Driving out of the community where Lin Yi's home is located, after turning a few corners, I suddenly found that there was a late-night snack vendor on this side road, and there seemed to be quite a lot of diners. [`Novel`]

I suddenly felt hungry.

Although I ate a lot when I was at Secretary Qiu's house, it was not so casual after all, so my belly was not completely filled.

So I parked the car on the side of the road and walked towards the lively place. The first feeling after getting off the car was that it was cold.[

The winter in Jiangnan is so cold. This year I seem to feel the cold more clearly. I heard that as a person gets older, he will become more sensitive to the cold. Now it seems that this seems to make sense.

This winter night was very cold, as if a huge piece of ice had formed. The pedestrians on the street seemed to have fallen into a trap and hurried along.

The air-conditioning is like a swarm of cunning loaches. It is omnipresent and impenetrable, freezing the snow on the road that had just melted half during the day into ice. The ice is as hard as iron and as slippery as oil.

A drunk man was walking on it. He stumbled and fell heavily to the ground. When he got up, his mouth was full of blood. After spitting, a tooth mixed with blood and water fell to the ground, making a crisp sound. The drunk man

He swore a curse word, staggered for a few steps, fell again, and knocked out another tooth. The huge air-conditioning air swirled, flowed, and flipped in the air; his body changed wildly and flew up and down in the air, crazy.

The ground screamed.

What I saw just now was a food stall, and I walked towards it.

The heat rising from the pot for cooking noodles was sucked away by the air-conditioning a foot above the pot lid and disappeared. The female owner of the food stall was standing on the pot platform converted from a used oil drum to fish out noodles. When she looked up, the man

He said in surprise: Why is your hair all white?

The woman hurriedly pulled her hair with her hands, and some frost-like ice powder fell down. The man smiled and stretched out his horse spoon to drain the water in the water tank. There was a layer of ice on the water. Use the horse spoon.

When the handle was poked, the water tank suddenly broke into pieces with a crash, but the water in the tank was already a large cylindrical lump of ice. The ice lump fell to the ground, and the splash of ice shards covered half of the man's trouser legs.

The woman then laughed: Go back early today and boil a bucket of hot water for you to take a good bath.

But the man said that there were still so many people eating, and there would be more people coming soon. I don’t know when the stall will be closed tonight. Let’s go back and go to bed early tonight.

The woman is still laughing: Then it is even more important to take a hot bath so that you can sleep comfortably.

The man stopped talking and immediately put noodles and green vegetables into the pot.

"I want a bowl of noodles. Spicy." I heard all their conversation just now, and I immediately felt that I rarely envy them. Their life may be very difficult, but their happiness is not something I can have.

I remember a story about a rich couple and a poor couple who were neighbors. The rich couple was unhappy every day, but the neighbors laughed and laughed all day long. The rich wife was very strange, so she asked her husband: How could they still be so poor?

So happy? The rich husband said: They will not be so happy tomorrow. So he secretly threw a big gold ingot at the poor couple's home that night. Not to mention, it was really strange: since the poor couple

After the couple got the gold ingot, they started quarreling every day...

Of course, this story is just a story. Maybe such a thing has never really happened in reality, but the moral is self-evident - rich people may not be able to have happiness. At this moment, when I see these two people doing small business

As a couple, this feeling in my heart became even stronger.

The noodles they made tasted good and were just right spicy. I drank all the noodle soup in the bowl and my whole body felt warm immediately.

After getting in the car, I immediately felt refreshed all over my body. Suddenly I remembered that my child was leaving with Shi Yanni tomorrow, and I hurriedly called my father.

"When will you and your mother come to the provincial capital?" I asked. At this moment, I suddenly felt a great sense of guilt in my heart, because I felt that I should tell my father directly about the child, but I really couldn't.

mouth.

"It will definitely be around New Year's Eve, and I really can't leave recently. There are too many things in the company," he said.

I felt that my father's voice was a little hoarse and sounded tired, so I hurriedly asked him: "Have you caught a cold recently? You have to pay attention to your health. Just do as much as you can for the company."

, don’t work so hard.”[

He said: "The main reason is that I have been drinking too much recently, and I have social activities every day. It is the end of the year, and I am treating guests to dinner and drinks every day. I have no choice. What should I do if I don't do this? I think this job is very suitable for me, and it is not just for earning money."

Money gives me a sense of fulfillment in my heart.”

Of course I understand. My father has not been proud of his official career all his life. He has worked at a nominal department level all his life. Now he is the general manager of an external investment enterprise in the county, and the project is still so big. Now, he is very popular in the local area.

He is a famous entrepreneur, and I can completely understand his feeling of fulfillment.

But what I want to say to him now is not this matter, "Dad, there is something I have to tell you. Chen Yuan's mother is going to Singapore tomorrow, and she plans to take her child with her."

The father immediately spoke, "Why did she take her child abroad? How long will she go abroad?"

I said: "She is going to visit an elder of hers. It is said that she has not seen an elder for many years. She will come back after the Spring Festival."

He suddenly began to ponder, "Well... your mother and I originally wanted to come see the child. In this case, forget it. I have a lot of things on my hands. Your mother is retiring soon. Let's talk about it next year.

.Or can you come back some time?"

I felt relieved immediately, but I still joked at him: "Dad, it seems that you treat your grandson better than me. Can't you just come and see me?"

He smiled and said, "Should you come back to see us? Your grandson is so young, so of course we have to go see him. Since he is going abroad with his grandmother, let's go see him another day. By the way, there is something

,Peng Zhonghua’s wife is your classmate, right?”

I didn't expect that he would suddenly mention this matter, "Yes, what's the matter?"

