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I gave her a hard look over my shoulder, stood up, went into the doorway and sat down, away from her.

Mei Ling did not follow him.

After a while, he suddenly heard her raised her voice, "It's a shame that you've been working with me for so many years advertising, it's a good thing that you're from the Ministry of Propaganda, you can't even manage a single newspaper, and you've made such a low level mistake, making a disgrace of yourself, a disgraceful thing …"

Ma Shuji nodded and accepted it, then bid farewell to the Secretary-General, and led Mei Ling and I away.

I came here for nothing. I was not reprimanded, and I was not received.

I realized that a pawn like me wasn't even qualified to be taught a lesson.

Once they were in the car, Ma Shuji wiped his sweat as he handed over the book to Mei Ling. "Inform the Editorial Board, have them organize people to learn the laws of the country and learn seriously. After that, they will write a book to learn from it."

Mei Ling promised and took it.

"Also, inform the members of Party committee of newspaper to meet in my office in half an hour to study the handling of this matter …" Ma Shuji said again.

Mei Ling immediately got her office's secretary to handle the matter.

Then, Ma Shuji muttered to himself, "This hurdle has finally been passed. This old man has been cursing …"

"Xiao Jiang, you saw it all right? In the future, work hard and pay attention to what's going on. You've all made mistakes, and the leader is going to receive the punishment in your place …" Mei Ling began to educate me again in front of Ma Shuji, "Ma Shuji has always admired you, you better not disappoint his expectations …"

When Mei Ling was alone with me, shshedidn't dare fart. But when she was in front of Ma Shuji, he was extremely nimble.

Returning to the newspaper, I went straight back to my office. When I passed by Liu Fei's office, he came back, called me over, went in, lowered his head, and stamped his feet again: "Aiya, tell me, I'm really messing around, how come I didn't notice that mistake, sigh … "It's my fault, I was careless …"

I know, Liu Fei already knew about this.

I didn't say anything, I remained expressionless as I stared at Liu Fei for a good three seconds. Then, I quietly turned around and returned to my office.

I know, Liu Fei must be extremely happy at this moment.

I've made my own mistakes, I have nothing to say, I can't blame anyone else.

In the afternoon, after the research of the Party Committee, the result of my punishment came out: first, the withholding of a month's salary; secondly, the writing of a profound examination, which was publicly reviewed at a general meeting of the staff; and thirdly, the transfer of the position of journalist to the Party Committee's office as an ordinary staff member, which was immediately handed over to the staff, and the arrival of the post at once.

This means that I will soon become Mei Ling's direct subordinate.

I don't know if this punishment contained Mei Ling's intentions, but I know that Ma Shuji was actually very protective of him, and would consult Mei Ling on some matters. I heard from Chen Jing that when the positions were adjusted, there was once a department head who was stronger than Mei Ling who fought over the position of Chief of Staff with Mei Ling, thus, when Mei Ling cried, he angered Ma Shuji, and with a big wave of his hand, Ma Shuji directly sent him to the Distribution Department to be a normal person, and gave him a bracketed Normal level.

I can't accept working under Mei Ling's leadership. I want to beat her up the moment I see her, how can I work?

Besides, after these months of exercise, I had fallen deeply in love with journalism, and I couldn't imagine what it would be like if I left it.

My heart was in pain.

On the other hand, Liu Fei was very excited when he heard that I was transferred to the Party office. He suddenly expressed an unusually warm and intimate feeling towards me, saying that I got lucky from misfortune and went to work in the Party office.

Liu Fei proactively proposed that all the people in the department send me off tonight, he was treating me to food.

I arranged my books and materials in a simple manner. Looking at Liu Fei's happy and passionate smile, and the rolling eyeballs behind his glasses, I knew that Liu Fei must be feeling relaxed, happy, and happy right now.

I declined Liu Fei's good intentions and calmly nodded my head at everyone. Then I carried my things to the office of the Party Committee on the second floor and went to report to Mei Ling.

As I left the Department of Public Information's door, I saw that Chen Jing's eyes were filled with tears.

At that moment, I was very touched.

Mei Ling was waiting for me at the Office. Seeing me come in, he revealed a bright smile: "Come, I'll arrange a table for you. In a while, I'll get someone to bring down the computer you're using.

I didn't say anything, and followed Mei Ling's instructions, placing the things on my new desk, then coldly looked at Mei Ling, and directly pushed the door open to go to Ma Shuji's office.

Ma Shuji was reading the newspaper when he saw me enter. He raised his head and said, "Xiao Jiang, come in!"

To be honest, I have no objections to this punishment, and even more so, I don't have any complaints towards Ma Shuji. I know that Ma Shuji really likes me and wants to nurture me, but it's just that I can't do it myself.

