Veterans Come Home (7)

"Let's go back this time, you should call the leaders you know in your hometown military sub-district, and after getting off the train for a short stay, ask them to arrange a car to send us back to our hometown, it's too inconvenient to take a bus to your house. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Xu Ping said to Zheng Liangyu.

Zheng Liangyu said: "No, I won't tell anyone when I go back this time, especially I can't use the public car to do private things, so as not to cause problems and trouble for others." We got off the train and reversed the bus, got off the bus and walked another kilometer, or let my brother's children pick us up at the bus station, and go directly to our hometown. ”

"I agree not to make trouble for other leaders, but the two of us haven't gone home together for several years, so we always have to stop in the city for two days to have a look, and we always have to meet your relatives and friends!" Xu Ping expressed a different opinion.

Zheng Liangyu thought for a while and said, "Then let Chang Hao help us contact a military guest house in advance, and quietly stay in the city for a few days before returning to his hometown." ”

"You still don't want to meet Fan Shucai when you go back this time?"

"Don't meet! I heard others say that he was very angry after becoming a leading cadre, and I didn't want to meet him when I was in office, and I was too lazy to look at his villainous appearance, and I wouldn't meet him even after I retired. ”

"I don't quite understand," Xu Ping said, "You two haven't been working in the same company for a long time, how can you have such a big knot in your relationship?" ”

Zheng Liangyu said: "I have already told you several times that the unhappiness between the two of us in the company was not caused by the conflict between individuals. Fan Shucai's ex-wife visited relatives in the company, and as the deputy company commander, he seriously encroached on the interests of the soldiers. I am the instructor and secretary of the party branch of the company, and it is right to convene a branch committee to criticize his behavior, and it is also right to report his situation to the superior leaders. ”

"Well, I didn't mean you were going to see him at this time. Truth be told, the 'principledness' you've adhered to over the years has won some people and offended some. Xu Ping said.

"The 'some people' you are talking about and the 'others' sometimes have different weights. For example, in the unpleasant time I had with Fan Shucai in the company, on the one hand, a certain leader of the company, on the other hand, the soldiers of the whole company, on the one hand, adhered to principles, and on the other hand, violated discipline. It is said that several cadres of our company have always been very united, and I am the secretary of the party branch, and I first require myself to treat others with the spring breeze and treat myself with the autumn breeze. I feel that everyone is an independent individual, and as long as they do not violate discipline and morality, they can live as they wish. However, once you violate discipline and ethics, you must accept disciplinary action and moral condemnation. The leaders of a unit cannot turn a blind eye to the undesirable phenomena of the people around them, nor can they turn a blind eye to them. ”

"Your words are like an instructor giving a party lesson to a fighter." Xu Ping said.

Zheng Liangyu smiled embarrassedly and said: "I won't mention the past anymore, I just want to remind you that since we are not officials now, we must get used to being an ordinary person. I thought about it, let's go back this time, stay in the city for two days, see relatives and friends, hurry home, live at home for a while, listen to the chickens and dogs in the countryside, eat coarse tea and light rice in my hometown, and reminisce with my childhood friends, which is my yearning for many years. Sometimes I still really miss them, go down to the river to fish, go up to the tree to catch birds, how interesting things were when I was a child! Zheng Liangyu sat on the sofa, looking out the window, immersed in the reverie of reminiscing about the past.

Xu Ping was also infected by him, and said yearningly: "I am a child who grew up in the city, and I don't have much affection for the countryside, but since I married you and followed you back to my hometown several times, I have a little more understanding of the countryside and farmers, so that when I later met the migrant workers who went to the city to work, I felt a little kind, they are our food and clothing parents." ”

Zheng Liangyu said: "No wonder you often wear old clothes for farmers and renovation workers who go to the city to collect waste. ”

"I don't think it's easy for them to make money."

"Why are you so serious about bargaining with the vendors in the free market? Many of them also came from the countryside. ”

"I think it's too easy for these people to make money, they have been in the city for many years, and their lives are more comfortable than some people in the city, and now they don't belong to the category of 'farmers'." Xu Ping said.

Zheng Liangyu laughed: "You really have a clear class front!" ”

In order to return to her hometown this time, Xu Ping made full preparations.

She first bought seven or eight clothes at the nearby free market, and the elderly, children, and close relatives thought of it. Later, he bought a large bag of food at a nearby supermarket, saying that he was returning to his hometown to honor the elderly and coax children.

"At first glance, it looks like you're going home and want to open a commissary!" Zheng Liangyu joked with Xu Ping, "My brother told me on the phone that everything in the family is generally sold. In fact, you just need to bring more money when you go home, and there is no need to carry a large bag to the house. ”

Xu Ping said to Zheng Liangyu: "You don't understand this, others accept the things you brought back from Beijing and the things you bought in your hometown are two moods, and some people send goose feathers thousands of miles because the courtesy is light and affectionate." Giving gifts and affection together can make people feel extra happy. I'll go to the bank to get some money later, and I'll go to Xidan Mall tomorrow. ”

"What? You haven't bought all the things you want to buy yet! Zheng Liangyu asked Xu Ping in surprise.

"I want to pick another gift for Chang Hao's girlfriend."

"What a caring person, I support this matter!" Zheng Liangyu happily praised Xu Ping and said. "Women always think more carefully than men in a lot of things, but I don't think it's just a matter of character."

"I don't agree with what you say, sometimes, gender determines behavior, men look at problems with their eyes, and women look at problems with their hearts." Xu Ping said.

Zheng Liangyu nodded, smiled and said to Xu Ping, "Maybe what you said is more reasonable." You have more experience than me in living at home, and I will help you if there is anything at home in the future. ”

"What will you do?"

"I can't go to school, I can learn to do housework. I believe someone once said: There is no man in the world who does not know how to do housework, only men who are not willing to do housework. (To be continued.) )