Chen Qishun opened the toolbox and took out the satchel with good cigarettes, he was just about to leave, and stood again, he hurriedly opened the bag and looked at it for a while, then took out one, and then put it in, raised his head and looked around, thoughtfully took it out again, put it in the toolbox, and then looked at the two more in the bag, he bit his lip, looked at the surrounding fields, and then looked at the sky, hesitated, and finally, took out another one and put it in the toolbox, after only one cigarette was left in the satchel, he began to walk towards the township government.

Outside the gate of the township government, Chen Qishun poked his head into the courtyard to look, and then mustered up the courage to walk in, walked timidly to the door of the office of the head of the Liang township according to Mancang's explanation, raised his bent fingers, and was about to knock on the door, but he raised his hand in the air in a deflated manner, turned his head and remembered that Xi'er and Mancang's pounded eggplant counted cucumbers, and he gritted his teeth, knocked on the door of the township chief Liang, and his legs began to tremble.

"Who? Please come in—"

Chen Qishun pushed open the door tremblingly, Township Chief Liang was writing something in his notebook, raised his head sharply and glanced at it, he was startled coldly, looking at the black oil stains on his face, and his head was standing high in a daze. Township Chief Liang looked up and down, and asked with a puzzled face: "Are you?" ”

"I, I, I ......." I was so scared that I stammered.

"Sit down, sit down——, said." Township Chief Liang came back to his senses and continued to write in his notebook, but said very simply: "Say, what's the matter?" ”

"I, I, I ......."

"Don't be nervous, say something slowly." Township Chief Liang glanced at Chen Qishun, pointed to the chair with a pen, put down the pen, stood up, bent down and poured a glass of water for Chen Qishun, handed it over, and said, "Don't panic, say slowly, what difficulties are you encountering?" ”

"No, no, I'm from Mancang, Pai, Pai." As soon as he said it, Chen Qishun regretted it, and hurriedly changed his words and said: "No, no, no, I want to come by myself." ”

“……。” Township Chief Liang wanted to laugh, but he couldn't help it, and he still looked serious and said, "Is it a matter of contracting the project?" ”

"Yes, yes."

"This matter has been decided, when the time comes, you villagers in Longwan Village can control it freely, whoever wants a salary will be paid, and those who don't want a salary will be treated as an investment," Liang Township Chief sat on a stool in the office, explained to Chen Qishun word by word very earnestly, and handed Chen Qishun a cigarette, helped him light it, and said: "As for the contracting project, it is only a small contractor, and it is necessary to know the construction technology of personnel to serve, leading the villagers, to publicize construction safety, building material standards, For example, the ratio with cement, here we can't be sloppy, the decision needs two people. ”

"This is okay, I know the drawings, and I have been working on the construction site for three or four years, Cheng Gong, Cheng Gong taught me," Chen Qishun held a cigarette in one hand, picked up the cup in the other, drank it all, and his mood was much more relaxed, he wiped the sweat on his forehead, took a puff of cigarette, and looked down at the name of the cigarette printed on the cigarette, and got up, and said: "Build a wall, I put a person in the corner of the building, they can't catch up with me, and the wall is twisted." ”

"Yes——, then you will be the foreman of the small package." Township Chief Liang smiled, looking very excited, and continued: "You have to take responsibility, and lead the villagers to do our own duties safely, quickly, and with quality and quantity." ”

"That's not a problem, leave it to me, you can rest assured-" Chen Qishun waved his hand, took off the shoes on his left foot, bent his legs on the chair surface, began to rub the dirt between his toes with one hand, and waved his long arms excitedly, and said: "Don't worry, brother, as long as my brother continues this work, I don't dare to spray anything else, I am the best ......at this construction work." ”

"Then we'll settle it today?" Township Chief Liang said and picked up the notebook on the table, stood up, and said, "I can trust you, you can't let me down." ”

"Don't worry, rest assured, a hundred hearts are put in your stomach," Chen Qishun still didn't mean to leave, buttoned his toes, and said, "I have my own way to manage...... ”

"Let's talk another day? I still have a meeting, and they're all waiting for ....... ”

"Is this going to be closed? I think our brothers are squirting through speculation, isn't it, if we don't close it, let's spray it for a while? ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, it's very tight, next time I come, I'll take care of the food."

"Good! That's it. ”

Chen Qishun kicked and pulled his shoes, stood up, and walked out reluctantly, just about to go downstairs, he suddenly remembered the cigarette in his bag, so he hurriedly folded it back, and shouted: "Brother-wait a minute, wait a minute." ”

Township Chief Liang was just about to push open the door of the conference room and stopped.

"This, this, I bought you two cigarettes, you smoke, just stay and smoke by yourself, ah, ah, one, one."

"......," Township Chief Liang couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw the cigarette brand, hurriedly pushed it over, and said with a serious face: "No, those who can't do it resolutely can't, this is a mistake, you know." ”

Chen Qishun pushed Township Chief Liang back to the office, he was big, Township Chief Liang couldn't stand his pushing, Township Chief Liang was still in a hurry to have a meeting, so he asked Chen Qishun to leave the cigarette, and said: "You let Mancang come here, I still have work to explain to him." ”

"Okay, I can do that."

