"McKoe, you're forty this year, aren't you?"

“...... You are now dismissed from the position of deputy chief of the industrial section and transferred to the chief staff member of the industrial section. ”

“...... , you go back and call your Xiaobi by the way. ”

In the year 1998 of the solar calendar, on a midsummer day, a city in the south.

The door of the small conference room at the corner of the floor suddenly opened, and Lao Mai, who was smiling, pushed the door out and closed it smoothly, his face immediately turned from sunny to cloudy.

Lao Mai is a large Gade, with a flat head and a square face, a medium height of 1.7 meters, and a strong figure, as soon as he goes out at this moment, he looks at both sides of the corridor of the curved ruler, but he does not see the figure of Xiao Bi waiting nearby.

Suddenly, a young man of about thirty hurriedly walked from the end of the corridor and beckoned to him: "McKe, Cory has your phone number, it was Sister Mai calling, it seems to be in a hurry, let you hurry up and pick it up." ”

Lao Mai wondered in his heart, what urgent matter could there be when his sister called, but he still didn't forget to get down to business and said: "Xiao Bi, go in, it's your turn to talk." ”

Slanted at Xiao Bi pushing the door into the small conference room and hiding his back, Lao Mai returned to the office listlessly, picked up the telephone receiver on his desk, and casually "hey".

"Is it Brother?" The caller was indeed Sister Mai, but the female voice coming from the earpiece said with a crying voice, "Brother, Dad went suddenly, just now!"

"What?" "Old Mai was shocked as if he had been knocked on a stick, "This, this, my father is not yet seventy, except for a little heart problem, high blood viscosity, there is no other disease, heart disease is also being treated conservatively, I have been taking aspirin and petalok regularly, why did I suddenly ......"

Sister Mai choked up and continued: "I don't know, this morning, my father's original unit organized retired old people to go to the city museum to visit the exhibition of cultural relics, and came back at noon with a red face, full of interest, personally cooked and fried a few dishes, pulled Ah Liu to drink a few cups, and took Ah Liu's cigarette and smoked a few cigarettes, saying that he didn't listen, and went back to sleep as usual after dinner."

Sasha went downstairs at half past two in the afternoon, ready to go to school, heard the room on the second floor, grandfather coughed phlegm and coughed very badly, went to open the door to see, saw that grandpa's face turned purple, frightened immediately went to the shop to call me.

"I panicked when I heard this, and hurriedly called Ah Liu to go to the town health center to find a doctor, and I went to my father's room to see him, and saw that he seemed to be out of breath, and his face became darker and darker...... Later, the doctor came soon after, and the pulse was gone, and the person died early, saying that it was sudden death. ”

Lao Mai's mind was dazed, and he couldn't get back to his soul for a while, and muttered, "This, this...... Okay, how could my father die suddenly?"

Sister Mai urged repeatedly: "Let's not talk so much, you hurry up and ask for a leave to come back, by the way, borrow a car from the unit, and use an extra car to pick up relatives back and forth for funerals." ”

Lao Mai put down the phone, hastily wrote a leave note, hurriedly asked the leader in charge for a few days of bereavement leave, and then borrowed a small Wuling van from the commission, and then rushed back to the old house in the town to take care of his father's funeral.

Lao Mai's old house is in a small town on the outskirts of the city, the old father has been retired for many years, the old mother has passed away a few years ago due to illness, only he lives in the old house for the elderly, in recent years just in the old house on the original site, demolished and rebuilt into a four-and-a-half-story brand new building, after moving in, the life of planting flowers and grass is very comfortable.

Lao Mai has a sister, married to a male classmate in a middle school in the same town, the two of them graduated from high school together to join the team, married after returning to the city in 79, the man is the only son at home, in that turbulent ten years, his parents were innocent and wronged, and they have already died one after another.

It turned out that when Lao Mai's mother was alive, his sister and brother-in-law still lived in a nearby man's house, and gave birth to a daughter after marriage.

Lao Mai's mother died of illness, which has something to do with his marriage in the past, and his father has always been very angry with him, always saying that he doesn't listen to the old man, looking for a goblin to be his wife, and angry with his mother to find a mountain to worship.

So Lao Mai is always afraid of being scolded, and he is reluctant to go back to the old house to see his father's black face, even if he has demolished the old and rebuilt a four-story and a half-story building in recent years, except for the New Year's holidays, he has to go home, and would rather squat in a unit where he lives alone on weekdays.

Lao Mai drove all the way, holding the motorcycle 928 flip phone he had just bought, and called his brother-in-law Ah Liu, asking in detail about the situation at the time of the incident.

What Ah Liu said is similar to what Sister Mai said, that is, a little more doctor analyzed it afterwards, and said that the cause of his father-in-law's sudden death may be that he did not take medicine on time or often did not take it.

The old father-in-law had a high blood viscosity on weekdays, and the cardiovascular system had been blocked to a critical point, and then he suddenly drank and smoked to stimulate it, and the heart beat slowed down during a nap, and the blood supply was insufficient as soon as the cardiovascular system was blocked.

He relayed the doctor's words, the focus is to estimate the blockage of two major cardiovascular vessels at one time, the most common situation is sudden death, the cardiovascular system is so blocked, basically the patient dies in five to ten minutes, and the gods are difficult to save.

