As soon as the night fell, the stars shone high and deep blue in the sky.

Zheng Fenghua conveyed the spirit of the two-level cadre meeting held by the party committee to the cadres and educated youths of the whole team, and when he walked out of the door of the club, he found that he was the last. The spirit of this meeting was full of strong feelings. With the broad mind of a leading cadre, Secretary Xiao expressed the attitude of both nostalgia and farewell to the educated youth who should return to the city, and deployed emergency measures on how to maintain the stability of the farm and normal production order once a large number of educated youths leave the site. He said that as long as the educated youth meet the policy of returning to the city, he will warmly send off and assist the educated youth in going through the procedures. From the beginning of the meeting to the end of the meeting, a group of young intellectuals buzzing like clusters of small flying insects, in addition to discussing the spirit of the meeting, they were inevitably talking about the methods of taking the entrance examination and returning to the city. The key is the issue of returning to the city, and the higher authorities have repeatedly stressed that it is necessary to act in accordance with the policy, stress principles, and set conditions, but how many of the people who are leaving in front of us are really doing it according to the conditions on the document? Of course, there is another rule, those who do not meet the conditions for returning to the city, in addition to taking the university entrance examination, are still required to take root in the farm and build a farm. After Xiao Buer came back from the field hospital, he told Li Jin, Ma Guangdi, Ding Yuechun and others what he saw and heard truthfully, the more he whispered, the faster it spread, and some people said that Niu Da and Xiao Bu Er had already preliminarily gotten the procedures for returning to the city, and Li Jin also began to turn from waiting for big policies to take a combination with Niu Da breaking out...... These have been widely spread among the educated youth of the whole team, which has accelerated the contradiction between the rooted faction Yuan Cannon and Tian Ye and their active return to the city......

Zheng Fenghua conveyed the spirit of this meeting, feeling both relaxed and melancholy. The easy thing is that the matter of taking the university entrance examination has been integrated with the clear national policy and realistic public opinion, and Secretary Xiao has no other expression after that temper, and it is still the same as before. Frustrated, when talking about how the educated youths who returned to the city unconditionally took root to build a new socialist farm, they felt pale and powerless in their words and even in their demeanor. On the issue of returning to the city by fraud, he swallowed and changed the topic several times, as if his words were incoherent and unconvincing.

Is it an obstacle to applying for a university that makes it a job barrier?

He walked out of the door of the small club, and a cool evening breeze rushed towards him, and there was no sense of comfort, and his heart was dull and hot, as if waiting for the lightning to explode before it could rain.

"Secretary Zheng," Qian Guanghua's father was waiting in front of the club at some point, "I told you not to eat dinner, did you keep your promise?" ”

"Oh, yes, yes," he remembered, "Principal Qian, keep your promises, how can you not keep your promises." ”

Principal Qian grabbed one of his arms: "Let's go, they are all waiting for you at home." ”

Who are they? Zheng Fenghua remembered that when Principal Qian agreed with him to come to his house for dinner tonight, there were Mu Guihua, Wei Liangchen, Li Jun, Gao Shuren, etc.

These people have gradually expanded in recent years to include friendships that work hand in hand. Principal Qian was sentenced to implement the policy of labor reform because of the so-called serious rightist remarks, and became the principal of the primary school, which was personally proposed by Zheng Fenghua and agreed to support by the team's leadership team; Mu Guihua settled on the farm with her husband who was sentenced to labor reform, and was identified by some people as a party member with a declining will, and suggested that it be removed from the party as "carbon dioxide". Li Jun was once suggested by Wang Da to be the leader of the second team study class, beat Li Jin, Zheng Fenghua and others, and had a deep grudge with the educated youth, Zheng Fenghua organized Li Jun and Li Jin to talk and do things together many times, Li Jun had a deep introspection, Li Jin and others also expressed their understanding and reconciled; Wei Liangchen is an employed peasant worker, often writes monograms for the team's conferences, writes festival blocks, and gets along with the cadres of the team's organs, and no one calls him "Second Labor Reform" anymore; Through this paragraph of criticism of "***", setting things right, and cleaning up the source, everyone realized that Gao Shuren exchanged the old hen and the educated youth for Chairman Mao's portrait badge, which was originally out of reverence, but he was repeatedly criticized, and everyone felt ridiculous when he mentioned this matter. Since Zheng Fenghua became the branch secretary, he has never eaten at anyone's house, and he is rarely invited. These days, it is rumored in the team that he is going to take the university entrance examination, as if he has finished the exam and has received the admission notice and wants to leave, this one says that he wants to sit at home, and the other says that he wants to invite him to the house to chat, in fact, they are all invited to the house for a meal. Some have already gone to the office to look for it, the road is blocked, and they have been invited seven or eight times. Before this meeting, President Qian and the other four people blocked the office and invited them repeatedly, but it was difficult to refuse, so he had to agree.

