Ouyang Lan picked up the phone and saw that it was a call from Liu Chen.

What would it be like to call at this time? Ouyang Lan picked up the phone and asked, "Hey, what's wrong?"

Liu Chen's voice on the other end of the phone was also very low: "Are you in Ningzhou County?"

Ouyang Lan was surprised for a while: "How do you know that we are in Ningzhou?"

"Don't ask so much, first come to the Sunshine Hotel on this side of the Golden Avenue, and you all come here. Liu Chen didn't say much, and directly asked Ouyang Lan to take the people from the city bureau to the Sunshine Hotel.

At this time, Ouyang Lan didn't know what to do next, she remembered what Liu Chen said to her last night, maybe he knew some inside information, so she decided to rush to the Sunshine Hotel immediately.

"Let's go to the Sunshine Hotel now. Ouyang Lan turned around and said to everyone.

"What are you doing at the Sunshine Hotel?"

"We were called over. ”

Yang Ziming thought it was someone from the county magistrate's side, so he didn't say anything anymore and followed Ouyang Lan, who was relatively familiar with her.

After more than ten minutes to rush to the Sunshine Hotel on Golden Avenue, Ouyang Lan led everyone to the door, but no one came out to greet him, so he called Liu Chen.

"Hey, where is we? We're at the door. ”

"Straight up to room 208. ”

Ouyang Lan felt that Liu Chen's behavior was very strange, but as if he was being led by him, he followed his instructions without any scruples.

When the waiter at the front desk saw them, as if he knew in advance, he took them upstairs directly, Ouyang Lan followed the waiter quickly, she wanted to know what Liu Chen was doing.

Everyone came to room 208, the waiter opened the door for them and turned to leave, and the others walked into the room, only to see Liu Chen sitting on the sofa with an old man, smoking a cigarette and chatting, his expression was very solemn, Ouyang Lan rarely saw Liu Chen with such an expression.

Take a closer look, isn't that old man the county *** Secretary Chen, everyone looked at the two people inside in amazement, they didn't know how Liu Chen could be with the county *** of Ningzhou County.

"Here, sit casually. Liu Chen said to the people of the city bureau.

Ouyang Lan and the others went up before and after, and first greeted Secretary Chen of the county party committee: "Secretary Chen is good!"

Secretary Chen nodded to everyone: "Hello everyone, please take a seat." ”

After everyone sat down, Ouyang Lan asked, "Liu Chen, you called us here, what's the matter?"

The corners of Liu Chen's mouth lifted and said, "You have already heard about the county magistrate, right?"

"I heard that he went on a business trip to Europe. ”

Liu Chen snorted lightly, exhaled a puff of smoke, shook the ashes of the cigarette, glanced at Secretary Chen, and said, "Let Secretary Chen tell you about the situation." ”

Everyone's eyes fell on Secretary Chen's body, Secretary Chen put the cigarette butt against the ashtray, snuffed out the cigarette, and said slowly: "In fact, the real situation is like this, the county magistrate Chang suddenly fell ill a few days ago, and the business trip is just a rhetoric to the outside world, so as not to cause unnecessary speculation from the outside world." ”

"No, suddenly sick? County Magistrate Chang seems to be in good health. Although he said it from the mouth of the county ***, Ouyang Lan still didn't believe that the county magistrate Chang would suddenly fall ill, and he heard the county magistrate himself say that he didn't have much time to exercise because of his busy work, so he got up an hour early every morning to run, and his exercise was going to be crushed by work.

Ouyang Lan continued to ask: "Secretary Chen, what kind of illness does County Magistrate Chang have, and where is he now?"

Secretary Chen waved his hand, shook his head, and said with a long sigh: "I don't know, to be honest, I haven't seen him in person until now, but I just received a message from him saying that he was sick and had to temporarily put down his work for treatment, and said that he was sorry for being so sudden, I was puzzled, and replied to the message, but he never replied to me, I waited for a while, called over, and prompted to shut down, so I am now the same as you, and I don't know about the matter of the county magistrate Chang." ”

Judging from Secretary Chen's words and demeanor, he was also quite puzzled and very anxious. At present, it is an eventful time for the county government, and his sudden disappearance has made it impossible to carry out a lot of work normally, such as the candidate for the successor of Deputy County Magistrate Li this time, without the presence of Chang County Magistrate, it is difficult to make a choice. And with the work attitude of the county magistrate, he will definitely not leave so irresponsibly, and the situation is not optimistic.

"Then Secretary Chen, what should we do now?, can we only wait?" Ouyang Lan asked eagerly, now only Secretary Chen is the most energetic person, with him, everyone's hearts are more at ease.

"Wait a little longer, I will continue to find a way to contact County Magistrate Chang, hoping to get in touch with him as soon as possible. "Secretary Chen can't think of a better way, so he can only wait, compared to aimless searching, waiting may be the most effective way, after all, they believe that the county magistrate Chang will not cut off contact with them for no reason.

Ouyang Lan, like the rest of the team members, lowered his head in frustration, maybe the county magistrate Chang was not sick, but in danger, then the current situation made them feel helpless even more.

