After get off work, Kong Xiangrong stopped Li Xiaoning and asked, "Are you free tonight? I'll take two cups!"
Li Xiaoning no longer has the status of temporary secretary and no girlfriend. Tang Wei has also returned to Yanjing. He has a lot of free time in the evening, so he smiled and replied: "It's rare that you, a busy person, mainly want to treat guests, how can I do that?"
Let me pass up this opportunity to kill you? But let me make it clear first, two cups are not allowed, no matter what, I have to fill two bottles per person!"
Kong Xiangrong also laughed and said, "I've heard of your reputation as the Master of Wine. I can't drink two bottles of liquor, but beer is fine!"
Li Xiaoning smiled and said: "Let's talk about it then. Let's go first. It will be the rush hour after work, so it's not easy to take a taxi."
"What kind of car do you want? Brother, the car I just bought is just right for you to show off to." Kong Xiangrong said, shaking the car key in his hand.
"Wow, I bought a car now! It's incomparable." Li Xiaoning smacked his lips and said, "What kind of car? It's a pleasure."
"It's just a means of transportation, Passat." Kong Xiangrong said modestly, but his face did not conceal his pride.
Li Xiaoning originally thought that he and Kong Xiangrong would just find a food stall and drink some beer. Unexpectedly, the car came directly to the "State Banquet Pier". After getting out of the car, Kong Xiangrong said with some show off: "This is the most famous place for seafood on the seaside.
One of the few places here, the business is very good, and ordinary people can’t book a table at all, but I am a VIP customer here, and they usually reserve a private room for me.”
"You have only been in Binhai for a few days? You have become a VIP customer so quickly. It seems that there is a lot of corruption!" Li Xiaoning joked with a smile. He didn't feel ashamed at all, because he was really good at these material enjoyments.
Not much cold.
Walking into the lobby, I found that the business here was really booming. Even the lobby was full of people. A handsome waiter wearing a high-cut cheongsam immediately greeted him, "Gentlemen, have you made a reservation?"
Kong Xiangrong said carelessly: "It's just the two of us. We don't have a reservation, but I'm your VIP customer. Find me a small private room."
The waiter had a professional smile on his face, leaned forward slightly and said, "I'm sorry, sir. Business is so good today, we don't have any private rooms, so there are only two of you. Can you please sit in the lobby?"
Kong Xiangrong's face immediately fell, "What are you doing? Why do you look down on me? Call your foreman."
"Sorry, please wait!" The waiter smiled apologetically and backed away, probably to call the foreman.
After a while, a tall woman in a black skirt ran over quickly, with a standard professional smile on her face, "Hello, Mr. Kong. I'm bringing friends over for dinner again."
Kong Xiangrong's face softened slightly and he said: "Manager Song, that waiter just now is new. He doesn't even recognize me, and he actually told me that there are no private rooms."
Manager Song looked a little uncomfortable and smiled apologetically: "Mr. Kong, I'm really sorry. There really are no private rooms today. Otherwise, I would boldly make a decision and give you a 10% discount. You can stay here
How about we just stay in the lobby for a while?”
Kong Xiangrong originally wanted to show off in front of Li Xiaoning today, but unexpectedly he was frustrated repeatedly. How could he keep it on his face and said angrily: "Manager Song, what do you mean? Do I need that little money? Young Master
Nonsense, hurry up and get a private room for me!"
Manager Song had a very embarrassed expression on his face and apologized repeatedly: "Mr. Kong, I'm sorry, please don't be angry. Today is really a special situation. There are many important guests here. There are indeed no private rooms. Please understand!"
"You mean I'm not an important guest anymore?" Kong Xiangrong raised his eyebrows and raised his voice and said, "Then I want to ask you, what exactly is a VIP customer?"
Seeing that the situation was not going well, Li Xiaoning quickly smoothed things over and said, "Forget it, forget it. It's just the two of us, where should we sit? The lobby is very good, otherwise we can just change places!"
At this time, a young man with a ponytail came out of the toilet. When he saw Li Xiaoning, he ran over quickly and said, "Brother Li, why do you have time to come to my restaurant for dinner? You are so brilliant!"
Li Xiaoning looked familiar to this man, but couldn't remember where he had seen him before, so he asked doubtfully: "Who are you?"
The ponytail was a bit embarrassing, and he said with a smile: "Brother Li, you are such a noble person who forgets things. I am Da Fei..."
"Da Fei..." Li Xiaoning still didn't remember that he had only been in Binhai for a few months and hadn't really made many friends.
"Brother, you forgot. Last time, at the gate of Fanhai Community, brother and I had a little misunderstanding." Ponytail said with an embarrassed look on his face.
"Oh, you are Da Fei...don't you open a bar? Why do you also open this restaurant?" Li Xiaoning then remembered. It turns out that this person was the one who led a group of young men to stand up for Xue Bin at the gate of Fanhai Community last time.
