Right after graduation, I was assigned to stay for a while in a remote little mountain village. The village was not big, only sixty or seventy households in all. The brigade secretary was an old demobilized soldier, and had been the village secretary for nearly twenty years. The little mountain village was in an out-of-the-way place, far from the emperor's reach, so basically all the big and small affairs in the village were decided by the old secretary. Because of that, his prestige in the village was extremely high.
Where there are people, there may be grievances. Who doesn't have matters that require asking favors? In order to achieve their aims, people would spare no cost. So many women, in order to get the old secretary's favor, offered themselves. As time went on, all the adult women in the village ended up having affairs with the old secretary.
As the saying goes, if you stay near vermilion you turn red, if you stay near ink you turn black. Influenced by his father, the old secretary's son also relied on his father's power and got involved with some of the women in the village. At first the women were angry but dared not speak out against the younger one, but later, seeing that giving themselves to the son could also bring benefits, more and more of them began to throw themselves at him. After a long time, he too actually managed to take all the adult women in the village. After the son had had his fun with the women, he naturally wanted to show off a little in front of his father.
One day, after coming back from a pretty woman's place, the son asked his father smugly, “Guess where I went today?” Unexpectedly, the old secretary did not even raise his head: “Wasn't it just the Zhang family's newly married third daughter-in-law!” The son was shocked. Could it be that his father had been following him? So next time he was ten thousand times more careful. But when he got home and asked again, the old secretary was still calm and unruffled: “The Li family's second son's wife. What's there to make such a fuss about?” The son thought, this is incredible, how does he know? This time the son picked an older woman. He did not expect that before he could even speak, the old secretary was already on to him: “You really have no standards. Even Wang Zhu's wife in her forties, you still want!”
This time the son admired his father so much that he was utterly convinced.
That day, the son wanted to play a joke on his father. So he rubbed himself a few times behind a cow, then went home. When he saw his father, he asked: “Tell me whose place I went to?”
The old secretary walked around his son in a circle, and his eyes suddenly lit up: “Could it be there's another newcomer in the village?”……
Where there are people, there may be grievances. Who doesn't have matters that require asking favors? In order to achieve their aims, people would spare no cost. So many women, in order to get the old secretary's favor, offered themselves. As time went on, all the adult women in the village ended up having affairs with the old secretary.
As the saying goes, if you stay near vermilion you turn red, if you stay near ink you turn black. Influenced by his father, the old secretary's son also relied on his father's power and got involved with some of the women in the village. At first the women were angry but dared not speak out against the younger one, but later, seeing that giving themselves to the son could also bring benefits, more and more of them began to throw themselves at him. After a long time, he too actually managed to take all the adult women in the village. After the son had had his fun with the women, he naturally wanted to show off a little in front of his father.
One day, after coming back from a pretty woman's place, the son asked his father smugly, “Guess where I went today?” Unexpectedly, the old secretary did not even raise his head: “Wasn't it just the Zhang family's newly married third daughter-in-law!” The son was shocked. Could it be that his father had been following him? So next time he was ten thousand times more careful. But when he got home and asked again, the old secretary was still calm and unruffled: “The Li family's second son's wife. What's there to make such a fuss about?” The son thought, this is incredible, how does he know? This time the son picked an older woman. He did not expect that before he could even speak, the old secretary was already on to him: “You really have no standards. Even Wang Zhu's wife in her forties, you still want!”
This time the son admired his father so much that he was utterly convinced.
That day, the son wanted to play a joke on his father. So he rubbed himself a few times behind a cow, then went home. When he saw his father, he asked: “Tell me whose place I went to?”
The old secretary walked around his son in a circle, and his eyes suddenly lit up: “Could it be there's another newcomer in the village?”……
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