The pony's name is Ma Ming, and Xiao Chen's name is Chen Liang; Xiao Chen was recently promoted to deputy director of the office of a bureau, and Xiao Ma is also a clerk in the office of another bureau. Xiao Ma and Xiao Chen, who work in this huge city with a population of more than one million, are not only elementary school classmates, middle school classmates, college classmates, but also fellow villagers; Not only fellow villagers, but also fellow villagers, their hometowns are under the jurisdiction of the same township government, the two villages face each other across the river, less than two miles apart, this village rooster crows, that village can be heard.
That afternoon, Xiao Chen called Pony. Xiao Chen said in a tone of voice: Comrade Ma Ming, hello, can you hear who I am?
Xiao Ma pretended to be serious and said: Hello, are you the new Director Chen?
Xiao Chen smiled excitedly: Old classmate, to be honest with you, the feeling of being an official and not being an official is different, it's just wonderful! Tell you, I will take the car to our county to the countryside tomorrow, of course I have to go home to see the old man after finishing my business, and stay in the village for one night, do you have something at home? Piggybacking on something?
Pony said, "Good, thank good, you're a good time!" Chen Liang, you wait, I will definitely come to your house tonight, I have a big event!
In the evening, the pony arrived at Xiao Chen's house. It turned out that his father had a heart attack, and his mother wrote to him asking if he could go back. The letter also repeatedly told him, don't worry, don't get angry, public affairs are important, work matters are important, anyway, his father's illness is also an old illness, if he can go back, don't go back.
Xiao Chen said: Ma Ming, what are you hesitating about? Tomorrow we will take my car together, and we will be home at noon!
Xiao Ma sighed: Chen Liang, our bureau is going to hold an on-site meeting recently, and I am drafting the report of the director's conference, I am afraid that I can't ask for leave......
Xiao Chen said: Then you should calm down, write the materials first——— didn't the letter say that if you can't go back, don't go back?
The pony said, "Brother Chen, don't you know my mother's personality?" In her eyes, it is always the affairs of the country and the public that are important, and I am afraid that she will hide her father's illness and deliberately comfort me and persuade me......
Xiao Chen said: Understood, I understood. Are you asking me to come to your home to see the condition of the elderly, find out the situation, and call you immediately, and go back immediately if you need to go back, and push back if you don't need to go back......
Xiao Ma nodded: "Those who know me, Chen Liangye." Then he took out a bulging envelope from his bosom and said, "There are a total of 2,000 yuan in the big and small bills, you can take it back and let my father treat the disease!"
Xiao Chen wants to invite Pony to drink, saying that since he became the director, all the people who should be invited have been invited, but Pony is still uninvited, and today is just an opportunity; The pony said don't invite, we have a special relationship, the family doesn't talk to each other, and then invite me to drink it will be cheesy, then it will be far away, you just need to go to my house to see the elderly, say some comforting words to them, and help deal with any emergency, I will be very grateful, it is like the two of us are drinking together! Brother Chen, you know, I am the only child of my parents......
Thinking of his parents' kindness and the hardships of their lives, tears welled up in the pony's eyes.
Xiao Chen immediately handed Pony a towel to wipe away tears. Xiao Chen said: Brother Ma Ming, don't say this anymore. I think that when I went to primary school in your village, I met the water in the big river in the summer, so I ate at your house, lived in your house, and slept in the same bed with you, and the old man of your family was afraid that I would be wronged, and quietly gave me a big boiled egg to eat at night. Once your father fished me out of a flood and he himself almost lost his life...... Brother, your father is my father, and your mother is my mother.
Tears welled up in Chen's eyes, and Pony handed him the towel again.
Xiao Chen said: I can go to our county seat at noon tomorrow, connect with the county leaders in the afternoon, and I will drive back to the village in the evening, and first visit the old man at your home. If the old man is seriously ill, I will call you immediately; If you don't have my phone, you can rest assured and do your job well! Brother, you have to work hard to improve, people in their 30s, can you still be an old officer? I have to fight for a half-official position!
