Section II

These days, Director Guo often calls Xiao Gong to his office. Huang Xiaomao knew that Lao Guo was looking for a kind of psychological comfort, and Lao Guo in extraordinary times needed someone to keep appearing around and say some comforting words. Lao Guo, who has done revolutionary work all his life, when the ship arrives at the dock and the car arrives at the station, how much he hopes to have the title of inspector to comfort his lost heart. Huang Xiaomao didn't believe that they would have any secrets to speak of, such a large department, there were so many directors and deputy directors on it, and the director Guo would not know much more than they knew. Seeing that Huang Xiaomao's road is impassable, since Xiao Gong is Lao Guo's person, at this time, Lao Guo hopes to firmly grasp Xiao Gong, otherwise when he retires, no one will hand it over, and when he returns to the agency, there will be no one to say hello.

Even so, Huang Xiaomao still felt a deep sense of loss. It is an indisputable fact that Lao Guo wants to retire, and the issue of the selection of the director may also be transferred from outside, but it is not excluded that it will be solved in this department. Huang Xiaomao has been working in the agency for more than ten years, two years earlier than Xiaogong Xiaohong. If Director Yang is still in office, he is very competitive. Before that, when he went to Director Yang's house to sit idle, Director Yang's lover Lao Zhou patted his chest. Director Yang was also present at the time, she didn't say anything, just smiled at Huang Xiaomao implicitly. At that moment, Huang Xiaomao felt very happy, at that time he imagined that he was only in his thirties now, if he could become the director and mix for a few years, maybe he would be able to get a deputy director or something, and he would be the deputy director, and he would not be far from the director. In this life, I will be content, and I still want to do something. After returning home, he told his lover about his blueprint, and his lover was also quite excited, and she said with a flushed face: If you really have that day, I will not marry you in vain.

Huang Xiaomao's hometown is rural, and after he got married in Beijing, his family heard that Huang Xiaomao was mixing well in Beijing, so they came to Beijing one after another and asked Huang Xiaomao to arrange a job. Huang Xiaomao has such a great ability, in desperation, he can only settle these people in his hometown who are related to the old family at home, entertain them with good food and drink for a few days, take a photo in Tiananmen Square, and take a turn outside the Forbidden City; It's impossible to get in, the ticket is dozens of yuan a ticket, and it takes more than half a day to get in, Huang Xiaomao can't afford either the money or the time. At most, I went to Zhongshan Park for a walk, and then bought a ticket for someone from my hometown and sent it away.

In the long run, Huang Xiaomao's lover has a lot of opinions, saying that Xiaohuang's hometown is a refugee, and sometimes he can't control himself, so he will inevitably fall and beat. Huang Xiaomao's face was a little unbearable. Less than is a native of Beijing, reading is a secondary school, and the cultivation is worse, so that people from their hometown are red and white for a while. I wanted to stay for a few more days, and finally struggled to see if Huang Xiaomao could find a job in the huge Beijing, so that I could also taste the taste of being a Beijinger. I tasted it, but it was a different story. On the way Huang Xiaomao sent these villagers to the station, the villagers sighed, not knowing whether it was for themselves or for Huang Xiaomao. Huang Xiaomao felt that he couldn't stand the villagers, so he bought a platform ticket and sent the villagers to the train.

Huang Xiaomao waved his hands and said: The hospitality is not good, welcome to come again next time. The villagers said, "When you go back to your hometown, I will invite you to drink." As soon as he said this, Huang Xiaomao's face turned red. The villagers have been at home for so long, and they haven't invited anyone to drink once. Huang Xiaomao felt guilty at both ends, among his lover and villagers, he felt that he was not a person inside and out. So I looked forward to being the director and deputy director, and at that time, maybe I would be able to do something for the villagers and my family. So, he pressed the treasure on Lao Zhou, and he had already seen that the words of his fellow villager Lao Zhou were more effective than Director Yang's. In other words, Director Yang buys Lao Zhou's face very much.

Once, after Huang Xiaomao and Lao Zhou played mahjong, Huang Xiaomao won more than 200 yuan that day, so he invited Lao Zhou to drink. I didn't sleep all night, and I didn't drink much wine, Lao Zhou went up, and then said in a daze: Director Yang is the director in your eyes, isn't she just a woman in my eyes, if she wasn't a woman, she would be able to have today...... Speaking of which, Lao Zhou knew that he had spoken out, so he didn't say anything further, and drank with a red face. Huang Xiaomao also heard Lao Zhou's meaning somewhat, so he responded: That's, that's. What is that, it's all in plain sight. From then on, he firmly believed that Director Yang had a handle in Lao Zhou's hands, and if he made Lao Zhou a friend, he would settle Director Yang.

