Crime and Punishment: Female Secretary

Chapter 4 Going to the forum alone and being "kicked"

Zhao Jiyang returned to the county after having dinner in Pilong Township. Lin Ruonan and Party Secretary Li Chaozheng watched the car disappear from sight at the gate of the township government compound.

"How do you feel, why don't we go for a walk in the town?" Li Chaozheng suggested.Li Chaozheng, nearly fifty years old, is of medium height, with a fat body, and his bulging face is a bit like Maitreya Buddha. When he smiles, his small eyes are curved into thin lines.Li Chaozheng was originally the mayor of Pilong Township. He stayed in Pilong Township for six years. Before that, he had been clamoring to be transferred. After Qin Yao resigned, the position of Secretary of Pilong Township had been vacant. After Zhao Jiyang took office, he promoted Li Chaozheng. Take over as party secretary.

"Okay." Lin Ruonan followed him to the street.

Pilong Township is located in the east of Ganning County, 20 kilometers away from the county seat, and there is only one asphalt road directly to the county.The houses on both sides of the streets in Pilong Township are slightly old, and there are many old adobe houses and old bamboo and wood pavilions in between.From time to time, a few blowflies "boomed" and flew up from the dirt, carrying the rotten and sour smell of the stinking ditch.Occasionally, small trucks "tud-doo" swayed past, and from time to time they spewed out clouds of thick black smoke.

"Pilong Township is small, only 26 square kilometers, with a total population of more than 1. There are many mountains and little cultivated land. There is no industry. Farmers mainly rely on rice planting and migrant workers to earn some money. The area of ​​Wei Town is even smaller. It is only half a cigarette from the beginning to the end. Since there is no farmers' market here, this main road has become a market. On the day of the fair town, those who set up stalls and set up scaffolding stoves occupy this area. Half of the street is full of rivers and mountains, and people from all over the world also gather on this street. On fair days, it is often so crowded that even a small car can't get in. We organized township cadres to clean up the town for more than a month. But the effect is not good, as soon as the township cadres leave, the market will immediately return to its original state, how can we let dozens of cadres squat on the street every day, the key is the essential problem, there is no farmers market." Li Chaozheng sighed helplessly Take a breath.

"Yes, when I came here today, the car was blocked on the street for more than ten minutes before I could get in." Lin Ruonan remembered that when Zhao Jiyang sent her to Pilong Township in the morning, the car got stuck in the street and couldn't get in or out. She was very anxious. Not because of his status, he probably couldn't help spouting a few dirty words.

Lin Ruonan and Li Chaozheng walked and chatted until they reached the end of the street.There is a stone arch bridge on the left at the end of the street, and a clear river flows slowly from east to west.Li Chaozheng pointed to an open space not far away, and said to Lin Ruonan: "Originally, we planned to build a farmers' market here, but because the demolition and relocation of the old houses of the previous ten households could not be negotiated, this matter has been shelved. Township The economy is also very tight, and there is no money to spend on construction, so the polder town has remained the same for many years. I hope that after Mayor Lin comes, there will be some way to invigorate the economy of Pilong Township and improve the appearance of the polder town. "

"Secretary Li was joking, I am new here, please teach me a lot." Lin Ruonan said sincerely.

"Major Lin is young, so he should know a lot of friends in provincial capitals and large and medium-sized coastal cities. Whether it is personal or local development, it is inseparable from making friends. Only when you have many friends can you have a wide road. We are older. It can’t keep up with the times, and it’s hard to open up a window for communication with the outside world, and Pilong Township’s investment promotion work is at the bottom every year, which has always been the biggest headache for Pilong Township.”

"There are some classmates, but most of them are in the province, and they are similar to me. They basically stay in government agencies and schools. In this regard, there is not much help at present, and I have few business friends." Lin Ruonan said. replied.

"Now we want to invigorate a place, especially for backward towns like ours that are severely lacking in capital and technology. If there is no breakthrough in attracting investment, it will be difficult to make any major progress in economic development."

"That's right. When Secretary Zhao explained the development of the economy at the report meeting, he talked about attracting investment the most. The county's assessment of township work is also mainly based on attracting investment."

