After returning to Qicheng, Wu Dao felt very bored every day, although he wanted to spend more time with his grandfather and parents at home, he always felt that there was a gap with them, and this gap was getting bigger and bigger. He thinks about ideals and love, but his family talks about work and marriage every day.

"After work, we must have a good relationship with our leaders and colleagues."

"Talk more."

"I'm twenty-eight years old, it's time to find a girlfriend to get married and have children."

……

Listening to these words of the three elders every day, Wu Dao felt that they were all too realistic in their lives, with only physical attributes, but no spiritual attributes. He wanted to refute, but he felt that it was meaningless, and it was very likely that he would be "criticized" collectively, so he simply didn't say anything.

Wu Dao missed and worried about Si Baifang. Si Baifang sent a text message to Wu Dao before getting on the plane, and there was no news after that. Si Baifang's mobile phone card cannot be used abroad, and the only way to contact her is to use the Internet. Although Wu Dao had a laptop, he did not have an internet connection at home, and the computer was reduced to a typewriter and a player. If you want to access the Internet, you can only go to the Internet café in the city, which is inconvenient to go back and forth, and to go to the city, you have to pass through the river town government. If according to Zhao Wu's statement, the colleagues in the Hecheng Town Government are all "different from each other", and they should look at each other and pretend not to know each other, in this case, it is better not to see them, but in retrospect, they do not seem to be so "different", and it is not impossible to meet and talk, Wu Dao wants to see but is afraid to see his former colleagues.

In Wu Dao's heart, no one or anything can compare with Si Baifang. On the seventh day back home, he rode out of the house on his electric bike.

As the so-called fear of something, when Wu Dao rode past the river town government, he happened to meet Zhang Chunmei returning from a car outing. When Zhang Chunmei was in the car, she saw Wu Dao in front of her. The car stopped at the gate of the town government, and Wu Dao then arrived here. Zhang Chunmei opened the car door, stopped Wu Dao, and then walked down. Wu Dao didn't recognize Zhang Chunmei immediately, Zhang Chunmei in his memory was braided, her figure was not fat or thin, she was very well-proportioned, but the woman in front of her had curly hair, and her figure was also a little fat, and she recognized her after careful identification. Seeing Zhang Chunmei again, Wu Dao was just like when he saw her for the first time, and he didn't know how to call her for a while. When she first came to work in the Hecheng Town Government, Zhang Chunmei asked Wu Dao to call her Sister Zhang, but Wu Dao kept calling her Director Zhang, after experiencing a tree planting incident, Wu Dao felt that his relationship with Zhang Chunmei had become closer, and began to call her Sister Zhang.

"Director Zhang, what are you ......" he wanted to say, "Are you just coming to work", because it is normal for the government to be late and leave early, when he used to work in the Hecheng Town Government, he often saw Zhang Chunmei being late, but he thought that it was not appropriate to talk like this as soon as he met, so he didn't say the rest of the words.

"Xiao Wu, I went out to do something, I just came back, I didn't expect to meet you here. It's been three years since you went to graduate school, and it's been three years, and it's the first time I've seen you, why did you leave quietly without even saying hello? Zhang Chunmei said.

"I said hello in advance, and I didn't say it again the day I left."

"When I left, I should have given you a farewell party. Are you still in graduate school? Where is this going? ”

"I'm not in graduate school anymore and just graduated a week ago. I don't have an internet connection at home, so I go to an internet café in the city to check my email. ”

"Time flies so fast, I thought you left the town just a few days ago, but I didn't expect you to graduate. You said to go to the city to surf the Internet, right? ”

"Yes, I don't have a network cable at home."

"It's not okay to get off the grid now. However, what kind of Internet café do you go to when you go online, you can just go to the town to surf the Internet, and you can save more money. ”

"I don't work in the town anymore, and I go to the electric classroom to surf the Internet, isn't it appropriate?"

