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Reading and Recitation (Novel)||"Playing with Women (4 · 3)" (from Zhao Mingke's novel collection "To the End of the Sky")

Reading and Recitation (Novel)||"Playing with Women (4 · 3)" (from Zhao Mingke's novel collection "To the End of the Sky")

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Reading and Recitation (Novel)||"Playing with Women (4 · 3)" (from Zhao Mingke's novel collection "To the End of the Sky")

Zhao Mingke, a senior media person, originally from Baoji, Shaanxi, graduated from the Chinese Department of Northwest University, moved to Shenzhen in the mid-nineties of the last century, and successively worked as an editor in magazines such as "Girlfriend" and "Family". In 1991, he began to publish novels, and published more than one million words of short and medium stories in many magazines such as "People's Literature" and "Shanghai Literature", and his works were selected into a variety of anthologies.

What is the core of our spirit?

- "To the End of the Sky, · Prelude"

Author: Wang Xiangfu

I have known each other for many years, and there is a handsome old man Jin Yucheng in the middle, and we sit together at the Fengling ferry of the Yellow River, eating hard cakes and drinking cold soda as if it were yesterday. Mingke was wearing a red trench coat, and although the season was spring, there was no bull in heat, so nothing happened. At that time, we were very thin, and we went all the way, and attended a dance party arranged for us by the town of Jinzhong, but we had to flee. It was a cultural center, which had just been renovated, and it came in handy that night, it was brilliantly lit and musical. The town also arranged for a number of old ladies to come and cheer us on, and the old ladies brought their grandchildren and grandchildren to the world, and they thought it was a show, and they applauded it earnestly, and at the end of each piece they would give us a standing ovation, and as a result, we had to rush out of the cultural center and run away, which became an adventure that we were very happy to look back on. At that time, in the small county town, people didn't know what ballroom dancing was. But I knew that fate was already writing his novels. Later, Ming Ke went to Shenzhen. Later, I went to Shenzhen to see him, and he was indeed more innocent, but he still spoke the Mandarin of Baoji, and the rhythm was fast, laughing, and the eyes flashed back and forth, and his cunning and wisdom were later expressed in his novels. Because we are all people from the bottom, we will actively participate in everything that happens. Because of the experience at the bottom, our novels, like Keith · Haring's graffiti, must only be all over the streets, not on the ceiling of a church, like his wife painted on the dome by Dalí, and only people can look at her feet.

Each and every one of us is a member of the times and society, and no one can get rid of these two points. Therefore, the current Chinese writers are actually the same in many places, there is no way to be different, just like we can't stop our steps, we can only keep walking, as if we are looking for something, but we can never find it, this is the current state of almost all Chinese writers, they can never stop, they are eager to walk and look left and right, and there is always the possibility of falling.

Reading and Recitation (Novel)||"Playing with Women (4 · 3)" (from Zhao Mingke's novel collection "To the End of the Sky")

"To the End of the Sky"

Author: Zhao Mingke

Shaanxi Normal University Publishing House

Almost every writer has to face a problem, that is, how to deal with our relationship with the environment, which mainly refers to the external environment, which is particularly important to us and will greatly affect a writer's mood and creation. Speaking of which, I always think that as a writer, he always writes for the bottom, and his heart, vision, and interest are all at the bottom. If there is such a group of writers, then fate must be one of them. Although the colors of the rainbow on the horizon are extremely gorgeous, they are somewhat illusory. In my opinion, real life should be gray, because gray includes various color scales, and it is actually the most abundant. Gray is particularly susceptible to slipping as you travel, or drifting towards brighter or darker colors. Personally, I think the gray body is a more real human reality. I often ask myself, why can't we be ashed? Kafka is gray, but how good he is!

