing or squatting or sitting, looking at the books in their hands intently. The adults kept rummaging through the textbooks on the shelves, and from time to time they picked up a book and asked the children who were buried in the extracurricular books, and looked at the children's absent-mindedness, and couldn't help but count a few words.

Chu Tianshu secretly sighed that he was also a bookworm in the past, and when he came across a book he liked, he could read it day and night, for more than ten or twenty hours in a row without letting go of the book. But since graduating from college and entering the society, the habit of reading has been slowly lost, reading books and reading books, reading newspapers and reading questions, reading fewer and fewer books, and people have become more and more vulgar.

Of course, the reason is very good, it is the word "busy".

Isn't it? Nowadays, adults are busy, they are busy making fortunes when they are not busy with promotions, and they are busy with entertainment when they are not busy eating and drinking, but they can't remember the books they once loved, and they are no longer interested in picking them up and catching a glance. Only children are addicted to books, but they are riddled with heavy homework and extracurricular tasks arranged by their parents, and it has almost become a luxury dream to read books outside of textbooks.

Thinking that he was finally forced to be free and could read well, Chu Tianshu secretly felt a sense of happiness.

Chu Tianshu bypassed the children's book area and went to the comprehensive reading area not far away.

There are relatively few people here, and most of them are young boys and girls who look like high school students. There are also a few elderly people, with reading glasses on the bridge of their noses, reading Braille like a blind person, pressing their fingers on the pages of the book, touching and reading word by word, very attentive.

Not far away, a waiter with a hot head stared at the elderly readers, his eyes filled with dissatisfaction and disdain.

Chu Tianshu guessed that these old readers were distressed about the money in their pockets, and they only read and didn't buy it, and when the bookstore was a free reading room, it made Xiaobo Lang look sideways.

Sure enough, when an old reader put down the book and went downstairs, Xiaobo Langtou came over and put the book back in its place, muttering in a low voice: "Really, I came to read it for three or four hours every day, and the books were all rotten, and I never bought them." ”

Chu Tianshu stepped forward and took the book that the old man had just read, it was an old version of "Historical Records", which was already a little rough, and it was estimated that it would not be sold, so he asked Xiaobo Langtou: "Does he come to see this book every day?" ”

"He likes to read history books, he reads thirty or forty pages a day, memorizes the page numbers after reading, and then continues to read the next day until he finishes one book, and then moves on to the next one," said Langtou. We want to get rid of people like them, and the manager disagrees, saying that we should respect every reader, and the reader is God. If the bookstore is full of such gods, I am afraid that we will have to go bankrupt and close down, and we will only be unemployed and laid off. ”

Chu Tianshu said with a smile: "Don't look at him just reading and not buying, when he sees a good book, he will tell others, which is equivalent to volunteering to help you advertise, which can indirectly increase the sales of books." ”

Xiaobo Lang lowered his head and sorted out the books on the shelves, and sighed, "What can be done?" I have to think so. When she raised her head and saw a handsome guy talking, she suddenly had a look in her eyes, raised her hand and stroked her hair, and asked in a coquettish voice, "Sir, do you need help?" ”

Chu Tianshu put down the book in his hand and asked, "I want to buy a few books to see, may I ask, what books have been selling well recently?" ”

Xiaobo Langtou enthusiastically led Chu Tianshu to a row of bookshelves and said, "The books here are selling very well. ”

I walked around the bookshelf and didn't find an attractive book.

I haven't been to a bookstore for a few years, but when I came today, I found that there are a lot of books in bookstores today.

Many of the best-selling books recommended by Xiaobo Langtou are the so-called "secrets" and "shortcuts" that teach people to get promoted and make a fortune.

Then there are the so-called entertainment gossip books that reveal the "truth", plus several so-called "academic" studies that distort history, Chu Tianshu flipped through them casually, which was not only empty, but also vulgar and low-style, which only cater to people's curiosity and cannot give people the real pleasure of reading.

And those middle school students who don't let go are basically popular novels or comic books on the Internet, which have almost no nutritional value in Chu Tianshu's opinion, and I really don't understand how they can be so fascinated by it.

Although Xiaobo Langtou was very enthusiastic, Chu Tianshu was very disappointed.

Seeing that Chu Tianshu's mind was indeed in the book rather than on herself, Xiaobo Langtou was also quite disappointed, she retreated to the side in a huff, and continued to follow Chu Tianshu's figure with a gaze, expecting him to change his mind and take the initiative to find another talk.

It seemed that it was difficult to achieve the goal of self-cultivation through reading, so Chu Tianshu had to go to the life bookshelf, found a few recipe books, and prepared to go home to paint the gourd. When passing by the bookshelf of Chinese and foreign classics, I suddenly remembered that "Dream of Red Mansions" was the most sloppy among the "Four Great Masterpieces" when I was a child, so I ran over and drew a copy, went to the cashier to pay, and escaped from the gaze of Xiaobo Langtou nymphomaniac.

In the next few days, Chu Tianshu didn't have to go to work, and lived a fairy-like life in the home of the fragrant osmanthus.

Get up in the morning and finish exercising in the yard, come back to make breakfast and shout to Wanqing to get up, and when she goes to work, she browses the news and gossip on the Internet, eats at noon and takes a lunch break, and lies on the balcony in the afternoon to bask in the sun and watch "Dream of Red Mansions".

It turns out that how wonderful it is to have a time when you are not busy!

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and this moist day came to an end in a few days.