Shen Tong was stunned and vaguely heard the footsteps next door. He tried to open his eyes and saw that it was already bright outside. He looked at his watch and saw that it was just after 7 o'clock. He breathed a sigh of relief and lay down again.
Thinking of the strange dream last night, Shen Tong smiled unconsciously. As the saying goes, what you think about every day is what you dream about at night. Could it be that Lan Yue has really walked into his dream?
There was another sound of water, but it was just the sound of pouring water into the basin. Shen Tong sighed: "This house is not soundproof. If I want to bring my girlfriend here in the future, I will have to shut up." ." As Shen Tong was thinking, a knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.
"Shen Tong, are you up? I'm Liu Huiman." Liu Huiman knocked on the door outside and asked.
Shen Tong quickly took the pants from the corner of the bed and put them on quickly, while saying: "Oh, it's Liu Huiman, I'm up, wait a minute." It took Shen Tong less than half a minute to get dressed. After folding the quilt, she opened the door for Liu Huiman first.
Liu Huiman looked at Shen Tong who had just gotten up. His hair was messy and his eyes had not yet been fully opened. He was scratching his hair with one hand and smiling innocently at himself. Seeing this, Liu Huiman burst into laughter. .
Shen Tong looked at himself with confusion on his face, and suddenly saw that the door on his pants was still wide open. So he hurriedly turned his head, zipped up, and said embarrassedly: "I made you laugh."
When it comes to young people in Shihe Town, apart from Liu Huiman, it is Shen Tong. Although they live next door, they rarely see each other. Liu Huiman works at the foundation and leaves early. After work in the evening, she It’s already late to go home for dinner and return to town.
Liu Huiman was generous. She looked inside and said, "Shen Tong, can I borrow your basin? I need to wash my hair, and one basin is not enough."
Because of the poor conditions in the town, there was only one faucet in the whole yard, so when I got up in the morning, there were people standing near the faucet. It turned out that some lesbians went there to wash their faces, but every time they saw Zhao Zhikang's wretched expression, they all came back to fetch water. Washing in the dormitory. Girls have long hair, wash it in one basin and rinse it in the other. If you only use one basin, you have to pour water out in between. Generally, you take off your hair until only the clothes inside are left, and men can come out shirtless. Pour water, women can't do it.
"Of course, I'll get it for you." After saying that, Shen Tong went in and took out the basin.
"Then what do you use now after I used it?" Liu Huiman asked with concern.
Shen Tong smiled and said: "I'm not in a hurry, you use it first, I'm going to wash my face quickly, it only takes a minute, haha."
"Then you're welcome. I'll bring it to you later." Liu Huiman said.
"No, I can just go over and get it." After Shen Tong said this, he felt a little regretful. It would be degrading to go in by himself while someone was washing his hair.
Liu Huiman smiled and went back to her room. Shen Tong looked at Liu Huiman's back and thought about what happened last night, and couldn't help but feel irritable again.
"Shen Tong, wake up." Ma Guotao stood in the yard from a distance and greeted Shen Tong.
Shen Tong responded hurriedly: "Secretary Ma, good morning, I just got up."
"Come here, let me tell you something." Ma Guotao waved to him.
Shen Tong ran over and asked, "What's going on? Secretary Ma, please give me instructions."
Ma Guotao's attitude towards Shen Tong has obviously changed these days, and he said with a smile: "Today you go to the Investment Promotion Bureau. I greeted the director of the Investment Promotion Bureau this morning. You go to the office and get a copy of the county's investment regulations. The implementation plan for attracting investment. After we get the plan back, we will refer to the county’s plan to form our own thing.”
When he heard that there was a mission, Shen Tong did not dare to neglect it and said, "Then I will go now?"
"What's the rush? Let Xiao Yang go with you later. Go and come back quickly." Ma Guotao said. Xiao Yang's name was Yang Zhou, the driver Ma Guotao had just hired. It turned out that Zhao Yitang's driver Geng Kai also resigned after Zhao Yitang was dismissed. After he finished his job, he returned to his old job, hauling coal with others.
