Chapter 24: The Mountaintop is Windy and Beautiful

On the way back, Zhao Jiadi was silently reciting those two sentences: "From ancient times to the present, the people are the most ignorant." The people are the most worthy of it", they had breakfast together, everyone was used to walking, Zhao Jiadi of course followed the army without exception, but pulled Qi Shugen and secretly asked Who else lives in this Tianmu Mountain besides us? Qi Shugen is unknown, so he said a lot, there are rich and powerful, Tianmu Mountain is actually quite big, but it belongs to the layout of their own affairs, and many of them do not get along with each other. Zhao Jiadi asked, is there anyone more special? Qi Shugen shook his head and said I haven't heard of it, my dad doesn't like to come to Tianmu Mountain very much, at least I didn't hear him say that there is any ulterior mystery, what, who did you see? Zhao Jiadi fell silent, and Huang Ying, who couldn't stay idle, saw the two whispering, ran to interrupt, and asked what to say? As a result, the two of them ignored it, Qi Shugen seemed to remember something, intentionally or unintentionally avoided Huang Ying and said softly The young woman that Ma Xiaoyue often mentions, her family also has a house in Tianmu Mountain, and there is an old man in the family who is a respected old antique from the Xiling Seal Society, you be careful, don't provoke overwhelming criticism when the time comes. Zhao Jiadi thought about it, the one on the top of the mountain, obviously not the elder of the young woman Pei, the elder of the fairy wind bones, although half of them do have poetry books in their stomachs, but they are not limited to the category of literati, Zhao Jiadi's curiosity does not have any utilitarian intentions, but in this cool and breezy cool place, it is really fresh to be able to meet the old man who comes out of the dust, when he was a child, he read martial arts books, which teenager does not dream of saying a few words to the masters of the world even if there is no peerless cheats to send? Walking slowly, the official wives talked and laughed, but halfway they met another group of rich idlers who came to Tianmu Mountain to escape the summer, Qi Shugen laughed heartily, his expression was strange, Zhao Jiadi almost went crazy, who is that girl is not a young woman Pei? She walked with an elder Xu Bu, saw the official wives, and said hello to a few people she knew, and did not squint when she passed by Zhao Jiadi, this acting skill, tsk, perfect fire, did not wait for Zhao Jiadi's heart to hit the ground, the mobile phone in his pocket vibrate, take it out and take a look, TMD knew that it was not a good thing, the young woman Pei sent a text message: Xianggong, the road is narrow, don't miss it when you pass by, do you want to fight with the lady for 800 rounds? Zhao Jiadi and the big team came to the distance slightly, and replied: You have been serious these days, and now you have to work hard in Hangzhou for two or three years, and you will come to the square for a long time! The young woman Pei replied: Good rì is so long. Zhao Jiadi smiled knowingly, and Huang Ying, who walked in front and turned his head to see this scene, frowned, feeling that Zhao Jiadi's smile was very unserious, could it be that he was peeking at himself? Huang Ying blushed, and Qi Shugen wondered, what's wrong? Huang Ying's acting skills are inferior to the young woman Pei 108,000 miles, so she pretended to be calm and said, Who was that sister just now? It's so watery, I have a unique aura, I want to be like that in the future! Qi Shugen snickered in his heart, if you really become the first beauty in Hangzhou, Pei Luoshen, it will be bad, wouldn't it become Zhao Jiadi's kid's dish? Qi Shugen thought of this, a little worried, the Hangzhou circle is so big, once Zhao Jiadi is involved by the young woman Pei, even if there is someone above to protect him, but the young woman Pei's family has a history, and the in-laws have more background, Zhao Jiadi's hard work in Hangzhou will definitely be broken by half, this matter, I have to talk to Zhao Jiadi, this is the duty of being a friend.

