In the midsummer of 2005, three young people who were admitted as transfer students from East China Provincial University embarked on their respective official careers in different corners of Hongjiang County, Yangchuan City. Gu Lisheng, who was born in a poor family, plunged into Qingshiling Township, the poorest town in the county, and worked in leaky utility rooms and muddy mountain roads with his original intention of doing things for the people and became a doer rooted in the local area; Bi Chenggong, who grew up in the system, became a county government official. , In the confines of the agency, he knows the rules and works step by step, and vows to get rid of the regrets of his father's generation; Han Jiangxue, who comes from a scholarly family, joins the county cultural bureau, and amidst the turmoil and undercurrents of the world, he keeps the cleanliness and integrity in his bones and refuses to bow to the dirt.
Twenty years of ups and downs in the official world, three people, three fates. Some people find faith in the soil of the grassroots, some lose their souls in the maze of power, and some rebuild themselves after being broken. Some people reached the shore, some were stranded, and some were still on the road. After all, I can't escape that sentence——
A man with a coir raincoat in a lone boat, fishing alone in the snow in the cold river.
What are you fishing for? It is never a fish in the river, but a person's original intention.
I would like to dedicate this book to everyone who fishes alone on the river of life.
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Thank you to every reader who has followed up here. To be honest, I am very satisfied that someone can read this book. Anyone who writes about officialdom knows that this job is thankless - if you write shallowly, some people will say you don't understand; if you write deeply, some people will say you are too tired. But I still want to write, and I want to tell you about the people I saw and what I experienced at the grassroots level in those years through Gu Lisheng, Bi Chenggong, and Han Jiangxue.
Someone asked me: Why do I start from visiting the prison twenty years later?
Because I want you to know from the beginning that these three people did not all "get along" in the end. Where will Bi Chenggong go, how will Gu Lisheng defend himself in the cracks, and what obstacles will Han Jiangxue encounter - these questions, like you, I am thinking about while writing. I can't say how exciting it will be later, but I can guarantee one thing: I will take every character seriously. He will not let Gu Lisheng cheat for the sake of pleasure, he will not let Han Jiangxue fall for the sake of torture, and he will not turn Bi Chenggong into a stereotyped bad guy for the sake of educational significance. How they live is their own choice.
Thank you for being willing to accompany them on this journey. I read every comment, and I am anxious for every reminder. Next, I will continue to write and try not to keep you waiting for too long.
Thank you to every reader who has followed up here. To be honest, I am very satisfied that someone can read this book. Anyone who writes about officialdom knows that this job is thankless - if you write shallowly, some people will say you don't understand; if you write deeply, some people will say you are too tired. But I still want to write, and I want to tell you about the people I saw and what I experienced at the grassroots level in those years through Gu Lisheng, Bi Chenggong, and Han Jiangxue. Someone asked me: Why do I start from visiting the prison twenty years later? Because I want you to know from the beginning that these three people did not all "get along" in the end. Where will Bi Chenggong go, how will Gu Lisheng defend himself in the cracks, and what obstacles will Han Jiangxue encounter - these questions, like you, I am thinking about while writing. I can't say how exciting it will be later, but I can guarantee one thing: I will take every character seriously. He will not let Gu Lisheng cheat for the sake of pleasure, he will not let Han Jiangxue fall for the sake of torture, and he will not turn Bi Chenggong into a stereotyped bad guy for the sake of educational significance. How they live is their own choice. Thank you for being willing to accompany them on this journey. I read every comment, and I am anxious for every reminder. Next, I will continue to write and try not to keep you waiting for too long.