That night, Li Yundao was still in the office looking at the progress documents submitted by the anti-crime offices in various places, and looked up at the clock on the wall, which turned out to be almost eleven o'clock in the evening. I stretched out for a long time, and was about to leave work when my phone vibrate. He has long been accustomed to the 24-hour boot state, although he has been mentally prepared for this kind of late-night call, but he still feels a little surprised to see that it is a call from Ma Wenhua's office.

"Still working overtime, if it's okay, come to me for a cup of tea. ”

"Okay, it's better to be respectful than to obey!"

After hanging up the phone, Li Yundao still felt a little puzzled, Ma Wenhua's voice was a little hoarse, and his emotions didn't seem to be so high. The biggest difference between Ma Wenhua and Qu Feiqing, the former secretary of West Lake, is the control of concentration and emotion, Li Yundao heard a voice like tonight for the first time, and he even felt that he had heard it wrong. Fortunately, the provincial party committee compound was not far from the municipal party committee compound, and it was only when he walked into the smoky secretary's office that Li Yundao realized that not only did he hear correctly, but the situation might be worse than he imagined. Ma Wenhua sat on the sofa of the reception, his body sunk deep into the sofa, his elbows propped up, and a cigarette slowly burning between his fingers.

"Coming?" Ma Wenhua motioned for Li Yundao to sit down, but he didn't seem to want to change his current sitting posture as if he was paralyzed, so he just moved his chin and asked Li Yundao to take the half-smoked pack of panda brand cigarettes on the table.

Li Yundao glanced at the ashtray, and more than a dozen cigarette butts were newly extinguished, which showed that Secretary Ma had been smoking in the office all night. His first reaction was what had happened? It must not be a trivial matter that could make this member of the Standing Committee of the provincial party committee and secretary of the municipal party committee so worried. But when the two met at noon today, Secretary Ma seemed to be normal. He quietly took a cigarette from the cigarette case and lit it himself, snorted the cigarette, and began to fiddle with the tea set on the coffee table. Li Yundao's tea ceremony is first-class, this is the consensus of Jiangzhou officialdom, Ma Wenhua has also seen Li Yundao make tea, and he has always been full of praise for his first-hand tea ceremony. Seeing that Li Yundao began to make tea, Secretary Ma finally sat up straight, snuffed out the cigarette butt, and watched Li Yundao, who would face each other, move like a smooth hand.

When the fragrance of tea overflowed, Ma Wenhua couldn't help but feel slightly energetic, and reluctantly smiled: "I know that you are good at kung fu tea!"

Li Yundao smiled and sent the teacup to Ma Wenhua: "It's not difficult to make tea, the most difficult thing is the state of mind." A foreign scholar once did an experiment to prove that human thoughts and feelings can change the structure of water molecules. Therefore, the tea ceremony is a skill, in addition to the tea leaves and the utensils themselves, more or more important than the mood. ”

Ma Wenhua took a sip of tea, shook his head and said with a wry smile: "At my age, I should have already cultivated to the level of 'not being happy with things and not being sad with myself', but many times ......" He sighed, and did not continue, silently drinking the tea made by Li Yundao.

Li Yundao didn't ask what happened, let alone say anything about the routine that drinking tea at night would affect sleep, just smiled and made tea, and then smoked with Ma Wenhua while drinking tea. He knows that at Ma Wenhua's level, many things are involuntary, and Ma Wenhua can call himself to come over to accompany him, which means that he already has enough trust in him - a deputy minister-level boss dares to show his true emotions in front of him, which is a kind of trust in itself.

The two drank tea for a while, smoked two more cigarettes, and saw that Ma Wenhua's condition was better, Li Yundao said slowly: "Secretary Ma, I have been reading a book recently, and I have some experience, and I want to report to you." ”

Ma Wenhua was stunned for a moment, at this time to report his reading experience? He smiled, for some reason, Li Yundao's move made the anxiety in his heart a little less, and he nodded at the moment and said: "Now there are very few people who insist on reading books every day, since you are reading, it is good to listen to it." ”

Li Yundao smiled slightly, poured some tea into Ma Wenhua's cup, and continued: "What I am reading is a pre-Qin academic work, called "Guanzi", one of which is called "Herdsman", which has such a discussion: The prosperity of government is in accordance with the people's heart. The abolition of government is against the will of the people. The people are evil and worried, and I am happy. The people are evil and poor, I am rich, the people are in danger, and I am safe. The evil of the people is extinct, and I give birth to it. If you can enjoy it, then the people will worry about it. If you can be rich, then the people will be poor. If it can be safe, then the people will be in danger. If they can give birth, then the people will be extinct for it. Therefore the punishment is not enough to fear his will, and the killing is not enough to obey his heart. Therefore, if the punishment is complicated and there is no fear, the order will not be carried out. If you kill the crowd and are not convinced, you will be in danger. Therefore, from its four desires, the far one will kiss himself, and if he does the four evils, the one who is close will rebel against him, so he knows that 'those who give it are the ones who take it, and the treasure of the government is also'. ”

Ma Wenhua has been listening, he has long heard that Li Yundao has learned to be rich and has five cars, and he can make all the sons' treatises memorize like a stream, whether this "Guanzi" is something he read recently, he doesn't want to care about it at all, the key is that the two words mentioned by Li Yundao "people's heart" deeply poked at his vital point, but it also suddenly made his thinking become broader.

