Reborn in 1977

Chapter 427: The Monkey King

Chen Fan took a car to the Education Department and went to find Jiang Tiantian and Jiang Lili first.

After the college entrance examination, Zuo Qiuping arranged specific jobs for the two of them, following the people in the college entrance examination working group of the Education Department to be responsible for clerical work such as sorting out relevant documents and archives.

Zuo Qiuping didn't treat them badly either. Because Jiang Tiantian had a secondary school diploma and nearly four years of work experience, she had not been promoted to a cadre in the supply and marketing cooperative before. When she came here, she was finally promoted to a cadre and her salary was also increased, but she was still doing ordinary clerical work.

Jiang Lili had a junior high school diploma, but she had been an educated youth in the countryside for nearly 4 years, which was also considered a qualification. She was slightly higher than ordinary newcomers and was appointed as an administrative staff member of level 11, receiving a level 29 salary of 25.5 yuan a month. Her main job was to assist her sister and sort out documents together.

As for grading papers, they were not qualified for that yet, and they couldn't even touch the college entrance examination papers.

All the graders were selected from the faculty and staff of high schools and some universities in the entire region, ensuring that everyone had a clean background, excellent skills, and a good work style. In a word, they were "virtuous and talented."

The grading location was also a completely closed place, where they ate, drank, and slept. Even the living quarters were dormitories converted from several offices. They were absolutely not allowed to step out of the grading site until the grading work was completed.

However, at this time, the grading work had already ended and entered the next step of score aggregation and screening, otherwise Chen Fan would not have dared to step into the Education Department.

Entering here, Chen Fan greeted some acquaintances familiarly. Without anyone's guidance, he walked into a small office in the corner.

At this time, Jiang Tiantian was sorting out documents inside. When she saw him knocking on the door and coming in, she looked up and immediately her eyes were filled with surprise, "You're here."

After a pause, she quickly lowered her head, looked around, and said softly, "Lili was just called away to the conference room where the leaders are meeting."

Chen Fan walked in with a smile, pulled out a chair and sat down, took off his backpack and put it on the table, and said at the same time, "It's okay, I just came to take a look."

Then he asked curiously, "The leaders called her to the meeting? If they're looking for someone, they should be looking for you, why are they looking for her?"

Jiang Tiantian pursed her lips, smiled, and shook her head gently, "It was Secretary Zuo who came to call her, and didn't say what it was about."

"Oh."

Chen Fan responded, opened his backpack, and the leopard cat immediately poked its head out, first vigilantly turning its head to look around...

Then Chen Fan slapped it on the forehead, "Why don't you come out quickly."

The leopard cat meowed aggrievedly and jumped lightly out of the backpack, landing on the table.

Jiang Tiantian looked curiously at this little cat that was obviously not fully grown, "This cat seems to be different from ordinary cats?"

Chen Fan nodded, "Yes, this is a leopard cat, also called a civet cat or a copper coin cat, which is what we often call a wild cat. Look at the patterns on its body, don't they look like the copper coins on a leopard's body."

Jiang Tiantian nodded gently, "It does look a bit like it."

Then she carefully stretched out her hand, "Can I touch it?"

Chen Fan grinned and said, "Lili can, you still need me to say hello to it."

Jiang Tiantian turned her head and looked at him in surprise, "How do you say hello?"

Chen Fan smiled and meowed at the leopard cat a few times.

The leopard cat's gaze instantly softened, and it muttered in its heart, 'Although they look exactly the same, it's definitely not Master Lili.'

Then it stretched out its head, smelled Jiang Tiantian's hand a few times, and licked it gently.

Chen Fan smiled and said, "Okay, it has already marked you, so you can touch it as you like in the future."

This leopard cat is different from a domestic tabby cat. It is particularly ferocious. Only Chen Fan can talk to it directly, otherwise it would not be easy to tame it, let alone let outsiders touch it.

Now that it has been subdued, naturally it will do whatever the master says, and it will please whoever the master wants it to please. If it doesn't listen, it will be thrown away to be a wild cat. It doesn't want to live that precarious life again.

"So magical?"