Lao Zhou has no hobbies, a few people on the weekend to play a few rounds of mahjong, sometimes Lao Zhou will open the mahjong table in his own home, anyway, the bureau level house, very spacious, sometimes when it is time to eat, Director Yang has to cook for them personally. Every time the people who play mahjong, they are almost fixed, and the two people in the old Zhou unit are unsatisfactory in their careers, and they have no intention of being promoted when they are the director or deputy director, and they are actively playing mahjong every weekend. The other person is Huang Xiaomao. At first, Lao Zhou shouted Huang Xiaomao to play mahjong, and Huang Xiaomao felt flattered, but later he realized that he was playing cards for Lao Zhou and others. Every time Huang Xiaomao plays, he almost loses dozens of yuan, sometimes hundreds of yuan. At first, he was embarrassed to win, but later every time he won some money, when he left, he had to be called by Lao Zhou to drink. As a result, Huang Xiaomao checked out every time. After going back and forth, Huang Xiaomao found out that in order to make Lao Zhou's friend, he was investing in disguise. It's nothing to invest in some money, anyway, the dawn is ahead, some people want to invest, but they can't find the temple gate.

In the beginning, there are also opinions about the lover less than that. First, the child is small, and he wants to take a breath on the weekend, so Huang Xiaomao goes to play mahjong, and every time he not only does not enter, but loses some. It's normal to have less than an opinion. Later, Huang Xiaomao gave Xiao Xiaoxiao ideological work, saying that this was a disguised investment, and when he came out in the future, others began to invest in him. On the contrary, in the past, she said that the hair with long hair was less than finally understood, and for the sake of the future, she buried her dissatisfaction in her heart.

At the end of the week, I picked up the child from kindergarten and found that the child had a fever. I gave the child some medicine and the child fell asleep. After Huang Xiaomao finished eating, he wanted to sit down and watch TV for a while, but then the phone rang, and before he answered the phone, he thought that this call might not be from Lao Zhou, but it turned out to be really from Lao Zhou.

Lao Zhou still said anxiously on the phone: Xiao Huang, come on, I'll send you.

Huang Xiaomao has been in a bad mood for the past two days, Director Yang is like this, he feels that the efforts invested in the past few years have been in vain, before this, he made up his mind that he would never play any mahjong with Lao Zhou and them again, so let's close the mountain. Unexpectedly, at this moment, Lao Zhou's call to the soul came.

Huang Xiaomao wanted to explain, find a reason for the child to get sick and forget about Lao Zhou. Before he could speak, Lao Zhou said undoubtedly: Come on, don't rub it off. After that, he hung up the phone.

Huang Xiaomao held the phone and thought: What are you bull X, your wife is not treated well. But as soon as Huang Xiaomao put down the phone, he still habitually wore his coat and felt if the money in his pocket was enough. At this time, Xiao Xiao rolled his eyes and said to him: "You are still going to invest, are you stupid, Director Yang is nothing, is there any need for this?"

Huang Xiaomao thought: This is the last time.

After thinking about it, he closed the door and went downstairs, Huang Xiaomao thought again, this is inertia, and it is really difficult to change this inertia of himself.

When Huang Xiaomao came to Lao Zhou's house, he found that everyone had arrived, the mahjong table was also supported, and Director Yang was enthusiastically refilling everyone's teacups. When it was Huang Xiaomao's turn, Huang Xiaomao didn't move this time, nor did he say kind words, in the past, he was never embarrassed to let Director Yang pour water for himself. Now he let go a little bit and thought to himself, anyway, I'm here for the last time.

When he was free, he glanced at Director Yang sitting in front of the TV a few times, Director Yang didn't seem to have changed, but he stayed in front of the TV for a long time. In normal times, she would have returned to the house, either reading documents or answering the phone. When Huang Xiaomao saw this, he was a little lost, and he didn't know if it was for himself or Director Yang.

After playing cards for a night, Huang Xiaomao was very open, and he actually won more than 100 yuan for the first time. When everyone left their seats, Lao Zhou looked at him with his eyes, which meant that Huang Xiaomao understood that he wanted the other two to go first, and then the two of them went to the restaurant outside for a meal. Huang Xiaomao ignored Lao Zhou's eyes, and seemed to say to Lao Zhou and to himself: The child is sick, I have to go back first. Then he walked away without looking back.

As soon as Huang Xiaomao pushed open the door, the phone rang. Less than is persuading her daughter to drink medicine, it seems that less than has said all the good things, and her daughter firmly believes that medicine is bitter, and she won't drink it when she dies. At this time, Huang Xiaomao came in, and he threw the spoon of feeding medicine into the bowl angrily, pointed at Sang and scolded Huai and said: If you don't eat, you will wait for death. Huang Xiaomao, who was standing there in a daze, said: If you don't answer the phone yet, do you have a merit in playing mahjong?

Huang Xiaomao reacted to answer the phone, the call was from Lao Zhou, and Lao Zhou came up and said: You kid is too snobbish, you Director Yang haven't done anything yet! After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Huang Xiaomao held the earpiece, here was his daughter's cry, for a while, he didn't know where he was.