At noon, two guests came, and the front foot arrived at Huang Ying's best friend Li Qinghu, looking at Zhao Jiadi's eyes was very connotative, making Zhao Jiadi's back hairy, after the blind date, the truth was revealed, this crazy girl had to call Li Zhijin an aunt, Li Qinghu's very maverick car with double license plates was Li Zhijin borrowed her to play, and in the future, this little green worm with long thorns is expected to call Zhao Jia's first uncle? The first time Zhao Jia thought of this, he was depressed, sad, and sad. Sure enough, when I met with Zhao Jiadi in private, Li Qinghu Jiao greeted me in the future, uncle, people are happy when they are happy, the more they look at you, the more Yushu is in the wind. Zhao Jiadi has no good airway, and the car has already been fished up from the Huangpu River, but don't expect to jump the Qiantang River with you. Li Qinghu said with a secretly murderous face, how can I be, my aunt will teach me a lesson, my aunt is the most terrible thing to train people seriously, I don't dare. Zhao Jiadi is not afraid that Li Qinghu will be nervous, he is afraid that she is fake and serious, and he doesn't know how to deal with it, Han Daodao, who is on the back foot of Tianmu Mountain, has been relieved, this guy originally entered Zhao Taizu's eyes, and threw him a real power position, compared to Zhao Jiadi's uncles, they are only high, not low, but Han Dogleg said that he has no ability, at least not for the time being, he still wants to run errands with the eldest young master and do some small things, Zhao Taizu, who has never been the same, was not embarrassed, and promised this guy who was discharged from the hospital not long ago to come to Hangzhou, Zhao Jiadi scolded him on the phone, but Han Daode was humbly taught, but he was determined to come to Hangzhou, this didn't just arrive, he was called by Zhao Jiadi to get some Zhejiang local chronicles that he could get his hands on, "Kanyu Miscellaneous" and "Dongyuan Collection" are too remote, Han Daode didn't find the book, just found some scattered fragments, printed them out, and sent them to Zhao Jiadi, Zhao Jiadi saw this old man, and couldn't help but scolded again, Don't do a good gold collar, look at your potential! Han Daode made a reasonable excuse for himself: "Xu Zhenhong was still a driver for Zhao Taizu back then, and I was a driver for the eldest young master, and it will be no different in the future, right?" ”

Zhao Jiadi smiled angrily: "That's when people are willing to drill, when he was a driver, he not only served Zhao Sanjin, but all the relationships he could contact up and down the Zhao family were being managed, so he had today's position, look at you again?" Who have you been close to but me? ”

The stiff Han Daode smiled: "It's not good to have some skills and do some things." ”

Zhao Jiadi threw away a cigarette, saw him clipped to his ear, and was about to put it away again, so he was angry and said, "Smoke it immediately." ”

Han Daode hesitated, stood by the car and accompanied Zhao Jia to smoke for the first time, and Zhao Jiadi, who was holding a large handful of materials, asked, "Have you eaten lunch?" ”

Han Daode immediately said, "I've eaten it." ”

Zhao Jiadi was suspicious: "Have you really eaten it?" ”

Han Daode nodded and said, "Really! ”

Zhao Jiadi couldn't tell the truth from the fake, so he could only say: "Then go in and sit down and drink tea." ”

Han Daode was embarrassed: "Young Master, I won't go in, a bunch of official wives, I look like this, don't I embarrass you?" ”

Zhao Jiadi smiled: "Don't talk nonsense with me!" ”

Han Daode said with a bitter face: "I really don't go." ”

Zhao Jiadi was helpless, shook his head and walked to the house alone.

Han Daode waited for Zhao Jiadi to go far before getting into the car, slowly smoking the cigarette, and then going down the mountain.

The windy scenery on the top of the mountain is very spectacular, but those are the scenery that only the eldest young master should have.

Han Daode is not greedy for these.

He knows contentment.

In the courtyard on the top of the mountain, Zhao Jiadi was pulled by several official wives to play Hangzhou mahjong, Zhao Jiadi is a beginner, but the cards are not at all like the new hands that have just been familiar with the headshot money floating bar, the aunts are willing to learn from this young man, sitting on the left hand side of Zhao Jiadi's aunt husband is the 3rd in command of the Science and Technology Department, the husband of the aunt on the right side is the leader of the audit office, and the aunt husband with outstanding temperament opposite is the head of the Organ Affairs Bureau, all of them are the wives of department-level cadres, One afternoon will lose four or five thousand yuan, ten streets away from the injured muscles and bones, Zhao Jiadi and the aunts play mahjong, the hand style is average, but the cards are not faint, and at the same time not to the Tao line is too jΔ«ng Ming Gao Shen, probably counting the money to win the money flat, win on the receive, lose on the give, not deliberately, so the official wives of this young man is very appreciative, if deliberately release the water, it is too inferior, three people in the seat and not in the seat such as standing behind Zhao Jiadi to look at the cards of the two, who did not light the eyes? Zhao Jiadi is playing mahjong here, Qi Shugen and Huang Ying Li Qinghu and a few young men and women who accompanied their mother to Tianmu Mountain to escape the summer play killing games together, in fact, Qi Shugen knows Li Qinghu better than Huang Ying, this is because of his father and Xu Zhen, but for Qi Shugen, who has always had little ambition, the good relationship that the parents have cultivated is just as it is, and there is no need to draw snakes without destroying the premise. Qi Shugen looked at Zhao Jiadi's aunt who was pushing over there without arrogance or impatience, and admired it, this guy is really not scared to go anywhere.

