Shiyan generally goes to work 20 minutes to half an hour early every morning, cleans the office after breakfast early, and hurriedly browses the newspaper of the previous day when he has time. The window of his office www.biquge.info facing the busy West Chang'an Avenue extension, but he rarely had time to enjoy the view, only occasionally glancing out when police cars and fire trucks passed by with a screeching voice.

Without any background to rely on, and no relationship to be proud of, it was purely by chance that Shi Yan was seconded from the grassroots army to the leading organs in Beijing to help with the work. Two months ago, Director Yang of the General Affairs Bureau went to Shi Yan's unit to conduct research and investigation, and was attracted by Shi Yan's speech at a forum; when he heard that Shi Yan was an outstanding cadet at the military academy, that he had received awards for meritorious service every year during his work in the army, and that he had also published many theoretically insightful academic articles, he made up his mind to transfer him to work in the organ.

Cadres who are ready to be transferred to organs have to go through a probationary period of half a year, and during this half a year, they can only be regarded as seconded. This period of time is an inspection of the cadres to be transferred by the organs, and it is also a demonstration of the talents of the cadres to be transferred in the organs.

In addition to Shi Yan, the people working in this office also include the old staff officer Liu Changhong, and the young staff officer Li Xia, who is about the same age as Shi Yan.

Liu Changhong is the leader of this three-person group, which is mainly responsible for coordinating the construction of combat readiness projects for the troops.

Liu Changhong has been working in the organ for more than 20 years, and now he is a deputy division with the rank of colonel, and he can be regarded as a "veteran" staff officer. The "group" in the organ is arbitrarily assembled by the leaders of each bureau or office according to the personnel and operational conditions, and the group leader is also appointed by the bureau leader on the basis of the seniority and work ability of the staff officers.

Shi Yan had great respect for Liu Changhong, because he was not only a long and old man, but also very familiar with the staff business. "You are my brother in terms of age, you are my leader in terms of position, and you are my teacher in terms of work experience." After Liu Changhong listened to Shiyan's "three longs" theory, he was really happy for a while.

Li Xia usually came to the office a little later than Shi Yan, and the young man gave the impression of being overenergetic and undernourished, and his dark and thin face was always so bright. Liu Changhong said to him: "I suggest that you find a girlfriend who does sanitation work in the future, if your girlfriend is also sloppy like you, I am worried that your small family after marriage will be buried by garbage." Li Xia is obedient to Liu Changhong at work, but he is unwilling to listen to his preaching in life, he has talked about three or four girlfriends, and no one's occupation and the word "health" can be glued.

Liu Changhong often arrives at the office a few minutes before work, and his daughter-in-law for many years has become a mother-in-law, and the preparations before work are generally done by young staff officers.

"The girl I saw last night was ideal." As soon as the three of them arrived, Li Xia's press conference began, and today's content was an evaluation of his new girlfriend, "Not to mention her fair skin, she looks beautiful." ”

Liu Changhong knows that the first condition for Li Xia to find a girlfriend is to have white skin, in his own words, it is a white to cover a hundred ugliness, a black to cover a hundred excellent, and there is no way to change the appearance that his parents gave him, and the next generation must "improve the variety". Once, he joked to Li Xia: "You are like an African friend, you can find a white-skinned girlfriend, it is either a wonderful match, or a strange combination, is the contrast between the two people too great." ”

"The 'head' of the group can't say that," Li Xia said to Liu Changhong, "That girl said, the 'white noodles' of white-faced scholars can't steam steamed buns, and the 'cream' of creamy raw can't be used as snacks. ”

"I advise you again, when talking about friends, of course, we have to see whether she is beautiful in appearance, and more importantly, whether her soul is beautiful or not."

"It should be said that first look at whether the appearance is beautiful or not, and then look at whether the soul is beautiful or not, from the surface to the inside."

"It's okay to go from the outside to the inside, but don't change people after a few days."

Shi Yan likes to watch Liu Changhong and Li Xia joke, this atmosphere reflects the harmonious relationship between comrades, he himself generally does not talk, more to laugh with them on the side.

After the prelude to work was played, several people began to work nervously like clocks full of clockwork.

Shiyan can only be regarded as a "trainee staff officer" in an organ, and his main purpose in ordinary times is to learn from the old staff officers how to deal with problems and understand the work procedures of the organ, and to give them a starting point.

The written materials presented in the group must be checked by Liu Changhong first, and Liu Changhong was looking at a situation report drafted by Li Xia, and gradually frowned.

"Li Xia," Liu Changhong swept the relaxed expression on his face when he was laughing with Li Xia just now, and said with a gloomy face: "In the future, after the materials are written, the proofreading will be too detailed, and the relationship between the wrong use of the material is not too big, and the key words cannot be wrong, the last time you typed 'disease-inducing' into 'cure', and this time you typed 'have' into 'no', the meaning is completely opposite!" ”

Li Xia's brain is flexible, his thinking is quick, and the materials are fast. However, the shortcomings of the rough hair can't be changed, he looked at Liu Changhong with a red face, only nodded, and didn't speak.

"Fix the mistake and re-hit it and show it to me." Liu Changhong unceremoniously threw the materials in his hand to Li Xia.

Liu Changhong's serious attitude in work is not only reflected in the scrutiny or carving of words, but also reflected in his coordination of some things, especially the things explained by the leaders. "As a staff officer in an agency, the most important thing is to understand the intention of the chief, and sometimes the intention of the chief is not directly told to you, it is up to you to guess and think." These words of Liu Changhong were regarded by Shiyan as the experience of the old staff officers.

Every year, the organs have to conduct training for new staff officers, and every time they do so, the leaders will ask Liu Changhong to give a lecture on "how to be a good staff officer."

In Shi Yan's mind, Liu Changhong is the embodiment of the perfect staff officer.

In the office building, there are people working overtime almost every night, and most of them are young staff officers, who have the desire to do a good job and also have the consideration of showing themselves.

Shi Yan worked overtime in the office, mainly to look at the documents and summarized materials that the group had undertaken before, so as to push himself to enter the situation as soon as possible.

Li Xia was busier than a bat at night during this time, but he didn't come to the office, he and the girlfriend he just made were dating frequently, and they were talking hotly. Some time ago, Liu Changhong asked him to hurry up the drawing up of this year's operational fund allocation plan, and he worked a lot of overtime, and Li Xia said that "we must make up for the lost time."

Liu Changhong Unless there is something important, he generally does not come to the office at night, Shiyan has met twice, Liu Changhong got off work in the afternoon, went home and took off his military uniform, changed into civilian clothes, his short and fat body was dressed like a gentleman, and he hurriedly walked out, shaking three times one step at a time, like a duck being chased, although there is no elegance at all, but the speed is not slow. I can't tell where I was nearby, but there was always a car waiting for him.

When Shi Yan looked through the historical materials of the group, he found that some of the operational funds were not allocated to the troops after drawing up the distribution plan, as he had imagined when he was at the grassroots level, but a large part of the mobile funds was reserved, and the use of these mobile funds was very unbalanced. There are some things in the agency that people really can't understand, and an incident that happened the day before yesterday also left a question in Shi Yan's heart. (To be continued.) )