Hearing that Geng Yuehua and Mrs. Yan were coming, Chu Qinghua was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly pulled his son and daughter-in-law out to greet them. Geng Yuehua had already come in from the door. She was not wearing Dong Xuebin's Italian suit. It must have been early in the morning.
I changed it after returning home, and now I am wearing a very beautiful suit of trousers and a shirt. Next to me is a middle-aged woman under fifty years old, with plain appearance but a very stable temperament.
Many people stood up one after another.
Chu Qinghua smiled and apologized: "I didn't know that the distinguished guest was coming, so I missed him a long way."
The bride and groom were a little reserved. They originally invited the district leaders when sending out invitations, but it seemed that the leaders didn't have time. They didn't expect it to happen, which caught them off guard.
Dong Xuebin didn't expect the district chief to come, but who was this Mrs. Yan? He turned to Wang Yuling and asked, "Director Wang, Mrs. Yan is..."
Wang Yuling whispered: "It's my aunt."
Your aunt? The wife of Wang Anshi, the district committee secretary?
Dong Xuebin secretly remembered it in his heart. It seems that Chu Qinghua has a lot of face. Even the lover of the district committee secretary and the district chief came to congratulate him. If it weren't for Chu Qinghua's good interpersonal relationships, it would be their Ping An Street Office.
The performance of Dong Xuebin's work is very good, and it can be seen from this battle that the district attaches great importance to it. Compared with this attitude, Dong Xuebin's Guangming Street Office seems a bit like a stepmother. It has been following the district's instructions for a long time to build illegal buildings.
Not only did the rectification fail to win the approval of the district, but it was almost punished. What is this?
Seeing that many people were crowding around Geng Yuehua and Mrs. Yan, Dong Xuebin was lazy, thinking that he was not the only one, so he turned around and entered the bathroom, washed his hands and rinsed his face. The glass of wine from before was gone.
He's a little over the top.
One minute...
Two minutes...
Three minutes...
After walking out of the bathroom, Dong Xuebin returned to the hall.
"District Chief Yuehua, Madam Yan, if I had known you two were coming, I wouldn't have started the banquet in advance. Look at this," Chu Qinghua said.
Geng Yuehua shook his hand with a serious look on his face, "It's not that particular."
Mrs. Yan smiled and said, "Yes, you can go about your business. There is no need to greet us. Yuehua, let's sit down."
Wang Yuling smiled and took Mrs. Yan's hand, "Auntie, I'm next to you."
"You." Mrs. Yan smiled helplessly.
Over there, Dong Xuebin came back, "Yuehua District Chief, Mrs. Yan."
Geng Yuehua nodded slightly, cherishing words like gold.
"What is this?" Madam Yan looked a little unfamiliar to him, having never seen him before.
Geng Yuehua said expressionlessly: "Xiao Dong from the Guangming Street Office."
"Oh." Mrs. Yan seemed to have heard of him, but also seemed not to have heard of him. She nodded with a smile and said nothing.
After several polite greetings, everyone slowly took their seats. With the insistence of Geng Yuehua and Mrs. Yan, the problem of who should sit first was finally solved. Finally, the waiter added another chair, and both of them sat at the front.
We chatted for a while. Dong Xuebin was the most silent one and did not participate in anyone's conversation. He didn't know anyone and had no connections, so he kept a low profile as much as possible and watched calmly with his eyes.
The expressions of people at the table.
Wang Yuling talked the most, pulling Mrs. Yan to talk and laugh, sometimes making the dozen or so people at the table laugh and laugh, talking about an aunt, but she did not shy away from the relationship between them. From this, it can be seen that Wang Yuling
I was just dawdling in the streets and had no intention of climbing up the ladder. As the saying goes, if you don't have desires, you will be strong, so you don't have to be like other highly motivated cadres who have to pretend to be stupid to avoid suspicion even if there is an elder who is a leader.
Over there, Geng Yuehua started chatting with Pan Zhengyi, which was completely different from when he got along with Dong Xuebin. He only heard Geng Yuehua talking to Pan Zhengyi continuously, which made Dong Xuebin sigh with emotion.
Damn it, but when he listened carefully, Dong Xuebin was happy again. This was not a chat. It was clearly Yuehua District Mayor who was giving Pan Zhengyi the tasks of the Investment Promotion Bureau. It seemed to be related to this year's work indicators. It was also like Yuehua District.
With District Chief Hua's meticulous character, it's hard to imagine that she would chat with others. But it's still a wedding banquet after all. You're really good at it. You don't forget to hand over your work at this time.
Pan Zhengyi sat upright and nodded respectfully from time to time. It felt that Pan Zhengyi was a cadre in the lineage of Yuehua District Chief.
"Dad." The groom not far away said anxiously: "Is this dish..."
Chu Qinghua nodded and immediately called the waiter, "Please remove the dishes from this table and replace them with new ones. In this way, you can bring some recipes." They had eaten a lot of food on the table, and we couldn't let the district chief and the others eat the leftovers.
Bar?
The table of dishes was quickly removed, and Chu Qinghua personally handed the menu to Mrs. Yan and Geng Yuehua for the leaders to order.
Mrs. Yan smiled and said: "Isn't the food on that table very good? Why did it change? I don't know what everyone likes to eat. Let's order Yuehua."
Geng Yuehua is not a wordy person, "Let's order one dish each."
"Alright." Madam Yan flipped through the menu, "I'll make Qinglong Woxue."
Geng Yuehua flipped through it casually and ordered the Ruixue Volcano.
Wang Yuling and Pan Zhengyi also ordered one dish, Phoenix Tour on Phoenix Platform and Huanghe Gone Forever, respectively. Anyway, they are both poetic and picturesque dish names.
It's time for Dong Xuebin. He took the recipe and looked at it, and he felt happy. What's going on? Looking at the pictures at the back, Qinglong Woxue is just a few yellow flowers dipped in white sugar, Ruixue Huoshan is cold tomatoes, and Phoenix Platform Phoenix Tour is five spices.
Roast duck, yellow crane and chicken soup with ham and lotus seeds, so he turned another page. Dong Xuebin saw a picture of the dish. He didn’t know what it was. It looked quite beautiful, as if some chili peppers were sprinkled on the snow-capped mountains. See
The name of the dish said "Woman Forty". Dong Xuebin thought that Geng Yuehua was a person who lived in her thirties and forties, and Mrs. Yan had also been forty for a long time, so she might as well try this.
"Forty women." Dong Xuebin ordered. He thought it was a health-preserving dish specially designed for women.
Several cadres nearby also thought so. They glanced at Dong Xuebin and thought to themselves that this was flattering.
The waiter wrote them down one by one, and after everyone had ordered, he quickly returned to the kitchen with the menus.
five minutes...
Ten minutes...
Twenty minutes...
The dishes came one after another.
When he looked at the table again, Dong Xuebin suddenly discovered a fact that left him speechless. The ten cadres who had toasted and drank with him just before Geng Yuehua arrived could not find the wine glasses in front of them at this moment.
Several people's wine glasses were empty, and a few actually replaced them with juice. Dong Xuebin lowered his head belatedly. He was the only one at the dinner table who still had wine left in his glass. Apparently, when Geng Yuehua came in, Dong Xuebin
When Xue Bin went to the bathroom, these people hurriedly removed the wine glasses.
I'm going!
If I want to withdraw, please withdraw too!
Are you trying to trick me?
Today is a working day, and everyone has to go to work in the afternoon. The agency has clearly stipulated that alcohol is prohibited during working hours. Dong Xuebin can see that everyone is not afraid of Mrs. Yan, but worried about Mayor Yuehua, even though they know that drinking some wine at today's wedding banquet is not allowed.
It was unlikely that the district chief would put her on the line, but she still did it. From this point on, Dong Xuebin also knew that Geng Yuehua had a high prestige among the cadres in Nanshan District, and her always unreasonable work style seemed to be criticized.
Everyone knew it, otherwise he would not have withdrawn his drink in such a hurry for fear of being criticized by Geng Yuehua.
But when they did this, Dong Xuebin immediately fell into disgrace.
It would be okay if everyone had wine. It's a wedding banquet, and the law doesn't blame everyone. But now everyone at this table has no wine, and only Dong Xuebin is left. Paralysis, what should he do? It's too conspicuous!
Fortunately, Chu Qinghua came with the bride and groom to toast.
The groom was a bit stupid, so he raised his glass and said, "Dear leaders and elders, I respect you all."
Chu Qinghua criticized: "Everyone at this table must respect each other."
"Uh, that's right." The groom hurriedly toasted to Mrs. Yan and Geng Yuehua.
Geng Yuehua raised his glass slightly and said, "We have another meeting in the afternoon, where we will have tea instead of a bar."
Chu Qinghua naturally didn't dare to say no, and no one had the guts to persuade District Mayor Yuehua to drink, who would let him be the leader.
Seeing that everyone's attention was gone, Dong Xuebin quickly picked up the wine glass, drank it in his stomach, and then quickly poured tea into the glass, just like everyone else.
Ding ding ding, the sound of clinking glasses continued one after another.
"Congratulations to both of you."
"I wish you a happy marriage."
"I have work in the afternoon, so I have tea instead of wine."
In fact, the groom has already toasted once just now, but since Geng Yuehua and Mrs. Yan have arrived, they naturally have to toast again to show respect.
Dong Xuebin finished his tea, sat back, took a bite of food with chopsticks.
Huh? What is it? Dong Xuebin almost spit out the stuff in his mouth. The chirping sound was too unpalatable. He had to bite the bullet and finally swallowed it. Looking at the table again, he saw that what he had just put was a piece of gray stuff.
The dish has peppers and chopped green onions on it. At first glance, the color is not bad, but when you take a closer look, it is a bit disgusting. It is a big greasy lump and the taste is not good. Who ordered the dish?
Pan Zhengyi also tasted this dish and frowned immediately.
Mrs. Yan looked at it and didn't even stretch out her chopsticks. Others also lost their appetite after seeing this dish.
"Is this Mad Tofu?" Pan Zhengyi asked.
Chu Qinghua lowered his head and looked at it with a very polite expression on his face: "It's tofu dregs. I remember it's not on the menu, right?"
A street official shook his head and said, "No one ordered just now."
Chu Qinghua immediately waved a waitress over, pointed to the table and said: "This dish has been removed! Tofu dregs? How did you serve it?"
The waitress was startled and said, "It's all on the menu, it's correct."
Pan Zhengyi shook his head and said, "No one ordered this dish, please take it away."
However, the slightly aggrieved waitress suddenly said something shocking: "I did order it. This dish is for a woman in her forties." The voice became quieter and quieter, but everyone around her heard it clearly!
Mrs. Yan’s expression changed!
Geng Yuehua frowned!
On the other hand, Dong Xuebin’s face turned green at that time!
Holy shit! What did I order?
A woman at forty? A woman at forty is a piece of shit!?