This is the second time Zheng Fenghua has entered Principal Qian's home. On the day when the party branch of the team declared and the party committee implemented the policy office of the field party committee officially rehabilitated him, Zheng Fenghua led all the members of the team leadership team to his house, in addition to congratulating, announced two decisions of the party branch, one is to let him be the principal of the team's primary school, and the other is to give him the suite where the original Wang Da was stunned, and the thatched house he lives in can be given to Qian Guanghua and Xue Wenqin.

At that time, Principal Qian was so excited for a while, he changed his pretend character of being quiet and silent for many years, and talked endlessly about some words that had been pressed in his heart for more than 20 years. Zheng Fenghua was also so excited that he cried. When he was leaving, Principal Qian blocked left and right, and instead of letting his wife and Xue Wenqin fry a few dishes and □ a few cups here, Zheng Fenghua blindly insisted on refusing, the reason was that Secretary Xiao would lead a group of party committee members to come to the three teams to work on the spot tomorrow, study and listen to how to expand the scale of small coal mines, increase output and ensure safe production, and he would soon go to the small coal mine and Pan Xiaobiao to study the report and planning plan. Principal Qian was discouraged when he heard this, and when he finally reached an agreement to choose a day to drink again, Principal Qian brought a bottle of Erguotou from the kitchen, took the lead in drinking three cups, and then gave everyone a glass.

Ah, that's because Principal Qian still has a lot to say, and Zheng Fenghua is leaving. He sincerely thanked the Party Central Committee for setting things right and rehabilitating him, and he was also sincerely grateful to the young party branch secretary for insisting on justice, allowing cadres to endure hardships in the front and enjoy in the back, and there were many living examples. He heard the rumors about this house and believed it. When the party branch studied his work and housing, Zheng Fenghua adjourned the meeting due to a dispute with Captain Zhang. Captain Zhang did not explicitly put forward it, and hinted several times that he wanted to live in the house that Wang Da was stunned to pour out, and secretly sent someone to clean it up, so he was very dissatisfied with Zheng Fenghua, and complained after the meeting, and went to Zheng Fenghua alone, but Zheng Fenghua stubbornly refused to change his opinion. At another regular meeting of the party branch, the minority obeyed the majority and passed Zheng Fenghua's proposal.

Coming to the gate, Principal Qian took the first step to push open the iron gate and let Zheng Fenghua enter the compound. Wei Liangchen, Gao Shuren, Li Jun and others have already been waiting at the door to greet them, this extraordinary etiquette and enthusiasm are very inconsistent with Zheng Fenghua's mentality and environment, that is the practice of the farm and the production team to welcome the leaders at the next level to inspect the work, even Secretary Xiao is opposed to standing at the door to greet and drive at the intersection, Zheng Fenghua felt very unnatural for a while.

This is definitely no longer the theme of implementing policies and becoming presidents, but to dissuade yourself from going to university and staying behind to build a better future, right?

"Oh-" Zheng Fenghua shook his head, "I can't stand such enthusiasm, we just met at the meeting just now, and now it's like a reunion after a long absence." ”

"Hey, don't say it, if you don't be enthusiastic now, I'm afraid you won't be able to rank by then." Mu Guihua broke the theme of this invitation banquet with one word, "We were choking when Principal Qian went to invite you just now, your head croaked when you were studying, and the educated youths said a lot, and now you can see it in your work." With this intelligence, if you can't pass the exam, few people will be able to pass the exam. The document says that more than 273,000 people will be admitted to the country, so how can so many raindrops fall on your head? ”

"It's not that easy, there are more than 5.7 million candidates in the country," Zheng Fenghua heard it, they had no aversion to their university entrance examination, their hearts were a little open, and their words were hearty, "It takes an average of more than 200 candidates to admit one, and the rain is too thin." Even though he said this, he always felt sure in his heart.

Zheng Fenghua sat down at the small kang table and sighed with emotion: "You are holding me up too highly, you can't be this theme today, and then if you fail in the college entrance examination, people will laugh at it as a joke." ”

"Sit down, sit down," Principal Qian pushed Zheng Fenghua to sit inside, and explained happily, "There are many reasons for inviting you to come today, and I can't tell which one is the main one." ”

Zheng Fenghua sat cross-legged on the kang and took a look, the small kang table was contrary to the customs of the Great Northern Wilderness, showing a unique style: four plates were tightly attached to each other in a square, there were red and tender hams, there were dark and shiny preserved eggs, there were blue and light blue green squares, as well as fried meat mixed with yellow flowers, needle mushrooms, fungus, and monkey heads, and small plates, chopsticks and transparent glass wine glasses that had been poured wine were placed on the edge of the table according to the seats.

