In the fourth week of Wu Dao's work, Wang Xinhui, secretary of Hecheng Town, returned to the unit. Han Siming asked him about Wu Dao's job arrangement. Wang Xinhui called Hu Xueshan and asked him to take Wu Dao over. After meeting, Hu Xueshan introduced Wu Dao to Wang Xinhui. Wang Xinhui asked him about his personal situation, asked him and Hu Xueshan to sit down, and then said:

"Xiao Wu is majoring in Chinese language and literature, and he graduated from Jeju University, so he must arrange a suitable position. Previously, several of our leaders also discussed that if a literature graduate came, he would serve as a propaganda officer and also serve as the mayor's secretary. This arrangement, Mayor Han and Director Hu, do you have no opinion? ”

"No comment." Han Siming said.

"No comment." Hu Xueshan said.

"Xiao Wu is still working outside the mayor's office." Wang Xinhui said.

"Okay." Han Siming said.

Wang Xinhui finally instructed Hu Xueshan to explain the specific work to Wu Dao. Hu Xueshan took Wu Dao to his office and said to him:

"The propaganda work is under the management of the office, and you will be my soldier in the future. Don't underestimate the propaganda work, what work has been done in the town, the superior leaders don't know, it's the same as not doing it, what do you rely on to let the superior leaders know? You have to rely on propaganda. Xiaoma, the former propaganda officer, just gave birth to a child a few days ago, and now there is no one to do the propaganda work. You graduated from a key university majoring in Chinese language and literature, and you have the right major to take over this position. The work of the propaganda officer is very simple, that is, to write down the work carried out in the town and the achievements made into written materials, and publicize it to the county and the news media, so that the higher leaders know what we have done. When you look back, you should read more information from newspapers and counties, see how other people's propaganda manuscripts are written, and study more. After the propaganda manuscript is written, show it to me, no problem, and then send it out. ”

After listening to Hu Xueshan's words, Wu Dao felt that there was no difficulty in the work of the propaganda officer, he could easily do it, what he really needed to worry about was the part-time job of the mayor's secretary, and he really had to follow the mayor every day, that kind of life was too difficult, it was like going to prison. Wu Dao said to Hu Xueshan:

"Okay. What are the duties of the mayor's secretary? ”

"The town is not as good as the county, the leaders of the county have full-time secretaries, who are responsible for arranging all aspects of the leader's work and life. In our river town, only Secretary Wang and Mayor Han have part-time secretaries, and you are one of them, which shows how much the leaders attach importance to you, and you must work hard in the future. Secretary Wang's secretary is Gao Kepan, the organization officer, who has been working part-time for several years, so you have to learn more from him. ”

"Am I going to be with Mayor Han every day?"

"You don't have to follow every day, when Mayor Han asks you to follow, you follow, and when you are asked to write materials, you write as required. When Mayor Han wasn't looking for you, you worked as a propaganda officer. The propaganda officer is your job, and the secretary is only part-time. I forgot to mention just now that the publicity officer is also responsible for keeping minutes of meetings, and when there is a meeting in the unit, you have to attend and take good notes. These days, the post of Communications Officer is vacant, and the minutes of the meeting are written by me, and now I will give you the record book. Hu Xueshan took out the meeting minutes book from the desk drawer, handed it to Wu Dao, and said, "It's very simple to keep meeting minutes, and it will definitely not be a problem for a top student like you at a famous university." There is a problem that you need to be aware of, every month the minutes of the meeting will leave a few pages blank, and the supervisor may have to fill in the minutes when they come to check it. ”

"Okay." Wu Dao said. He thought to himself that it would be ridiculous to leave a blank space to make up the minutes of the meeting in the future to deal with the inspection of his superiors.

"You can learn all this work slowly, little by little. Now there's something important for you to do. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Our daily newspaper in Fangzhou City should publicize the city's private enterprises, require each county to report a typical enterprise, and write advanced deeds materials. The county issued a notice to each township and town to report a typical enterprise, and to submit no less than 3,000 words of written materials, which should be submitted by the morning of this Friday at the latest. Time is very tight, you hurry up and go to the factory to interview, write out the materials, if not, you will work overtime at night, and you will have to hand it over to me on Thursday afternoon, and I will show it to Mayor Han. ”

"Good. Which factory to interview? ”

"I asked Mayor Han last week if I should go to the machinery factory in the east, and this is the most famous private enterprise in our town."

