(a)

"A person must know what he wants and what he doesn't want, and he can't run behind other people's butts." My mother-in-law's parting words are still in my ears.

Zhu Yuliang felt more and more that in this seemingly ordinary world, there were actually evil intentions everywhere and traps buried everywhere. If you don't know where you're going, you're likely to be lured by temptation and fall into a trap from which you can't recover.

Zhu Yuliang decided not to open the umbrella of Deputy Bureau Cai, let alone develop the umbrella of Bureau Li; She must rely on her own ability, take root in the Huansha business department, and defend her personal dignity without showing weakness, and will never tolerate any barbaric, dirty or unwarranted personal attacks that will attack her recklessly.

Since that day when Cai Fuguo came to knock on the door to deliver books, Zhu Yuliang often lingered outside intentionally or unintentionally until seven or eight o'clock before returning to Tongxin Pavilion. Sometimes she goes to a morning movie, sometimes she goes to visit a hundred shops, and sometimes she quietly watches people fishing by the Huansha River with flashlights......

As soon as she got home, she closed the door and latched upstairs after washing, turned off the lights, and went upstairs with an abacus to work hard.

Zhu Yuliang usually read the books for a while, including the novels lent to her by Cai Fuguo, as well as the complete set of Marxist-Leninist-Mao works that Wen Yuanfang bought for her.

To be honest, she read novels with relish, but watched Marxist-Leninist hair fall on lotus leaves like droplets, and she couldn't read a word. She decided to heed the call of her heart and never do anything that was in keeping with her interests and temperament, so she locked the whole set of Marxist-Leninist-Mao writings in the cabinet.

After reading the book, Zhu Yuliang began to practice abacus. She has already memorized those mantras that she intends to disc. Now she just has to practice more, proficiency makes perfect, proficiency can improve speed and precision.

So, Zhu Yuliang adopted the method that Guo Weiming taught her: blind typing, that is, turning off the light and practicing with her eyes closed. Add from one to a hundred, and then subtract back from the last number; Then multiply from one to one hundred, and then divide back by the last number. If you turn on the lights and find that the abacus results are not correct, then continue to practice until the correct results appear.

When she reached 100 percent accuracy, she began to practice speed until her hands cramped and her skin bleed. "I want to show the ruthlessness of practicing guzheng when I was a child, and if I don't pull the abacus beads to fly, my mother will walk backwards!" Zhu Yuliang gritted his teeth and cursed with himself.

After more than a month of blind practice, Zhu Yuliang felt that the "tick-tock" sound emitted by the abacus beads was the most beautiful music in the world, and she was immersed in this rhythm and rhythm completely controlled by herself, forgetting the existence of the outside world, so that Wen Yuanfang once took the evening train back to Tongxin Pavilion, and called his wife because he couldn't open the door of his house, and Zhu Yuliang couldn't hear the shouting at all in the planning plate, so he waited for a while.

Wen Yuanfang was temporarily changed due to the work arrangement, so he flew to Chengguan to enjoy the joy of Queqiao with his wife. When looking at Zhu Yuliang's fingers wrapped in adhesive tape, Wen Yuanfang was so distressed that he held it to his mouth and kissed it non-stop. After he knew that his wife was unwilling, this was what he admired most about her.

"Of course, the business must be proficient, but the service attitude should also be paid attention to!" Wen Yuanfang knows his wife's performance well.

"As long as the customer does not insult my personality, I promise to be humble and cautious, not arrogant or arrogant. But if you insult the personality of the old lady, hehe! Do I still have to pay attention to the service attitude? Serve a fart! I don't smoke him to death, count him lucky. Zhu Yuliang made a slap motion, which made Wen Yuanfang cry and laugh.

"Why are you talking foul language? You are now the same as Zhu Yuliang a few months ago! Wen Yuanfang pretended to be surprised.

"The only constant in the world is that everything is changing!" Zhu Yuliang replied with a wink.

Wen Yuanfang carried his wife from the chair to the bed, and while skillfully untying the bow on her pajamas, he said, "Yes, the progress is fast!" But my husband is home, and we have more important things to do. Also, don't practice abacus too late every day, the neighbor has to sleep! ”

"Oh! It's not like you're in Mae Chi, where you can go crazy at will......" Zhu Yuliangjiao gasped and whispered to her husband.

"I know, the cough next door here is like in my own house. Feel relieved! I'll work slowly. ”

(b)

Zhu Yuliang studied and practiced abacus diligently, and soon attracted the attention and reaction of the two neighbors.

