Chapter 10 The Deep Clouds
He opened the phone and heard it was a call from Ms. Liu, the head of the agency.
"Is it easy to speak now?" she asked.
"Convenient." Ji Conan immediately said that you should not be negligent about your direct boss. If a wrong tone is used, it will become a bargaining chip, which will make you die ugly and you don't know how to die.
She continued: "Two guests came from Songgang. I will arrive tomorrow afternoon. Please go to the dock to greet you." This tone is unquestionable, absolutely authoritative, there is no room for negotiation, it is all in the tone of order. This is an imperial edict, just obey. Don't think about why, let alone ask why.
Ji Conan said: "Okay." Then he hung up the phone.
The instructions of the person in charge are orders and must be obeyed. However, the tone of speaking was very polite, a gentle knife, and I couldn't bear to refuse, and there was no reason to refuse.
It is natural to take someone’s bowl and take someone’s care of him. It’s understandable. But he hasn’t settled his place yet. Thinking of this, Ji Conan said to Assistant Tan of the branch: “Director Tan, can you help me contact the house in the county?”
Assistant Tan paused when he heard this, he thought something, not because he was reluctant, but because he was considering how to answer.
Regardless of the difficulty, Ji Conan began to describe the difficulties and said, "You can't stay in a hotel all the time, and it's very noisy."
Assistant Tan said: "This is no problem. We have contacted you a long time ago. After you go back, you can check out the house first. If you are satisfied, you can live there. If you are not satisfied, you can think of a solution."
Conan Ji said: "Okay."
I thought to myself, this guy is worthy of being a veteran in the officialdom, and he can be at ease with any person, any words and situation.
After the car passed six kilometers, you could see the county town. The county town has existed since ancient times, and not many people may know the history here. As for local chronicles, they have no time to check it.
After all, it is a small town deep in the mountains and a canyon, which is very inconspicuous. But it is a major transportation route and is very important in geographical location. It is like a human throat. If not, the entire area will die. In other words, the entire area will be paralyzed. In the past, when I rode on a horse and sailed here, I could only take a boat to ferry. Before the Three Gorges Project, the water here was turbulent, just in the Guandu generation, and the water flow was smooth and very strange, so a natural good ferry was formed here.
The ferry crossing is formed and named Guandu. The insignificance of people can be highlighted in front of the mountains and valleys. People in the mountains are just a small black dot, not even a stone, but the heart of a person is bigger than a mountain.
The rolling mountains are buried with many people, and they can be said to be a crouching tiger and hidden dragon. Many things happen. All dreams are made because of the mountains, and all ideals start from the mountains.
Children in the mountains cherish the breadth and flatness of the plains more, and people in the mountains prefer to satisfy the status quo. Because in the mountains, every step they take is facing tests.
Raising your feet up the mountain and exploring your feet down the mountain is a test, and you have to sweat. Whether in spring or autumn, summer or winter, sweating is exercise. Everyone thinks this is a good thing, but no one wants to do it.
Because after all, it is a struggle against the gravity of the earth. You must know that if you want to resist this gravity, Newton was smashed by an apple. After learning, the theory discovered by the Shanren appeared long ago. However, he did not understand the theory and only knew practice. When the apple landed and hit Newton, Newton discovered the gravity. If he hit the pig, the pig would be happier. He would not consider where the apple came from, nor did he care about the gravity, just eat it. Now many people are similar to the latter. Just eat, don’t think, and don’t be grateful. No matter how much he is, he will fill his stomach first.
Practice is the easiest thing to produce truth. In the mountains, Ji Conan experienced these things and developed awe of nature, which comes from the heart.
Behind nature, there must be a creator, just like a watch, it must be the hand of a craftsman, not falling from the sky for no reason, nor coming out from the ground. Watches are like this, people are made behind them, people are like this, everything is like this. Ji Conan thought this way, but he did not find the exact answer.
