When Wu Dao first entered the Hecheng Town Government to walk around various departments, he promised a few colleagues to help him write articles, although the words were very vague, but there was one person who always remembered it, that is, Li Ruolan, the head of the statistics section. Li Ruolan originally just casually mentioned writing articles while chatting, and didn't take it seriously, after all, she didn't know if Wu Dao could really write. Li Ruolan would find an author with the same name in the newspaper every day, and she saw the article on the day the typical materials of the machinery factory were published. Wu Dao wrote 3,000 words of typical materials of Chengdong Machinery Factory in one day, and it was also published in the newspaper, which made Li Ruolan sure that this new colleague was really able to write, and it was not an ordinary ability to write, but a very good ability to write. Li Ruolan was the only staff member of the Statistics Department, and after reading the newspaper, she immediately called Wu Dao and said that she had something to ask him to go to the Statistics Department.

Li Ruolan is a well-known chatter in the Hecheng Town Government, the most important thing after work every day is to keep talking to someone, she is the only one in the statistics department, she will go to other departments to visit, or call people to the statistics department to chat, the most talked about is nothing more than trivial matters at home, saying how bad her mother-in-law treats her, how her husband and children do not listen to her, from one thing to another, and constantly extend, the topics are endless. Wu Dao has dealt with her a few times, and knows how broken her mouth is, no matter what she knows, it is equivalent to being on live TV, and everyone in the town will know it in the blink of an eye, so he often deliberately avoids her at work, so as not to be entangled by her and chatting. Hearing Li Ruolan call himself to go to the statistics department on the phone, Wu Dao's head buzzed, thinking that there must be no good thing, but it was not good not to go, so he could only go to the statistics department. As soon as he entered the door, Li Ruolan greeted him with a smile and said:

"Sister didn't misread you, you are really a talent." I picked up the newspaper again and said, "This is worth it, one page occupies nearly half of the page, and as soon as I go to work, I publish such an article, which is worthy of being a high-achieving student who graduated from a key university." Sit down and tell me how this article was written, so that I can learn from it. You say, why can't I write a single one? ”

"It's not difficult to write this article, I just sorted out what I interviewed from the machine factory and didn't make much revisions." Wu Dao said.

"You're so modest, if it's that simple, then not everyone can write about it? I heard that you wrote such a long article in one day, and if it were me, I wouldn't be able to write it in a month. ”

"In fact, as long as there is material, the article is very easy to write."

"Easy for you, too hard for me. You just put a truckload of footage in front of me, and I can't write it. I have a technical secondary school degree, and I can't compare to a top student from a key university like you. ”

Wu Dao was afraid that Li Ruolan would continue to talk endlessly, wasting a few hours in vain, so he interrupted her words and went straight to the point:

"Section Chief Li, do you have something to do with me?"

"Sister is looking for you to ask for something, this matter is very simple for you, you can't help sister."

"What's the matter? As long as I can do it, I will definitely help you. ”

"A few days ago, you promised to help me write an article, do you remember?"

"Yes." Wu Dao remembered that he had indeed said such a thing at the beginning, and it was impossible to deny it now.

"Sister is a career establishment, and it takes three papers to evaluate the title, and in the past few years, I have asked someone to find a relationship, and I finally published two articles, which were also written by others for me, and the last one is missing, and this one depends on your help."

Wu Dao didn't want to take this matter, so he said:

"It's not that I don't want to help, the key is that you have to evaluate the job title, and you must publish statistical articles to be effective, I don't do statistical work, I can't write."

"What you just said is that as long as you have the material, the article is easy to write. You went to the Chengdong Machinery Factory once, and you wrote the article. This kind of article of mine is definitely easier for you. ”

"I went to the Chengdong Machinery Factory to do an interview, and they provided me with all the materials I needed, so I could write content. I don't know anything about statistical work, how to write it? ”

"If you want to say that, it's not true. You can interview Chengdong Machinery Factory, or you can interview me, I will provide you with any materials you need, and I will provide you with more than the Machinery Factory. You can write a 3,000-word article once you go to a machinery factory, and our sister and brother can meet every day, and we can write a 30,000-word article. Besides, you promised me at the beginning, and you can't go back. ”

Li Ruolan's words made Wu Dao speechless, and he couldn't find any reason to refuse, so he had to say:

"Then I'll write it for you, but I can only write this one."

"Don't worry, I'm just going to miss this one."

"What's more, I'm only responsible for writing, and I don't guarantee that it will be published."

"You don't have to worry about that, you finish writing, print it out, and I'll find someone to publish it. By the way, you'll have to help me type an electronic manuscript that I'll send to an acquaintance at the magazine. ”

"Okay."

"Also, don't worry, my sister won't let you help in vain, I will give you a big gift when the article is published."