Jiang Tiantian carefully stretched out her hand and touched the cat's head with her finger. Seeing that the leopard cat was indeed lying obediently on the table without moving, and there was a smiling expression on its face, she couldn't help but become more interested, and picked it up and held it in her arms, asking, "Is it male or female?"

Chen Fan smiled and said, "It's a cat sister."

Jiang Tiantian raised her head, "What's its name?"

Chen Fan saw her smiling face and couldn't help but mutter in his heart, sure enough, pets are a trump card against most girls.

But the smile on his face remained the same, "Originally, I wanted to call it Copper Coin, but Lili didn't agree, saying it was too vulgar, so it doesn't have a name yet."

Jiang Tiantian couldn't help but wrinkle her nose and said with a wry smile, "You can't just call it Copper Coin because it's a copper coin cat, can you?"

Chen Fan curled his lips, "Why can't I? If I don't call it Copper Coin, should I call it Silver?"

Jiang Tiantian couldn't help but burst into laughter, "If it's not Copper Coin, it's Silver. If outsiders hear this, who knows how they will gossip about you."

Chen Fan laughed, "Then let's call it Little Flower."

Jiang Tiantian couldn't help but pout, "So rustic."

Chen Fan's expression changed, and he squinted at her, "Then you come up with one?"

Jiang Tiantian's eyes rolled slightly, "What did Lili come up with?"

Chen Fan smacked his lips, "There are still two sheep, two horses, a bird, and a snake in line ahead of it, it's not the cat's turn yet."

This time, Jiang Tiantian really couldn't help it. She hugged the leopard cat and giggled non-stop, "Lili also said that everything about you is good, except that your naming skills are not very good. I think you are evenly matched."

Evenly matched?

Chen Fan raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at the leopard cat and said, "That name is not bad, then let's call it Half Catty."

Jiang Tiantian was stunned, is that okay?

Chen Fan picked up the leopard cat in her arms and smiled, "Anyway, it's better than Black Charcoal."

The leopard cat was very helpless, with a drooping cat face, as if to say, can you please not always pick me up by the scruff of my neck?

When Jiang Tiantian saw the leopard cat's appearance, she quickly hugged it back and wrinkled her nose and said, "If there's Half Catty, there's Eight Ounces. If it's called Half Catty, then what about Eight Ounces?"

Chen Fan smiled and said, "It's okay, Half Catty will be raised by Lili, and I'll catch another one for you later, and it will be called Eight Ounces."

Jiang Tiantian looked at the sky speechlessly, not knowing what to say.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps at the door. Chen Fan turned his head to look and saw Jiang Lili walking in slowly.

As soon as she walked into the office door, she saw Chen Fan sitting next to her sister, and her eyes lit up, "You're here."

Saying that, she walked over quickly.

Chen Fan smiled and said, "Didn't you say last time that you miss Duo Duo and Qiu Qiu? Those two dogs are too crazy, I'm afraid you can't control them, and the others are not easy to raise in the city, so I brought you Half Catty."

Jiang Lili widened her eyes, looked at him, then looked at the leopard cat, "Half Catty?"

Chen Fan nodded very seriously, "Yes, there's also another one called Eight Ounces, waiting for me to catch it. When I catch it, I'll send it to your sister."

Jiang Lili slapped her forehead, "What a terrible name?!"

The leopard cat nestled in Jiang Tiantian's arms and meowed at Jiang Lili twice, appearing quite happy.

Seeing that it was so cute, Jiang Lili couldn't care less about the name being too bad, rushed over and picked it up, "Half Catty, you're here."

Jiang Tiantian propped her face with her hands, hehe smiled and couldn't speak.

Chen Fan looked at Jiang Lili teasing the cat and asked softly, "I saw that your face didn't look very good just now, what happened?"

Jiang Lili was stunned, lowered her head and pursed her lips, first turned around and closed the office door, then walked to her seat and sat down, raised her head to look at Chen Fan, and said softly, "Deputy Director Deng of the Provincial Education Commission, as well as all the leaders of our Education Department, and the leader of the college entrance examination score statistics group, are all in a meeting in the conference room.

They called me over just now and asked me about some things about Lujiawan."

Hearing this, Jiang Tiantian's face changed drastically and she turned to look at Chen Fan.

Chen Fan didn't take it seriously, just raised his eyebrows slightly and asked with a smile, "What's the matter?"

