Section V

Xiao Gong in the department seems to regard himself as the future director, he used to often come late and leave early, and now Xiao Gong has changed his past style, and his work is very rigorous, and there is a word that he can't hold accurately in a document, and he and the typist Xiao Yu checked the sea of words for a long time, and finally finally understood the word, and then breathed a long sigh of relief.

Not only these, Xiao Gong has now almost become the spokesperson of the director Guo, this way, that way, Xiao Gong has already regarded the department as a home. In order to make the newspapers more varied, the organs ordered them to separate as much as possible from that office when they ordered them, and when they read the newspapers, they naturally took turns to read them. When the management office reads the newspaper, it is natural to go to other offices to catch it casually, and others to the management office also go to the management office to catch it casually. After Xiao Gong's enthusiasm increased, every time someone came to pick up the newspaper, he would ask people to register, what time did he take it, and what time did he return it, and when someone didn't return it, he would go to someone with a white face to ask for it. After a few times, people in other offices felt that Xiao Gong was a bit excessive, wasn't it just a newspaper, and gradually, no one went to the management office to grab a newspaper casually. At the office meeting, Xiao Gong said with deep experience while drinking water: There must be a rule for everything. Lao Guo smoked on the side and nodded. Lao Guo drew a circle for Xiao Gong.

In Huang Xiaomao's eyes, Xiao Gong was not easy, Xiao Gong arrived at the agency two years later than Huang Xiaomao, and later he learned that Xiao Gong came to the agency with the help of Director Guo Guo. Lao Guo's hometown is not from Beijing. There are a lot of outsiders in various ministries and commissions, and almost half of them are such outsiders, and the combination of outsiders and outsiders is somewhat complicated. Fellow villagers, neighboring provinces, neighboring counties, and relatives often come and go together, and some even have a fellow villagers association or something, and gradually form a circle. This circle is large and small, close and sparse. Xiao Gong's hometown and Lao Guo's hometown are said to be very close, and one or two can be heard from the accents of the two of them. It is normal for Xiao Gong and Lao Guo to get closer.

Lao Guo was in the agency until he was in his fifties, and he became a director, which is quite sad in the eyes of others, but in front of the old family, it is amazing.

Once, Huang Xiaomao saw with his own eyes that a group of people with large bags and small bags of migrant workers were shouting in front of the door of the communication room at the gate, and the guards did not let them in, they had to enter, while saying Lao Guo's name. Huang Xiaomao heard that he was looking for Lao Guo, so he took the initiative to lead them in, and on the way to the door, a fellow villager said to Huang Xiaomao: You are Chief Guo's secretary, right?

Huang Xiaomao wanted to laugh when he heard the countryman's question, but he didn't say anything.

The man said, "Chief Guo, this is my uncle-in-law, and he is a big official from our hometown."

Huang Xiaomao said: How big is the official?

The man said again: The seven-rank official in front of the prime minister's door is bigger than the county master.

Huang Xiaomao thought these people were funny, so he laughed.

And he said, "I'm almost right?"

Huang Xiaomao also learned from the man and said: It's almost inseparable.

Every year in the spring season, there will always be a group of such people who gather at the gate to find this director or that director. They are all from their hometowns, working in Beijing, they defect to the chief in their minds, and with the support of the chief, what are they afraid of, so they speak loudly and confidently.

In the spring season, the office of the elder Guo seems to be very prosperous, at this time, Lao Guo's door is closed, everyone squatting or sitting around Lao Guo, Lao Guo does not sit, with his hands behind his back, holding his chest, pacing around the house like a great man, his table has been full of cigarettes that everyone respects, one for a while, very busy. Then Lao Guo said: In this way, the thing is like this, it is not easy to find a job in the city now, so let me make a call.

Then Lao Guo began to call, the management office of the organ and the outside to deal with more, Lao Guo knew a wider range of people, are engaged in logistics, other ministries and commissions always have one or two construction teams, in this way, three contacts, two contacts, just met one or two construction teams lack manpower, and then Lao Guo waved his hand, very bold, very great man style said: Okay, you go.

The villagers were overjoyed, with a bright smile on their faces, and said how good and great Chief Guo was. Lao Guo didn't stop there, he continued to educate the villagers. Let's start with Beijing, Lao Guo says every time, what is Beijing, it is the capital, it is not compared to the county seat, nor is it compared to the provincial capital, Chairman Mao and his old man sleep here, you should pay attention to talking and spitting.

And they nodded their heads, saying yes.

Lao Guo waved his hand again, from the big to the small, and the small place is: You people were introduced by my Lao Guo, don't embarrass me.

Everyone nodded their heads again, and then dispersed. Lao Guo didn't forget to call Xiao Gong at this time, and after explaining like this, Xiao Gong was like a contractor, leading these mermaids through the corridor and taking them to where they should go. Along the way, I was inevitably asked by the villagers whether it was Chief Guo's secretary and other old questions.

When Komiya did all this, he never complained. Sometimes, there are too many people from the hometown, and they send them away again and again, and Lao Guo can't settle these people out in time. Xiao Gong will come forward in time at this time, and he will contact him in a hurry, and he can always send these people out in batches in time.

