At the beginning of the new year, people are still immersed in the joy of the festival. Everyone pays New Year greetings to each other. Jiaan’s cadres in the small town take turns to invite the leaders to dinner. She and Huang Juan, as newly assigned newcomers, were also invited together. I remember that day, it was the town government's third-in-command Deputy Secretary Zhang's house that day. When she and Huang Juan went, several people were already waiting in the living room. Happy Chinese New Year for Juan, and the only female vice-deputy in the town, Changjiang sister, even more enthusiastically pulled Huang Juan to sit beside her, and everyone surrounded Huang Juan like stars holding the moon to greet her, very enthusiastic, as if, Sitting here is a deputy county magistrate. She sat in a corner, as if the air did not exist, and no one paid attention to her. After sitting for a while, she felt really sad and depressed, so she stood up and went to the kitchen to help Deputy Zhang. The mayor’s lover, Sister Chen, cooks. Sister Chen is the director of the family planning office of the township government. , I felt a little good in my heart. At the moment, Sister Chen is very busy in the kitchen. Seeing her coming in to help, she is not polite, so she said with a smile, let me arrange a simple job for you. Mix the dumpling stuffing well, what are you doing? Make dumplings in a while. When the dumplings were more than half made, Deputy Secretary Zhang led Secretary Qiao and Mayor Li in. After everyone was seated, the meeting officially started. Xue Bing felt that it was awkward and restrained to sit and eat with a group of leaders. The most important thing was that she couldn't bear the unreasonable neglect, so she insisted on hiding in the kitchen to help Sister Chen cook, but the enthusiastic Sister Chen insisted on pushing her. Going to the living room for dinner, they were doing tug-of-war in the kitchen. Sister Chen pushed her and said with a smile, young people, how can you hide from the leader? , pushed her to the table, and she sat next to Huang Juan under the strange eyes of everyone. She knew that in the eyes of those people, she was timid and cowardly, and she was afraid of seeing the boss, but she didn't want them to underestimate her. After leaving her, she sat there calmly, with a bit of resentment and surlyness in her heart, which was incompatible with the enthusiastic atmosphere here.
During the banquet, Deputy Secretary Zhang, who was the owner, first delivered a speech, saying some New Year blessings and the like, welcoming the two newcomers to inject fresh blood into the unit, and then, headed by Secretary Qiao, everyone proposed and toasted in order according to their official positions. Juan is always the focus of everyone's attention. As usual, she is the one who is ignored. She sits there sullen and silent, which is in stark contrast to Huang Juan, who is extremely excited and active. The wine glasses toasted the leaders one by one, as if she had finally found a stage where she could show her skills and talents. She looked at the officials who were full of alcohol, insincere, posturing, and flattering officials, feeling bored and disturbed, and only hoped that the banquet would end soon When it was her turn to propose, she picked up the wine glass, raised her neck and drank it down, then turned the empty glass down, stating that she only had the amount for this glass, and that she had tried her best, then sat down without saying a word, and everyone was silent. Waiting quietly for her to say some clichés that are commonly used in banquets, she sat there uncharacteristically without any further words. This astonishing move of hers stunned everyone for a while, and then Secretary Qiao stood up and said with a smile that the little girl was refreshing. , different, we drank a glass of wine here, Sister Chen thought it was because she was too nervous, so she kept holding food for her and greeted her to eat, which gave her a little bit of comfort in her wounded heart . After a few times, she is used to this kind of neglected situation. In this society where parents are fighting for parents, it is too stupid to be angry and troubled by powerful people who can't choose their background. She is not angry anymore. On the contrary, I was lucky for this, because there was no one to persuade her to drink, and there was less noise, which naturally saved her from wasting her tongue and refusing to drink. She was like an outsider, sitting there alone, watching with cold eyes, just like watching a game playing and biting by the pond when she was a child. Fish, thoughts are changing cups and lamps, drifting and drifting unconsciously amidst the intertwined noise of bamboo and bamboo, she has left here to go to a distant, unknown, ethereal world in the illusion. Suddenly, in a trance, someone bumped her with an elbow, pulling her back to reality. She looked at the people around her blankly, trying to figure out what happened, only to see Huang Juan with a trace of With a contemptuous and sneering expression, she said: "Mayor Li proposes that you sing a song." She looked up at Mayor Li, who was standing there holding a horn cup and said, "Xiao Xue, if you can't drink, you can sing." A song." She didn't know when she made another big horn cup. Someone jokingly said, "Xiao Xue has a lot of alcohol, she can swallow a glass of wine with a gulp, and this corner glass is no problem." Can sing, really can't"
"Then drink this corner cup." Mayor Li said.
She looked at the big horn cup, feeling embarrassed, not knowing what to do.
"Xiao Xue, just sing a song, just to add to the fun." Sister Chen advised gently. Someone then said, we are not the judges of the singer contest, it doesn't matter if we sing well or not, it's just to add to the fun, Xiaoxue won't give Mayor Li a face, right
Seeing that she couldn't push it off, she sang a nursery rhyme to prevaricate.
This kind of banquet lasted for more than ten days, and it was finally over. She felt that she had experienced a hard labor.