It turned out to be this. I suddenly felt ashamed and said, "No, I haven't thought about how to tell her about this."
"Are you busy lately?" he asked.
I shook my head, "Anyway, it's just those things. Every day's work is almost fixed."
"Then are you considering going to Beijing? Meet Zhuang Qingjian and tell her about the matter?" he asked me.
I pondered for a moment before replying: "Well, I'll call her first and ask her."
He shook his head and said: "How can you explain some things clearly on the phone? Besides, she is no longer an ordinary person, so I think it is better for you to go there in person. This also shows respect for her. Don't you think so?
"
I said: "What I mean is to call her first and ask her if she is free recently."
He then nodded and said: "That's true. Let's do it this way. You ask her first, but don't talk about specifics. Once she rejects you on the phone, you have no way out. If you talk to her in person, you can try to persuade her. This way
Well, you contact her first, and if you decide to go to Beijing, call me immediately. You can't go to Beijing empty-handed, right?"
I looked at him in surprise, "Do you still need to bring a gift? No need?"
He immediately laughed, "You decide on the gift yourself. But if you want to talk to her, you have to bring the text of our contract and show it to her first, right?"
"Contract text?" I was very puzzled.
"When you go to talk to her about this matter, you have to make a price first? Otherwise, how could you convince her so easily? She is not what she used to be now, and it may not be possible to solve the problem simply by relying on the friendship between you and her.
It's a problem. Besides, your school still needs her to go back and give lectures and so on. I have discussed it with Principal Zhang. We should pay more here, and the school should not pay. This is right.
Zhuang Qing's influence is not good. This is a matter of killing two birds with one stone," he said.
I nodded, but suddenly thought of something, "The designs of your two projects haven't been released yet. Isn't this a little early?"
He shook his head, "It doesn't matter about the design. Just have a conceptual design first, which will be used as a promotional picture. I have thought about it. As long as she agrees to the endorsement, I will start laying the foundation for the project right away.
Preparation for the ceremony.”
"I'll ask. If she can spare time to see me, I will go to Beijing right away." I said.
"That project of the Peking Opera Troupe... Hey! It would be great if nothing happened to Sun Lulu. By the way, have you visited her?" He sighed suddenly.
"I've been there twice. The first time she didn't want to talk to me. The second time it was much better." I answered.
"What did you talk about? Haha! You don't have to answer my question." He asked me with a smile.
"We didn't talk about anything. I just advised her not to be too discouraged. She made a request to me and asked me to take good care of her mother. However, when I went to tell her mother about this matter, her mother refused. Old
My wife is the kind of person who doesn't want to trouble others." I sighed.
"Actually, the best way to take care of an old lady like that is to find something to do for her. Otherwise, she will get bored staying at home alone all day long," he said.
I almost said something about Sun Lulu’s mother going to worship Buddha, but I held it back immediately because I suddenly thought of what Tong Yao told me. I was worried that Lin Yi would continue to ask questions because of this. It wasn’t because of anything else, it was just that I felt
I should keep my promise to Tong Yao. So I said: "But she is too old. It's hard to arrange what she can do. And I don't know what she can do."
He smiled slightly, "For example, let her open a canteen or something. Just sell some cigarettes, alcoholic drinks, non-staple food, etc. The store shouldn't be too big, so it will be very easy. What do you think?"
I nodded, and then said worriedly: "Sales of tobacco and alcohol seem to require special procedures, right? What about national monopoly? Also, what will she do if she purchases goods in the future? Then there is the store. Where can I find a suitable one for a while?
?”
He smiled and said: "Other things are easy to handle. There is a store in the community where she lives, and the property rights are mine. She just doesn't need rent. I can send someone to handle the procedures for her. But what about the purchase of goods?
...I think this way, when the time comes, I will ask someone to take her to the wholesale market, and she will know how to do it from now on."
I suddenly became happy and said, "That's great. Where is the specific store in the community where she lives?"
"It's right next to the gate, where the commercial facilities are. The location is very good." He said with a smile.
I was very surprised, "How come no one has rented such a good place yet?"
He smiled faintly and said, "In my store, I can do it for whoever wants to do it. I just need to give him some compensation for the store in front of me."
I was silent for a moment, thinking that although his approach was too overbearing, it was still to solve the problem for me, and it was also to eliminate Sun Lulu's worries.
"I heard Ouyang said that you borrowed a sum of money?" At this time, he suddenly asked me.
