Chapter 11

The opening ceremony of the study class was very grand. Not only did people come from the ministry, but the leaders of the State Council also came. The leaders talked about the importance of this reform and the learning requirements.

The leaders repeatedly emphasized that those who come to learn are the elites and backbones of the work selected by various places, so they are required to emancipate their minds, study humbly, and fully apply the knowledge they have learned to future work, so as to guide and drive the promotion and development of this reform.

The next learning task is very heavy. During the day, students have to complete necessary topics and homework based on their daytime study. There is almost no time for entertainment or watching TV, and only one day off will be on Sunday.

Most of the students in this study class went to the Central Party School for the first time, so the students are very enthusiastic about learning and the teachers' level is also surprisingly high. Every day, the students spend their time in an active learning atmosphere, and time passes extremely quickly, and a month passes without realizing it.

During this month, Niu Ben only received three text messages from Liu Yàn, namely, Life is like a boat, you need a harbor, you are my harbor, when I am tired, you can park in your harbor and enjoy the joy of life.: The tears of lovesickness wet the sleepless pillow, and the love of love tortures the frustrated soul.The people in love wander around the streets of separation, and the hearts that are connected feel the pain of separation.Unforgettable!: I went up the west building alone speechlessly, the moon is like a hook, and the lonely sycamore courtyard is locked in the clear autumn.It is a sorrow of separation and a different feeling in my heart.

Huang Xiaojuan has a lot of text messages and can receive them almost every day.

They are all sentences of emotion and longing.

The autumn wind sweeps away the fallen leaves, the cold snowflakes fly, the pace of time is fleeting, and in the blink of an eye, winter is coming!

It was another Sunday. The weather was not very cold, but it was not a trace of wet. There were only a few sparse leaves on the tree that embellished the traces of life.

The bark of the tree turned slightly brown, as if it had been roasted on the fire for a long time, and it was so painful that it was lost. It was half curled and seemed to fall to the ground at any time.

The cold wind seemed to sweep away all the warmth of the body, leaving only an empty body.

In such a season, people's thinking will be frozen, so people hide in their rooms, so lazy that they don't want to go out.

Niu Ben's study class is coming to an end. Niu Ben is lying on the bed in the room, thinking about how to carry out his work after he goes back. Through learning, he has improved his work theory knowledge a big step, and some of his previous confusions at work have been solved at this time.

The state of mind is obviously broader, and the thinking is obviously at a higher level.

Niu Ben thought that the study was about to end. Director Yang put in a lot of effort in this study. He should express his feelings to the leader when he went back. So what gifts should he buy?

There is also Liu Yàn. He has not sent a text message recently. He has sent her a few messages, but he has not seen her reply. Maybe he is very busy with work.

Huang Xiaojuan's text messages were less than before, it might be inconvenient, Niu Ben just guessed like this.

When you go back, you should also buy a gift for Huang Xiaojuan and Liu Yàn. What is the right one to buy?

He thought repeatedly in his mind.

The study class ended as scheduled, and Niu Ben's mood improved a lot.

First of all, this study made him broaden his eyes. As the saying goes, those who are close to the ink are black, and those who are close to the vermilion are red. He gathers together with these working elites from all over the world to study. His ears and eyes are full of vitality and enterprisingness. What he gains is not only knowledge gain, but also great fulfillment in his psychology.

Niu Ben felt that his way of thinking was gradually changing, and he became less stubborn and no longer had the harsh views on some problems. He felt that his ability to accept was obviously stronger, and he could also objectively face some things he didn't like before.

In short, he felt a kind of power in his body, a kind of invincible force, which made his mind feel like he was ready to move.

Furthermore, the urgency of study time, the active learning atmosphere and the change in the living environment also made him temporarily forget some of his worries, and even any emotions and romance were left behind.

In such a living environment, some people are studying and some are struggling. It is hard to imagine a trace of unhappiness. Even if you are a little bored occasionally, you will be quickly thrown into the corner of your busy thinking.

Before Niu Ben came back, he sent text messages to both Huang Xiaojuan and Liu Yàn.

