Chapter 1 A Gentleman
Comrade Hu Jiao, deputy secretary of the town party committee, is still lying in the hospital today after he was forced to drink two bottles of Wuliangye liquor by seven old fools from the armed forces, the armed police squadron and the fire brigade on the evening of August 4, 1994, the Army Day.
People said that Hu Jiao was lucky, and with his own talent, he came to his hometown just to hang out and gain some experience for promotion. But who knew that the new county party secretary had some brains stuck with him and insisted on dragging Hu Jiao to do some military support and condolences.
It makes sense. After all, Hu Jiao's father, Hu Jianguo, is now a member of the municipal party committee and the head of the organization department. He was the one who promoted the county party secretary. It is understandable to take care of the old leader's child. But how can he let people drink so much?
Hu Jiao, who was born in a cadre family, was considered a child of destiny. Hu Jianguo named his son after him.
He was admitted to the Chinese Department of Yenching University at the age of 17. In 1990, before he graduated from college at the age of 21, Hu Jianguo considered that New China had just experienced a student turmoil, and it would be better for his son to return home for development.
So he was assigned to work as a clerk in the Policy Research Office of the Municipal Party Committee.
Who knew this kid would be so successful! He already had a bachelor's degree in Chinese and had just worked for a year when he was admitted to the National People's Congress to study politics. Now, after three years of graduate studies, the 24-year-old has become a "veteran" party member with six years of party membership.
With Hu Jiao's qualifications and diploma, it would not be difficult for him to get a job in a central government ministry. However, after careful consideration, Hu Jianguo gave up the idea and suggested that his son return to his hometown to engage in construction.
Of course, staying in Yanjing is dozens of times better than staying in the local areas. After spending a few years there, the worst you can do when you are sent out is to be a department-level official.
But Hu Jianguo had his own considerations. Hu Jiao was good in everything: study, personality, and appearance. There was nothing wrong with him.
The main reason is that I am too weak!
There are three things that Hu Jianguo is most proud of in his life. First, he resolutely gave up teaching and went into politics. Second, he married the most beautiful female teacher in the county's education system. Third, his son was recorded in the county annals and was admitted to one of the best universities in the country at the age of 17.
Unfortunately, due to being busy with work these years, he did not pay enough attention to his son and did not teach him enough. It was all his wife Li Aiju who took care of him alone. What was the result? His son's academic performance exceeded expectations, but his personality was seriously affected by Li Aiju.
Hu Jiao, who was as gentle as water, had a gentle and elegant appearance, with slanted eyebrows, fine eyes, a straight nose and square lips. He inherited the best qualities of his parents. He was good at calligraphy, wrote beautiful articles, and was proficient in playing the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. In ancient times, he would definitely be a model of a modest gentleman.
He learned to read at the age of three, learned calligraphy at the age of five, started playing the piano at the age of six, and learned Xinhua chess and Go at the age of nine.
From childhood to adulthood, no matter whether it was the government agency where Hu Jianguo worked or Li Aiju's school, Hu Jiao would always be on the list of any competition or activity for the children of employees.
Three Good Students, county, city, provincial levels, all kinds of competitions, all kinds of essay writing competitions, although I can't always win the top spot, at least I am on the list.
Being kind to others and treating people with sincerity are Hu Jiao's virtues.
What makes Hu Jianguo most frustrated is that his son always insists that "man is inherently good at birth." In his eyes, there are basically no bad people in this world, which of course is not unrelated to his growing environment.
As Hu Jianguo's position became higher and higher, all kinds of people who interacted with the Hu family, no matter for what purpose, would not let Hu Jiao come into contact with the dark side of human nature, let alone any calculations, conspiracies, secret struggles, etc.
In the eyes of others, Hu Jianguo and his family of three are already very exemplary.
My wife is virtuous, well-educated , gentle and beautiful. She is also a famous senior teacher in the education system, so her level is certainly beyond doubt.
His son Hu Jiao is showing signs of surpassing his father.
But those members of the Municipal Party Committee who understood the situation secretly sympathized with Hu Jianguo.
