"Lao Liu is busy - what!"

It was a weekend evening, and Director Liu Yicheng was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks after dinner, when he received a call from Wang Changnian. Wang Chang www.biquge.info was transferred from the same grassroots unit as him to the leading organ in Beijing, and was the head of another business department. Liu Yicheng and Wang have been friends for many years, and they have also made jokes for many years. He heard Wang Changnian's strange foreign tone, and said angrily: "You are an old rascal, are you idle and your butt hurts, if you have something to say, I am helping my wife work, who is like you, shake off the shopkeeper, and don't care about anything at home." ”

"I believe in this, in front of my wife, I open my mouth to 'instruct' and 'approve', and when you open your mouth, you are 'request' and 'report', and the problem of 'strict wife control' cannot be cured for many years."

"Don't always laugh at me on this issue, in a country that has long been heavily influenced by the idea of patriarchal power, it is also a virtue to be afraid of my wife."

"It's really not easy for you to be able to cultivate to this point, you are stingy with money, the material base determines the superstructure, and people's income is several times that of yours, I estimate that you will still serve urinals and wipe your buttocks for your wife in the future. How about it, can you ask your family leader for a few minutes off now, and listen to me expose your 'living thoughts' to you. ”

"If you fart, let it go!"

"The Party Committee of the Ministry of My Retirement has studied and reported."

"Retire!" Liu Yicheng was taken aback. "It's not a joke, a few days ago, I heard some people say that you can catch the last train, and there is hope for another level, why did you report your retirement so quickly?"

Wang Changnian said: "People like me, only bury their heads in pulling cars, don't look up at people, only rely on one hand to do work, don't need to run on two legs, if you can raise one level, unless Chairman Mao and his old man come out of the memorial hall." ”

"Lao Wang, what you said is inappropriate, at present, it should be said that the mainstream is still good on the issue of cadre use."

"I don't want to argue with you about this issue, what I said just now is my complaint, inappropriate words, stinky farts, okay." After Wang Changnian finished speaking, he laughed.

"I think you still think you can think about retirement!" Liu Yicheng said.

"If there is anything you can't think of, sooner or later, don't you have to retreat, usually look forward to a seven-day long holiday and be very happy, three hundred and sixty-five days a year in the future, every day is a holiday, don't do the work, take the money, you say, where to find this kind of good thing."

"If the leading cadres all think like you, the work of the cadre department will be much easier."

"It's impossible for all people to think like me, and not all people will do it like me, our bureau is a Shimizu Yamen, and my ability to use interpersonal relationships is relatively poor, for me personally, except for work factors, there is not much difference between incumbency and retirement. Some people are different, retirement means losing privileges, reducing benefits, fear that no one will listen to what they say, and worrying that the relationship will not work, so the road after retirement is regarded as a daunting path. ”

"What you mean reminds me of a saying that someone once said: 'Generally speaking, a cadre who is not afraid of retirement is a good cadre.'"

"That being said, the thought of leaving the work that I have done for decades from now on, I still feel sour in my heart, I have been busy for most of my life, and I suddenly retired, what will I do in the future? In the past, I was anxious about less time, but now I am worried about more time! ”

"This is a very practical problem," Liu Yicheng said, seeing his lover sitting on the sofa and constantly changing the TV program with the remote control, it is estimated that there will not be many things at home at night, so he whispered to Wang Changnian, "Hey, Lao Wang, it's still early, let's go outside and talk in person, okay?" ”

"Okay, meet next to the statue of Chairman Mao in the square in five minutes."

In Beijing in March, it is still cold at first glance, and the gentle evening breeze blows, making people feel cool.

It was Wang Chang who arrived in the square first, and he was dressed in the white moonlight, looking up at the statue of the leader who had been watching the world for decades, and his heart fluctuated. There are not many statues like this in Beijing, and in the eyes of some people, this statue is just an ordinary fixed object, and its function is to indicate directions: "ride on the south side of the chairman statue", "gather on the north side of the chairman statue". Only an old comrade like him would occasionally face the old man and recall the extraordinary and eventful years spent under his leadership.

"You're the king, aren't you?" Liu Yicheng shouted from the side of the square.

"You're an old turtle!" Wang Changnian agreed and walked over to Liu Yicheng.

The two of them came to the big playground next to the square together, strolling on the runway, two figures, one high and one low, the short and stubby Wang Changnian, the seriously desertified head shining in the moonlight without taboo; The slender one is Liu Yicheng, and the messy hair on his head echoes the withered grass next to the runway that has not yet returned to green in the breeze.

"Don't look at how many years older you are than me, but your body is as strong as a bison, and it is possible to preside over the farewell ceremony of my body in the future, I haven't retired yet, but you will retire first?" Liu Yicheng looked at Wang's mortar shell-like figure for many years and said, there was a little envy and regret in his tone.

"I am also a strong outsider, perennial sitting in the organ, there are not many major problems, there are many small problems, high blood pressure, fatty liver or something in the past few years have been uninvited. In terms of physical condition, it is said that there is no problem in working for another ten or eight years, but the main reason is that the mind cannot keep up, in the words of some people, it is called outdated concepts and aging knowledge. Wang Changnian sighed and said, "Think about it, when we first joined the army, high school graduates were considered highly educated, and if you look at the present, some cadres with a bachelor's degree in the organs have a sense of crisis, and they must find a way to study as an on-the-job graduate student." ”

Liu Yicheng echoed and said: "Yes, when we were soldiers, an important part of doing good deeds was to help soldiers with low education write letters and learn to read and write. ”

Wang Changnian laughed and said to Liu Yicheng: "Now there are very few soldiers with a junior high school education, and most of them are high school students. The cadres have higher academic qualifications, a graduate student is transferred today, a doctoral student is assigned tomorrow, and an assistant has just been transferred to the Science and Training Bureau of our department, do you know what kind of education he has? Postdoctoral! We weren't even pre-doctorates, but we were postdocs, and the young man played with computers and spoke English fluently. Last year, I went to Europe with a delegation to investigate, because I couldn't speak English, I didn't dare to leave the translator for a single step, and when I saw a foreigner trying to speak to me, I was so frightened that I hurriedly waved my hand, pointed to my mouth and said: "Bad" and "Sweep Rui". ”

On the track, young people in sportswear who were practicing long-distance running kept passing by, and Liu Yicheng and Wang Changnian walked side by side, making way for them from time to time.

Wang Changnian continued: "You are younger than me, and you have a bachelor's degree, so you will strive to work in the army for a few more years. ”

Liu Yicheng lowered his voice and said: "You don't know how I got that education, I symbolically ran to the school a few times, filled out a form personally, and the school issued a certificate, it stands to reason that it is called fraud." ”

"This kind of thing is relatively strict in the localities, and the management of the troops is relatively lax; no matter how the academic qualifications come from, it is a basic condition for the promotion and use of cadres; you have political achievements in your work and prestige among the masses, so you must seize the last opportunity and strive to reach a higher level."

"I know what you mean by 'seize the last opportunity', I have rules and regulations all my life, and I can't throw away my consistent code of conduct in the last two or three years and go to run for office."

"Let's talk about this problem from another angle: you have rules all your life, and if you don't run in the last two or three years, you just don't have a chance."

Liu Yicheng laughed, pointed at Wang Changnian and said, "You guy, you don't do what you want, impose it on others." ”