Next, Song Yuanchao and Lin Yan are going to Yangcheng and Pengcheng, this time it is not just to go shopping, but also to witness the establishment of the special economic zone.

In addition, Qin Zhengguo will also come over from the Xiangjiang side, and everyone will make an appointment to meet together in Pengcheng, so considering this, Song Yuanchao asked Li Daqi to be ready and go over together when the time comes.

I stayed at the new factory all day, and then I didn't go back until late in the evening. When they got home, Lin Yan and Li Xiaoyun also came back, the two girls had a very happy day shopping today, and bought a lot of things, but those things were not suitable for Song Yuanchao, they hid in the room and happily discussed and drove Song Yuanchao out, Song Yuanchao smiled helplessly, and simply went downstairs to the kitchen to work.

The next day, Lin Yan and Li Xiaoyun continued to go out together, and seemed to feel that Song Yuanchao was more casual when the two of them were not shopping. In this way, Song Yuanchao was directly and temporarily expelled from the three-person "revolutionary team", and left early in the morning holding hands.

It happened to be empty, Song Yuanchao went to the old factory with the prepared gifts, and visited Director Ma and Principal Zhou.

Seeing Song Yuanchao coming, Director Ma and Principal Zhou were very happy, especially the latter came on purpose, because it was summer vacation, and the school was on vacation.

After staying in the old factory for a long time, talking a lot to the two elders, and seeing that the two of them were a little in good spirits after lunch, Song Yuanchao got up and said goodbye.

Director Ma still has to sit in the factory, so he just sent him to the door and made an appointment to meet again in a few days, as for Principal Zhou, he also went home by the way, Song Yuanchao and Principal Zhou pushed their bicycles all the way to home and walked slowly, chatting while walking.

"I'll quit next year......." After walking some distance, Principal Zhou glanced back in the direction of the school and said.

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"So fast?" Song Yuanchao was stunned.

"Is this fast? I'm about to be sixty years old, so if I don't retire when I get old, won't I be able to go to the podium? Principal Zhou said with a smile, and then sighed: "The years are not forgiving, the root of the disease that fell before has not been good in recent years, and the work of the school has been hard to support in the past few years, but it has finally lived up to the trust of the organization, the school work has been formalized, and I can retire with peace of mind next year and live a good idle life." ”

Looking at the pleased smile on Principal Zhou's face, Song Yuanchao couldn't help but be moved in his heart. Principal Zhou has worked hard for education all his life, and it is difficult for outsiders to know the hardships he has paid from it, but Song Yuanchao is clear.

Not to mention the unfair treatment of Principal Zhou in the previous era, in order to adhere to his ideals and beliefs, Principal Zhou almost failed to survive like Song Guangzeng.

Although Principal Zhou finally got through that difficult time, his body was greatly damaged, and he fell ill.

In the past few years, the No. 2 Middle School has recovered very quickly in education, especially last year and this year, the enrollment rate of the high school entrance examination far exceeded that of other schools, and was praised by the higher authorities.

These are inseparable from Principal Zhou's efforts, it can be said that without Principal Zhou, there would be no current No. 2 Middle School, and there would be no students who were admitted to high school and university with excellent grades.

And now, Principal Zhou is about to retire, and after a lifetime of education, he suddenly finds that he is leaving his beloved education post, and his heart is inevitably a little empty.

"Headmaster...... You....... Song Yuanchao wanted to say some comforting words, but he didn't know where to start.

Principal Zhou smiled knowingly, patted Song Yuanchao's shoulder and said, "This person is old, and it is a natural law to retire when he reaches age, I can't continue to occupy this position and not let the family progress, right?" If this is the case, the whole country and the whole society must not be disordered? Besides, not only me, but also your master and Lao Ma are almost there, we have already discussed, we have been busy with a lifetime of work, and we will retire and relax. ”

As he spoke, Principal Zhou looked at the blue sky, and there was a burst of cicadas in his ears: "There is nothing to do after retirement, Lao Ma and I plan to go around the country to see the great rivers and mountains of our motherland, but to fulfill the wish of our youth." ”

Principal Zhou laughed: "When I was young, I wanted to be Xu Xiake, travel all over the country, walk around, look everywhere, write travelogues or something, but I never had this opportunity, isn't this opportunity now?" Gotta let me do it, right? Otherwise, if you can't walk in a few years, you won't have a chance to make up for this regret. ”

Song Yuanchao nodded, Principal Zhou's optimism rushed to hear that he was going to retire, but looking back, it was not a bad thing to retire after a lifetime of hard work, while he could still walk, go out more and take a walk, it was a different feeling for these two old people.

For a while, Song Yuanchao suddenly thought of his parents, if his parents were still alive, he probably should also consider this problem, right?

As if seeing what Song Yuanchao was thinking, Principal Zhou smiled and diverted the topic, chatted with Song Yuanchao about other things, and the two walked while pushing the car, chatting all the way until they sent Principal Zhou home.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Song Yuanchao returned to his home, and when he arrived home, Lin Yan and Li Xiaoyun had not come back, and they didn't know where to go around.

As soon as the bicycle was parked, Zhang Jianguo's greeting came from behind him.

"Uncle, aren't you in the unit at this time?" Looking back, Song Yuanchao asked with some surprise.