Speaking of Hu Jiao, several members of the Standing Committee also like him very much. He has a high level of political theory and strong policy analysis ability. When it comes to giving theoretical lectures, policy propaganda, writing reports and papers, etc., few in the entire municipal party committee dare to compare with him.
But... in the words of Li Mingyong, the municipal party secretary: "This child is too pure. It would be great if she was a girl."
Is this a compliment or an insult?
Anyway, every time Hu Jianguo thought of his son, he felt like he was in two completely different situations, with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow.
But he had no idea! He had tried many times to explain to his son the "experience" of "being a person and being a cadre", but every time he gave up.
I can't argue with that!
Marxism-Leninism, the leader's thoughts, selected theories of masters...He, a dignified organization minister at the municipal level, was often refuted to the point of being speechless.
He wanted to say, son, reality and theory are two different things. But he couldn't give any examples. Even if he did, they would pale in comparison to Hu Jiao's systematic theory, which had been sorted out, improved and optimized by several great men.
Hu Jiao is standing on the shoulders of theoretical giants, while Hu Jianguo is just an organization minister. How can he win the debate? What can he argue with?
Is he going against his son, against Marxism-Leninism? Against Xinhua's socialism?
Therefore, in the end, Hu Jianguo had to painfully admit that his son was the most perfect product of the socialist system theory! There was no need to bother predicting his son's future. Hu Jiao was the only choice to work on party newspapers and journals, policy and theory research, and to be an honest scholar-type cadre specializing in the party's theoretical literature.
But thinking so in your heart is one thing, and being willing to do so is another.
After all, Hu Jiao is like a piece of unpolished jade. Who wouldn't be moved by it? If he is carefully carved, he may become a talent.
So he demoted Hu Jiao to the grassroots level, hoping that his son would truly mature through the baptism at the grassroots level.
This is why there was an incident where someone was drunk for three days and couldn't wake up.
When Hu Jianguo received a call from Mingjiang County Party Secretary Chen Zhao, who said that Hu Jiao was drunk and had not woken up for three whole days, his hands shook and he almost smashed the phone.
He met Chen Zhao when he was the secretary of Guanshan County. He was the deputy director of the county party committee office at that time. He was capable, but he liked to drink and he liked to demonstrate his efficiency at the wine table.
Based on Hu Jianguo's understanding of his son, he couldn't imagine what Hu Jiao, who usually never drinks, would look like after drinking two bottles of high-proof Wuliangye.
He hasn't woken up for three days! If anything happens to his brain, he will fight Chen Zhao to the death!
This matter must be reported to Teacher Li Aiju, otherwise we won't be able to sleep together for half a year.
Hu Jianguo informed the secretary, but of course did not mention Chen Zhao's fault. When such things have not yet caused serious consequences, one should try to be tolerant. Of course, there will be another explanation afterwards.
He notified the driver and told his wife that they were going to go back to their hometown to see if Hu Jiao had any accidents.
At this time, Hu Jiao, who was in a coma, did not know that because of his three days of drunkenness, he almost turned the entire county committee upside down.
Chen Zhao was really anxious and wanted to find the hospital director and wake Hu Jiao up quickly.
Hu Jianguo not only recognized his talent, but also helped him. Although he had good intentions, he did not expect Hu Jiao to be so honest. When someone made a promise, he just did it without hesitation. It was also his fault that he did not explain clearly at the time, so he was pestered by the Minister of Armed Forces, the captain of the armed police squadron, and the captain of the fire department.
He now regretted not bringing Hu Jiao to his table, and was even more annoyed with those old foolish soldiers. Afterwards, his secretary said that Bai Xiaoyun from the County Party Committee Office had been helping Hu Jiao block the wine from the beginning, but ended up blocking the bloodiness of those soldiers.
It's called bloodiness, but it's actually animality, the desire to show off to the opposite sex. Isn't that scientifically studied? If a beautiful woman appears in front of a group of men, these men will definitely use all kinds of means, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to attract the attention of the opposite sex.