"Secretary Zhao personally sent you to Pilong today. In a deep sense, he is also supervising the war. You and I have a heavy burden on our shoulders."

Lin Ruonan and Li Chaozheng walked onto the arch bridge and stood on the bridge overlooking the small town and nearby villages.The setting sun dyes the distant mountains and rivers red, and casts a faint golden light on the whole land. The small towns and villages are surrounded by green mountains and depend on the gullies and paddy fields.The smoke from several houses in the distance is lingering, slowly rising into the air in the breeze.On the right side of the bridge head, a large camphor tree is scattered along the riverside. Occasionally, one or two birds "thump" across the treetops and fly high.

Lin Ruonan and Li Chaozheng stood on the stone arch bridge for a while, and then returned to the township government compound. The two sat in the office and continued to talk about various aspects of Pilong Township. They talked until nine o'clock. Li Chaozheng said he would go back home with him. A phone call before leaving the office.

Lin Ruonan walked out of the office and walked on the path in the courtyard. He saw the stars twinkling outside. Several buildings in the courtyard were brightly lit, swaying the loneliness of the countryside in the dark night. From time to time, the sound of footsteps and pouring water could be heard from the corridor not far away. , Swish sound.The cadres of Pilong Township live in the compound dormitory on weekdays, and only go home on weekends.A few clumps of emerald green bamboos in front of the office building rustled in the evening wind, and insects croaked and frogs croaked one after another.

Lin Ruonan's room was arranged in the dormitory building on the back mountain of the courtyard. Lin Ruonan opened the door and saw that the room was divided into two rooms by a large bookcase. The outside was a small reception room. The layout was simple and clean, with a desk and several desks. There are sofa chairs and a small computer on the table.Lin Ruonan walked into the inner bedroom. There was a bed, a 17-inch color TV and a hanger. The bedroom had a small bathroom.

It was late at night, Lin Ruonan didn't feel sleepy at all.She desperately wanted to find someone to talk to about her inner confusion and pressure, so she chatted with Li Chaozheng all night, all about problems such as how the economy in Pilong was strained, and how difficult it was to carry out work.An unprecedented sense of emptiness enveloped Lin Ruonan's whole body and mind. In front of outsiders, Lin Ruonan did not dare to show a trace of timidity, but when he returned to the room and took off the mask of indifference, Lin Ruonan was like a lost child, nowhere to be seen. measures.Although it was ten o'clock, Lin Ruonan couldn't help but hung up on Luo Ying.

"Hi, are you asleep?"

"Major Lin Da, it's so late, why did you think of calling me?" Luo Ying asked in surprise at the other end.

"I miss you, I can't sleep." Lin Ruonan teased deliberately to relax her tense mood.

"It's okay, stop, think I'm fake, think it's true, tell me, what's the matter?"

"You bastard, you are really a roundworm in my stomach. I can't hide any thoughts from you."

"Aren't you so excited on the first day of taking office?"

"I'm so excited, I'm under a lot of pressure now, especially when I think about the work of attracting investment."

"Hey, you bastard, why are you thinking so much? You want to become fat in one bite, so let's get familiar with the situation first."

"Hey, I'm not one of them. It's hard to understand the taste. I remember that you told me that you have a netizen from Haizhou during the last meal, right?"

"Well, yes, what's the matter?"

"Last time at the report meeting, Secretary Zhao mentioned many times that there are many intensive enterprises in Haizhou intending to move inland. I wonder if your netizen can help find out any news?"

"What can he know? He is still a student at school. He wants to find out the news there. I don't know how to talk to some Haizhou netizens."

"Oh, yes, why didn't I think of this." Luo Ying's words made Lin Ruonan suddenly enlightened, and his mood suddenly opened up.

Lin Ruonan hastily hung up Luo Ying's phone, turned on the computer, logged into QQ, and searched for "Chat Room of Haizhou Business Advanced Forum".Lin Ruonan registered a new "ID" under the name "Nan Nan".

