The gallium should be knocked on the center, and the work should be done on the idea.

- De'ang proverb

A year has passed.

Niu Mulin has been an intern reporter for a year, carried a camera box for a year, played a news iodine-tungsten lamp for a year, carried a video backpack machine for a year, and secretly filmed news for a year.

Lu Guangming, a veteran reporter of the Ministry of Information, and Jia Like, Sun Jianhua's lover, have both been his masters. When he went out for an interview, they taught him how to interview and how to shoot.

"I can finally be a full-fledged journalist. In the future, viewers will be able to see my name on TV. Niu Mulin's heart couldn't be happier.

One day, Xu Tao, director of the Information Department, summoned Niu Mulin, Parzati and Kerim to his office. His face was gloomy, his tone was slow, and he said helplessly: "Now the city is transferring personnel from various units to enrich the public procuratorate and law. ”

Niu Mulin felt that what Director Xu said had nothing to do with him. Television stations lack regular college graduates, and the task of enriching the public security and law certainly does not fall on them.

Xu Tao continued to say slowly: "The station has decided that the three of you will go to ......."

Niu Mulin, Parzati and Kerim were stunned for a moment, so that they never heard a word of what Xu Tao said later.

After a while, Niu Mulin asked Xu Tao dissatisfiedly: "Director Xu, how many of them are regular college students in Taiwan?" Several reporters can't even write press releases, so do they still have to send college students to enrich the public security procuratorate? ”

Xu Tao still said slowly: "This is the decision of Deputy Director Wang. If you have any questions, you can ask him yourself. ”

Niu Mulin and the others angrily walked out of Xu Tao's office, came to a remote corner, and loudly scolded Li Lingzhi's stunned TV station and Wang Luming, the deputy director of the station.

They heard that when the TV station was established two years ago, some people with various social backgrounds and connections took advantage of the situation and occupied jobs that should be high-skilled talents. These people do not do their work well, nor do they obey the management of the leader, and no one dares to touch a single hair of them.

Parzati reminded Niu Mulin: "Aren't you on good terms with Li Na?" Her dad is the big leader. You ask her to reflect it to her dad. ”

Niu Mulin shook his head resolutely and said, "I've already troubled her once, and I haven't had time to thank her yet." It's really unreasonable to trouble her now. Besides, the TV station is so ruthless and unjust, and we don't need to work hard for it anymore. I decided to go to the Public Prosecutor's Office. What about you? ”

Parzati and Krimu replied in unison: "I will go too." ”

However, after a long time, there was no follow-up to the matter.

One day, Krimu quietly told Niu Mulin and Parzati: "The director of personnel is a friend of my father. They said that the TV station was in urgent need of talents with a college degree, but why did it instead enrich the people with academic qualifications to other units? They have already seriously criticized the leadership of the television station. We don't have to go to the public prosecutor's office. ”

Niu Mulin pursed his lips contemptuously and said angrily: "I'm already dead set on this TV station!" ”

One day, Deputy Director Wang Luming called Niu Mulin to his office alone.

Wang Luming used to be the deputy director of the news department of the radio station, and he was transferred to the television station during the period when the television station was in chaos. He was not tall, wore a pair of short-sighted glasses, and looked like a man of culture, walking with his body swaying from side to side, and from time to time a few pornographic jokes came out of his mouth, often making the women around him laugh both shy and happy.

Although he is not good-looking and informal, his mind is very flexible, and he is especially good at learning and using fresh words in the newspaper, and he admires him very much when he talks about some people who usually do not read books or newspapers. However, the decent staff of the television station privately listed him as one of the four hooligans of the press.

Wang Luming lit a cigarette, took a greedy puff, spit out a long string of white smoke rings into the air, and then showed a wicked smile.

Niu Mulin watched his performance coldly.

