At eight o'clock in the evening, Zhou Jiqing was carrying a high-end and elegant Yixing purple sand-lined magnetized teacup. Shi Shiran walked into Secretary Lu's office and casually asked Secretary Lu who was sitting on the chair behind his desk. Say hello.
Under normal circumstances, if a leader of the Standing Committee comes to his office to talk or report on work, Secretary Lu will come out from behind his desk to greet him. Moreover, when the two parties are talking or listening to each other's reports, Secretary Lu will usually also talk to him. He sat flat on the sofa to show respect for these team members.
However, when Zhou Jiqing came to the office today, Secretary Lu sat still behind his desk and did not stand up to shake hands with Zhou Jiqing. Moreover, when Zhou Jiqing said hello to him, there was no smile on his face. He kept a serious face and just said "hmm" from his nose, which was regarded as a response to Zhou Jiqing's greeting.
Then, without looking at Zhou Jiqing's slightly unhappy and dissatisfied face, he pointed to the chair opposite the desk and said in a very cold tone: "Comrade Jiqing, please sit down."
Zhou Jiqing had come here to see Secretary Lu several times. Every time, Secretary Lu would stand up, shake hands with him, and ask himself to sit on the sofa. But today, Secretary Lu was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic. Not only did he not come out from behind the desk to shake hands with him, , and also let himself sit on the chair opposite him, which made him feel angry all of a sudden, because he knew that the chair opposite Secretary Lu's desk was placed in front of the executive desk. At the bottom of the first step, the person sitting on this chair, no matter how tall you are, can only look up at Secretary Lu opposite you, and Secretary Lu sitting on his own armchair will give the person opposite you a feeling of superiority. A sense of coercion.
Therefore, the people sitting in this chair talking to Secretary Lu are usually heads of provincial departments, heads of cities and states, or officials with much lower positions than him. If they are leaders of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, , Secretary Lu will ask them to sit on the sofa, and he will come out from behind the table and sit with them on the sofa; if they are other deputy provincial leaders, Secretary Lu will not let them sit in the chair opposite him. Instead, he would ask them to sit on a chair next to the coffee table, while he would sit across from the coffee table and talk to each other face to face...
But now, as a dignified member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, he has arranged for him to sit in this seat where he can only look up to him. It is intolerable to put himself in the same category as those department-level officials.
Therefore, after Secretary Lu said the words "please sit down", Zhou Jiqing glanced coldly at the chair that was one step lower, raised his neck, and said in a strong tone: "Secretary Lu, I will stand here and listen to your instructions. If you have anything to say, just say it. I am all ears."
Secretary Lu didn't have much reaction to Zhou Jiqing's extremely rude words. He just stared coldly at the exquisite purple clay teacup in his hand and said in a mocking tone: "Jiqing Comrade, this tea cup of yours is not bad. Do you hold such a good cup in your hand all the time? Otherwise, you are worried that when you come to my office, you will not have a cup of tea for you to drink. However, my opinion Yes: Before our conversation begins, please put down the tea cup. If you want to add water, I can ask Xiao Xu to come over and refill it for you."
Secretary Lu’s words are referring to something: Under normal circumstances, no matter who comes to Secretary Lu’s office, in order to show his respect for Secretary Lu, he will not bring his own teacup, but will come after he comes to the secretary’s office. , and then Secretary Lu’s secretary uses disposable paper cups to make tea. This is also a common convention: only when superiors visit subordinates, they can bring their own teacups; when subordinates visit their superiors, if they also bring their own teacups, It seems like he doesn't take his superiors seriously.
And Zhou Jiqing brought his own tea cup today just to challenge Secretary Lu's authority again and show that he no longer respects him that much. Of course, Secretary Lu is well aware of this, so he will With that mocking tone, Zhou Jiqing asked him to put down his tea cup.
When Zhou Jiqing saw Secretary Lu picking his own thorns first, he cursed in his heart, "Little chicken intestines", but he still put the tea cup on the coffee table next to him. Then, he raised his head and stared at Secretary Lu with bright eyes, waiting for him. say.
Seeing that he still didn't sit on the chair, Secretary Lu stopped forcing him, but didn't talk to him immediately. Instead, he picked up a pile of materials on the desk and looked through them casually, as if there was nothing in front of him. There is no one standing.
Zhou Jiqing waited patiently for a few minutes. Seeing that Secretary Lu remained silent, he finally couldn't bear it any longer. He suppressed his anger and said, "Secretary Lu, why are you looking for me? Did you ask me to come here to make you stand? I There are a lot of things going on over there. The Xinleng 5.16 task force is still waiting to report to me. If there is nothing else, I will leave first."
As he said that, he really bent down and was about to pick up the tea cup on the coffee table.
Only then did Secretary Lu raise his head, glanced at him coldly, and said: "Comrade Jiqing, please be patient. The materials I'm reading now have a lot to do with you, so I advise you to start with Sit down across from me and let me review these materials carefully before I can talk to you in a targeted manner,"
When Zhou Jiqing heard these words from Secretary Lu, he was suddenly shocked. He quickly straightened up and glanced at the materials. He saw that the thick pile of materials held in elastic clips seemed to be photocopies, and, Those papers were all printed with the words "Special Notes of the Dezhou City Commission for Discipline Inspection". I was stunned for a moment, gaping at the calm Secretary Lu, and cold sweat broke out from under my skin...
It turns out that Dezhou City has always been Zhou Jiqing's biggest worry, because he knows very well that in Dezhou, the place where he made his fortune, there is now a huge bomb lurking. This bomb is his willful, ignorant and fearless man. The mentally retarded mistress, Li Qian.
Since he was transferred from Dezhou to the Provincial High People's Procuratorate and later promoted to Secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Committee, many of his old subordinates and confidants in Dezhou who knew about his ambiguous relationship with Li Qian often reminded him: Li Qian is a woman who is too exposed and too exposed. She is arrogant. She is not only greedy and loves money as much as her life, but she is also very vain and likes to show off. As a district deputy prosecutor, she does not know how to hide her power and bide her time, nor does she know how to be humble and low-key. She not only lives in a villa and drives a luxury car, but also She often talks about her relationship with Secretary Zhou, as if she is afraid that others will not know her special relationship with Secretary Zhou. If she continues like this, sooner or later something will happen, and it will be a big one...