I was thinking about what happened just now when I suddenly heard him ask me this, so I immediately said, "Yes. A fellow villager lent it to me."
"You're working on the cemetery project, right?" He smiled faintly.
I suddenly felt ashamed, because Lin Yi once wanted to get involved in that project, but he gave up after my persuasion. Now that he asked me this, it was obviously a joke.
I hurriedly said: "Yes. At that time..."
He immediately interrupted me, "Don't talk about that. You don't have to be ashamed. I know you didn't persuade me to give up that project for any other reason. Even now, I still feel that I didn't take over it."
That project is right. But now I know that your project is indeed having some difficulties at the moment. This is good, at least it temporarily solves part of the problem. Feng Xiao, the project you have has Secretary-General Lin’s money in it.
Right? You should take out her money and return it to her as soon as possible."
I was very surprised, "Why? She must get the profit, right?"
"You must first consider the safety of other people's funds, and then consider profits. Sometimes profits are like a drawn pie, which may not always be realized. Secretary-General Lin is an official, and a senior official at that. Her money
Safety is the first priority, understand?" he said.
"But...I really can't take it out now." I said.
"So, has she asked you about this?" He asked me immediately.
I replied: "No. She doesn't seem to be that interested in money."
He immediately laughed, "That's possible. So, what do you think she is most interested in?"
But I didn’t know how to answer, because I seemed to have never thought about this matter, so I thought about it and said: "He is a woman, and she is divorced. Judging from her normal living habits, she should be careful about clothes, money, etc."
She doesn’t seem to have much interest. I think maybe the only thing she is interested in is her own future, that is, her progress in the officialdom.”
"Then why do you think she is doing this? She is obsessed with power? Generally speaking, women have relatively little desire for power, right? After all, there are not many women like Empress Lu, Wu Zetian, and Ci Xi." He asked me.
"How do I know? I think everyone hopes to realize their own value in their hearts, right?" I said.
He nodded, "That makes sense. So, where do you think your own value lies? How to realize it?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "Not to mention, I really haven't thought about this issue in detail. But I think that if I can be a good doctor, I have realized my value."
He smiled and said: "No. That's not what you think in your heart. If you really just want to be a good doctor, then why do you want to do the project? And why did you agree to Principal Zhang to be the director of the department?"
Me: "...I don't want to try my other abilities yet. Being the director is completely out of necessity."
He smiled and said: "Yes, you are right. But I think, in fact, you have not understood what kind of life value you need to realize until now. Am I right? You,
In fact, I am still very ignorant, and I want to achieve everything, but I don’t want to give up some of my desires. In the end, I am living in confusion.”
I felt ashamed again, "Yes, you are right."
"Actually, a person's greatest personal value should include two aspects. One is freedom, and the other is health." He said, "Freedom gives dignity to humanity, and freedom is God's best gift to mankind. Health is a material thing.
, Health without freedom is nothing more than a zombie." He said.
"Am I free?" I said, not quite sure what he meant.
But he asked me: "Do you really think you are free? When you see your patients are terminally ill but have no money to treat them and your hospital has stopped taking them, do you dare to question the leaders of your hospital? When you clearly know that the common people are suffering from
High medical expenses, but do you dare to question the relevant departments and the country's system? You don't dare, because either you don't have that sense of social responsibility, or you don't dare. You don't dare because we are in power politics now
Under the rule, Feng Xiao, you are as insensitive as most people. You have seen many people become officials through connections, and you have seen many people living in desolation because of no connections. You think that is a normal thing. But you want to
Have you passed? There are only so many positions. If you get up through connections, you will block the opportunities for people with real abilities to be promoted. What you will deprive others of is their freedom. Well, how can I talk about these things? It’s boring enough.
.Hey! But sometimes I feel uncomfortable when I think of these things. Look, the consumption of the country’s civil servants is so high. It doesn’t hurt at all to spend tens of thousands on a meal. It’s just a swipe of a pen to pay the bill.
.But what about our people? Especially those in remote mountainous areas, their children cannot afford to go to school, and even have problems eating. I continue to make my business bigger, just to do my best.
However, sometimes I think, this doesn’t seem to be my duty? I pay taxes according to regulations, so the government should use the taxes we pay for such livelihood projects? Don’t you think so?”
I think he is indeed a little strange today: Why did he suddenly talk about such a thing? (To be continued)