Although the wind of raiding the house in the middle of the night has become ancient with the "***", Jin Zhuxuan still muttered a little when he heard the knock on the door: Few people come in the middle of the day, who will come to me in the middle of the night?

He turned on the light, opened the door, and saw Engineer Kang Hyo-chun standing in the doorway, smiling and bowing at 45 degrees. Let's put it this way, there are only two things that can be compared with this in recent years, one is the Tangshan earthquake, and the other is the Jilin meteorite rain.

"I'm still bothering you so late, you bear with me!" Kang Xiaochun said in a restrained manner, "I'm here to ask you for a small favor!" ”

"Yes, yes," Jin Zhuxuan agreed, not knowing whether to invite Kang Xiaochun into the house to sit down first, or to find a piece of clothing to cover his naturalistic body first.

"You don't have to say anything, I'll leave as soon as I say a word." Kang Xiaochun saw that Jin Zhuxuan was cramped and uneasy, and hurriedly stopped him and said, "I'm here to ask you for a favor." ”

"You can just say it, as long as I can do it."

"I have a bottle of wine there, I want you to help me drink it."

"Huh? But where does this begin......"

"If you promise to help, I'll go first, and you'll come later?"

"Now that you've said it, can I do it!"

"Thank you, see you back, wear more clothes and don't catch a cold!"

Kang Hyo-chun is gone. Jin Zhuxuan looked at his back and pinched his thigh, he wondered if this was a ridiculous dream.

Jin Zhuxuan pondered while getting dressed, what happened to this engineer? Is the nerve bad or is there something else to ask for?

Since the establishment of Jinghua Construction Company (that was 30 years ago), Kang Gong is the head of the company's technical department, and Jin Zhuxuan is a clerk under him. Since the construction of this dormitory building (it has been twenty-five years), the two of them have been neighbors in this building, not to mention that Kang Gong has never visited Jinzhuxuan's Huaju, and he has only talked twice in private.

Is it Engineer Kang's extraordinarily arrogant self-esteem? Poor! There are more than 20 departments in the company, and the modesty of Kang engineers is one of the best. assigned a task to Lao Jin, and never said: "Hey, you go do this!" Hey, you go get that! He always held the document in both hands, walked to Lao Jin's table and stood firm, bowed forty-five degrees, smiled and whispered: "Comrade Lao Jin, do you think it's good to copy this document twice?" Let's use it at 3 p.m.! Then he said, "Comrade Lao Jin, I think it would be more appropriate to change the language of this place, why do you have to use the tone of command?" In the tone of advice, people will follow suit. I think you'll work harder, so change it. ”

People in their thirties became section chiefs, and I heard that as early as the puppet Manchurian period, he was the chief engineer of the "Qingshui Combination", and even earlier, when he was studying at Harbin Institute of Technology, he was a well-known high-achieving student in the school. Can you be arrogant when your subordinates are so kind?

Twenty-five years ago, Lao Jin and Kang Gong met on the street and unexpectedly had their first personal relationship. After this relationship, Kang Gong left an impression on Lao Jin that he was not only modest and polite, but also said to be happy to help others.

Lao Jin has an ancestral shortcoming, he loves to spend change. Although he is alone, he has no involvement, and his monthly salary of 52 yuan is always worth a lot. No wonder, he knows so much! On the day of pay, he usually did not eat in the cafeteria. After getting off work, I walked around and entered the Tianfu sauce elbow shop. I just wanted to buy a few cents of pig's head meat, go to the dumpling shop, and drink a sip of wine. But the master of the Tianfu was an acquaintance, and when he saw him enter the door, he smiled and put his mouth to his ear and said, "I must know that you are coming for today's salary, and I will leave one for you to put in the back cabinet!" ”

didn't say anything, pay five yuan and carry the duck away. As soon as he walked to the door of the casserole house, Liu Si, the shopkeeper, snatched it out of the door, and Lao Jin knew him when he beat Liu Sixue to run the hall, and he was liberated, Liu Si still retained his ** habit, "Zhu Belle, I'm waiting for you!" The blood sausage that was poured for the first time just killed Leng Er, and the fried deer tail is also bright today, come in, where are you going? ”

The blood sausage that is poured back into the head, the bright fried deer tail, plus Liu Si's outfield, you have to go in and sit down!