What’s more, these are a group of soldiers who were shocked to see a sow turn into Diao Chan.
Chen Zhao could only curse inwardly. Hu Jiaoren was handsome, a graduate student with two degrees. Plus, her father was the head of the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department. Which beauty wouldn't bow down to him?
But you have to know which way the wind is blowing. If you can't persuade someone, can't you call for help?
Hu Jiao is such a simple-minded kid! Hey, he is also stupid. So confused, so confused.
Hu Jiao is neither smart nor confused at this moment.
He felt like he had become Tang Monk in Journey to the West, going through 81 trials and tribulations. Suddenly, a person named Gou Rixin appeared in his mind, and he instinctively felt that his name should be Gou Rixin.
This name is very strange, Gou Rixin, day by day, and day by day. This is a sentence from the Book of Rites. It means to learn new things every day.
But why is my name Gou Rixin?
I remember a village where I grew up being fed by hundreds of villagers. It was hard and miserable! I was hungry one day and never wore a complete set of clothes before I was fifteen.
He started wandering around before he even graduated from elementary school, stealing, cheating, bullying the good and fearing the evil. He was a complete hooligan and a lowly person.
If hooligans are classified into different levels, Gou Rixin belongs to the lowest class. He is a lazy scoundrel who likes to take advantage of others. He has peeped at older girls taking a bath, watched young wives go to the toilet, squatted in the side room and listened to sex operas, and even been to prison as a slave.
It's all about survival.
If you compare Gou Rixin and Hu Jiao, they are like heaven and earth. The light of the bright moon and the brightness of the bright fire. One is pure jade and the other is stinky dog shit.
Gou Rixin was very proud now. His damn ancestors had not lied to him. He was reborn as a handsome young man who was a cadre with a postgraduate degree and a large penis. This was the first thing he paid attention to when he regained consciousness. He must not be "born with impotence".
It's a pity that he can't do whatever he wants and can't fully become the new master of this body.
His willpower was simply no match for that of this revolutionary comrade who had been of "pure family" since childhood and had been strictly baptized by Marxism-Leninism, the leader's thoughts, and the mentor's theoretical works. Even if Hu Jiao drank two kilograms of Wuliangye and was drunk to death, Gou Rixin was still no match for him in terms of ideological willpower and personal perseverance.
Therefore, Gou Rixin could only seize other high ground, give full play to the idea of not caring about the gains and losses of a city or a place, and take advantage of any opportunity, completely release himself, and invade Hu Jiao's spiritual system like a storm.
After three days of fighting and integration, in the end, most of Gou Rixin disappeared, leaving a small part to fill the gap in the dark side of Hu Jiao's character. Hu Jiao... also disappeared partly, and no one can tell who Hu Jiao is now.
You are in me, I am in you, just like the national government period before the liberation of Xinhua. Although the traitors were eventually defeated and retreated to the treasure island, they were still not completely eliminated.
Therefore, Hu Jiao now has all of Gou Rixin's memories, and his character and spirit are still indelibly marked by Gou Rixin, as if the traces of the Kuomintang rule cannot be erased in the history of New China.
Such a combination of two temperaments and memories is really hard to understand.
Hu Jiao's strength lies in his positivity and initiative. If it were someone else who is well versed in the ways of the world, I'm afraid Gou Rixin would at most leave behind only a memory and then disappear completely.
This is like a woman who has been ravaged by someone. If she were an experienced man, she would definitely beat the other person to pieces and torture him to death. However, Comrade Hu Jiao was kind enough to forgive him, thinking that Gou Rixin was only doing this in order to survive.
They are even willing to give birth to evil offspring for it.
Hu Jiao knew that he was in the hospital. He "woke up" the next day after being drunk, but he was constantly harassed by this guy named Gou Rixin and had no time to respond to anyone.
So he knew everything about the people coming in and out of the ward in the past two days, their conversations, etc.
Including the doctor's alarmist threats to Secretary Chen Zhao, saying that he might be suffering from alcohol poisoning, but there were no major problems with his internal organs. He had undergone several detailed examinations and was afraid that his brain might be burned out.