Destiny's novellas are even better than his short stories. This is because novellas can tell more about life experiences and experiences, while short stories often allow people to see the light of the soul that flickers in the novel. Most of the novellas are viewed from above, and they are wide-angle shots of society. For example, his novella "Rabbit Nose" is a microcosm of our current life, and not all novels have this sense of scene. The beginning of the novel is very neat, it is a direct entry, and it can be seen that the means of manipulating the novel are very sophisticated. The suspense setting at the beginning is actually a coffin, which is somewhat abnormal, It is a coffin as soon as it comes up, why? Readers are bound to ask. This novel is thick from the native language to the sense of place. "What an old woman can do is travel", this sentence is really a bit poignant. This novel can be said to represent the general style of the life novel, a little fragmented, but very thick, and the relationships between people seem to be unusual, but underneath are turbulent. There is a very honest character in his novels, that is, he does not whitewash life, but often confronts it directly, and does not talk about any ideals, so it seems to be mediocre, and among the mediocrity there are some small evils that are chatted about after dinner, which is actually the bad and interesting humor of "high horsepower, more oil-intensive", and it is on this lubricant that our life can run normally. Life is chaotic, and when our ideals are shattered one after another, when we suddenly wake up, we will be shocked by our current situation. Reading Mingke's novels, it seems that you can hear his accent all the time, which is very strange, such as this sentence: "Sing, it's not the TV station that videos you, what are you nervous about." Don't tremble, clamp and sing. "It's a bad fate, and the fresh breath of the novel is also here.

Life is a writer who sees it directly with his life and his readers. I like that.

Fate is a writer from the bottom, solid life, meticulous observation, calm narration, especially this "It's All Because We Are Poor" makes people understand the embarrassment of media people facing the whole society between the upper and lower classes, and the character of Ma Linxu can let me see to some extent that fate can be in those years in Shenzhen. In the novel of fate, all kinds of difficulties and all kinds of hopeless struggles of the little people are shown, but the tenacity of life lies in the fact that although there is no result, we still have to work hard to sow and reap little, or sow and harvest nothing! This is one of the most important tragic fulcrums of the novel. Reading Mingke's novels, what can particularly touch people's heartstrings is that in his pen, it is a vast crowd of people walking by, carrying shovels, holding on to pens, walking forward with boundless ideals, foggy sky, and not knowing where to go after all.

Destiny's novels are artistically rustic, sometimes humorous, and make people laugh; Destiny's novels also have a strong sense of scene, and it's rare for a writer to be able to do that. That is, the fateful short story "To the End of the Sky", Marven ran away, where can he go? It's an old proposition, and it makes me think of Nala's runaway, where can she go? No matter how bitter the ideal is, it is also an ideal, this short story is brilliantly written, there are more things that are not written than what is written, so that people can feel a kind of turmoil and a longing for the life of the bottom, and there is something in the novel that is close to light, but it is clearly not. The charm of a good novel always comes from being unclear at all times.

The novel of Destiny is gray, like a brazier that seems to have been extinguished, and it is full of ash, and if you gently remove the ashes, you can see the existence of the fire below, flashing and flashing, but it is gray in an instant, and then the ashes are dialed again, and the fire below is red again, and in an instant, it is gray, this is the state of Destiny's novels, and it can also be said that this is a certain feeling of reading Destiny's novels. For example, in this article "Li Feigou's Love and Sorrow", the heroine of the novel came, and she said that if anyone gave me two bags of potato chips every day, I would marry whomever I wanted. And he only gave her one bag every day, he always thought about this Cao Li in his heart, and one day this Cao Li came, and lived in his house, sleeping on his bed, while he himself slept on the sofa. There is a large blank space in this novel that is not written, but one can imagine the excitement of the two of them that night. Good short stories are often what the reader thinks so and that, and the author just doesn't have a word, this novel, written in our time has a very rare chastity, although somewhat eccentric, but commendable.

All the novels collected in this collection fully show that Ming Ke is a writer who pays attention to the present, and the life he writes about or involves shows that Ming Ke's literary practice is enough to become a kind of perplexed echo in the new century. Each of us writers is actually a participant in real events and real mediocre life, so we often unconsciously fall into a tragic situation, and only truth can save us. For many years, we have had the misconception that we are saving others, but in fact, we should save ourselves.