Wang Luming said to Niu Mulin solemnly: "The Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee gave us two establishments and 150,000 yuan, and we need to open a column of "Song of the Pioneers" for them. I would now like to formally inform you that you will be in charge of this column in the future. You're the one in the organization department. ”

Niu Mulin was very dissatisfied with his lack of consultation in advance, and blurted out: "I'm not a member of the Organization Department. At that time, the university asked me to work in the organization department, but I didn't stay because I wanted to be a journalist. ”

Wang Luming's face immediately became gloomy. He rolled his eyes like dead fish eyes, stared at Niu Mulin through the thick glass lens, and said angrily: "At a young age, you can do whatever the fuck you want?" Must obey the leader's arrangement. You still work for the TV station, and your salary continues to be paid by the TV station. ”

Niu Mulin stopped refuting him, and walked out of Wang Luming's office sullenly.

At that time, the party was only in charge of party affairs, and the top administrative leaders of the administration, enterprises, and institutions were fully responsible, which actually weakened the party's leadership. Whoever engages in party affairs will be regarded by others as not doing his job properly.

Of course, Niu Mulin knew in his heart that the reason why Wang Luming put himself in charge of this column was because the old writers and directors of the TV station disdained to put down their bodies to make a political column, and there was no suitable candidate among young people who could independently write and direct feature films.

Although he was a little dissatisfied with this arrangement, Niu Mulin said he would do it. He found a technician to make the opening of the "Song of the Pioneer" column, went to the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee to get the shooting materials, and then asked a cameraman to go out to shoot together, and then asked Li Na to wait for the program to edit and produce, and it was broadcast on TV in the last week of the month.

Under the political climate at that time, Wang Luming, as the deputy director in charge of propaganda, did not pay attention to the "Song of the Pioneers" column at all, and never cared about or asked a word.

Niu Mulin and this column are like two inconspicuous grasses, growing lonely and lonely in the corner where the TV station is not paid attention to.

One Sunday morning, Niu Mulin went shopping at the nearby Red Hill Mall. As he walked through the bustling streets, he suddenly heard a high-pitched and desolate singing in his ears:

"I am a wolf from the north,

Walking in the endless wilderness......"

There is brave rebellion in the song, but also infinite pain, as well as a lot of helplessness and melancholy, which is a cry and struggle for the confused youth, the chaotic status quo and the sad fate.

Niu Mulin immediately liked this song. He followed the direction of the singing and found a small stall selling cassette tapes.

He eagerly asked the stall owner, "What song is this?" Who sang it? ”

The stall owner replied, "Wolf." Qi Qin sang. ”

Niu Mulin asked, "How much?" I'm going to buy a box. ”

The stall owner introduced: "There are two boxes, "Wolf I" and "Wolf II". ”

Niu Mulin said without hesitation: "I want it." ”

He picked up two cassette tapes and looked at Qi Qin, who had long hair and a grim expression on the cover, and realized that he didn't have a tape recorder yet. At that time, the price of a simplest brick tape recorder was a month's salary for a person. However, in order to facilitate the work and study of announcers, the TV station equipped each announcer with a brick-type tape recorder.

Niu Mulin hurried back to the TV station, borrowed a tape recorder from Azguli, and stayed in the dormitory to listen to Qi Qin's songs repeatedly. He felt that Qi Qin's songs sang about his inner world and his feelings at this moment, and sang all the ups and downs of life.

In August of the following year, the general secretary came to Urumqi to inspect the work. He listened to a report by the secretary of the municipal party committee on the main work of the municipal party committee.

The secretary of the municipal party committee reported 10 tasks in a short 10-minute time, one of which was the "Song of the Pioneer" column that Niu Mulin was in charge of.

The launch of the "Song of the Pioneers" column was affirmed and praised by the general secretary.

The TV reporters who interviewed at the scene recorded the entire dialogue between the general secretary and the secretary of the municipal party committee.

The leader of the TV station watched this video, and then he realized that the "Song of the Pioneer" column, which he usually doesn't care about, is so important! actually reported directly to the general secretary!

Wang Luming burned the fire and sent someone to talk to Niu Mulin. He told Niu Mulin with his eyebrows: "The general secretary knows our "Song of the Pioneer" column! You are the pride of our TV station! It is an example for our journalists to follow! ”

Niu Mulin, who had long been accustomed to being neglected and ignored by others, suddenly received such enthusiastic praise from Wang Luming, and felt very uncomfortable for a while. He looked at Wang Luming's rapidly trembling lips with a blank sneer, not knowing whether to thank him or hate him.

