Before the Spring Festival holiday, the town gave bonuses and New Year's goods such as rice, oil, meat and wine to all employees. A colleague who lived in the same dormitory as Wu Dao also came to the town to get something, and Wu Dao worked for half a year, and the two met for the first time.

Wu Dao took the New Year's goods home, and the Wu family was very happy to see that there were so many New Year's goods, and their family only needed to buy some vegetables for the New Year, and almost everything else could not be bought.

Starting on the second day of the first lunar month, relatives at home arrived one after another. When entertaining relatives, Li Mei stir-fried vegetables with oil and meat brought back by Wu Dao. Qicheng County is in the north, the Wu family takes steamed buns as the staple food every day, and rarely eats rice.

"Rice, oil, meat, and wine are all distributed in the small dao unit." He also said, "It's full of a lot of things, it's not cheap, when did we buy so many good things." Back then, we couldn't eat a full meal at home for the New Year. Back then, my parents died when I was a teenager, and when I came out of the house, I asked for food all the way to Qicheng, which was called a bitterness. ”

Next, Wu He began to talk about his "great cause of riding alone for thousands of miles" when he was young. After turning around, he will talk about Wu Dao's going to college, serving iron rice bowls, how many big leaders he has met in the unit, how many good wines he has drunk, how many good dishes he has eaten, etc., sometimes Wu He will ask Wu Dao to supplement the details himself, Wu Dao said no, not to say no, he feels that the Spring Festival is completely different from before.

Wu Dao liked to celebrate the Spring Festival when he was a child, because he could buy new clothes and eat delicious things during the Spring Festival, but after going to college, he didn't like the Spring Festival more and more, because there were relatives at home, he had to accompany him to drink, and he was often the focus of attention, not only that, Wu Yang and Li Mei also asked him to go to relatives on their behalf, saying that he was already an adult, and he would have to do this kind of thing in the future.

It's strange to say, Wu Dao liked to go to his uncle Yang Chengzhi's house the most when he was a child, because his family was rich, and he could eat all kinds of delicious things there, which were not eaten at the poor relatives' houses, but after going to college, they were reversed, he preferred to go to the poor relatives' houses as guests, and the last thing he wanted to go was Yang Chengzhi's house, but he had to go.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Li Mei asked Wu Dao to take two bottles of wine issued by the town, buy two chickens and some fruits, and go to Yang Chengzhi's house. Yang Chengzhi sold vegetables and fruits in the early years, and later worked as a contractor, earned a lot of money, built a very beautiful yard, and renovated it again after becoming the village director, which was even more magnificent.

Yang Chengzhi's daughter Yang Zhaodi did not enter high school after graduating from junior high school, so she went to learn to do a clothing business, and now she has opened a clothing store in the city, and she returned home during the Chinese New Year. Yang Zaixing was in his first year of high school, and when he took the high school entrance examination, his grades did not meet the admission standards of high school, and Yang Chengzhi spent tens of thousands of yuan to let him enter high school. Now, he's also at home on vacation.

When Wu Yue saw Wu Dao enter the door, she asked Yang Zhaodi and Yang Zaixing to take the things in his hand, and then said:

"Come on, come on, what are you doing with so many things, there is nothing missing at home."

"The wine is issued by the unit, it doesn't cost money, and other things are not expensive." Wu Dao said.

As soon as Wu Dao walked into the house, he felt that it was very warm inside, even very hot, like the season of early summer, he looked around and found that the house was not only equipped with heating, but also with air conditioning on. Wu Yue smiled and said:

"I bought the heating and air conditioning, and the coal and electricity money were all paid for by the village, so I didn't have to spend my own money."

Wu Dao said in his heart: "No wonder the temperature is so high, but can the public things be so wasted?" However, Yang Chengzhi and Wu Yue are his elders after all, he has something in his heart, but he can't say it in person, so he can only smile and say:

"It's still warm here, it's much colder in my house than here, and it's not that hot in the town office."

At this time, the time was close to eleven o'clock, and the Yang family and two other relatives also arrived here. For as long as Wu Daoda can remember, he will go to Yang Chengzhi's house every Spring Festival to visit relatives, and he has met relatives a lot, but he can rarely remember it. The two strange relatives in front of him, he couldn't remember if he had seen them for a while, and he didn't know how to call them, so he asked Yang Chengzhi. Yang Chengzhi introduced the two relatives and Wu Dao, and when introducing Wu Dao, he specifically emphasized that he was the secretary of the mayor and worked in the same office as the mayor. When the two relatives heard about it, they said again and again:

"It turned out to be the leader of the town, and if I find you in the future, I need to help more."

When Yang Chengzhi introduced these two relatives, Wu Dao didn't care at all, and he didn't know what to call them, but he vaguely heard that one of the two relatives was surnamed Jia and the other was surnamed Wang, so he could only vaguely agree. Yang Chengzhi said:

"They are all relatives, and they will definitely help if they have something."

After speaking, Wu Dao sat on the sofa eating melon seeds and watching TV, and Yang Chengzhi chatted with two other relatives. Half an hour later, Wu Yue and Yang Zhaodi brought the wine and food to the table. Seeing the things on the table, Wu Dao felt a headache. At the family banquet in Qicheng, women were not allowed to serve at the table, Yang Chengzhi, Wu Dao and two other relatives were seated, and Yang Chengzhi was also called Yang Zaixing:

"Okay, you also come to the table, the boss is not a small person, it's time to exercise. You poured wine for your two uncles and your brother. ”

Yang walked over, poured wine for the group, and then sat down on a chair outside.