He sighed deeply and said leisurely, "It seems that nothing can be done to you." ”

Li Yundao nodded with a chuckle: "What can make you worry about the secretary is nothing more than political affairs, and now the thing that can have the most impact on your state of mind is the matter of shale gas, I am afraid that someone has made some articles on this, which makes you in a dilemma." ”

Ma Wenhua was a little surprised, he had always heard that Li Yundao was like a god in solving the case, but he didn't expect it to happen to himself today: "You Yundao, it's really ......" He subconsciously looked at the internal phone behind him, "The old leader called in the afternoon, for the shale gas thing......"

Li Yundao didn't need to ask Ma Wenhua what the old leader meant, he could see from the state of the secretary that things must be developing in the opposite direction that Ma Wenhua expected.

Ma Wenhua sighed, and continued: "I knew that I should have signed the memorandum of cooperation with Pangu Capital a few days ago, or was I too careless, always thinking about going to the Standing Committee, even if it was a normal voting process, and now it is like this...... Alas!"

Li Yundao finally knew at this time that what Ma Wenhua encountered was roughly the same as he expected, on the one hand, he was an old leader who could decide Ma Wenhua's future career, and on the other hand, he was his conscience and the people of Jiangzhou.

Li Yundao pondered for a moment, and said with a slight smile: "Secretary Ma, this matter is actually not difficult to do. ”

Ma Wenhua was stunned and said, "Isn't it difficult?"

"Since they are for the development of shale gas under the industrial park, we will give it to him. Li Yundao smiled meaningfully.

"To him?" Ma Wenhua frowned, obviously between the infamy of several generations and the abrupt end of his career, he was more inclined to the latter, this is the pride of Huaxia since ancient times, this kind of arrogance of scholars, constitutes the backbone of supporting Huaxia.

Li Yundao nodded, shook his head again, but confused Ma Wenhua.

"Give it to him, and don't give it to him. Li Yundao said with a smile.

Ma Wenhua's political wisdom is obviously not comparable to Xia Junlong's grassroots leaders, after Li Yundao finished speaking, he seemed to understand something, and he gasped slightly, and said: "You mean, follow the hair, and then let people snatch the development rights?"

Li Yundao raised his head and drank the wine in his cup as if he was drinking, shrugged his shoulders, got up and said, "It's almost midnight, Secretary Ma, you drive you home to rest, and when you get up tomorrow, the sun will rise as usual." ”

Ma Wenhua was in a good mood at this time, so he complied with the old leader's wishes, anyway, the old leader just said, the shale gas under the industrial park is not developed now, and it will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey?

Li Yundao felt that Ma Wenhua would definitely be able to sleep well today, but his sleep might not be guaranteed, because for the elder surnamed Gu who would appear in his second bedroom from time to time, he still had to find a way to fool her into cooperating with this scene.

When he got home, all the lights in the house were on, and Li Yundao wanted to know with his toes, it must be Gu Keren who came. In the eyes of this woman, money seems to fall naturally from the sky every day, so she has never had any concept of saving electricity, and the huge flat-story building is illuminated by all the lights as if it were day.

"Coming back?"

"Overtime. ”

"Have you eaten?"

"I've eaten it. ”

The conversation between the two was like that of an old husband and wife for many years, and after speaking, the woman's attention returned to the TV screen, and the BBC war correspondent was broadcasting the war in the Middle East, and she couldn't take her eyes off it.

After a while, she suddenly found that Li Yundao did not go back to the room, but sat on the sofa next to her, staring at the TV screen like herself. Li Yundao doesn't like to watch TV, or is he rarely willing to spend his time on this kind of one-way indoctrination media, which is very clear to Gu Keren, today the sun is coming out in the west, running here to watch TV with himself?

This woman is very smart, pursed her lips, turned off the TV with the remote control, frowned and looked at Li Yundao: "If you have something to say, you don't need to pretend to be courteous." ”

Li Yundao smiled, in front of this woman, she really doesn't need to be too disguised, just be her true self, which is one of the reasons why she lives at home, but she never feels that there is a problem.

After Li Yundao finished speaking, Gu Keren didn't say anything, but changed from a sitting position to a lying position again, with his slender legs crossed on the coffee table, and turned on the TV again.

Li Yundao made a toothache expression: "If you don't agree, do you squeak?"

The woman glanced at him, "What if I don't agree?"