all the way

Central Plains Provincial Geological Exploration Bureau is located in the middle section of Cuiwei Road, one of the most prosperous places in Yuancheng, the capital of Central Plains. The prosperity here is not a lively commercial block, but a clean, spacious and tree-lined administrative area.

In the personnel department office, Liu Xia was sitting on the reddish-brown sofa, listening boredly to the high and low intermittent chorus of Maiji bird outside the window. At the opposite desk, a middle-aged man with a bald head and a big belly was holding a phone in his left hand and a cigarette in his right hand. , Hmm, ah, ah, a few laughs interspersed with each other from time to time, and he didn't forget to swallow the clouds in time, as if he had already forgotten the existence of Liu Xia.

Just a second before Liu Xia's patience was exhausted and he was about to stand up, one of the people coming and going in the corridor finally walked in. Once he entered the door, he didn't care about the bald man's phone call, and directly said his own words in a loud voice. : "Old Jia, damn it, you have a grudge with your wife and you can't solve the problem by choking yourself to death, stop beating, what about that precious lump that was given to us?... Definitely, you beat yours, "

The man who spoke pure Mandarin looked at Liu Xia: "It can't be you, right? I'm from the third hydrology team, and I live in Rongze..."

Liu Xia immediately stood up: "It's me, Liu Xia."

Putonghua didn't quite believe it: "No matter how I look at it, you should have just been admitted to college, not a college graduate, right?"

The bald man finally put down the phone, and the old-fashioned gag just now smoothly transitioned into Mandarin: "Just him, Liu Xia, from Jiangcheng University of Surveying and Mapping.

I said Ma Qianli, why the fuck are you always so lucky? The old Liu Babaer of the team has spent two years with the director. He wants a few engineering surveying and mapping majors with a strong brand. Like, needless to say last year, there is nothing, this year finally came one, this kid depends on where you are, Lao Liu has been scolding his mother angrily these days, his mother insisted that I messed with this kid Go to your place, you say I am wronged or not!

This is the rule, the students assigned every year must introduce the basic situation of our bureau to others, and also ask for their own opinions..."

Someone in the corridor interrupted him: "Jia Deren, don't sing the oboe to me with Ma Qianli, I've lived for almost 50 years anyway, I'm not stupid, didn't the students assigned there try to stay in the original city , who is so stupid to go to a small county after studying in a big city for a few years? Forget it, who made our face not fair enough, let’s not talk about it.”

Liu Xia listened to this conversation completely ignoring him as the client, and continued to look out the window speechlessly.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when I sat in a dusty jeep with Ma Qianli. The driver was a young man, a little shorter than Liu Xia. Ma Qianli called him Xiao Du.

Ma Qianli looked less than 40 years old, with a medium build. Liu Xia knew from Jia Deren's conversation that he was the captain of the third hydrological exploration team of the Provincial Geological Bureau.

The person who went to Jiangcheng to participate in the "Graduate Promotion Conference" of the University of Surveying and Mapping was a deputy director of the Jiangcheng Geological Bureau, named Chu Guigui. After Liu Xia came back, he followed Huang Youguang's guidance and paid a special visit to him. He introduced Liu Xia to geology. It was only when Liu Xia learned about the basic situation of the bureau that the hydrological team near the new bus station in Rongze was actually the third exploration team stationed in Rongze by the Geological Bureau.

At that time, Liu Xia didn't intend to go back to Rongze wholeheartedly. If possible, he would certainly like to stay in Yuancheng. Not only his working environment is good, but the conditions of most schools in Yuancheng are much better than Rongze County Middle and High School. Definitely want the cat to go to the school in Yuancheng more.

So he carefully asked Chu Baogui about the children with rural hukou going to school in Yuancheng.

Chu Guigui heard Mr. Qi talk about Liu Xia’s family situation with Huang Youguang and Han Tong. Of course, he only knew that Liu Xia’s nephew lost his mother when he was young, and his father remarried. Liu Xia hoped that after he worked, his nephew could follow him. Huang Youguang will definitely not say about other details about himself.

He said to Liu Xia very positively: "No, it was okay when the reform and opening up was just started a few years ago and few rural people went to the city to do business. A friend who has a very good relationship is the main leader of the school. If he wants to study in a school for a few years, he can talk to someone and give him some gifts.

