A little after nine o'clock in the morning, an old black Poussin car drove up to the steps of the office building in Shizhong District and stopped, and the door opened to reveal a middle-aged man with a briefcase.

Lao Mai turned around and saw that it was a section chief who had asked him for an inspection and conversation before, so he stepped forward, and a section chief smiled and reached out to clasp with him, patted him on the shoulder, and walked into the meeting room of the district committee on the tenth floor of the building by elevator.

At the elevator entrance on the tenth floor, the director of the political office was already waiting, and he greeted them to the meeting room of the district party committee with a series of "welcome city leaders to come and guide," and greeted them to the conference room of the district committee.

The conference room of the district party committee is a small conference room with a very bright layout, with a paint-yellow oval conference table in the middle, surrounded by a single solid wood seat inlaid with leather.

When a section chief saw them standing up one by one and saying a few words to himself, he introduced him to Lao Mai, who was the deputy secretary of a certain party and the masses, the executive deputy head of a certain district, and the director of the party office of a standing committee.

A certain deputy secretary apologized on behalf of the secretary and the district head who had already gone to the city for a meeting, and warmly welcomed Lao Mai to work in the central district government of the city to jointly build two civilizations at the city level.

After the agenda was completed as usual, and after bidding farewell to a section chief of the city group, Lao Mai was taken by the director of the political office to the office area of the government district head on the ninth floor, and the director was a tall middle-aged man who looked thin and white, and his warm smile never stopped.

The office assigned to Lao Mai is a small room, room number 907, just like a single room in an express hotel.

To the left of the door is a washroom, with a large desk and master chair in the office area, opposite two imitation leather sofas separated by a wooden coffee table, and a potted green shade plant next to it.

"Deputy Mai, in your office, you see what is still missing, just tell our political office," the director of the political office is surnamed Lu, who is taller than Lao Mai, and speaks slightly bent over.

Lao Mai smiled: "Thank you, Director Lu, I will look for you if you have something." ”

The tall Director Lu then said: "Deputy Mai, please take care of yourself this morning, you are in charge of the specific work in the government and wait for Liu District to come back, and then hold a meeting to discuss and confirm." ”

Lao Mai was a little uncomfortable with this way of talking, but he didn't say anything, just nodded "um".

Director Lu quickly said goodbye and went out, Lao Mai did not go to the master's seat to sit down, but walked to the window first, half-pushed open the aluminum alloy window and looked out.

This is already the rear of the government building, and looking down from the glass window, you can see two more buildings behind the compound.

One is a six-storey comprehensive office building, and the other is a quadrangular double-storey hall building, with some trees, flower belts, and corridors dotted in the middle, and the overall layout is brand new.

Lao Mai took a long breath, and a white mist sprayed out, so frightened that he hurriedly covered his mouth, looked back at the door that was still open, and thought that he really paid attention, the time was not yet winter, and he didn't smoke, and he opened his mouth to spit white air, what kind of thing is this.

Later, after thinking about it for a while, he understood the reason, he usually practiced and exhaled from the dantian, and he loved to breathe a long breath, which inevitably brought out the Zhenyuan breath that was not very accurately controlled, and it seemed that he usually exhaled from the lungs, clearly distinguishing the practice from the usual.

Old Mai calmed down, stretched, turned around and picked up the landline receiver from the desk, and dialed the call.

"Hello, which leader?" a magnetic voice came from the earpiece.

Lao Mai couldn't help but laugh and responded: "I lost, how do you know that I am a leader?"

"I'm rubbing, Lao Mai?!!Are you really here?" An overjoyed voice came from inside, naturally it was Lan Xinbo, director of the Urban Planning and Economic Bureau, "Looking at the phone showing the phone tail number 907, I knew that it was the office number of the district mayors, but I didn't expect it to be you." ”

Lao Mai asked Lao Lan about the floor and room number of Lao Lan's office, and then took the elevator down to find him.

Room 501 of Lao Lan's director's office is also a small single room, but there is no toilet.

As soon as Lao Maifu entered the door, he saw the tall, handsome and dashing Lan Xinbo lying in front of the computer and moving the mouse, and said with a smile: "You are so idle today, do you still have time to play on the computer?"

"Idle fart, it just so happens that you have it, otherwise in a while, I will go to the general manager," Lao Lan dropped the mouse, extended his hand to let Lao Mai sit down on the wooden sofa opposite, and asked someone to make a cup of tea and come in.

Lao Mai sat down, and looked straight at Lao Landao: "The four teams in the city have all entered the re-election procedure, and you are still sitting here, can't you go to this session?"

Lao Lan shook his head and said: "I have organized an inspection, I originally intended to let me go to the CPPCC, and I am also the president of the Federation of Industry and Commerce, I don't do it, Nima I am 37 years old this year, and I have passed 40 years after a term, even if I come back to be a deputy district head, I will definitely not be able to enter the Standing Committee, and it will be difficult to go up in the future." ”

Lao Mai groaned: "If you stay up for another term, can you go to the executive office?"

The so-called executive deputy district head, of course, can enter the Standing Committee of the district party committee, after a term there is hope for the future promotion, if you only do the general deputy district head, basically stay up enough time to change to the same level of position, or a little older to go to the people's congress to die, and then go to the CPPCC to die.

