"Smoke from a Poor Family" (Formerly Known as "The Familiar Smell of the Kang's Smoke") - the Grassroots Counterattack Fireworks Within the System, and the Bloody Conspiracy Wafting Out of the Kang's Head
"Xiao Feng, format this report in No. 4 Regular script and send it to my office before ten o'clock tonight." Secretary Bai tapped her nails painted in Dior 999 on Huanghuali's desk, and the Chanel No. 5 Perfume overshadowed the vague smell of cheap hair oil on her body.
I clutched the returned documents, with firewood ashes from the kang in my hometown still embedded between my fingernails. Three months ago, I was admitted to the provincial department from the township finance office, but when I was going to report my work, I ran into a "closed-door meeting" between Secretary Bai and the director in charge. The woman who said she wanted to "train young people" had a resume with a rural background exactly like mine lying in her drawer - except that her end point was at the senior level, and my starting point was her stepping stone.
Until that day when I was sorting out old files, I smelled the familiar smell of kang smoke in the 1998 transfer order. On the yellowed page, next to Secretary Bai's "exceptional promotion" annotation, there is half a muddy shoe print - it is exactly the same as the mille-layer sole my father sent me to college with.
√ Rural Dog × Agency Daji: When the girl who burns firewood at the kang meets the female leader who relies on her nepotism to get to the top, whose cigarette ashes will burn through the ceiling first?
√ Control of institutional details: From the punctuation marks of meeting minutes to the seat knowledge of the welcome dinner, every pore is filled with secret warfare in the workplace.
√ Local suspense line: Each chapter contains a "special recipe" from his hometown Kangtou, and the buckwheat cakes contain secrets of officialdom in the 1990s.
√ Women help each other: the enamel jar of the cleaning aunt, the reading glasses of the retired section chief, those neglected "leftovers of the system" form the strongest anti-killing alliance
Purpose: To help more grassroots in the workplace and the system gain a foothold in government agencies and units