I came back in a circle, and when I counted the money in the evening, I had thirty-six dollars left. Half a month has passed, and in addition to the meal ticket, the remaining money is enough to take a shower and shave back.

Don't think that if there is no money in the second half of the month, Jin Zhuxuan's life will be silent. Otherwise, when it is time to save the province, Lao Jin will live according to the provincial method and still enjoy himself. After getting off work, close the door and face two thin gold bodies of Song Huizong, and at the request of the Patriotic Health Committee, write a few hygienic slogans in the toilet of the office building, and then match them with flowers and birds. On Sunday, in the morning, I went to the stall to bring a bowl of old tofu and two taels of wine, and then went to a few tablet antique shops in Liulichang to watch and chat for most of the day. At that time, standing in front of the case and looking at the rubbings of the tablet, the clerk would not drive you away.

This Sunday was just in time for Lao Jin to have no money, and he went to the Liuli Factory again. Looking through the inscriptions in the Jigu Pavilion, I accidentally saw a scroll of old yellow silk handscrolls piled up under the case. Pick it up and pick up the soil, unfold it and take a look, it is half of the holy decree, Yongzheng Dynasty. Half of the Chinese text was cut away, and what was left was Manchu, which was about the repair of the old house of the Eight Banners Yamen in Shengjing. Lao Jin is not proficient in Manchu, but out of nostalgia for his ancestors and his own nation, he always likes to dabble in it. He looked at the past, and was reluctant to let go of this half of the holy decree.

Who is standing at the counter? After the practice, he came to see the eyebrows of the guest, and came over and said: "Master Jin, there is yours, I will throw it under the case, just to see if there are still people who know the goods!" But I didn't expect you to have rice here, and it's too late to hide it now! ”

"What's wrong with Lixi [note 1]?"

"Don't tease me, you know what this is, if you don't have half of it left, can I show it?"

"How much?"

"Tell you about the business, do I still have a profit? Give a book and give five dollars. ”

"Many!"

"You don't have a score!"

"It's not worth it!"

"Is it worth it?"

Jin Zhuxuan stopped talking and stretched his hand into his pocket. He knew that there was no money in his pocket, and he showed it to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper knew that he had no money on him, but he didn't pick it and looked at him with slanted eyes.

"Ouch!" Old Jin screamed, "I forgot to bring the money out." In this way, I'll take the things away, and I'll send the money tomorrow. ”

"You better put your things down," the shopkeeper pressed a hand on the half of the decree, "and then take it when you get the money." ”

The shopkeeper knows that Jin Zhuxuan never cheats people. For many years, there has never been a case of taking something without giving money. This card is in order to arouse Lao Jin's enthusiasm to buy this out-of-fashion goods. So he grabbed this half of the yellow silk and said, "What about friendship, what about friendship?" One held down the half of the yellow silk and said apologetically: "The rules on the cabinet cannot be enforced." ”

The two were politely not giving in to each other, and a young man walked in outside the door and asked with a smile: "Comrade Lao Jin, what's the matter?" ”

When the shopkeeper saw that someone was coming, he let go. Lao Jin snatched the holy decree in his arms, and when he looked up, it turned out to be his boss Kang Xiaochun, and his face turned red and his mouth was eaten.

"It's okay, we're talking about business, it's like this, I want to buy this thing, but I came out in a hurry in the morning, changed my clothes, and forgot the money at home......"

Kang Xiaochun saw that Lao Jin was wearing this dress for half a year, and it was estimated that he had nothing to change, so he asked the shopkeeper: "How much?" ”

"Five!"

Kang Xiaochun took out his wallet, took out a five-yuan ticket and handed it over. Jin Zhuxuan's face turned even redder, and he stretched out his hand to hold it and said, "What is this, where is this?" The shopkeeper quickly took the ticket and stuffed it into the drawer, Kang Xiaochun said: "Comrade Lao Jin, what are you polite to me?" Jin Zhuxuan nodded again and again and said, "Okay, I'll take it to you when I go to work tomorrow, and I won't wait for the day of paycheck." Kang Xiaochun said: "This little thing is worth it?" I'll send you! With that, the two of them went out of the tablet shop. Kang Xiaochun was fine, so he took Jin Zhuxuan to a nearby teahouse and sat down, made a pot of tea, and chatted with melon seeds, roses and dates.

