Zhang Gui, deputy director of the Mengchuan Town Police Station, is about 1.7 meters tall, with bronze skin, small but bright eyes, and a high nose, which makes him quite dignified. Although he is only fifty-eight years old, his hair is already gray. He doesn't drink but he still smokes.
Chen Shaoping, Zhang Sanchuan and Lao Gu specially came to treat Zhang Gui to dinner. To Chen Shaoping's surprise, Zhang Gui's home was located by the Mengchuan River. It was a large farmhouse covering an area of more than 20 acres, surrounded by mountains and rivers.
The family employs two Sichuan chefs and eight waiters. The daily fixed turnover is about 5,000 yuan, which is a decent middle-class family.
"Director Zhang, can't you tell, you are still a rich man!"
Chen Shaoping was sitting in the elegant room of Zhang Gui's farmhouse, looking at the lush green trees surrounding him, and sighed sincerely.
"What kind of rich man is he? He just wants to have enough food and clothing!" Zhang Gui said with a smile.
"Director Zhang, if I were you, why would I be working as a police officer? I could just come back and become the boss and enjoy a happy life!" Zhang Sanchuan joked.
"I can't help it. I'm born with a hard life, and I can't sit idle..." Zhang Gui was spreading cigarettes for everyone as he spoke.
"Zhang Suo, according to your family's conditions, if you are willing to spend money on things, you won't still be a deputy director when you retire soon!" Chen Shaoping said with a smile.
Zhang Guishen took a deep drag on his cigarette and said slowly: "It's great to be the deputy director. It's close to home and I don't have much to do on weekdays. It's nice to be free!"
"Director Zhang, if I come here today not only to treat you to dinner, but also to ruin your leisure time in the future, will you kick me out?" Chen Shaoping said while smoking.
Zhang Gui frowned slightly and said, "I heard that you are going to Renli Town to be the secretary of the town committee. Is it true?"
Chen Shaoping nodded and said, "It's true. When the time comes, I will need a police station director to fully cooperate with me in my work. I wonder if Director Zhang has the idea to go to Renli with me!"
"I know a little bit about the situation in Renli Town in my office. It's a pool of stinky water. Director Chen, why are you so young going to go into a pool of stinky water?"
Zhang Gui asked doubtfully.
"If I don't go to this pool of stinky water, and if you don't go to this pool of stinky water, then the whole of Cangyang will become a pool of stinky water, and our families will be corroded by this pool of stinky water..."
Chen Shaoping answered.
Zhang Gui fell into silence. He kept smoking, and he finished one cigarette quickly.
"Director Chen, you're not thirty yet and you're not married yet. Aren't you afraid that you won't be able to come back if you leave?" Zhang Gui asked after crushing the cigarette butt in the ashtray.
"Afraid!" Chen Shaoping answered very frankly, "But I am afraid of going back, but I must go!"
Zhang Gui stared at Chen Shaoping with his deep eyes, his face full of majesty.
"What if I refuse?" Zhang Gui stared at Chen Shaoping and said.
"I can understand..." Chen Shaoping replied.
Zhang Gui lit a cigarette again, put it in a hookah and smoked it.
"call……"
Zhang Gui exhaled a puff of thick smoke, put the hookah on the ground, and said: "This is my 32nd year as a police officer. The bold ambitions I had when I was young are long gone, and many things are out of sight and out of mind... But one thing I know is that if I reject your kindness, I may regret it for the rest of my life!"
After finishing speaking, Zhang Gui took a puff of the cigarette and showed an innocent smile like a child...
After leaving Zhang Gui's house, Chen Shaoping made a special trip home.
Even though the news that Chen Shaoping was going to become the party secretary of Renli Town has spread throughout Cangyang, his parents, who are diligent farmers at home, still know nothing about it.
As Chen Shaoping drove home, the villagers he met along the way would stop and greet Chen Shaoping warmly.
The orchard planting base has been promoted throughout Songguan Town. Among them, Siwei Village was the first to receive project support funds from the Agricultural Bureau.
The folks here attribute all the credit to Chen Shaoping, because in their eyes, only "those big bosses with connections" can get the "project money".
Chen Shaoping became the secretary of the county magistrate, making them "connected households". Therefore, the whole village had a sense of pride.
Although all the growers in Songguan Town have received project support funds, and the amounts are not much different, this does not hinder the sincere pride of the people of Siwei Village!
They regard Chen Shaoping as the pride of the entire Siwei Village and a person that the entire Songguan Town people need to thank.
Ever since the fruit trees were planted in the fields and the project funds were received, Chen Shaoping has become the pride of the village.
The most direct beneficiary of this is Chen Shaoping's father, Chen Zhongshi.
Chen Zhongshi, who is in his fifties, is an old farmer who has been dealing with soil all his life. He has never been as glorious as in the past six months in his life.
Everyone in the village respected him, and the village chief would take the initiative to light his cigarettes when he saw him. Even the newly appointed secretary of the town party committee and the mayor visited his home in person.
Chen Zhongshi was not used to the sudden elevation of his status at first.
He is not very good at talking, and he used to just nod when greeting others.
But it's different now. When I meet someone, I'll stop to talk to him or give him a cigarette.
"Has Shaoping come back?"
"I heard that he is going to be promoted?"
"It's amazing. Uncle Chen, you gave birth to an amazing son..."
"In the Cangyang news broadcast on my TV, I saw Shaoping. He was inspecting the work with the county magistrate..."
Chen Zhongshi answers questions like this several times every day.
Chen Zhongshi has become the central figure in Siwei Village. Even the first millionaire in the village, Yang Jiacheng, who is doing engineering work outside, will kill a sheep when he comes home, and specially invites Chen Zhongshi to dinner, and then , personally drove him home in a BMW car...
Chen Zhongshi was so beautiful in his heart that he was so happy that he couldn't sleep in bed at night, recalling back and forth: the highlight moments of being respected by others these days...
He was reluctant to wear the new clothes his son Chen Shaoping and daughter Chen Shaoli bought for him in the past. He thought the clothes were too good and would get dirty while working.
But it's different now. Chen Zhongshi started to wear new clothes and new leather shoes.
Although he still had to work in the fields, after returning from work, he took a shower after dinner, put on new clothes, held a dry tobacco pot in his mouth, and went out to walk around the village with his hands behind his back.
As soon as he arrived at the senior citizen activity center in the village, someone would stand up and ask him to sit in the center. Then someone would immediately light a cigarette for him.
Chen Zhongshi sat openly among a group of old men, wearing leather shoes, looking at Erlang's legs, watching the sky slowly getting dark. This was the happiest time in his life.
In this land, after all, the idea of "official status" dominates. They are looking forward to creating a strong man to place all the beautiful expectations in their hearts...
