Feng Changping, who has been retired for many years, and his son and daughter have lived alone outside after they got married. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The old couple sometimes go out to buy vegetables, visit the mall, and walk in the garden of the building. A pair of children with their children home home on the weekend, is their festival, looking at the lively grandson, granddaughter, the old couple is busy every time the back and legs ache, like to smile.

Feng Changping had breakfast and read the newspaper for a while, and then habitually went for a walk outdoors with his wife Fang Jie.

After retiring, a considerable number of the military cadres in Beijing who had previously held posts below the division level found another job, that is, to enrich their life in their later years and increase their economic income. Except for a few people, the vast majority of those who held positions at or above the military level did not do any other work, and the main content of their retirement life was either to take their grandchildren and accompany their wives, or to practice calligraphy and learn to paint. After Feng Changping retired, he first took Fang Jie to browse several places of interest in China and visited several relatives and friends in other places. Later, because Fang Jie's legs and feet were inconvenient, he couldn't go far away, so he became an "otaku" who accompanied his wife.

The small garden of the building room is green and red in the bright sun, the magpies are chirping among the branches, and the sparrows are foraging in the grass.

Fang Jie is a retired doctor in the military hospital, because of the leg and foot are not good, the walking stride is very small, the speed is very slow, Feng Changping pointed to the magpie and the sparrow, said to his wife: "Although Beijing has built a big bird's nest, but it is not their home, they don't know where the nest is, where the food is, every day is still so optimistic singing and dancing, the bird's attitude to life is really worthy of praise." ”

Fang Jie listened to Feng Changping's words, and said with a smile: "You don't know the language of birds, how do you know that they are singing and dancing to live, maybe they are crying and complaining, jumping and complaining, saying that people have destroyed their living environment." ”

"What you said is reasonable, don't say that people and birds don't understand each other, people sometimes don't understand each other, for example, sometimes, retired cadres feel ridiculous when they see in-service cadres, and they are busy every day, and they can't stop talking about official words and clichés; The incumbent cadres feel very pitiful when they see the retired cadres, who have nothing to do every day and talk endless nonsense and gossip. ”

"You're not entirely right." Fang Jie refuted Feng Changping and said, "Nothing can be generalized, it is not uncommon for new and old cadres to respect each other, Qiao Xinan has more respect for retired cadres, he said, young people are flowers, old people are fruits, flowers are delicate, we must take care of them, fruits are precious, we must harvest carefully, there are no seedlings, there are no seedlings, and there are no seedlings." Your good friend Bao Qingyan doesn't respect the in-service cadres very much, always finds fault with them, and likes to say, 'When Lao Tzu became a soldier and wore a cadre uniform with four jackets and pockets, you still wore open crotch pants!' ’------”

Feng Changping stopped Fang Jie and said, "Don't stop talking, say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive, look, Lao Bao is here!" ”

Bao Qingyan, the head of the management department, sat in a wheelchair pushed by a little girl, followed by his wife Lao Guan, who walked over from the side of the winding path.

"Brother Bao, I haven't seen you for some days, and you're still dying, I thought you went to report to Marx!" Feng Changping is a few years younger than Bao Qingyan, the two are decades of old friends, they don't joke or talk when they meet, he shouts to Bao Qingyan when he is far away, "When you should go, you can leave with confidence, we will inherit your legacy and carry the revolution to the end!" ”

Fang Jie pulled Feng Changping's sleeve in disgust and said, "Why do you say unlucky things as soon as you meet Minister Bao!" ”

Feng Changping smiled and said: "We are all thorough materialists, we don't care about what is auspicious or unlucky, we can say whatever we want." ”

Bao Qingyan's face is wrinkled, like the annual rings on the stump, recording the Cangsang that he has experienced in his long life for more than 70 years. He has not been in good health in recent years, and every year he is like a migratory bird, and he has to live in the south for a few months in the cold season, and then return to Beijing when the weather is warm.

Because of his tall stature, Bao Qingyan sat in a wheelchair with his legs and waist straight, and when the wheelchair was pushed to Feng Changping, he leaned over and said to Feng Changping: "Don't think that your body is slightly better than me and you are arrogant, you used to play chess and poker and you always beat me, and now I want to compare with you to see who lives longer." ”

Feng Changping stepped forward and took Bao Qingyan's hand enthusiastically, jokingly: "The thousand-year-old king of the 80,000-year-old turtle, it is estimated that you will live longer than me." ”

Bao Qingyan also said with a smile: "It is impossible to live for thousands of years, and it is not a big problem to deal with it for another three or five years." You used to always say that I was a 'three highs', tall, high-salary, and high-cadre, but now I am also a 'three-high', high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and high cholesterol. ”

Fang Jie and Lao Guan said hello, and the two of them chatted about housework on the side.

Feng Changping asked Bao Qingyan: "When your old man was in office, he had a lot of fish and meat every day, smoking and drinking, the 'three highs' still have a source of affection, and now there should be no more 'three highs', someone said that if you want to reduce the 'three highs', the retirement order is more effective than taking medicine, have you not given up the dietary principle of 'dogs can't change ****, people can't change eating meat'?" ”

"No, no, I'm a 'vegetarian' now, and Tang Seng won't even look at it in front of me."