The aunt sitting opposite Zhao Jiadi won a handful, made a few hundred yuan, and asked with a smile: "Jiadi, how can you go to the infrastructure comprehensive office of the National Development and Reform Commission, or do you want to change your position and come to work at your Uncle Chu's side?" He eats irregularly every day, and you just happen to help your aunt keep an eye on it. ”

Without waiting for Zhao Jiadi to speak, the aunt on the left protested with a smile: "The organ affairs bureau is all old fritters who eat people and don't spit out bones, Jiadi, don't listen to her nonsense, if you want to change it, you will also go to the Science and Technology Department, you have good grades, just right, and you will be able to rise to the top soon, I will go back to Lao Song and tell him, if he wants to be a Bole, Auntie's family law will serve him!" ”

Qi Shugen's mother has been standing behind Zhao Jiadi to watch this young man play cards, the brand is really good, I can't find fault, it's the same as cooking, it seems to be bland, but it's delicious, in the end, I still like this kind of middle-aged woman with the title of official wife, I still like this kind of child who has the ability but is not stinging, it is pleasing to the eye, no wonder her husband and son are very optimistic about him. At first, she was skeptical, and she spent a short time in Tianmu Mountain twice, she was really relieved that this young man was more atmospheric than she imagined. So the mayor's wife, who may be the wife of a provincial standing committee member in the future, smiled and said: "You guys, don't make random ideas, I think Jiadi is very good in the National Development and Reform Commission, so that none of us in the group will be unbalanced." ”

The aunts all smiled together, and while playing cards, they asked questions like whether Jiadi had a girlfriend and whether Jiadi would like to make up for my family, and the atmosphere was warm.

After dinner, with Li Qinghu as her companion, Huang Ying didn't pester Zhao Jiadi and Qi Shugen, and whispered in the boudoir that never ended. Qi Shugen glanced at the information that Zhao Jiadi had just gotten, including "Hangzhou City Chronicles"? Qi Shugen smiled and said, You are really ruthless. Zhao Jiadi smiled and said with a smile, do you know the gap? Qi Shugen pulled a chair and sat next to Zhao Jiadi, Zhao Jiadi wondered if he was so serious, he wanted to confess? Qi Shugen said helplessly, I solemnly remind you, handle the relationship with Pei Luoshen well, if you don't get it, you will be ruined, which is very different from some officials Bao Xiaomier. Zhao Jiadi picked up a cigarette and knocked on the table, nodded and said I know it. Qi Shugen was worried and asked, is there really a number? Zhao Jiadi smiled and said with a smile, what are you lying to. Qi Shugen sighed and said Seeing Pei Luoshen this morning, I am nervous for you, my mother's eyes are not ordinarily good, for fear that you will show your stuffing, but it's okay, but since you are going to stay in Hangzhou for a few years, it's not a matter of being so scared, it's a division or a combination, I don't dare to say anything, in short, you pay attention to yourself. Zhao Jiadi snorted. Qi Shugen lay back on the bed and said with sincere emotion: "You are good at everything, it is the relationship between men and women, so that a single man like me doesn't know whether to be jealous or envious." ”

Zhao Jiadi joked: "The NDRC can't stay any longer, so go to your father's place to fight the autumn breeze." ”

Qi Shugen rolled his eyes and said: "Don't let me put smoke bombs, I don't know that you are close to Secretary Li who has just set up his own door, my father has a small temple there, and you are a big bodhisattva?" ”

Zhao Jiadi said disdainfully: "Is your father still a temple small? You are the second generation of officials! ”

Qi Shugen shot back: "Get out!" You rich second generation is not qualified to talk about me! ”

Zhao Jiadi said with a smile: "Then we are quite a good match, good brothers with white buttocks and round buttocks, come and have a shot at night?" ”

Qi Shugen scolded the grass, he wanted to take a bath, but he didn't dare to go.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Jiadi still went to the top of the quiet mountain at that point, Peking Opera, boxing, rΓ¬ out, the old man was still sitting quietly on crutches, and when Zhao Jiadi approached, the old man who was like a demigod and a fairy smiled and said: "Zhao Jiadi, have you graduated from college?" ”

Zhao Jiadi nodded and said, "I just graduated and was admitted to the Provincial Development and Reform Commission." ”

The old man said slowly: "It is not easy to enter the organs directly under the province as soon as you graduate. ”

Zhao Jiadi scratched his head and smiled.

