my brother became a scum

Zhang Chen is very calm. Like all calculating businessmen, he is good at controlling his emotions.Therefore, he will not ask me why I am here, nor will he bluff to say some inappropriate words, nor will he express his apology.

He was looking at me scrutinizingly, assessing my psychology so that he could respond accordingly, and I guess he had already skipped multiple contingency plans in his mind, even if it didn't show anything on the surface.

I closed the door, walked in front of him, and picked up the unopened wine bottle. He still stared at me calmly, neither speaking nor moving.

At that moment, I wanted to use this wine bottle to open a ladle for him, and I also wanted to simply pour this bottle of wine down the top of his hair, but after thinking about it, I decided to forget it.

I don't know if I am too soft-hearted, or I am too cowardly, but at this moment when I should vent, I don't want to do anything.

I sat across from him, opened the bottle of beer, poured a full glass, and drank it down.

One cup, two cups, three cups, and at the fourth cup, a pair of thin white hands blocked the mouth of the cup.

"Stop drinking."

"Okay, stop drinking."

I put down the bottle and stopped drinking, just sat on the sofa and stared at Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen took my wine bottle and glass, poured a glass of wine, and drank it: "I don't know what to say."

"Then stop talking and have a drink."

Zhang Chen and I drank silently one cup after another. When the wine in the room was gone, we asked someone to bring a few more bottles.

When he got drunk, he closed his eyes in a dizzy state, had a splitting headache, and even fell asleep.

When he woke up the next day, Zhang Chen was still asleep. He slept in a state of ignorance and innocence.

I approached him, stretched out my hand to touch his face, and then slid down to his neck. I knew that I could strangle him to death in my sleep with a little force, but I also knew that I would never let go of this cruel hand.My fingers slid down to the neckline, and I tied the double cross knot and pressed it flat against his body, which was very obtrusive.

He stretched out his hand to untie the tie, rubbed it into a ball in the palm of his hand, and walked out of the room with his coat in his hand, as if nothing had happened.

Taking a taxi in the morning rush hour is far inferior to taking a bus or the subway. I bought a bowl of millet porridge and a steamed bun at the platform, and while I was eating, I checked my poor phone battery. I regretted that I didn’t bring a mobile power bank when I went out yesterday.

As a 28-year-old unmarried youth, I don't have much time and energy to feel sad like a young man. Besides, the fact that Zhang Chen is a scum has long been entrenched, and there is only one more evidence that he has upgraded to cheat.

The best way to deal with it may be that I shouldn’t have left the house yesterday, but I can’t resist the urge to go. I can always remember it clearly when I see it with my own eyes. Afterwards, I am half-distracted and let the picture at that time wash my brain.

On the first day after the holiday, there were a lot of things to do. After a whole day of work, I picked up my mobile phone and found that it was turned off. I looked at the time of the computer, and it turned out that I was 5 minutes away from get off work.

I was thinking about going home and taking a hot bath, and I was thinking about making dozens of dumplings, cooking them and eating them. I didn’t want the office phone to ring at this time. When I answered the phone, I heard a voice that I didn’t want to hear.

He said, "I can't get through on your mobile phone. I'm at the west gate of your unit. Come out and I'll take you out for dinner."

I replied yes, then hung up the phone, got on the infrequent bus from the east gate, and went directly to the subway station.

The subway station happened to have a machine for renting power banks, but my phone was turned off, and I couldn’t scan the QR code to rent it, so I had to keep turning off the phone and go straight to the bar street.

I know that Zhang Chen has great powers, he can always find where I want to open a room easily, and I don't want to be late tomorrow to fight with him, so the bar may be the best choice, although I don't like it very much.

After wandering around the street, I found a relatively quiet bar. I ordered two drinks and a large box of snacks. After thinking about it, the waiter kindly gave me a pair of earplugs and a blanket.

I was eating snacks and asked him why he gave away these things. He smiled shyly and said, "When I ran away from home that year, I was the same as you."

I asked him how old he was when he ran away from home, and he replied sixteen, almost choking on me.