"Come-" After Principal Qian urged Wei Liangchen and the others to sit down in the kang group, he first pointed at the plate and opened his mouth, "Let's not call the secretary today, Fenghua, I finally invited you here, let's eat happily, drink happily, and it's early in the morning!" He took the lead in taking a bite of ham cut into small cubes, urged Zheng Fenghua and the others to □ a glass of wine, and explained: "I said that I would treat you today, and they said that it was too difficult to invite you to the house, so they didn't let anything, and they each brought a ...... from home for these four dishes."

"Fenghua," Mu Guihua was slow in her speech, and she was very excited, and pointed to the ham and said, "You try this dish, whether it is good or not is my craft, almost every family in Jinhua Mansion, Zhejiang Province can pickle it." You may have heard that every time the national hero Zong Ze goes home to visit relatives, he has to bring some ham from his hometown back to reward the soldiers, and I heard that he later brought it into the palace to the emperor to taste, so Song Gaozong gave a thumbs up and praised it. You are not an emperor, and I am not a hero, so I would like to express my gratitude to you as a whole. ”

"Yo, I really didn't know that you knew such a general history," Zheng Fenghua smacked his lips and smiled, "Didn't I say it, don't come at me with this gratitude, the party's policy is good at the moment, and we should thank our party!" ”

Mu Guihua put down her chopsticks with a "snap", and looked touched: "If there are good policies of the party, there must also be good cadres who implement good policies." Wang Da was stunned what kind of thing he was when he was in charge here! I looked for him several times, and asked him to look through the files to see that I was an old party member and director of the Women's Relief Association during the land reform, and the old man committed a crime for a while, I couldn't help it, and I moved here after he was employed, and I repeatedly explained and said that I wanted to draw a clear line with him, distinguish between right and wrong, give me a job, and I will definitely work hard for the party. Guess what he did, he scolded me well, and a family member of the 'second labor reform' ......"

"Oops-" Principal Qian sighed, "Thinking about what Wang Da was stunned to do at that time, I really didn't know how to live at that time!" ”

Mu Guihua was excited: "That's right, after Fenghua took office, he broke up the affairs between me and the old man clearly, and proposed to the party rectification working group to make me the deputy captain," she looked at Zheng Fenghua and said, "There is not a word of what you said at the women's conference that does not fall into my heart, and the ones you said at the whole team meeting are so simple." At that time, Wang Da was stunned to dress me up as no one or a ghost, and now I am like another person......"

"It should be said that your political quality is good," Mr. Zheng said, "and this is also the credit of the party task force." ”

"I don't know if it's the credit of the whole party task force? But you played a big role," Mu Guihua flashed with admiration, picked up a piece of ham with chopsticks, and put it into the small plate in front of Zheng Fenghua, "You chew the taste of the taste well, don't be busy swallowing it in your stomach." ”

Zheng Fenghua nodded: "Okay, good ......" He put it in his mouth and chewed carefully, oil, salt, pepper, ginger powder and other ingredients accompanied by the fragrant tendons and tender meat fragrance filled the mouth, not greasy and soft and easy to chew, it does have a unique flavor.

Ham, this ingenious cured ham, is infused with Mu Guihua's friendship and gratitude. Zheng Fenghua sighed infinitely that as an ordinary grassroots cadre of the party, he was just implementing the party's policies. The masses, the helpless masses need it too much!

"Fenghua, you taste this, this is what I brought it." After Principal Qian encouraged everyone to have another drink, Gao Shuren gestured to the plate of preserved eggs with chopsticks and said, "This dish is not very eye-catching, it is a specialty of our Wujiang area in Jiangsu. As he spoke, he picked up a piece of small disc and put it into Zheng Fenghua.

"Yo, it's all hometown flavor." Zheng Fenghua picked it up and put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully, it was fresh and smooth, very tasty, with both egg flavor and meat flavor.

"The flavor of hometown can express feelings, and it is sincere." Gao Shuren asked, "Fenghua, do you know why I am so grateful to you?" The whole team of employed agricultural workers admires you and appreciates you! ”

"What are you talking about?" Zheng Fenghua shook his head.

"Hey," Gao Shuren said, "it's just a little thing. ”

"A little thing is worth thanking for?"

"It's a small thing, a big friendship."

The people here really didn't know why Gao Shuren invited Zheng Fenghua to dinner again and again as soon as he heard that Zheng Fenghua was going to be admitted to university.