"Before liberation, I made a living by selling my ancestors' property." Jin Zhuxuan blushed and said, "This is the first time I've done this office work, and I've been taken care of by you." ”

Kang Xiaochun sat opposite, listening to the lecture like a primary school student, and then replied: "You are too polite, I am young, and I am engaged in technical work, and I have never done anything about this leader, you see any shortcomings, please criticize more." ”

"It's good, it's good, it's really young and promising." Jin Zhuxuan said while pondering, people are generous and enthusiastic to us, and they are not good enough to be serious, so he pondered the words and said: "If you want to say a confidant, I also want to remind you!" ”

"That's good," Kang Xiaochun said sincerely, "you mention it." ”

"I copied the minutes of the meeting that day, the same record of the discussion of the recommendations of the Soviet experts in the I-building. I found that people said that the advice was good, and it would be followed. But it's ...... you."

"I said the proposal was not perfect and should be redesigned. I also drew a diagram to show that there may be problems if the strength of the structure is not up to the mark. Kang Xiaochun said with rare excitement, "I agree with both hands on the friendship between China and the Soviet Union, and I can't take the advice of experts as a holy decree!" He is an engineer, and I am also an engineer, so why don't I tell the truth, don't point out the defects when I see them, and wait for jokes, which is not the attitude that should be taken towards friends! ”

"It's not that you mentioned it wrong, I mean that no one else mentioned it," Jin Zhuxuan said, "Well, I've been in the old society for a long time, and I'm getting older, and I can't keep up with the new society, this and this, ah!" Don't worry if it's not right, haha,. ”

"No, you're right, I'll think about ......"

"It's nothing, it's nothing, you have to criticize and correct my work more."

Kang Xiaochun saw that Jin Zhuxuan had no intention of talking about it anymore, so he no longer insisted. He understands the history of Lao Jin's origin, and does not require him to revolutionize his ideological style. Then he said half-seriously and half-jokingly: "I have a little opinion about you." ”

"You say, you say?"

"You write reports and take notes, all with a brush. You would rather copy three copies of the manuscript in triplicate than use carbon paper, which, supposedly, has your freedom, but I want to ask you to engrave the plate, what should you do? ”

"Huh?"

"Isn't it good for you to take the time to practice pen handwriting?"

"Don't worry about it, I'm practicing!" Jin Zhuxuan said very seriously: "I don't need to work at the moment, because I make a pen much slower than a brush." ”

After this relationship, they never interacted again outside of the workplace. Jin Zhuxuan just nodded and smiled at Kang Xiaochun whenever he walked into him, to show that he had not forgotten his hospitality.

Two years later, during the anti-rightist movement, Kang Xiaochun had an accident. It was not a big matter, and he was not designated as a rightist, but he posted a wall of big-character posters and held several meetings, criticizing him for having anti-Soviet sentiments and deliberately finding fault with and undermining the prestige of Soviet experts in his suggestions. Kang Xiaochun made a very serious inspection, expressed repentance in tears, and finally got leniency, removed the section chief, and sent him to the construction site for labor training. Jin Zhuxuan didn't say a word during the whole process, but when he saw others gritting his teeth and pointing at his nose to criticize him, he always felt a little unbearable, looking at his trembling and timid face, he always wanted to comfort him but didn't dare. For this reason, it is very stalk in the chest for some days. Later, when he encountered an opportunity, he finally expressed a little sympathy for Kang Gong, and he was relieved. I won't associate with him again.

At this time, I got dressed and walked out the door. The cool breeze on the stairs shivered and broke his train of thought. He went down one floor and went to pat Kang Hyo-chun's door.

Kang Hyo-chun is mixing cold dishes in the kitchen.

Kang Xiaochun came back from Jin Zhuxuan's house, and while cutting cabbage hearts, he was very surprised by his behavior, he was old, what did he do such a childish thing? Go and invite someone for a drink in the middle of the night! Why didn't the auditor have an account, so he went to Jin Zhuxuan when he lifted his legs?