When he walked out of the railway station ticket gate, he didn't see any acquaintance. He vaguely felt a hint of loss. Fortunately, the driver Xiao Zhao in the bureau called him from a distance, called him back from suspicion, and got into the car. Xiao Zhao told him that Director Yang, Huang Xiaojuan and Liu Yàn were all on a business trip. They didn't bring a car on this business trip, but the three of them went there. It was the phone call Huang Xiaojuan called him in the morning, and only then did they know that Director Niu was back today, so he waited here early.

Niu Ben breathed a long sigh, Oh, so that's it. They were on a business trip and went there. He didn't ask Xiao Zhao. He knew that the leader's whereabouts would not be told to others except the office director.

Then why didn't they tell themselves?

Is it a temporary business trip or an urgent matter? Maybe I have handed over the office affairs to someone else now, so at least Huang Xiaojuan should give him some news.

During such a random time Niu Ben was thinking, he quickly returned to the downstairs of the accommodation building. Xiao Zhao helped him move his luggage to his house and left politely.

Niu Ben felt very tired. Yes, although he was sitting on a sleeper on the train, there were too many people in the train and he was noisy along the way, so he didn't have a good rest. In addition, there was a feeling of homesickness in his mind, which made him feel bright and clear for a long time without any sleepiness.

I seemed to think a lot along the way, but when I recalled what I thought, I felt that the imagination was like a boundless and could not be summarized at all.

The train day and night really made his body and mind very tired. He hurriedly washed up, then fell on the bed, and soon went to find Zhou Gong with his mind.

When Niu Ben woke up, it was already past 10 o'clock in the evening. He got up and ate a pack of instant noodles, so he was busy unpacking his luggage and finding some documents and materials for studying. He would go to the municipal party committee to report tomorrow. These materials are necessary when preparing to report to the leaders.

When he took out the gifts he bought for Huang Xiaojuan and Liu Yàn, he smiled secretly.

He bought Huang Xiaojuan a silk scarf with a foundation flower. He saw in Beijing that the beautiful girls and young wives had such silk scarfs on their necks, which made them more energetic and beautiful.

He imagined that if such a silk scarf was tied to Huang Xiaojuan's slender and snow-white neck, it would be more beautiful and charming than them.

He bought Liu Yàn a small shoulder bag decorated with a cute puppy. He could hardly imagine that Liu Yàn, who had a plump figure, must be very innocent and lively, pure and cute when carrying this bag.

I went to the Municipal Party Committee to report in the morning. The main leaders of the Municipal Party Committee attended the symposium. At the meeting, the group of their study class personnel were divided into three groups, namely one group for each person. The leaders of the Municipal Party Committee will lead the team and form a working group with relevant personnel of the Organization Department, Personnel Bureau and other relevant personnel to carry out preparations immediately. After the two sessions in the city are held, this work must be fully carried out in the departments determined in advance.

Secretary Zhao of the Municipal Party Committee finally emphasized that the people you went to study this time are all the backbone of our work. You must apply the knowledge you have learned to your future work. You must firmly grasp the spiritual lifeline of the central government on this reform, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the central government's reform spirit in your work. Through this work, we must set an example in the city and even the province, and lay a solid foundation for the future work in the city.

It was also determined at the meeting that the working group would be managed in a closed-ended management. From today on, the staff of the working group would live in the city's directly affiliated guesthouse, the offices were also located there, and three meals a day were also served there.

Report this afternoon, work will be officially started tomorrow.

The meeting announced a discipline that individuals cannot act alone and that they must ask for leave from the organization if they need to go out.

Niu Ben calculated that there was about one and a half months before the two sessions were held. There was also a Spring Festival between parents, and they only had one month to work, and the workload and work tasks were indeed very heavy.

He went back and hurriedly prepared some essential items for daily life. Fortunately, he had just returned from studying and these supplies were still in his luggage bag, so he didn't have to spend much effort.

At 2:30 pm, Niu Ben came to the city guesthouse on time to report and saw that there were already people here to report, some of whom he knew and some were unfamiliar.

The city guesthouse is called a guesthouse, but it is actually the city’s reception hotel. It looks gray and inconspicuous outside, but the decoration inside is very exquisite, the service facilities are all available, and the service ladies are well-trained, and they are all very energetic and polite.

Niu Ben and Deputy Minister Liu of the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department were arranged in the same room. Deputy Minister Liu was about 50 years old, medium-sized, and had gained weight. He was already extremely smart and fat.