The position of driver is very important, even more important than choosing a secretary. There is only one old Santana retired from the county in Shihe Town. It is said that it is used by anyone who has something to do with the agency, but it basically becomes the secretary's special car. Ma Guotao was not able to enjoy it originally. , but he had his own solution. Ermanzi got him a pickup truck, and he drove the pickup truck back and forth every day. Now that the secretary's car became his own, of course he had to find a driver to drive it for him.
The driver is usually someone close to him, not a relative or a good friend. It is really inconvenient to use these two types of people. But you can't just find someone to be the driver. Ermanzi has a way to hire someone in Zhaobei City. I found a driver. Yang Zhou was about 20 years old and should be about the same age as Shen Tong. As soon as the two met, they couldn't help but feel closer to each other.
After breakfast, Yang Zhou ran to Shen Tong's dormitory and told him to go on his way. Shen Tong took out a box of cigarettes from the cabinet and threw it to Yang Zhou. Yang Zhou quickly said thank you and looked around happily.
Shen Tong believes that building a good relationship with Yang Zhou is not a bad thing. Besides, the two are of the same age, so communication should not be a problem. In addition, Yang Zhou only earns 300 yuan a month. Let alone doing other things, smoking is probably a problem. Difficult. So Shen Tong's move made Yang Zhou very grateful and further brought the relationship between the two closer.
Shen Tong was sitting in the car, so Yang Zhou found a box of pop song tapes from the glove box and quickly stuffed it into the recorder. After a while, the music "Ten Shouldn'ts" played, and Yang Zhou couldn't help but follow it. Start humming.
The lyrics of "Ten Shouldn'ts" are miserable, but the melody is catchy, and basically everyone can hum a few lines. Its singing is inseparable from the "KTV" on the streets at that time. At that time, after VCD entered Dongquan County, some A discerning person would move the TV at home to the street, buy a set of cheap audio equipment, and buy a few pirated CDs, and a simple KTV would become a reality. With this move, almost every night, the streets in the county would be deserted. They all ran to the street either to roar or to watch other people howling there. In short, it brought some interest to the nightlife of the county residents. At that time, "Du Shiniang" and "Heart" were also sung through the street KTV. "Rain", "Can't Say Goodbye", etc.
Later, not to be outdone, rural areas also followed suit and established street KTVs. Looking around, the whole county was singing crazily.
Although Shen Tong didn't like this kind of salivating song, every time he saw others singing intoxicatedly and selflessly, he was ready to give it a try. But due to face, he had to give up this idea. Looking at Yang Zhou's intoxicated expression , Shen Tong also hummed along: "One shouldn't, the other shouldn't, you shouldn't make love to me secretly..."
Instead of Ma Guotao taking the car, Yang Zhou also drove fast and arrived at the county seat in less than two hours. Yang Zhou was not a local, so after several inquiries, he found the Investment Promotion Bureau in an inconspicuous corner.
The China Merchants House is also a row of bungalows. The small yard is very neat and tidy, with a row of bicycles parked in the corner. At this time, a woman walked out of the toilet with her pants lifted. When she saw Shen Tong and the others, they were expressionless and squirming. With her butt exposed, she kept stuffing her shirt placket into her red long johns, and didn't tie her pants up until she reached the other end of the yard.
Shen Tong was a little funny, and the quality of government cadres was nothing more than this. Because the yard was not big, he quickly found the office. Shen Tong stood at the door and saw a smiling woman sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed and knitting a sweater. One of the middle A young man sat on the table, gesturing with his hands in the air. There was also a young female cadre crawling there as if she was sleeping.
Shen Tong knocked on the door softly. The woman knitting looked up. Shen Tong continued knitting. The middle-aged man also glanced back, and then continued to talk about what he saw and heard. The sleeping woman The cadre looked up and climbed down to sleep again.
Seeing that no one answered, Shen Tong knocked on the door again. The woman knitting sweater was unhappy and said angrily: "Knock on what? Didn't you see no one was there? Do you have to ask me to come in?"
After Shen Tong entered, he was about to speak when the knitting woman continued to interact with the man: "No way, I had dinner with him yesterday, so you can just brag."