"Speaking of which, this was eight years ago," Gao Shuren said, "or when the educated youth first entered the field, you all know that I used an old hen and the horsepower of the educated youth to exchange for a portrait badge out of love for the great leader Chairman Mao. After I came back from the second company study class, no one dared to talk to me, and I felt that life was boring. Gao Shuren suddenly jumped over the topic to Zheng Fenghua with sadness, "The general field announced that on the third day of your secretary, I pulled the car to chop firewood and came back, and when I passed by the small coal mine, I mistakenly entered a small pit, and I couldn't pull it out. I really left you two to eat noodles and poached eggs, you two refused to say anything, forced me to force me, and only then did one drink a glass of boiling water, and that glass of water made my heart so hot......"

Zheng Fenghua smiled and shook his head: "What's that?" ”

"What's it? You can't tell! Gao Shuren's eyes widened, "You have changed the tradition of this labor camp for more than 20 years, and put us on the main table from a place where no one is a ghost or a ghost." Some of us who have completed their sentences have committed crimes, and after completing their sentences, some of them have repented and reformed themselves, and they want to contribute to the construction of our farm. Wang Da was stunned, but he kept us out, and after completing his sentence, he was employed, and he also called it 'Second Labor Reform', and the cadres and workers, especially you educated youth, who want to sit in our house, either say that we are being co-opted and corrupted, or that the boundaries of people going there are not clear. If a person makes a mistake, won't this be the end of a lifetime! He paused and continued, his tone a little impassioned, "You've pulled us into the crowd at once!" When I meet people, I say that especially when I see us employed as peasants and workers, I start from the beginning. I heard that some people didn't believe it and asked you, and you promised to say yes again and again, right? ”

"Oh," Zheng Fenghua replied thoughtfully, "it seems like there is such a thing. ”

Wei Liangchen interjected on the side: "Since then, the employed peasants and workers have begun to interact with the educated youth and cadres of our team, and some of them are still very hot. ”

"Fenghua," said Principal Qian, "don't you know, there are still many teams on our farm like we used to do here, who draw clear lines all day long, as if they can be in the dark when dealing with employed peasants and workers!" ”

"That's it!" Gao Shuren responded with a word, and put another piece of preserved egg into the small dish used by Zheng Fenghua.

Zheng Fenghua picked it up and put it in his mouth, chewed it in a big bite, and slowly swallowed it into his stomach. Gao Shuren and the others said at the table, so sincere and emotional, a warm current spread in his heart, he really felt what it is like to be a Communist Party member and a grassroots cadre mingling with the masses and blending their feelings, and he also saw the evil results of Wang Da's kind of cadres breaking away from the masses.

He had the idea of sitting here a little longer, even if it was until dawn.

It seems to be intentionally arranged, but it is not. Li Jun was anxious to let Zheng Fenghua taste the green side he brought, and confessed that he should not have run away with Wang Da because he was confused at the time, and he was sorry for Li Jin, Ma Guangdi, etc. in the second company study class, and felt very guilty, and wanted to invite Zheng Fenghua, including Li Jin, Ma Guangdi, etc., to have an apology meal at home, afraid that he would not move, so he specially came to ask Zheng Fenghua to be accommodating this time, hoping to drink and talk together. Wei Liangchen then expounded his affection and asked Zheng Fenghua to taste the newly invented fried pork mixed with yellow flowers, fungus, monkey's head, and needle mushrooms that he brought from home. Principal Qian repeatedly restrained him and only allowed him to bring one dish, so he had to put these Northeast flavor specialty chowder together, and thanked him for his enthusiastic help in helping his niece Han Qiumei to settle down on the farm and marry Ma Guangdi.

"When you come to my house, you have to let you speak first," Principal Qian took Wei Liangchen's words and gestured to the next four dishes with chopsticks, "When you bring this dish, you feel that the taste and feelings of the dish are blended together." It's a shame that I've discussed it with my wife a long time ago, otherwise, it really makes you look inferior and can't express my feelings......"

As soon as he finished speaking, his wife put a small stove with a charcoal fire in the middle of the four dishes, and soon brought a porcelain basin filled with boiled water to sit on it, and turned around and brought a large plate of thinly sliced fresh mutton, as well as radish strips, cabbage slices, vermicelli, etc., and scooped a small spoonful of leek flowers and bean curd into each person's small plate.

Principal Qian asked, "Do you all understand this famous hall?" ”

Everyone in the room shook their heads.