Niu Ben had seen him before and knew him, but Vice Minister Liu had no impression of him.

When talking with Vice Minister Liu, Niu Ben felt that the leader had no airs and was very friendly.

The next preparation work is busy and messy. Not only do you have to issue a series of documents, but you also have to go to the units that have been determined in advance to survey, conduct research, and conduct democratic assessments. You have to find a lot of people to talk to, and check very correct statistics.

Time passes quickly, Niu Ben and others travel through the gaps of time like shuttles. After careful consideration, the work outside is very limited every day. Every time they arrive at a unit, it takes a long time to read the information. They can't talk straight to people, so they have to pay attention to some methods and some of the conversations. Because many people are hesitant to the organization, saying that they are not as good as themselves.

Therefore, the working group has to do its work repeatedly, repeatedly emphasizing that this reform is the general trend and has far-reaching significance for our future development.

However, people are still vigilant, once they say specific things, they are reluctant to tell too much.

During the meeting, Niu Ben met Director Yang twice. After meeting, Director Yang just said a few words of encouragement, then patted his shoulder and left in a hurry.

Niu Ben also sent some text messages to Huang Xiaojuan and made a call. The topic of the text messages that Huang Xiaojuan replied to him was not as passionate as before. When he called, Huang Xiaojuan just said, "Brother Ah, there are many things, let's talk about them when we meet, we can't explain them clearly on the phone."

Niu Ben felt that Huang Xiaojuan seemed to be deliberately hiding something, but he couldn't think of anything.

Niu Ben called Liu Yàn either to be busy or to turn off the phone. This made Niu Ben vague. What's wrong, it was all weird. He felt that something must have happened next to Huang Xiaojuan and the others.

In a blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is coming and the working group has a 7-day holiday.

On the 7th day of the first lunar month, the official holidays were collected to work.

On New Year's Eve, Niu Ben returned home from the working group's residence.

On the way back, Niu Ben saw that there were many people on the street, bustling everywhere, and the New Year's goods were also dazzling, with everything.

Niu Ben returned home and everything returned to his original state. The room was deserted and had been out for more than half a year. He had no food anymore. The power supply of the refrigerator had been unplugged.

Even a thick layer of soil was accumulated on the TV.

It’s New Year, it should be cleaned up, but Niu Ben is not in the mood to clean up.

I sat on the sofa for a long time, thinking that I should go to see Yingying. Then, at least I should buy some food for the New Year, otherwise I could only eat white rice.

Niu Ben came to the street and bought some snacks, drinks, and a set of clothes to deliver to Yingying.

When Ying Ying saw her father, she was very intimate. She ran around and showed Niu Ben all the New Year gifts she had. After a while, she sat in her father's arms and talked about her longing and expectation for her father.

Yingying's mother also looked at Niu Ben, her eyes filled with tears.

Niu Ben's mood became very heavy and his heart was about to break. He didn't dare to stay for too long. He forced himself to not cry in front of the child. He was afraid that he would not be able to control himself, so he hurriedly ran away like a thief.

On the street, he bought a few dishes and food casually, returned home quickly, covered his face on the sofa and cried. He felt uncontrollable when he cried. This was the first time in his life that he cried so sadly until he felt the sky turn.

The beef Ben ate fried pork liver for dinner, which is a luxury for him. Today, he only eats some meat food like this during the Chinese New Year. He usually eats vegetarian dishes.

He thought that when he worked in the office, he would go out to accompany his leader to have dinner every now and then, so his family would save as much as possible, and his income would not allow him to spend too much money.

The Spring Festival Gala began. He watched the show, and no one was interested. He knew that it was not that other people's programs were bad, but that he was not in the mood to watch these shows.

Firecrackers were already ringing outside, and he walked around the room with nothing to do, feeling upset when he looked at everything.

Today's time is too difficult. He thought he should find something to do. He took out poker and played it alone. Oh, he's lucky.

So he shuffled the cards over and over again, and according to his fortune-telling logic, he set a fate that he could not grasp.

Maybe it was his real bad fate, or maybe it was a coincidence that his poker fortune-telling game was very unsuccessful. In the first level, half of the cards did not pass, the second level was almost full of difficulties, and the third level was even more difficult. He was so angry that he tore up two handfuls of poker, throwing them all to the ground, and stomping them a few times with his feet.