So in the dim light, I lay on the sofa wrapped in a blanket and wore earplugs and slept soundly. The next day I recovered a lot, checked out the bar, and continued to squeeze the subway to work with a group of office workers. When I arrived, I found that the leader looked very strange.

The leader took out his mobile phone and showed me the [-] call records. He said: "A leader sent his secretary to call me [-] times, asking where you were, and telling me to wait for you to come over." Time, tell you to call his friend and your brother."

The leader looked at me scrutinizingly, but his attitude was relatively mild, without any trace of anger.Anyone who is in the officialdom, no matter how big or small, is not a fool.

It's just that I've always been innocent, and I don't have any backstage background. The leader promoted me all the way, and he was willing to ask me to be his right-hand man. What happened last night, if it were me, I would feel unhappy.

I solemnly apologized, stating that it was an emotional entanglement, and I would not delay work, even though I knew it would be useless.

The leader urged me to call again, so I borrowed a charger from him, dialed the number in front of him, and looked up again, the leader had already left.

The phone rang seven or eight times before Zhang Chen answered the phone, and the surrounding voices were still a little noisy.

He said: "Tonight, the house on the west side is waiting for me."

I rubbed my eyebrows: "You asked someone to call my leader, which delayed my work."

"I'm sorry," he replied coldly, "I just couldn't find you, so I'm a little worried."

"Zhang Chen," I don't want to say something too bluntly, but he always forces me to say it, "I don't think we need to meet each other for a short time, seeing your face will make me physically uncomfortable."

"See this broken problem a few times and it will get better."

"I'm afraid it won't be good. I won't come over tonight, and I implore you not to come over."

I was about to hang up the phone, but Zhang Chen hung up the phone before me. I think I was really angry.

But his anger has nothing to do with me. After drinking a cup of tea, my mind is full of work.

Years ago, I was under a lot of pressure, and my progress was also very fast. After all, the performance was made. On the second day of the new year, I was praised by the second-in-command in charge of economics, and the leader also congratulated me with a smile, as if the The scrutiny never happened.

After that, Zhang Chen never contacted me again, and disappeared completely from my world. At first, I was still worried about a sudden phone call when I got off work, and I didn’t dare to turn off my mobile phone at night, but after dozens of days like this , I was finally relieved.

There is never enough work to be done, and there will still be a series of overtime and overtime work after the year. I heard that the leader will be transferred, and people are panicked for a while.

At the end of April, the leader was promoted, and a new leader was airborne in the department. Suddenly, many colleagues looked at me with sympathy and negligible schadenfreude.

The new leader is a very kind fat man, about 36 years old, and has not made any outrageous actions for the time being. It is said that he was transferred back because of a good job in the city next door.

I don’t have a great desire for promotion and salary increase. It may be because my family has a house and I’m single. My grandfather’s expenses are not too big. He is half a cadre, and the discounted payment for treatment is completely affordable. At home, I don’t have any special hobbies. I save money if I have money. After working for five years, I have some savings.

From the deputy to the forehand, the salary increase for one month is not much, and there is more pressure and countless analysis meetings, so it is not as sad as imagined.

When the leader resigned from his position and was about to be promoted, something happened. His wife and brother went to Macau to gamble, and the matter was reported to the Disciplinary Committee.It's not gambling with public funds, and there is no non-repayment of money owed, but this record has become a bit of a stain after all.

The position proposed by the leader required a strong work style, so he had no choice but to give up. The leader had worked for a long time, and got a chance to be transferred to a remote area. The position was still a thankless one.

This news was told by a recent intern in the department next door. She is a very active girl, but her mouth is not strict.

After get off work, I still called the leader, who answered and asked me to drink tea.

We drank tea for a while, and he praised me for a while, saying that I was practical and steady in doing things, and I also had some courage. I also praised him for a while, and basically told the truth.

The more wine you drink, the more intoxicated you become, but the more tea you drink, the more sober you become.

The leader patted me on the shoulder and said, "Do well, don't lose your conscience."

These words have some meaning.