Pony said: I'm not interested in being an official, some people become a different person as soon as they become officials! Brother Chen, how long will you come back from the county?
Xiao Chen said: Tomorrow Wednesday, I will be able to return to the provincial capital on Friday afternoon, and I will definitely call you in the evening to explain the situation!
The car drove out of the county seat, and in the bright sunshine of May, along the mountain road, leisurely drove towards the countryside.
Xiao Chen sat in the car. He was in a good mood. It's a wonderful feeling to be an official.
His task of going to the countryside this time is very meaningful: to choose two poor townships in the county, and their units will implement poverty alleviation, can help build roads, can help enterprises, can help build new school buildings, can give money, can give materials, can give technology, so Xiao Chen has become a messenger to get rich, and after arriving in the county seat, he was given a grand and warm welcome like a loess mat in Qingshui Splash Street. At noon the day before yesterday, the executive deputy county magistrate first took over the wind and washed the dust, and in the evening, the county magistrate came forward to entertain him. The chubby county magistrate Jin in his 50s was able to drink and speak, calling Director Chen one by one, and saluting one by one, and his head was a little dizzy after sitting there for less than half an hour. He remembered Xiaoma's entrustment and his promise to Xiaoma, and hurriedly said to County Magistrate Jin: County Magistrate, please raise your noble hand, I still have work at night. County Magistrate Jin said: Director Chen, I have a rule for drinking, drink happily, and don't talk about work at the banquet table! What does Director Chen do at night? If you don't go to that kind of place, you're letting go of the drink! If you want to go, just say it, I will take you to play, and you will be satisfied! He was stunned when he heard this, thinking that this is the level of the county magistrate? You're so old that your hair is white, and you still have a pair of flowery intestines, and you still use foul language and unashamed words...... So he said: Come, County Magistrate Jin, there are fewer than a thousand glasses of wine for a confidant, let's drink it!
He wanted to get the fat old man drunk and make him make a fool of himself in public. He believed in his own drinking, and he despised the bald, big-bellied opponent.
County Magistrate Jin smiled: Come, Director Chen, drink! If you don't drink for nothing, you don't drink for nothing, and whoever doesn't drink is the one who wants to do it at night!
As a result, he was drunk by the old man. He made a fool of himself in public and vomited all over the world.
He was carried back to the hotel. Who carried it, he didn't know.
When he woke up at two o'clock in the morning, someone handed him water, and he peeled apples and bananas, and he took a closer look and saw that it was the old man.
He immediately struggled to sit up: County Magistrate Jin, I'm sorry, Jiang is old and spicy, I lost my temper in front of you today!
County Magistrate Jin patted him on the shoulder and said: Director Chen, don't worry, what is this? Ball, that time a leader came from your province, I poured him pee his pants, of course I am not a winning general, I also peed his pants!
County Magistrate Kim helped him up, carried him to the bathroom step by step, unbuttoned his pants, hugged him behind him and asked him to pee.
County Magistrate Jin said: Director Chen, it's not right, the urine is slanted, and the urine is on the ground. In our jargon, it's called making a mistake in the route!
He laughed: County Magistrate Jin, I'm still half awake and half drunk, and I'm dizzy......
County Magistrate Jin said: Okay, it's best to be half-awake and half-drunk and dizzy, this is called enjoying life. Director Chen, this time you are looking for two villages in our county to help the poor, can I find one for you? The village I contracted is not far from the county seat, the transportation is convenient, the foundation is good, and it is easy to help out the results......
He now thinks that County Magistrate Jin is not bad, straightforward, enthusiastic, funny and thoughtful, how can he give face to others, so he said: Okay, listen to you, what do you say.
The magistrate tightened his belt, buttoned him, helped him to the bed, and asked him to lie down and sleep. County Magistrate Jin said: Director Chen, I will sleep next door to you tonight, if you need me to do anything, you will knock on the wall and greet me; I promise to be available and take care of you.
He said: County Magistrate Jin, three watches in the middle of the night, how embarrassing is that?