Lin Ruonan entered the forum chat room through QQ verification, and all sorts of weird and unique online names were active in it. The chat records kept scrolling in the chat room. They were laughing and coquettish in it, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.Judging from the content of the chat, Lin Ruonan felt that the people in this chat room should be a very familiar group. When Lin Ruonan entered the chat room, she didn't know what to say for a while.She stared stupidly for half a night, but none of the netizens paid any attention to her.Lin Ruonan understood that even if she sat until dawn, no one would pay attention to her. She had to take the initiative to attack without doing anything. Lin Ruonan typed a line in the speech box: "I am a new member, and I would like to make friends with you sincerely." Treat each other as friends from Shanghai."

Seeing the blue font she typed out in the chat box, Lin Ruonan felt unspeakably excited. She expected that many netizens would take the initiative to talk to her because of her sincere attitude.

Sure enough, a netizen named "Dong Brother" responded immediately: "Where are you from? How did you come here? We are all familiar friends here."

Lin Ruonan replied immediately: "I am from Ganning County, Nantong."

"Nantong? In the old district, our chat room is full of familiar friends and there are no strangers. How did you get into our chat room?" asked a netizen named "Crazy Idiot".

"I joined from Baidu Search, I hope I won't be abrupt," Lin Ruonan replied sincerely.

"Our place is not a chat room for making friends, but a place for brothers and sisters to discuss and communicate in the business field. It's a bit unreliable to come here to make friends, hehe!" "Black Steed" said.

"Lan Xuanfeng": "Which guy, who doesn't understand the rules, thinks this is a cowherd's club. We don't welcome strangers here."

"Ziyanling": "Xixi, interesting, now some people want to make friends, but they use all kinds of methods, ha ha!"

Lin Ruonan felt very uncomfortable seeing these netizens replying with a slight sarcasm.But thinking that since he took the initiative to come to the door, he could only swallow his anger and continue to show his sincere side.Lin Ruonan typed out another line of words: "Friends never know each other. Many friends have multiple paths. Is it possible to lose something if you make more friends?"

"Crazy idiot": "The problem is that to make friends, you must first be willing to make friends. Friends don't just come into the chat room and say hello, and you can make a few random words."

"Ziyanling": "We don't need everyone in this circle. High quality and elegant taste are the first requirements. I don't know where friends are?"

Lin Ruonan saw that they looked down on him a bit, thought for a while, and decided not to reveal his real situation for now, so as not to be ridiculed by the other party, so he lied and said that he was a middle school teacher in Nantong Province, but he didn't want to. A netizen replied even more. She trembled with anger.

"Lan Xuanfeng": "Hehe, the current teacher really knows how to choose a place to make friends? Does your friend want to find a boyfriend here? There are too many monks here, so there is no resource sharing? Hahaha."

Lin Ruonan's enthusiasm for making friends was suddenly chilled, but her unyielding personality made her not want to be ridiculed like this.Since the other party was so rude, Lin Ruonan thought: there is nothing to be polite about, so he shot back: "I thought that men in Haizhou are big-hearted, but I didn't expect that they are just a bunch of prodigal sons, and they are very rude. .”

"Crazy Idiot": "We've never welcomed trespassers here."

Trespasser?Lin Ruonan was a little annoyed when she saw this sentence, isn't it just a broken chat room, so awesome?Lin Ruonan immediately retorted: "Do you think this palace compound is just a broken forum for mobs? What's the big deal? You can't pass by, or you can't see it? Could it be that it's all about stealing and prostitution?"

After typing these few lines, Lin Ruonan felt a sense of pleasure after venting, but was also a little confused, what happened to him?No matter how she can swear, Lin Ruonan laughed to herself inwardly. It turns out that everyone has two sides. When she tried her best to maintain an elegant image in front of everyone, she would also hide her rascal personality on the Internet.

"This friend, isn't it too uncivilized to utter dirty words?" the netizen named "Lan Xuanfeng" said with "glorious eyes".

"Ziyanling": "Let's talk less, kick her out, who is it, who ran here out of nowhere to behave wildly."

Hmph, kick me, Lin Ruonan has never been in such a situation. She ran to a chat room and was about to be kicked out, but she still wanted to desperately maintain the remaining self-esteem, and continued to type out a line: "I don't want to stay here Well, if I stay for one more second, I'm afraid that my mood will be dirty."

"Crazy idiot": "Kick it, stop talking to her."

