Walking on the Edge of Officialdom｜Drinking Chapter 2

Everyone who hangs around the officialdom knows this. They are often scolded by their wives: "You drink like this, you look like a pig! You can't drink less. If you don't drink, you will drink." Will I pour it into your mouth? "

My dear wives, we really don’t know what to do. We unlucky guys often sigh to ourselves: Our stomach is not ours, it belongs to our work unit, and to our leaders. We can hold as much wine as they want you to! !

In the institution, whoever can drink is favored. Leaders are willing to bring along cadres who can drink when they go up to hold a meeting or go down below to conduct an inspection or something.

You can’t drink. If you don’t drink two cups, you won’t know the east, west, north and south. You won’t be able to take care of yourself, let alone take care of the leader. You will embarrass the leader in front of the other party. The leader will have nothing to support. I will take you!

It would be different if you could drink. If you could drink yourself, you could help the leader at critical moments. If you gained enough face in front of the other party, would the leader be unhappy? !

The wives who dare to love said again, do you insist on following the leader? Now we have to say that you have long hair but short knowledge. We are grown men, who doesn’t want to be appreciated by the leader, who doesn’t want to make progress, who wants to be the best!

Someone said that the greatest sorrow for a man is the failure of his career. Therefore, who is not trying to win the appreciation of the leader and hoping to be reused by the leader? !

Sometimes, we are really helpless. Yes, some guys laughed at themselves in the wine shop and said: Drink it, drink it to death, you will still be a man twenty years later, and you can still drink more than a pound! His words are serious and his heart is heavy, how can he use a sour word!

The leaders of the wine shop have a strange mentality: they have to drink someone down before they feel excited and happy. Perhaps this is also a sense of accomplishment for them.

In general, one or two targets must be targeted at a drinking party, and some even have to discuss in advance who will be the important target today, and everyone will focus on him, and we will not stop until we get drunk!

Finally one day, it was my little prick’s turn. It was a windy and dark night five years ago, with the north wind blowing and no stars in the sky. Another colleague named Wei and I were honored to be selected by our leaders to take over the leadership of a newly arrived department leader.

I received the notification in the morning and told me what to do in the evening. There's going to be another fierce battle tonight! There was a tacit understanding.

We both made a lot of preparations beforehand. One is to eat more at noon to fill up the stomach, because people who often drink alcohol know that it is not easy to get drunk when you are hungry. We ate rice, noodles, and bought two sesame seed cakes on the street before dinner.

Time flies like an arrow, and time flies like a shuttle. Before I knew it, it was already past six o'clock in the afternoon. The sky was dark, the lights were dim, and the street lights were twinkling. Under the friendly guidance of the leader, we drove to the hotel for dinner.

Five cars slowly drove into the city's highest-star hotel, the Golden Dragon Hotel. I am very familiar with this hotel. I often accompany the leaders and receive receptions for superiors. But there is absolutely no one who has come here at his own expense. With that little salary, I would not come even if I were killed.

The motorcade slowly stopped in front of the hotel foyer, and the attentive etiquette man hurried over to open the door. I took the leader's water glass and bag (it is the leader's habit to carry the bag when drinking), and we entered room 888 proudly as the beautiful women on both sides of the aisle greeted each other respectfully.

Entering the room, the logistics director had already ordered the cold dishes. After the leaders took their seats according to their official positions, we little officials also sat respectfully with their backs to the door.

Looking around, we can see that it is magnificent and magnificent. These two words cannot be overstated. Soft lights surrounded the leader, and his face was filled with a peaceful and peaceful light.

Today’s theme is to welcome Minister Ma to take office. The leaders all greeted politely in accordance with the procedures. We also mechanically kept smiling faces and smiled in agreement. We listened to the leaders’ speeches with knowledge and piety. Make a statement. The leader's conversation was lively, but after all, it had nothing to do with wine, so we stopped and just talked about wine.

After three drinks, the leaders’ faces were glowing and they were in high spirits. After about three ounces each, when the leaders' conversation had subsided, and they probably felt that it had been quiet here all the time, the director's eyes finally fell horribly on my and colleague Wei's faces.

"Is it okay for you two to drink?" The director looked at us kindly, and other leaders also gathered their eyes in unison.

"They can do it." Just when we were at a loss, our beloved Deputy Director Li said, "Both of them drink more than a pound. They are here to drink with the leader."< /p>

"Yes, yes." I muttered pitifully. "It's okay, I can drink it!" Wei boy actually stood up and said decisively. This boy must have had no choice but to pretend. I also had to stand up and agree, "Okay, you can drink it."

"Okay. I'm happy today, let's have a few drinks." The director took the wet wipes handed by the waiter and wiped the vegetable leaves, and encouraged us, "Don't be afraid, I'm all six." I'm over ten years old, so why should I be afraid of you? It's okay if you two can come here to explain that not everyone can come to this place to drink like this."

