The moment Lin Yu called me, I suddenly became nervous and immediately asked, "How is the situation?"

She said: "You have a social engagement in the evening, right? Contact me after dinner, let's meet and have a conversation. {Free novel} Or like this, you go up the mountain directly after dinner. I also have a social engagement in the evening, but I guess it will end before you. At that time, I will go directly to the mountain and you will be there later."

Of course I won't object.

I was still wondering just now: According to her usual steady personality, how could she call me to tell me about such a thing? It turned out that she was asking me to talk to you in the evening.[

However, after she suddenly called me, I felt very upset because everyone had curiosity, especially things like this that made me feel itchy. But I also understood in my heart that this matter should never be casually mentioned on the phone, because it was too important and involved such a high-level figure.

When Lin Yu called me, I had already arrived at the place to have dinner. Today was our treat, so as the host, we should arrive first, not to mention that I should also wait for Secretary Rong first. We can't let her arrive first and then wait for me there, and then I and her wait for the arrival of the guests.

Although this is a small matter, such a small matter cannot be ignored because it is a rule. Subordinates welcome superiors, and such rules must not be mistaken.

In fact, we just drank at night, and the purpose was very simple, just to strengthen the relationship between the two parties. This is actually easy to understand: the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee is a person around the provincial party committee leaders. After establishing a good relationship with them, it will open up a channel for contact with the provincial party committee leaders.

Secretary Rong also drank a lot of wine in the evening. At the table, she changed her previous steadience and chatted with the secretary-general of the Provincial Party Committee Office, and looked like a subordinate.

However, the Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee Office was originally our leader, but he joined the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee.

I have met these secretary-generals, and they are all acquaintances. However, I found that Secretary Rong had a closer relationship with them.

When we were drinking halfway through, the secret note of the Provincial Party Committee Office made a joke, "Secretary Rong, most of us who are secretary of the city party committee have worked as secretary of the city party committee before. Look, we have all worked as all of us."

Everyone laughed. Everyone knew in their hearts that the Secretary-General's words contained another meaning. Secretary Rong was a woman and now the secretary of the municipal party committee. The word "天" contains a rich connotation.

Secretary Rong was not angry. Of course, she wouldn't be angry either, because when men and women were together, especially when everyone had a good relationship and the scene was easy-going, it was a very normal thing to make such jokes. I remember when Shanglongxing was still the deputy director under my command, one time a provincial department head invited us to dinner for his nephew's entrance exam. The person in charge was quite familiar with us, and he should have had many years of dealing with Shanglongxing. During the meal

When he went to Shanglongxing's wine, Shanglongxing apologized to him that she could not drink today because she had a cold. The person in charge smiled and joked: It doesn't matter if you don't drink, then you drink milk. I drink wine and you have milk. In our Jiangnan dialect, "Ji" and "Quan" are homophones. Everyone laughed at that time. Shanglongxing also laughed, but he still went to glar at him and said: You guy, what are you talking nonsense? The person in charge laughed again: Then this is how you milk me and I drink. Everyone laughed even more.

Therefore, such situations often occur in drinking parties in the officialdom. It is abnormal if everyone doesn’t make such jokes. Instead, it will show that the relationship between everyone has not reached that level.

I originally thought Secretary Rong would laugh it off, but she didn't expect that she immediately smiled and replied to the Secretary-General, "Secretary General, I also heard that most of the Secretary-General were promoted by the Municipal Party Committee Secretary."

Everyone was startled and then burst into laughter. The Secretary-General almost broke his anger. He pointed at Secretary Rong and said with a smile: "Secretary Rong, you really have it! We can't tell you."

Everyone left happily that night. Because the atmosphere was very good, although everyone drank a lot of wine, they didn’t have much alcohol.

Later, the Secretary-General said: "We are all people who cannot help themselves. Maybe a leader will come to us to talk about things in a while, so we can't get drunk. Let's stop here today. Thank you Secretary Rong, thank you Mayor Feng."

After leaving the restaurant, Secretary Rong and I took the guests away first. Then Secretary Rong asked me: "Mayor Feng, what are your arrangements tonight?"

I don't know why she asked me like this. Could she have any other arrangements? But I thought that Lin Yu must have arrived on the mountain at this time. I said, "I also asked someone from the bank to discuss project funds in the evening. Secretary Rong, do you have anything to do?"

