The Era of Hard Work

After work, Liu Linlin packed her things and left her work unit to take a bus to the hospital. Although Qingzhao District and University City are not yet connected, there are many buses commuting back and forth, and the transportation is very convenient.

Get in the car, come to the back of the car, there is a vacant seat, Liu Linlin sat down, ears are full of roaring engine sound.

It was messy and noisy, but it didn't affect her thinking.

Will it be transferred back to the provincial government after a while? Or continue to stay at the Qingzhao Culture and Tourism Bureau?

Liu Linlin had a hard time making a decision.

The director made it very clear that the former would refer to the latter's suggestion before being transferred. After all, the purpose of letting these selected students come to the front line is for training.

A unit like the Qingzhao Culture and Tourism Bureau can really accumulate a lot of practical work experience and exercise people's abilities.

It may even be more conducive to growth in the long run.

But returning to the office is also a good choice. Working in front of the leader is easier for the leader to remember.

Thinking of their respective pros and cons, the bus arrived at the East District Station of the Provincial Hospital. Liu Linlin got off the bus, entered the hospital suddenly, and came to the ward where her father lived.

Liu Mingquan has always been the only patient in this double ward.

Liu Mingquan was sleeping, and Liu Zaizhao, who accompanied him, was sitting on a chair, dozing off little by little.

Liu Linlin went over to touch her, and Liu Zaizhao opened his eyes in a daze: "Sister?"

With the air conditioner turned on, Liu Linlin took a piece of clothing and covered her younger sister, "Don't worry about sleeping cold."

Liu Zaizhao got up quickly and took out a slip from his pocket: "It was just delivered, the hospital said that the money was almost gone, and asked to pay another 3,000 yuan before tomorrow afternoon."

Liu Linlin took over the slips, one was the payment notice and the other was the consumption details.

Looking at the numbers listed above, even if she was mentally prepared, Liu Linlin was still worried, the money was spent too quickly.

Liu enrolled in college again, not a person who doesn't know anything, and asked, "Sister, what is our family's money?"

Liu Linlin forced a smile: "It's okay, it's enough, I'll pay the money, you watch it, you want to sleep and cover yourself with a quilt."

Liu Zaizhao nodded, turned around and picked up his bag, took out a wallet, and handed it to Liu Linlin: "I'll give you these first."

Stretching out her hand, she found a stack that was not too thick, and Liu Linlin said, "No need."

Liu Zaizhao said: "Sister, you can't put everything on you!"

Liu Linlin sighed, and then said, "I'll hold it first, and I'll tell you when I use it."

After leaving the ward, Liu Linlin went downstairs to pay the fee. The money was spent so fast that she simply paid 5,000 yuan at once.

Going back and entering the elevator, I heard two people chatting in the elevator.

One of them shook his head and sighed: "If you have cancer, you will die if you don't come to the hospital."

Another person in hospital clothes said, "I can't live in the hospital, but I want your money first, and then your life."

A person at the back couldn't help interjecting: "There is no hospital, no doctor, can you cure the disease?"

Because her father was lying on the hospital bed, Liu Linlin felt very complicated at this moment.

Dad worked in the village branch all his life, but he didn't even have medical insurance in the end.

This kind of complaint is only fleeting, because in the countryside, Liu Mingquan is not special at all, and there are a few rural people who have medical insurance.

Liu Linlin got off the elevator, turned into the corridor of the ward, and saw her sister sitting on a bench at the door of the ward.

Liu Zaizhao pointed to the inside of the ward: "Our mother is here."

Liu Linlin nodded, sat next to her sister, packed up the receipts, and put them in her bag.

In the past, it was not too much to say that the two sisters depended on each other. Liu Zaizhao knew her sister very well. Seeing her frowning, he asked, "Sister, what's the matter?"

Liu Linlin looked at her: "What can I do."

"It's not that I can't see it." Liu Zaizhao looked back at the ward: "Because of our father?"

There was no one to say what Liu Linlin was so full of. After thinking for a while, she slowly said, "You don't understand work."

Liu Zaizhao said, "I have been working as a holiday worker in Brother Dong's company since the summer when I graduated from high school. I have been working here for several years. It's not that I don't have any social experience. Maybe I can help you out. idea."

Besides her sister, Liu Linlin didn't know who to talk to. When she was studying in the capital, she could write letters to Lu Dong for anything. Later, Qingzhao came, and for some reason, the two became estranged.

"As for the job transfer, the organization department wants to transfer me to work in a provincial government agency." Liu Linlin roughly explained the matter.

Liu Zaizhao blinked: "Why don't you go? It's better to sit in the office of the provincial government than to run errands down there."

Liu Linlin patiently said to her sister: "It's not a matter of sitting in the office or not. It depends on the future development and analyzes the pros and cons. When I go to the provincial government, it's right under the nose of the leader. If I make some achievements, the leader can see it, and I can't help it." It is easy to impress the leaders. But at the same time, the relationship between personnel and personnel in the agency is complicated, and it is troublesome to deal with many things. After I was transferred, I was a very ordinary staff member, and it was difficult for me to have the opportunity.”

"But below, such as the Culture and Tourism Bureau, I am now an assistant to the director, and I will soon be able to join the bureau's party committee. There is room for me to display my skills, and I can really do things..."

No matter how much Liu Zaizhao knew about his sister, he didn't know much about the public sector.

