053. Empty City
Director Jiang asked the driver to drive Director Wang back to the nearby government office before taking them to dinner. Search: \(¨¨¨¨¨) to watch fine literature for free
Zhang Siyi was used to eating the food of chain stores in Haicheng, and his mouth was rather stubborn, but this kind of Tujia cuisine and farm cuisine was the most appetizing to him. The sand tea noodles that Gu Xiao invited him to eat last time was also something that made him think about it.
Director Jiang took them to the restaurant and ordered a table of dishes. In addition to the few dishes he had casually reported before, there were also the famous local fish head casserole and white shell shrimp.
After a bowl of steaming fish soup, Zhang Siyi and Lu Qiao were all exhausted, and they felt that the trip was worth it.
During the banquet, Director Jiang chatted with them for a while. Unlike Director Wang when he spoke in an official tone, Director Jiang was very friendly. He asked where the two of them were from, whether the architectural design industry was busy, the company When will the annual leave start...
Zhang Siyi and Lu Qiao chatted with him for a while, and both had a good impression of him.
After dinner, Director Jiang drove them around the city again, introduced the local customs and culture, and pointed to the road section when the car passed by and told them which plots were newly developed and what they were used for. Yes, how the situation is now, Zhang Siyi took a pen and paper to record it.
City C is not big, and it took less than an hour to drive around the central city. Then Director Jiang asked them what their plans were next, and whether they should take them to a car.
Zhang Siyi just sat in the car and saw the car drive past several relatively lively business districts. He suddenly remembered the situation when Gu Xiao took him to the old town of Z City to go to the night market together at night, and said to Director Jiang: "There is still time. Early, why don't we go shopping on our own, Director Jiang, you are busy, we know the location of the car, and you can just take a taxi and go to the car later."
Director Jiang only thought that the two of them were young and playful, so he nodded and said, "Alright, then you can go shopping by yourself. Anyway, Xiao Zhang has my phone number. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me."
Zhang Siyi and Lu Qiao thanked him for his hospitality, said goodbye, and got off the bus together.
Seeing Zhang Siyi's relatively mature side in dealing with people and things, Lu Qiao didn't easily question the other party's decision in the car. After getting out of the car, he asked, "Didn't you see the base? What else do you want to visit?"
Zhang Siyi: "Since everyone is here, let's take a look. What we're going to do is a landmark government office building in this place, not another city. Maybe we can get some inspiration and gain from a stroll."
Lu Qiao understood, nodded in approval, and said, "You are really caring, it's almost New Year's Day, I still want to do whatever I want, and if I want to change it, I'll wait until the New Year, and now I'm driven by you. Get up... Haha, let's go."
Zhang Siyi smiled naively, and modestly said with the words his father often scolded him: "I'm just a three-minute enthusiasm, the first project, it's inevitable to be serious."
Lu Qiao lowered her head and followed him for a while, then suddenly asked, "Fourth aunt, what are you doing at home?"
Zhang Siyi was startled, remembered his father's advice, smirked and pretended to be stupid: "Why are you asking this all of a sudden? My parents are ordinary office workers."
Lu Qiao pouted and looked disbelieving: "Can ordinary office workers go to the UK to study at will? Can they rent a high-end apartment for 12,000 yuan for the first year of work? Can they buy a cup of coffee for 30 or 40 yuan? , you can say that many ordinary people can do it now, but I was stunned when you talked to the director Wang and Secretary Jiang just now. To be honest, if you were not here today, I would definitely I'm so embarrassed, I don't even know what to say when I see such a high official."
Zhang Siyi was also a little confused. What did he say to surprise Lu Qiao? And - "What kind of a high-ranking official is that? The director of the city's planning bureau is at the division level. It is estimated that the director Wang is still a deputy, and the main bureau usually rarely comes out to see little guys like us. Director Jiang is even more so. Don't be afraid, he's just in charge of the office, don't you think others are good at talking?"
He came to comfort Lu Qiao casually, but when he said this, he saw that Lu Qiao's eyes widened.
When Zhang Siyi thought about it, he realized that he "understood" a little bit more. He twitched his mouth and quickly remedied: "Well, anyway, officials serve the common people, you should treat him as an equal person. Yes. Of course, we are juniors, just a little respect in your tone."
Lu Qiao stared blankly at Zhang Siyi for two seconds, rolled his eyes, suddenly approached him, hooked his shoulder, and covered his mouth with his palm, and said secretly, "Tell me, I promise not to say it!"
"..." Zhang Siyi shrank his neck and said, "It's really not a big man, just a civil servant, um, a civil servant."
Seeing Zhang Siyi's evasive appearance, Lu Qiao started with more force. He was short and had difficulty pinching Zhang Siyi's neck. He opened his eyes and guessed, "Are you supposed to be a prince? Was it sent to folk training?"