Since then, Niu Mulin has become a golden phoenix like a family sparrow, the object of praise at the TV station leadership conference, and a role model and benchmark for inspiring other reporters.

Niu Mulin was not shocked, and continued to do his own show with his heart.

There is a female milkman in Urumqi, because of her unsung dedication for more than 10 years, she has made extraordinary achievements in an ordinary position and has been rated as a national model worker. On a cold morning, she was hit by a car on her way to deliver milk and broke her thigh bone and was taken to the hospital.

Leaders at all levels and citizens of all ethnic groups went to the hospital to visit and express their condolences to the female model worker.

After Niu Mulin received the task of filming this subject arranged by the Organization Department, he decided to break the fixed mode of publicizing advanced models in the past, and used the method of recalling female model workers to deliver milk and citizens caring for injured female model workers, telling the story of mutual care between female model workers and citizens.

After his well-directed feature film "Love Condenses Here" was broadcast on TV, it aroused strong repercussions in society. This feature film has won many awards such as the first prize of the National City TV News Special Award.

Niu Mulin became a hot feature film director on TV station.

On the one hand, Niu Mulin has worked hard in his career and has made many gains, and on the other hand, he has also gained in his personal life. Some enthusiastic people on the TV station, especially his master Jia Like, saw that his life was relatively difficult and spent a lot of energy for his marriage. Often, after completing the news interview, Jia Like will propose: "Let's go find a partner for the calf!" ”

During the Spring Festival of 1991, Niu Mulin married a Hui girl whose ancestral home was West Street in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. At the end of the year, they had a son of their own. Niu Mulin named his son Niu Yingjie, and his name was Suleiman.

Niu Wanshan and Gong Lamei came to Urumqi from the 181st Regiment in Altay to take care of Niu Mulin's children.

Soon, Niu Jianjiang and Niu Jianmeng also came to Urumqi one after another, found a job, and began to work hard in the city's enterprises.

In the summer of this year, Niu Mulin and a film crew were stationed in 60 townships in the northern suburbs to shoot a feature film reflecting the leadership of the United Village Party branch to make the peasants rich. They work under the scorching sun during the day and endure mosquito bites at night.

When it was time to eat at noon, the lover of the party branch secretary brought a plate of fried mutton slices with green peppers and placed them in front of Niu Mulin.

Niu Mulin knew that all the villagers in this village were Han Chinese, and he had long been prepared to overcome food difficulties. What he didn't expect, the villagers had already made thoughtful arrangements for him.

Niu Mulin raised his head and asked curiously, "Eldest sister, how do you know that I love mutton?" ”

The lover of the party branch secretary replied with a smile: "I touched the situation in advance. This is what I rode my bicycle to the Muslim beef and mutton shop in Miquan County in the morning to buy it. You can eat with confidence. ”

Niu Mulin said gratefully: "It's really troublesome for you." You don't have to buy it tomorrow. I can eat so many vegetables. ”

The sincerity and simplicity of the villagers deeply touched Niu Mulin's heart. They filmed with heart and carefully produced, and completed a high-quality documentary "Rural Leader", which won the first prize in the Xinjiang documentary competition.

One day, Niu Mulin was writing a manuscript in the office of the special topic department.

Two strangers came to the office. Together with Director Zhang of the Special Feature Department, they discussed the plan for filming a large-scale feature film reflecting the reform and opening up.