In fact, the deep contradictions are always from the outside world, and the real crisis comes from our hearts!

Where is our spiritual core, let alone the deep spiritual core.

(Wang Xiangfu, novelist, won the 3rd Lu Xun Literature Award for his short story "Above".) This article is the preface written by Wang Xiangfu for Zhao Mingke's short story collection "To the End of the Sky")

Reading and Recitation (Novel)||"Playing with Women (4 · 3)" (from Zhao Mingke's novel collection "To the End of the Sky")

"Playing with Women"

Author: Zhao Mingke

[eight]

Friends

When she was with Ruhua, Liu Maolin's heart had been tight, but now she was relaxed, but Liu Maolin was at a loss, she always felt that Ruhua was still in the hut, she was just angry again, and she didn't want to come out to see him, she deliberately avoided him. Liu Maolin walked around the living room, but he didn't have the courage to push open the door of the hut, and he suddenly didn't want to face the reality that Ruhua was just sent on the train. Liu Maolin thought that if he really had a relationship with Ruhua, his psychology would be much more balanced, after all, he had possessed her for a short time, so that his desires could be stretched and vented, he knew that this was self-deception, and he would never have a relationship with her - what is the meaning of a woman who is rational in bed, but what else can he do?

Liu Maolin was tormented by this strong grievance and self-blame for a long time, and he suddenly woke up in this torture, how much he needed a woman. Since coming to Shenzhen, Liu Maolin has always been anxious and always feels that the desire for his body is extremely strong. Liu Maolin also tried to date a few girls, but as soon as the other party heard that he was an editor, they immediately showed no interest in him, and in Shenzhen, in the eyes of those girls who advocate pleasure, they are not as good as a taxi driver, and they are out-and-out "proletarians." After being snubbed a few times, Liu Maolin is no longer bored, although he is poor, he is well-educated, and his self-esteem is not completely extinguished, besides, he may not be able to meet the girl he wants, and he will accidentally meet a young lady in a nightclub, and there are countless such examples.

The pessimism brought to Liu Maolin by Ruhua also affected his work, first of all, the typos on the pages he edited had increased significantly, and the most unforgivable thing was that he actually made a vice premier of the State Council a deputy general manager of the State Council, which was a very serious mistake.

When Liu Maolin was writing a review, he received a call from Wang Yong, who asked Liu Maolin to go out for a drink. He drove out in the broken van of the unit, and said that he wanted to introduce a friend to Liu Maolin. Their relationship will never go back to their innocent student days, but it doesn't matter what kind of person they are with when they sit down for a drink. He pulled Liu Maolin all the way to run wildly, and even out of the customs, in Shenzhen for a few years, Liu Maolin has never been out of the customs, but in various media repeatedly seen that the customs outside the dirty mess, now out of the mood, the mood is much better, just random crossing of the road pedestrians and pervasive motorcycles, dirty and chaotic streets somewhat affect people's emotions.

The car drove along the coastline for a while before entering a small town. It was the meal, and all kinds of small restaurants along the street were crowded with people, used fast food boxes were thrown all over the street, and swarms of flies were flying all over the street, but people who came and went turned a blind eye to it and ate with relish, and people wanted to eat in any environment. At this time, Wang Yong said: "When I first came to Shenzhen, like them, I ate a five-yuan boxed lunch in this kind of small restaurant every day for a year. Liu Maolin doesn't know what to say, he never eats fast food, even if he only has five yuan in his pocket, he can't eat fast food, he can't get used to the smell, so what should I do? He would walk a long way, find a Sichuan restaurant, and eat dandan noodles, just eat two small bowls, and add a pack of paper towels for just five yuan. Liu Maolin didn't tell Wang Yong this, he is a very good-looking person, he feels that mixing in a group of people eating fast food is completely different from the feeling of going to a restaurant.