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In May, the new year's investment bidding was suppressed again. I simply lived in the unit, slept five or six hours a day, and worked non-stop during the rest of the time. One task after another was spread out, and the new leader was quite satisfied. In order to value my appearance, he always let me go to his office to have a heart-to-heart talk with him.

Each project in the department has a lot of turnover. Tens of millions can be considered a small project, and it takes more than [-] million to raise your eyebrows, but it is public money after all, so you have to be tight all the time.

After a round of busy work, I applied for a four-day leave, and the leader generously approved it. I stayed with my grandfather in the hospital for two days. On the third day, I was sleeping at home when my phone rang suddenly.

After working, I changed to a new number. I didn’t want to cancel the number I used to get when I was a student. Although the identity card was unified, this number was an old number after all, so it was “leaked out”.

I glanced at the note, "Chen'er", after thinking about it, I still picked it up.

"Chen Heping, where are you?"

"At home, what's the matter?"

"I report to you with my real name that there is corruption in your department."

There was a smile in his words, but I didn't take it seriously, so I replied: "Don't be kidding."

"Really, your new leader has taken kickbacks from my rival company, and the 43 billion subway renovation project that will open for bidding tomorrow has been decided by default."

After hearing this sentence, I felt a little guilty. The 43 billion project is also considered a key project. The leader asked me if I would take it. After pushing it, the leader found a few colleagues and worked with people from other departments. A few days ago, he even approved me to take a few days off.

I didn't speak, but it didn't prevent Zhang Chen from continuing to say: "The old lady doesn't want to get involved in this matter, let me think of my own way, I thought and thought, and I will call you. You said, when you go back from vacation, you will find After this matter, it's a done deal, are you going to hide it together, or are you thinking about something else?"

"Zhang Chen," my brain started to hurt, and I raised my hand to rub it, "You should report this matter to the relevant department and report it directly."

"I have no proof~" Zhang Chen laughed, as if joking, "It's up to you, Comrade Chen Heping."

I ignored him, hung up the phone directly, covered my head with the quilt, and wanted to continue to sleep.

Several of Zhang Chen's "friends" are in high positions. He just called me because he didn't want to pay the price. If I get involved in this matter, whether I can get out completely is a problem.

I just want to work hard and earn money to support my family. I don't want to participate in the struggle and be a revolutionary pioneer.

I got into the quilt and buried it for 10 minutes, then I got out of bed with the quilt off, and started to get dressed——I remembered the meaningful words of the former leader: "Work hard, don't lose your conscience."

I'm going to check those companies. If the gap is not big, I don't care about it.

All large-scale biddings will be announced on the Internet. I searched out the top ten one by one to check. Halfway through the check, Zhang Chen called again and told me that he sent a copy of the information to me. in Google Mail.

Every step seemed to follow his instructions. I poured half a glass of cold water, opened the mailbox, and downloaded the attachment.

After reading the relevant information for half an hour, I dropped the water glass and cursed.

There are natural sensitivities in one line of work. The default history of this company is too much. There are more or less connections behind the public accidents in recent years. I did not only believe this evidence, but also through other sources I checked the way, and finally I could only turn off the machine in despair.

Zhang Chen's phone was like a reminder, I pressed the phone, his voice was very clear: "Open the door, I'm at your door."

"Zhang Chen, what do you want to do?"

"Make money."

I opened the door and saw him holding a bouquet of beautiful roses in his hands, and said nervously, "Long time no see~"

It's been more than three months, and Zhang Chen feels even sicker.

I turned sideways to let him in, he walked in, and threw the roses on the sofa: "What's the plan?"

"What are you going to do?"

"Simple, you get the evidence and submit it."

"Zhang Chen, I can't get evidence."

I’m telling the truth, since I was excluded from this project from the very beginning, it’s hard for me to get relevant information. It’s six o’clock in the evening, and the unit is off work. There is also a string of passwords in the reference room, among other things, I don't even know the password of the leader's laptop.

"I'll drive you there, you can pick it up yourself, don't worry, I've made all the arrangements."

Zhang Chen lit a cigarette while talking, and handed it to me: "I personally monitor this project and use the best materials. You don't want to see social news one day, how many people were killed by the subway landslide?"