"Fenghua, this is called hot pot mutton. When I was a child in the old society, my grandfather was a merchant who did business, and when a merchant came to the house, my grandfather would entertain him with mutton shabu. I remember that my grandfather had a very beautiful copper hot pot, but we didn't have it, so we had to deal with it like this. Then, Principal Qian told everyone how to shake and eat. It can be seen that he has used his brains.

"Principal Qian, I seem to have seen the word 'hot pot' in some book, and this time I have opened my eyes and feasted my mouth." Zheng Fenghua raised his glass, "Come, I wish you a better life!" Cheers! ”

After speaking, he took the lead and drank it all.

Zheng Fenghua looked at it, and suddenly found that the dishes on this table were like a colorful flower: ruddy ham, dark and shiny preserved eggs, blue and light blue green squares, fried pork slices mixed with yellow flowers and fungus, like four big petals, and the red mutton slices floating on the surface of the hot pot were like a big stamen. The petals and stamens are like a colorful red flower condensed with deep affection and blooming.

The water in the porcelain basin boiled, the red color of the mutton slices gradually faded, and under the urging of Principal Qian, you and I took out the chopsticks and dipped them in the condiments and ate them.

Zheng Fenghua took a sip of wine, ate a bite of meat slices, and was surrounded by the various affectionate feelings contained in these colorful flowers, moved, excited, and could no longer be calm. This colorful flower cannot be planted by any flower expert in the world, and her preciousness and value can only be weighed by the balance of the heart.

His eyes were moist.

"Fenghua," Principal Qian put down his chopsticks and asked what had been stuffed in his heart for many days, "The cadres and the masses in the team are talking about you going to apply for the university, and Captain Mu didn't avoid mentioning you. Tell us what you really think, how about it? ”

"Alas-" Zheng Fenghua sighed, took a sip of wine and put down his glass, staring at the dining table, as if answering, as if talking to himself, "Today is an emotional banquet, I'll say something emotional!" How do you know how conflicted I am! It stands to reason that I am just an ordinary coal miner's child, an ordinary intellectual youth in the countryside, under the cultivation of the farm party organization, joined the Communist Party, became the secretary of the party branch, ate the food of the Great Northern Wilderness for nearly ten years, and drank the water of the Great Northern Wilderness for nearly ten years...... But there are some things that are too hard for me......"

The energy of everyone present was concentrated, and they couldn't take their eyes off Zheng Fenghua's expression.

"Say it...... Zheng Fenghua knocked on the small kang table excitedly and said, "Let you say, I, a small head, basically do the work of the educated youth, but I can't do anything to keep the educated youth, what face do I have to stay here?" The Farm Bureau proposed to let me lead the whole team to build the first Dazhai-style production team in the whole world, I dare not promise, what face is left here? And that magnolia, it just makes me chill and heartbreak! ”

"Fenghua," Wei Liangchen couldn't bear it anymore, "I want to interject, I've heard a lot about you and Magnolia, and they're all reliable." I said, don't drill the horns of the cow in this matter, I was angry when I heard it. With your heart, the stones should bloom, her Magnolia is still there to make that set, just blow the lamp and pull the wax with her, a good girl has it! ”

Gao Shuren gave Mu Guihua a wink, and Mu Guihua nodded.

"I said Fenghua," Gao Shuren opened his mouth timidly, "Mu ...... Captain...... The girl is ...... ......"

When Mu Guihua heard this, she dispelled her hesitation and took the words: "I think it's better for me to say it myself." Fenghua, when you didn't arrive, we discussed a small topic......"

As soon as Zheng Fenghua heard the words, he looked at their expressions and felt that there was something strange here, so he paid attention.

"Principal Qian, they just discussed, anyway, the matter between you and Magnolia is basically blown, and they proposed to let my Xiaoyun make friends with you to see how it goes," Mu Guihua just said words, and felt a little embarrassed, and it was more natural to start, "I'm not climbing high branches, I also weighed the female intellectuals and girls who have no object in our team, and it's really my Xiaoyun who can match you." ”

"Fenghua, yes," Principal Qian said happily, "Her child is good, and I know best about being a teacher there." ”

Li Jun didn't say anything for a long time, and now he also came to his senses: "There are really not many people who are so beautiful and a little talented like Xiao Yun, I think it's one in a hundred, and nothing is worse than Magnolia......"

Mu Guihua saw that Zheng Fenghua didn't squeak, and listened to their words again, and took over the topic: "My Xiaoyun returned to the team after graduating from high school, and let Principal Qian take a fancy to be a teacher." If she hadn't selected college students from among the workers, peasants and soldiers at that time, she would have been able to pass the exam. This time, I heard that the college entrance examination has resumed, and I am hurrying to review! She found that Zheng Fenghua listened very carefully, and detailed the introduction: "After her father was sentenced to be a counter-revolutionary because she was a company commander in a Kuomintang military academy, we have been putting her in foster care with my father. My father is a university Chinese professor, and in the past few years, the college was a mess, and he put all his energy into cultivating Xiao Yun, and she can do piano, chess, calligraphy and painting......"