The car stopped in front of a hotel, and Wang Yong said: "When we arrive, every time we come to this ghost place, we will be tired and half dead, and let the girl take us to relax and relax in the afternoon." After entering the hotel, the welcome lady came over and asked whether it was to stay or eat, and Wang Yong said, "It's a friend of Mayor Zhu." The welcome lady said, "Oh, Mayor Zhu has been here for a while, please come here." ”

Entering the private room, there were two middle-aged men with fat heads and big ears sitting inside, Wang Yong shouted, and hugged them fiercely and exaggeratedly, they shook hands with Liu Maolin very politely, and after sitting down, Wang Yong said: "Where is Director Yu?" As she was talking, a woman with a loud voice pushed the door in, and she punched Liu Maolin in the shoulder: "Do you still know me?" Liu Maolin came back to his senses at this time, isn't this Yuzi? It's Yuko, just a lot stronger than before, but more beautiful.

"It's been seven or eight years, haven't you? You see, I'm about to become an old woman, and you're getting younger and younger. Are you married? ”

Yuzi sat between Liu Maolin and Wang Yong, when she asked Liu Maolin, she deftly touched out a cigarette, Liu Maolin lit a fire for her, and when he stopped his hand, she politely patted Liu Maolin's hand, her hand was cold.

Wang Yong lost no time in saying: "He is the same as back then, he has never even had a girlfriend, and he is still married, and he is faint." ”

Yu Zi pushed the ashtray to Wang Yong's side and said, "The ashes are almost off your pants." At the same time, she turned her head to Liu Maolin, "I heard that you are editing a women's magazine now, how about it, okay?" ”

Liu Maolin shook his head bitterly, not knowing what to say.

Wang Yong said: "What's the point of editing that broken magazine all day long, why don't you just come over and be Yuzi's secretary." ”

Liu Maolin said: "If Yuzi is willing, I have no opinion. ”

Yuzi said: "Where am I qualified to be a secretary, if you are willing to come to our countryside, I can find you a unit." ”

Mayor Zhu next to him said: "It is more useful to find Director Yu in this regard than to find the head of the Organization Department." ”

Yu Zi smiled and said, "When you go out, everyone should take care of each other, you can't do anything without friends." Let's not talk politely to each other, outside, reliable friends, don't say it, it's just classmates or something. ”

While talking, the dishes have come up, lobster, abalone, sea urchin fried rice, everything, wine is Liu Maolin's favorite Wuliangye, Yuzi said: "Borrow Mayor Zhu's wine, I toast two old classmates and two leaders, the first cup will be dry." ”

Mayor Zhu said: "Then let's be respectful and obey our orders, listen to Director Yu, this glass of wine must be dry." ”

I haven't seen her for a few years, Yuzi has some alcohol, In addition to being able to drink some wine, what surprised Liu Maolin even more was her calmness and practice, when Mayor Zhu was drinking, she wanted to put some words out of her mouth several times, she easily resolved them, and Mayor Zhu didn't ask anymore, just toasted one by one, and the two bottles of Wuliangye were soon empty.

Mayor Zhu just wanted to beckon the waiter to serve wine, Yuzi's mobile phone rang, she looked at the number, and said, "I'll answer the phone, you eat slowly, don't just drink." ”

Wang Yong said: "Don't drink wine, a table of big dishes, everyone eat more, don't drink too much and have problems." ”

Mayor Zhu said: "If there is a problem, I will solve it, and if there is no problem, I will solve it, I know what you want to do, just give orders." ”

Wang Yong was put on the neck by Mayor Zhu, and he immediately became energetic, and while he shouted to serve the wine, he said, "Then drink some more, Mayor Zhu!" ”

Mayor Zhu whispered: "You are here to send it away?" ”

Wang Yong said: "She will definitely go back to the bureau in the afternoon, she can't come at noon, I pulled it over, you see, she is answering the phone." ”

