Veterans Come Home (3)

Zheng Liangyu was busy talking on the phone all day, telling friends and relatives that he had retired. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Xu Ping teased him on the side and said: "Retirement is not promotion, why are you making so many calls like a good news!" ”

"Let them know that I'm retired, so they don't have to call me in the office and cause trouble for the new director. At the same time, I also say hello to people who want to do things with me, some things in the future, mainly official business, don't look for me anymore, some private things need to be done, you can call home phone or my mobile phone. This is tantamount to giving a notice to others, and it is also a relief to yourself. Zheng Liangyu said seriously.

"When you retire, we will probably have a lot fewer guests and phone calls in the future." Xu Ping said a little stunned.

"It's normal." Zheng Liangyu comforted Xu Ping and said, "It turns out that some people come to me or call me, most of them are because of work, I don't work anymore, and of course some things are less." But I don't think the relationship between true friends will be interrupted by my retirement. ”

"Do you think you'll have so many friends in the future?"

"Yes! When I was working, I had a lot of people with whom I was employed, but some people could not be called friends, and they interacted with me, except for business relationships, and some people only came to me to do things because they saw that I had status and power. A person, only after you lose power or abdicate, can still maintain normal contact with you can be counted as a friend, and the friendship between friends is not a flash in the pan, but evergreen. As I get older and change my position, some people I used to keep in touch with may not be in touch anymore, but I'm comfortable with this phenomenon because I understand that I've not lost some friends, but who my friends are. ”

"Your words are quite poetic." Xu Ping said. "In fact, I also know in my heart that friends are not forced, there are many people on the straight road, and there are many people and friends. The number of friends a person has, and what kind of people they are, is the embodiment of a person's personality. ”

"What you say is quite poetic!"

"Our old couple is touting each other!" Xu Ping said with a smile.

"It's very interesting to talk about friends," Zheng Liangyu said to Xu Ping, "Some people say that friends are like quilts, what really makes you feel warm is your own body temperature." The meaning of this sentence is that between friends, if you are good to others, others will be good to you, and friends should get along with each other with sincerity, trust each other, and be able to understand and tolerate each other when encountering problems. Thou shalt be low, and I will come forth, and thy flaws will not be exposed. Of course, these refer to practices on non-principled issues. ”

Zheng Liangyu has made a lot of phone calls in the past few days, answered a lot of calls at home, and received a few visitors. When many people heard that he was retired, some called to express their concern, and some came to their homes to express their condolences. Several young cadres in the bureau even bought a large flower basket to pay tribute to him, which made some people think that his son, who was already 30 years old, had suddenly got married!

After dinner, Zheng Liangyu took the phone book and just sat down on the sofa in the living room, ready to make a few more calls, but the phone rang first.

Zheng Liangyu was afraid that it would affect Xu Ping's TV viewing, so he hurried to the extension in the bathroom to pick it up.

After a while, Zheng Liangyu came out of the bathroom after answering the phone, and saw Xu Ping in the living room still watching TV, so he said to her: "The call was from Chang Hao, he heard from the agency that I was retired, let's go back to my hometown to live for a while." ”

Chang Hao was originally a soldier in the official class of the organ, and later was admitted to the military academy, and after graduation, he was assigned to the logistics department of the military subdivision in his hometown as an assistant.

Xu Ping said with some emotion: "Xiao Chang, this young man is really good, he often calls to greet us, knowing that you are retired, and inviting us back, it is really rare, you didn't ask him if he is married now?" ”

"I asked, and he said that he had just recently started talking to a girl, and the girl's parents didn't seem to be very happy."

"What kind of parents are not happy to marry their daughters to a young man like Xiao Chang!" Xu Ping shouted.

"I didn't ask." Zheng Liangyu said.

After a while, Xu Ping suddenly remembered something and said to Zheng Liangyu: "After you retired, it seems that only Xiao Cheng in your bureau has not come, nor has he called home. ”

"What's so strange about that?" Zheng Liangyu asked him.

Xu Ping said: "I always feel that he shouldn't be like this, his lover went to Beijing with the army, and it was the work you helped arrange; His son came to Beijing to enroll, and it was the school you helped to contact; His father was hospitalized in ******* for surgery, and he was the expert you found for him------"

"What do you mean by that?" Zheng Liangyu interrupted Xu Ping and said, "You have helped others, so others must thank you?" It's like buying and selling things, you give me money, I give you goods. ”

Xu Ping said unhappily: "You can't be so analogous, you can't care about the reward when you help others, but the people who are helped can't be too ruthless." When you didn't retire, Xiao Cheng was very enthusiastic when he saw me, I was walking on the road the day before yesterday and saw him coming, thinking that he would definitely say hello to me, but when he was about to walk up to me, he turned his head and turned a corner, and I didn't ask you for an account, what are you avoiding me for? ”

Zheng Liangyu laughed: "It's normal, I help him, because I am his leader and have this responsibility and obligation; He ignores you, because I'm retired, he doesn't have to beg me anymore, people have this freedom. Whether or not you should be rewarded for being helped is another question, but one thing to keep in mind is that the person who was especially enthusiastic about you when you were in power may be the person who has been the most cold to you since your abdication; The person who was particularly close to you when you were in power may also be the person who wants to be the furthest away from you after your abdication. ”

Xu Ping listened to Zheng Liangyu's words and nodded thoughtfully.

Zheng Liangyu then comforted Xu Ping and said: "In the future, both of us must be calm, don't compare everything with when I was in office, face the reality, and don't be troubled by some unnecessary questions and cause a burden on our minds." How to face these practical problems, some people conclude: enjoy it if you like it, avoid it if you don't like it, change it if you can't avoid it, accept it if you can't change it, deal with it if you can't accept it, and let it go if you can't deal with it. In fact, the hardest thing in life is that you can't let go of some things. ”

Zheng Liangyu saw that Xu Ping was listening carefully to his speech, and then said: "For some things in the world, don't want too much, expect too much, and don't compare meaninglessly, like some people, don't cherish the road under your feet, only envy the bridge that others are crossing." Someone said well: thousands of acres of fertile land are also three meals a day; There is a lot of money, and it is also a black and white day; There are 100 bungalows, and it is also a sleeping couch; There are groups of wives and concubines, and it is also a night of joy. We will all be ordinary people in the future, ordinary people live a life, comfort is beauty, ordinary years, get the right material, live a peaceful life, you will live a very chic life. In a certain sense, the greatest luck in life is to be able to cherish the present, strive for the future, and forget the past. The greatest sorrow in life is that there are many things that cannot be sought, obtained without hesitation, and cannot be given up. On the long or short road of life, if anyone can throw away the burden, move forward lightly, and have a scene in their hearts, they will be full of flowers, and they will be happy and sad in life, and they will feel happy. ”

Xu Ping listened to Zheng Liangyu's words, "giggled", pointed to her husband and said: "First of all, your mentality is not peaceful, just now it is not like one ordinary person talking to another ordinary person, but like the head of an organ making a report to a young cadre, big theories one after another." (To be continued.) )