She smiled and said, "Oh. It's okay. Then go and do it. I originally asked Xiao Min to have a coffee together, and I wanted to ask you to go with me. Since you have made other arrangements, let's forget it. Work is the most important thing."

I clearly felt the implication of her words, but I pretended not to understand. I smiled and said, "You two lesbians are having coffee together, what am I going to do?" Speaking of this, I looked at the time, "Secretary Rong, then I'll go there first. It's not good to be too late, it's very rude. The most important issue for us next year is the fundraising, because I have more projects to be launched next year, and now we must be prepared."[

She nodded, "Yes. In the past three to five years, our tasks will be very heavy. The only thing we need to do now is to work tirelessly on our own affairs, state-owned enterprise reform, urban construction, and investment in people's livelihood projects, etc. We must complete them in the shortest time. The starting point of Shangjiang City is low, so the task is even more arduous. But it is precisely because we are behind that it is easier to achieve results. Mayor Feng, let's work together."

I nodded and said, "Secretary Rong, you are right. Now is the best opportunity for our Shangjiang City to develop. We should seize this opportunity to grasp all our work as soon as possible."

She smiled and said, "Mayor Feng, we can not consider other issues for the time being, but you should take time to consider your personal issues."

I waved at her with a wry smile and said, "Secretary Rong, can I ask you not to tell me about this again? Every time you tell me this, it makes me feel a headache."

She kept laughing, "Okay, okay! I won't tell you about this anymore, okay?"

I immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Then I said goodbye to her and asked the driver to take me home first.

After I got home, I took a shower first, and at the same time I sucked my throat with my hands a few times in the toilet. All the alcohol and food that had not been absorbed in my stomach were vomited out in an instant. I suddenly felt more awake.

I will go to talk to Lin Yu about something very important in the evening. I don’t want to miss things because of the sudden attack of alcohol.

After coming out of the bathroom, I found that my mother was looking at me with concern, "Smile, have you drunk too much? Mom makes you a cup of strong tea."

I shook my head and smiled, "I didn't drink much today. The main reason is that there is a leader who wants to talk to me about things in the evening. I just want to make myself more sober."

My mother looked at me pity, "Ah? You still have to go out? Then you vomited just now... I'll cook a bowl of noodles for you. Tomato and egg noodles. OK?"

I couldn't bear to swear by her, and now I really need something to eat. I was going out to eat a bowl of noodles or dumplings or something. I said, "Okay. Mom, I want more noodle soup."

The mother looked at me lovingly, "You kid. Wait, I'll do it right away."

My heart suddenly felt warm. In front of me, I will always be a child. This is not only in my mother's eyes, but also in my heart.

My mother quickly cooked the noodles, and she fryed me two eggs and noodles with clear soup, sprinkled with chopped green onion. After seeing it, I suddenly felt a lot of appetite. After taking a bite, it tasted great, just the kind of taste I ate when I was a child.

Nowadays, I rarely eat at home, and even when I am there, my mother cooks a big meal for me. I have been missing the taste of this egg noodles for a long time.

After eating the noodles, I even drank the soup inside. My mother was very happy, "It's still delicious at home, right?"

I smiled and said, "Mom, if I am dismissed from my post in the future, please give me some food every day."

My mother immediately blamed me and said, "Laugh, what are you talking nonsense?" At this point, she suddenly looked at me in a panic, "Laugh, have you encountered something?"

Only then did I realize that the joke I just said worried my mother, and I hurriedly said, "It's okay. Am I fine?"

My mother was still looking at me suspiciously, "But you just now..."

I quickly apologized to her, "Mom, I'm sorry, I'm joking with you. After the New Year, I will officially become the mayor of Shangjiang City. Everything is fine now. It's okay."[

She then breathed a sigh of relief, "You are really scared me. I laughed, we are just a scheming person. Don't do bad things, otherwise your father will not be at peace underground."

I am most afraid that my mother will mention her father in front of me. This will make me feel uncomfortable and also cause great pressure. I said, "Mom, don't worry. No, okay, I have to go out immediately. Mom, the noodles you cooked are so delicious."

My mother smiled at me kindly, "Go, go. Be careful when driving."

I agreed repeatedly and then quickly went out.

