Otherworldly Merchant

“This floor was also divided between him when he was Director of Agriculture.” Old Li put out the car and lowered his voice: “Later on, he had to reassign him several times. He disagreed. He said that the house was not bad. At least many citizens still couldn't live there. Until when, all the citizens of Wuhan lived in a better house than this. Later, he lived there until now..."

I silenced for a moment and looked at Mayor Wang who was still asleep. He turned his head towards old Mayor Li: “When Mayor Wang wakes up, you tell him for me and I'll do it for him. ”

“No, this has to be done!” Old Li hasn't waited for a chat, and Mayor Wang suddenly raised his hand, lifting the blanket and sitting up.

Then a bang hit the roof.

“Oops...” He rubbed his head and turned his head to look at me and Li. He stunned for a moment, and this just woke up completely. "Look at me, I fell asleep talking. I just dreamed someone was stealing from me. What's the deal? Master Chang, let's go, we're home! ”

“Mayor Wang, no need.” I look at him sincerely: “Don't worry, I will do this for you! ”

“It's two things.” Mayor Wang looked at you: “I brought you here in the middle of the night, not a sip of tea, what kind of hospitality is that? If this gets out, where's my old face going? Go, go, go. Now that you're at home, why don't you go up and have a seat? ”

After that, he pulled me out of the car.

“Lee, thank you very much.” Mayor Wang closed the door and naturally paid for the window.

Looks like it's not the first time he's been in Lee's night car.

Old Li was more aware of his temper. There was no excuse at the moment. He reached out and took it.

“Lee, you have work to do, I won't leave you. Come back another day, we'll have another drink.” Mayor Wang waved at old Li.

Old Li's eyes are a little wet: "Mayor Wang, you should also pay attention to your body!” Then he flashed two lights and turned around and drove away.

Until the car disappeared into the night, Mayor Wang turned around and said to me with pleasure: “I haven't had a visitor in my house in a long time. Let's go and let you taste my craft! ”

“This...” I was embarrassed. I came to his house to check it out, just to see his jokes, to look at his boss, to see how long his dirty mouth could last.

But at this time, I know that I was really wrong. Mayor Wang is a wonderful official!

He's dragging me upstairs now, which is extremely embarrassing to me.

“Rest assured, I'm buying you dinner and at home again, which is not a bribe.” Mayor Wang laughed.

“Mayor Wang, some other time.” I continued to push away: “Besides, this is the time, sister-in-law too...”

“She's working the night shift. She won't be back till the middle of the night. I'm alone in the house now. We didn't even order food in the Love Mansion.

I'm starving to panic. Let's go. Let's eat. ”Mayor Wang finished his speech and walked in with my shoulder.

So, naturally, there's nothing I can do.

Mayor Wang's house was on the fourth floor, and he opened the door, pressed the light, and took off his coat and threw it on the couch. As I walked into the kitchen with my sleeves around, I said to myself, "Sit down for a while, pour yourself some tea, I'll be fine in a minute! ”

Soon, the kitchen clanked.

I stood in the room, looking at this very ordinary, but extraordinary room, and at a moment I was stunned and some of them couldn't speak.

Ordinary, because it's the most common two-bedroom, one-room room room, about 60 or 70 square meters, and the decor in the room is long overdue, leaving traces of the years everywhere.

It makes a lot of sense because absolutely no family has such a magical setup.

There is a wrinkly sofa in the living room, but opposite the sofa is not a coffee table, but a square large book full of drawings and documents, as well as large, small and colorful maps.

There is an overlooking plan of the whole city, there is a topographic map, there is a water network diagram of the water circuit... If I hadn't just followed Mayor Wang into the house, I really doubt I would have walked into the site command post?

Looks like he's a really desperate samuro!

According to Old Lee, he works so late every day, he can easily come home, face these maps, and work hard to figure out how to drill.

He did not want to leave behind a bit of regret, he wanted to try to be perfect and build a new city that would reassure him and satisfy all citizens.

Now, he did it, but he might never see the day himself.