, the Da Fei who was beaten violently by him.
"I'm just fooling around, doing whatever I can to make money. This store has just been open for two months." Ponytail said with a smile. Although he said it modestly, Jiao Aojin didn't hide it in his words. After that, he turned around.
He said to the foreman: "Xiao Song, immediately arrange a private room for my brother, and all purchases will be free of charge!"
The foreman said with some embarrassment: "Master Fei, all the boxes are full. Only the largest state banquet box is reserved for Secretary Tang..."
Da Fei said angrily: "Why are you so blind? This is my brother, and my father won't come today. What kind of room are you leaving for him?"
"Yes, yes..." The foreman quickly backed away in fear.
Kong Xiangrong originally wanted to show off in front of Li Xiaoning, but he was shocked by Li Xiaoning instead. Secretary Tang? Apart from Tang Xuewen, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and deputy secretary, where else is there another Secretary Tang in Binhai City? Who is this Li Xiaoning? Himself
He is the nephew of a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, and no one accepts it. How can he make the son of the deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee treat him with such respect?
Kong Xiangrong originally had the intention of competing with Li Xiaoning, but now they were a little in awe of his mysterious background, and suddenly felt a little shorter than him.
Li Xiaoning was not the kind of rigid and dogmatic person. Seeing that Tang Fei was so "regardless of past grudges" and enthusiastically invited him, he did not refuse and followed Tang Fei into the luxurious private room.
Wine is definitely a good thing. It is definitely a natural lover for people. It can dissolve into people's blood without restraint, numb their brains, and then bring the drinkers closer. Li Xiaoning and Kong Xiangrong both have some points.
The children looked down on each other, but after a few rounds of drinking, they began to put their arms around each other's shoulders and call each other brothers.
Kong Xiangrong said with a loud tongue: "Brother, let me tell you, this person's life depends on fate. It is fate that we can work together; it is also fate that we can drink together today. From now on, we brothers must be together
Let’s help each other and make progress together!”
"That's necessary!" Li Xiaoning said with a smile. His ability to drink is not a little better than Kong Xiangrong. A few bottles of beer are like drinking water to him.
Kong Xiangrong was different. He drank too much and talked too much. He put his arm around Li Xiaoning's shoulders and said with drunken eyes: "Xiaoning, how do you think we are doing in the Secretary's Office now?"
"It's okay!" Li Xiaoning responded casually.
"You're talking nonsense." Kong Xiangrong swore, "Don't fool me by thinking that I drank too much. I'm telling you, I'm sober. We're just living life to death."
Li Xiaoning thought to himself, just because you are messing around, it doesn't mean that I am also messing around. But he still has to echo and say: "Yeah. We have been here for half a year, and we haven't done anything meaningful yet.
Come to think of it, I'm really just dawdling."
"What's meaningless? Do you think this is "Soldier Assault"?" Kong Xiangrong glanced at Li Xiaoning, "When I say dawdling, I mean there is no bright future, no hope."
"Isn't it too early to say that?" Li Xiaoning waved his hand and said, "Our group of people were specially recruited by Secretary Liu, and they must be trained. It's just that the time is still short, and there is no action for the time being."
"Bullshit." Kong Xiangrong sneered and said, "Xiao Ning, I'm telling you this because I'm a brother. Don't think that just because you have been a temporary secretary for Secretary Liu for a few days, you think you have a chance. The county magistrate is not as good as taking charge now, and the fate of the two will definitely be different.
It depends on Duan Yonghong and Mao Qiushi."
"That makes sense." Li Xiaoning nodded and said, "So we need to build a harmonious relationship with the two leaders."
"Are you really stupid, or are you pretending to be confused with me?" Kong Xiangrong said with straight eyes, "Can you tell what kind of person Mao Qiushi is? If he doesn't set a trap behind our backs, it's Amitabha's fault.
Expect him to take care of us?"
Li Xiaoning did not speak, but picked up the glass and drank another glass. He understood what Kong Xiangrong said. Often when a new person comes to a unit or a department, they will encounter a certain degree of rejection because everyone does not understand the new person. This kind of rejection is originally
It was subconscious. But as time went by, Li Xiaoning discovered that Mao Qiushi actively rejected him and Kong Xiangrong.
Mao Qiushi and Li Xiaoning were simply strangers. Their life experiences, behavioral habits, and ways of doing things were so different that they couldn't even pee in the same pot. At first, Li Xiaoning thought that he had just graduated and had been transferred ten times in the school.
After staying there for more than ten years, I had little social experience, poor practical ability, lack of understanding of complex interpersonal relationships, and insufficient ability and cultivation to deal with interpersonal relationships, which led to the relationship with Mao Qiushi becoming a bit tense. But as time went by
, he also gradually realized that Mao Qiushi's character and behavior were definitely not someone he should be sincere to.
"Isn't there still Secretary-General Duan?" Li Xiaoning put down his wine glass and said, recovering his thoughts.