In the past few years, it has failed. Many rural people come to Yuancheng to do business, run restaurants, sell clothes, and want to send their children to Yuancheng to study after making money. Many parents of students in Yuancheng are not willing. I didn’t want my children to be with rural children, so the school stopped accepting children with rural hukou;

In the past three or four years, it has become more stringent. Schools with good teaching quality have stopped accepting students from other districts, and their original urban hukou is not acceptable. Some people may find leaders who are too powerful, and the school cannot push them away, so they start accepting sponsorship. Fees and borrowing fees are very strict, but now there are many rich people, no matter how much, some people are willing to pay;

But if it is a child with a rural hukou, there is no way, all schools will not accept it. "

After hearing Chu Baogui's words, Liu Xia immediately asked to go to the third hydrology team. Chu Baogui couldn't believe it. He had seen Liu Xia's grades at school and had been introduced to Liu Xia by several teachers. He really wanted to keep Liu Xia. at the headquarters.

Although Zhongyuan Province is geographically located in the center of China, its economy is not very developed due to reasons such as geography, climate, and history. Many students who have passed the college entrance examination in developed areas tend to stay there after graduation. Because of national policy, if it is not a very good school, not many schools are successful, and this trend has always existed.

If they come back, almost 100% of them want to stay in the original city.

As a large agricultural country, China’s cities have always been underdeveloped. In a province, a relatively large-scale city is basically a provincial capital city. At the same time, there are many provinces with developed economies and urban precipitation. There are not many provinces in the country. .

As the capital of the Central Plains Province, Yuancheng has developed rapidly in recent years, leaving behind several other famous historical cities with rich urban accumulation in the province, so it has become the first choice for students returning from overseas studies.

Liu Xia gave up the place that others couldn't dream of and asked to return to the small town of Rongze, let alone Chu Guigui, no one would understand.

Chu Baogui gave Liu Xia a serious explanation, but Liu Xia didn't change his original intention, so Chu Baogui didn't insist anymore, but he told Liu Xia that when he reported to the personnel department, don't tell the people there that Liu Xia told him in advance that he was honored. Ze's business.

It's been several years since he came to such a high-achieving student from a key university. Several teams want him, and he doesn't want to offend anyone.

When Liu Xia went to report to the personnel department, Jia Deren, the head of the personnel department, introduced him to the basic situation of the bureau as usual. When Liu Xia heard that the third team was in Rongze, he interrupted him and immediately asked to go to the third team, which shocked a group of people. human jaw.

This year, the Geological Bureau has assigned five college students with corresponding majors. Liu Xia is the only one who graduated from a key university. There are requirements from above. The stock manager gave gifts, but Liu Xia was the only one who stayed in Yuancheng Headquarters in the end.

No one believed that Liu Xia would give up by himself.

Jia Deren is actually a good old man with a disgusting face. He tried to explain the truth to Liu Xia for a long time, but Liu Xia couldn't understand his life and death, so he had to give up. After talking to the leader in charge of personnel affairs, Chu Baogui, he notified the team of the third team Captain Ma Qianli sent someone to pick him up, and specifically declared that he was a baby lump with a golden signboard.

Before Liu Xia came here, he didn't expect things to go so smoothly. He had heard from Su Xiaohui before that when they were assigned after graduation, they ran back and forth several times with their dispatch certificates before completing all the procedures. Now he will go directly with the future leaders He is now in the unit, and he has never encountered the nonsense that he often heard about, which makes him very happy.

He left home yesterday and stayed at Liu Chuan's place for one night. He took a car to Yuancheng this morning. Mao'er originally wanted to come to Rongze with him. Liu Xia thought that Liu Chuan's house was too hot and there were so many mosquitoes. It was so hot. Every day, he had to run back and forth on mountain roads for dozens of miles, so he just left him at home.

Now, Liu Xia is a bit regretful: Ma Qianli said that he will allocate a dormitory today, and he can go to work tomorrow. All the personnel relations of their team are in the headquarters in Yuancheng, and there is no need to go through any formalities separately in the team.

That is to say, he can't go home today. If he doesn't go back, the cat will definitely not sleep well, and maybe he will go to Guanjiayao to pick him up. He feels distressed when he thinks of the cat standing on the road waiting for someone.