"Kick it".
The screen of the chat room was turned off immediately, and a message popped up in the lower left corner: You have been invited out of the chat room of the Haizhou Business Advanced Forum.Lin Ruonan looked at it, felt very useless, and rushed to the chat room with enthusiasm, but was thrown out by him inexplicably.Lin Ruonan was feeling ashamed and indignant, when he saw another message asking to add a friend popped up in the lower left corner: I am from Haizhou, do you want to add a friend?

Hearing that he was from Haizhou, Lin Ruonan added fuel to the fire, and wanted to delete it, but thought that since a Haizhou person ran into the gun, he would yell at him first, and then delete it.Thinking of this, Lin Ruonan agreed.

Immediately, an image of a frog named "Xianran Shiren" popped up among the QQ friends, and a picture of a smile and a handshake was sent on its own initiative.

Lin Ruonan was in a bad mood, and only responded with a QQ pattern of eyes humming and disapproval.

"What's the matter? Didn't my friend say that I want to make friends with Haizhou Shanghai? Why aren't you welcome again?" "Xianran Shiren" asked.

"Heh, you are also a member of the forum chat room, what is it? You Haizhou people are too hurtful, look at your virtue? There are three-legged toads everywhere, so awesome, huh!"

"Haha, it seems that my friends are really angry. There's no need for them. They don't have any malicious intentions. They just don't want strangers to disturb them. Our chat room has always been filled with very familiar friends, and strangers rarely enter." people," explained.

"Even if you don't want to make new friends, there's no need to be so awesome, right?" Lin Ruonan's explanation of "leisurely people" made Lin Ruonan feel better, but fortunately, she didn't make fun of her for being in such a mess just now.

"Some people like to look at everything with a fixed mindset. They are just afraid that strange objects will disturb the original peace."

"What is Xianghe, isn't it just a broken chat room? Then why did you think of adding me?" Lin Ruonan was a little disapproving.

"I can't tell. I'm okay. I like some variations in my life, rather than being static. In other words, I like accidental exceptions."

"A foreigner? Am I a foreigner? Am I still a foreigner? Hmph!"

"Hehe, that's right, I'm not afraid of alien intrusion."

"Then I'm going to disturb your position and put an end to the arrogance of you Haizhou men. Hehe." The peaceful and friendly tone of "Xianran Shiren" made Lin Ruonan's aggrieved mood slightly better, so he started a playful conversation with him joke.

"Go ahead, I'm afraid I won't be able to find my opponent." The opponent's tone was conceited and calm.

"Hehe, you guys from Haizhou are either blustering or conceited, or arrogant!" From the calm tone of "Xian Ran Shiren", Lin Ruonan felt that he had a calm and leisurely personality, and it seemed that his online name was just like him.

"Hehe, what do you think? You are from Nantong, can you tell me why you want to make friends with Haizhou Shanghai, of course, if you trust me."

"I can't tell, I'm confused and helpless. Will you ever be helpless?" The sincere words of "Xian Ran Shiren" slowly dispelled the grudge in Lin Ruonan's heart. Lin Ruonan's strongest feeling tonight was helplessness. Helpless at work, helpless in life.

"In fact, life is like this. Going forward in loneliness, looking for a spark of comfort when you are helpless." The short sentence of "Idle People" aroused Lin Ruonan's full of emotion, yes, which living body will not fall into helplessness Well, turbulent world affairs, complicated work, warm and cold human feelings always make people fall into inexplicable confusion.

"I'm going to log off first, my friend called me urgent." Just when Lin Ruonan was about to send a few more words of exclamation to this netizen whom he had just met, "Xianran Shiren" hurriedly dropped a sentence and went offline. However, the image of the frog in the "world" turned gray, and Lin Ruonan felt a sense of loss.Before the pitiful exclamation was poured out, the "audience" had already disappeared without a trace.

Seeing a gray image in the QQ friend column, Lin Ruonan lost the motivation to stay online, shut down the phone, log off, and simply washed his face and feet, then fell on the bed, pulled the thin blanket, turned left and right, Things at work and all kinds of things in life made it difficult for her to fall asleep, and she fell asleep in a daze until the middle of the night.

(End of this chapter)