"What's wrong with that? Isn't it just surfing the Internet, and it's not a big deal. You don't have to go to the electric classroom to surf the Internet, now it's different from before, most departments in the town are equipped with computers, and I have them in my office, you can use my computer to surf the Internet. By the way, I forgot to ask you, now that you have graduated from graduate school, what will you do in the future, will you study for a doctorate or work? ”

"Originally, I wanted to take the doctoral exam, but I also applied for a university in Beijing, but after the initial examination, I was eliminated during the re-examination. I didn't get admitted to the doctorate, so I looked for a job again, and I have signed a contract, but I haven't officially started work yet. ”

"Ph.D. is very difficult to get. What unit have you signed now? ”

"It's not a good unit, it's Fangzhou College in our city, I'll go there as a teacher."

"Fangzhou College, isn't this a good unit? I'm a university teacher, what a big deal this is! According to the level, Fangzhou College is at least the same level as the municipal government, you have reached the sky in one step, several levels higher than our town. Let's stop standing here and talk, let's go to the office. ”

Wu Dao didn't want to go in, but seeing that Zhang Chunmei was so enthusiastic, he had no choice but to follow her into the Hecheng Town Government. When entering the gate, Wu Dao deliberately looked to both sides, wanting to see what had become of the sixty bicycles he had bought in the town a few years ago. Surprisingly, the carport was still there, but not a single bike underneath was there, and instead there were neatly lined up cars. Zhang Chunmei's car was also driven by the driver to the parking space under the carport, Wu Dao put the bicycle next to the guard room, and asked Zhang Chunmei:

"Director Zhang, why is there no one of the bicycles that I bought in the town?"

"You mean those bikes that Secretary Wang bought before?" Zhang Chunmei said.

"Yes, I remember buying a lot of them at that time, there were dozens of them, why are there no ones now?"

"They were all sold two years ago. It's not a sentence or two that can be explained, let's talk about it in the office. ”

Entering the office building, Wu Dao met several familiar colleagues and greeted them one by one. He thought that Zhang Chunmei would take him to the town government office, but he didn't expect her to use the key to open Hu Xueshan's office before. Wu Dao immediately thought that Zhang Chunmei might have been promoted to the director of the office. After taking a seat, Zhang Chunmei poured Wu Dao a cup of tea, and then said:

"Last year, Director Hu took over as deputy mayor, and the town leaders promoted me to be the director of the office."

"Congratulations on your promotion." Wu Dao said.

"There's nothing to congratulate, no matter how good it is, it's not as good as a university teacher. I just talked about the bike, so it doesn't hurt to talk to you. After you left the town, the next year, Secretary Wang went to the county as the deputy county magistrate, and Mayor Han went to the development zone as the secretary, and the two leaders were promoted, so they changed to a new leadership team. Each leader has his own ideas, and later leaders feel that the bicycle is useless, and they still occupy space in vain, so they all sell it. ”

"Secretary Wang has become the deputy county magistrate, what is Gao Kepan doing now?"

"After Secretary Wang went to the county, he also took him, and now he is also a deputy section-level cadre, if he is put down in the future, he will be the mayor and director of the town, and he will naturally have a better future than the cadres in the town who are us. By the way, you went to Fangzhou College to be a university teacher, what major do you teach? ”

"I teach foreign literature in the Chinese department."

"That's good. You have all graduated from graduate school and become a teacher in college, and my son Wu Guodong still doesn't know if he can be admitted to university. ”

"Now that the university has expanded, it shouldn't be difficult to get into the university, right?"

"It's not difficult to get into college, but it's still not easy to get into an undergraduate, and it's even more difficult to get into a major university. You also know that there are only two high schools in Qicheng County, the first middle school is the key and the college entrance examination acceptance rate is high, and the second middle school is an ordinary middle school with a very low acceptance rate. My son is not good at studying, he took the high school entrance examination last year, and he was not admitted to two high schools, so he spent money to go to a middle school. If you go to school, your grades will definitely not be good in the future, and you don't know what kind of university you can get into. With his current grades, I don't expect him to go to a key university or be admitted to Shangzhou College, even if it is a high incense. It turns out that I don't know whether I should let him study liberal arts or science, you are now a university teacher, the Chinese department is liberal arts, I also let my son study liberal arts, if there is anything, I can ask you for help. When I really find you on the door, you can't deny it. ”

"Of course not."