"Yes. Yes. "We were both flattered."

"In this case," the director stood up and gave instructions as usual, "you two will drink three drinks each, and I will drink two drinks. After all, I am an old guy, not as good as you young people." "

"Don't, don't," the deputy directors nearby advised the director. "Director, you can drink as much as you want. Let the young people drink more." "No, no," the director refused." I'm happy today, and I haven't drank for two days. It won't hurt if I drink more." Then he said to the two of us, "I will give you a condition for drinking today, which is also a test. Drinking three cups in a row, there are three conditions: first, you are not allowed to sit there to drink; second, you are not allowed to eat vegetables; third, you are not allowed to drink water. "Oh my god, it's too poisonous!" I was thinking in my mind but didn't dare to say it out loud.

Wei Zi and I stood up and picked up the large glass of wine that had been prepared in front of us. We all knew that this glass of wine was a small amount of wine! The air was probably solid by this time, so quiet that you could hear a speck of dust falling on the ground. In full view, drink! Someone has long said that a widow walking at night is splashed with water!

Gudong, gudong, two glasses of wine poured into our stomachs respectively. "Pa pa pa pa", applause, laughter. After drinking one cup, I felt a little warm, but none of us had any abnormal reactions. We knew in our hearts that this cup was nothing. But from the laughter, I felt that I was a monkey being tricked.

The second glass of wine was already in our hands. Looking at the perverted expectations of the leaders around us, we both drank again with our necks raised. More warm applause and laughter.

At this time, I felt a fever on my face and my stomach was churning. Our biggest hope was to be able to drink water and eat food. However, the director had something to say first, so we could only look at the tempting tea and food on the table. The food and wine are drooling.

"Let's have a third cup!" The director stood up again excitedly, "I'll touch the little thorn first!" He said, clinking my cup with a "bang" sound, and then stood up Needless to say, everyone applauded after he drank it. What are you waiting for! The director drank first, so drink. Without thinking, I poured the wine into my poor stomach again.

At this time, I vaguely saw the director and Mr. Wei drinking wine, but my stomach was like a dragon making waves in the sea, and huge waves were rolling. I really felt like the stuff in my stomach was going to rush outward.

"Sit down, sit down, and have some food." I don't know which leader showed mercy and let us sit down to drink water and eat food. Yes, we have already drank three large glasses.

People sat down, but where could they eat anything? Look around again, why are these leaders behind glass? Looking to the left, my lovely colleague Xiao Wei is leaning on the table without looking up.

But after a while, Comrade Xiaowei finally raised his lovely head under the friendly call of the director. But his face was as green as Bao Gong, and his eyes were as red as red. Based on the expressions of the leaders around me, I concluded that the leaders were satisfied with our performance and kept praising us.

"Not bad, I'm really touched." I raised my heavy eyelids and carefully identified the new leader Ma who had been silent on the right front, and saw him stand up steadily.

"Today is to support me. It's great that the two little brothers are so generous. Let's do this. I won't let you drink three cups. Let's have a cup together!"

Yes, someone who specializes in catching people's wind! Two soft noodles stood up, this is fatal! But the leaders don’t think so. They are happy because they want to watch a good show!

Minister Ma drank it gracefully first, and the two of us drank it slowly, like drinking medicine. But after many difficult continuous battles, I finally finished drinking.

I felt dizzy, the contents of my stomach had reached my throat, and I couldn’t sit down anymore. I rushed out the door like a phone call, and with the help of a waiter, I went to the bathroom. Wow. Wow——, set up the loudspeaker and broadcast a lively and vivid broadcast to the earth.

I can’t remember clearly what happened after I came out of the bathroom. I only remember that someone helped me to my home, and I slept until about ten o’clock the next day.

Later I found out that it was a deputy director who called a colleague and asked his colleagues to send us home. After this incident, my colleague Wei and I became famous. There are legends everywhere that we can drink, and we can drink a pound and a half in one breath without blinking, which is miraculous.

Leaders also call us "drinking buddies" on informal occasions: we have time to drink! From then on, the leaders usually asked us to go to any activities. At best, we were accompanying the leaders in the activities, so that the leaders would look up to them; at worst, we were there to act as cannon fodder.

But if you pay, you will gain. We sacrificed our stomachs and were appreciated by the leaders. We also got things that others could not get. Wei and I are the fastest progressers in the unit. hehe! I feel sad and happy at the same time, I want to laugh and cry at the same time!

Preface to Walking on the Edge of Officialdom

Walking on the Edge of Officialdom and Drinking Chapter 1

Walking on the Edge of Officialdom and Drinking Chapter 2

Day 23 of Wujie 365 Writing Training Camp, Chapter 23