I have A-Zhu’s phone number on my mobile phone, which is stored on the mobile phone card. It’s not that I forgot to delete her number, but that I have never thought of deleting anyone’s phone number on my mobile phone card.
The contact information of my most important people is stored on the mobile phone card, including the previous numbers of Zhao Menglei and Chen Yuan. They are all there.
However, when I pulled out her number from my phone, I immediately hesitated - would I disturb her peaceful life by doing this?
No, no. We are friends. I said to myself.
But I was still hesitating, and at the same time, I pressed the dial button while hesitating.
The call went through, and while I was waiting, I found myself feeling inexplicably nervous, and my heart began to beat rapidly. At this time, I suddenly felt panicked, and I was so panicked that I wanted to hang up the phone several times.
.
But I restrained myself, because there was an expectation in my heart, and this expectation took over.
She answered, "Who is it?"
I hurriedly said: "Azhu, it's me. Feng Xiao. How are you now?"
She said in a surprised voice, "Are you really Feng Xiao? Why doesn't the voice sound similar? Let me see... Huh? It's really your number. Sorry, I was busy just now, so I picked up the phone and answered it.
Already."
I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart: Her words already showed the estrangement between us. But this is not surprising, after all, we haven't seen each other for several years. I asked her again: "How are you now?
well enough?"
She replied: "Very good. My daughter is one year old. What about you? Are you okay? Is your son okay?"
I replied: "Okay, okay! Everything is fine."
At this moment, I suddenly realized that it was impossible for me to take this opportunity to tell her everything about me now - could it be that I told her that I was the deputy mayor? Is it interesting to show off like this?
However, there was suddenly no sound from her side... I called her softly, "Azhu..."
She said, "Oh, I'm here."
At this moment, I suddenly understood the reason why she didn't speak just now. In fact, she might be the same as me at this time. In this sudden call, we didn't know what to say.
I thought for a while and said: "It's okay, I just called to ask. I haven't seen you for a long time."
She said: "Yes. Me too."
I said again: "I feel relieved if you live a happy life."
She asked me softly: "What about you? Are you happy now?"
I felt a sudden pain in my heart, but it was impossible to tell her such things, "Well, it's okay."
At this time, Xiao Cui had already driven the car not far in front of me. I hurriedly said to Ah Zhu: "A Zhu, I accidentally found your phone today, so I called to ask about your situation. I'll call you right away.
Something has happened. If you are free in the future, please come back with your children to play."
She whispered: "No, I will never come back to Jiangnan again in my life..."
I immediately understood what she was thinking, and indeed, this was her sad place. At this time, I felt a little regretful and regretted what I had just said to her. I hurriedly said: "Then, from now on
I’ll go see you if I have time.”
She immediately said happily, "That would be great. I have always said that I want my daughter to recognize you as her godfather. Come over when you are free, but you have to prepare a big red envelope for my daughter."
Hearing her tone change to happiness, I suddenly felt happy, "Okay. No problem."
This time our call ended like this, but a deep warmth suddenly filled my heart. Ah Zhu... her first time belonged to me after all.
When I arrived at the department where my supervisor had worked, I went directly to find the director of the department. I was relatively familiar with this place, after all, my supervisor was once the person in charge here.
The surname of the department director is Qiu. In my impression, she is a capable middle-aged woman. But at this time, she seems to have entered old age in front of me, because I found that there are a few gray hairs on her temples, and her face is
Wrinkles have also begun to appear. How many years have passed? How can a person change so quickly?
Of course she knew me, and she smiled when she looked at me, "I heard that you are going to be the deputy mayor? Feng Xiao, you are the most promising among our professional people."
I hurriedly said: "What? I'm just dawdling. Director Qiu, I came here today to trouble you with something."
She smiled and said to me, "Just tell me."
So I told her my intention, and also emphasized my scientific research project, "Director Qiu, I feel ashamed to say that, in the past few years, all my energy has been devoted to administrative work, so my scientific research project
So I stopped. However, the first phase of my research was completed, and the clinical trial results were pretty good. But it is obvious that there is a need to continue research on this project, and now I am not sure about continuing to apply for the project.
Very big. What I need now is a collaborator, who must first be majoring in obstetrics and gynecology. Of course, my current professional title is associate professor, so I can only choose someone with the same professional title as me as a partner. After all, this person
You also have to lead graduate students with me. It would be inappropriate if you are a full professor. I won’t go into details about the reasons. I came to you today because I hope you can help me recommend a suitable candidate. Of course, first of all
You have to let the other party volunteer."
After hearing this, she said to me: "You are already the deputy mayor, why do you want to come back to do professional research? Such a thing is thankless, why bother?"
I said: "Director Qiu, you are a professional. You should know that people like me have spent so many years on my profession. If I were to give up completely now, I would really be reluctant to let it go."
In fact, what I said is not entirely true. Nowadays, I have long been lazy and have gradually become indifferent to my former major. But I have to say it this way, because only by saying this can I be understood by her.
Sure enough, she immediately said to me: "I didn't expect you to think like this. Yes, it is really a pity to throw away the profession. For example, I have been in this industry for so many years and I have already had feelings for this profession. Now
I don’t even want to take my annual vacation. As long as I don’t come to the department for two days, I feel very panicked.”
I laughed and said, "Yes. This is the problem of professionals, and it cannot be changed. Secretary Leng of the Provincial Education Commission said something to me, which I think makes sense. He said: Being an official is only a temporary matter.
Major is a lifelong matter for a person. Therefore, I feel that I cannot abandon my major and half-completed research."
She kept nodding.
In fact, she didn't know that at this time, I suddenly felt a kind of shame in my heart. Although my words were not completely lies, it was definitely because I knew someone like her was working in a hospital.
People are actually very simple all their lives, and it is precisely this simplicity of hers that I am taking advantage of at this time.
Immediately, she introduced to me the situation of all the associate professors in the department. They were all women, and all had a master's degree or above, as well as the papers they had published.
In fact, I was not interested in these situations, but I still listened to her introduction very patiently. Then I said: "Director Qiu, the most important thing is that someone is willing. By the way, today I brought the copy of my previous thesis.
Please let them all take a look at the copy, and if anyone is willing to cooperate with me, please let me know, okay?"
She took the copy of the paper from my hand, looked at it briefly, and then nodded and said: "It's very good, this kind of topic is very valuable. Let's do this, I'll ask about it later."
I know that she is not completely hypocritically praising me, because what she just read was the abstract part of the paper and the conclusion. The paper must be published publicly, and its conclusions cannot be drawn in a false way. She is in this regard
Experts can see the value of my paper at a glance.
I thanked her profusely and immediately gave her my business card and a red envelope.
She hurriedly declined, "Xiao Feng, I have such a good relationship with your teacher, why are you so polite to me?"
I smiled and said: "Director Qiu, this is just a little thought of mine. Don't refuse. I should have invited you to a meal, but I've been too busy recently. I'm sorry. I really don't mean anything else."
, I know you will do this for my teacher’s sake..."