My mother didn't ask me if I wanted to go home tonight, she never asked me about this. And now my mother no longer urged me to fall in love. She knew that I didn't want her to ask more questions. In fact, my mother knew the pain in my heart, and maybe it was because of this that she couldn't bear to ask more questions.

When I arrived at the stone house on the mountain, I immediately saw Lin Yu's car parked there, and bright lights were also falling from the house. This place is actually not much higher than the city we are in, but it seems much colder. The lights in front of me immediately made me feel a kind of warmth.

After getting off the car, I immediately went inside the house, but Lin Yu did not lock the door. I locked the door after entering. At this moment, I felt the real warmth inside. Lin Yu had already set off a fire in the fireplace.

"The fellow villagers here are so nice. They have already prepared firewood here." Lin Yu said to me with a smile.

I said, "Yes, they are all very simple. If others give them a little benefit, they will double their rewards. The people in the city are much more empty and they have to consider their interests in everything."

She asked me with a smile, "I drank a lot of bars today? Why did I suddenly feel so easy to sigh?"

I shook my head and said, "I didn't drink much. It's just that you talked about this topic, so I felt that I felt like this. Sister, when did you come?"

She replied to me, "It's almost half an hour. Come on, you have some tea first. You can drink with them, and it's impossible to drink less."

Then I told her the truth, "The main reason is that I went home and took a shower after dinner. I knew you were going to tell me important things today, so I can't be drunk."

She looked at me with a gentle look and said to me with concern: "Then are you empty-handed now? I'll give you a bowl of noodles. There are noodles here, but I don't know if it's moldy. I haven't been here for a long time."

I felt a little moved because her words just now were a sign of real concern. I said, "My mother has cooked me a bowl, so I'm late."

She sighed and said, "You are so happy, you have such a good mother."

I looked at her, "Sister, where is your mother?"

I have never asked about her parents since we met her, because she has never mentioned it to me.

She immediately remained silent. I apologized: "Sister, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked you about this."

She shook her head and said, "It's okay. Now I often feel sorry for my mother. She has done so much for me, but I...hey!"

I looked at her in confusion, "You have done well enough? Now you are the director of the Provincial Party Committee Organization Department, and your mother should be proud of you."

She shook her head slightly, "It's a pity that she passed away too early. She suffered for me all her life, but she didn't enjoy the blessing of the whole day."

Her tone was very depressed and sad. This emotion immediately infected me and made me suddenly think of my father. But I was still comforting her, "Sister, let's not talk about this anymore. Actually, each of us comes to this world and suffers. Everyone suffers differently. Even children born in wealthy families will suffer from illness and emotions. Some will suffer from loss. These things are destined by God, and we will be calm after we figure it out."

She nodded slightly, but I immediately noticed tears falling from the corners of her eyes.

I felt guilty and uneasy, "Sister, what's wrong with you? I'm sorry, it's because I'm not good. I shouldn't have talked about this in front of you."

She smiled at me, "It's okay. Actually, I haven't thought about her for many years, but today I suddenly remembered it. Each of us has a good mother. Even if it's hardships and poverty, we can't let one person forget the beauty of maternal love. Feng Xiao, let me tell you the story of my mother."

I gave her a tissue, "Sister, I actually want to know too, but you have never told me about this before."

Then, she told me softly about her past events

When I first started elementary school, my father passed away. My mother and I supported each other and gently sent my father away with a pile of loess.

My mother did not remarry and pulled me with great difficulty. At that time, the village was not powered, and I read aloud under the oil lamp every night. I wrote and painted. My mother held the needle and thread and gently sewed the mother's love into my clothes. Day after day, year after year, when certificates covered the two mottled earth walls, I was also like the green bamboo in spring, growing upwards. Looking at me, half of my head, the wrinkles at the corners of my mother's eyes were filled with smiles.

When the trees all over the mountain were filled with autumn, I was admitted to the county key middle school. However, my mother suffered from severe rheumatism and could not do farm work. Sometimes she couldn't even eat enough food. At that time, students had to bring 30 kilograms of rice to the cafeteria every month. I knew my mother couldn't take it out, so she said, "Mom, I want to drop out of school and help you do farm work." My mother touched my head and said lovely: "You have this heart, and I am happy from the heart, but I have to read the book. Don't worry, if I give birth to you, I have a way to support you. You sign up first, and I will send the rice later." I said stubbornly, my mother said to go quickly, but I still said no, my mother waved her rough slap and threw it firmly on my face. This is the first time I was beaten at the age of sixteen...

