In the county town, the brightest lights are not on the streets, but in the buildings.
There are lights in the conference room, office lights, and duty room lights in the building, as well as the flickering lights in many people's hearts. Some people use the lamp to walk up, some are illuminated by the lamp and have nowhere to hide, and some people stand under the lamp for a lifetime, but in the end they are just a shadow on the edge of someone else's steps.
Chen Yansheng climbed up from the bottom step.
He comes from an ordinary background, has no background, and has no noble people. After graduating from college, he was admitted to the county and landed in the most miserable and miserable grassroots position. Streets, petitions, demolitions, stability maintenance, projects, inspections, any mess can drag people into the mud. He happened to have two things: a mouth that was a little damaged but not unpleasant, and a pair of bones that refused to bend completely at a critical moment.
He knows how to save face for his leaders, a way out for his colleagues, and hope for the masses; he also knows when to laugh, when to endure, when to hide the knife behind his words, and when to show his heart to the people.
He is not a naturally upright official, nor is he a perfect hero.
He knows how to toast, pass cigarettes, borrow strength, look at faces, and borrow favors.
But one thing he is better than many people is: every time he climbs up, he does not step on innocent people.
Every time a game is broken, it is not luck, but brains, means, courage, and the original intention that has never been destroyed.
From the most humble clerk in the subdistrict office to a key position in the county; from being bossed around, suppressed, and blamed by others, to gaining a firm foothold in the turbulent and intrigues of the officialdom——