County Magistrate Jin said: You are a leader from the provincial capital, and it is rare for me to do something for you. It's my blessing to have this opportunity today.
The next day, the secretary of the county party committee accompanied him to the countryside for inspection. After trekking through mountains and rivers to discuss and visit, they went back to the county seat for dinner after dark; The secretary is the secretary, and the secretary's banquet is a cut above the county magistrate's banquet.
At the banquet, the secretary asked him: Director Chen, do you have any arrangements for the evening?
He remembered Xiaoma's entrustment to him and his promise to Xiaoma, so he said: Secretary Zhou, I have to go home after dinner, on the one hand to see my parents, on the other hand, to do something for friends, by the way, to stay in the village for one night, talk to the villagers, listen to the country, talk about the hometown!
Secretary Zhou said: Okay, Director Chen's idea is very good. But after dinner, I'll have to arrange a show for you, and then you'll go home!
Secretary Zhou said very sincerely. After several hesitations, he still felt that it was difficult to refuse. He asked: What program?
Secretary Zhou said quietly: How about washing your hair?
His heart was pounding, and his blood was pouring to his face, this world is full of flowers and greenery, God knows what will happen when you wash your hair?
Secretary Zhou said: Director Chen, no?
He drank the wine from the cup: well, it is better to be respectful than to obey his fate!
It was already 12 o'clock at night when I finished washing my hair in the dimly lit and fragrant shampoo. When he walked out with a spring breeze on his face, Secretary Zhou was waiting for him in the hall. Secretary Zhou said: Good guy, Director Chen, the time is not short, is it because you are young and washed twice? There is a saying that although this place is good, you can't stay for a long time——— will you still go home? I'll send you home!
Will he still be able to go home? At this time, everyone in the village is sleeping, how can they disturb their tired parents and tired villagers?
Secretary Zhou said: Director Chen, the nickname of the lady who serves you is called Yizhihua, and she is not only beautiful, but also first-class in her craftsmanship. How, how does it feel?
He smiled and lit a cigarette.
Secretary Zhou said: If you are satisfied, I will be satisfied. Director Chen, today we have visited a lot of townships and towns, which village do you think is suitable for your unit to alleviate poverty? The village I chartered has green mountains and green waters, a beautiful environment, and a pool of hot springs that strengthen the body......
He could naturally hear Secretary Zhou's words. He said okay, well, then the hot spring village.
Secretary Zhou said: A word is a certainty?
He said, "One word is a certainty!"
The sedan drove leisurely along the mountain road in the bright May sunshine, the peach and willow green outside the window, the spring breeze rippling, Xiao Chen's heart was comfortable. Two years ago, he also went back to the county, but at that time he was not the deputy director of their office, not to mention that he couldn't see the county magistrate and the secretary of the county party committee, and even the director of the county government office didn't bother to accompany him. After breakfast, he said that because his parents were not in good health, he had to go home to see, so they carried a lot of things into his car, such as cigarettes, wine, candy, snacks, milk powder, brain platinum, and so on. The magistrate of Jin County also quietly called him aside, and quietly stuffed an envelope into his pocket, saying that it contained several boxes of nourishing medicine, which were things that the old people in the countryside could not get; He thought it was some expensive medicine at the time, so he quietly packed it, but after getting in the car, he opened the envelope and took it out to see that it was two small boxes of Viagra; This medicine is purely imported from abroad, and the pill box is all in English, without a single Chinese character!
This old man Jin is really loved, can't cry, can't laugh!
He put the pillbox back into the envelope, and then into the pocket inside the suit; Although the people in the village didn't understand English, they were embarrassed when they asked what kind of medicine it was.
The car had traveled 30 miles and had already driven into Xiao Chen's hometown. In front of him is Yangshudian Village, the seat of the township government, and 2 miles east from Yangshudian is Liushudian Village, the hometown where he was born and raised, and he is very excited, because since he became an official, he is going home for the first time.
He was fully loaded.
He asked the driver to drive the car faster. It's 8:20 a.m., and at 10 a.m. he has to return to the county seat to attend a meeting of the county party committee and the county government. This is a very important meeting, which will discuss and decide on the two poverty alleviation points in their units.