In addition to being a chatter, Li Ruolan is also a well-known iron rooster in the river town government and a person who doesn't take advantage of enough. Wu Dao remembered some of Li Ruolan's past, as soon as he went to work in the town government, Li Ruolan asked him if he had a mobile phone. After knowing that he didn't have a mobile phone, Li Ruolan was a little disappointed, and then asked him every once in a while if he had bought a mobile phone. At first, he was puzzled, thinking that she cared about him, but later learned from Zhang Chunmei that Li Ruolan wanted to take advantage of everyone in the town government. Half a year ago, Li Ruolan knew that registering a shopping website online with a mobile phone number could enjoy the new account discount, and then she asked everyone in the town government if they had registered the website, if the other party did not register, she would ask the person's mobile phone to come and register, and after enjoying the new account discount, she told the other party how much money she had saved, as if she had saved money for the other party. Before Wu Dao reported to work, Li Ruolan had already taken advantage of everyone in the town government who had not registered with the website, and after Wu Dao went to work, she had a new goal, but Wu Dao didn't have a mobile phone, which made her feel itchy and unbearable, so she was particularly concerned about when he would buy a mobile phone. Li Ruolan's family conditions are very good, but she has to be careful with every penny, she has worked for more than ten years, and has never invited anyone in the town government to eat, nor has she bought anything for others, but if someone else treats someone to dinner or brings something to the town government, no matter how small it is, she can't miss her, otherwise she will be anxious with that person and use all kinds of words to count each other. She has a mobile phone, but she almost never calls, and when she needs to make a call, she uses her office phone, and it is not uncommon for a phone call to be made for tens of minutes or even hours. What made her most dissatisfied was that the telephones of various departments could only make local calls, and only the telephones of leading cadres' offices could make long-distance calls, but she was not always able to make calls in front of the leaders, so she complained and often privately discussed that the leaders had special privileges. Now hearing her say that she wants to give himself a big gift, Wu Dao almost laughed, he couldn't help but say:

"No need. If you tell me what you usually do in statistical work, and then summarize your work in the past few years, I will be ready to write an article. Is there a word count requirement for an article? ”

"It doesn't have to be too long, just two or three thousand words, it's a piece of cake for you."

Li Ruolan told Wu Dao about his daily work, and it became a trivial matter between parents and colleagues, Wu Dao interrupted her, saying that the material was enough, and then picked up the summary of the statistical work of the last five years and left. Li Ruolan was still unsatisfied, and said to Wu Dao:

"I'm not in a hurry, you don't have to write the article too fast, don't exhaust yourself, just give it to me in a week. If you need help with anything, just come to my sister, and come to the statistics department to talk to my sister in the future. ”

Wu Dao couldn't wait to go out and threw Li Ruolan's work summary into the trash, regretting that he shouldn't have promised to help her write an article, regretting that he shouldn't have finished writing the typical materials of the machinery factory in one day, and the troubles were all found by himself.

Li Ruolan gave Wu Dao a week to write an article, which was more than enough for him, he originally wanted to write slowly, but as soon as he thought of this matter, he felt very bored, and it would be more troubles to delay for a day, so it was better to finish writing as soon as possible, and it became faster again.

Although Li Ruolan said that he was not in a hurry, he had to ask Wu Dao several times a day how the article was written, and he wanted to finish it quickly, so as to get rid of the entanglement of chatter. He looked at Li Ruolan's summary of statistical work, the content of each year is about the same, the summary of the previous year, and the time and statistics were revised to become this year's summary, not only that, but the summary was actually some empty words, and there were not many things with reference value. He had no choice but to go to the telecommunications classroom, look up a few articles related to statistical work on the Internet for reference, and then write the articles directly on the computer, so as not to spend time typing after writing on paper.

With the reference materials, the article was quickly written, and on the afternoon of the third day, Wu Dao handed over the paper draft of the article to Li Ruolan. Li Ruolan was very happy when he saw the article, and praised Wu Dao's superb writing level. Wu Dao saw that Li Ruolan was talking about it, and he was afraid that she would talk endlessly, so he hurriedly asked her if there was anything else to do and whether the article had anything to revise. Li Ruolan didn't read the article, so he said that he didn't need to revise it, and then took him back to the electronic classroom and asked him to send the electronic manuscript to an email address.

After Li Ruolan's article was written, Wu Dao thought that the matter had passed like this, and no one would come to him to help write the article again, he forgot that Li Ruolan was a chatter, and it would not be so easy for her to say something. When Wu Dao helped Li Ruolan write the article, in order to prevent others from asking him to help write the article and delay her affairs, she could still resist not telling the matter, and now that the article has been written, she has no worries. Wu Dao's help her write an article was quickly known in the Hecheng Town Government, not only that, but she also exaggerated the matter, describing Wu Dao as amazing, no matter what the article, it can be easily and effortlessly.

With the beginning of Li Ruolan, colleagues who need to publish articles and can't write themselves find Wu Dao one after another, and people from other units even find him through the office director Hu Xueshan to help write articles, he wants to refuse, but he has already helped Li Ruolan, and there is no reason to refuse others, he can only take care of the articles that Hu Xueshan asked him to write first, and other colleagues can only drag it first, and it can be delayed for a day, but fortunately, there is only Li Ruolan in the town who has a word, and others have said it once, and they are embarrassed to ask every day.