He said: "This couple is so outrageous that they recently sold all the houses they bought. Originally, we were planning to sell some houses at a reduced price during the Spring Festival, but as a result, he ruined all our plans.

It's messy."

I asked: "They also sell at low prices? No? Are they willing to do that?"

My father said: "What? He privately spread the word that some of the houses we were promoting this time had quality problems, which caused us a lot of trouble. Recently, people from the Quality Supervision Bureau came to check our quality problems every day.

,Isn’t that right? I have to invite the leader of the Quality Supervision Bureau for a drink tonight. What kind of classmate are you? Why is this like this?"

I seemed to understand, "I think it must be because the company hasn't paid him the bill recently, right? Otherwise, he wouldn't do that casually."

My father said: "Your father-in-law has siphoned off all the money from the company. We are in a difficult situation right now. There must be delays in payment, but we have been trying our best to find ways for him. The couple treated me to a meal

I didn't want to go to dinner a few times, but considering that the woman is your classmate, I can't lose face. Now it's better, I don't know how to say anything to them now."

I thought about it and said: "Well, you go find Kang Demao. Isn't he the county magistrate now? Asking him to come forward and talk to Peng Zhonghua will probably have a certain effect. At least this person is not because of money.

You have to offend your immediate boss."

The father said: "I think it's better for you to go and talk to County Magistrate Kang. How can I find him?"

I immediately understood what my father meant, because he still has an aloof character in his heart, so he didn’t want to ask Kang Demao for such a thing. Or maybe he considered that the company was local after all, and it would offend people.

If there are too many, there will be many things that will be difficult to handle in the future. Moreover, the publicity of the project must be done through a TV station under the Radio, Film and Television Bureau. So I immediately agreed. After all, my father was right. It would be much easier for me to speak at Kangdemao.

So I immediately called Kangdemo. Of course, the initial pleasantries are still a must.

"De Mao, how does it feel to be the county magistrate?" I asked him with a smile after the call got through.

He laughed "haha", "Now I am still the acting county magistrate. I will officially take office after the National People's Congress election."

I also laughed, "It seems that I haven't heard of the acting county magistrate and acting mayor being elected, right? So, it doesn't matter to you whether the acting county magistrate or the acting mayor is elected."

He said this: "It's okay to think this way in my heart, but outside I must always pay attention to my identity as a 'generation', and verbally, I must always correct what others call me. This is political sensitivity."

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I think he seems to pay too much attention to political sensitivity, which makes people think he is hypocritical, but I can't say anything more, "Yeah, you guy, you are all official now. Demao, I'll give you a call."

I'm calling you to tell you that I won't be able to come back during the Spring Festival because I have to be on duty. So, if you go back to the provincial capital, give me a call and we can get together."

He smiled and said: "｝Go for it, we will contact you then. Not to mention, I haven't seen you for a long time. I miss you very much. The first thing I will do when I see you next time is to kiss you hard."

I suddenly felt moved and warm, but I laughed and cursed: "You, you are making it sound like our relationship is abnormal. I think it is difficult for the folks in my hometown to imagine that you, a county official,

It’s so fun to look like this.”

He also laughed, "That's true. It's just like when we look at officials like Governor Huang. In fact, when we think about it, we feel relieved. People are just like that. It's just that people at different levels have different circles.

.The President of the United States still messes with women, right?"

I laughed, "That makes sense. By the way, Demao, let me tell you something..."

So, I briefly told him about Peng Zhonghua and his wife, and finally said to him: "De Mao, after all, Peng Zhonghua is the head of the department in the county, right? He is too careless about the impact of this.

?Although I am basically not involved in that project now, I think it is beneficial to the development of my hometown from every angle, right? If the project is abandoned halfway, it will definitely be detrimental to the economic development of the county and the future of the city.

Isn’t that right? Putting aside this, with his status as Peng Zhonghua, he shouldn’t do such arrogant things, don’t you think?”

He had been listening to me quietly and did not interrupt me at all. When I finished speaking, he said: "Feng Xiao, I have heard you talk about him before, but I think his woman is ours after all."

He is a classmate of the same class, and I was not in charge here at the time, so I have been advising you to be tolerant. I actually heard many people reacting to his problems after I got here, but it is really not convenient for me to say anything now. After all,

I have not been elected by the National People's Congress, and there is Secretary Long of the county committee in the county. He is the real number one in the county, so I cannot intervene in this matter for the time being. Old classmate, please understand my current situation.

kind of difficulty.”

What he said was "temporarily", and I heard it clearly, "That's okay, I won't embarrass you. This matter is actually not a particularly big deal, but I think as long as they don't go too far, I can take care of many things.

Isn't it just for money? I'll just take the time to have a good talk with them. I mainly think about my father's age, and I'm worried that he won't be able to bear the pressure. It's okay, Demao, I do too.

Just talking."

He laughed "haha", "Feng Xiao, there is one thing you should believe, that is: if God wants it to perish, it must first make it crazy. I can't say what will happen in the future now, but for our county, we really need to do a good job

Let’s clean up the official style. I will discuss this matter with Secretary Long after the National People’s Congress meeting. Feng Xiao, that’s it. Using this phone for too long is not good for your health. I feel my ears hurt.

The phone is also getting hot."

I completely understood what he meant. This person has indeed changed a lot now. Even when he spoke to me, he was so vague that he could only speak to three points. So I said to him: "Okay. That's it. That's right.

Now, you should pay more attention to Lilac recently. Women need their men’s care most in this situation. Haha! I don’t need to say anything else, you should know."

He said: "I know. She has been a bit tempered recently, but I have tolerated it. Women who want to have children are like this, I understand."
To be continued...