He hesitated a little, but decided to ask Ma Qianli now: "Captain, how is the dormitory arranged? Do I share a room with others, or..."

"Our unit has a house, and you have a single room. You can choose which one to live in at that time." Ma Qianli gave him an answer that made him ecstatic without waiting for him to finish asking.

Liu Xia tried hard to restrain his excitement and said: "Then, can I report to the unit with you, settle down on the house, and then go home first. Many of the things I use are still in my hometown."

Ma Qianli laughed: "I forgot that you haven't brought your luggage yet. Okay, Director Chu called me to tell me about your situation. Which township is your home in? Let Xiao Du send you back later. Pull your things back directly."

Liu Xia hurriedly said: "My home belongs to Wangning, you just need to send me away, you don't need to help me carry things, my home is still tens of miles away from Wangning, and the car can't get there."

Xiao Du said in front: "It's okay, my driving skills are not bad, if the road is bad, let's slow down, and I will come back later at most."

Liu Xia had no choice but to say: "No, that road can only pass a frame car, and there is a section of frame cars that can't go through. We have to separate the wheels from the frame and carry it over."

Xiao Du blurted out: "Damn, no way, there is such a place in Yuancheng?"

Ma Qianli was also a little surprised, but he understood after a little thought: "To the south, it should be the remnants of the Funiu Mountains. Rongze belongs to the semi-mountain and semi-hilly area, which happens to be the transition zone from the central plain to the mountain. It's normal."

The car turned into the hydrology team, and the yard was much larger than what Liu Xia had seen from the outside before. The road facing the gate was a flat and spacious asphalt road, with tall poplar trees on both sides of the road, and behind the large open space in the south of the road was There are two three-story red brick and red tile ridged buildings and a four-story family building.

On the north side of the road near the gate is a large open space surrounded by poplar trees, with a basketball court in the middle, a few cement table tennis tables on the side, and flower beds with several months of blooming flowers.

Further to the north, across the basketball court, you can see the construction site behind several rows of poplar trees, which are two buildings that have just been built to the third floor.

Liu Xia thought to himself, it seems to be a family building, but it's a pity that I only got it this year. If I came a few years earlier, maybe I could still get a house!

At the east end of the compound are two side-by-side office buildings. Ma Qianli's office is on the second floor of the building to the north. Liu Xia followed him up. The office is very large, not much smaller than the office used by Liu Chuan and his criminal investigation team of nearly twenty people. How many.

After entering the room, Liu Xia felt the spaciousness at first, and the coolness at the second.

Through the glass window, he saw two old persimmon trees and several big elm trees behind the building, which made him suddenly feel more friendly and feel better.

Ma Qianli pointed to a black sofa by the window: "Xiao Liu, sit whatever you want, you will work here from now on, don't be restrained."

Liu Xia sat down and put Bao Duan squarely beside him.

Ma Qianli and Liu Xia talked for ten minutes. The main idea was: the hydrology team implements the captain responsibility system, Ma Qianli takes care of business, and secretary Yang Hong takes care of ideological and political work;

The business area of ​​their three teams covers three counties directly under the original city, including Rongze, and seven prefecture-level cities in the northwest of Central Plains Province. It is the one with the largest scope of responsibility among the three teams. Qiaoyun City only moved to Rongze five years ago, and it took more than three years for the personnel to officially move here. Now there are still some employees staying at the Qiaoyun base.

He hoped that after Liu Xia went to work, he would respect the leadership, unite with colleagues, not be afraid of hardships, be ready for field work at any time, and not be proud of being from a prestigious university...

Liu Xia's most concerned questions are at the end:

Salary: The country has clear regulations, and there is nothing to say about this;

Bonus: Liu Xia will implement the same standards as the old employees in the team. If Liu Xia can lead the team to complete the homework independently, the bonus will be the same as other technical backbones of the unit;

Typically, their bonuses are two to five times their salary.

Liu Xia seemed to feel that Ma Qianli was a little afraid of his repentance and asked to return to the original city headquarters, so he was taking the bonus to stabilize him.