This weekend, he must return to the provincial capital in the afternoon.
He said to the driver: Xiao Feng, the road is easy to walk, and then drive the car faster!
Xiao Feng said: Director Chen, you can't open it, look!
As soon as he saw it, he immediately asked Xiao Feng to stop the car, and it turned out that there were several people standing on the side of the road, waving to stop the car.
There were three people standing on the side of the road to stop the car: one was Niu Qin, Chen Liang's classmate in high school and the current secretary of the Yangshudian Township Party Committee, one was his father and the other was his mother; The three of them stood there in the dust, and it seemed that they had been waiting for a long time.
After Xiao Chen got out of the car, he ran straight to the two old men, holding his father with one hand and his mother with the other, and before he could speak, Niu Qin came up. Niu Qin said: Director Chen, if there is any fault, I invited the uncle and aunt; Don't worry, I'll pay them today.
He said:! You kid also call me Director Chen? How do you know I'm back?
Niu Qin said: How could I not know that you are back? Our county's TV news has been broadcast over and over again, who in the county doesn't know that you, Director Chen, came to our county for poverty alleviation? I spoke to the county on the phone at 6 o'clock this morning...... Please, please sit at the township hall!
Raw rice and cooked rice, the wood has been completed, and there is friendship and family affection, so he has to go to the township government.
After smoking a cigarette, drinking a cup of tea, and talking about some parents, the two old men withdrew from the township government office. Chen Liang saw his parents bending over and hunched over and looking old, he couldn't help but feel angry, knocked on the table and asked, "Niu Qin, what are you pulling my parents here for?" Do you bear with it?
Niu Qin said with a smile: I'm sorry, there's no way, they don't come, I'm afraid I won't be able to stop your car!
He said: Ridiculous! Now that you know my whereabouts, you won't come to the Willow Store to look for me? You don't know my home, do you? Niu Qin still smiled: I know. But I went to the willow shop, for fear I wouldn't be able to knock on your door!
He said, "Don't do that with me!" Am I that kind of person?
Niu Qin said: You are not! But I know...... I know you recently sent a letter to the elderly in the family, asking them to get a janitor dog; He also said that the more fierce the dog, the better!
He smiled: What does that have to do with you? Are you looking for something with me?
Niu Qin said: Let me ask you one thing first, are you eating here at noon today?
He said: If you don't eat, I'll leave in a while, and there will be a meeting in the county at 10 o'clock.
Niu Qin said: Okay, then let's start talking about business. Chen Liang, if you go back to the county to engage in poverty alleviation this time, please choose a point from our township, even if it is your Liushudian Village!
He said, "That won't do!" I'm here to help the poor, I choose a point from my own doorstep, so don't you laugh at it? Doesn't that make people say that I took the state's money and went through the back door and engaged in fake public affairs? Where do I stand? What about my principles? That doesn't get scolded to death? That's why I didn't think about it!
Niu Qin said: But how many villages in our township are really poor! Are you helping the poor or not? To help the poor, we have to seek truth from facts! If you help the wrong one and poverty alleviation becomes poverty alleviation, you will definitely be scolded, and you deserve it!
Chen Liang knows the economic situation in his hometown. Because of conservative thinking, single planting, high mountains and deep ravines, lack of water and soil, some villagers here have just taken care of food and clothing, and some villagers may not be able to talk about food and clothing; From the letters sent to him from his hometown, he knew that some children were still attending classes in dilapidated houses, some children did not attend school because they could not afford to pay their school fees, or they should have been enrolled in school, or they had dropped out of school to cut firewood and grass and herd cattle and sheep at home. Poverty is always associated with ignorance, there are people here who ask God to tell fortunes, ask divination and draw lots, and last summer there was a village carrying the dragon king to ask for rain, but he fell down the mountain and injured several people!
Hometown should be helped and helped.