What does it mean to have a brain burnout? Idiot, vegetable... everything is possible.
Then he heard his father and mother coming, and thought of his mother Li Aiju's gentleness, and Hu Jiao's heart was warm. He had spent a lot of time with his mother since he was a child, and it can be said that he had developed a tacit understanding with her. The mother and son were more like friends and confidants. Under the influence of his mother, he began to like literature in junior high school, especially classical literature, so when he applied for university, he chose Chinese Language and Literature, commonly known as the Chinese Department, without hesitation.
When he opened his eyes, Li Aiju was caressing her son's forehead lovingly, and did not notice that Hu Jiao had woken up.
The woman, who is over forty years old, still has eyes like autumn water, brows like distant ink, and is as quiet and beautiful as a virgin. Her every frown, smile, and frown is still graceful, and her demeanor is quiet and moving.
Hu Jiao playfully stuck out his tongue and licked his mother's white jade wrist.
"Ah." The little girl screamed cutely. Seeing Hu Jiao's eyes open, smiling, and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, she looked childish , which made Teacher Li feel distressed. Then, she quietly showed a look of grievance on his face: "Teacher Li, I have been sleeping for three days, and you just came to see me."
Teacher Li was not worried at all at this time. He even couldn't figure out how his son knew that he had been in a coma for three days.
As she shouted, her face was filled with maternal love. "It's all Minister Hu's fault for not reporting the matter. Don't worry, I will hold him accountable!"
When Hu Jiao smiled, his eyes narrowed into crescents, which was indicative of Minister Hu's shrewdness.
But in Teacher Li's opinion, his son's eyes are the most charming scenery in the world.
She once joked, "I was deceived by Minister Hu's crescent moon. If I had known earlier that there was so much darkness behind the moon, I would never have given him a chance."
But now that it’s his son’s turn, Teacher Li is of course proud of him. I wonder which girl is so lucky to be favored by “Yueyaer”?
Therefore, under the hegemony of Teacher Li, the signature of Hu Jiao's published articles was changed to: Crescent Moon Hu.
"Mom, where's Lao Hu?"
Teacher Li patted his son's handsome face with a smile, "Let's go and scold Chen Zhao. In order to prevent you from being tested by alcohol in the future, I think we should criticize Comrade Chen Zhao. He was too rash."
Finally, seeing her son's embarrassed look, she hurriedly interrupted his plea. She knew the child too well and would rather suffer herself than let others cry.
"I'm hungry."
Teacher Li then clapped his hands and hurriedly opened several thermal boxes on the bedside. Hu Jiao turned his head and saw that they were all filled with watery dishes: shredded chicken porridge, chopped vegetable and preserved egg soup.
Hu Jiao pouted again: "I want to eat braised fish, white-cut chicken, steamed pork with rice flour, and pork trotters in clear soup!"
Teacher Li smiled softly , just like the spring breeze blowing on your face, "Be good, you haven't eaten for three days, eat something light first, and mom will make the most delicious food for you tomorrow!"
Hu Jiao stretched out his little finger: "Pink."
When Hu Jianguo came in, he happened to see his son and his wife making a pinky promise. This has been a secret gesture between mother and son since his son learned to speak. Now that his son is working, he can still see this little gesture.
Lao Hu felt that this was happiness. The worry that his son's brain might be burned had disappeared.
"Hey, what underground activities are you two doing now?"
Hu Jiao stretched out his hand and shook hands with Hu Jianguo in a very "comradely" manner: "Comrade Hu, you have worked hard."
Hu Jianguo smiled and said with a high attitude: "Serve the people."
Then he lowered his head and touched Hu Jiao's forehead: "Well, the preliminary diagnosis is that the brain nerve circuit is normal, and there is no short circuit."
Teacher Li punched him and said, "What are you talking about? I hope Hu Jiao's brain burns out. By the way, Lao Hu, since you knew the truth but didn't report it, and concealed the truth, causing great harm to the masses, I now formally notify you that you will be suspended for six months for investigation."