Yes, he had a happy event today, and he had to find someone to talk to. It happened that my wife went to see the girl, and my son was on a business trip. But this can't answer the question: "Why don't you ask someone else to invite Jin Zhuxuan alone?" "Yes, for more than 20 years, he has severed personal relations with everyone, and if he wants to find someone to talk to, he can only find someone nearby. And he has no relationship with anyone in the neighborhood, but this still can't answer the question: "Isn't there no relationship with Jin Zhuxuan?" Kang Xiaochun cleaned himself by himself, cut a cabbage, and finally found the answer: it turned out that he trusted Jin Zhuxuan, although he had not even said a greeting for more than 20 years, but secretly regarded him as a friend!

During the Anti-Rightist Movement, Kang Xiaochun was criticized, and the section chief was removed and sent to the construction site to participate in labor. Although he didn't wear a hat, he was a dangerous person in the eyes of ordinary people. This kind of punishment, which is not considered a punishment, of course, puts a lot of pressure on Kang Xiaochun. But he has a strong self-control, and his every move never makes people see any negative emotions, but works harder, treats others more modestly, and learns more actively. But this is on the construction site on weekdays. As soon as he returned to his family on Sunday, he was depressed and irritable. The family didn't ask him anything, and silently expressed sympathy and understanding: as soon as he caught up with his nameless fire, the three adults and children all silenced their anger, and even walked with their heels lifted. He found this, but like a sick person, he learned that he was critically ill from the generosity and tolerance of others, and his irritability increased. He didn't want to make his family feel more depressed, so he went out into the street to relax.

This Sunday, he came to the Liuli Factory. After coming out of the tablet shop, it was still early, and I entered the antique shop again. He casually browsed the broken Qin bricks and Han tiles, bronze painted pottery, and saw a few Shoushan stone seals on a Bogu shelf corner. There is a seal with a turtle carved on the top, which is quite delicate. He asked the clerk to take out the stone, squeeze it in his hand and play with it carefully. A person next to him smiled: "Kang Gong is so idle!" ”

Kang Xiaochun looked up, and he didn't know when Jin Zhuxuan came in, and he was standing diagonally opposite him.

"It's okay, let's go for a walk."

"What, you want to choose a stone to carve a seal?"

"Just look at it, I see that this one is very interesting."

Jin Zhuxuan took the stone and looked at it, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and asked the clerk, "How much?" ”

"Seven."

Jin Zhuxuan nodded, and did not ask Kang Xiaochun's opinion, and returned the stone to the clerk. Grabbed Kang Xiaochun's sleeve and said, "Look elsewhere, come back if it's not suitable." Without asking Kang Xiaochun whether he agreed or not, he dragged him to the street.

"If you have money, you shouldn't be this big head, what is worth seven yuan?" Jin Zhuxuan said indignantly, "You use stones, I have them there, and I will pick a piece and send it to the house tomorrow." ”

"It doesn't matter how many bucks." Kang Xiaochun said, "That turtle button ......"

"I know, I know." Jin Zhuxuan smiled meaningfully at Kang Xiaochun.

Jin Zhuxuan accompanied Kang Xiaochun to visit two more stalls, and when he saw that Kang Xiaochun was interested, he excused himself and left under the pretext that he still had something to do. When Kang Xiaochun went home to rest the next Sunday, his lover took out a paper bag from the drawer and said, "This was sent by the fat old man upstairs the day before yesterday, and he said you know." ”

Kang Xiaochun opened it and saw that it was a half-inch square and an inch high, and the crystal and gorgeous Tianhuangshi Chapter. There is also a turtle carved on the top, but this turtle is different from what you see in the factory, and its head is shrunk into the shell. In addition to the three words of Kang Xiaochun engraved with Zhong Dingwen on the bottom of the seal, small characters were also engraved on both sides. On one side is a couplet: "Right and wrong are all due to many words, and troubles are all strong." On the other side are the four official books, "taking the turtle as a mirror". Kang Xiaochun looked at it and said happily: "This Jin Zhuxuan looks very clumsy, but it turns out that Neixiu is well-behaved, and I can see my intention in choosing the turtle button chapter at once." When his lover saw his smug face, he asked, "Do you want to use this chapter often?" Kang Xiaochun said: "Yes, I like it." His lover said: "If you put those lines outside, won't you think that you are venting your dissatisfaction with the party?" When Kang Xiaochun heard this, he muttered in his heart, pressed a piece of lead cake, and his face darkened. His lover took the opportunity to say: "In my opinion, it is better to put it away, and try to associate with people as little as possible in the future." Although I haven't spoken to this fat old man, I have heard that he is Pu Yi's own family. We are already mud bodhisattvas crossing the river, how can we have any more spare energy, and it is better to have less contacts in the future. It's good for him and good for us. ”

