When Li He woke up, it was already past five o 'clock. He lay on the bed with his eyes open, staring blankly at the ceiling. Only the sound of the alarm clock could be heard. After staring for a while, he lazily rolled over. He sat on the edge of the bed in a daze.
After staring blankly for a few minutes, he put on his shoes and walked out of the house. The sun had already set. At the end of October, there was already a hint of coolness in the capital. A light breeze blew past, and the trees moved slightly. It was like a sigh, gently passing through the front and back of the house.
He touched his sleeves. He was still only wearing a shirt. He went back to the house and opened a few cabinets, but he couldn't find a suitable long johns to wear. Helplessly, he could only put on a jacket with a fur collar.
There was a cover on the table in the central room. He opened the cover to take a look. There were cooked dishes and rice inside.
He walked around. It seemed that Chang Jing had already left. The chickens and ducks were no longer noisy. The door to the courtyard was tightly shut. He soaked the boiling water in the rice and ate a little.
He definitely wouldn't be able to sleep now. He locked the door and started to stroll around the alley.
"Xiao Li, you're back."
The neighbors at the entrance of the alley kept greeting him.
Old Man Zhang said, "You're spending the winter ahead of time."
Li He said, "I didn't find any suitable clothes, so I just wore them casually."
Old Man Zhang continued to ask, but he pretended not to hear and continued walking forward. He stopped on a bridge. The river seemed faint, but the chimney towered into the clouds. The silly white made everything seem cold and desolate.
"Hey, why are you in a daze? The water here is shallow. It won't drown anyone. I suggest you try Miyun Reservoir. "
"Oh, it's you."
He didn't even know when Qin Youmi was standing in front of him with her arms crossed.
"I heard that you went to the South to play. Why didn't you bring me along?" Qin Youmi asked unhappily.
"Oh, I forgot." Li He didn't even have the mood to roll his eyes. He was just answering casually. He wasn't familiar with Qin Youmi to begin with.
This woman seemed to have forgotten that the two of them quarreled not long ago.
"Then you must bring me next time. They said that the South is a new world. I must go and see the new world."
Li He replied, "Sure."
"The one who lied to me is a puppy!"
"Oh." Li He turned around and was about to leave. He didn't dare to swear.
"Hey, you're really a puppy." Qin Youmi grabbed him.
"Ahem, it's getting dark. Let's go home." Qin Youmi's sudden attitude was so good that Li He couldn't find a reason to retort.
Qin Youmi flung Li He's arm away. "You're so boring."
"I heard from your grandfather that you were promoted?"
"Of course, I'm now the deputy department head. How about you? "
Li He said, "I'm just a lousy teacher. I'm not as promising as you."
Qin Youmi patted Li He's shoulder earnestly. "You have to work hard. Work hard and strive to improve. My grandpa said that you are very lazy. This kind of attitude won't do!"
"Thank you." Li He purposely dragged out the last two words. After being reprimanded by a silly little girl, he felt embarrassed. "You have a bright future. As long as you become a deputy head of the department, if you continue to work like this, you will be promoted to a higher level in two years. You're almost 26 years old this year. At 28, you'll be the department head. At 30, you'll be the deputy department head. At 32, you'll be the department head. At 34, you'll be the deputy director. At 36, you'll be the deputy director. At 38, you'll be the deputy director. At 40, you'll be a ministerial official. If you can become the director in this lifetime, I can only look up to you. "
A silly girl would always be a silly girl. Didn't she know that her batch of university students deserved to be the deputy department head? Everyone in the government had a share. There was no need to fight for it, let alone make an exception to promote her.
Qin Youmi's father and Old Man Qin definitely knew about this. However, they didn't tell Qin Youmi. It seemed like they didn't want to hurt this girl's confidence.
Qin Youmi was smiling when she heard the first half of the sentence. She felt that Li He was a promising young man. However, when she heard the second half of the sentence, she gritted her teeth. "You …"
Li He said, "Am I wrong?"
"Yes, you're right. You've got guts!" Qin Youmi turned around and left angrily.
Li He looked at the sky and turned around to go home to sleep.
The next day, he drove his van to school.
As soon as he entered the office, Chen Yun said, "Are you looking for trouble? What have you been doing for so long?"
Li He gave the two people in the office a cigarette and said with a smile, "I've been out of town for some business."
Teacher Zhu said, "Hurry up and go to Professor Wu's office. He's already arranged for people to look for you a few times. They're just here to see if you're back."
