Dong Xuebin drove from Li's Restaurant back to the Guangming Street Office not far across the alley. As soon as he got out of the car, he saw many department staff casting frightened looks at him.
"Do you know? Something happened to our new director again."
"Something happened again? What happened? Tell me."
"At noon, there was a wedding banquet at the home of the director of Ping'an Street. District Mayor Yuehua and the wife of the district committee's *** were both there."
"I know that. I just heard a cannon being fired. What happened next?"
"Then our director ordered a dish for them, called Woman Forty."
"What kind of dish is this? I've never heard of it."
"Ahem, it's actually just a piece of tofu dregs."
"Damn it! A woman in her forties? A scumbag? Who thought of the name of this dish! Then Director Dong didn't offend people to death? Isn't this harming our director?"
"Isn't that right? I heard that Mrs. Yan's face changed immediately."
"That's right, isn't this a curse?"
"This is an unforeseen disaster. Who would have thought it was a dish of tofu?"
Although Dong Xuebin didn't hear everyone's discussion, he knew from his expression that what happened at the wedding banquet had spread. His face was even worse. After returning to his office, he lit up his cigarette and took a few puffs, and began to think about what had just happened.
The more I thought about what happened at the dinner, the more wrong it became, and the more I thought about it, the more I frowned. Since the restaurant owner Li Lu knew that Mrs. Yan and District Chief Geng were present, and since he personally went to the kitchen to supervise the banquet, and since he attached so much importance to this banquet, how could he not
Knowing that a woman of forty is not allowed to serve this dish on such an occasion? Couldn’t he have seen it when the dish was being served? And there was Chu Qinghua, who stood aside when he was ordering. The cuisine at the wedding banquet must be from the Chu family
The dishes were ordered one after another in advance. Chu Qinghua had definitely seen the recipes of Li's Restaurant. Why didn't Chu Qinghua know about the dish for a woman who is forty? If she knew, why didn't she remind him?
Something happened inside?
Dong Xuebin squinted his eyes and called Zhou Yanru, "Director Zhou, come to my office."
Two minutes later, Zhou Yanru quickly knocked on the door and came in, "Director, are you looking for me?"
"Sit down and talk." Dong Xuebin pressed his hands and asked: "I just came back from the wedding banquet at Director Chu's house on Ping'an Street. It was very lively."
Zhou Yanru said, "I heard about it too. It seems that Director Chu's son is getting married, right?"
Heard? It seems? Dong Xuebin read something wrong again. It stands to reason that they are so close to each other on the street. How come most people in our street not only did not receive the invitation, but also seemed not to even know about it? Wang Yuling was the only one who was sent an invitation? Geng Xinke
He should have taken it too, but he didn't go?
Dong Xuebin looked at her, "Do you know Director Chu?"
Zhou Yanru blinked and said thoughtfully: "It's okay. Director Chu has been the director of Pingan Street for four or five years, but, well, how should I put it, haha, the relationship with our street there has always been... not easy to deal with."
Not dealing with it? Dong Xuebin said curiously: "Oh? Tell me."
Zhou Yanru didn't hide it, "That's right, the relationship between our street and them has deteriorated. It was two years ago. There was a murder case on the west bank of the river. A young man was killed and his body was floating on the river. The people who reported the crime at that time were from Ping An Street.
Residents called the police when they saw the body, but when the Ping An Street Police Station rushed over, they did not recover the body. Several policemen stood on the river waiting, and I heard they were smoking and chatting, very leisurely."
"What are you waiting for?" Dong Xuebin frowned.
Zhou Yanru also looked annoyed when talking about this, "The river is the dividing line between our street and Ping'an Street. The river is the boundary. To be precise, when the division was originally made, the middle of the river was the boundary. If the body floats to this side of the river,
It was our case. If it drifted to their side, it was their case. Generally, it is difficult to obtain evidence for this kind of murder case. Their police station did not want to take it over for fear of affecting the case detection rate. Anyway, they stood there and waited for a long time. Later,
After the body floated to our side, they called Director Peng and asked us to accept the case. They turned around and left without any further concern. Tell me, is there anyone who does this? This is a murder case! They were too careless.
You take human life seriously!”
Dong Xuebin's face turned gloomy. He couldn't bear to hear this. What kind of policeman is this? He didn't care when he saw a dead person?
"Is there still such a thing?"
Zhou Yanru nodded and said: "Everyone in our street knows exactly what happened. Many residents saw it at that time. Since then, something happened. Later, our relationship with Ping An Street deteriorated sharply, which is very bad."
Generally speaking, people in official circles will give a discount when speaking. Since she said it was very bad, it basically meant that it was bad.
Dong Xuebin's eyelids sank. No wonder Chu Qinghua's son didn't invite him to his wedding. No wonder there were no other people from the Guangming Street Office except Wang Yuling at the wedding banquet. There had indeed been conflicts between the two streets before, and the conflicts were not even minor.
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After Zhou Yanru left, Dong Xuebin leaned against the window sill of the office alone.
If that's the case, then the misunderstanding about serving lunch... I'm afraid it's not a misunderstanding at all!
Through Sister Zhou's words, Dong Xuebin finally figured out a clue. Chu Qinghua must have known about the dish "Woman Forty" at that time. When Dong Xuebin ordered it, he watched with cold eyes. Later, the dish came out of the back kitchen.
I believe that the restaurant owner Li Lu cannot be unaware of this. Since Chu Qinghua chose Li’s Restaurant, his relationship with Li Lu must be okay. Li Lu most likely asked Chu Qinghua for permission. Not only did Chu Qinghua not stop him, but he also
After discussing with Li Lu, we deliberately made this dish look ugly and served it on the table? I remember that Chu Qinghua took the initiative to mention this dish at that time, and repeatedly told the waiter that this was not what we ordered.
The waiter explained the name of the dish! This put Dong Xuebin in an embarrassing situation! In the end, Chu Qinghua didn't even try to smooth things over, he just patted his butt and left! Li Lu's later attitude towards Dong Xuebin was also not giving him any face! A little
The owner of the restaurant is not supposed to be so confident!
Numbness! Misunderstanding? Nonsense!
It was Chu Qinghua and Li Lu who wanted to trick Dong Xuebin!
He deliberately wanted to make Dong Xuebin look bad in front of Geng Yuehua and Mrs. Yan and let him sit on the wax!
Dong Xuebin wanted to understand. He slapped the table with his hands. Do you want to use this to make me look bad? Let the district leaders have opinions on our Guangming Street Office? Take advantage of the district leaders to manipulate me? You are bullying me too much, right?
!The plot was laid on my buddy? And he used such despicable methods!?
Fuck you!
Dong Xuebin exploded immediately. What he hated most in his life was someone sneaking up and having sex behind his back, and then smiling afterwards, as if nothing happened!