Chapter 51: Strangers in the Heart
Different from my ups and downs in life, Luo Xiankun's official road has been steady over the years, with his back against the big tree to enjoy the shade. With the support and influence of Longhushan, he has been promoted all the way, and has become the director of the general staff of the Guangnan Provincial Bureau, and the next step should be the deputy director of the Guangnan Bureau, but I heard that this position should not be far from him, just waiting for the incumbents to make vacancies, and he will be co-opted.
In my mind, he should have become a fat-headed, big-eared, high-spirited bureaucrat, but when he came to visit, I realized that this kid had suddenly become extremely old, with gray temples and wrinkles on his face that made him feel like an old man in his fifties.
Able to sit in the position of director of the General Office of Quang Nam Provincial Bureau. It's not unacceptable to be an old man. The key problem is that Luo Xiankun is only in his thirties at the moment, and he is in the prime of life.
What made him so old that it even felt like he was almost a dead wood?
I stepped forward quietly, shook hands with Luo Xiankun, and the two sides shook each other, although my face did not show a trace of doubt, but Luo Xiankun seemed to feel the waves in my heart, and said with a wry smile: "Zhicheng, farewell to Kyoto back then." After many years now, doesn't it feel strange to see me again and see me like this? ”
I smiled and said: "The Heavenly Master Dao of Longhu Mountain is the Taishan Beidou of the Dao Gate in the world, the exercises are magical, and naturally there are many subtleties that we cannot understand. So there's nothing incomprehensible. ”
Hearing my perfunctory words, Luo Xiankun said with a wry smile: "Originally, my heart was almost relieved, but I was a little sad to see that you were still the same as before." ”
I introduced Luo Xiankun into the hall and invited him to sit by the brazier, and said comfortingly: "In this case, the intercourse should not be so frequent. It's excessive, and it hurts the body. ”
Luo Xiankun was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help shaking his head and laughing: "Old Chen, you are still so direct, and you don't save face at all." ”
I smiled and didn't speak, looking at him calmly.
That year in Kyoto, after Luo Xiankun cried and complained, I never met him again, the original two people joined hands in the world, on the riverside of Jinling with a dumpling, eat warm, and at the moment the opposite side is speechless, but it adds a lot of embarrassment, time makes the two of us drift apart, and can no longer find the original kind of intimate friendship.
Whether I've changed, or he's changed, or whether both of us have changed, no one can tell.
Luo Xiankun saw my calm appearance, shook his head and smiled, and said to me: "I heard that you came back the day before yesterday, but you didn't come to me. Why, you haven't seen each other for so many years, and you don't want me at all? Or do you think that if I enter Longhu Mountain, you don't want to deal with me anymore? ”
He said it so bluntly that I just shrugged my shoulders and said with a smile, "You know I won't." ”
Luo Xiankun picked up the two bottles of liquor in his hand and said to me: "I don't mean anything else, I have two bottles of Moutai here, come to you to drink, and by the way, I will give you a New Year's greeting." ”
I nodded, asked the little white fox to help me get some peanuts and snacks, and then gathered around the brazier, and the two of them took a sip of wine and a mouthful of food, and began to eat.
After a few glasses of liquor, the heat rose, Luo Xiankun also talked a lot, and I also felt a lot more relaxed, the two talked and chatted about their respective experiences over the years, and they also carefully avoided some sensitive topics so as not to cause embarrassment to the two.
After drinking too much, his head became dizzy, but Luo Xiankun was much more stable, and he didn't dig out his heart and lungs as he did back then.
After drinking the last glass of wine, he got up and said goodbye to me, saying that he would go back, otherwise the night would be too dark to return to the snail forest.
I got up to see him off, and the two of them silently walked to the entrance of the village in Longjialing, looking back at the village and the smoke in the twilight, he suddenly asked me: "Lao Chen, what would you be like if I didn't go out with you, but stayed in this mountain?" ”
I pointed to the black suit with the eagle logo on him, and then pointed to the two families in the village, and said to him, "Long Genzi and Wang Gouzi, do you know what they look like at this moment?" ”
Luo Xiankun understood what I meant, nodded, and sighed: "This is fate!" ”
After saying this, he sighed again: "Many times, I often think about a question, that is, what would I be like now if I was still the original mountain boy Luo Da**, but your words today make me understand that the current road is my own choice, even if I kneel, I will go down." ”
Luo Xiankun was relieved, smiled and waved his hand at me, and then walked down the mountain.