I finally went to school. Looking at my back as I walked away, my mother was silently pondering.

Not long after, the school canteen welcomed her late mother. She limped into the door and took off a bag of rice from her shoulder panting. Master Xiong, who was in charge of the scale registration, opened the bag, grabbed a handful of rice, looked at it, and his brows tightened, saying, "You parents always like to take advantage of it. Look, there are early rice, medium rice, late rice, and fine rice here, which simply treat our canteen as a bucket of rice.

"My mother blushed and said sorry. Seeing this, Master Xiong didn't say anything else and took it away. My mother took out another small cloth bag and said, "Master, this is five yuan. I'll give it to her for my living expenses this month." Master Xiong took it over and shook it, and the coin inside was ding. He joked, "Why, are you selling tea eggs on the street?" My mother's face turned red again, she stammered and thanked her, and limped away.

At the beginning of another month, my mother walked into the cafeteria with a bag of rice on her back. As usual, Master Xiong opened the bag to see the rice, his brows were tightened, and it was still a variety of rice. He thought, did he not explain it to the mother clearly last time, so he said to her word by word: "We will collect all rice no matter what rice. But the varieties must be separated and must not be mixed together, otherwise it will not be cooked, and the cooked rice will be mixed. Next time I will do this, I will not collect it." My mother asked in a panic: "Master, my rice is like this, what should I do?" Master Xiong was amused and asked back: "Can you grow a hundred kinds of rice in your family acre of land? It's so funny." After being robbed, my mother did not dare to say anything, and Master Xiong ignored her.

At the beginning of the third month, my mother came again, carrying a bag of rice on her shoulders. She looked at Master Xiong with a smile that was even worse than crying. When Master Xiong saw the rice, she was furious and scolded in a tone that was almost unreasonable, saying: "Oh, I said, why are you a mother, stubborn? Why are you still variegated rice? How did you carry it today, or how do you carry it back!" My mother seemed to have expected it, and she bent her knees and knelt in front of Master Xiong. Two lines of tears flowed out along the eyes of the sunken god: "Master, let me tell you the truth. This rice is something I asked for... I got it from begging for food!" Master Xiong was shocked, his eyes widened, and he couldn't speak for a while.

My mother sat on the ground, rolled up her trouser legs, and swollen into a big fusiform... My mother wiped her tears and said, "I have advanced rheumatism and it's difficult to walk, let alone farming. The child is sensible and wants to drop out of school to help me. I slapped him to school..."

She explained to Master Xiong that she had been hiding from the villagers, and was even more afraid that I would know that it would hurt my self-esteem. Every day at dawn, she would quietly go to the village more than ten miles away with an empty rice bag and stick to beg for food. Then she sneaked into the village after the darkness. She gathered the rice she had begged together and sent it to the school at the beginning of the month... My mother was talking in a nagging manner, and Master Xiong was already crying. He helped his mother up and said, "Good mother, I will tell the principal immediately that the school would donate money to your house." The mother shook her hand in panic and said, "No, don't, if the child knew that his mother begged for her to go to school, it would ruin her self-esteem and affect her poor study. I have received the master's kindness. Please keep it a secret for me, remember it!"

My mother left and limped.

The principal finally knew about this and calmly reduced my tuition and living expenses for three years in the name of the extremely poor student. Three years later, I was admitted to Jiangnan University. On the day I bid farewell to the graduates, the school was full of drums and drums, and the principal specially invited me to the rostrum. I was very puzzled: There are so many students who were admitted to the university, why did I just invite me to the stage? What is even more strange is that there were three bulging snakeskin bags on the stage. At this time, Master Xiong came on stage to tell the story of my mother asking for rice to urge me to go to school. The sound of birds under the stage was that the principal pointed at the three snakeskin bags and said excitedly: "This is the three bags of rice my mother asked for in the story. This is the food that the world cannot buy with money. Now, please invite this great mother to the stage."

I looked back in confusion and saw Master Xiong holding his mother and moving step by step towards the stage. The shock I was at that time was no less than the storm.

We, mother and daughter, looked at each other, and the mother's eyes were warm and soft. She was often covered with gray hair and scattered on her forehead. I rushed forward, hugged her, and cried loudly: "Mom, my mother..."
To be continued...