But it's too late! His two poverty alleviation quotas, one to County Magistrate Jin and the other to Secretary Zhou, what he said was like water spilled out, and he was also an upright county regiment, can he take it back? Can it be recovered?
Seeing him hesitate, Niu Qin reached out and took out a palm-sized tape recorder from his pocket, turned on the switch, and asked him to hear whose voice it was.
An old man's voice: Son, you can help us in the township. You are a person in our township, the mountains are not close to the water, the water is not close to the relatives, you have done good things for the villagers, can the villagers forget you? When you walk out of our hometown, everyone is happy and counting on you!
An old lady's voice: Boy, you have the country's money, don't spend it indiscriminately! There is steel on the blade, and you have to spend the wrong money, isn't that a bad conscience? Don't embarrass your parents? That doesn't leave an infamy?
He suddenly took the case: Niu Qin, you are so despicable, you impose it on others, dare to use my parents to create public opinion for you!
Niu Qin said: Chen Liang, don't get excited. What did the two old men say wrong? Isn't this the words of the common people, isn't this the language of the hometown? Do you hear that anywhere else? These words are above board, from the heart of the old man, how dare I impose them on others?
He sat down again. The smoke he puffed out gathered like a cloud above his head, like a fog, like a cloud.
He said: Our unit can only find two villages for poverty alleviation, and if you want to compete for a place, you can go to Secretary Zhou, the magistrate of Jinxian County!
Niu Qin is very shrewd, Niu Qin said: Chen Liang, you are really good at being an official, it turns out that you gave them the indicators! County Magistrate Jin is wrapped in a village, and Secretary Zhou is wrapped in a village, what other results can I find out from them? Those two people are anxious to transfer out of our county, and they both want to make some achievements in the village they are wrapping upon, and I will fight with them, can I have my good fruit to eat?
He said: The matter has not yet been decided, and the meeting will be held after 10 o'clock to study it......
Niu Qin said: Chen Liang, you see me as a child, I have seen such a meeting, and I have also opened it!
Drinking tea, smoking, scratching heads, picking nails. After a long silence, he finally gave in. He said that this is it, Niu Qin, after I go back, I will report the situation to our leaders, and ask to change the original two places into three places, all for poverty alleviation, I don't think the problem is big; If our unit is in difficulty, I am responsible for contacting other units and inviting them to help the poor in our township. One of the two must be one, I will give you a satisfactory answer within a month, please rest assured!
Niu Qin held their hands tightly: Thank you, thank you. If you don't get your answer within a month, I will take this small tape recorder to the provincial capital to find you, and let you listen to the voices of the two old men again!
He said: You kid is insidious and cunning, you are a trickster behind your back, and you have the sword of Shang Fang!
When they came out of the office, it was already 9:30 a.m. The sun is shining, the spring breeze is delicate, and the mountains and fields of my hometown are bright. Chen Liang asked where his parents were, Niu Qin said that the old man's task had been completed, and he had asked the driver Xiao Feng to send them home, in addition to the things brought by the county to the old man, the township government brought the old man a few hundred yuan and some supplements, which was regarded as a lost work allowance. Niu Qin said, Chen Liang, now you come with me, follow me to get something; He asked what to get, and Niu Qin said that there is a professional household in the township who raises round fish, let's go get a few round fish, and you can take them back to the provincial capital to eat. He asked how far he could go, and Niu Qin said that it was not far, three miles, and he would go in my broken jeep.
When leaving the Yangliudian Township Government, Chen Liang suddenly got out of the car again. He hurriedly ran to Niu Qin's eyes, took out an envelope from his pocket and said: Niu Qin, I'm busy with other things, I almost forgot about the big thing! Do I remember Ma Ming from our class? You must go to his house by 6 o'clock this afternoon, give the contents of this envelope to his father, and ask the old man to heal him!" Niu Qin said: I know Ma Ming's father. Chen Liang said that the old man is in his 70s, and he has high blood pressure and heart disease, as if a gust of wind can blow it down; But there is no danger, if you want to go in person, you must ask the old man's condition, call me home at 7 o'clock in the evening, I am waiting in the provincial capital! Originally, I should have gone to see the old man in person, but unfortunately I don't have time now, old classmate, please!