Kang Xiaochun listened, it was really like pouring a basin of cold water on his head, and the joy just now was gone. His lover knew that he was scared, so he hurriedly pulled back: "I'm just taking precautions, maybe the matter is not so serious, and you don't need to be too heavy." ”

Kang Hyo-chun just stood there stunned, and could no longer hear his lover's comforting words to ease the air. He decided to accept all of his wife's advice, and immediately wrapped up the stone medallion and put it at the bottom of the box. He found the paper with the stone seal, re-wrapped the stone seal, and suddenly found that the paper turned out to be the picture where he marked the defects in the expert's advice. He originally handed it over to Jin Zhuxuan and asked him to write an explanation and prepare to submit it to the party committee as a memorandum, but later something else was done. During the Anti-Rightist Movement, people wanted to find evidence to use it, so they asked Jin Zhuxuan, but Jin Zhuxuan said that he had destroyed it long ago, but he did not find it.

Only then did he realize that he knew very little about Jin Zhuxuan in the past. And most people are not very fair to him.

In the eyes of some people, Jin Zhuxuan is like an old pot cover placed on the corner of a thrift stall, thinking that except for adding a little joke to people, the value of waste utilization is not great.

Kang Xiaochun disagrees with this view. He learned about the history of Jin Zhuxuan from the Personnel Division. Yes, his uncle was Beizi, but Jin Zhuxuan was just four or five years old when the Manchu dynasty collapsed. For as long as he can remember, his family has lived by selling property. When Jin Zhuxuan was twenty years old, his uncle died, and he inherited the estate. He inherited a lot of debts, and the only enforceable power was to stamp the deed of sale, sweep the floor and pay off the property in full. He can't bear it on his shoulders and can't lift it in his hands, although he can write with a pen and brush and draw two strokes of flowers and birds, it is far from enough to expect to exchange this for food. His only way out is to be a guest. To be honest, it's just slightly better than begging on the street, and it's by selling your pride for food. After the liberation, the Ethnic Affairs Committee and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), taking into account his ethnic and family ties, decided to arrange a job for him. The staff asked him, "What do you want to do?" He burst into tears and said, "Yo, look at what you said, the government sent me to work, which is enough to promote me, what else to choose?" I can do whatever I am asked to do, and it is decent enough to be an office worker of the people's government. The staff asked him again, "What is your specialty?" He said, "What else do I have?" You can eat, drink and have fun, but you can't afford to eat, drink and have fun! ”

The staff knew that he could calligraphy and painting, so they asked him to write a banner, draw two mirror hearts, and get the first door for identification. The result of the appraisal is that they are all good enough to participate in the exhibition, but to be a professional calligrapher and painter, he has too many such skills. So he was assigned to a construction company. Every time Jin Zhuxuan talked about this paragraph, he was full of gratitude to the government.

Clerkship is the lowest job in Corey, but Jin Zhuxuan attaches great importance to his position. He did his duty, and he did it diligently. Lotte knows his fate and has never had extravagant expectations. He watched as Corey's youths competed to win, neither jealous nor envious, and was willing to help anyone when he could. Even sometimes he knew that others were grabbing him for the big head and skillfully supporting him, but he pretended not to know, and still laughed and helped others get things done. Whenever there was a scientific affairs meeting, the people who called him criticized him for being mediocre and unambitious, and for being the ideological mood of the declining class. He was still neither angry nor angry, and even said that he would change it in the future. (Actually, it can't be changed at all.) Moreover, he did not go to his heart at all. ）

Kang Xiaochun thought, this person has his own set of living habits of the declining class, and he is also smooth in dealing with others, but for such a person, why do you ask him so much! As a public servant, isn't he fully competent! Isn't it more reliable than many well-spoken slip heads? Kang Xiaochun believes that such people should not be discriminated against, so he respects Jin Zhuxuan as much as he does other comrades. Unexpectedly, just treating each other as equals made Jin Zhuxuan so unforgettable. If you understand Jin Zhuxuan's usual tactfulness, you can understand how extraordinary it is for him to be able to give his opinion in front of him in the teahouse. This stamp and this drawing reveal that this person with a muddy surface has his own subtlety.

