Chapter 14:? Civil affairs investigation and research bureau

In front of a nine-story building on the outskirts of the capital, I stared at the nine characters on the bronze plate in front of the door-the investigation and research bureau of the Civil Affairs Department. If there is no company address on the employment application form, I don't think I can find this bureau.

What the hell is this place? This is the capital, even outside the Fifth Ring Road, there is still an inch of land. How can there be such a big clearing and a building standing alone? Downstairs, I stopped an elder sister to ask for directions. She looked at the plaque opposite and said to me, "What civil affairs investigation and research bureau?" Never heard of it. "

Going in or leaving is a question. Just as I was thinking, a familiar voice sounded behind me: "Dude, do you know where the Bureau of Investigation and Research of the Civil Affairs Department is?" As soon as I turned around, I saw a big chubby face grinning at me.

"Fuck you!" The fat man was a little surprised to see me.

I gave him a white look. "Please be civilized. What do you mean, "fuck you"? Can you stop talking in bits and pieces? " Speaking of which, I pointed to the plaque in front of the building. Fat man smiled and said, "a slip of the tongue, well, what a coincidence. You're here to report? "

I paused, "you mean I also come to report for duty? Is there still your business here? Aren't you in the anti-drug department? "

The fat man listened to my words with a tangled face. "Don't mention it, I fucking transferred it."

It turned out that the fat man, like me, returned to the narcotics division and got promoted, so he hung up the title of section chief. The position of section chief hasn't warmed up yet. Almost on the same day I retired, Fat Man received a phone call and reported it to the Civil Affairs Department for investigation and study.

Although I'm not an old friend in a foreign country, I'm a half acquaintance, but there's another thing that's a headache. I asked the fat man about the investigation and research bureau of the Civil Affairs Department, but it's a pity that he was completely blind and couldn't say why.

"Here, more like it? We all escaped from the dead pool, and we still care about this game? " Fat face doesn't care, pulling me inside.

It's no different from an ordinary office, except that it's a little after ten in the morning and there's no one in the building. I walked around the first floor with the fat man until the second floor, and I saw a man at the elevator entrance.

This man is tall and thin, in his thirties but under forty. When he heard that we were here to report for duty, he immediately looked at me and the fat man. The expression on her face is elusive. "Come and report, and go to the director's office on the sixth floor to find Director Gao."

Why don't you report to the personnel department and go directly to the director? I thought I didn't make it clear, so I repeated it. The tall and thin man showed impatience and said, "I didn't say that." How many times do you want me to say it? " Sixth floor, director's office! "Say that finish no longer ignore us, also don't look back into the elevator.

"Say two more words and I'll kill you." The fat man muttered to himself at the closed elevator door. I patted him on the shoulder. "Let's go, it has nothing to do with the elevator."

As soon as I get out of the elevator, I can see the director's office. The tall and thin man I just met is still standing at the door. He won't be director Gao, will he? I muttered something in my heart, and the fat man seemed to be outspoken. He walked a few steps, first held out his hand and said, "Are you Director Gao? I am ... "

Tall a pie mouth, "didn't I say that I like to have more than two hundred catties of fat? Go in, Director Gao is waiting for you. "

Before the fat man could answer back, someone in the office said, "Hello? Hao, you bring them in. "After the tall man agreed, he blinked at me and the fat man. "Go in, please welcome the director."

This is my first time in the director's office. It doesn't seem like a big deal now. It's just that the house is bigger and better decorated, the office furniture is higher and the indoor lighting is brighter.

This office is the cloakroom, outside is the living room, and inside is the real director's office. Fat man and I followed the tall man into the back room. A middle-aged man who is fatter than a fat man is sitting behind a desk and smiling at us.

I've seen this man! More than a month ago, it was he who took the stagnant pool from the squadron leader with a piece of paper. Yes, with this smile, the mid-team leader gave up the territory in a few words.

Wait a minute! I suddenly had a reaction. I just met a month ago, and I "retired" a month later. I happen to have a job waiting for me in the veterans office. On the first day of reporting for duty, I saw two fat people, who were in the stagnant pool. What a coincidence, huh? Will anyone believe that all this was not deliberately arranged?

Different from my reaction, the fat man around me is cocked his head and looked at the fat man behind the table. He looked suspicious and wanted to talk, but he hesitated. No wonder the middle-aged fat man was lying on the ground shoveling water when he appeared in the stagnant pool. My impression of him is naturally not as good as mine.

The tall and thin man who walked in front of us spoke: "Gao Ju, they are here to report for duty. I didn't say we should be assigned to our room this time, did I? "

The middle-aged fat man looked at him and said, "Is this something you are worried about? I don't know how to introduce someone? "

The tall and thin man made a ha ha, waved to the middle-aged fat man and said, "This is Gao Liang, the director of the Bureau of Public Opinion Investigation and Research. Our Civil Affairs Bureau has no deputy director and no secretary. This acre is divided into three points, and Director Gao has the final say. "

Say that finish, he waved to me and the fat man. "You two speak for yourselves."