"Good. I'm going to interview now. ”

"Ask the driver to drive you there."

"No, the road is so close, I can just go by bicycle, it's more convenient to go back and forth."

"It's okay, you ask Zhang Chunmei to write you a letter of introduction, without a letter of introduction, the factory won't let you in."

"Okay."

"Stay safe on the road and don't get bitten by dogs."

"Definitely not."

The machinery factory that Hu Xueshan said has a high reputation in Qicheng, and Wu Dao knows about this company, and he has passed by the factory gate countless times, but he has never entered. He asked Zhang Chunmei for a letter of introduction, and then rode his bicycle straight to the machinery factory.

Three years ago, the machine factory built a new office building and factory gate, which looks very imposing from the outside. As Hu Xueshan said, at first the doorman did not let Wu Dao enter the door, and after he took out the letter of introduction from the town, the doorman opened the door for him. He walked into the office building, found the office of the machinery factory, and met Director Wang, who was in charge.

Wu Dao explained his intention to Director Wang, and to his surprise, the other party was very reluctant to provide materials at first, because they did not want the company's name to appear in the newspaper, and said that the town owed them 100,000 yuan and never paid it back. Wu Dao was very interested in this question, but this was not the material he needed, at his request, Director Wang had to tell the process of how the machinery factory developed step by step from a bankrupt enterprise, and finally asked him to tell the town leaders about the difficulties of the factory, so that the town could return the money owed to them, and they could only need the principal, not interest.

Wu Dao bid farewell to the machinery factory and returned to the Hecheng Town Government. He wanted to be perfunctory, and randomly put together a 3,000-word material and handed it to Hu Xueshan, but he has always been a very serious and responsible person, even if he does something he doesn't like, he will try his best to do it well, and his personality does not allow him to be perfunctory. Hu Xueshan gave him four working days to hand in the materials on Thursday afternoon, and he finished writing them on Monday afternoon. On Tuesday morning, he revised it again, and then went to print it out and handed it to Hu Xueshan. Hu Xueshan was very surprised:

"It takes two days for others in the town to write a few hundred words of material, and you can write three thousand words of material in half a day, which is really fast, worthy of being a top student in a key university!"

Listening to Hu Xueshan's praise, Wu Dao did not feel joyful, but felt ashamed, because he did not mention the difficulties of the machinery factory, and those contents could not be written into typical materials. wanted to tell Hu Xueshan those things to his face, but he didn't know where to start. Hu Xueshan saw that Wu Dao was standing there and didn't leave, so he said:

"Are you okay?"

Wu Dao felt that no matter what the result was, he had to tell the difficulties of the machinery factory and Director Wang's requirements, otherwise he couldn't get over it, so he said:

"Director Hu, do we owe 100,000 yuan to the machinery factory in our town and haven't paid it back?"

"How do you know about this, it was said by the people in the machine factory?"

"It was Director Wang of the machinery factory who said that their factory is now in difficulty and lacks funds, and he hopes that we will return the money to them, and let me tell the town leaders."

"You heard him say that even if they don't have money, their emaciated camels are bigger than horses, and they still lack this money? We don't have to worry about this matter, and you don't have to tell Secretary Wang and Mayor Han, just treat it as if it didn't happen. These things are very complicated, he said that we owe them money, why don't you say how much they took advantage of the public when the system was restructured? ”

Wu Dao heard Hu Xueshan say this, and he couldn't say anything more, so he had to return to his office.

Hu Xueshan read the typical materials and handed them over to the secretary Wang Xinhui without any modifications. After a slight revision, Wang Xinhui returned Hu Xueshan and praised Wu Dao's writing. Hu Xueshan handed over the material to Wu Dao and repeated Wang Xinhui's praise for his writing. After Wu Dao revised the electronic draft, he reprinted it, and found Zhang Chunmei to stamp the official seal of the Hecheng Town Government, and then sent it to the county propaganda department by driver. After stamping the official seal, Zhang Chunmei said to Wu Dao:

"You're writing this material too fast. Even if you have the ability to write it so quickly, you shouldn't hand it over to the leader today. ”

"Why?" Wu Dao said. He thought to himself, there are too many strange things in this organ, and if the materials are written and not handed over to the leader immediately, what are you waiting for?