Niu Qin took the envelope and said: Don't worry, Ma Ming's father is my father, and I will handle this matter well!
After Ma Ming had dinner, he began to wait for Chen Liang's call. Today, Friday, Chen Liang returned from his hometown to the countryside.
In the past few days, he has always been worried in his heart, he is afraid that Chen Liang will suddenly call and tell him the news of his father's deterioration. My father has high blood pressure and heart disease for five or six years, sometimes good and sometimes bad, sometimes mild and sometimes severe...... Since Chen Liang didn't call him, according to the prior agreement, the old man's health is not very important, or he has turned the corner.
Thank goodness, thank goodness!
I have to thank Chen Liang well, this time I troubled him, he gave me money and goods, visited my illness, and took time out of his busy schedule, which was very hard.
It was half past seven, and Chen Liang's call didn't come.
It was eight o'clock, and Chen Liang's call didn't come.
It's half past eight, and Chen Liang's call hasn't come yet.
Pony thought, didn't Chen Liang come back? No, what is he doing in the county alone this weekend? Stuck in traffic on the road? Is there something wrong with the car? Maybe he had already returned, busy bathing at home and teasing the children......
At 9:05 a.m., he called Chen Liang's house, and it was Chen Liang who answered the phone.
Chen Liang said: Hello Ma Ming, the two of us haven't seen each other for a day, like every other three autumns! I'm sorry, I just came out of the shower and said to call you, and you ...... Don't worry, I've come to your house, and I've got my things: Uncle doesn't matter if he's sick, I happened to see him walking on the street with a stick. The eldest lady's body is stronger, and she just misses you......
He said: Thank you, thank you!
Chen Liang said: Thank you for what? Say thank you again, that would look cheesy! Ma Ming, you wait, tomorrow I will ask the driver to send you round fish!
After putting down the phone, Chen Liang couldn't sit still: first, he returned to the provincial capital at half past five this afternoon, and when he got home, he was busy making round fish, and then invited his father-in-law and mother-in-law to come over to eat round fish, and he forgot about Ma Ming's affairs; Second, Niu Qin, the secretary of the township party committee, didn't call him back, he didn't know the severity of Ma Ming's father's illness, and he felt sorry for his fellow villagers, classmates, and friends like Xiaoma if he wanted to tell the truth!
He thought, didn't Niu Qin say that the old man was still walking on the street with a stick a few days ago?
He scolded fiercely in his heart: Niu Qin, you bastard! Why don't you do what you promised? Isn't that just a call for me? You kid doesn't believe in his words, see how I clean you up in the future!
The phone on the table rang like a bean, he thought it was Niu Qin, and when he grabbed it, he listened to it, but it was Ma Ming again.
Ma Ming was a little anxious, and opened his mouth to say: Chen Liang, how did you do it? What medicine did you buy for my father? My mother just called me and said that my father had taken the medicine you brought back, was irritable, his condition had worsened, and he was now in a coma!
He said: Ma Ming, you make it clear, medicine? What medicine? How could I give you medicine?
Ma Ming was already crying: I know what kind of medicine it is? Tell you, I'll leave now, and I'll go back to see my father at once!"
He suddenly remembered something, and with trembling hands, he opened his coat pocket and saw that the envelope contained two thousand yuan.
In a hurry, he handed the envelope to Niu Qin. The envelope contained boxes of Viagra imported from abroad that County Magistrate Kim had given him.
An elderly man with severe heart disease and high blood pressure took this medicine......
He dialed Niu Qin's mobile phone in a panic. Niu Qin smiled and said: Director Chen, don't worry, I have completed the task you gave me! I was very busy this afternoon, and after dinner, I specially sent the master chef who cooked for the township government to deliver the things to Ma Ming's house, and told Ma Ming's father that this was for him to treat his illness. Director Chen, didn't you explain this to me?
Niu Qin said again: I was saying that I was going to call you to report, but I didn't expect you to call first, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry!