In April 1993, the crabapple blossoms in Jingzhou City were in full bloom, and the pale pink petals fell on the bluestone bricks.
At this time, there was still more than half a month left before Lin Hongxia and Li Xiangdong's wedding.
Because both of them are outstanding teachers at Jingzhou Normal University and have played a leading role in the previous teaching activities in the mountainous areas of Xiangzhou, everyone in the school, from the principal to the students, knows them.
In February of this year, the two went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to apply for a marriage certificate based on the date calculated by the old Taoist priest Xuanjue.
The two of them then submitted housing allocation applications to the school at the same time. It was not until then that the school principal and other senior officials learned of their relationship.
That's right, even though the two have been together for a long time, the confidentiality work in the school is airtight.
In fact, Li Xiangdong's parents had already prepared a wedding house for their son and future daughter-in-law, but the house was located near Liangmaqiao outside the East Third Ring Road, which was some distance from the school where the two worked, so they thought about applying for housing allocation from the school.
Originally, the young couple could have lived in the old house in the slum left by Lin Hongxia and Lin Hongtao's parents, but Li Xiangdong felt that it was the house of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, whom he had never met, and it should be left to his eldest brother Lin Hongtao.
Now that the two of them are married and living in that house, Li Xiangdong is worried that the rumors in the compound will have a certain impact on Lin Hongxia.
So after discussing it, the two decided to make their relationship public and apply to the school, hoping to be allocated a house of their own in the faculty and staff housing complex not far from the school.
After learning about this incident, the school principal immediately organized a meeting with the vice principal, the general affairs director, the logistics director, and the housing management director to discuss the matter specifically.
It stands to reason that with the contributions of the two people, and the fact that they were both outstanding teachers in 1992 and recipients of the Jingzhou City Outstanding Youth honor, they are absolutely qualified to get a house. And the housing allocation here does not mean that the two of them share one house, but that each of them gets one house.
The principal and vice principal originally thought that today's meeting would just be a simple discussion, but they did not expect that problems would arise with the heads of the General Affairs Department and the Housing Management Department.
"Wu Changhai, Liao Donglai, what problems do you have?" Liu Guozhong, the president of Jingzhou Normal University, asked with a frown.
"Principal, this is what's going on. Teacher Li and Teacher Lin submitted their applications a little late. The list of people who will be allocated housing has been finalized, and we're going to make it public soon. If we add them to the list at this time, then two others will definitely not get any housing. This..." Liao Donglai, the head of the Housing Management Section, began to speak, but before he could finish, he was interrupted by Liu Guozhong with a wave of his hand.
At this time, not only Liu Guozhong, but also the vice president Wang Yuanzheng beside him frowned.
The reason why the two of them frowned was not because they were worried about the room allocation between Lin Hongxia and Li Xiangdong, but because Liao Donglai had just mentioned that the room allocation list had been finalized.
According to the regulations of Jingzhou Normal University and the regulations issued by the Jingzhou Housing Management Bureau, the company has strict procedures and review standards for distributing housing to employees. In particular, when drawing up the list of housing allocations, it is necessary to screen the employees based on their previous work performance in the company to ensure that outstanding employees are allowed to live in welfare housing first.
In order to ensure that no violations occur during the housing allocation process, the Housing Authority also specifically noted in the regulations issued that before the list is made public, it must pass a meeting review at the level of department director or above. Only after it is confirmed that the employees on the list are indeed eligible for housing allocation can the large list be made public.
It is obvious that both Wu Changhai from the General Affairs Department and Liao Donglai from the Housing Management Department have clearly violated regulations in the housing distribution work for employees this time.
The reason why the two did this was, firstly, because their relatives were on the list of employees who were allocated housing; secondly, because some employees who did not meet the housing requirements gave them a lot of money in private.
In the past, the school would hold meetings to discuss the list of employees to be allocated housing before it was announced, but it had never strictly verified the list of employees to be allocated housing.
In most cases, the operation is carried out directly based on the room allocation list of the two people.
But the situation this time was obviously different from before, so both Liu Guozhong and Wang Yuanzheng felt that there was a problem, and it was a big problem.
You should know that there are more than a thousand employees in Jingzhou Normal University. The school’s faculty and staff family quarters are not unique to the Normal University. Instead, the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and the Jingzhou Municipal Education Commission jointly allocated land after coordinating with several universities.
Simply put, the people living in the faculty and staff family area are employees from many different universities in Jingzhou City.
The amount of real estate each university can allocate to its employees each year is based on the university's achievements in that year, including scientific research results, student performance, and outstanding contributions made by faculty and staff.
To sum it up in a simple way, the better you work, the more real estate you can be allocated, but in the end there are too many wolves and too little meat, so there are many employees who have worked at Jingzhou Normal University for many years and still have not been able to get a house.
This has led to a situation where everyone has to show off their skills. Those with connections use their connections, and those with money bribe people. In short, the main goal is to get a house.
This has enriched the two departments in charge of housing allocation, the General Affairs Department and the Housing Management Department.
It was precisely because the two had been so unscrupulous for a long time that they became so careless that this time, when facing the issue of housing benefits for Lin Hongxia and Li Xiangdong, two outstanding faculty members who had made outstanding contributions to the school, the school's principal and vice principal discovered the problem.
They also don’t think about the fact that the reason why Jingzhou Normal University was able to obtain the allocation rights of several more properties this year was thanks to the efforts of Lin Hongxia and Li Xiangdong.
At this moment in the conference room, the head of the logistics department, who had been silent the whole time, seemed to have discovered something was wrong after seeing the expressions on the faces of the principal and the vice-principal.
Because they were all old people who had worked in the school for decades, they immediately discovered the key to the problem after a quick thought.
They are all old Chinese medicine practitioners. How could he, the head of the logistics department, not know this folk remedy, let alone the principal and vice principal.
As the conference room gradually fell into silence, Wu Changhai and Liao Donglai seemed to come to their senses and discovered something was wrong.
Just as they were about to open their mouths to defend themselves, Principal Liu Guozhong suddenly said to Cao Dejun, the head of the logistics department, "Old Cao, go call the security department over!"
"Okay, Principal!" Cao Dejun agreed, stood up and quickly left the meeting room.
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