Regarding the housing, Ma Qianli said: "As you can see, our family building is under construction. We are a unit directly under the provincial government. Some of the families of the old employees in the team are still at the old base. They must also have a separate dormitory here;

Under normal circumstances, the newly assigned students share a dormitory for two, but you requested to come to our place. I and several other leaders have researched it and will give you a separate dormitory;

You may not be able to share the two family buildings that are currently under construction, but we will build two more in a few years. This has been included in the planning of the unit. If you work hard, it shouldn’t be too much to get a set by then. Disaster. "

The bonus and the expectation of the future family building made Liu Xia feel very happy, so he called Liu Chuan's office from Ma Qianli's office.

Liu Chuan happened to be there, and Liu Xia told him about his situation: I will go down immediately to choose a dormitory, a separate room, and he can bring the cat tomorrow.

Liu Xia went to Yuancheng to visit Chu Baogui, and immediately asked Liu Chuan to find someone to tell Maoer about the transfer. What he asked at that time was to let Liu Rui also go to Rongze, but Liu Kui blocked him, and Liu Changqing didn't agree. They all said that Liu Xia brought a few children to live in when he first entered the work unit, which would make people look down on him.

What they didn't say is that Liu Xia is also 20 years old, and his daughter-in-law is only three to five years old. If Liu Xia brings a few children, I'm afraid there won't even be a matchmaker. Girls must be far away. You have to hide, who wants to fall in love with a man who lives with a group of nephews!

Even if Mao'er will come to Rongze to go to school, Liu Changqing has to wait for Liu Xia to make a decision after he goes to work. If Liu Xia can get a dormitory by himself, let Mao'er come. If he shares a dormitory with others, Mao'er just can't come.

Liu Xia has made up his mind, no matter where or what kind of place he lives, the cat will definitely pick him up.

The only thing that made him feel bad was that after the cat came to Rongze, Liu Rui was the only one of the three older children who stayed in Liujialing.

After talking, Ma Qianli called and asked the office to come and take Liu Xia to pick a dormitory alone.

Fu Dong, the director of the office, came over. He looked like he was in his early thirties. As soon as he stepped out of the office, he said to Liu Xia immediately: "Don't choose, I will directly recommend you one, the east end on the second floor. Sister Yao, who used to live there, was transferred back to the original city team last week. She has been running for the past few years and wanted to return to the original city. She didn't work much, and she didn't live there for many days, but she is very particular about her. , before leaving, the house was tidied up;

The most important thing is that the room is at the very end, so it is very convenient for cooking and doing outside in summer, without delaying other people's walking.

In the past two days, several people have discussed with me that they want to move in. I have to talk to the boss. The division of the house was decided by the team after research, and I can’t make the decision myself.

Today, the boss asked you to choose the dormitory by yourself. This is the first time since I entered the unit. The people who came in before, whether they are successors, demobilized soldiers, normal arrangements, or college students who come in, are all assigned to them. Where do I live, I didn't pick this at all.

The first floor is quite dirty, and there is a lot of dirt in the wind. Everyone doesn't like it, and it happens to be empty now, and several rooms are used as warehouses;

The third floor is a bit high. You will be a technician in the future. You must often work in the field. After running for a day, you will be exhausted. You definitely don’t want to climb to the third floor. What do you think? "

Liu Xia originally wanted the first floor. He felt that the first floor was down-to-earth, and cats don't like living in buildings, but after hearing what Fu Dong said, he nodded: "Okay, just the one you mentioned."

Opening the door and going in for a look, Liu Xia found that the house was far better than he expected, and it was very spacious. According to his eyesight, it was at least 25 square meters, and the ceiling was higher than the ordinary houses he had seen before. It should be about [-] meters;

There is a large glass window on the south wall, a single bed on the east wall, a relatively new three-drawer table, a chair with the same scarlet color as the table and bed, and no other furniture;

What surprised Liu Xia was that the room had a bathroom and a kitchen.

The bathroom was very small, with only a white tub, a toilet and a small washbasin inside. With his thin body, he could barely accommodate two people turning around, but it was a luxury enough.

Liu Xia turned on the water pipe, and the warm water came out with a rusty smell, Liu Xia was so happy that he almost jumped up, that he and the cat could take a bath in his own home in the future.

Mao'er and Liu Chuan went into Rongze's public bathhouse once, and when they got out, they swore that they would never go in again, saying that there were so many people crowded together, and the smell was so bad that it would be better to take a bath in a wooden tub at home. It's better to be cold than to be nauseous.