The old man saw him restrained, beckoned to sit beside him, an old and a young to see the beginning of the rise of the rise of the rΓ¬, the old man asked Zhao Jia the first answer, are some of the usual questions in the market, vegetable prices, houses, road conditions, Zhao Jiadi also answered decently, there is a say, do not pretend to be profound, and then the old man seems to have heard Zhao Jiadi yesterday said that there is a grandfather who loves to talk about feng shui, so he asked some specifically, Zhao Jiadi said about his childhood things roughly, and boxing began at that time, trying to strengthen his body, speaking of grandpa, I can't get around some of the ups and downs of the overall situation of that year, Zhao Jiadi is all point to point, the old man has been weathered, what kind of personnel have not been seen, naturally he can get a lot of things that Zhao Jiadi can't imagine, and said softly Zhao Jiadi, you have a good grandfather and a good nǎinǎi. Zhao Jiadi said sadly, just go early. The old man stood up, looked into the distance, and said with mixed feelings: "Every time I go to Chongyang Qingming, I can't help but think of a person, especially Qingming, Yangjian YΔ«n, the living and the deceased, looking at each other, I don't dare to forget it." ”

Zhao Jiadi bit his lip and didn't speak.

The old man turned his head to look at the young man's god, looked at the vista of Hangzhou again, and seemed to be even farther, and said with a smile: "Zhao Jiadi, when you enter the National Development and Reform Commission, is it your own intention or your family's idea?" ”

Zhao Jiadi said honestly: "Own." ”

The old man narrowed his eyes, his eyes were no longer just kind and kind, and he turned around and asked, "Can you tell me why?" Or what? Golden rice bowl iron rice bowl? Then I, an old man, have to tell you that in a few years, this job bowl will not be so secure. ”

Zhao Jiadi smiled: "I can definitely support myself by earning money, I don't want the privileges of civil servants, I just want to be a good official." ”

The old man smiled, "Not a Qing official?" ”

Zhao Jiadi shook his head very sincerely.

The old man didn't ask any more, and suddenly said: "Back then, I worked hard to fight the world, and after defeat, many generals were replaced by wives who were more than ten years old or even dozens of years old. You're going to say they're not good officials? No. What do you say they originally planned? Money? Figure right? Nonsense, I don't know if I can survive on the battlefield at that time, maybe I will become a platoon commander and then a company commander and then a battalion commander in one day, it's too unrealistic to stay now, why? Because the old platoon elder even the elder battalion commander died. In those years, it was good to fill your stomach, who would have thought that they could survive to the end, and even get a general or a big official? But after a few generations, there are a lot of problems, I have been thinking about it all these years, what are we lacking and our juniors, but unfortunately, I didn't come up with something that could convince myself, and I didn't even dare to ask someone to write with memoirs. I don't want to talk about them. ”

Zhao Jiadi was stunned and didn't know how to phrase it.

The old man laughed slowly: "Zhao Jiadi, your family background should not be bad, why are you still working hard?" ”

Zhao Jiadi was a little embarrassed and said: "When I was a child, I was angry with my father, he was angry with my grandfather back then, and wanted to prove that men can be successful without studying, and I wanted to prove that men can only be successful when they study." ”

The old man smiled heartily: "Then now it seems that you and your grandfather won, or your father won?" ”

Zhao Jiadi said shyly: "For the time being, my dad wins." ”

The old man seemed to find it interesting, full of energy, paused for a moment, and said something unknown in his heart: "This trip to Hangzhou, is a return to the light, an old man like me who has to enter the coffin with both feet, before one foot enters, no one is afraid, just afraid of those doctors who scare people with health with a straight face, so no one has come to bother me recently, I can talk to you, not bad, although we are separated by several generations, but there is still a lot of common topic, Zhao Jiadi, I ask you again, it is more difficult to be a good official than to be a clean official, can you really insist?" Ten years, twenty years, or until retirement? ”

Zhao Jiadi said calmly: "I don't want to be a big official, I just want to be able to do something practical, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I just want to let the children in the poor places study more, and the old people in the poor places can sleep well without resentment." It used to be this simple idea, but yesterday I heard your words that the people are most worthy of, and I feel that I have more reason now. ”

The old man was noncommittal about this, but commented lightly: "It's a bit idealistic, but it's rare." ”

Zhao Jiadi was silent.

The old man leaned on crutches in both hands and said with a smile: "Zhao Jiadi, accompany me to see the scenery on the top of the mountain." ”

Zhao Jiadi smiled: "Okay." ”