One night, Liu Yuelan asked her husband curiously: "Hey! Xiao Zhu was weird during this time, and the lights didn't turn on, only hearing the abacus beads ringing non-stop. Could it be that she is practicing abacus with a kerosene lamp? ”

"People are practicing blind typing, secretly working hard!" Li Fan explained.

"I can't see it, and I know how to work hard. I thought she was a copper ingot! Liu Yuelan praised people and did not forget to be sarcastic.

"Do you think that you are the strongest woman in the world? Really! Li Fan disdained his wife's tone.

"Whoa! Here! I said that she is not good, you have to be angry, and if she is good, you have to be angry. I don't know what you're doing in your belly! ”

"I figured we hadn't done it for a few days? Isn't it good to let Xiao Zhu's abacus accompany us? Li Fan squeezed his eyes at his wife and said.

"Humph! I did it just three days ago. Liu Yuelan poked her husband's broad head with her finger and continued to read one of her business books.

"Tingting is not at home today, and my husband wants you again. What to do? Li Fan pouted like a child, looked at his wife's face pitifully and said.

Seeing his pitiful appearance, Liu Yuelan said angrily and funny, "Then I'll take medicine", and went downstairs to find a cup and pour boiling water. Seeing this, Li Fan rolled happily on the bed.

Then, Li Fan excitedly whispered to the woman with beautiful lines under him: "Lan, you are a real woman in bed; You have to learn to free yourself and shout when you want! ”

Liu Yuelan shook her head painfully and said, "Oh, if you are heard, you can't live!" ”

"Isn't there Xiao Zhu's abacus voice as a cover for us?" Li Fan stuffed his hair and started a general attack.

……

One night, Chen Meijuan lay on the bed and listened to Zhu Yuliang's abacus, and couldn't fall asleep over and over, so she scolded: "It's noisy!" ”

"Usually Dabao and Erbao are a hundred times more noisy than this, why aren't you noisy?" Cai Fuguo sneered.

Chen Meijuan looked at her watch and said, "It's ten o'clock!" Dabao and Erbao got up from sleep and booed. ”

Cai Fuguo put a smooth hand into his wife's silk pajamas and said in a deep voice: "My husband will hypnotize you!" ”

"Hee-hee! If Nong can hypnotize Allah like this, then Allah will be the Sleeping Beauty of the Ages......"

So, the two closed the bedroom door and "scuffled", until the ancestral mahogany carved bed shook the ground.

"Do you still think Xiao Zhu's abacus is noisy with us?" After the incident, Cai Fuguo asked his wife with a slight gasp.

"Hee-hee! Hopefully, Yi plans to plate every day. It seems that the ancestors of the Nong Ji family are really well-intentioned, we toss so much, this bed doesn't move at all! Chen Meijuan said contentedly with a yawn, and a burst of sleepiness hit.

(c)

In a blink of an eye, Zhu Yuliang has been in the Huansha business department for half a year, and colleagues gradually found that "Xiao Zhu" actually has many advantages:

She never gossips about people, and she never sows discord in a weird way; She is generous in terms of favors and contributions, and she is never stingy; She dared to contradict Manager Sun, who tended to be inflammatory, and was not afraid to wear small shoes; In addition, I haven't seen anyone hit by her......

But people still summed up several of her shortcomings:

First, the dress is too particular, and the clothes worn every day are not the same as those of the previous day, which obviously has a petty-bourgeois style of life;

Second, the service attitude is poor, the personal attacks of customers lack sufficient tolerance, and the obvious lack of abundant class feelings for the workers and peasants;

The third is to never take the initiative to mingle with the masses of workers, she is friendly when people are enthusiastic about her, and they avoid her when they ignore her, looking like they are lonely and self-appreciative;

Fourth, he never took the initiative to mingle with the leaders, treated the attitude of the leaders and the attitude of the masses of workers equally, lacked enough respect and love for the leaders, and was arrogant......

To put it bluntly, she doesn't have a backstage, but it makes people feel that she has a very hard backstage, which is the most intolerable shortcoming in the hearts of the workers.

……

"Sister Yuliang, the annual business skills competition will be held at the end of October, how are you prepared?" Guo Weiming once chatted with Zhu Yuliang when he submitted a shortage notice.

"I don't know how I'm ready? I hope I'm not the first-to-last, otherwise it's too embarrassing! Zhu Yuliang replied worriedly.