"Then who's taking over my recent classes?"
Chen Yun said, "Who else could it be other than me? Tell me, how are you going to compensate me? "
"Thank you. I'll treat you to a feast tonight. You can choose any restaurant you want."
Li He did not continue the small talk and hurried to Professor Wu's office.
He knocked on the door and entered. Professor Wu was engrossed in writing. He did not even look up and only asked casually, "You're back?"
"I'm back, Professor Wu. I'm sorry to have made you worry." Li He's attitude was very appropriate.
"Write a self-reflection report for the Academic Affairs Group meeting tomorrow. Keep it for reading."
"Ah!" Li He hurriedly said, "Professor Wu, there's no need for that."
Professor Wu raised his head and asked, "Is there a problem?"
"No problem." Li He did not say anything more. Professor Wu usually took care of him. If he insisted on going against him, it would not be very meaningful.
Chen Yun had been taking over classes since the start of the semester. When Li He started classes in the afternoon, the freshmen were still very unfamiliar with him and thought that the teacher had been changed.
During the roll call, Li He found a lot of big names, but he was not as excited as he was at the beginning. He began to get used to it.
He went to the dormitory to find Mu Yan. "Give me a self-reflection report."
"Well, you think I'm a wholesale department?"
Li He smiled. "I don't have any experience, so I don't know how to write it. Just write it for me."
Mu Yan laughed. "Do you think I have experience? I've never missed a class or asked for leave. "
"Don't make it difficult for me. I really don't know how to write it. I'll come and get it tomorrow morning." Li He did not give Mu Yan a chance to refute and immediately left the dormitory. Yang Ling enthusiastically asked him to stay for dinner, and he could only smile and refuse.
Early the next morning, Mu Yan went to his office, threw an envelope to him, turned around and left.
Li He happily opened it. Sure enough, it was a book of reflection with deep understanding and a perfect summary.
When he read it aloud at the meeting, Professor Wu unconsciously frowned several times. There were more than 20 people in the audience. At this time, if someone clapped his hands, he must be up to no good. It was obvious that he was mocking him.
When the meeting was over, Professor Wu asked him to stay alone. "Don't think too highly of yourself. Your value is not determined by yourself, but by others. If you think highly of yourself, others will look down on you; if you think lowly of yourself, others will look up to you. Intellectuals suffer losses because they think too highly of themselves and can't put down their airs. "
Li He did not understand the meaning of this sentence, so he asked, "Is there anything wrong with my self-reflection?"
"I'm not going to talk to you anymore. Remember what I said. You won't suffer losses if you keep your tail between your legs." Professor Wu stood up, picked up the documents, and left the meeting room.
Li He felt unlucky. He did not know what kind of bad luck he had offended Professor Wu. It was simply inexplicable!
In the office, the three teachers were laughing. When Chen Yun saw Li He come in, she smiled and asked, "You've embarrassed yourself today, haven't you?"
"Is it necessary to read a self-reflection report?" Li He was still upset about it.
Teacher Zhu said, "The self-reflection report was definitely not written by you."
"How is it not written by me?"
Chen Yun said, "Who are you trying to fool? Don't we all know how good you are? If you wrote it yourself, it would at most be a template essay with the same clichés. But the one you read at the meeting, don't be too good. It's flowery, and you can't write it. "
Li He said, "Is it wrong to write a good one?"
Chen Yun said, "It's right to write a good one, and it's not wrong to find someone to write it for you. What's wrong is that you read it in public, and you read it so loudly. Aren't you trying to fool Director Wu? What if someone learns from you and tries to fool him? How can Director Wu carry out his work in the future? "
Teacher Zhu also said, "Ideological work is no small matter."
"Sigh, I admit defeat." Li He finally realized that he was being frivolous. He was very upset. He did not know if he should say that he was too arrogant when he was young, or that he was too forgetful when he was old. He could not even achieve the common sense of having a proper style of conduct and strict discipline in a meeting!
Meetings had to have a serious and serious attitude. This was a cognitive standard that humans had formed in the process of development. This was because this was the only way to show that you valued the meeting!
Although some meetings were just for show, most people knew about it and understood it, but no one said it out loud. Everyone had to speak empty words in the meeting, emphasizing the common sense of having a proper style of conduct and discipline. This was the consensus of everyone.
To the participants, it was a compulsory "internal strength" to practice all sorts of rules and regulations. In his previous life, he had already cultivated to a very high level, but in this life, he had lost all of it. He was unconsciously casual in many meetings.
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