A middle-aged man with glasses hesitated to read: "The opening sentence of the feature film is, this is not Paris, nor London or Tokyo, this is Urumqi." ”

Niu Mulin interjected without thinking: "This sentence is not very good. Paris, London, and Tokyo are foreign capitals. If you shoot Beijing, you can compare it with them. Urumqi is only a provincial capital, and comparing it with them is not only asymmetrical, but also incomparable, but it makes the audience feel very fake. ”

A middle-aged man in a tunic with a Chinese face opened his round eyes and stared at Niu Mulin for a few seconds, and then asked, "This young man is right." Tell me, what is the right beginning? ”

Zhang Bian introduced to them: "This is Niu Mulin, the backbone of our special department. Maverick, this is Sun Limin, the director of the Information Division of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee. ”

Niu Mulin only had the passion for creation at this time, and did not know how to be afraid of the information director in front of him, so he said in a chapter: "This used to be a post station on the Silk Road, and this was once a pasture with abundant water and grass. Nowadays, in the tide of reform and opening up, it has become a blazing land. ”

A satisfied smile appeared on Sun Limin's face. He said categorically, "Okay." Let's start with this passage from the calf. ”

Once, Niu Mulin went to the municipal party committee to ask the leaders to review the TV film.

After watching the film, a leader asked with a serious face: "Xiaoniu, is your director Wang Tai having a floating work style and an undecent life style?" ”

Niu Mulin replied: "It's not decent, it's just informal." ”

The minister asked, "I heard that he openly ate the dishes of other female workers in the canteen?" ”

Niu Mulin felt that the leader was making a bit of a fuss, and said disapprovingly: "What kind of big deal is this?" ”

Another person continued: "I dare to eat the food on other people's plates during the day, but I can't guarantee that I won't go to other people's homes at night." ”

Niu Mulin looked at them with a confused expression, not knowing what to say.

Soon after, Wang Luming was really dismissed from his post as deputy director of the city party committee because he made a series of serious mistakes.

Niu Mulin and some upright employees of the TV station were both happy and very sorry in their hearts, although the righteousness finally overpowered the evil spirit, but, after all, he was a dignified deputy director, how could he say that he would take it out at once?

At a meeting of cadres of the municipal party committee announcing the appointment of the new leading body of the television station, Niu Mulin was surprised to find that the deputy director in charge of news and propaganda who succeeded Wang Luming was Sun Limin, the former director of the information department.

Sun Limin is an upright person, jealous and hateful. At the beginning of his tenure, he drastically rectified the unhealthy tendencies of "mediocrity, laziness, laxity, and procrastination" and the style of "ruffians" and "travelogues" of television stations, and was determined to thoroughly eliminate the bad influence caused by Wang Luming in society and within the unit.

One day, Sun Limin came to the special department to review the special program created by Niu Mulin.

He suddenly found that Sun Limin's face was solemn and thoughtful, so he asked with concern: "Director Sun, you don't look energetic, are you sick?" ”

Sun Limin let out a long sigh and said aggrievedly: "Alas, I didn't expect the work of the TV station to be so difficult to do!" In total, there are only about 100 employees, but more than 30 employees jointly wrote a letter to the municipal party committee, asking that Wang Luming continue to work in the TV station. He made so many and such serious mistakes, and a third of the employees supported him! I was speechless! ”

Only then did Niu Mulin understand the reason why Sun Limin was in a bad mood. He said in a resolute tone: "Director Sun, it is absolutely impossible for so many employees to participate in writing the letter. There are only a few people who have a close relationship with Wang Luming on the TV station, how can there be more than 30 people? Tell me, who are the people who wrote the letter? ”

Sun Limin hesitated for a moment and said, "Li Na, Ma Xiaosha, Mao Huimin, ......"

Niu Mulin interrupted Sun Limin's speech emotionally: "Li Na, Ma Xiaosha, and Mao Huimin are all diligent and diligent business backbones, and they are very decent people, and they never participate in the activities of forming gangs. They usually feel disgust for Wang Luming's actions, and hope that the atmosphere of the unit will improve as soon as possible, how can they still write a letter to the municipal party committee to retain him? ”

Sun Limin listened to Niu Mulin's words, felt that his eyes lit up, and he saw the justice and hope of the TV station. He asked seriously, "Maverick, are you sure?" ”

Niu Mulin replied categorically: "Don't worry, I dare to play 100% of the package tickets." ”

Sun Limin said decisively: "That's good." With a good mass base, it is easy for the TV station to do anything. I was able to devote myself to journalism and publicity. ”