A Home for Veterans Chapter 8 Reminiscences
Tan Sen didn't expect that Wang Quan was also in the office. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"You haven't eaten yet, have you?" Tamsyn asked him.
"I've eaten it." Wang Quan replied, "However, today's stomach has reduced production, and there is not much food in it, and the ears are harvested, and it is full of wife's complaints." ”
"Your wife sometimes complains that you should too, you don't look like a good husband at home, nor a good father, I thought you didn't want to help your wife with housework at home, so you went to the office to hide and relax!" Tamson opened the window, picked up a newspaper on the table, drove the smoke out of the room, and said to Wang Quan, who was buried in the pile of newspapers.
Wang Quan said: "My wife can't do enough work at home, and she still needs my help, I don't want to rob her of her job." I came to the office mainly because I couldn't live without you, it was an honor for my eyes to see your appearance, and it was the pride of my ears to hear your voice. Hi, you close the window, I'm a little cold! In the future, we will work in one room, and you can open your nostrils and smoke cigarettes that don't cost anything! To tell you the truth, I smoke a lot less now than I used to, and when I was younger, I smoked outside the house and could bring the fire trucks over; I was smoking in the house, and the flies and mosquitoes inside ran desperately out, but the flies and mosquitoes outside did not dare to go inside. ”
"I admire your talent for smoking, if you really have the ability, spit out a few smoke rings from the eye of your ass for me to see."
"I haven't learned this trick yet, but I can poison two guinea pigs with nicotine in one fart."
"Oh, it's a pity that Lin Zexu died more than a hundred years ago, and no one else can cure you." Tan Sen smiled and said, "Listen to your wife, your grandfather and your father don't smoke, why did your family's fine traditions fall away in your generation?" ”
"Learning to smoke was a by-product of my time as a soldier in the Engineering Corps. At that time, the life of the engineering regiment was so miserable that they could eat Coptis chinensis as sugar, and the food expenses of four cents and five cents a day, and the potatoes, turnips, and brown rice could only ensure that they were eighty percent full, and the soldiers were so hungry that they couldn't catch and kill an ant to eat, let alone live a life, they couldn't see the newspapers, they couldn't afford the radio, and they didn't even see the television. One movie a month, just a few films are released in turn, mainly "Tunnel War", "Mine Warfare", "Southern Expedition and Northern War", known as the 'Old Third War'. The soldiers memorized the lines from several movies. Although he worked for more than ten hours a day, he was still lonely when he couldn't sleep in bed at night, and he couldn't run outside the tent to count all the stars in the sky. Sometimes there is nothing to do at night, everyone gets together to chat and smoke, the veterans teach by word and deed, and the recruits are exposed to it, and my smoking skills are self-taught and self-taught. ”
"You can't eat enough, so the money you get to buy cigarettes?" Tamsyn asked.
"It didn't cost much to smoke cigarettes, and at that time, cadres generally smoked cigarettes for a few cents or more than a dime a pack, and most of the soldiers asked people to buy tobacco leaves and roll them to smoke by themselves. I just told you that you can't see newspapers, but in fact, each company has two newspapers, and after the newspapers came, they were torn into strips of cigarettes and smoked by the soldiers, and some soldiers were punished for tearing up content and photos and images that should not be torn. At that time, there was a saying in our team: 'The cadres smoke at both ends, and the soldiers smoke at one end', 'two-end squeeze' means that the two ends of the cigarette are the same thick, and 'one end screwed' refers to the self-rolled trumpet-shaped cigarette, and one end is tightened to prevent the tobacco leaves from scattering. ”
"It seems that there are inequalities in life everywhere."
"Of course!" Wang Quan said, "Just like the affordable housing for retired military cadres, although there are standards in principle, due to different practices in the process of operation, in terms of funds, some levels of cadres make up more, and some levels of cadres make up less; In terms of quality, some units are better built, while others are poorer. When the two are compared, it is easy to generate opinions. Some retired cadres have kept calling me home after knowing that I have been hired back to the preparatory office, some of them have given their opinions, some have made suggestions, and some have asked how big the house will be, how much it will cost, and when they will be able to move in. ”
Tan Sen sympathized with what Wang Quan said, and said to him: "I also received many calls from old comrades to my home, and I also asked very detailed questions, because I talked to them for too long, and once my wife was so angry that she almost dropped the pen in her hand next to me, so I asked them to call all the phones to the office in the future." The mood of retired cadres can be understood, because military cadres have worked in the army all their lives, and the main tangible asset after retirement is a house of their own, and of course they are very concerned. Sometimes think about it, the old cadres are very worthy of sympathy, when they are in power, some of them call for wind and rain, command thousands of troops, some of them work hard, work hard all their lives, and a paper of order will fall from the peak of their careers to be idle at home, and their hearts will be a little unbalanced. When you are in office, you are afraid that others will manage too much, and after retirement, you are afraid that others will manage too little, which is the psychology of some people. Some people say that retired cadres have big bags under their eyes and small bags for money; Less hair, more beard; The income is low, the blood pressure is high; Can't sleep at night, doze off during the day; I can't remember the things of the present, and I can't forget the things of the past; There are fewer and fewer teeth in the mouth, more and more nonsense, and there are fewer and fewer things in the eyes that are pleasing to the eye, and there are more and more places that are not used to seeing. There are some elements of looking down on the elderly in these words, no one can resist the laws of nature, no matter how young a child is, there will be a day when he grows up and gets old, and goes home to rest, unless he dies halfway, and looks down on today's old people, that is, he looks down on tomorrow's self. ”
"You're right, I told my wife and son that whenever someone calls me home, I must answer enthusiastically and not show impatience."