After handing over the article to Li Ruolan, two days later, she did give Wu Dao a gift, which was two gift boxes of nutritional products. She sent the gift box directly to Wu Dao's dormitory. Wu Dao didn't want to accept it, but he couldn't stand Li Ruolan's endless words, so he had to accept it. After Li Ruolan left, Wu Dao looked at the gift box, it was all flashy things, and there were still five months before the expiration date. Li Ruolan goes to work every day to tell her colleagues what happened at home the day before, so there are almost no secrets in her family. Wu Dao remembered that she once said that her husband worked at the county tax bureau, and many bosses often gave gifts to her family in order to pay less taxes, and the gift boxes at home were piled up. Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing, and said in his heart: "These two gift boxes must have been given to her husband by others, it turned out that this iron rooster had already planned to give the gift box at home to herself, no wonder she was so generous that she wanted to give herself a big gift, not only to give away the useless things at home, but also to return the favor, it is really killing two birds with one stone." ”

After Wu Dao finished writing the article explained by Hu Xueshan, he unexpectedly received a "remuneration" of 1,500 yuan for the two articles. When he received the gift box from Li Ruolan, he still thought about refusing, but when he received the money this time, he accepted it very calmly. He didn't understand whether he had fallen or not, so he wrote an email to tell Zhao Wu and Jing Like what happened. Zhao Wu replied:

"I know my brother's situation. My brother is still too kind, if it were me, unless it was a close friend or relative, I would be able to help them write articles. But since the article is written, why not collect money? My brother's family is poor, and there is still a lot of money to spend in graduate school in the future, so I can take this opportunity to save more money. Besides, my brother has never had the money to buy a mobile phone, so why not use the money he received to buy a mobile phone now? You might as well say to my brother, I can't wait to make a windfall now, if I have enough money in my hand, what kind of bullshit graduate school will I study! Wouldn't it be better if we just started a magazine and wrote what we really wanted to write and say what we really wanted to say? ”

Jing Like replied:

"Life is like this, there are many things that we can't do if we don't want to do them, and the interpersonal relationships in government offices are too complicated to be where we should be. The good thing is that it's just a place for you to stay for a while, and then you can go back to college for graduate school. ”

After getting off work, Wu Dao went to the mobile phone mall in the city with 1,500 yuan of "remuneration", bought a mobile phone for 800 yuan, and went to apply for a calling card, and then sent a text message to Zhao Wu and Jing Like, telling them their mobile phone numbers.

Wu Dao didn't want to tell his family about helping people write articles, but the gift box that Li Ruolan gave him was useless in the dormitory, so he had to take it home, so he had to tell the truth of the matter. As he imagined, no one in the family blamed him for receiving gifts, but they were all very happy, because in their opinion, there is no one who is an official who does not accept gifts, the more gifts, the better, and the more gifts he receives, the greater his ability, not to mention that the Wu family also has an example, that is, Yang Chengzhi, he sends out and receives countless gifts every year.

"I didn't expect to receive gifts for writing articles, so I should write more articles and receive more gifts in the future." Wu Yang said.

"In a few years, when I become mayor of the town, there will be more people giving gifts." Wu He said.

"These gift boxes are so high-end, we don't eat them ourselves, it's useless to keep them, who will we give gifts to?" Li Mei said.

"What do you think is really a good thing in this, it's just that the box is good-looking, and the things inside are all deceitful, so keep it for when you go to relatives for the New Year. What kind of gift box to give, how good it is to send money directly. Wu Yang said.

"These gift boxes were also given to that colleague by someone else, and she gave them to me. I see that the production date of the gift box has five months of shelf life, and it is about to expire by the time of the New Year, so it is not appropriate to take it away from relatives, right? Wu Dao said.

"There's nothing inappropriate, who still looks at the production date, and no one eats it from relatives, and they all take it away and give it away, maybe they will eventually go back to your colleague's house." Wu Yang said.

In the next few days, Wu He spread the news of Wu Dao's gift to Xiaohuangzhuang, he felt that it was a very glorious thing, others can give you gifts, indicating that you have the ability, you should spread the word, so that the whole village knows.

After receiving the "remuneration", Wu Dao did not tell his family about the matter. After receiving the two gift boxes, the Wu family was already happy like that, and Wu He also preached everywhere, really letting them know that they had received 1,500 yuan, and maybe what would happen. When his family saw that he had bought a mobile phone and asked him where he came from, he said that he had paid his salary to buy it. The family said that the mobile phone was bought correctly, and when you work in the government, you should buy a mobile phone, and you can't be looked down upon.

After Li Ruolan knew that Wu Dao had bought a mobile phone, he quickly found him and used his mobile phone number to register an account on a shopping website and enjoy a discount for a new account. The last advantage in the town government was also taken advantage of, and she was finally satisfied. She happily said to Wu Dao:

"Let me tell you, a new user can save twenty yuan, you are the hundredth new user in our town, one hundred people, that is, two thousand yuan, this is really not a small number, almost catch up with two months' salary. If there is such a good thing in the future, I will definitely tell you, if there is any way to save money, you must also tell my sister. There are good things, you can't hide them, you have to enjoy them together. ”