"Ma Shuji, I want to go down and take some exercise!" I didn't sit down, but stood opposite of Ma Shuji and said directly to him.

"Oh …" Ma Shuji looked up at me. "Where do you want to train? How do I go out and train? "

"I want to go down and help the poor!" A few days ago, I participated in a poverty reduction meeting. I knew that soon, the various organizations would organize a poverty reduction team to go down to the mountain village to help with poverty reduction. It would last for two years. As a direct public institution, the newspaper would naturally send out a working group on poverty alleviation in the village.

To my surprise, Ma Shuji happily agreed to my request.

"You are still young and going to the grassroots to train is also a good thing. It will be beneficial for your future growth if you get to know more about the 'three farmers' issues, learn more about them in the countryside, and accumulate more experience in the grassroots." Ma Shuji said to me earnestly, "During the rural period, besides helping the rural areas to get rich and become poor, do more research and research, think more and write better news that is closer to the grassroots. Combining theory and practice will greatly help you improve your journalism and increase your thinking skills …"

I felt that Ma Shuji's words made a lot of sense as I nodded my head repeatedly: "I will do my best to get down and work. I will not disappoint Ma Shuji's expectations."

"Xiao Jiang, do not let a temporary setback knock you down. The road to life is very long, and it is impossible for everything to go smoothly. Remember this: perseverance …" Ma Shuji then said to me: "I hope that you will be able to grow up to be a qualified youth official through training at the lower levels, whether it is in terms of thinking or mental state …"

I nodded silently.

Ma Shuji even called the Deputy Chief Editor and the Head of General Rooms who were on duty over on the spot to confirm that I would be responsible for writing the novel "Poverty Reduction Diary" on the second page of the newspaper.

On one hand, I wanted to reduce poverty. On the other hand, I was stimulated by this news piece of mine, and on the other hand, a series of things that happened recently, from Liu Yue and I breaking up and having a relationship with each other, to Mei Ling plotting against Liu Yue, have a huge impact on me. It made me want to temporarily leave this place, to find a secluded place to escape from the world, to distance myself from the world, to cleanse my mind, and wash away my sins …

When Mei Ling found out that I had joined the Poverty Alleviation Group, the committee had already made their decision, it was too late for her to stop me.

Three days later, the newspaper's working group on poverty alleviation in the village began to move into the village.

The s in the newspaper are composed of three people, one of them is Old Xing, the one who was humiliated by Ma Shuji when he was competing with him, and he is currently a Normal level clerk in the distribution department. In other words, he is just an idle person, and he is the leader of our poverty reduction team.

The other was Old Li, a soldier who had just returned from a military career. He was a Battalion Commander with nails in his legs and was said to be a third class hero who had participated in the self-defense counterattack.

The other is me, Xiao Jiang.

I'm quite satisfied with being able to work with my two brothers.

Coincidentally, the village that the city's support office gave us to alleviate poverty was the village that I visited last time to interview the village teacher, Teacher Wang's, cattle breeding specialty — Shihu Village.

Although this village relied on raising cattle to begin to solve the problem of food and nutrition, the barren nature of the mountains still left the village's economy in a backward state. Water, electricity and transportation were all the three major bottlenecks that restricted the development of the village's economy.

Returning to the Shihu Village, I saw the familiar village head, Teacher Wang, and the children from the mountains, making me feel even more familiar with them.

The day before I entered the village, I specially went to Xinhua Bookstore and bought a big bag of learning materials and beautiful books as a present for Teacher Wang and the children.

Due to the news report from last time, Teacher Wang and Ishigami Elementary School are famous. They have come from all levels of leaders to inspect their condolences, with some provincial Public Information Units coming to interview them, and their school conditions have also improved significantly. At the same time, they have also received good news that the County Education Bureau is considering whether to transfer Teacher Wang's private affairs to public administration.

That's why, when I returned to Shihu Village this time, I was warmly welcomed by the whole school's students, led by Teacher Wang.

Although there were only ten or so students, Old Xing and Old Li were envious of the grandeur and grandeur of the students. They only said that I had arrived at the base camp.

Looking at Teacher Wang and the excited, grateful gazes and smiling faces of the children, I was not moved at all. I was deeply moved.

The days of poverty began.

Life in the mountains was unquestionably difficult. There was no electricity at night, so as soon as the sky darkened, Old Xing and Old Li turned off the lights and lied down on their beds, talking about the mountains.

Old Xing, formerly the administrative Chief of the newspaper, was hired in the first half of last year in the open competition of the newspaper, and was placed in the distribution department by the Party Committee.