This is a secret interest between the couple. The so-called suspension for inspection is actually sleeping in separate rooms.
Hu Jianguo said with a bitter face: "Teacher Li, I am young and strong, and my career is on the rise. Can you be lenient with me?"
Hu Jiao looked at his loving and laughing parents, his heart filled with sweetness, "Hey, hey, two old comrades, family planning is our country's basic national policy. You are both state cadres, can you go home and discuss the relevant matters in secret? Besides, I, the person involved, have the right to object."
Hu Jianguo laughed out loud, and Teacher Li hit her son in return: "Don't make fun of your mother."
On the surface, the warm and happy atmosphere of this family is truly enviable, but no one knows that Hu Jiao has something fishy going on at this moment.
Just as he was enjoying his parents' love, in a trance, the following message suddenly popped up in his mind: The old bitch is pretty! It's a good deal for this old thief to kill her.
Then, one after another, disgusting images appeared in my mind.
Hu Jiao was so scared that his whole body was shaking. Hu Jianguo and his wife looked at their son in surprise, thinking it was a case of aftereffects of drinking.
Li Aiju touched Hu Jiao's forehead anxiously: "Jiaojiao, what's wrong? Do you have a headache? Do you feel uncomfortable? Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
Hu Jianguo still maintained his father's reserve on the surface, unwilling to show too much love to his son, but the worry in his eyes was undisguised.
Hu Jiao grinned. Where did this come from?
"No, no, it's okay, mom. It's just... I slept for too long, maybe my blood circulation is blocked."
Hu Jiao almost broke out in a cold sweat. How could such a thought come into his mind? And it was so dirty and vulgar!
He closed his eyes tightly. If he could see and touch the other guy inside his body, Hu Jiao would definitely slap him hard!
Hu Jiao never swore since he was a child, let alone how to curse. As soon as he thought of cursing, dozens or even hundreds of words appeared in his mind: thief , bastard, son of a bitch...
Looking at his mother's anxious expression, Hu Jiao took a deep breath and said, "Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think about it!"
His face once again showed his mother's favorite expression: "Mom, I'm fine, I just want to eat."
Hu Jiao knew that in his mother's eyes, the greatest happiness and comfort was to see him wolf down the food she made.
Li Aiju sighed and glared at her son in fake anger: "Didn't we just make a promise?"
A sentence appeared in Hu Jiao’s mind again: Paint the old cucumber green to pretend to be young!
Hu Jiao pulled his hands into the quilt, as he was afraid that his parents would notice his hands shaking when he was angry.
He forced himself to remain calm and said, "Mom, I'm sleepy. Let me sleep a little longer. You accompany Dad to visit the Fourth Master and the others. Remember to bring me something delicious tonight."
Li Aiju was still worried, and her son's face turned red and white, but Hu Jianguo noticed something. He wondered if Hu Jiao had suffered any injustice before?
The son never liked to complain, no matter how much he was bullied outside, he would never tell his parents a word when he got home. Reserved, weak, and considerate, this is Hu Jiao.
Hu Jianguo gently tugged at his wife's sleeve and said, "Well, it just so happens that I have time now. I'll go with your mother and come back in the evening. If you have anything to say, please tell Dean Wu."
Hu Jiao nodded, and when Li Aiju looked at her man, she understood. She would ask Chen Zhao about this later, who did Hu Jiao offend?
Watching his parents leave, Hu Jiao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He was very angry and depressed at the same time. If this guy named Gou Rixin appeared in front of him, Hu Jiao would rush up to fight him, even to death, because the other party insulted his relatives, and they were the closest relatives to him since childhood.
Unfortunately, he couldn't see it, couldn't touch it, but it really existed. He couldn't drive it away, couldn't chase it away, and he had no idea when it would pop up in his mind again.
Hu Jiao is a staunch materialist and atheist, but from a philosophical point of view, his situation is simply incomprehensible.
Is there any way to completely get rid of the bad things in my mind?