I looked at the back of my childhood friend, who was already a little rickety, and my heart fell into deep contemplation.
The reason why I am cautious with Luo Xiankun today is not because of the so-called gateway view of Longhu Mountain and Maoshan Mountain, in fact, my former idol Director Li Haoran, he was also born in Longhu Mountain, which does not affect my closeness to him, what really makes me and Luo Xiankun drift away is that I have heard some rumors over the years, Luo Xiankun at this time is no longer the young and immature mountain boy he was at the beginning, he has made countless heroes, mixed fish and dragons, this will definitely not be pure in the background.
In a word, I don't know if one day, Luo Xiankun and I will become enemies and face each other with swords.
The Tao is different and does not conspire, and this is the real reason why I am estranged from him.
That day, I stayed in front of the slope at the entrance of the village for a long time, silent, letting the mountain breeze blow on my face, but there were many inexplicable melancholy in my heart.
I didn't stay in my hometown for a few more days, in addition to the fate that Li Daozi gave me back then, there is also a point that I am annoyed by those relatives and friends who come to the door under various names, these seven aunts and eight aunts make me deeply realize one point, that is, the career I really love is not here, although Longjialing also has my parents and relatives, but it is no longer as pure as when I was a child, and if I continue to stay, I am afraid that I will not be able to stand it.
Although my parents are very reluctant to leave me, this time they are not as nostalgic as before, and they are obviously annoyed by these things, so they want to be cleaner quickly.
In this case, I left Longjialing "as expected", but before leaving, I still had a relationship with Guò and arranged a job for my childhood friends Long Genzi and Wang Gouzi, Wang Gouzi was arranged to guard a public institution in the county because of his lame leg, and Long Genzi was entrusted by me to Xixiong Village to help collect some mountain goods and the like, although it was the same hard work, but it was always more earnable than digging food in the soil, and it was also stable.
That's all I can do, and as for the road and bridge construction that the village party secretary and others have high hopes for, I can only love it and no longer care about it.
But fortunately, my position is also there, even if I don't do anything, those people don't dare to say anything cool behind my back -- after all, the "official-oriented" thinking of our people is still relatively deep, and it doesn't hurt to rely on the old and sell the old to say a few words, but if they really offend me, they don't need me to do anything at all, and they can't stand it with a light word, and they can see this thing clearly.
I put it back in Kyoto in advance, and after a few days of relaxation, the members of the special service group also took 66 consecutive holidays, and when they came back to report, everyone was beaming, obviously this year was quite good.
Being able to be selected into the special service team of the General Administration, which is actually an honor for most people, especially people like Lin Qiming, Dong Zhongming, Zhu Xueting, and Bai He, who are from the grassroots, are enough to make the villagers and neighbors admire.
Others asked Lin Qiming if he was in love, he shook his head honestly and said no, he was still young, and he had no plans to solve his personal problems for the time being.
People who know the inside story think that this young man is still thinking about the female classmate who died in vain at East China Theological Seminary, but Zhao Zhonghua has already seen through it, and said with a gloomy smile: "You, are you thinking about Luo Feiyu's big boobs girl?" ”
Lin Qiming was suddenly embarrassed and pinched with Zhao Zhonghua.
The re-formed special service team is a positive, young and passionate team, and such a team is full of fighting spirit for any challenging thing, and in the later work, it has shown strong combat effectiveness.
Ninety-nine years have passed, the arrival of the millennium has refreshed everyone's spirits, and for the special service group, it is a gradual formation process, we began to gradually take over the task, the first half of the year is basically a small case, but it is also quite a hone team, in the second half of the year, the zombie bite incident in Xichuan Rongcheng, the Taihu Yin soldier aisle, etc., several big cases made the special service group immediately famous, regained the prestige of the year, and the name of the seven swords, and gradually spread in the General Administration and even the entire Religious Affairs Bureau system.
Talking about these seven swords, most people couldn't help but give a thumbs up and said to others: "It is worthy of the team led by Chen Hei's hands, and it is much stronger than ordinary people." ”
Time passed little by little, and in a blink of an eye, at the beginning of 2oo1, I had just returned from handling the case in Taihu Lake and was called to Director Song's office, and he sued me for a case, saying that there was a very bad situation in Dongguan City, Southern Province, and he hoped that I could take over and solve it.
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