"I got out of the car early today, and I came back directly after seeing the time." Zhang Jianguo said happily, and then said to Song Yuanchao: "Yuanchao, are you okay now?" ”

"It's okay, uncle, do you have something to do with me?"

Zhang Jianguo nodded with a smile, thought for a while, and said, "Since it's okay, let's go, take you to eat shaved ice, I remember that you liked it very much when you were a child, and you haven't eaten it for so many days since you came back, right?" ”

Zhang Jianguo's words suddenly reminded Song Yuanchao of shaved ice, and he really hadn't eaten it for so many days since he came back as he said, so he suddenly thought a little in his heart.

Smiling and nodding, Song Yuanchao and Zhang Jianguo walked towards the entrance of the alley together, and the two of them walked to the left along the road for a while and came to a state-run food store.

Shaved ice is sold here, and it is the best cold drink in this era, and it attracts many people more than ice cream and popsicles.

The method of shaved ice is very simple, it is to use a large piece of edible ice under the ice shaver to shave, and then press the button of the shaved ice machine to shave down the ice on top of the ice cubes like shaved wood, and then take a cup to fill these crushed ice, and then directly put the cup containing the crushed ice upside down in a cup filled with mung beans and sugar water, so that a cup of shaved ice is completed.

Mung beans go to the heat, the sugar water is very sweet, and with the cool crushed ice, it is the best to eat a cup of such shaved ice on a hot summer day.

When he arrived at the place, Zhang Jianguo asked Song Yuanchao to wait outside, he went in and paid for two cups of shaved ice, and soon walked out with the shaved ice with a spoon.

"Here, taste it." Directly handed a cup to Song Yuanchao, Song Yuanchao took it with a smile, and the two sat down on the steps at the entrance of the store.

Slowly pull out the spoon, try not to destroy the crushed ice on it, and then put the spoon into the crushed ice into the sugar water and mung beans, when the crushed ice and sugar water, mung beans are fused together, and when they are half-dissolved, they dig and eat directly with the spoon, and put them into their mouths for a burst of sweet coolness, which makes people feel comfortable to shout.

"It's still the same taste!" Song Yuanchao couldn't help but sigh, when he was a child, because his parents were busy, he played with Zhang Jianguo's ass a lot of the time, and every summer, Zhang Jianguo, who was still a half-old child, took Song Yuanchao to play wildly, going up the tree to catch it, going down to the river to fish, picking lotus flowers...... All of these have been done, but what Song Yuanchao has always remembered is that Zhang Jianguo brought him here to eat shaved ice before returning home.

At that time, Zhang Jianguo hadn't gone to work yet, where did the eldest child who hadn't worked get his pocket money? However, Zhang Jianguo's brain is more flexible, and when he plays with Song Yuanchao, he will pick up some glass bottles and waste paper or something, and collect them and sell them to the waste recycling station, which can usually be sold for a few cents.

Most of the time, these pennies are replaced with shaved ice, and the two of them are usually shy to eat a cup of shaved ice together, you take a bite and I take a bite, and the food is especially sweet, recalling the past of the year, a smile appeared on Song Yuanchao's mouth.

No matter how good things are, there is a time when they are finished, and you can't eat shaved ice slowly, because if you slow down, the ice will melt completely, and the taste will change.

After eating shaved ice, Zhang Jianguo took the cup to return the cup (the cup deposit was three cents), and Song Yuanchao handed Zhang Jianguo a cigarette after returning the cup, and the two continued to sit on the steps and smoke and chat.

"Yuan Chao, you are a college student, you have a lot of knowledge, you know a lot of things, there is something my uncle wants to ask you." After taking a puff of his cigarette, Zhang Jianguo plucked up the courage to speak.

Song Yuanchao smiled secretly in his heart, in fact, when Zhang Jianguo invited him to eat shaved ice, he saw that he had something to do with himself today, but he didn't say that Song Yuanchao was not easy to ask, after all, Zhang Jianguo was a person who loved face very much, and he couldn't ask directly as a junior.

"Uncle, you say."

"This thing...... How do you say that....... When the words came to his lips, Zhang Jianguo didn't know how to say it, scratched his head and thought about it, and then said: "You know what I do, right?" ”

"You know, aren't you the driver of the unit's car class?"

"That's right! It's the driver who drives! Zhang Jianguo nodded, sorted out what he wanted to say, and then said slowly.

Zhang Jianguo said that Song Yuanchao listened carefully on the side, and after listening to Zhang Jianguo's words for more than ten minutes, Song Yuanchao also understood what Zhang Jianguo meant.

It turns out that as a driver of the unit's trolley class, Zhang Jianguo's job is still good, the salary is higher than that of ordinary workers, plus there are car subsidies and some additional "benefits", and the monthly income adds up to a lot, which is much better than ordinary workers.

If there is no change, Zhang Jianguo is afraid that he will continue to work in this position until their unit is not as good as a year after year, and finally ten years later, the unit collapses and all the employees are laid off.

After being laid off, Zhang Jianguo will go to drive a taxi, the taxi driver in the early nineties is still quite popular, and he makes a lot of money, this taxi is more than ten years, and after 2000, Zhang Jianguo is older and the money he earns is much less than before, he no longer does the taxi business, but instead works as a security guard in the demolition and resettlement community, and pays a pension by the property company every month and earns some pocket money by the way, and has been working until retirement.