"If there is really Tang monk meat, you should still eat it, you can live forever!"

"Now you can't eat any meat casually, and Tang Seng meat doesn't have clenbuterol in it."

"I'm not like you, I've never had a 'three highs', I have a 'fear of heights'!" Feng Changping said.

"You do have a 'fear of heights', otherwise, when the organization is ready to mention you as a minister to talk to you, you say, I am good to be a deputy minister, and I am afraid that I will not do well if I mention the minister, so let a more suitable person do it!" Bao Qingyan said to Feng Changping, "What you said at that time may be the true thoughts in your heart, but from the current perspective, you are a fool." ”

Feng Changping and Bao Qingyan were still joking there, Fang Jie pointed to the little girl pushing the wheelchair and asked Lao Guan: "This girl is new, isn't the original nanny in your family gone?" ”

"Yes, the original nanny went back to her hometown to get married, this is Xiaocui who just came, she is only eighteen years old this year, she graduated from high school last year and did not take the university entrance examination, so she came out to work. Hey, by the way, she's still your fellow Feng of your family! ”

Bao Qingyan beckoned for Feng Changping to lean down, and then whispered in his ear: "I want you something, you know that I have a nephew who works in the research institute, I heard him say that they spent 10 or 20 million yuan to build a life service center, and wanted to introduce property to operate in it, but several property companies were reluctant to enter, they were afraid that there would be few customers in the army barracks and that business would not be easy to do." In the end, the institute negotiated a property company to subsidize hundreds of thousands of yuan every year, isn't this a waste of money! ”

Feng Changping straightened his waist and said with a smile: "You old Bao, how many times have I told you, if you are not in your position, you are not in your government, you have food and drink now, what are you doing with so many idle things?" ”

Bao Qingyan blushed, smiled embarrassedly and said: "You know the problem of my person, and I feel uncomfortable when I see unreasonable things and don't say it." When we were in office, we broke a penny in half and spent it, but now some leaders in power use two cents into one penny, even though they spend the country's money, which also makes people feel distressed. I heard that when the center was inaugurated, Qiao Xin'an also went, you are his old leader, let him pay attention to listen to the feedback of the masses. ”

"Qiao Xin'an came to my house the day before yesterday and talked about it, although he attended the inauguration ceremony of the life service center and also spoke, but he still has different opinions on the construction of this project." Feng Changping said to Bao Qingyan, "I used to tell Qiao Xin'an that the use of funds should be carefully calculated and used in practice, and he has always attached great importance to my words. Now that he is the deputy minister, if he hadn't taken the initiative to come to me, I wouldn't have given him too many suggestions, so as not to affect his normal work. You should know that when you are in office, you will say the same thing several times, which is called 'repeated emphasis', and after retirement, you will say the same thing several times, which is called 'nagging'. ”

"You are more cultured than me, I can't hold a hot fart in my eyes, I have something to say in my stomach to be happy, if you don't finish what you want to say, the coffin lid must be nailed and it must be opened."

"Master a principle, say what should be said, say less or not say what should not be said. Qiao Xinan also told me the day before yesterday that he was very envious of the retired old cadres, who had no heart, no quarrel with the world, and his wife spent a leisurely life and enjoyed the sunset together, which was the day of the gods. ”

What he said makes sense, but the sunset is infinitely better, and it is inevitable that it will hang early. Although retirement life is leisurely, there are several leading cadres who are willing to retire early or on time, and they all want to work for a few more years. ”

Lao Guan saw that Feng Changping and Bao Qingyan were talking lively, and interjected to Feng Changping on the side: "Minister Feng will enlighten our old Bao in the future, pay more attention to your own body, and ask less about other people's gossip." ”

Feng Changping said: "Lao Bao doesn't need me to enlighten, he is an idle person, if you arrange more tasks for him, he will have no time to care about other people's affairs." ”

Lao Guan glanced at Bao Qingyan and said, "I want to arrange something for him to do at home, but he is impatient." Last time, when the eldest son came back from abroad with his youngest grandson, I asked him to put his grandson to sleep, but the grandson did not fall asleep, but he snored; Let him peel apples and feed them to his grandson, whose stomach is empty and his stomach is filled with ------"

Bao Qing embarrassedly stopped Lao Guan and said: "Don't say that mine is not in front of others, my little grandson is too playful, he doesn't sleep well, and he doesn't eat well." ”

"I'm not saying that yours are not, but I'm reminding you to be patient in the future." Lao Guan did not treat Feng Changping and his wife as outsiders, and continued to expose Bao Qingyan's shortcomings, "In the first few days when our little grandson came back, he was still a little patient, and he was very affectionate with the child, and he was a little annoyed after a few days, do you know what he said to his little grandson?" 'Is there something wrong with your prostate?' ''Your child is restless, is menopause early?'' ''What are you doing with your kid stripping off your clothes so naked, you want to be a star!'' "You kid is either eating or drinking, drinking or playing, and you're almost like a corrupt cadre!" 'Listen, is this what a grandfather should say to a three-year-old------

Lao Guan's words made Feng Changping and Fang Jie laugh.

Bao Qingyan blushed, glared at Lao Guan, and said to Xiao Cui: "It's time for me to take medicine, let's go home and let the old woman talk nonsense here alone." ”