"Ha ha, no need." Director Gao smiled and then said, "We know each other. We met more than a month ago, didn't we? "

"Oh." The fat man finally remembered, "I remember, you have been to the dead pool."

Director Gao looked at us with a smile and said, "Don't mention the past, we will be a family in the future. Sit and talk, smoke? " Then he took out a box of unopened cigarettes from the drawer and handed it to me.

What kind of cigarette is this? Red packaging skin, without any text icon, just a triangular stamp on the lid. I tore open the wrapping paper and pulled out a cigarette. Hmm? Why is the filter of this cigarette so long? Almost as long as a cigarette. Finally saw the trademark, two words-panda. The legendary national treasure.

"Half." The fat face of the fat man has leaned in. I handed him the cigarette in my hand. "Here, save it." Say that finish conveniently put the cigarette case in your pocket.

Director Gao ha ha smiled, took out a pack of cigarettes and threw them to the fat man, then went straight to the point: "Cut the crap, I read your file, and your performance in the original unit was excellent. I believe that polling stations will have a better development. The bureau has made a decision, and you two, Shen La and Sun Desheng, have been assigned to work in the investigation room. " He pointed to the tall man. "This is the director of your investigation room, Hao. Well, you have signed the work contract, and the rest will be introduced by Director Hao. "

What do you mean? That's it? I squinted at the fat man. This guy's eyes approached me intentionally or unintentionally. There is no need to count on him, just rely on yourself.

I coughed, cleared my throat, and then smiled and said to the fat man, "Director Gao, you also said that we will be a family in the future. So what about the water curtain hole in the dead pool? You told your family that it shouldn't be a problem? " The fat man echoed the voice: "Yes, the two leaders are family members. Can't they speak two languages? "

"Of course it's not a problem." The tall fat man's smiling eyes make me feel uneasy. He added: "But I don't know how you judge the standard of' family'."

Hao took out two crumpled pieces of paper from his pocket and spread it out in front of me and the fat man, saying, "I didn't sign this work contract to say that Director Gao meant that we were a family." The time of the two people is just right, and the cooperation is quite tacit, giving people a feeling of special practice. I looked at these two pieces of paper that can't be wiped, and muttered to myself: Have you two done pyramid schemes before? How many people are trapped?

Fat man picked up the contract swept a few eye, immediately found the problem, "I depend! Are you kidding? The contract is valid for 99 years? " Say that finish stare big eyes looked at me.

Why are you looking at me? you are talking to the wrong person. I grumpily stared his one eye, then turned to the chubby man and said with a wry smile, "Director Gao and Director Hao, our Bureau of Investigation and Research of the Civil Affairs Department is really a family. Living together for 99 years, growing old together, is really happy. However, we are worried that the contract will not expire. "

"Ha ha, shen, you're kidding, what is the 99-year contract? Iron rice bowl, now this year, who still thinks the contract period is long? " The tall fat man went on to say, "I heard that you saw and heard something unusual on the altar of Yunnan people." I wonder if it is better now? "

Before I could speak, the fat man's face had changed color. "How do you know? I thought it was really dizziness and tinnitus at first, but I didn't expect to see some messy things after I came out. I dare not go out at night recently. Last week was July 15, and I dare not open the window. " The fat man's tone of voice is a little shaky.

"Are you a little exaggerated? Are you that powerful? " I looked at the fat man's grandiose expression and said.

Unexpectedly, the fat man turned his eyes to me and said, "How can Sun Desheng be compared with you?"? You were born to look at those things. You have long been used to them, and he has only recently reacted. "

The fat man's words made me dumbfounded. I never told anyone about opening my eyes. How did he know?

Director Gao is very satisfied with my reaction with the fat man. He smiled at both of us and said, "We are a family when you enter the Civil Affairs Bureau. Whether it is natural or recent troubles, our family members will help you solve it. "

I didn't move, and the fat man hesitated and signed his name at the signature of the contract. Director Gao watched him sign the contract, turned his head and looked at me again and said, "Shen, do you have any questions?"

I scratched my head and said, "Director Gao, tell the truth, don't be ridiculous. I left school and went to the barracks. I don't know much about some government agencies. It is not clear about the functions and powers of the Civil Affairs Investigation and Research Bureau. Can you introduce it? "

"Ha ha, Shen, you're a little interesting." He pointed at me and said with a smile, "It's a little difficult to introduce our work functions to outsiders, but both you and Sun Xiao have opened their eyes. It can be said that we have come into contact with the work scope of the Civil Affairs Bureau." At this point, the bright smile faded a little, and his face became a little serious. "To put it bluntly, the job of our Civil Affairs Bureau is to deal with some events that cannot be explained by science, such as the dead pool in Yunnan. In fact, when we met in Yunnan, you guessed a little, didn't you, Shen? "

"Haha, I guessed when I came in and saw you." I laughed a few times and said that ghosts and gods were confused and my son was silent. It doesn't look like a good place to stay. It is not appropriate to stay here for a long time! I said, "Director Gao, I don't think I am suitable for the work of the Civil Affairs Bureau. I'm really sorry to waste your precious time. " I said a few kind words when I left.