As she was talking, Yuzi came back, she said: "I want to leave quickly, the leader will go to condolence in the afternoon, you continue to eat, don't go, let Mayor Zhu arrange to stay first, and I will invite you again in the evening, and we will talk well." ”

Mayor Zhu said: "You can go with confidence, what else is there to worry about with me greeting you?" ”

Yuzi said: "You guys eat, you don't have to send me, don't drink too much wine, it's not good to get drunk." ”

As soon as Yuzi left, the atmosphere became lively all of a sudden, and after drinking another bottle of wine, Wang Yong said: "Let's go to the old place, what do you say, Mayor Zhu?" ”

Mayor Zhu patted Wang Yong's shoulder and said, "You kid, it's strange when I don't tell Yu Ju." ”

Wang Yongyi threw his hand, sprayed wine and said, "She can't take care of it." ”

Mayor Zhu said: "Okay, the wine is almost drunk, let's withdraw, just take your car, our car target is too big, be careful." ”

Wang Yong said: "As long as you don't dislike my broken car, I am willing to pull you every day." ”

Mayor Zhu said, "I can't afford it." Let's go. ”

The car stopped in front of a well-decorated bathing center, and immediately a security guard greeted him, nodding and greeting Wang Yong, who handed the car to the security guard and said, "Is the boss there?" ”

The security guard hurriedly said, "Drink tea inside." ”

Entering the bathing center, Wang Yong was like returning to his own home, he went straight to a room and shouted: "Look who I brought you?" ”

Liu Maolin raised his head and couldn't help but be surprised, isn't this a stone in front of him? This pretty chick is now the boss here.

Reading and Recitation (Novel)||"Playing with Women (4 · 3)" (from Zhao Mingke's novel collection "To the End of the Sky")

[nine]

It was the wine that made Wang Yong tell the truth

After leaving the bathing center and sending Mayor Zhu and the others back, Liu Maolin and Wang Yong went directly to the district. Yuzi has booked a hotel over there, and has already explained, let Liu Maolin and Wang Yong eat at the hotel by themselves, she can't come back at night because of something, can't accompany them to eat, she also said that Liu Maolin's work has been solved, just write materials in the secretary department of the district government office, and go to work any day.

Wang Yong said: "It's okay if she doesn't come back, we can talk, we haven't spoken seriously for many years." You see, I'm sick to myself right now. ”

"In order to live and live better, who is not like this?" Liu Maolin's words were a little reluctant. Wang Yong said: "Let's go to dinner first, let's talk slowly at the dinner table." ”

Yuzi booked them a small private room, and the food at noon had not been digested, so they ordered a few cold dishes and asked for a few bottles of beer, and the waiter asked with some disdain: "That's all?" ”

Wang Yong said: "What, do you think we are shabby? Then take two Chinese and have soft packaging. ”

The waiter went happily, and Liu Maolin said, "It's too much, right?" ”

"Why don't you ask me about my relationship with Ikuko? I've been waiting all afternoon, why don't you ask? Wang Yong poured a glass of beer, stared at Liu Maolin with red eyes like rabbits.

"Say what you want, pretend to be anything."

Liu Maolin knew that Wang Yong was a person who liked to show off.

"You still look at me with old eyes, tell you, we are using each other now. Do you know how much money she gets from me a year? You don't know, and I won't tell you. ”

"Will she take money from you? You're pretending again. ”

"Don't understand, do you? Why should she help me? Just because she was good with me for a while at that time, she introduced Mayor Zhu to me or something? She has so much energy, do you know who she relies on? Isn't she a distant relative of the secretary?! ”

Wang Yong poured another cup violently, but Liu Maolin couldn't persuade him, so he drank it with him.