"Then we'll settle it."

"Okay."

"Do you want to meet the town's leaders? You don't know the current Secretary Zhao, the mayor of the town is the original Deputy Secretary Li, you know him, but he studied in the field during this time, not in the town. ”

"I don't know the new secretary, so I'm gone."

"Mayor Hu is in the unit, I'll take you to meet, he is also your old leader, it's not appropriate to come and see him."

Wu Dao remembered the days of working with Hu Xueshan, and felt that this old leader was a little kind, and he couldn't think of a reason to shirk it, so he followed Zhang Chunmei to Hu Xueshan's office, which was the place where Yu Ying worked before, and Wu Dao was very familiar with this place. When he was about to arrive at the door of Hu Xueshan's office, Wu Dao deliberately looked at the mayor's office, the door of the mayor's office was also open, and a young man was sitting behind the desk outside.

Zhang Chunmei said to the young man: "Xiao Wu, do you know who the people around me are? He used to work in your house, then he went to Jeju University for graduate school, and now he is a university teacher. The Wu Dao I often tell you is him, and you have to learn from him. He said to Wu Dao, "This young man is a new college student who has been admitted this year, and it is a coincidence that both of you are surnamed Wu." ”

Wu Dao and Xiao Wu each said "hello", and then looked at each other and smiled. Looking at the young man in front of him, Wu Dao saw himself four years ago in a trance, and he suddenly realized that time passed so quickly, four years seemed to be just a blink of an eye.

Hu Xueshan heard the conversation outside the door, looked up and saw Zhang Chunmei and Wu Dao, he asked Wu Dao with some surprise:

"Xiao Wu, why are you?"

"When I came back from my outing, I happened to meet him at the gate and called him in. Wu Dao is terrible now, he has graduated from graduate school, and he will become a university teacher at Fangzhou College next month. Zhang Chunmei said.

"yes, I really didn't expect it, come in and sit." Hu Xueshan said.

Wu Dao followed Zhang Chunmei into Hu Xueshan's office. Hu Xueshan has changed very little from three years ago, his figure is still as thin, but his hair seems to have become less. The desks, chairs and sofas in Hu Xueshan's office are very new, Wu Dao immediately thought that when Yu Ying served as the deputy mayor, the office equipment in the office was very old, but it had not been replaced for a long time.

Hu Xueshan stood up and walked to the door, let Wu Dao into the house, and let Wu Dao and Zhang Chunmei sit on the sofa. Hu Xueshan said:

"Chunmei, you just said something wrong, Wu Dao is now a university teacher, how can you still call him by his name? It should be called Professor Wu. Hu Xueshan said.

"Yes, yes, I said the wrong thing." Zhang Chunmei said.

"I haven't gone to work at Fangzhou College yet, even if I go to class, it will take a few years before I can be rated as a lecturer, and I am still far from a professor, I really can't afford to call me a professor." Wu Dao said.

"Afford it, when have we ever been a university teacher in our town, you are the first one, you have become a teacher in the university, you are not far from a professor, and you will definitely be a professor in a few years." Hu Xueshan said.

"Let's call it Mr. Wu, call it Professor, it sounds too awkward." Wu Dao said.

"You are just too modest, you used to be very humble when you worked in the town, and now that you are more educated, you are still so modest. However, humility makes people progress, so let's call you Mr. Wu. Hu Xueshan said.

After Hu Xueshan finished speaking, he wanted to pour tea for Wu Dao again. Zhang Chunmei stood up to help Hu Xueshan, Hu Xueshan said:

"This is the university teacher who came, of course he asked me to pour tea. This is a good tea, and I don't give it to ordinary people. ”

"Then I am still stained with the light of Mr. Wu, or a university teacher with a big face." Zhang Chunmei said.

"Well, this is the first time a university teacher has come to my office." Hu Xueshan said.