Zhang Siyi was sweating on his forehead. Although he was indeed coaxed out to exercise, Lu Qiao's description seemed a bit too much!
Seeing that he didn't answer, Lu Qiao guessed to himself: "Is your father the mayor? Or the governor? Is it more powerful?"
Zhang Siyi was afraid that the more he said, the more outrageous he was, so he quickly covered his mouth and said, "No, no, don't talk nonsense!"
Lu Qiao is a very curious person, and now his appetite has been hung up, not knowing the answer is more uncomfortable than killing him, he reluctantly said: "What the hell is that, Fourth Aunt, please tell me quickly~ Bar!"
Zhang Siyi: "…"
Zhang Siyi was really helpless to such an unscrupulous Lu Qiao, and said in a low voice, "Then you swear not to tell anyone."
Lu Qiao raised his hand and said: "I won't say it! I swear by our revolutionary friendship that if I say it out, the printer runs out of ink when half of the drawings are printed! The power outage in half the computer room! The CAD is not saved and the computer crashes! During the journey of life, he was out of orbit, completely lost contact with the headquarters, lost in the dark space, until the energy was exhausted…”
"Okay, okay," Zhang Siyi sighed and said quickly, "My dad is the director of the construction department of Z province."
"Oh!!!!" Lu Qiao looked at Zhang Siyi up and down with an expression of "I know it", then leaned over and asked curiously, "What is the director of the Construction Department doing? Is it big? ?"
Zhang Siyi: "... "(￣_￣|||)
Zhang Siyi gave Lu Qiao a brief introduction to the official positions of various places and levels, and then returned to the topic, saying by words and deeds: "My dad said, the more you treat people like them, the more you are neither humble nor arrogant, and generous, the more they will treat you like back Maybe they still think you have something to do with you... On the contrary, the more humiliating and flattering you are, maybe they will look down on you, look down on dishes, or use your restrained awe and flattery to make you abuse you at will. "
Lu Qiao seems to understand but not understand, but this "not humble, not arrogant, and generous" is easy to say, but it is really difficult to do.
Under normal circumstances, when ordinary little people meet someone who is a bit official, which one is not respectful and humble? Although China has the will to promote equality for all, the slavery engraved in the national bones after the reincarnation of the thousand-year feudal dynasty is difficult to be cleaned up in a short period of time. The current social status quo needs to reach the state of official-people blind date in some Western European countries. the process of.
Furthermore, everyone likes to listen to good words, and so do leaders, but how to say good words is also a different matter. Just like Zhang Siyi, who just said that this design was not made by them, not only reflects his modesty, but also gives Director Wang face, and at the same time elevates Gu Xiao's status, maybe that Director Wang has a private phone call with Gu Xiao, Xiao will also be very happy after knowing it, it is simply killing three birds with one stone!
But if it were Lu Qiao himself, he knew in his heart that he wanted to say something nice, but he didn't know how to say it. In case he didn't flatter the horse, he would instead be self-defeating and become "speaking eloquently".
Lu Qiao sighed and glanced at Zhang Siyi again, envious of the family education brought out by the other party's original family.
... Fortunately, Zhang Siyi is a good person. If this person is a little more arrogant, his envy will give birth to jealousy and hatred!
Lu Qiao remembered one thing, and asked for advice humbly: "You were talking to Director Wang just now, why did you give the business card to Director Jiang instead of Director Wang?"
Zhang Siyi was stunned again, if Lu Qiao hadn't mentioned this little detail, he would have forgotten it.
After thinking about it, he scratched his head and explained: "Didn't I tell him that we are just assistants? Although it was Gu Gong who called Director Wang and asked him to arrange for us to see the base, but you see, Jiang was the one who contacted us first. Director, it can be seen that Director Wang doesn't take us seriously. The one on the same level as him is our boss, that is, Gu Gong. In his opinion, only Gu Gong is qualified to call him directly. He can come in person today. Answering our questions already saves face, so even if I give him a business card, he will give it to Director Jiang when he looks back, so I might as well be a little self-aware and give it directly to Director Jiang…”
Lu Qiao: "..."
What the hell, it turns out that there are so many twists and turns for a business card? (#°Д°)
"But that Director Jiang already knows your phone number, isn't it unnecessary for you to give him a business card?" Lu Qiao asked again.
Zhang Siyi waved his hand and said, "There are two hundred business cards in a box. I can't even send them out. I will send out a few if I can. Anyway, I can make Director Jiang's impression of me a little bit deeper. He is Director Wang's ability. Subordinate, there's no harm in impressing him, hehe!"
Lu Qiao was completely convinced, and silently filled his face in his heart - woo woo woo, the urban routine is deep, he wants to go back to the countryside! t_t
The two walked for an hour and saw a lot of new shopping malls and commercial buildings. Although the scale is not as large as that of big cities, they are still very good.