"You don't understand. The leader asked you to write the material and gave you four days, but he must have thought that it would take at least four days to finish writing, and you would write it in one day and hand it in, and the leader must have thought that you didn't write well and were dealing with him. ”

"The leader said that I wrote very well."

"You wrote well this time, can you guarantee that you write so well every time?"

"I can't."

"Still. Besides, you handed it in so early, and there are still several days before the deadline, and the leader has plenty of time to read the manuscript, which may make you make endless revisions. Even if you write well, you don't need to revise it, and the leader may immediately arrange another job for you. You write slowly, or put it first after writing, and then hand it in on the last day, the leader doesn't have time to read it carefully, and generally there is no need to revise it, aren't you very relaxed for a few days? Also, if someone else can't finish writing a manuscript in a week, you can finish it in one day, and the leader knows that you can write very well, and he will definitely ask you to write more materials in the future, and others will also ask you for help. ”

After listening to Zhang Chunmei's words, Wu Dao suddenly realized that the lazy and idlers in the town were trained in this way. Leaving the office, he went to the electric classroom again, wanting to see if there was any new news on the e-mail, and he saw the letter from Zhao Wu and Jing Like. Zhao Wu wrote:

"With my brother's talent, I really shouldn't be trapped in a small town government and waste my time. According to my understanding of my brother, my career must not be what my brother wants, and if there is no good place to go, I can go back to Jeju University for graduate school first. ”

Although Jing Like did not persuade Wu Dao to leave the town government, he also wrote that "it was not an ideal place." The words of the two friends made Wu Dao fall into deep thought, the Hecheng City Government is indeed not a place where he wants to stay for a long time, Zhao Wu is right, he is not suitable for politics, it is a good choice to go back to Jeju University for graduate school, he has worked in the Hecheng Town Government for a year, he can save some savings, he does not need to pay tuition fees for graduate school, only needs to pay accommodation fees, and there will be a living allowance of one hundred and fifty yuan per month, and his salary for one year of work is enough for three years. Thinking of this, he strengthened his determination to enter graduate school. He replied to Zhao Wu and Jing Like:

"I decided to go to Jeju University for graduate school."

The next day, Wu Dao received a reply from Zhao Wu:

"Graduate school was the right choice, and none of our personalities were suited to work in the government. If you really go to Jeju University for graduate school, you should try to stay in the university to teach and be a scholar to keep your innocence. At that time, when we ascended to the heights, we gathered to promote social reform and progress, and we did not live up to the responsibilities of intellectuals. However, it is also a good experience to have a year of government work experience now. My brother's creative talent is several times that of mine, and it is not a good thing to have more experience. Speaking of graduate school entrance examinations, I still have a few reference books and notes that I can send to my brother to help him. ”

A few days later, Wu Dao received reference books and notes from Zhao Wu, and he reviewed them while working. After another ten days, the machinery factory was selected by the county, and the typical materials written by Wu Dao were published in the newspaper almost word for word. After that, he wrote several press releases, all of which were adopted by the county, and Hu Xueshan, the director of the office, was even more impressed and valued by him.

Mayor Han Siming's attitude towards Wu Dao is diametrically opposed to Hu Xueshan, he doesn't like Wu Dao's character, and feels that this part-time secretary is not a person from the same way: compared to Gao Kepan, the secretary of the secretary Wang Xinhui, Wu Dao doesn't look like a secretary at all, and he doesn't want to be a secretary. Wu Dao was always deliberately avoiding himself, telling him not to stay in the office next door all the time, and he simply didn't come all day. Wu Dao didn't want to see Han Siming, and Han Siming looked at Wu Dao awkwardly, so he rarely took the initiative to find Wu Dao. Wu Dao wrote a speech and a summary to Han Siming, but he was not good at this kind of article, both drafts were far from Han Siming's requirements, and Han Siming became more and more alienated from him.