At the end of the year, there are often things going wrong, these people have been working in Beijing for more than half a year, and it is time to go home for the New Year. Once or twice encountered the situation that the contractor did not settle the bill, hiding with the salary, they had no other way out, and came to Lao Guo again, they snot and tears told their misfortunes, the family was counting on working to earn this little money, the donkey and the horse have been working for more than half a year, and they have not received a cent of their hard-earned money, they are cold, and they cry out for injustice. At this time, Lao Guo's face was pale, and he knew the life of his hometown that these people were farmers who were digging in the soil, were they easy? Not easy. Lao Guo can't cover the sky with one hand, this kind of thing happens all over the country, he can't manage so much, but his relatives and fellow villagers are suffering, and he can't ignore it.

So Lao Guo began to call and start contacting, contacting and contacting, and he could always find some people and units that had something to do with him, in fact, these units and people had an interest in the contractor, and they didn't get the benefits of the contractor, saying that the contractor was hiding, but in fact, it was only these migrant workers who were hiding, could they hide from those people? They don't want to eat next year. Contact these people, the problem will be solved, say the time and place, and receive the money.

The villagers were grateful again, turned back three times in one step, wiped their tears, and vowed to wait for the end of the New Year, when the spring flowers bloomed, to come to Beijing, and to find Chief Guo.

Lao Guo looked solemn.

After a long time, Huang Xiaomao found that Lao Guo was not a bad person except for his poor level. At least this man still has a conscience and understands the sufferings of the villagers. If this person is allowed to be a bigger leader, maybe he will help the vast number of disadvantaged groups to do some good and practical things. It's a pity that Lao Guo can't do anything else in his life except to find some work for the villagers in Beijing.

Therefore, the director Guo felt very sad, he was about to retire, his greatest wish is to get the title of inspector, although it is not an official, the treatment of the deputy director level is still there, it is also good to say, the deputy director level cadre, equivalent to the deputy mayor or deputy secretary level in his hometown city. This is a dream of Lao Guo.

In order to balance various relationships, there will be such a change of position every year, and after a lifetime of revolutionary work, there is no merit and hard work, so it is necessary to retire and give it a treatment, so that you are good, I am good, everyone is good, you can stay at ease, and you can go happily. Since the reform of the organs, more than half of the personnel have been reduced, and they are all turnips and pits, and there are not so many idle posts and establishments, and it is quite difficult to operate.

For this, Lao Guo did not hesitate to snub his fellow townsman Xiaogong, and had a hot fight with Huang Xiaomao, and even he kept saying good things about Huang Xiaomao before and after others, and was willing to give up his successor to Huang Xiaomao. All of this is because Huang Xiaomao is Director Yang's person. Now that Director Yang is not welcomed, Huang Xiaomao is naturally of little use. Lao Guo's true face was revealed, and he should have dealt with Xiao Gong.

At noon, Lao Guo always called Xiao Gong to his office to gossip, the two closed the door, in their hometown dialect, the two felt very cordial, their ears were full of local accents, whether they were close to their hometown people.

Over the years, Xiao Gong has truly been a little brother of Lao Guo, is it easy to saddle up before and after the horse, why, it is not for Lao Guo to cultivate it, and he will have a good day in the future. Lao Guo was disheartened, if the inspector couldn't get it, he couldn't get it, but he must be worthy of Xiao Gong, let Xiao Gong firmly remember his kindness, and when they meet in the future, Xiao Gong will miss him well. During the New Year's Festival, when these veteran cadres returned to the office for a party, they also had someone to say hello. At that time, even one person didn't come forward to say hello, and that was sad.

So, as soon as Lao Guo had free time, he called Xiao Gong to his office. Lao Guo spoke earnestly in the local accent, talking about the gains and losses of his life, and at the same time imparted the perception of being an official to Xiao Gong without reservation. This is a valuable asset in life. It depends on Komiya's own understanding.

In front of Lao Guo, Xiao Gong has always listened to him as a junior. There are always a group of people in the organs, and there will always be the old ones who know the roots of the younger ones, and many of them are transferred to the organs by the old ones themselves, or they are cultivated by themselves. The old one does not retreat, and the small one can never raise his head, and there are shortcomings, or emotional debts are pinched in the hands of the old one, so the small one is careful to be a person and do things with his tail between them. When the old ones retreated and they became old men, they took a long breath, and there was no tail pinched in the hands of others, and then they raised their eyebrows and became officials. They have the shortcomings of a younger group of people in their hands.

When Xiao Gong begged Lao Guo to do something, he ran to Lao Guo's house with a large bag of gifts, saying inferior words, which is the shortcoming of being a person. Besides, Lao Guo got Xiao Gong to the organ, and Lao Guo is the director. Xiao Gong's situation will always be short in front of Lao Guo. Just like the relationship between Huang Xiaomao and Lao Zhou and Director Yang.

Huang Xiaomao sometimes even thinks: How good it would be for a big earthquake in this world, everything no longer exists, open your eyes and it will be brand-new, no one owes anyone, no one asks for anyone, and then open your arms to build a new world, what a good kind of realm it is.