Fan Jiang calls Chen Jing basically every year and makes sure to drag him to attend the college reunion.
The four years of college were the most wonderful and worth remembering. I not only learned knowledge in school, but also made many friends from all over the world.
Chen Jing graduated from the Normal University and was in the same class as Fan Jiang. In his memory, he only had a close relationship with Fan Jiang during his four years of college and only had a casual relationship with other people. Therefore, after graduation, he had a close relationship with most of his classmates.
Contact is not frequent.
Fan Jiang and Chen Jing have different personalities.
Fan Jiang has always liked to delve into the study of human relations. Since graduating from college, he has been very interested in things like class reunions and fellow students' associations.
He often organizes reunions for classmates from the Normal University, and when he comes to Degao, he organizes Chucheng people’s gatherings at Degao fellow students. It must be said that he invested a lot of energy in these aspects.
But in Chen Jing's view, most of these things are false.
As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, and people flock together.
In a class reunion or a gathering of fellow students, everyone should have fun, create an atmosphere, and be energetic at all times. To put it bluntly, it is all about one identity.
The status is not equal, and we play around and play, but in the end we still can't achieve anything. Everyone has a grudge against each other, so what's the point of having a hometown reunion or a class reunion?
Chen Jing sees these things quite clearly, so he is not keen on attending such gatherings.
Personal relationships are very important to the officialdom, and relationships with fellow citizens, family members, and classmates are also key in the officialdom.
But these so-called relationships are all based on the premise that each other can be of use to each other. Without this premise, the feelings of fellow villagers, family, and classmates are all just clouds and have little value.
In the past many years, Chen Jing declined for various reasons.
But he couldn't push him away today, so Fan Jiang had to pull him in. Chen Jing had no choice but to follow him to "Fan Jiangchun".
It has been six or seven years since Chen Jing graduated from university. After not seeing each other for six or seven years, the differences among his old classmates gradually began to grow.
After graduating from normal university, some have good family connections and strong connections. After entering a key middle school, or being transferred to an enterprise or even an administrative unit, the conditions will naturally be good and their life will be comfortable. However, there are some who are not well-distributed and enter.
Some of the schools below have gone to companies, and the companies have closed down and laid off workers, so the conditions are now a bit worse.
Of course, there are also some students with good conditions who study abroad and develop abroad for a few years. When they come back, they become returnees. Their net worth has also increased, and it is no longer the same as before.
Fan Jiang is at home here, and can chat and laugh with people wherever he goes.
Chen Jing, on the other hand, is much more low-key. He only greets people he knows well and does not show off at all. He is very low-key and restrained.
"Hi! Chen Jing, do you still recognize me? Where are you making a fortune now?"
Chen Jing felt someone tap him on the shoulder and turned around. Standing next to him was a tall woman with a bright smile.
The woman is quite beautiful, with a curvy figure, especially the breasts, which are unusually plump, as if they are ready to come out.
His skin is wheat-colored, and when he smiles, he reveals his white teeth, giving him a generous and aggressive look.
Chen Jing was stunned and said with a smile: "It's Li Xiaoyan. How can I get rich? I heard that you are great. You married a big boss and you are now rich!"
Li Xiaoyan was a famous and talented woman from the Normal University at that time.
In Chen Jing's session, Chen Jing, Fan Jiang, and then Li Xiaoyan were all known for their hard-working pens.
Among the three, Chen Jing has the most introverted and low-key personality, so although he writes the best articles and has a strong pen, everyone is generally not optimistic about his future.
Fan Jiang liked to socialize. In the words of his classmates at the time, he was good at flattering others and everyone thought he was suitable for being an official.
As for Li Xiaoyan, she had a generous and aggressive personality and was a popular figure in the student union of the school.
After graduating from college, Li Xiaoyan seemed to have joined a very good private enterprise. Later, she successfully married the son of the owner of this private enterprise. I heard that she was doing well.
Chen Jing and Li Xiaoyan didn't have much contact when they were students, but because all three of them were good at writing, they were very familiar with each other.
Chen Jing and Fan Jiang had a close relationship. Fan Jiang had been pursuing Li Xiaoyan for a while. At that time, Chen Jing was in charge and helped Fan Jiang write a famous love letter, which caused a storm in the city. Later, Fan Jiang couldn't bear the pressure. , then said that this love letter was ghostwritten by Chen Jing, and Chen Jing was also involved in this matter.
The waiter brought Chen Jing a cocktail. Li Xiaoyan sat opposite Chen Jing, her eyes narrowed and she said, "Not much has changed, she is still as graceful!"
Chen Jing's face turned slightly red.
When it comes to big changes after graduating from college, Chen Jing believes that he has changed the most.
When he was in college, he couldn't beat a fart with three sticks. After graduating from college, he experienced so many ups and downs and he was completely different from before.
Chen Jing and Li Xiaoyan were chatting, and soon someone came over to join in the fun.