The fat man's reaction was a bit unexpected. He just smiled. He doesn't seem to care much about whether I resign or not. "Nothing embarrassed, looking for a job is also a two-way choice. Shen, I wish you a better job. " Then he stood up and shook my hand.

Just when I thought I was about to leave, the fat man casually stopped me and said, "Shen, don't leave yet." It suddenly occurred to me that it is necessary to tell you something. "

"Huh?" I'm halfway up. I can't kneel down. I don't understand what he means. The tall and fat man went on to say, "I heard that you were born with eyes, and something happened to you when you were young." Then someone gave you an idea to wash your hair with black dog blood to cover your eyes, right? "

"Go on, don't mention it." Send someone to my hometown to find the bottom? You don't have to touch the bottom of the sea so deeply, do you? The tall fat man looked surprised when he saw me and said with a smile, "But the person who gives advice is an idiot. The eye of heaven is the soul, and the blood of black dog is the obstacle. Take it to cover your soul, alas! "

The tall fat man shook his head with a wry smile, and then said, "Washing your hair with black dog blood looks like covering your eyes, but it just makes your eyes dirty." As time goes on, eyes will reappear.

"Every time you open your eyes again, you will attract the floating aura around you like a magnetic field. If you are unlucky, it is not unusual to encounter a water ghost being robbed. Moreover, Tian Yan's ability will become stronger and stronger, and hospitals and cemeteries will not be able to go in the future; Always remember the Lunar New Year in the future, such as July 15th in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Stay at home honestly and don't open the window and look around, then scare yourself! Huh? Shen, you don't look well. Forget it. I said too much. Go back to rest early. "

Even when I was a child, I met a water ghost. But I've seen too many things these days. I still want to go to the market to buy a black dog and take a bath after reporting for duty today. ...

The tall fat man still looked at me with a smile, and Hao came up to me and looked at the posture to put away the contract. I no longer hesitated, gritted my teeth, grabbed a pen and signed two Chinese characters-Shen La.

"High commissioner, I figured it out. I won't enter the Civil Affairs Bureau, who will? " He handed the contract to the tall fat man.

"Why don't you think about it? Don't be reluctant. " When the fat man looked at me, there was a trace of ponder in his eyes.

"Hehe." I'm a quick laugh, "what else is there to consider? I'm from the Civil Affairs Bureau. Director Gao, since we are a family, can you help us solve our difficulties? "

"It's easy to solve your troubles." The tall fat man put out his cigarette and said, "You should have heard the old saying that ghosts are afraid of the wicked. In fact, the people who go to hell are usually old people, children and women. Their yang is weak and they are easily possessed by evil spirits. If you are a person with strong yang, all evil spirits should stay away. "

"What is the sun be the spirit? Does a boy count? " Fat man stare big eyes, solemnly asked.

"oh? I don't know. Sun Xiao, you are still very innocent. " Not only is the tall and fat man smirked, but even the expression on Hao's face, which was originally cold next to him, has enriched at the moment.

The fat man was a little embarrassed and turned slightly red. He explained, "I want it for others." Okay ... I didn't. "

"I understand, I understand." The smile on Director Gao's face is worse.

"High commissioner, do you have a pen and paper here? I want to record it. " Out of humanitarianism, I changed the topic and gave the fat man a step.

"These don't need to remember. You will know when you grow up. " Tall and fat, he added, "a child-like man is not the characteristic of a man with strong yang." Judging whether the yang is strong or not depends mainly on the fortune at that time. People's fortune is divided into three declines and six booms. When the fortune is prosperous to the extreme, the yang in the body will also flourish. At this point, it can be said that all evils are invulnerable.

"Women due to congenital conditions, is doomed to be Yin flourishes while Yang declines, we don't have to consider first. Children can't inherit Liu Wang's property until they are sixteen. The elderly, on the other hand, are extremely prosperous and will decline, and their fortunes are basically declining. As for mature men, it can't be said that everyone is full of yang, because there are many things to vent yang, such as anger, bleeding, foul language, lewd drinking and even a cold and fever. Not to mention that some men are limited, and the yang is not as good as the average woman. "

The fat man said helplessly, "So there are not many young people?"

"Let me finish first." At chubby Sun Man, the tall fat man said, "What you just said is congenital condition, and there are ways to make up for it. For example, psychologists and Buddhists, their practice methods are basically just the way of reaching Yang. Not to mention some exorcism props and equipment. "

After hearing this, I asked, "Director Gao, do you mean that we will become monks after joining the Civil Affairs Bureau? I don't know, I am the eldest son of my family, and I have to go home to discuss this matter. "

"You two have questions, can't you let me finish?" High fat man said easily, "forget it, also at enmity with you in detail. In a word, our Civil Affairs Bureau has its own way to solve the problem. Ok, Hao, you take them away. "