Fu Dong stood outside the bathroom door and watched Liu Xia playing with water like a child, and said with a smile: "Captain Ma's father's original unit used to have a group of Soviet experts, and the single dormitory they lived in was like this. , when we moved here from Qiaoyun, the dormitory designed by Captain Ma himself was much more comfortable than our original dormitory at the old base in Qiaoyun.

The house is over [-] square meters, and there are windows in the north and south. We used to be there, they were all small pigeon cages of seven or eight square meters, and the corridors were all in the middle. "

Liu Xia excitedly ran into the smaller kitchen again. There was only a clean terrazzo table one meter long and fifty centimeters wide and a small terrazzo sink for vegetables, nothing else.

Fu Dong said: "Sister Yao seldom cooks, and occasionally cooks with a kerosene stove, and she always cooks in the corridor, so the kitchen is cleaner than other homes."

Although Sister Yao lived in a very clean place, after all, it hadn't been cleaned for several days, and there was another layer of dust on the table and bed. Liu Xia followed Fu Dong to the neighbor's house next door to borrow something to clean.

The person who lives next door is called Wan Jianye, and he should be slightly older than Fu Dong. Of course, it may just be because of his darker complexion. He listened to Fu Dong's introduction and followed him to Liu Xia's room to help. That small bed, he said to Liu Xia: "If you are not used to sleeping in a small bed, you can ask for another one and put them together, most of us are like this.

Sister Yao used to go back to the original city often, and rarely lived here, so these few things are just for use. There are many beds, tables, and cabinets in our big warehouse, all of which were replaced after the office building bought new ones. No, as long as you don't take it out of the gate of our unit, you can pick and use it casually, let Fu Dong pick out some good ones for you! "

Liu Xia followed Fu Dong, and picked out another small bed and two cabinets that were exactly the same as the one in his dormitory.

The cabinet used to be a file cabinet in the office, and now it is also used for storing clothes and quilts.

He thought that Liu Chuan and Liu Wei would come here often in the future, and finally picked three more chairs.

Fu Dong said: "I will find someone to move things up for you. You can move them anytime you need them. Didn't the boss say that you have to go home? Let Du Tao take you or I will send you another car." ?”

Du Tao was Xiao Du, and Liu Xia didn't know anyone else, so he was still him.

Liu Xia first called Liu Chuan, and someone else in the office answered the call. Liu Xia asked him to tell Liu Chuan that he was going home by car from his work unit, and that he would not stay at Liu Chuan's place tonight when he came back tomorrow.

It was past seven o'clock when Du Tao sent Liu Xia down the north slope of Shangyao.

Du Tao got out of the car, looked at the mountain in front of him, and said, "Your house has to go inward for more than 20 miles? Damn, you can go to university here. My family is from Yuancheng. If I don't serve as a soldier, I'm afraid I won't even have a job." I can’t find it, so I can only stay at home and wait for work.”

Seeing Du Tao driving the car backwards out of sight, Liu Xiacai took off his T-shirt and started running barebacked. Just like that, when he stood on the top of Shangyao Slope, the sky was already full of stars.

As soon as he turned around from Wanhepo, a black shadow rushed over from the front and hung on him: "Uncle, Uncle, I knew you would definitely come back, I knew..."

Liu Xia patted the cat's buttocks to comfort: "Yes baby, of course my uncle will come back, my baby is at home, why don't I come back?"

Liu Kui said with a smile: "Hey boy, you are about to become a benefactor, after hearing a few words from Xiao Chonger and Xiao Mouse, you will know where your uncle has gone and what he is thinking there, right? "

Mao'er got off Liu Xia's body: "No, I just know that my uncle will come back, I don't need to listen to the little worms to know."

After returning home, Liu Xia told his family what happened today in detail. The whole family was overjoyed. Xiumei said, "Xiao Rui, did you hear that your brother-in-law got a big share before he went to work?" It’s a good room, that’s the benefit of going to college.”

Mao'er said, "It's a key university."

Xiumei said: "That's right, it has to be a key university. If it's not a good school, it will be sent to the village. There are several people living in a shabby house, let alone a bathroom and kitchen. A house with a mouse hole is almost the same. .”