Jiang Lili looked worried and said, "It's just how Xiaoying and Xiao'e reviewed, and what their study situation was like this year. I answered truthfully, and also..."

Saying that, she raised her head and bit her lip lightly, "I also talked about Teacher Guo and Teacher He going to Lujiawan to recruit students. When I came out, Deputy Director Zuo specifically told me not to tell outsiders."

Just don't tell outsiders, then it's okay for our own people.

Even if Deputy Director Deng of the Provincial Education Commission issued a gag order, she couldn't hide it from Chen Fan, let alone that this matter was directly related to Chen Fan.

After she finished speaking, Chen Fan nodded lightly and smiled, "Well, that's good. There's nothing that can't be said publicly. Everything in Lujiawan can stand investigation. I've only ever heard of people being punished for cheating, never for getting high scores."

He looked at the two of them, chuckled, and said with a smile, "It seems that Xiao'e and the others scored very high on this exam, otherwise there wouldn't be a special meeting to discuss it."

Seeing Chen Fan so relaxed, Jiang Lili secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She held the tabby cat in her arms, gently stroked it with one hand, and looked at him, asking, "Is everything alright?"

Chen Fan smiled and shook his head, "What could be wrong?"

After a pause, he added, "This commotion also has its benefits. At the very least, those admissions officers from key universities stationed in Jiangnan Province will definitely focus their attention on them, and the probability of admission will greatly increase."

Seeing how confident he was, Jiang Lili and Jiang Tiantian finally felt relieved.

Chen Fan looked at the two of them, his eyes twinkling, and asked with feigned mystery, "Hey, have your scores come out yet?"

The scores from the entire region had been reported here, so it was almost impossible that they didn't know their own scores.

Hearing this, the two sisters immediately smiled at each other, their eyes curving into crescents.

Jiang Tiantian didn't say anything, but picked up a piece of paper, wrote two numbers, and placed it in front of Chen Fan.

One was 409, and the other was 413.

When Chen Fan saw this, he couldn't stop smiling. Regardless of who got 409 and who got 413, these scores were definitely enough to get into university. Even if they weren't admitted to their first choice, their second or third choices would definitely be fine.

Moreover, with the 23 super high scores from Lujiawan and the high scores of those educated youth from other places at the front, these scores wouldn't stand out in the entire Yunhu, or even the entire Jiangnan Province, which was exactly in line with Chen Fan's plan.

…

In the small conference room upstairs, the meeting continued.

After Jiang Lili left, Deputy Director Deng looked around and said with a smile, "Now the situation is basically clear. The origin of the matter stems from this Chen Fan buying a pony, which was then noticed by the head of the commune's veterinary station. The station head cherished talent and earnestly invited him to study veterinary medicine.

And Chen Fan, even when he had the opportunity, didn't forget his hometown. He selected outstanding talents with basic knowledge from various teams and organized a veterinary study class to progress together.

Later, as the sideline business developed, the demand for talent increased, and he purchased many useful books from your prefectural waste product company. After returning, he started a study class and actively promoted rural education and expanded the primary school.

Through this year's efforts, he gathered 23 students with solid basic knowledge."

As he spoke, he pointed to the dozens of test papers on the table and laughed, "As a result, a blind cat caught a dead mouse. They happened to catch up with the resumption of the college entrance examination, and they all achieved high scores.

What does this show? It shows that opportunities belong to those who are prepared. They are all rural youths with good roots, who worked hard to study for the development of the production team, and ultimately achieved the production team and themselves.

In fact, in many places across the country, there are some people who have never given up studying, including some educated youths who have become rural teachers. They also signed up to participate in the college entrance examination, and their efforts have finally been rewarded at this moment. They have not only achieved themselves, but also achieved the students who followed them to study."

Speaking of this, the smile on his face disappeared, and he looked particularly serious, "Do you know what I admire most about the students of Lujiawan?"

Zuo Qiuping looked at the leaders of her unit, and seeing that they had no intention of speaking, she leaned forward slightly and smiled at Deputy Director Deng, "Are you thinking of saying that while preparing for the college entrance examination, they were also training people to take their place?"

"That's right!"