"Recently, I didn't ask you, how is your son Wang Nianjun now?" Tamson asked Wang Quan with concern.
"Hey, don't mention it, our family sowed a grain of rice and grew a weed, and I had a big fight with him before I came to the office just now."
"Lao Wang, to be honest, you are responsible for some problems that have occurred in Nian Jun. When he was in elementary school, our two families were neighbors, and at that time I found out that your child's education method was wrong, as long as his test score was not good, you didn't ask the reason for it. I don't know if you remember, I joked with you that if your wife looked at your son's ass and bought you gloves, it must be the right size, because your son's ass has never broken your slap print. ”
Wang Quan smiled embarrassedly.
Sen Sen continued: "Nian Jun lived with your wife in his hometown when he was a child, and he didn't establish a relationship with you, and after they joined the army, you paid too much attention to his naughty and disobedient side, and used the standards of a warrior to demand a child, so he was always dissatisfied with him, and even when he reprimanded him, he was required to stand upright like a soldier, listen respectfully, and not let him speak, the more he explained, the more he was beaten." You do, right? ”
Wang Quan nodded and said, "That's the case, I don't want to play the piano to the cow, and I don't want the cow to 'moo' in front of me." Some of what you said makes sense, some of it is not entirely true, I don't put much effort into my son's education and growth, but I don't have much hope for him. ”
"No, it is precisely because you are too demanding of him, and he is not up to your requirements, that you use force against him as a punishment. Some people have high requirements for children, and do not want to work hard to enter the inner world of children to communicate with them, and the problems existing in children are not prescribed according to the situation and taught according to the person, but are not targeted and simply engaged, resulting in the formation of antagonistic emotions between children and parents, resulting in rebellious psychology. ”
"I really envy you for raising a good daughter, girls are more obedient, boys are different, naughty, troublesome, and always want to do it against you, I'm really afraid that he will live with me when he gets married in the future, and always wants him to move out of the house early."
"The children you kicked out of the house when you were strong, it is difficult for you to invite them back to the house when you are weak and sick, and feelings are the same as planting crops and doing business, spending capital and being willing to invest will be rewarded."
Wang Quan said with a smile: "Lao Tan, you are really good, we have worked together for so many years, and I feel more and more that you are more suitable to be a political officer than an administrative staff officer." ”
Tamson said: "I don't know if you praise me for my talent as an officer, or criticize me for being incompetent as a staff officer." But then again, it is indeed not easy for young people nowadays, the pressure of employment, the competition in their careers, sometimes they are overwhelmed, unlike when we were young, everyone drank porridge around the cauldron together, and there was not too much burden on the mind. ”
"It's really not easy for young people nowadays, in order to compete for 'clothes without covering their bodies', and in order to lose weight, they don't have to eat their stomachs."
"You guy, I've been talking for a long time, but my mind still doesn't work. I think you should still have a good talk with your son, communicate more, communicate more, and know what he thinks in his heart. ”
"What is there to talk about, as I said earlier, I don't want to play the piano to the cow, and I don't want to hear the cow bark."
Tamson shook his head helplessly.
At this time, the typist knocked on the door and walked in, handed a few pages to Tan Sen and said, "Staff Officer Tan, the materials are typed, you can proofread them!" ”
After the typist left the room, Tan Sen then said to Wang Quan: "I don't have time to talk to you today, Director Ren said that this outline will be used when he attends the ministerial meeting tomorrow, and I have to hurry up and proofread it again." ”
Wang Quan stood up and said: "You are busy with work, I have gone home, I came to the office today, I didn't read a few newspapers, but I listened to a vivid political lesson!" ”
Tamson blushed: "I dare to give you a political lesson?" Isn't that a 'son to teach Sanniang'! ”