"Let's go first." Yang Chengzhi said.

"Uncle, I drank too much in the town government a few years ago, and now my stomach is still uncomfortable, so I won't drink it today." Wu Dao said.

"Your two uncles are here, and it's not good for you to drink at all. In this way, you drink the first cup, and the rest is fine. Yang Chengzhi said.

Wu Dao heard Yang Chengzhi say this, so he had to drink the first glass of wine. Fortunately, the people at the wine table are all relatives and will not force people to drink, after Yang Zaixing poured a second glass of wine for Wu Dao, he only drank a little each time, and only drank this cup when he drank the "family photo" at the end of the banquet. At the banquet, Wu Dao and Yang Zaixing rarely spoke. Wu Dao silently listened to Yang Chengzhi and two other relatives, and the relative surnamed Jia said:

"Cheng Zhi will be a secretary next year, right?"

"I have to wait for two years, the old secretary retires, and I will take over." Yang Chengzhi said.

"I heard that Yangjiazhuang leased 500 acres of land to enterprises in other places, how much is the rent?" A relative surnamed Wang said.

"Isn't this a development zone, the secretary and I made the decision to lease the land to the enterprise for a contract period of 30 years, and the annual rent per mu of land is 800 yuan. Nowadays, young people don't know how to farm, they all want to work in the city to earn money, and the older ones can't farm the land, so they rent it out, and the people don't have to work to collect money, which is a good thing. Yang Chengzhi said.

"That's a lot of money! Let me calculate, an acre of land is 800 yuan a year, and 500 acres is 400,000 yuan! I can't earn that much in my life! A relative surnamed Jia said.

"The company has paid all the rent for 30 years at one time, and there are 12 million." Yang Chengzhi said.

"Oh my God, that's so much money!" Said a relative surnamed Jia.

"However, Cheng Zhi, I thought, 800 yuan looks like it is still happening, but the land rent will definitely rise every year, and the land price must be 30 years, and if the price rises in the future, won't you suffer a loss?" A relative surnamed Wang said.

"The future is a matter of the future, a person can be a secretary and director for a few years, we have rented out all the land that can be rented, and the village cadres who come up again in the future will have no land if they want to rent it out." Yang Chengzhi said.

"That's right, the rest has nothing to do with us." A relative surnamed Wang said.

"Did the 12 million be distributed to the villagers?" Said a relative surnamed Jia.

"Send it, but you can't send it all, pay a year's rent every year, and keep the rest of the money in the bank. The annual interest is also hundreds of thousands, and if you make an investment, you will earn even more. Yang Chengzhi said.

"What are you doing with your hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, you and the secretary are both beneficial, right?" A relative surnamed Wang said.

"What good can it be? It's just that you don't have to spend money on coal and electricity at home. Yang Chengzhi said.

"How much is this, and you haven't made any money for the rest?" A relative surnamed Wang said.

"Do you think it's easy to be a cadre, but don't you have to spend money to build roads, dig pipelines, and repair village committees in the village?" Yang Chengzhi said.

The relative surnamed Jia glanced at the relative surnamed Wang and said:

"How can such a thing be said nonsense? Cheng Zhi is a good cadre. ”

"I can only say these things here today, don't talk nonsense after I go out." Yang Chengzhi said.

"Surely it won't be nonsense." Said a relative surnamed Jia.

"Don't worry, we won't talk nonsense, we all understand." A relative surnamed Wang said.

"Wu Dao, I heard that you are going to be admitted to graduate school?" Yang Chengzhi asked Wu Dao.

"Yes." Wu Dao said.

"If you want me to say, it's also a good thing to take the graduate school exam, the level of the township government is too low, and at the top of the sky, he is a section-level cadre, and many people can't be a deputy department in their lives. If you are really admitted to the graduate school, if you go to work in the government, you will be a deputy section-level cadre as soon as you go to work, which is equivalent to the deputy mayor, and no matter how hard you work, you can become the director, and the director is equivalent to the county magistrate. Yang Chengzhi said.

"That's amazing." A relative surnamed Wang said.

"It's really amazing, my child can't even get into high school, and he has to take the graduate school entrance exam, which is too far away." Said a relative surnamed Jia.

"I haven't figured out what I'm going to do after graduating from graduate school, and besides, it's not certain whether I can get in. If you can't pass the exam, you'll still work in the town government. Wu Dao said.

"It's not bad to work in the town government, eat public meals, serve iron rice bowls, and become a town mayor or secretary in the future, it's also very good. Don't look at the level of township and town cadres, their power is not small. Which leader in the town also took advantage of 100,200,000 at home. Yang Chengzhi said.

The banquet lasted for more than an hour, and after drinking the "family photo", Wu Yue brought up the hot steamed buns, and Yang Zhaodi also came in to sit at another table to eat.

Yang Chengzhi said to Yang Zaixing: "Yes, you have to learn from your brother hard, and also take the entrance examination to a key university, and after graduation, go to work in the government, and eat iron rice bowls." He also said to Yang Zhaodi, "Zhaodi, if you are looking for a partner in the future, you will also find someone like your brother who eats public meals." ”

Wu Dao felt more and more embarrassed.