Deputy Director Deng's voice was crisp and powerful. He turned to look at Zuo Qiuping and said seriously, "Facts have proved that they are not people who ignore the collective for their own future. Otherwise, they wouldn't have needed to use the one-on-one method to train successors. In that case, their scores might have been even higher, but they did it anyway. From this, we can see that the ideological and moral character of these students is qualified!"

After a long speech, he slightly restrained his emotions, and his brows furrowed slightly, "Now there is only one problem. Although this problem is unrelated to the college entrance examination, I can't ignore it now that I know about it."

At this time, the director of the Education Department finally found an opportunity to speak, and looked at him and said softly, "Chen Fan's background?"

Deputy Director Deng nodded lightly, his face serious, "Although, based on the current situation, the possibility of Chen Fan having a problem is less than one percent, or even one ten-thousandth, we must never take chances. You must remember one thing…"

His gaze swept across everyone's faces one by one, his voice not loud, but particularly powerful, "The greater the ability, the stronger the destructiveness. Chen Fan's background must be investigated clearly. As long as it is found that he has no problems, even if his family background is 'Category Five Nuclear,' I am willing to apologize to him.

However, if, in the one in ten thousand chance…"

Speaking of this, he suddenly paused again, his face full of entanglement, as if he himself was unwilling to think about this result, "In short, we must firmly remember Mr. Li's teachings and maintain vigilance at all times."

After saying this, he breathed out a long breath and sighed, "You have to think about it. Maybe one Chen Fan doesn't count for much, but if these 23 students, and those dozens of educated youths who have received his help, if these people all go to university and take up jobs, what does this network of relationships mean? I don't need to say it, you should all understand, right?"

Hearing this, almost everyone gasped, looked at each other, and couldn't say a word.

After a long time, Zuo Qiuping said softly, "Deputy Director Deng, I'm not against investigating Chen Fan, it's just that you may not be very clear about Chen Fan's influence now…"

Before she could finish speaking, Deputy Director Deng raised his hand and gently waved it, "I understand what you mean. Putting aside everything else, just the 'First Aid Manual' alone can make the national health system look at him differently. Moreover, he has made such great and numerous contributions in Lujiawan.

What's more, he is also a writer with a certain degree of national fame, and has a certain social influence. In terms of both emotion and reason, we cannot treat him in the same way as we treat the enemy, and we must be very careful."

As he spoke, he took a deep breath, pondered for two seconds, and continued, "You can't help with this matter, so just keep it in your hearts and don't say it out loud. As for how to investigate, I will first communicate with the leaders of the province, and then have someone from the public security system handle it.

Even if we dig three feet into the ground, we must find out his background."

After saying this, Deputy Director Deng looked around and smiled as if to ease the tension, "As long as it's a person, there will be traces of their origin. He can't be like the Monkey King, popping out of a crack in a rock, right?"

Hearing this, everyone echoed with soft laughter.

One leader even said, "Even if he is the Monkey King, he can't escape the palm of the Buddha. As long as we are willing to put in the effort, it is impossible not to find his origin."

At this time, almost everyone's eyes glanced at Zuo Qiuping, seemingly unintentionally.

It was no secret in the unit that Deputy Director Zuo had a friendship with Chen Fan. Moreover, Jiang Lili, who had just come to be questioned, was transferred back from Lujiawan at the request of Chen Fan and Section Chief Zhou of the Health Department. Now that Chen Fan is being investigated, it would be fine if there were no problems, but if there really were any troubles, she would not be able to escape responsibility.

Zuo Qiuping was naturally aware of these gazes.

She couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive. Could there really be a problem?

But thinking about Chen Fan's age and what he had done this year, it had nothing to do with hostile elements at all.

So she felt a little more confident and even started joking, "The leader said he is the Monkey King, it seems like with his abilities, he really is a bit like him."

As soon as this was said, everyone became thoughtful again.

That's right, so young and talented, which hostile force would be so stupid as to send out such a potential dragon - no, we can't even say potential, but a soaring dragon.

Which of these talents isn't hidden tightly? How could they be sent out to perform dangerous missions?

Thinking of this, their thoughts changed again.

Deputy Director Deng also smiled and said, "I also hope that he is the real Monkey King, that would be a cause for celebration!"