"It's not just okay, it's serious," Wei Liangchen said, "She wrote the amount of the conference held a few nights ago, and I'm going to let her try it......"

Mu Guihua snatched the words again: "Xiao Yun is young and writes fluent articles, and there is an essay "Ode to the Party Flag" in the provincial newspaper on July 1st, which was written by her. ”

"Ode to the Party Flag?" Zheng Fenghua couldn't help asking, this essay was published in the seventh pair of provincial newspapers, the length is not short, he read it carefully, did not pay attention to who the author is, but the writing is fresh, smooth, and the idea is also very new, contrary to those who have always praised the party flag, there are a few sentences still have an impression.

"Yes, she wrote it!" Mu Guihua was a little surprised when she saw Zheng Fenghua, and seemed to have read this article, and then said, "My Xiaoyun is not like an educated youth, who has something to spread as soon as it spreads, she told me several times that she wants to aspire to be a writer." I'm not boasting, if this kid goes to college for a few more years and exercises for a few more years, maybe there is a lot of hope. She stopped her words, and felt that there were still a few words to say, "She shook her head again and again when someone introduced her to someone. Her grandfather wrote that there was a teacher in the university who stayed in the school, and Xiao Yun's heart was not moved. At the mention of you, she just laughed and didn't squeak. ”

Li Jun asked, "How old is Xiao Yun this year?" ”

Mu Guihua: "Twenty-four. ”

"Okay," Principal Qian admired, "I think it's okay, Fenghua is twenty-eight this year, four years older, middle!" ”

"Don't say this, don't say this." Zheng Fenghua hadn't paid attention to Xiao Yun, and he hadn't heard of her rumors. The situation that these real people you and I introduced sentence by sentence is really no worse than Magnolia, he wants to think about it but has no heart, he wants to refuse forcefully, and he is afraid of hurting Mu Guihua's heart, and Magnolia's matter can't be explained clearly, so he has to say, "I'll think about this matter later." ”

"After that, when will it be in the future, I will see that there will be twenty-nine and thirty people in the New Year!" Principal Qian was not very disgusted when he saw Zheng Fenghua, and said to Mu Guihua, "It's better to talk about it at first sight, Captain Mu, you go and call Xiao Yun and let Fenghua get to know him." ”

"Hey, hey......" Zheng Fenghua didn't catch it, Mu Guihua slipped off the kang and left.

Zheng Fenghua shouted as he got up to get off the kang: "Hey-osmanthus-"

"Ouch, you're a man!" Principal Qian grabbed him, "Let her go, don't talk about friends, you should know such a talent, take it on the agenda in the future, cultivate and cultivate well, let a golden phoenix fly out of the desolate nest of our Great Northern Wilderness, and let outsiders take a look!" ”

Zheng Fenghua didn't move.

"Hey, Fenghua," Gao Shuren asked, "You didn't make it clear just now, let us know, what are your plans to go to university?" ”

"As for me, I just have such a good wish," Zheng Fenghua smacked wine and ate food with everyone, and said in a dull heart, "If you want to say that you are deliberately pursuing college, it doesn't seem to be." Those young people who wanted to apply for the exam were driving the night train to review their homework, and I put together the textbooks and put them under my pillow before turning the page. There is so much work waiting for me in the team, so many complicated things disturbing my mind, like this - let it be, review if you can find time, review if you don't have time, leave if you don't take the test, and stay if you don't take the test. ”

Principal Qian said: "Listening to your words, coupled with my observations, you have let the political storm blow to the ground." In fact, your love problems are also mixed with political overtones, and you really can't control the situation and storms you want to control, I understand. He put down his chopsticks and looked at Zheng Fenghua and accentuated his tone, "Fenghua, you are more rational than me, I don't know if to say this......

"You say, just say it."

"The parties are confused, but the bystanders are clear." President Qian said, "You are letting the confusion of alternating between the old and new political environment interfere with your reason, and you want to change the environment for the university entrance examination, I understand it too well." However, you have to go with the flow, but you have to get in the way of public opinion, because of your work, and you don't let your ideas stretch out. I saw that your foundation was good, and if you wanted to go to university, I decided on this path, and I made up my mind to review seriously and strive to get on the list. A grassroots cadre like you, who has practical experience, can return to practice after four years of college. The contribution made in the future will not be worse than that of the branch secretary of the third team! ”

Zheng Fenghua was moved and shook Principal Qian's hand: "How many people can understand me like this?" ”

"Whatever!" Principal Qian held Zheng Fenghua's hand, "Let others say go, seek the brightest place in your future and enter the kingdom of freedom to serve the motherland...... If you have this idea, I support you. Of course, judging from the narrow interests in front of you, neither we here nor the careers of the three teams want you to go. ”

Wei Liangchen was excited next to him: "You are only twenty-eight years old, you have time, you still have time to do a career after graduating from college." ”

Like a trickle of warmth flowing from his heart to his whole body, Zheng Fenghua was surrounded by sweetness that he had never before.

They were chatting, and Mu Guihua led Xiao Yun in.

"Xiao Yun," Mu Guihua said, "that's Secretary Zheng, Uncle Li......"

Xiao Yun was generous, smiled and nodded: "Secretary Zheng is good, Principal Qian is good...... I know Uncle Li, I have spoken to Uncle Li, and I have listened to Secretary Zheng's report many times. ”

Zheng Fenghua looked at it embarrassedly, and sure enough, she was indeed a slim and beautiful girl who was one in a hundred, with the beauty of a city girl and the simplicity of a country girl, and she could be called a standard Chinese girl. In order not to be embarrassed, he opened his mouth first: "Comrade Xiao Yun, I don't even know that there is such a talent in our team, it's too bureaucratic." I like your "Ode to the Party Flag" very much, the idea is good, and the writing is also very beautiful. I heard that you are determined to be a writer, I will give you a title now, and when the chaos is over, you will use our small Xing'an Farm from its inception to the present as the living material to write a novel, which must be a magnificent mountain and river! ”

"Secretary Zheng," Xiao Yun's expression was natural, "It depends on your help and planning, or we can cooperate." You plan the layout of the characters to produce the material, and I will make the time. ”

"Hahaha......" Zheng Fenghua smiled, "As soon as I heard that you are an expert, it doesn't mean that I wrote it!" ”

Xiao Yun smiled: "Your life practice itself is so vivid, and a little tidying up is a good novel." ”

"Yes," Mr. Zheng said, "some of the stories are so vivid that they don't need to be processed at all." He then changed the topic, "I heard that you are going to take the university entrance examination, review hard, if you have any difficulties to find me, I strongly support you, you must be on the gold list and enter the national key famous university." ”

"Thank you, Secretary Zheng."

Zheng Fenghua: "Okay, let's go back and review well." ”

"Goodbye!" After she finished speaking, she turned around and flew away lightly like a beautiful colored butterfly.

Principal Qian asked, "Fenghua, how is this girl?" ”

"We'll talk about that later." Zheng Fenghua was in a much lighter mood, and a family banquet seemed to have made his mind feel very relieved. The masses are indeed real heroes, so empathetic and reasonable. He said comfortably, "Today, I have gained a lot ......."

The people here didn't understand whether he wanted to make friends with Xiao Yun or strengthened his confidence in going to university.

Zheng Fenghua returned to the dormitory and office, still excited. He took out the set of high school textbooks from under his pillow, and just opened the first math textbook, the door was gently pushed open with a "squeak", and it was Li Jin who came.

"You may be seated." Zheng Fenghua pointed to the bed placed against the wall of fire.

"Yo," Li Jin took the math textbook from Zheng Fenghua's hand and threw it on the table, "It seems that you are going to take the university entrance examination?" ”

"Well, you're not signing up?"

"Me?" Li Jin seemed to be angry with someone, and replied, "I would like to give it a try, but I don't have much hope." I can't compare to you high school seniors, I'm a junior in junior high school, I haven't studied the high school curriculum at all, and the exam is nonsense. I'll just say that this college entrance examination is basically the world of your senior three high school students. ”

"Let's not talk about this," Zheng Fenghua changed the subject, "Li Jin, if you don't come, I'm ready to talk to you." ”

Li Jin showed a self-righteous demeanor: "If you don't look for me, I will talk to you too." How? You talk first, as a branch secretary and a subordinate to talk? ”

"Don't have a ** flavor in your words," Zheng Fenghua stood up, walked back and forth on the ground, and replied without being soft or hard, "It's both." I don't have a clear topic for you, but I want to talk about some issues, so let's talk about it first. ”

Li Jin was silent, thinking.

"I know you have an opinion about me," Zheng Fenghua opened again, "It's natural. In the past two years, I have found that you know things and deal with problems a bit extremely, in addition to friends between us, I am also the secretary of the party branch, and it is inevitable that it is not to your taste when performing my duties. ”

"This kind of unpleasant taste, not only me, but many educated youths have this feeling."