Liu Changqing said: "Boy, you haven't done a day's work for him, and he has given you such a good treatment. You must do a good job in the future, or you will be sorry for him. We can't just have a key university. If you want to be famous, you have to tell others to see the abilities of our key universities, you know?"

Liu Xia drank rock sugar and mung bean soup, nodded vigorously: "I know uncle, I will definitely do a good job, and I won't embarrass you. Hey, by the way, wait for me, cat, come on, let's go to that room Let's go."

A few minutes later, Liu Xia came back and put a stack of money in front of Liu Changqing: "Uncle, this is 500 yuan. I was afraid that I would not be able to allocate a dormitory by myself, so I planned to keep renting a room about a mile away." The cat and Xiaorui both go to school, so they don't need it now.

This money is for you, I still have hundreds of dollars left, I need to add some things to the dormitory, I want to buy a bicycle for the cat, my unit is a bit far from the county, I want to let the cat ride a bicycle in the future go to school. "

Liu Wei said: "That's right, the new bus station is a bit far from the county. The main reason is that the trees on the road are full of old and young. If you walk on that road now, you just want to get sunburned. My child will go to school every day in the future. Riding a bicycle will not Ye Sun panicked."

Liu Changqing didn't touch the money: "The family is not short of money now. Your eldest brother can earn more than 30 yuan a month in the stone factory. You and Xiaohai haven't touched the money you gave to the family. You keep the money yourself. When will I need it, let me tell you."

Liu Hai's foot sprained when he jumped down from the big pear tree the day before yesterday, and his ankle was swollen and thick. For the past two days, he has been sitting on the kang obediently, and followed Liu Changqing to learn how to carve chapters with mahjong blanks. He picked up a flower and said, "Yaoer, you went to Yunhaoli University and finally returned to Rongze. Even though it is a provincial unit, it would be embarrassing for outsiders to look at it.

Keep the money yourself, ask our third brother to show you, which unit builds a family building, and go through the back door and report it to you, so that you can earn back your face.

My family will spend money in the future, and the sixth brother will cover it alone. When I get an inspiration, I can earn hundreds of dollars for a painting, which is enough for our family to spend two years.

If I get thirty or fifty inspirations a year, our family will soon be a millionaire..."

Sun Chang'e slapped Liu Hai on the head: "If you talk big to me again, you won't know who you are if you made money by painting a good painting, and you're still a rich man. Why don't you call me an old rich man? ?”

No matter what Liu Xia said, Liu Changqing would not accept Liu Xia's money, and his idea of ​​taking Xiao Rui along with him was once again rejected by the whole family.

Liu Xia had no choice but to take the money back, and sat on the kang and faced Mao'er, worrying. After a while, Mao'er said, "Uncle, we don't give money to grandpa, let's buy Rongze a big house and call it a big house." Isn’t it the same for my great-grandfather, my grandma, and my uncle to live there?”

Liu Xia rewarded Mao'er by grabbing Mao'er's face: "Yes, let's buy a house in the city and tell everyone in my family to live in the city."

Liu Hai tilted his swollen feet and said unwillingly: "Yao'er, I really want to visit your dormitory. Sixth brother didn't give you anything. I'll go to see the place and draw some pictures for you when I come back." Frame it and hang it up, does it hit the mark?"

Liu Xia said: "I'm good, but I don't want abstraction. Chinese painting or oil painting are both good. You have to make my painting more beautiful;

Also, my room is so big, you have to draw two big pictures for me, one is hung on the side of the cat’s bed, the other is hung on the side of my bed…”

The cat opened its eyes wide and asked in disbelief: "Uncle, you don't want me to sleep with you?"

Liu Xia said: "My dormitory is on the second floor, old and hot children, sleep separately to cool off, besides, you have grown up..."

The cat didn't want to immediately, kicked its legs and yelled: "I don't, I don't, I don't, I haven't grown up yet, I don't want to see myself sleeping, I wait for you to come back every day and want to sleep with you, I don't want to sleep with you. sleep alone..."

Liu Xia immediately surrendered: "Zhongzhongzhong, Zhongbai, I don't want you to sleep by yourself, but sleep with my uncle, stop kicking, your feet hurt all the time!"

So when Liu Chuan came to visit Liu Xia the next afternoon, the first thing he saw when he entered the room was two vermilion small beds joined together to form an extra large double bed.