The main ways to curry favor with leaders

In the late 1980s, my family lived in a state-owned enterprise compound in northern Henan. The compound was relatively isolated; everyone worked for the same company, so we all knew each other, and we kids played together. Overall, we got along very well.

The Yu family, particularly the "Fat Uncle" family, was quite famous. The mother's surname was Zhang, and the father's surname was Yu. They had three daughters, all very beautiful and fashionably dressed. The youngest daughter was a few years older than me, in junior high school, and my father was her homeroom teacher. She sometimes came to our house to ask questions, so I had a lot of contact with her. I thought she was incredibly beautiful, practically a goddess to be admired from afar.

However, the father, Fat Uncle Yu, was a very useless, ordinary worker—very fat and lazy. It was said he often stayed home due to a work injury. Perhaps because of the stark contrast between the two, this family was frequently the subject of gossip. Adults often whispered behind their backs that it was like a beautiful flower stuck in cow dung; looking back, I guess they secretly envied Fat Uncle Yu.

Later, a younger new leader was transferred to the company. His wife reportedly didn't want to come because our compound was too remote. So, the leader was often alone. My parents told me that Uncle Yu was always trying to take leave due to a work injury, but his workplace never approved it. So, this woman often went to see the supervisor.

In those days, the main way to curry favor with a leader was to invite them to your home for dinner. I often saw that supervisor going to Uncle Yu's house at night, and quite late at that. I was just a child then and didn't understand what it meant.

The affair was exposed in a very dramatic way. One morning, Uncle Yu's youngest daughter suddenly vomited during class and cried loudly. The teacher at the time quickly found my dad and another female teacher to take her to the workplace clinic, where they discovered that a junior high school girl was pregnant!

Later, Zhang's mother came to my house and talked to my dad privately several times, which made my mom very unhappy.

A few months later, the young supervisor was transferred. It was said that his brother had connections in a ministry in Beijing, so he was promoted instead of demoted. But in the compound, all sorts of rumors circulated, mostly saying that the supervisor had slept with Zhang's mother and her three daughters, and the mother never imagined that her youngest child, who had just started menstruating, could be pregnant. My mother developed a deep contempt for this family and warned us not to associate with them. Later, Uncle Yu's family also moved away

. After graduating from university, I returned to work at the state-owned enterprise where my parents worked. I was assigned to the market development department of a unit. In reality, my daily work consisted of drinking with the leaders, paying for their prostitution, or acting as a doorman outside their prostitution. Another role was to curry favor with the relatives and friends of the client's leaders.

One day, more than a year into the job, my boss sent me and a few others on a business trip to a municipality in northern China to seek help from the director of the municipal economic planning commission to develop the municipal market. The boss specifically instructed us that the director's "old flame" would be accompanying us to increase the chances of success, and we were to take good care of her. We arrived in the municipality first, and the director's old flame arrived the day after us. When I saw the director's old flame, I was shocked. Wasn't this the third daughter of the Yu family? She looked unwell and very tired, and didn't recognize me, but she clearly thought I looked familiar.

After settling her in, I quickly left; I really didn't want her to recognize me.

After finishing our business, we went our separate ways back. On the way, I chatted with some of the people who had come with me. One of the women was a karaoke bar owner. She seemed to have a very good relationship with the leader's old flame. She said the woman often came to her bar to work as a hostess to earn money. Her marriage wasn't good; her husband was a petty thug who often beat her. She would take any kind of job. Seeing that I seemed very interested, she even told me that she had two older sisters who were also good-looking and worked as prostitutes. If I was interested, she said she could sleep with all three sisters at once.

I was a virgin at the time and also timid, so I quickly declined.

Not long after arriving at work, the leader treated us to dinner. During dinner, we casually talked about the old flame of the municipal leader. One of the leader's confidants said that the woman's whole family was asking for sex, and the leader had once slept with all three sisters at once. The leader chuckled and said that he had just slept with four sisters a few days ago, even sleeping with her mother. The director of the municipal planning commission had been doing this for over ten years.

To me, still a virgin at the time, everything collapsed. How could my goddess be like this? How could the world be so dark?

I secretly vowed then and there to pass the postgraduate entrance exam, to leave that workplace, to leave this dark country. Years later, I achieved my goal.

Recently, I saw a news report about the arrest of a vice mayor of a northern municipality; this vice mayor was the very same director of the Planning Commission we had contacted back then.

Perhaps it was all fate...

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