"Oh, Mr. Li, why are you hiding here? We can't find anyone to drink with you!" Two handsome young men came over with glasses and said with a smile.
Li Xiaoyan stood up and pointed at Chen Jing and said: "Do you know Pei Laoqi, Feng Lei, and Chen Jing? We are talented people from Normal University!"
Pei Laoqi's name is Pei Guang. He and Feng Lei are also classmates with Chen Jing, but Chen Jing didn't like these two guys when they were in school.
These two hang out in the student union all day long and are very addicted to officialdom.
What I was thinking about was how to flatter the tutors and department leaders. They simply looked down on honest and responsible students like Chen Jing. Generally speaking, such students were everyone's public enemies in the university. Few people like it.
Now it is said that Pei Guang and Feng Lei are both bosses. Pei Guang has established a tea brand and Feng Lei has established a gift trading company. Both of them are doing well.
I heard from Fan Jiang that at the last class reunion, Pei Guang and Feng Lei got mad and said that they would pay for all the expenses together.
But when they met Li Xiaoyan, Li Xiaoyan immediately bought the order alone, and everyone was showing off their wealth.
After Li Xiaoyan's reminder, Pei Guang and Feng Lei seemed to have just seen Chen Jing and greeted Chen Jing at the same time.
Chen Jing smiled faintly and nodded as a greeting.
He picked up the wine glass, nodded to Li Xiaoyan and said, "Mr. Li, you guys can chat, I'll just stroll around and catch up with other classmates!"
"Hey! Chen Jing..." Li Xiaoyan was about to call Chen Jing, but Chen Jing had already stepped into the crowd.
She frowned slightly, and said to Pei Guang and the others: "Pei Lao Qi, have you seen that the old classmates have changed a lot. We, Chen Dacai, have changed a lot!"
Pei Guang swung the wine in his glass with his hand and said, "Beautiful women love talented people. Could it be that you, Mr. Li, are in love?"
Li Xiaoyan's cheeks turned red, she spat at Pei Guang and said, "You are the only one who knows how to talk nonsense!"
Feng Lei interjected: "Talented people are far away from us. We are just common people. We look down on nerds. Isn't Chen Jing just a nerd?"
Pei Guang put away his playful smile and said: "I heard that he entered politics. It is said that he offended the leader when he first started working and was demoted to a remote mountain. Otherwise, why haven't we seen each other for so many years?"
Chen Jing didn't hear the three people talking about him. He walked through the crowd with a wine glass in his hand. Occasionally he would go up to say hello to someone he knew.
In most cases, the other person will smile back, and some may even come up and give you a bear hug.
We are all college classmates, so this relationship is relatively pure, less flashy and snobbish, and a little more sincere than ordinary social interactions.
Chen Jing felt a long-lost, familiar warmth in his heart.
He suddenly felt that his thoughts were becoming more and more secular. Fan Jiang asked him to come to the meeting, but he refused to come many times because of the secular thoughts in his mind.
When the occasion actually arrived, he found that he could still feel a little bit of the youth he once had that was now gone.
After seven years, Chen Jing has not experienced the changes he imagined.
Most of the students don't have many spectacular stories, and they basically move forward according to their inherent, regular life trajectories.
Work, get paid, and then find a well-matched husband or wife to get married.
The next step is to use the meager salary to buy a house and become a house slave, and then use the remaining time to live frugally, raise children, provide for the house, and live a comfortable life.
When we were young and frivolous in college, we had great ambitions. After encountering the pressure and helplessness of real life, everyone habitually chose to give in. They were immersed in the calculations of daily necessities, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, and the youthful youth gradually faded away.
Become worldly and ordinary.
This is basically the norm for current students.
Chen Jing held a glass of wine and chatted with everyone for a while. Gradually, he felt that he was a little out of tune with the people around him.
Most of the female classmates in the class are married and have children, and they gather together in small groups to discuss playing cards, raising children, and dealing with their parents-in-law.
And men are now in the most stressful period. Except when discussing job benefits, all they think about is how to find a way to make a windfall, and then use this to relieve the pressure caused by the current life.
So football lottery, welfare lottery, lottery, and the profit and loss luck of playing cards on the card table, and a few people with a little spare money talked about stocks, futures, or funds.
It was basically difficult for Chen Jing to get a word in.
But looking back, isn’t this a way to relax and experience life?
Chen Jing suddenly realized that the lives of most people in this world should be like those of the people in this room now, and people like himself think about big things, the overall situation, and the national economy and people's livelihood all day long.
Everything is so different from ordinary people's lives.
Chen Jing realized that after living in such a world for a long time, he was somewhat out of touch with ordinary people's lives.
I have to say that this may be a dangerous signal. After all, he is a division-level cadre. If time passes, if he is promoted again and breaks away from the masses too quickly, it may be a disaster... (To be continued)
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