The feeling of being in a plain is different from the feeling of being in a mountainous area. People on the plain know that the land is vast and boundless, and they have to go far and away when walking, and they are very tired. They use their feet to understand the truth. People on the mountain know that the steep mountains are like someone is carving handicrafts, and arranges the mountains and rivers so beautiful and flawless, completely beyond human intelligence, so that they know their own shortcomings. Even no matter how skilled artists are, they cannot confront the Creator's intelligence, and pretentious artists will definitely lower their high heads before God.
If he still wants to make progress, he must be humble and self-reliant, otherwise he will become a proud person, unable to make progress and have no room for growth.
The wise man enjoys water. He sees the water of the Yangtze River, coming from afar, flowing endlessly. For the sea in his heart, he tries every means to overcome all difficulties and moves around towards the goal. He is never afraid of failure or attacks. As time goes by, the water is more powerful. The soft man can indeed overcome hardness. Seeing that the big and small stones in the canyon were once square, with edges and angular, it changed by the water when it is combed and carved.
Water inadvertently created many handicrafts, but was transported out and placed in the center of the Civic Square on the plain for people to enjoy. While watching, you will think about the origin of the stone, who is the sculptor, how could he have such superb skills!
When the Yangtze River leaves Wu Gorge, it enters Xiling Gorge. The Yangtze River, which is like a yellow ribbon, passes through the city. The famous Shennong River is here, happily embracing the father river. The clear and bright green ribbons are intertwined with the yellow ribbons, forming a beautiful landscape painting under the dots of white buildings.
A thin layer of clouds spread flat over the small county town, like the Yangtze River water, drifting from the downstream of Manager Jia from the upstream to the east from the west to the east. This so-called "six kilometers" does not refer to the itinerary, but the place name.
Why do you get this name? It turns out that the driving distance from the big bend of the county town to this place is six kilometers. There was no good name here, so it was just a custom, so it was called "Six kilometers". The emerging small county town seemed to be within reach, and it was picked up at will, just like taking a picture. This name is easy to remember, catchy, and can leave a deep impression on people.
When someone asks you where you are and you can't remember, just look at the odometer on the car. If you are careful enough, you can deal with it immediately. Is the car walking along the hillside, turning around, or climbing a mountain? As the height increases, you will see farther and farther, and the scenery will become more and more beautiful.
It’s strange that the more you leave the crowd, the more beautiful the scenery is; but after leaving the crowd for a long time, I long to meet people, and whether to buy things, and look at the bustling crowd, I feel comforted. Humans are really strange creatures. Different from animals, animals never know how to thank them, it’s just an instinct.
When they arrived at the county town, they went to the branch together. Jia Ji and Conan reported to Manager Jia about his work in He Village. He was very satisfied and told Assistant Tan to help him arrange the housing.
Ji Conan expressed his gratitude to them. He also explained the content of the call from the head of the agency just received a tactful explanation that the visitor from Songgang was here to help him work. He was lonely and lonely in the small town alone, and many friends could pass the time. Manager Jia nodded without saying a word. Perhaps the person in charge or literati had such a habit, liked to think about problems, did not express his opinion easily, and was cautious. Perhaps the person in charge had to come and see him, and naturally formed this attitude.
Ji Conan nodded and thought he was agreeing. But he couldn't help but mutter. In fact, he didn't understand what it would be like in the future, nor did he ask the person in charge. If he could express his opinion within his authority, he would express his opinion. He was understandable. He would not be surprised if two more personnel suddenly appeared in the future.
Assistant Tan had something to do temporarily and entrusted the deputy manager to accompany him to see the house. This deputy manager, who seems to be a young man, actually suffered a lot. Just like the children in Hecun, they have been walking in the mountains since childhood. Climbing is a home-cooked meal. It is difficult to get fat if they want to be fat, unless they are in their forties and fifties, and they live a comfortable life and move to a city or a place with better conditions. They are easy to travel, walk less, and take more cars. They are easy to accumulate fat, and they are easy to see old age. With a professional belly and cannot see the toes, they are usually at the level of deputy manager or manager. This deputy manager is young and has a throne, which is also admirable.
The deputy manager walked very quickly, and Ji Conan was not used to it, so he was a little troubled to follow him. Fortunately, when he got down the steps, there were numb cars (tricycles) that could go straight to the destination. They walked east along the road, numb running very fast, and the bumps were not very loud, but the sound was very loud. It covered up the noise of the bustling people.