"You can do it! Now your wrong orders are getting fewer and fewer, almost none. You must not think too much about it when you compete, just concentrate on the questions! Guo Weiming patted her on the shoulder as he left, as he cheered.

(iv)

One evening at the end of October, the door was closed immediately after the Huansha business department closed, and then all the lights were turned on, because the annual "Materials Bureau Staff Business Skills Competition" would be held at 7 o'clock that night.

On that day, the employees came to the business hall after dinner early. They had to clean up everything on the table, and they were not allowed to put anything but an abacus and a ballpoint pen.

Because the venue of the city department of the Huansha business department is larger than that of the Huanjiang business department, the workers in the north of the city also have to rush here to participate in the competition.

The annual business skills competition is directly linked to each employee's position, salary level, and bonus coefficient, so no one dares to treat this competition as child's play. Of course, in addition to the resentment of the back-office employees, their treatment will not be affected by this.

Before the game, the employees were humble and joking with each other on the surface, but in fact, they all wanted to be champions in their hearts.

"Xiao Guo, you can't be a champion this time, let's be a champion again!" Everyone teased this hairy young man and found fun.

"I'll try to show my mercy!" Guo Weiming said with great ambition.

Everyone saw that Zhu Yuliang was also busy cleaning up the things on the table, and felt that there was a new topic to find fun.

"You see that Xiao Zhuxu is busy there, is she really going to participate in the competition?"

"This competition is hard-hitting, and the emperor's concubine must also participate; Unless she's not here as a salesperson. ”

"I think she's better save it; Don't let the results announced by the time come like rotten, and the leader's face can't be hung up first. ”

"Yes, when you encounter a real gun and live ammunition in a war, your face is beautiful and you have a fart!"

"Since it's a competition, someone has to put the good guy at the bottom!"

……

While everyone was talking, it was time for the game.

As soon as the whistle sounded, the 100th person began to answer the question on the paper, and the scene was quite spectacular.

The invigilation team composed of Li Fan, Cai Fuguo, Xu Qingpei, Director of the Huanjiang Business Department, Sun Youcai and others inspected back and forth in the examination room...... The atmosphere was solemn.

Before the whistle blew, Zhu Yuliang's little heart had already begun to beat "plop, plop". I got the theory paper and looked at it, and it was okay! Many of the questions have already been memorized by myself, and only one place is filled in the blanks and doubtful; She thought about it for a while and didn't remember, forget it! Fill it in and talk about it.

Not good! Everyone is planning to make a plate, and they are still doing theory papers.

"You can't be the first to last! You must not be the first to last! Thinking of this, Zhu Yuliang began to concentrate on making abacus scrolls.

She crackled with the abacus that had accompanied her for countless days and nights, and the faster she played, the faster she played, she felt that the abacus beads were about to fly out...... She was completely selfless, so much so that Bureau Li and Deputy Bureau Cai passed by her separately and looked at her separately for a long time without realizing it.

"Qu-" When the whistle blew at the end of the game, Zhu Yuliang just calculated the last question. "Oh, so nervous! I didn't even have time to review, and I didn't know if those abacus problems were calculated correctly. She handed in the paper in frustration.

After a week, the results of the "Materials Bureau Staff Business Skills Competition" were released.

"Don't count to the bottom!" Zhu Yuliang anxiously prayed for the Bodhisattva's blessing.

However, fate is sometimes so cruel!

"Zhu Yuliang: 99 points in theory, 70 points in abacus, a total of 169 points, ranking 88th......" was written on the big red list, as if God gave her a resounding slap in the face.

"She doesn't do the penultimate first, who does the penultimate first? Ha ha! Feng Aizhen's voice.

"Xiao Guo, you kid is going to have a fucking treat again!"

……

"Wow......" Someone suddenly burst into tears. Everyone followed the prestige, only to see Zhu Yuliang lying on the counter and the flower branches trembling......

Guo Weiming hurriedly ran over to comfort her and said: "This time, the main reason is that everyone's results are very concentrated, and there are many people with the same score...... You see that your theory paper score is the highest; As long as the abacus is practiced more, it will definitely get better and better. ”

"The problem is that I have spent a lot of time practicing abacus, and now I have the worst results in the exam, and I have no confidence at all!" Zhu Yuliang felt extremely aggrieved.

"Still crying? Whether you do well in the exam or not will not affect a single hair of your hair! Feng Aizhen pouted over there and said.

"Yes! As long as you lie down on the leader's bed, no one will dare to do anything to you if you score zero in the test. It's just that the leader was slapped in the face this time...... Adou, who can't be helped! ”

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