Chen Qishun walked out of the township government, happily just wanted to jump up, humming a tuneless song along the way, the mood was too happy to compare, he went directly to the construction site to find Mancang, Mancang hurriedly looked around when he saw him coming, and when he saw that no one was paying attention, he pulled the corner of Chen Qishun's clothes, pulled to a place where no one was, and listened to Chen Qishun's good news.

"Hey——, that's pretty easy to decide." Chen Qishun waved his hand indifferently, glanced at Mancang contemptuously, and said, "Liang Township Chief is good, I will give me cigarettes and tea after I go, and call my buddy ......." ”

"I'm asking you to live, the contracted job?" Mancang said impatiently: "You are talking nonsense, a lot of nonsense." ”

"Okay——, let me be the contractor."

"Do you think you're strong?"

"Tsk——, I'm sure I'm going to say this——, not to mention how people let me contract the project? But I also said to build walls, I put the corners of high-rise buildings. ”

"You just blow it, don't worry about blowing the cow to death," Man Cang glared at him fiercely and said, "What do people really want you to do with the corner wall?" ”

"I worked as a small worker for the workers who built the corners of the wall, I know what to do, I also build the wall, and I am also a big worker on the construction site, you can rest assured, I grasp the size, Hu Kan has my nonsense." Chen Qishun said nonchalantly: "We talked very speculatively, and people were very enthusiastic about me." ”

"Yes, Township Chief Liang is enthusiastic about the people, not only enthusiastic, but also worried about every poor family," Man Cang asked again: "He doesn't know our relationship, right?" ”

"Hey——, Township Chief Liang is very shrewd, as soon as my feet stepped into someone's house, they said, it's Mancang who asked you to come."

"Hey——, you dead brain, what do you say?"

"I talked about our relationship."

"You're such a bastard, you wouldn't say it doesn't matter? The reason I let you go is because I don't want him to know about our relationship. Man Cang was already disheartened, shook his head and waved his hand, and said: "You have made a big mistake, and the in-service cadres must not let their relatives and friends get involved in the project. ”

"Hey, by the way, Township Chief Liang also said that I would let you go."

"You-" Man Cang stood up, stretched out his finger and pounded Chen Qishun, couldn't say a word, and rode directly to the township government.

"You've stood up for me—"

At night, in the office of Township Chief Liang, the atmosphere was very tense, Man Cang hung his head, stood there, did not dare to say a word, and did not tremble, Man Cang was a person who had encountered a big scene. Xiao Zhang in the office came to ask Township Chief Liang to go to the cafeteria to eat, but Township Chief Liang waved his hand away impatiently, and Township Chief Liang wrote materials on the desk without saying a word, and it was a stalemate for nearly three hours.

Township Chief Liang took out the Huazi cigarette from the drawer, and fell mercilessly on the ground in front of Mancang, his eyes were bloodshot, his face was very ugly, he stood up, tilted his head, stared at it with his eyes, and circled around Mancang.

"What the hell are you up there all day? Don't cooperate with Liu Maomao well, just think about some bad things that don't go into the stream? Township Chief Liang touched his face fiercely, and then reprimanded: "If you usually waste your mind to explain to you, you will do these dirty things of chickens and dogs?" Where did you learn this? It's just nonsense. ”

Man Cang stood there motionless, scratching his head occasionally, but he didn't dare to look at Township Chief Liang, he also understood that there were three cigarettes, how could one fall out? Brother-in-law Qishun is hidden, this turtle grandson, see me go back and clean you up.

"I'll tell you Mancang, if you continue like this, I will directly remove you from your position," Township Chief Liang was very serious, his previous enthusiasm was gone, and then he took out the money from his pocket, counted it and fell on Mancang, and said: "I will keep the cigarettes, and the money will be returned to you, and if you have the heart, donate this money to the needy households, you are like Liu Maomao to study and study, you are rich, what about your prestige in the eyes of the villagers?" Pick up the money for me and get out of here——。 ”

Mancang drove on the road, frantically increased the throttle, his heart was full of anger, aimed at Chen Qishun, and went straight to his father-in-law's house, if I don't teach you a good lesson today, Chen Qishun, I will live in vain in the world, and I will give you private work with good intentions, how dare you make this a big disaster? It's too inhumane, I have repeatedly explained to you, you are embarrassing me and burning me. This brute, I didn't see that he was this person who had more than enough success and more than enough failure.

Don't talk about relatives, relatives pull down, love to call whomever brother-in-law, go to call whomever brother-in-law, don't share the ...... of the day.

Chen Qishun was at home, lying proudly on the bed, smoking a cigarette and watching TV, cocking Erlang's legs and swaying thinking about the dream of contracting the project, and showing off in front of his daughter-in-law Xi'er that he and Township Chief Liang would be buddies in the future.