However, Zhang Siyi discovered a strange phenomenon—
Their location is already in the center of the city. They didn't feel much when they were in the car. After walking down, they realized that the city is sparsely populated. Most of the shopping malls are empty, and many of the shops are not rented. Going out, the shops that are in operation are also lacking in interest. The clerks were bored by the door, or sat dozing in the store, and saw no enthusiasm for coming forward to greet them.
"It's so deserted..." Zhang Siyi sighed.
"Is it a work day?" Lu Qiao guessed.
Zhang Siyi frowned: "That shouldn't be the case. It's almost New Year's Eve, young people are working, and there are always older ones coming out to buy."
Lu Qiao quickly thought of the reason for this situation: "That's because the development is too much."
It is true that a few years ago, stimulated by rising commodity prices and rapid credit growth, many small and medium-sized cities were engaged in large-scale construction projects to build residential, shopping malls and office buildings, resulting in an oversupply situation in the market.
In the car just now, Director Jiang only gave a symbolic introduction, and he was quite proud of the construction and development of the land, but when they actually saw it, they found that the name was not true. Although the commercial buildings were built, they were all desolate and empty, like an empty city— It appears that City C is a classic example of overdevelopment.
Regardless of whether the local government is doing this to pursue political achievements or unrealistic gdp growth or something else, Zhang Siyi was already very unhappy with that Director Wang, and whispered: "What new development is still happening in this way. Land, building any landmark office building, not afraid of building more and more poor.”
Lu Qiao also echoed: "I also think that with such a large piece of land, let's build an office building directly, without making a plan first, do you think this Director Wang is sloppy?!"
Zhang Siyi paused and said, "That's not the case. I think it's not that he doesn't understand this problem, but that he sees Gu Gong's strength and knows that Gu Gong will not be fooled when he designs. Although he wants an office building, we He will definitely do some plot planning beforehand, and in the end he used the design fee of an office building, and also got the plot planning idea, it is simply buy one get one free, insidious and insidious!"
Lu Qiao touched his chin and realized an epiphany. He slapped his thigh and said indignantly, "If I knew earlier, I should do what I said, and do anything for him! What base are you looking at! My heart is stuck!"
Zhang Siyi: "…"
After a while of silence, the two both sighed.
Because they know that no matter what, the design still has to be done well, just as a doctor cannot judge whether to treat another person because of the good and evil of one person. This is the professional quality of Ji.
After walking around and chatting, I didn't expect it to be four o'clock in the afternoon.
The two hurriedly took a taxi to get to the car, but unexpectedly ran into a nasty taxi driver who took them around in a big circle, costing them more than ten yuan in the fare.
Lu Qiao was so angry that he quarreled with the driver, but the strong dragon couldn't suppress the local snakes. Besides, Lu Qiao's small body was just a weak chicken.
Zhang Siyi was also in a hurry, and dragged Lu Qiao to buy a bus ticket. It wasn't that he didn't help Lu Qiao, but that money was a trivial matter for him, and it was a big deal if he couldn't catch up with the high-speed rail!
However, the tragic thing happened, just after a few minutes of arguing, they just missed a bus.
The two were completely terrified. They had no appetite for dinner. They waited anxiously for 20 minutes before the next bus came. They watched the time in the car, and could not wait to rush to the driver's side to help step on the accelerator.
But the travel time of the long-distance bus is well controlled, neither too fast nor too slow—forty-five minutes, as soon as the bus arrives at the Linshi high-speed rail, the two of them sprinted towards the high-speed rail at a sprint speed of 100 meters and rushed in. one look-
"My second Olympic!"
In just a minute, the car has already left!
Zhang Siyi held his knees, almost panting out of his internal organs.
Lu Qiao began to beat his chest and scolded the driver again: "Dog | Japanese immortal, bullying us out-of-towners, causing us to miss the car, Japanese him buying slashes, and making troublesome people in the backcountry..."
When he was tired of scolding, he said frustratedly: "It's all my fault, I shouldn't have quarreled with him." He drooped his head, feeling extremely guilty.
"I don't blame you, if I don't propose to go shopping, we won't be too late..." Zhang Siyi comforted him, waited for a breath, straightened up, stared at the red letter "stop checking tickets", and said leisurely: "This time we are Really 'not going back'."
Lu Qiao immediately remembered the lines they said together in front of the base, and burst into laughter with a sad face: "Yes, what should I do now?"
Zhang Siyi is also a little out of control: "I don't know..."
At this moment, his cell phone rang, Zhang Siyi looked at the caller ID, shuddered in fright, and hurriedly picked it up.
I just heard a sentence from the other side: "Have you come back?"
"We, we... are not coming back." (=_=)
"… "
"No, no, we can't come back..."
"… Um?"
Listening to the rhetorical "En", Zhang Siyi softened his voice and complained pitifully: "Gu Gong, we just missed the car." (wu_wu)
Gu Xiao: "..."
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