Listening to Liu Linlin's words, she remembered something that she was very puzzled at the beginning, and asked: "Sister, when you graduate, you have the opportunity to stay in the capital, even if you are a transfer student, you also have the opportunity to stay in the province. Want to return to Qingzhao?"

Liu Linlin was silent suddenly, why did she want to return to Qingzhao? What is the purpose of returning to Qingzhao?

Sitting here, her heart was filled with panic. She wanted to speak out, but when she turned her head and saw the ward, she held back again.

There are some things that even my own sister can't say.

Liu Zaizhao looked at Liu Linlin: "Sister, why? When you were in school, didn't you say..."

"Okay, don't mention the past." Liu Linlin interrupted her sister: "The past is long gone."

Liu Zaizhao stopped asking.

Liu Linlin also stopped talking, just sat on the bench, lost in thought.

Soon, she came to her senses and made up her mind that some things would rot in her stomach for the rest of her life.

She can't and can't do things that destroy others.

There are many people who help, she can't avenge her kindness.

In the evening, Liu Linlin stayed with her, and the wind blew in the early morning, which was very scary.

The next morning, after a quick breakfast, Liu Linlin took the bus to Qingzhao City to go to work. She had nothing to do all morning, and when she was about to leave work in the afternoon, she suddenly received a notice asking all the staff to gather in the compound immediately and dispatch urgently Support the Brother Unit Agriculture, Forestry and Animal Husbandry Bureau.

It was only after I went out that I found out that Qingzhao District is close to the southern mountainous area, and there are some greenhouses that specialize in breeding grasshoppers. A strong wind suddenly appeared in some areas this morning, which damaged several greenhouses and caused hundreds of thousands of grasshoppers to escape. Not good, maybe it will cause a plague of locusts.

"The news spread this morning."

A female colleague came up to Liu Linlin and showed off the gossip she had got: "It is said that many people ran to the south to catch grasshoppers like crazy."

Liu Linlin nodded slightly, and whispered, "If you don't handle it well, the consequences will be serious."

The leader came out quickly and explained the specific situation.

After the district got the news, it attached great importance to this matter, and immediately reported it to the city, and immediately organized personnel from various units to dispatch to try to extinguish the army of locusts that had escaped from the cage as soon as possible, and strive to wipe out the unformed locust plague in Qingzhao Southern part of the city.

I don’t know how many years there has been no locust plague in Qingzhao. Anyway, Liu Linlin doesn’t remember it. The deepest impression of locusts is that during the autumn vacation of junior high school, she played with Lu Dong and Li Wenyue on the Qingzhao River Embankment. Boys After catching quite a few of them, Lu Dong lit a fire and roasted them.

There was an emergency, no preparations, and lack of tools. A group of people could only take some brooms and impromptu nets, and drove to the south of the city by car.

Liu Linlin was sitting in the co-pilot of a Santana. As soon as the car left Qingzhao City, she saw many people heading south.

Not only the cars and people of various units, but also some ordinary people at first glance.

Some of them were riding motorcycles, some were pedaling bicycles with children on them, and nets or brooms were tied to the vehicles, and they rushed to the south happily, with high enthusiasm, as if they were going to a free banquet.

There are too many people, so many that the long queue of people can't see the end at a glance.

In the back seat of the car, a male colleague was on the phone: "Second brother, it's me, hurry up and go to Xinzhuang to the south to catch grasshoppers! Big edible grasshoppers! Don't worry, the ones that are absolutely edible are raised in the greenhouse The one on the dining table accidentally ran out of the shed, hurry up! Now many people are running to the south to catch grasshoppers!"

Hearing what her colleague said, Liu Linlin suddenly had an idea, took out her mobile phone and called the leader: "Director, I'm Xiao Liu, can you see if this can be done, mobilize the family members in the bureau, and let those who are free go over and arrest him?" ..."

I once heard Lu Dong say that the people of the country, let alone running a few miles to catch them for this stuttering, can even eat a certain species as a rare and protected animal.

Among other things, just look at the people on the road who are eager to catch grasshoppers.

The leaders above quickly adopted Liu Linlin's opinion, and definitely launched a people's war against the army of locusts that escaped from the cage!

Swallow them with the sea of ​​people's war!

As calls were made one after another, more and more people learned that there were a large number of grasshoppers in the south that could be caught and eaten, and rushed from the city to the village to get a share of the action.

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In Lujia Village, Lu Dong came home from get off work. Just after he parked his car, he heard the horn of the car next door beeping. Seventh Uncle's Land Rover Defender came out of the garage.

The co-pilot's glass lowered, and Nail showed his head and shouted: "Brother Dong, let's go! Let's go! Let's catch grasshoppers together!"

When the rear door opened, Lu Lanlan also shouted with a telescoping pole net for fishing: "Get in the car quickly, it will be gone if you go late!"

Lu Dong didn't understand what was going on, but he didn't prevent him from getting into the car. As soon as he got into the back seat and closed the door, Uncle Qi, who was in the driver's seat, started the car and turned to the main road. As soon as he got out of the village, he stepped up the accelerator and ran south.

After asking a few words, Lu Dong figured out what was going on. Ma Laosan on the food street got the news from nowhere, saying that it was a greenhouse in the south that specialized in breeding grasshoppers, and the wind knocked down a few, and many grasshoppers ran out.