He fought for it for half his life, half his life, but in the end, all he could do was leave behind regrets and die without meditation?

I believe that any citizen of Wuhan who knows about this will be extremely sad.

I looked at the maps in front of me, and I remembered the way he was walking, and his smiling face, his eyes were getting a little wet.

“Dinner!” At this point, Mayor Wang suddenly shouted and walked out of the kitchen with two large bowls.

It's two bowls of noodles, boiled in white water, with some cucumber silk poured on top of it, and a little more expensive, there's a poached egg next to it.

“Come on, one bowl at a time, no leftovers.” He handed me a bowl, picked up the other one and sat on the couch, immediately swallowing the tiger.

I saw him like this, his nose was suddenly sore.

This is Mayor Wuhan! Managers of millions of people in large cities, with countless amounts of money in their hands.

Does he just call himself a mule?

“What, you can't eat it?” He swallowed several bites and saw me standing there, scratching my hair with chopsticks and saying with regret: “The first time I came to my house, I asked you to eat this, it was a little out of the ordinary. But that's all I do. ”

“No, I'm hungry too!” I also took a bowl and sat next to him on the couch and ate it.

He glanced at me and didn't speak, provoking the noodles to continue eating.

Cyrillic snoring, two grown men without a word, swallowing their faces.

My bowl rose gradually, and then I wiped the moisture off the corner of my eyes while he wasn't paying attention.

Mayor Wang ate all the noodles and even drank the soup clean. He hit a burp with satisfaction: “Don't look at this noodle, but it really works. ”

“Your sister-in-law was too busy to leave me dinner when I might be back. I sometimes come back in the middle of the night, so hungry that I learned how to cook noodles. I can't say anything else about this. It's simple, starving! Just like being an officer, there's nothing you can't do as long as you pretend to be a citizen and really want to do it. ”

He just had an emotion and suddenly turned around, which made me realize that I was not a person in the government at all. Just now, one of the teaching seemed a little redundant, and he laughed again: “Look, I'm really used to old bureaucrats, I can pull anything to work. ”

He took over my empty bowl and said: "Sit down, I have to brush quickly. If your sister-in-law comes back, it's time to fight me again!” That's what he said, but the expression on his face was incredibly happy.

“Hey, that's right.” Just two steps later, he stopped again and said solemnly: “If you see her in the future, don't leave your mouth open! Nobody knows about my illness except for the small money to help me get the report. Even Old Lee doesn't know. This must be highly confidential. ”

“Okay!” I nodded heavily.

Hurrah, there was a breeze, the map on the table scattered a lot, I hurried down to pick it up and put it back.

But then I suddenly found a photograph, and it was pressed underneath the thick glass on the table.

The photo is black and white, hidden a little yellow, looks a lot older.

There are two young men in their twenties standing side by side, one in military uniform and the other in mid-mountain uniform, both of them holding their breasts high and all with a shiny Party badge on their chests. Their faces are full of pride and joy.

Although the ages are long apart, I can tell at a glance that the young man in the Zhongshan suit is Mayor Wang.

Below are a few lines of dragonfly phoenix.

Thousands of hammers cut out deep mountains, and the flames burned like idle.

I'm not afraid of crushing bones. I want to stay clean in the world!

Then there is a small line: “I would like to make a great leap forward with this sentence, in anticipation, February 1984. ”

“His name is Hu Qingshan, and this is my best classmate and friend.” I was staring, but Mayor Wang somehow stood behind me.

He ignored my consternation and stared closely at the photograph: “Back then, we graduated together and joined the party, vowing together to strive to serve our country well. But just a few months later, he sacrificed himself across the border, not even searching for the bones, leaving me with a few lines. ”

Mayor Wang said: “These words in Qingshan are especially in my ears. I am always awake like a thunder. Whenever I get confused, I always have to look at the photos, and Aoyama can always wake me up with a head stick! It is not ourselves, but this country, this party, that will always represent the hope of this nation in front of the people, no matter what the chief official is! ”