Kang Xiaochun wanted to thank Jin Zhuxuan very much, but in view of the sinister environment, he was afraid that something would happen, so he suppressed this enthusiasm and broke off contact with Jin Zhuxuan.

In "*****", Jin Zhuxuan carried the big signs of "feudal remnants" and "filial sons and grandsons of the landlord class" for a few days and then retired. Kang Xiaochun went to the Wuqi Cadre School. After smashing the "***", Kang Xiaochun came home, and saw that Jin Zhuxuan was still the same at the door of the building, neither old nor sick, which was very unexpected. The two chatted a few words on the stairs and then parted ways. Later, Kang Xiaochun went to work, Jin Zhuxuan was a retired person, and the two had inconsistent entry and exit times, and there were few opportunities to meet. Today, Kang Xiaochun needed to find someone to talk to, and he ran to knock on Jin Zhuxuan's door without thinking about it.

There was a knock on the door, and Jin Zhuxuan arrived.

Kang Xiaochun promised loudly: "It's coming, it's coming." He opened the door and let Jin Zhuxuan into the house, turned around and took the cold dishes he had mixed and two wine glasses into the house and set them up. Take out an unsealed bottle of Gold Medal brandy from the lower level of the bookcase, light a fire to burn off the adhesive film of the cover, open the lid, and pour two glasses full.

"I'm going to have three drinks with you!" Kang Xiaochun said, "First cup, congratulations to the two of us for going through more than 20 years of wind and rain, and we are not missing the short tail." ”

"Okay, this one has to be dry."

Jin Zhuxuan tilted his neck, and the cup bottomed out.

"Good wine, good wine!" Jin Zhuxuan said in admiration, and took a bite of cold food and sent it to his mouth. He wanted to praise the wine and food, but when he tasted it, it was so sour and bitter that he almost spit it out, and he couldn't say anything, so he had to keep silent.

Kang Xiaochun ate a mouthful of food by himself, patted his head again and again and said, "Oh no, I put saccharin as monosodium glutamate in the dish." He picked up his plate and ran to the kitchen, when he heard the sound of rushing water. Jin Zhuxuan followed to the kitchen to see that he was pouring cold vegetables into a large basin of cold water and washing them, ready to wash them and mix them again. Jin Zhuxuan said: "Don't be so open, you can drink brandy without vegetables, let's drink and talk, it's better than you to get the vegetables again, go back and sit down." ”

Kang Xiaochun also lost confidence in mixing vegetables again, so he returned to the bedroom with Jin Zhuxuan. Grabbed the bottle and filled both glasses again. Jin Zhuxuan held down the cup and said, "The second cup, please tell me about the intention of Xuan I to accompany the meal, otherwise this wine will not be digested until the stomach." ”

"If you don't mention it, I'll say it too. My family is out, and it's because I can't find anyone to say that I want to alarm you. ”

"Then you can say it quickly."

"Don't worry, drink this glass of wine and listen to me slowly."

Kang Xiaochun picked up the cup and raised it to Jin Zhuxuan's lips and shook it. Jin Zhuxuan had no choice but to raise the cup as well, and the two touched it and dried it again. After drying up the wine, Kang Xiaochun sighed, very unaccustomed to it, went to the kitchen and turned around, took a heart beauty, cut it into a few slices, and chewed it with Jin Zhuxuan. A piece of radish went down to his stomach and stabilized his spirit, and Kang Xiaochun continued:

"Two months ago, the party committee sent me to me and informed me that the conclusions made to me in 1957 were wrong and that they had all been overturned."

