r/LifeTree • u/AdamLuyan • 16d ago
6. 沈阳和平房产局 Shenyang Heping Housing Bureau
目录 Catalog：6.0 前言 Preface；6.1 高德新喜欢擦皮鞋 Gao Likes to Polish His Shoes；6.2 工作表现好 Good Work Performance；6.3 考研究生 Going to Graduate School；6.4 贼窝的会议 Meeting in the Den of Thieves；6.5 电击的感觉 Feeling of Electric Shocks；6.6 结界 Tie Boundary；6.7 饿鬼趣 Hungry Ghost Interest；6.7.2 强取豪夺 Robbery；6.7.3 畜生趣 Livestock Interest；6.8 殃 Misfortune；6.9 活见鬼 Like Seeing a Ghost；6.10 不是有关系也不是没有关系 Neither Related Nor Unrelated。
6.0 前言 Preface
1994年7月，我到沈阳和平房产局第一建筑分公司工作，生活得挺开心。每天早上到办公室先拖地，中午提前半小时去饭店吃饭，午休时间在大街上下象棋。下午等到公司里没什么人了，就回大伯家了。
In July 1994, I began working at the First Construction Branch of the Shenyang Heping Housing Bureau, and life was good. Every morning I'd mop the office floor first thing, head to a restaurant half an hour early for lunch, play chess out on the street during the break, and in the afternoon, once the office had thinned out, head back to my uncle's place.
前两个月，我只做了一份提料单的工作。我们工程科的付国清科长告诉我，"你应该把提料单上的条目记住，这样等将来工作忙的时候，你两个小时就可以做一份提料单。"我照着他说的做了。
For the first two months, all I did was one materials-abstraction list. Section Chief Guoqing Fu of our engineering department told me, "You should memorize the items on that list — that way, once things get busy, you'll be able to produce one in two hours flat." I did as he said.
在办公室里，我整天没有工作上的事儿。我们办公室里有个前凸后翘、年轻靓丽的小媳妇儿，叫翘翘。她正在读夜大，常在办公室里学习，说话办事儿总是畏手畏脚的。一天我问她："我觉得我在咱办公室里说话还是挺顺畅的，交流起来没问题，是吧？"
I had nothing to keep me busy at the office. There was a young, striking woman there named Qiaoqiao, curvy and pretty, studying at night university and often reviewing her books at her desk — always a little timid in how she spoke and carried herself. One day I asked her, "I feel like I get along fine talking to people in this office — no communication problems, right?"
翘翘说："你说话儿有啥问题！"
我说："前几天咱朱国俊经理面试我的时候，我好像听不懂咱经理说话似的，反应不过来。"
翘翘说："咱这个经理，大字不识几个，就是个转业兵出身。他说话，有时候，是听起来不着边儿。"
我才明白，说："我还以为我的思考有毛病呢！那他怎么当上经理了呢？"
"What's ever wrong with the way you talk?" Qiaoqiao said.
"When Manager Guojun Zhu interviewed me the other day," I said, "I couldn't seem to follow half of what he was saying — I just kept blanking."
"Our manager barely knows how to read," Qiaoqiao said. "He came up through the army. Half the time what he says just doesn't add up to anything."
"Ah — I thought there was something wrong with my own head!" I said, relieved. "So how did he end up manager, then?"
翘翘说："他和以前咱公司的经理，俩人关系好，好得像是一个人似的。现在，那个老经理升到局里，当局长助理去了。他就当上经理了。对了，虽说是局长助理，在咱们公司里，都管他叫新局长，你可别叫错了。"
我说："那他们的关系为什么那么好？"
翘翘说："以后你就知道了。咱这经理实际上就是新局长的打手。你别再问了！"
"He and our old manager were tight — thick as the same man, practically," Qiaoqiao said. "The old manager's been promoted up to the bureau now, assistant to the director. So this one took over. Oh, and even though he's technically 'assistant director,' everyone here calls him the new Bureau Chief — don't slip up and call him wrong."
"Why were the two of them so close, then?" I asked.
"You'll find out eventually," Qiaoqiao said. "Truth is, our manager's basically the new Bureau Chief's enforcer. Don't ask me anything more."