When she first came to Shenzhen, she ran a business in the advertising department of a newspaper and endured a lot of hardships, and then she caught up with this distant relative, and everything changed. We've always been in touch, I don't want to end up like this, I got divorced and ran to her, but she never let me touch her, so I had to get the stone, and the bathing center was me and the stone. "A woman is always full of compassion for the weak man who loves her." Am I weak? Wang Yong patted his chest, "If I had a relationship with her when I was in school, things might have been better." ”

"If you had sex with her at that time, I dare say, she wouldn't have brought you over, and you still claim to be an expert on women's issues, so take a break."

Wang Yong pointed at Liu Maolin and wanted to scold Liu Maolin, but he laughed first.

"Probably! Once I was drunk and told Mayor Zhu about my past with her, and the fool said that he had slipped out at a dinner, and Yuzi called me that night and scolded me, and gave a serious warning, just like the real thing. ”

"She is also a small leader now, and she has to take care of her own image."

Liu Maolin said: "Anyone can speak ill of Yuzi, you can't, aren't you eating Yuzi's food?" ”

Wang Yong was stunned for a moment, he quickly came back to his senses, raised his glass, and said, "I'll punish myself with a cup, look at my stinky mouth." ”

Wang Yong said: "She was also very benevolent to me, and she drank a lot of wine in order to get my household registration and files from our place. In fact, Shenzhen is like this, let's make do with it. ”

Wang Yong was already drunk, and Liu Maolin said, "Go back." He shook his head and said, "What are you going to do?" Don't always talk about me, oh, by the way, tell me about your Zhang Yan. ”

Liu Maolin said: "What Zhang Yan? ”

"Didn't you bring it to me?"

He said Ruhua, Liu Maolin was always called Ruhua, but he forgot her name.

Liu Maolin said: "Do you kid also want to eat her tofu?" Last time, she came back from you, and she seemed to have been greatly wronged. ”

Wang Yong said: "Brother, listen to my brother's words, stay away from her, she is better than Yuzi, let's just say last time, she frowned as soon as she met the boss of the central enterprise, embarrassed our brother, pestered people to find her a unit, and finally left angrily for some reason." ”

Wang Yong talked about Liu Maolin's work again, and he said: "If you come and follow Yuzi, and if you take care of her, it will be much better than you are now. If you transfer it in the future, Yuzi will find you an affordable unit, and then life will be better. ”

Seeing that Liu Maolin was silent, Wang Yong said: "I know you haven't figured out where you will settle down in the future, it doesn't matter, let's take a step at a time." ”

Liu Maolin said: "This is true. ”

"Let's go back, I can't drink anymore." Wang Yong staggered to his feet, Liu Maolin also drank high, and they helped each other to leave.

Reading and Recitation (Novel)||"Playing with Women (4 · 3)" (from Zhao Mingke's novel collection "To the End of the Sky")

[10]

Off

The next morning, Liu Maolin was still asleep, and the phone rang, it was Yuzi. She asked Liu Maolin if he had thought about it and whether he wanted to go to the district government office to be a secretary, and Liu Maolin said that he had already thought about it and would go. She said, I knew you were going to go. Liu Maolin said how do you know, Yu Zi said, I'll tell you later.

Yu Zi asked Liu Maolin to go to the district government office to find Director Qiu in a while, and he is now presiding over the work. She asked Liu Maolin to go to work first, and talk about other things later. Liu Maolin looked at his watch, it was only a quarter past seven, and he walked from the hotel where he was staying to the district government, ten minutes was enough. Liu Maolin was completely sleepy, and at this time, Wang Yong was also woken up, he said: "It's Yuzi, you still can't sleep, does she let you go to work today?" ”

Liu Maolin nodded, and Wang Yong said: "She hasn't been the director yet, so she will arrange people inside, indicating that this position is almost in hand." However, you have to be more careful, someone will have trouble with you because of her, and they will all see you as the person installed by Yuzi. ”

"Is it so scary?"

