The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Chen slept until he was a little hungry. He woke up in a daze and looked up from the pillow. In a plastic basket on the table, there were flatbread and fried dough sticks. This was breakfast left for him by his girlfriend. Already gone to work.

Zhang Chen's girlfriend Jin Lili is not from their troupe, but his junior high school classmate and the cashier of Yongcheng Bearing Factory.

Although Zhang Chen was hungry, he was too lazy to get up, so he fell down and continued to sleep. When he woke up again, he was awakened by the sound of knives cutting chopping boards and spoons scraping iron pots in the corridor, as well as the smoke coming in from the cracks in the door and the transom above the door. The smell is so refreshing.

Zhang Chen was hesitating whether to get up or sleep for a while when he heard someone shouting from upstairs to downstairs:

"Go to the practice room for a meeting right away!"

After a period of hustle and bustle in the corridor, it suddenly became quiet.

Zhang Chen muttered: "Fuck you."

He turned his head and prepared to take advantage of this quiet time to sleep for a while, but the door was banged and Liu Ligan shouted outside the door:

"Zhang Chen, it's a meeting, it's a meeting!"

Zhang Chen shouted angrily: "Fuck you, don't go!"

Liu Ligan continued to knock on the door: "I've been waiting for you. Teacher Li asked me to call you."

Zhang Chen had no choice but to get up. He put a towel on his shoulders, squeezed a piece of toothpaste on his toothbrush, and went downstairs with Liu Lipole.

When they arrived downstairs, they saw several young students carrying the prop box. Liu Ligan asked what they were doing. The young student said, Teacher Li asked us to carry it in.

Zhang Chen walked to the sink, turned on the faucet, bent his head under the faucet, took a mouthful of water, squirted twice, spit it out, and started brushing his teeth.

Teacher Li came out of the practice room and saw the two of them. Teacher Li shouted:

"Oh, why don't you brush your teeth? The leaders are waiting. Come in quickly."

He turned around and shouted to the young students: "Hurry up and be gentle when you go in."

Zhang Chen foamed at the mouth and asked slurred words:

"What kind of meeting is being held at this time? Are they in charge of the food?"

Teacher Li looked around, moved closer, and lowered his voice and said to them:

"It's not a meeting, it's a working group here to meet everyone. Please hurry up."

"Boring!" Zhang Chen cursed vaguely.

Liu Li was wearing a pair of flip-flops. While Zhang Chen was brushing his teeth, he rolled up his trousers, put one foot into the sink, turned on the faucet, finished one, and then flushed the second. When Teacher Li saw this, he quickly went to pull him:

"Don't rush, the leaders are really waiting."

Liu Ligan said nonchalantly: "I washed it just so I could see the leader. Didn't you see my dusty feet? Teacher Li, let me tell you, the mud just washed away from my feet is still the mud from Cangnan, Wenzhou." , Alas, I wonder if they will be acclimatized when they arrive in Yongcheng."

Zhang Chen's mouth was full of foam, he spat into the pool, rinsed his mouth clean, and said:

"Tan Shuzhen is so careless that she wants you to go to bed?"

"Hey, I'm still angry. I went home last night."

"That's right!" Zhang Chen cursed.

"Hey, you're being unreasonable. With just the little money you have, how can I go back to Yongcheng instead of me?" Liu Ligan shouted.

Zhang Chen glared at him: "It's just that little money. That's my damn hard work for four nights. By the way, Teacher Li, did you ask the working group to reimburse me for this money?"

Teacher Li didn't say anything, he smiled and said: "Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up."

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the practice room.

"Old slippery man!" Looking at his back, Liu Ligan cursed.

After washing his face, Zhang Chen wrung the towel dry and put it on his shoulders again, and then the two of them walked towards the practice room.

In the practice room, where the stage shape was drawn, there were two tables, which were formally covered with a dark red gold velvet cloth. Behind the tables, three people were sitting, one of whom was from the Propaganda Department of the County Party Committee. Among the department members, Lao Hu, one is Deputy Director Tang of the County Cultural Bureau, and the other is Ding Baigou, the director of the Cultural Bureau Office.

Half of the people below were sitting on the exercise mat, and the other half were standing in twos and threes. When they saw Zhang Chen and Liu Lipole coming in, Teacher Li, who was standing in front of the rostrum, leaned a little closer. Director Ding said:

"Everyone is here."

Director Ding coughed twice, looked at the people below and didn't respond, and coughed twice more. When it got quiet down below, Director Ding first introduced the three working group members on the stage, including himself, and then took the lead in drumming. Palm comes.

It was sparsely located down there, but someone took care of it a few times.

Director Ding moistened his throat and began to say: "The county government attaches great importance to what happened to your troupe. It believes that this is a serious incident and ordered the formation of this working group to station in your troupe..."

Before Director Ding finished speaking, Zhang Chen shouted: "What happened to our theater troupe? It's a serious incident. The leader ran away. Then you should arrest the leader. Why are you looking for us?"

Teacher Li wanted to stop him, but it was too late. The three people on the stage looked at Zhang Chen and frowned in unison. They all knew Zhang Chen and knew that he was a famous thorn in the troupe.

In a small place, a person with real ability really has the capital to be awesome, because if he gives up his job, you really can't find anyone else to replace him, and he really doesn't have any worries if he leaves you. Eat.

Director Ding bit the bullet and decided to kill this guy first. He pretended not to recognize him and asked:

"You are Zhang Chen, the artist of the troupe, right?"

Zhang Chen said disdainfully: "Don't you know what my name is and what I do?"

I mean, what are you pretending to be? Someone was laughing below.

Director Ding's face turned slightly red. He looked at Lao Hu and Director Tang, both of whom were sitting expressionlessly.

Director Ding said: "Okay, let's understand one thing first. Did I ask you to stay where you were the night before yesterday? Why did you come back without permission? I heard that you were still the leader?"

"Yes, that's right, I'm the one who asked everyone to come back." Zhang Chen said calmly without fear: "You asked us to stay where we are, then I ask you, where do so many people live and where do they eat? We are in Cangnan The performance is over, and they won’t provide a venue for us to put costumes and props anymore, right? Director Ding, what do you think we should do?”

"Yes, what should we do?" Liu Ligan also shouted.

"Stay where you are, and the organization will naturally find a solution!" Director Ding said sternly.

"What can we do? The performance in Pingyang was all discussed by Captain Yang. He left without any explanation. Who should we go to? There are so many people staying in Cangnan. If one more person gets lost or something happens, who will be responsible? ? Director Ding, are you responsible? Now, we have brought everyone back safely, not a single prop is missing, not a single piece of clothing is missing, what else have we done wrong? "

Zhang Chen asked aggressively, but his words were reasonable. Director Ding's face turned blue and white, and Liu Ligan shouted:

"Yes, Zhang Chen paid for the travel expenses. What do you care about?"

"Let us stay there and drink the northwest wind?"

"We haven't been paid for three months, and you still want us to insist on it. Are you embarrassed?"

"Director Tang is here. Director Tang, tell us when will our wages be paid?"

"That's right, no matter when it is announced, the family won't be able to open the door."

"Did you taint our wages?"

…

Everyone was talking about it, and soon the focus turned to wages, and the target was Deputy Director Tang. Seeing that Director Tang could no longer resist, Lao Hu had to hastily announce the end of the meeting.