On the way to a midnight snack.
Director Liu sat in the co-pilot seat and said in a teasing tone: "Mayor, Gu Baishun's attitude towards surrender is quite upright."
"Those with both moral integrity and talent can be reused; those with moral integrity but no talent can be trained and used; those with talent but no moral integrity will be restricted from being employed; those with neither talent nor moral integrity will be firmly unemployed." Li Mingsheng was sitting in the back seat, playing with his phone, and replied calmly, "Just pay proper attention."
"Haha, okay." Director Liu nodded.
…
Nothing happened that night, and the next morning.
Hou Guoyu woke up in a daze, turned his head habitually to look at the alarm clock on the bedside table, and found that it was already past nine o'clock.
Hou Guoyu drank so much last night that he blacked out, but he miraculously drove himself home and successfully got into bed. He even changed his pants before going to sleep.
Hou Guoyu yawned while lying on the bed, and got up to pour a glass of water, but when he lifted the quilt, he found that there was an old man sitting behind him, with his side face facing him, smoking a cigarette, and looking somewhat melancholy.
"Fuck, Dad...how did you get in?" Hou Guoyu was startled.
The old man is thin and has dark skin. Although his cheeks are full of wrinkles due to age, one can still tell that he had thick eyebrows, big eyes and handsome features when he was young. He must have been a handsome guy.
"Aren't you going to work?" the old man asked.
"Oh, I worked overtime yesterday, so I can go a little later today." Hou Guoyu scratched his head and behaved very well in front of his father: "I'll go wash up now..."
"Did you work overtime last night?" my father asked while smoking.
"Yes, we were mowing the lawn, and the squadron leader saw that we were very tired, so he treated us to a midnight snack."
"Really? Didn't he find a woman for you?" The old man replied with trembling lips, holding a cigarette in his mouth, and slowly reached out to pick up the belt on the bedside.
Hou Guoyu suddenly felt something was wrong and stood up to run.
“Bang!”
The old man suddenly jumped up, turned around and jumped onto the bed, and slapped Hou Guoyu on the buttocks with a belt: "You are full of bullshit! You even fooled your father!"
"Why did you hit me? Are you crazy?" Hou Guoyu was trapped next to the cabinet and shouted with some grievance.
"Your uncle Dong called me early in the morning." The old man yelled angrily, "You don't work, but you're fighting with others. Are you ready to make up your mind? Is it easy for your family to find you a job like this? Do you know how many good things I said to get you in...!"
The old man became angrier as he spoke, and started beating Hou Guoyu with his belt.
Hou Guoyu protected his head and yelled, "Dad, it's not that I don't want to do it, it's that they are too annoying! You see, with my qualities, I am more than qualified to be their captain, right?! Although my liberal arts grades are not ideal, my professional skills are far better than those students of the same period! The police department has to pay to go there, and the coast guard has also been squeezed out. I finally got a temporary position, and every day I go there, I just water the plants, mow the lawn, and clean the place. Don't you think I, a strong guy in my early twenties, will be useless if I continue to do this?!"
"You're still being stubborn. What are you going to do if you don't do this?" Hou's father responded while smoking.
"A real man should have a vision, shouldn't he? He should have ambitions and look at the world!"
"I'm going to let the world go! You better pay back the two hundred yuan you borrowed from me first, then you can let the world go!" Hou's father was very angry and beat him harder and harder with his belt.
Two minutes later, Hou's father was tired of beating him and started breathing heavily while sitting on the bed.
Hou Guoyu, on the other hand, was beaten with a whip, but only had some redness and swelling on his body, and the skin was fine. He squatted down, not angry, stroking his back and begging, "Dad, I really don't want to do this anymore. I'm so useless in that place."
"What's so promising about that? Going to R&F to be a duck is promising, right?" When Hou's father mentioned this, he was about to beat him again.
"Isn't that a short-term plan? I have to pay you back the 200 bucks first!"
"I'll beat you to death!"
Some time ago, Hou Guoyu felt that his chances of joining the Coast Guard were slim, so he actually applied for a job at Fulihao. He originally wanted to be a security manager or something, but he was unexpectedly spotted by the team leader, the Duck Dad. He asked about the price and learned that he could earn more than 100 yuan a night, so... he had no choice but to compromise with life.
After working for three days, he was discovered by Hou's father, who gave him another beating and sent him back home.
Hou's father paused for a moment, pointed at Hou Guoyu and said, "I'll have a meal with your uncle Dong in the next two days and ask him to help mediate. You have to go back to the Coast Guard. You have no other choice!"
"Dad, I really...!"
"What is life? Daily necessities, marriage and children. This is the life of ordinary people!" The old man stood up, threw away his belt and said, "Don't talk nonsense, you must go!"
After saying that, the old man pushed the door and left.
"well!"
Hou Guoyu sat on the ground and sighed tiredly.
…
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period of time, Su Tianyu put almost all of his energy into the Coast Guard. He participated in various trainings and physical training every day, familiarized himself with patrol procedures, daily work processes, etc. Although his days were a bit boring, they were also fulfilling.
At the top level, although the mining disaster has gradually subsided, the aftermath has not yet dissipated. Various media are also following up with subsequent reports, and the public's attention is also extremely high.
Baolong Mining was completely ruined. Not only did the city set up an investigation team, but even the mining department, security department, and judicial department of District 1 sent a large number of personnel to Longcheng to conduct investigations.
The Baolong Group, to which it is affiliated, was also implicated, but they are trying their best to smooth out various negative impacts with their strong public relations capabilities and deep-rooted political connections in District 1.
In the past two days, the delegation from District 1 and the Longcheng Municipal Government held several talks and conducted in-depth discussions on the issue of the Supervisory Committee. However, Su Tianyu heard from Li Yuan that the communication with the upper level was not smooth. The local cadres headed by Li Mingsheng believed that the Supervisory Committee had too much power and some corrupt officials could cover the sky with one hand. However, the delegation from District 1 firmly believed that although there was corruption in the Supervisory Committee, it was an important department that controlled the direction of Longcheng. Reducing its power would be detrimental to the stability of the entire city.
In short, the two sides were stuck in a state of wrangling, but Su Tianyu believed that the other party would definitely compromise, otherwise Baolong would find it difficult to extricate himself, and the mine disaster would not be so easily wiped out.
However, Su Tianyu does not need to worry about these things, because this level of political game is safer to be handled by Li Mingsheng's team.
At around five o'clock in the evening that day, after Su Tianyu got off work, he came to the association to chat with Bai Hongbo, Zhou Tonghui, Su Tianbei and others.
Just as everyone was laughing and joking, a red luxury business car stopped at the gate of the compound, and a charming woman with a strong aura pushed the door and walked out.