"Oh, so serious?" Zheng Fenghua looked at Li Jin and asked, "Can you give some examples?" ”

"The official flavor is stronger, and the buddy flavor is less. For example, when you just paced around and talked to me, I felt uncomfortable. ”

"That's my habit of thinking about things."

"Okay, let's not talk about that." Li Jin cut to the point, "Right now, a well-known educated youth who wants to return to the city has completed the preliminary procedures, and everyone asked me to chat with you. After he finished speaking, he looked at Zheng Fenghua with a sharp gaze.

Zheng Fenghua did not shy away from confronting his eyes: "Last Saturday, the party branch conducted a special study on the approval procedures for the return of educated youths to the city, as long as the return to the city procedures in line with the policy of the superiors, it will be checked and signed by Captain Zhang. ”

"That's good," Li Jin nodded and smiled, and said that he was most worried about Zheng Fenghua blocking the road, "According to reliable sources, our signed petition letter has been valued by the relevant leaders of the central government, and we have taken this as a lesson to issue a notice to the provincial and municipal educated youth offices on seeking truth from facts to solve the problem of educated youths returning to the city." The Shanghai Educated Youth Office has come up with opinions and agreed to the return of those secondary school graduates to the city to arrange work. ”

Zheng Fenghua nodded: "That's good." ”

"The problem is that the secondary school students who came to our third team are not from Shanghai-run schools like the secondary school students of other teams. These secondary school students in our team are run by districts and bureaus. Li Jin said in detail, "I think that whether it is run by the city, or by the district or bureau, they are all secondary school graduates, and they should be treated equally." The field leaders have different opinions on this issue......"

Zheng Fenghua asked, "How do you know?" ”

"Sister Zhu, they went to the field department to find Secretary Xiao."

"What did Secretary Xiao say?"

"Secretary Xiao let the team get an opinion first, this is the kind of question you just said, I hope you can lean towards us."

"That's the case," Zheng Fenghua frowned, "This needs to be studied by the party branch." ”

Li Jin was a little unhappy: "Don't be official, I want to hear your opinion, it's your personal opinion." ”

"It can only be my personal opinion," Zheng Fenghua said unequivocally, "We don't care who runs the secondary school, as long as it is a joint communication from the Shanghai school-running unit and the Educated Youth Office, we should agree." ”

"Good!" Li Jin gave a thumbs up, "Just now I said that you are a bit official, and you are not a bureaucrat. Enough to say! ”

Zheng Fenghua was still pacing back and forth: "You give a slow thumbs up first, I didn't say I was looking for you, a little advice." ”

"Please."

"First of all, it should be said that you are arrogant and arrogant, unwilling to be vulgar, and dare to do things, a bit of a manly man's style, some practices, some opinions, I admire and admire, and at the same time I am inspired a lot." He changed his tone and said, "However, you tend to be excited, and there are many things that are too extreme, and if you don't pay attention to strengthening your cultivation, you will inevitably suffer setbacks." ”

"Yes," Li Jin nodded thoughtfully, although he felt that his words were a little harsh but very pertinent, and said with emotion, "I feel the same way myself, and I have also investigated the reasons, and I feel that the existence determines consciousness in the philosophy of dialectical materialism is very reasonable." My personality, no, it can also be said that my willfulness is becoming more and more prominent, from being stuffed into the private public hall trumpet set up by Wang Da in the second team to running away home during the Spring Festival, and even Wang Su and Wang Da stunned. Dealing with personal anger and emotions may be extreme. As for you, you have always been relatively smooth and stepped into the leadership position earlier, and I said behind my back that you are sleek, which is actually a kind of extreme. I'll admit that you're more mature than me, and I'll learn a lesson later. ”

“……”

Li Jin continued to sigh: "I once thought that you have changed, or you are going to change, but it is not like Wang Su and Wang Da stunned, I am afraid that it will become a ...... between Zhang Xiaohong and Captain Zhang."

"Oh?" Zheng Fenghua asked, "What is the smell of this?" ”

"It doesn't seem to have changed, so there is no need to say," Li Jin avoided answering without answering, "I just tasted it, on some big issues, our views still tend to be the same, but you have your philosophy of life, I have my philosophy of life, in short, it is all for the sake of seeking the truth." ”

"Truth?"

"Yes, we must seek the truth that we recognize, and hope to cooperate well and be friends forever." After Li Jin finished speaking, he turned around and pushed the door and left.

Zheng Fenghua chased to the door, wanted to shout and stopped, raised his head and took a breath of fresh air, so moist, so sweet.

Ah, the enchanting starry sky.

Ah, the mature land of the Great Northern Wilderness.