"What conclusions did you conclude in 1957?"

"I don't know, but the party committee knows, and it was decided to be center-right, but it didn't tell me personally."

"Ah, ask me for a drink for this!"

"What's worth asking for here? I didn't know it at the beginning, but now that I know it, I can correct it, isn't this meaningless to me? ”

"Well, the comrades of the party committee should have a drink, and since then they have gone to a heart disease and saved a little worry."

"I told the comrades of the party committee that it is still a small matter to implement the policy for me or not, but it is important to implement it in those buildings as soon as possible. At the beginning, I pointed out that there was a weak link in the advice of the Soviet experts, and gave me a center-right, and no one ever mentioned the matter of that building again. I estimate that after the Tangshan earthquake, those buildings should have internal injuries. You should ask the owner to check as soon as possible, strengthen it as soon as possible, and don't make a leak when the time comes, it is a matter of human life. ”

"You're still worried!"

"Don't look at what I'm talking about, I actually think it's in vain. In the past 20 years or so, I have made a lot of suggestions, but none of them have not been said to be very good, and none of them have come up with results. You know what? This time, there's something new! ”

"Oh?"

"This morning, the party committee called me again, and when I entered the door, he handed me a letter, which was stamped with the big red seal of the Construction and Engineering Bureau, saying that according to my suggestion, the bureau had conducted an inspection, and it really found three obvious fractures and more than 10 hidden dangers, and the circular praised me for being responsible for the state, and also decided to set up a working group to study the reinforcement plan, and suggested that this group call me to be responsible for the ......."

Jin Zhuxuan interrupted him and said, "Wait, I don't quite understand what this means. In the past, you were the section chief, but you didn't take the title of section chief seriously, and today you are going to be the team leader, and you have to drink in the middle of the night to congratulate and congratulate you is such a holiday, isn't it? You mean this team leader is more straightforward than that section chief, right? ”

"You slow down, don't get me wrong, I'm not because I'm a work team leader......"

"I understand! Is this thing revealing that we have a place to talk again? ”

"Not bad."

"Black cat, white cat, finally admit that we are a cat again. Is that what it means? ”

"That's what it means!" Kang Xiaochun smiled, "Isn't it worth a toast for this?" ”

"!"

Jin Zhuxuan and Kang Xiaochun drank the golden wine in the cup. Kang Xiaochun stood up and walked to the bookcase, groped with his hand in the cabinet for a while, returned to his seat, and pushed the seal engraved with the turtle button in front of Jin Zhuxuan.

"The two lines engraved on this stamp have always been my motto, so that I have not caused a lot of trouble, and I have not fallen heavier. I would have thanked you before, but I didn't dare; Now I can thank you with all the courage to say that these two sentences are outdated again...... Do you want to work harder to swap these two lines? ”

Jin Zhuxuan picked up the stamp he had engraved that year, looked at it carefully and repeatedly, and said, "I don't think this stamp should be sharpened or changed, but keep it as a souvenir." In order to celebrate today's happy event, I have another gift, you wait! With that, he trotted upstairs, and in less than two minutes, he ran back with a painting in his hand. The painting unfolded in the nearest light, and two kittens were drawn on it: one shrunk back and crouched, making a shape about to pounce; The other leg is stretched out and leaps in the air, with a lively and lifelike expression. On the side, a line of thin gold prompters was mentioned: "Black is good, white is also wonderful, don't catch mice and become a cat in vain." A small batch next to it reads: "1979 vernal equinox." In the afternoon, the Palace Museum came to pay Yu to sort out the old Manchu documents for the museum, and in the afternoon, the diplomatic organ asked Yu to verify the authenticity of the ancient porcelain in the collection of an embassy. The corpse vegetarian meal, has passed a few years, the age is close to the ancient, and the confidant, the waste has changed and is two cats, and the wood is about to be happy in the prosperous world. If you want to drink wildly and have no couple, paint this painting to Mingzhi. Below, a new line of big characters was added: "Kang Gong is happy, there is no way to congratulate, present this painting, to show mutual encouragement." ”

Kang Xiaochun couldn't help laughing, and poured another glass of wine while laughing.

March 1980

[note 1] Lixi - Beijing dialect, meaning joking.