"It's okay, everyone knows that it's not easy to mix in the agency, and you don't have to worry about anything, isn't there still Yuzi? Besides, you didn't go to be a director, you just did it if you did a good job, and you just changed units if you didn't want to. ”

Wang Yong said Liu Maolin's hole card, which is also Liu Maolin's retreat. Thinking about the root cause of the unsatisfactory mix over the years, he always has to find a way out for himself first, and those who are proud now will not find a way out at all, and blindly move forward.

When Liu Maolin was about to go out, Wang Yong also got up and cleaned up, he didn't want to stay here alone, he wanted to go back to work, so he just sent Liu Maolin to the gate of the district government.

The compound was already full of people coming and going, and Liu Maolin easily found the district government office, and it was during work time, and there was a lot of commotion in the corridors, and the people who came and went were numb and did not wake up. Knocking on Director Qiu's door, he didn't know what he was thinking, and when he saw Liu Maolin, a stranger, he looked very nervous; after Liu Maolin explained his intentions, he slowly stood up, and when he wanted to say something, he stopped talking, and then he went out and shouted in the corridor: "Section Chief Zhang, come to me." After coming in, Director Qiu didn't say a word, Liu Maolin didn't know if he was dissatisfied with him or because of something else, at this time, the woman who had seen the tall horse in the corridor came in, she looked at Liu Maolin blankly, Director Qiu pointed at Liu Maolin, and said: "Xiao Liu, from now on, you will follow Section Chief Zhang and do a good job." After speaking, he said to Section Chief Zhang: "The new arrival, Xiao Liu, used to be a reporter in the city. Section Chief Zhang glanced at Liu Maolin and said, "I saw it in the corridor just now." ”

The secretarial department is in a large office, and there is a small room separated from it, which is Section Chief Zhang's office, when Liu Maolin entered, everyone was laughing together, and Section Chief Zhang said: "New colleague, Xiao Liu, find him a place to sit." Someone pointed to a dusty table in the doorway and said, "No one is sitting there." Section Chief Zhang said: "Xiao Liu, you just sit there, find a rag to wipe the table first, familiarize yourself with the environment, and come in to find me or find them if you have anything." ”

Liu Maolin looked around and saw that no one had any intention of talking to him, so he went to clean up his desk.

For a whole day, no one paid attention to Liu Maolin, they went in and out in front of Liu Maolin, no one even glanced at him, he took the opportunity to go to the toilet and came back, and glanced a few times, the people in the office drank tea, read the newspaper, and even were in a daze, making endless phone calls, doing everything, but no one was working. Liu Maolin stayed up until he got off work in the afternoon, and was about to run away, when the phone rang, and the guy with a bitter gourd face sitting behind him said angrily: "Looking for you, say hurry up, I'll have a phone call in a while." In normal times, Liu Maolin would give him a slap in the face to make him understand that he was just a little secretary who had to wag his tail when he saw anyone, but this was a government office, and he was a newcomer. After talking on the phone, Liu Maolin said thank you to the bitter gourd face, but they ignored him at all.

It was Yuzi's phone call, and she asked Liu Maolin where he lived at night, and then Liu Maolin remembered that he had not yet gone to find a place to live, and Liu Maolin said: "Go back, the house in our city has not been returned yet." Yu Zi said, "Then how can it be done, it will take two hours on the road, and tomorrow morning you will have to get up at five o'clock and rush this way." ”

Liu Maolin thought about it, too: In the past, the unit used to go to work at 9 o'clock in the morning, and no one cared about it when it was late, but here it was an organ, and it was impossible to explain that it was late when it first arrived. Seeing that Liu Maolin didn't speak for a long time, Yu Zi said: "That's it, you wait for me at the door for a while, let's eat first, and then talk about it after eating, I happen to have nothing to do today." ”

The bitter gourd face was already impatient, Liu Maolin hung up the phone, pulled out a soft Chinese dot, and walked out of the office with the stunned expression of the bitter gourd face. In order to be less public, Liu Maolin spent a whole day smoking a pack of broken white sand for five yuan, making his mouth bitter.

There are cuts, to be continued......

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