I didn't pick up the cigarette, but just stared at Zhang Chen: "You are no different from them, and you are also inseparable from what happened in the community last time."

"I have explained the ins and outs of what happened last time. This time, Chen Heping, I hope you believe me."

"Even if they get the project this time, there may not be an accident. Even if there is an accident, it has nothing to do with me."

"You don't know the inside story, of course it has nothing to do with you, but you know it now." Zhang Chen passed the cigarette again, and he smiled happily. "You can live with the law, but not with your own conscience."

I took the cigarette, threw it on the ground, and crushed it with my slippers: "I can't do this."

"There's nothing you can't do." Zhang Chen's hands were cold, and he touched my face, which made me feel very uncomfortable. "Once you open your mouth, it will get worse and things will get worse. You, yours Colleagues, all could become scapegoats."

"Zhang Chen," I raised my hand and removed his hand from my cheek, "You can handle this matter yourself, so you must drag me into the water, right?"

"I only trust you," Zhang Chen closed his eyes, "and you are just right, the most suitable for this job."

I remember that when I applied for the civil service examination, the biggest reason was that the job was stable and there was no risk.But I didn't expect that five years later, I would personally handle a matter that might go to prison.

Zhang Chen personally drove me to the unit, and I found a very secret door, a stranger opened the door and was waiting for me.

So everything went unbelievably smoothly. I avoided the guards and security guards, moved my probe in a direction, and the door of the office was ajar. I entered the door, illuminated the room with a flashlight, and found all the evidence easily—— The mainframe passwords are all on the note that the stranger handed me.

I sorted out all the materials, put the paper version in the kraft bag, wound the thread three times habitually, sent the electronic file to the Google mailbox, and pushed the chair back to its original position.

I left the unit the same way and got into Zhang Chen's car. He reached out and shook my wrist, and said softly, "Don't be afraid."

"It's okay." I replied to him, going in to find these evidences did not scare me. What I was really afraid of was myself who had no fear in the process.

It seems to be playing a very natural game, in order to achieve a goal, certain people must be eliminated one by one.

Zhang Chen drove for a while, he said: "Anonymous or real name?"

I clenched my file bag tightly and said, "I'll go in person."

"it is good."

"Zhang Chen."

"Ok?"

"Take care of grandpa for me."

"It's okay," Zhang Chen turned his head and looked at me seriously, "Don't worry, I've made all the arrangements."

At dawn, the car stopped, I unbuckled my seat belt, Zhang Chen unlocked it, and I got out of the car.We didn't have another parting kiss or something, and luckily we didn't. I was afraid that if he came close to me, I would punch him.

I'm familiar with this building. The guard even checked the ID card perfunctorily when I went in. I passed the bag through the security check and went to the sixth floor. The receptionist was making coffee. I grabbed the material bag: "Come on." Reported."

The reception staff still poured the coffee powder into the coffee cup calmly, and said, "Today is not April Fool's Day."

I forgot to mention that the new civil servants needed a month of military training, and this receptionist and I happened to live in bunk beds.

"Something really happened. I don't think your level is high enough. I have to find your leader and take a direct route."

This buddy is still very calm, but he sat up straight: "If the evidence is not strong enough, a three-year fixed-term prison sentence will be given, plus he will never be recruited into the public office system."

"Don't you know who I am?" I didn't know why, but I wasn't afraid at this moment, "Something really happened, let's do business."

After all, this buddy didn't drink this cup of coffee, so he directly asked the leader with his mobile phone, and the leader told him to take me in.

So this buddy opened the small door next to it, let me walk into the office area, and then entered a hidden stairwell through the small door at the back, and went directly to the [-]th floor. I went in and saw the Municipal Disciplinary Committee Han Cheng, the top leader, and a middle-aged man who is not familiar with him.

So I sat down, drank tea, passed materials, and explained the situation.

Last night in the car, Zhang Chen personally taught me how to speak every sentence. The manuscripts were all typed out and ready-made. He told me that it doesn’t matter if you don’t learn well, he can find a way to make it better.

