Mixed Genre Novel ‖ Excellent Active Member Sai Weng

At the end of 2019, although Comrade Sai Weng lost his horse, since the unit's leaders all used special cars, no one rode horses anymore, so the leaders only criticized him a bit, and the matter passed. Then, several accidents occurred consecutively with the drivers assigned to the leaders, and the leaders were very angry. When it came time to evaluate the advanced members at the end of the year, the logistics department had to acknowledge that Sai Weng had maintained safety without any accidents throughout the year, and according to regulations, it was a sure thing that the annual excellence would fall on Comrade Sai Weng.

The political work department was compiling the year-end evaluation materials, but unexpectedly, the pandemic hit hard, and with epidemic prevention taking precedence, this work had to be postponed.

Immediately after, the unit announced a unified vaccination; those who did not get vaccinated would not be allowed to work.

Comrade Sai Weng has been afraid of injections since childhood, terrified to death.

Sai Weng thought, if I don’t get vaccinated, I don’t have to go to work. With such good leaders and such good policies, who would be foolish enough to get vaccinated?

For the first shot, Sai Weng did not get vaccinated.

After the statistics came out, the unit's discipline inspection department called to ask why Sai Weng did not go to get vaccinated. Not getting vaccinated could lead to contracting COVID-19, which could result in severe illness, and severe illness could lead to death.

Sai Weng replied: I’m afraid of injections, I’ve been afraid since I was a child. If I get the vaccine shot, I might not get COVID-19 or severe illness, but I could die from fright. Besides, didn’t they say that if you don’t get vaccinated, you don’t have to go to work? Considering that going to work would affect the health of my colleagues, I firmly promise not to go to work and to prevent bringing germs to the unit, keeping the first line of personal epidemic prevention! Whoever goes to work is a fool!

The unit tried to persuade him, even threatening that if his refusal to get vaccinated affected the unit's evaluation and thus impacted the creation of a civilized environment, leading to a reduction in the unit's annual performance award, he should be prepared for a reprimand or dismissal.

Sai Weng said, if I die from getting vaccinated, wouldn’t that also affect the unit's civilized environment and the leaders' promotions? Wouldn’t that also cause trouble for the government to compensate?

The unit had no choice but to register Sai Weng under the category of "high-risk groups with underlying health conditions" to report, managing to muddle through.

The leaders were furious and instructed the discipline inspection department not to mention any evaluations of advanced members; once the pandemic was over, they would thoroughly investigate this bastard named Sai.

Before long, the second shot began, and Sai Weng and the unit replayed the first shot's scenario. Not long after, the third shot and booster followed, and Sai Weng and the unit repeatedly engaged in trench warfare over getting vaccinated or not.

In the blink of an eye, it was early December 2022. One day, while reviewing the unit's work summary, the leader suddenly remembered Sai Weng's situation, feeling a pang in his heart. He called the heads of the discipline inspection and political work departments and asked if a conclusion should be drawn regarding Sai Weng's performance. Would Sai Weng's name be on the list for annual evaluations and promotions?

The heads of the discipline inspection and political work departments understood immediately and began to gather various aspects of Comrade Sai Weng's poor performance during the pandemic. The handling opinions included but were not limited to criticism, reprimands, and measures such as withholding annual bonuses, partial salary deductions, and even dismissal from public office. After reporting to the leaders and receiving approval, they prepared to hold a meeting to seriously announce this, to set an example and deter others.

The meeting to address Comrade Sai Weng was originally scheduled for December 9.

Comrade Sai Weng was completely unaware of the serious and dangerous consequences he was about to face.

On December 5, 2022, the national pandemic restrictions were lifted, and all epidemic prevention measures taken nationwide from December 2019 to December 8, 2022, were abolished.

However, the meeting could not be canceled.

The meeting started promptly at 8:30 AM on December 9.

“Ahem,” the leader tested the microphone.

The audience was silent as a mouse. The atmosphere was a bit tense.

“Today’s meeting has only one agenda,” the leader paused, “which is to nominate and approve our unit's annual excellent active member.”

The audience was filled with anticipation.

“The opinion I reached with the party group is unanimous,” the leader paused again, and the air in the room was filled with suspense. “We believe that our unit's excellent active member should be Comrade Sai Weng.”

The audience was in shock.

“Comrades,” the leader took a sip of tea, and the aroma filled the room, “just yesterday, our city's civilization creation office required all units to actively participate in voluntary blood donation activities. Most of the cadres and staff in our city's party and government agencies, enterprises, and institutions have been vaccinated to varying degrees, and the blood samples from vaccinated individuals cannot be used. However!” The leader paused emphatically, “Our unit's Comrade Sai Weng, at this critical moment, bravely stepped forward and donated 400CC of blood, achieving a breakthrough of zero for all party and government agencies and enterprises in the city!” The leader stood up excitedly, “In the entire city, hundreds of units, only we have raised the red flag! We received personal praise from the main leaders of the municipal party committee and government!” The leader paused again, his caring gaze lingering on Sai Weng's face for five seconds, “Comrade Sai Weng has been afraid of needles and blood since childhood, and he may also have congenital heart problems and other underlying health conditions, but he demonstrated a spirit of great courage in voluntary blood donation, risking his life and disregarding personal safety, placing the red flag at the peak of ideological awareness! Do you think he deserves to be excellent? Is he not an active member?!” The leader paused again, “Moreover, just three years ago, due to Comrade Sai Weng's serious work, he achieved a year of safety without accidents and was originally evaluated as an advanced member and prepared for promotion. His progress has been delayed for a full three years by the pandemic! Now, I propose that the entire audience give a warm round of applause to approve Comrade Sai Weng as our unit's excellent active member!”

2024.06.06