At that time, there were two sets of smooth sayings about the four major groups in the urban area, one was "the government has money, the party committee has the power, the people's congress has the hand, and the CPPCC has the mouth", and then the other set is "the government is busy to death, the party committee is in charge of death, the people's congress is idle, and the CPPCC is waiting to die".

Lao Lan waved his hand and said: "Regardless of it now, my family still has something to do with it, and it will still be useful in four years." ”

Lan Xinbo is the second generation of officials in the city, and his father is the first head of Shizhong District, who restored the urban structure at the end of the seventies of this century.

Lao Lan then proposed: "Go outside to the food stall at noon and order a few dishes and have a beer." ”

Lao Mai smiled: "Okay, I just came here and haven't scheduled lunch yet." ”

Lao Lan shook his head and said, "I'm tired of eating that five-yuan standard free lunch, and I rarely eat that in the canteen." ”

Since Lao Mai came to Shizhong District in the morning to report for duty, he had a light meal and drank a few beers with his old classmates at noon, and went to work in the afternoon to meet the secretary and the district head, and participated in a government executive meeting.

At the meeting, a topic was added to clarify the work of the deputy head of the district outside the party, that is, to assist the executive in charge of the work of the plan, environmental protection work, legal system construction work, and the work of the United Front and the Federation of Industry and Commerce.

For the Shizhong district government, which has four or five deputy district heads, this workload is moderate, and a deputy political office surnamed Ling is also designated to coordinate the work of contacting him.

Originally, Lao Mai could wait until the general election to be in place, but the adjustment range of the general election below the municipal level was too large, and many former county and district-level leaders were enriched to the city-level departments as early as possible, and most of the new candidates were delegated by the city-level departments, and the work of the county and district was basically smeared.

Therefore, the city leaders ordered the newcomers to arrive early to familiarize themselves with the situation, and the city government appointed them first, so as to familiarize themselves with the work, and at the same time facilitate the participation in the general election in the future to win votes.

It's better to have a familiar face than an unfamiliar face, but this can be a test of adaptability, and there is no shortage of precedents for being voted with feet by the deputies of the people's congress in the city in previous general elections.

Since then, Lao Mai has started a new stage of grassroots work that he has never experienced before.

Since he graduated from college and was assigned to a state-owned enterprise, a year later he was transferred to the Municipal Economic Commission and finally stayed, and in recent years, he has been transferred to the Municipal Development and Planning Commission to work, a total of more than ten years, basically there is no grassroots work experience, and some are also for state-owned enterprises.

Now that he went to the urban area, he realized the existence of another world, streets, villages, private enterprises, individuals, as well as large and small collective enterprises mainly to resettle the wealthy labor force in the cities and towns and the people who were sent back to the city.

As a result, Lao Mai's new journey was divided into two halves, half of which was to continue to cultivate diligently, although he didn't know what the consequences would be if he continued to cultivate, it still seemed to be very beneficial at the moment.

In the past few days, through the four limbs and eight acupoints, absorbing the vitality of heaven and earth to strengthen his own meridians, and accelerating the storage of dantian true vitality, he is gradually approaching the top of the second layer of exercises, and is about to open the third layer.

Although I don't know how many floors there are up, at least there are a lot of expectations, and Lao Mai is always eager to open another world that he has never touched as soon as possible.

The other half is familiar with the new job in the city, and now I plan to just mess around.

In the past few days since I started working, I have nothing more than signing documents, holding various meetings, and listening to the reports of the departments in charge, including the report of Lan Xinbo, director of the Bureau of Planning and Economics.

This is not casual nonsense, a few people are sitting in a precarious position, reporting their work, Lao Mai turned the signature pen in his hand, listened solemnly, and then put forward his own instructions.

Lao Mai was always busy with the complicated affairs of his own work, so he closed the door and sat alone on the master's chair, closing his eyes and meditating on the exercises.

While he was meditating on the Silent Exercises, the aura of Heaven and Earth Vitality became stronger, and the green shade plant in the house became more lush and green over the years, and it seemed to have grown a little taller.

Work and cultivation are interspersed, and he himself feels that there is no contradiction, so he doesn't even need to sleep, he meditates and practices in bed at night, and during the day he sets up a meditation method of sitting on a chair, putting his hands on his knees, and closing his eyes to recuperate.

After a few days, Lao Mai felt that he was more thoughtful and clear-sighted.

One day, the section chief of the original unit, Xiao Bi, made a phone call to him, in addition to greeting a few words, that is, urging him to take time to return to the commission and go through the payment procedures for housing reform as soon as possible, because it was almost the end of September.

At the same time, the end of September is also the day of the general election of the three leading bodies of the people's congress, the government, and the CPPCC at the same level, and the general meeting of the district party committee has ended ahead of schedule a few days earlier.

After the election meeting of the three teams, among the candidates for the election of the deputy district head, Lao Mai, as the only candidate outside the party, was successfully elected as the deputy head of the party outside the party of the central district government of the city with a high vote.

His image has always been very cordial and easy-going, and it is very easy to gain the favor of the other party when communicating with people, and it seems that it is easier to win the favor of the deputies during the briefing and meeting with the deputies on the eve of the election, and I wonder if it is a benign result caused by the cultivation of the exercises.