But I still feel like I have a gun on my head, and I have deeply remembered each item in my heart.

Han Cheng's eyes were shining like a torch, every question hit the point, but it was just within the scope of memorizing it last night. I deliberately sped up my speech and answered very quickly—as if I couldn't answer instinctively.

After Han Cheng finished asking, I just breathed a sigh of relief, but the strange middle-aged man just added a question: "You discovered this phenomenon, what is the reason why you are willing to collect evidence and report it, for the sake of promotion, performance, and conscience? , or for something else?"

This question seemed gentle, but it was a bit difficult to answer. I thought about it and answered calmly: "I can't bear this matter in my heart. I feel panicked, so I think I should find out."

"You will encounter many similar situations in the future, will you stand up?"

"I don't know what choice I will make in the future, but at least for now, I don't regret it."

The middle-aged man smiled, shook his head again, and only said, "Is there anything else I need to go home to get? In principle, we should control it now."

"I want to see my grandpa. For half an hour, I can't run away like this."

"I'm afraid not. This is the way of work, and it is also a kind of protection for your body."

"I know."

The middle-aged man patted me on the shoulder, turned his head and glanced at Han Cheng, Han Cheng's expression became very subtle, he made a call, and soon two young people came, and I left with them .

I didn't see my grandpa, and even when I went home to pack my things, I was politely rejected by two young people. They were only 24 or [-] years old, but they were very experienced in doing things. Without talking nonsense, I just followed them downstairs and got into the car. All the electronic equipment on the body was left in that building.

The car window is covered with a layer of film from the inside, so I can’t see the outside clearly. One person is driving in front, and the other person is sitting beside me. The body seems to be oppressed casually, but the feeling of oppression is not small. Perhaps it has been experienced in the barracks.

After driving for nearly an hour, I got out of the car, only to find that it was a remote village in the suburbs. It was broad daylight, and the surroundings were quiet and a little crowded.

The buddy who has been following me finally said something: "The villagers in this area have been relocated and are waiting for collective renovation to build villas. For the time being, let's stay here, it's safer."

It is a euphemism for safety, but it is actually controlled.

I said yes, thought about it, and added "it's troublesome".

After that, there were more than 20 days of food, water and books, but no freedom, no privacy, no Internet and communication.

Watching my two buddies say that I am in a good mood and I am in the mood to hum a song. When they said this, I was taking a shower under their noses-God knows which senior couldn't think of committing suicide while taking a shower.

Anyway, they are all old men, and I have nothing to be ashamed of.

I wiped the drops of water and said, "Why don't you two like something, and I'll sing one for you?"

The two buddies couldn't hold back anymore and just laughed.

After spending four days in No.20 in a not too dilapidated house in this village, I can finally leave here and resume my original life.

Originally, the leaders had to tell the confidential information in person, but the two buddies and I got along very well, and they told me directly as soon as we got in the car and were about to leave.

First I was free, then my department leader was shuanggui, and finally, several colleagues also went in.

This is just the beginning and there will be more turmoil, but whatever, I'm fine.

I met Han Cheng, who received me warmly and enthusiastically, and praised me as a pioneer and a fighter. At the end, he told me a piece of good news, that I was selected into the inspection team.

It turned out that the middle-aged man that day was the deputy team leader of the inspection team. I don't know how I got his attention by answering my innocence at all. In short, he gave me a job opportunity.

This is also a very suitable job opportunity. I can't hide the matter of my department when I reported it. The original department's authority will definitely be temporarily taken over by other departments in a short period of time. No matter which department I enter, the scrutiny and precautions I encounter will be serious. No less, it is very appropriate to be able to enter the inspection team at the next level at this time.

But the only shortcoming of the inspection team is that it wanders around. After I go in, I'm afraid I won't have much time in a year to stay in this city.

I have been in this city from going out, to school, to work, not to mention my grandfather is also here, I am reluctant to leave this city, so I am a little hesitant, Han Cheng also saw this, and told me to think about it , and said that if the inspection team does not want to go, the team will also discuss and arrange a suitable position for me.

I thanked him and was finally ready to go home.