Just when everyone was depressed, Liu Chen, who had been smoking a stuffy cigarette, spoke, and said: "Waiting is a method, but it may not be only waiting. ”

Everyone looked at Liu Chen together, including Secretary Chen, and they were all full of curiosity and expectation about Liu Chen's words.

"Do you have any solution?" asked Secretary Chen.

Liu Chen squinted his eyes, the previous gloom turned into calm and calm, and he replied: "Since you don't believe that County Magistrate Chang didn't contact you because he was sick, then it is very likely that he is in danger, if you just wait passively, or just keep calling him, it obviously has no effect." Why don't you ask a few of the other deputy county magistrates? Maybe they know about it. ”

"They know?" Secretary Chen put on his black-rimmed glasses and looked at Liu Chen.

Ouyang Lan understood what Liu Chen meant, and clapped his hands and said, "You mean, if County Magistrate Chang is really in danger, then the entire county government has the responsibility to look for him, not just a few of us, right?"

Liu Chen smiled slightly and continued: "As far as I know, many officials of the county government are natives of Ningzhou County, especially Deputy County Magistrate Li, Deputy County Magistrate Wang and Deputy County Magistrate Zhang, one of these three people is now lying in the intensive care unit, not to mention him, the other two are all members of the Standing Committee of the county party committee, and one of them is also the director of the Public Security Bureau, right?"

Secretary Chen is very clear about the leadership team of the county party committee, Liu Chenquan is right, he nodded and said: "Yes, the deputy county magistrate who is also the director of the public security bureau is Deputy County Magistrate Wang, and the deputy county magistrate Zhang is the same as the county magistrate Chang, who is the deputy secretary of the county party committee." ”

Liu Chen said: "Yes, these people control the important organs of the entire Ningzhou County, especially the public security department, and it is much more effective to mobilize their forces to find the county magistrate Chang than for us to sit and wait."

Ouyang Lan said with some concern: "But the relationship between County Magistrate Chang and a few of them is not very good, can they really do their best to help find them?"

At this time, Secretary Chen took over the conversation and said: "It's all a leading group, this is related to the normal operation of the entire county government, I think they will do their best to help find it, because if they don't find the county magistrate, it's not a good thing for them." ”

Secretary Chen's words dispelled everyone's worries, Liu Chen said: "Then we must contact all parties as soon as possible, Secretary Chen, you can help inform the people of all parties, and the specific work you are looking for will be done by our young people, and you need to focus on government affairs." ”

This matter, if it is left to Secretary Chen, it is also reasonable, but Liu Chen has his own plans, considering Secretary Chen's identity and his current actual situation, there are some things that are inconvenient for him to go out, because Liu Chen has expected that some things that are not completely legitimate will appear, and at this time, it is necessary to keep people of Secretary Chen's status away from unnecessary troubles, as well as Ouyang Lan and other people from the city bureau.

He doesn't have any identity now, just a businessman, and it doesn't matter if some things are out of the way, but these people in the city bureau are all the country's "regular army", and it is impossible to come nonsense like himself, he looked at the people in the city bureau and said: "This matter, I'll deal with it, you people from the city bureau, concentrate on handling the case, anyway, I will inform you as soon as there is news." ”

"Why don't you let us go together?" Ouyang Lan is not a shrunken turtle, she is not very satisfied with Liu Chen's proposal.

"You have more important things to do. Liu Chen insisted on not letting Ouyang Lan and them intervene, in fact, he didn't want to involve the city bureau, after all, they had nothing to do with the officialdom of Ningzhou County, and he was different from them.

Ouyang Lan also wanted to continue, but was stopped by Yang Ziming, Yang Ziming had been listening to it for so long, in fact, he had a calculation in his heart, he didn't want to get involved in the affairs of Ningzhou County officialdom.

And Liu Chen's suggestion was exactly what he wanted, and he just took this opportunity to prevent Ouyang Lan from continuing to intervene in the troubled waters of Ningzhou County, especially when he saw Ouyang Lan caring so much about County Magistrate Chang, he felt very unhappy in his heart.

Yang Ziming raised his hand and said to everyone: "I'm sorry, excuse me, I'll say a few words to Captain Ouyang." He pulled Ouyang Lan aside and said softly: "I think Liu Chen is right, after all, we are people from the Municipal Bureau, we are here to handle cases, and we don't have much energy to take care of other things, I know that you are righteous, but if the task is not completed, Guo Bureau will investigate it, who will bear it, and it is not up to everyone to bear it together." This matter is left to Liu Chen to do, I am very relieved, we only need to concentrate on handling the case, and it can be regarded as a kind of help to the county magistrate, isn't it?"

Yang Ziming's heartfelt words made Ouyang Lan's scalp tingle, she turned her head to look at the other team members, they were looking back at her with anticipation and trust, her heart was shocked, and finally lowered her head and agreed with Yang Ziming's meaning.

Walking back in front of everyone, Ouyang Lan calmed down and said, "Okay, I agree with Liu Chen's method, I also believe in Liu Chen's ability, and I look forward to your good news." After speaking, there was a hint of a smile on his face.