Fortune-telling made his loneliness and sadness worse. He suddenly remembered that there was a bottle of Wuliangye bought for Director Yang in the cabinet, so he might as well take it out and drink it.

This is the gift he gave to his leader Ah. If he drinks it, there is nothing to give. Besides, he feels reluctant to give up a bottle of 500 yuan wine.

He was hesitating and thinking that there was still half a bottle of cooking wine in the kitchen cabinet, which was also wine Ah. So he immediately found it and gave it to himself in the bowl and finished it in a few sips. What was the smell? He didn't know, but he knew that he was so dizzy that he could finally fall asleep.

On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, Huang Xiaojuan came to Niu Ben's house. Yesterday she saw him come back. At that time, she was hanging lanterns on the balcony.

She saw Niu Ben rushing to carry some food home, and she wanted to call him to her home for the New Year, but the custom here was that he could not go to other people's houses during the New Year, so she could only watch it, there was no way.

On the first day of the Chinese New Year, she could visit her family, so she came here early in the morning to call her Niu Ben.

When she came to Niu Ben's house, she saw the room full of mess, with poker and poker fragments scattered on the ground, a layer of dust accumulated on the TV, and Niu Ben's New Year's Eve dinner yesterday, unfinished rice and leftover fried pork liver, a bottle of unopened Wuliangye and an empty cooking wine bottle.

Seeing all this, Huang Xiaojuan understood in her heart how Niu Ben celebrated the New Year yesterday.

Her heart couldn't help but feel tight. Such a good person, but he endured so much suffering. Ah, a miserable person, thought to herself, can he stand up after he knew about Liu Yàn?

She silently picked up the broom and began to clean up the house.

Niu Ben felt his headaches were severe and his eyes were astringent. Seeing Huang Xiaojuan's arrival, his heart felt hot and almost burst into tears. He watched Huang Xiaojuan clean up the garbage in the room speechlessly.

Huang Xiaojuan wiped the dust on the TV and said leisurely: Yànzi is back home for the New Year, you can wash up first and have a meal at home later.

Oh, I bought you and Liu Yàn a small gift. I wonder if you like it or not?Niu Ben said and went to the bedroom cabinet to take out the silk scarf bought for Huang Xiaojuan and the small bag for Liu Yàn.

Huang Xiaojuan stopped the work in her hand and looked at the gift in Niu Ben's hand. What a careful person, she liked the things she bought for herself, and would cherish and cherish them with all her heart.

What's more, she valued such a beautiful scarf, and she liked it more.

But what should I do if the gift I bought for Liu Yàn is to collect it or not, she has no idea.

When Niu Ben was about to tie the scarf to her neck, her tears couldn't help but flow like a spring. She stopped in Niu Ben's arms and started crying silently.

It's my sister, I'm sorry to you.

Niu Ben asked in confusion: What's wrong?What happened?

Huang Xiaojuan said sadly: Something happened to Yàn’s child.

Niu Ben pushed Huang Xiaojuan away from her arms in surprise and asked face to face: What's wrong?

Huang Xiaojuan avoided Niu Ben's sharp gaze and said: Yàn's son was deceived and suffered a loss.

Niu Ben was shocked: Ah?

Huang Xiaojuan came to her senses, pulled Niu Ben away and held his hand tightly, and said to him: Brother Ah, I will tell you slowly from now on. It’s past 10 o’clock, I have to leave now, you can clean up and come over, Lao Yang should get up too.

After Huang Xiaojuan said that, she turned around and left with the gift Niu Ben bought for them. Niu Ben stood in the middle of the living room as if he was dumbfounded. There were immediately a few guesses floating in his heart. What happened to Liu Yin and what was fooled?

Huang Xiaojuan was hesitant and didn’t explain clearly. Is it economic?

She is doing financial work, maybe, and, in life?

Could it be that he was cheated like Huang Xiaojuan?

Niu Ben couldn't think of the reason, but he felt that it was a big deal, otherwise Huang Xiaojuan wouldn't be so sad. Besides, Liu Yàn hasn't contacted him in the past few months. Combining these, Niu Ben felt that Liu Yàn's accident might be physical, and his heart couldn't help but shrink. How could that be possible?