The man walked over, sat on the edge of the sofa and said, "Why did I lie to you? What I said is absolutely true. If you don't believe me, go back and ask." The two of them were chatting passionately, and they had no intention of paying any attention to Shen Tong. Shen Tong stood awkwardly in the middle of the room, listening to the two of them chatting.
After a while, the woman seemed to realize Shen Tong's presence, and asked aggressively: "What do you want to do?"
Shen Tong hurriedly walked over and said, "I am from Shihe Town. My name is Shen Tong. Secretary Ma asked me to come over with the implementation plan for attracting investment in the county. He has already said hello to your director."
The woman continued knitting without raising her head and asked: "Secretary Ma, which Secretary Ma?"
"That's Secretary Ma Guotao."
"Hey, he has become Secretary Ma. Who appointed him? Isn't he the mayor? Come on soon, Zhao Yitang has just left, and you guys are flattering you and calling Secretary Ma to come. This flattery is too flattering. Is it disgusting?" The woman said nonsense.
Shen Tong didn't know how to respond to the inexplicable ridicule. Today she was mainly here to get materials and there was no need to argue with her, so Shen Tong chose to remain silent.
When Shen Tong didn't speak, the woman asked again: "Why do you want to attract investment and implement the plan?"
Shen Tong said quickly: "Our town is going to attract investment, and I would like to refer to the county."
Hearing this, several people looked at each other and burst into laughter. The woman even bent over with laughter and almost knocked herself against the edge of the sofa.
After a while, the woman said again: "Isn't your town so idle? In addition to eating and sleeping, you just bask in the sun and catch lice. What are you going to do? You don't enjoy the good life and happiness, but you also engage in whimsical investment promotion. The county has not attracted a phoenix so far, so you are going to do porcelain work. Do you think your place is a golden treasure land, or do you really have sycamore trees?"
Shen Tong clenched his fists and really wanted to go up and beat her up. Before he could get angry, the woman saw Shen Tong's expression and said, "What are you doing? You want to hit someone. Why are you so ignorant?" Ah, no wonder others are all township cadres with poor quality. Look at this kid, he clenched his fists and wanted to hit someone before he even said a few words. Go ahead and hit him."
Shen Tong unclenched his fists, took a deep breath, and said: "You misunderstood me, how could I use that rude way? Yes, our township cadres are of poor quality, and we also want to sit in the office and drink like you do every day Chatting over tea, but dealing with the people every day, is it okay to sit in the government office? Also, why can’t our Shihe Town attract investment? Investment attraction is an initiative of the county. Don’t be unable to attract people just because you don’t have the ability. Just say that we don't have the ability." After Shen Tong finished speaking, she was so upset that the woman's face turned pale.
"You, you, okay, I want to see if your Shihe Town is recruiting businesses, Li Min, give it to him quickly." The woman couldn't talk to her, so she shouted to the sleeping lesbian.
The female comrade stood up, with a smile on her lips, looked at Shen Tong in a friendly manner, and said, "Wait a moment, I'll look for it for you."
"What kind of people are they? You are a country bumpkin who wants to go to the city to watch the excitement. You are so experienced." The woman kept muttering.
Shen Tong ignored her, picked up the documents and walked out. Before leaving, Shen Tong said again: "Township and township cadres are all country bumpkins, but they have devoted their great youth to rural undertakings and devoted their whole life to rural affairs. Your blood is swayed on the path forward of socialism. Unlike you, who live a leisurely life every day and say bad words to township cadres, you should really be put in the township." After saying that, Shen Tong turned around and left.
"You, you, come back to me. Wow, it's reasonable. I want to see you, the horse prince with three eyes, stand on my head and act wild..." The woman threw down her sweater and He put his hands on his hips and cursed angrily.
Shen Tong didn't care and just got in the car. Just as the car was about to start, the female comrade who just got the documents for him stood in front of the window and winked at him and quietly gave him a thumbs up. It seemed that she was already early After putting up with that woman for a long time, Shen Tong smiled in return and the car drove away.