After listening to them one by one, Lao Mai closed the mobile phone cover in a daze, and suddenly remembered that the grandfather he had only met when he was a child seemed to have died suddenly of a heart attack, and he was not yet seventy years old.

He was suddenly shocked, could it be that the fate of his family was that Shou Yuan was close to seventy, and he was blocked by two cardiovascular systems and died suddenly? Suddenly, his tangled heart sank to the bottom, and his hands and feet were extremely cold.

Along the way, he was confused and cranky, when the red light was turned on at a certain intersection of the city avenue, a mud truck in front of him suddenly braked, and Lao Mai, who was caught off guard, almost rear-ended, and finally stepped on the brakes in the chaos, avoiding a senseless car accident.

Lao Mai stopped and pulled the handbrake, just wanted to take a breath and rest, suddenly felt his heart beat violently, and he broke out in a cold sweat, thinking that it wouldn't be so magical, the old father just left, so soon it was his turn?

After a while, his heart beat violently again, this time Lao Mai's mind was a little fixed, as if he felt which direction around him, what caused his heart to beat violently, and subconsciously looked left and right.

At this time, he suddenly felt a fierce heartbeat, and his eyes fell on the gate of the Municipal Museum near the left, where a red banner was pulled, and it was written in large white letters: "Ancient Mysterious Tomb Culture and Unearthed Cultural Relics Exhibition".

Lao Mai endured another beating of his heart, and when he tasted it, he felt as if he was in a museum, and there was something that would cause his heart to beat violently.

The green light at the intersection was turned on at the right time, Lao Mai was still thinking, the car behind was already impatient and honked the horn to urge non-stop, he had no choice but to drive away first, the weirdness just now was free to say, it was strange to say, as soon as the car drove away, the heart beat and felt gradually disappear.

He was in a state of mind, and suddenly remembered Sister Mai's phone call: "Dad's original unit organized retired elderly people to visit the cultural relics exhibition at the Municipal Museum,......

This is the city museum, is there something strange in it that can cause the heart to beat violently......

Along the way, he finally returned to his old house without danger, Lao Mai stopped in front of the house, and saw his brother-in-law Ah Liu coming down the steps to meet him.

The brother-in-law and brother-in-law patted each other on the shoulder, and without saying much, they wanted to walk up the stairs to the hall.

Lao Mai suddenly raised his head, but saw a pair of middle-aged and elderly men and women standing side by side at the door of the hall, with solemn expressions on their faces, silently looking at their brothers.

Ah Liu climbed Lao Mai's shoulders and introduced closely: "Brother, this is my aunt and uncle, my aunt just retired this year, and my uncle is the CEO of a state-owned enterprise. ”

I saw the gray-haired Uncle Ah Liu stretching out his hand to shake Lao Mai, and said in a sad tone: "Brother Mai, the mourning is changing, the two of us came abruptly, I'm really sorry, I have to rush back to the city now that I have something to do, so I won't bother much, and I will come to see you when I have time in the future." ”

Then, he took out a business card and handed it to Lao Maidao: "Brother, exchange a business card, let's have a cup of tea together when we have time." ”

Lao Mai was a little reluctant to find out his business card, and when he saw that he was still the title of deputy chief of the industrial department, he hesitated a little and exchanged it with Aunt Liu.

In the end, he watched Ah Liu's aunt and uncle get in the car and leave, and then went into the house with Ah Liu to discuss the agenda of the funeral.

......

Arrange the mourning hall, invite the Taoist to chant the scriptures, the family was busy for several days, sent Mai's father to the city funeral home, held a memorial service, and then cremated, the ashes were buried with the deceased mother, and then invited a few tables of white wine in the restaurant in the town to reward relatives and friends who came to mourn.

Lao Mai was tired for a few days, and he drank a few more glasses at the banquet, so he stayed in his room in the old house and slept down, and the next morning, he got up and washed up, and hastily ate a few bites of breakfast, and then drove back to the city, and the bereavement leave was due, so he had to rush back to work.

He held the briefcase, walked into the office of the industrial department at eight o'clock, the other three people in the department had arrived, and after a few days of mourning, the scene that came into the department seemed to have a very strange change.

His seat has not changed, and the seat card has become "chief clerk", and then look at the seat card on Xiao Bi's side, but it has been changed to "deputy section chief".

At that time, only the promotion of cadres at and above the municipal management department level needed to be publicized for seven days, and cadres below the section level did not need to go through the publicity procedure.

Lao Mai actually knew that this year's municipal government coincided with the change of leadership, and the adjustment of middle-level cadres in various functional departments was not small.

Out of the need to promote and train young people, the committee replaced Lao Mai, who turned 40 years old in July of that year, as a chief section member, and promoted Xiao Bi, who had just been transferred to a section member last year and was less than 30 years old, to be the deputy section chief.

Lao Mai mentioned the non-leader of the main department from the deputy section leader, thinking that although the chief staff member is at the department level, it is used to comfort the old guy to transfer to the second line, and this time it is used on himself, indicating that his personal future has dimmed, and he will receive a few more years of regular salary if he retires from the second line early.

The only staff on the staff of the Industrial Section are Lao Mai and Xiao Bi, and there are two young men and women, who are temporary staff members seconded from a certain state-owned enterprise.

The Development and Planning Commission is a comprehensive department of the municipal government, and there are only two or three people in each department, and there is really not enough manpower to get busy, so it has to be seconded from large Chinese enterprises that have applied for project approval.