The house was in the former family courtyard of the government office. There were still a large number of people who had not moved out here, and the date of the Three Gorges water storage has not arrived. To be quiet, this is definitely a good place. Another point is that this is a cemetery for the burial of warriors. The noise may affect the sleep of the victims.
Therefore, it is indeed difficult to find in a small town. Places with convenient transportation are often plains. This is the Three Gorges, with high mountains and ridges. If the Yangtze River is not intercepted by the Three Gorges Dam, it will be unruly here.
Of course, the terrain of the warriors should be slightly flatter, which is convenient for future generations to pay homage. During the Qingming Festival, students come to worship the warriors, which is also a good educational base. The terrain is too dangerous and there is no guarantee for the safety of students. Unfortunately, the cemetery is also a target of submergedness, and it becomes an underwater city with the family compound of the government.
The house was on the first floor, knocking on the door, the middle-aged and greasy uncle who opened the door looked like a scholar. The deputy manager introduced him to him and he also introduced himself. He said that he was from a photography association and liked photography. He had a daughter who lived in the family compound of the small town agency. He originally wanted to build a studio. Since they were all in the same system, let's rent it out.
He was very pleased and immediately drafted the lease contract. He signed it on it and handed him over the key to the room, so that the matter of the house would be implemented.
After being busy, I forgot to eat. Looking at the time, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon. The deputy manager invited Ji Conan to have dinner, but he did not refuse. He bought some daily necessities. These were all within the budget and were not luxurious. If you want to buy daily necessities, you can consider reimbursement as long as it is reasonable. Ji Conan did not intend to buy them with big deals. He did not know where to go in the future. If you buy something too good, if you move in the future, if you move once, you don't think so. If you move a few times, you can completely abandon these things, because the shipping fee is enough to buy new things. There is no need to move around and get around, and the gain is not worth the loss.
I had dinner with the deputy manager and several staff members of other departments in the bureau, and chatted while eating and chatting, which were all irrelevant topics. When chatting, I talked about the weather, said that the weather was OK for a year, and said that the weather was fine ten years ago, and that it was okay. This happened, it was history, and no one was surprised if I said it. I said that the weather was fine. Because the weather was like, it was obvious that the facts were better than words.
Manager Jia went to a meeting and did not accompany him. In fact, he didn't need him to be present. Because he was the top leader, Ji Conan is the representative of the organization stationed in a small city, not the real boss. According to the one-to-one relationship, if Ji Conan's boss comes, Ji Conan should be accompanying him. If he doesn't come, it would be his rudeness. Ji Conan is here, and he is here, he is so proud of him. In front of his subordinates, he is sorry. One-to-one correspondence is very important. In a word, it is called "Just meet an opponent and meet a good talent, which is enough. There is another word that makes it interesting to meet a soulmate in the mountains and rivers, and it is interesting to talk together. Otherwise, the scene will be very awkward.
Although he is very friendly, he still takes care of the big scenes. It is very likely that he is an excuse for going to a meeting. He doesn't want to dig deeper and is too lazy to care. He eats less and can eat more. This way of comforting himself is indeed a good way. If you care, this scene is not entirely about eating. Eating is easy, and you can eat enough by making some food. The key is to deepen your feelings through meal contact. Only in this way can you truly play the role and influence of the dinner.
After dinner, he said goodbye to them. He went to the supermarket to buy things.
Although it is a mountainous area, the prices are not low, the transportation is inconvenient, the transportation costs are relatively high, the new value of goods increases, and there are not many supermarkets, so it lacks competitiveness and becomes a monopoly. You have to buy it. If you don’t buy it, you can buy it casually. In this way, you have to buy it. If you don’t buy it, it will be useless. If you buy it, you will feel a little painful. If you consume, you will feel distressed. What follows is enjoyment, which improves the quality of life and brings short-term happiness to people.
Looking at the dazzling array of things, I thought about what I needed while buying. Buy a part first and then replenish it after the visitor from Songgang arrives.
Chapter completed!