After chatting with Kissinger about the follow-up academic career plan, there was no class in the afternoon, but Gu Biao still stayed in school to help the professor sort out the outline of the scope of future monographs, so that he could report to China at that time.

It won't take more than two days, so it's better to get it done first, and then fly to San Francisco to take care of business.

They can also use the excuse of "asking for instructions and dredging up relations" to ask Kissinger to ask for more time off if it is reasonable to do so.

Time was pressing, so Gu Biao worked in the library all afternoon, and it dragged on until more than eight o'clock in the evening, and he forgot to eat dinner.

It wasn't until he was completely disturbed by hunger that Gu Biao pulled his brain back from the immersion in the flow of learning.

", it's almost nine o'clock, forget it, go home and turn pizza in the microwave by yourself." Gu Biao looked at his watch and said self-deprecatingly.

The nightlife in Washington's heart is boring, and there aren't many bars and clubs, so it's a hassle to have a late-night snack — because it's full of decent people, and it's an intimate clubhouse for evening activities.

If those food stalls were to open here, they would almost all go out of business.

That's why President Underwood on "House of Cards" often has to read the Watsangton Post while finding a black BBQ near the White House and eating grilled pork ribs for three meals. This is not an exaggeration, but a portrayal of the real life of the Watsangtonians.

Gu Biao drove his low-key Pontiac Firebird back to the big villa on the banks of the Potomac River.

Although it has been more than half a month since he started school this time, he has not lived in Watson for a few nights. For the big villa after being transformed by the devil, I still feel very unfamiliar.

As mentioned earlier, this big villa was originally bought by Gu Biao for a total price of $800,000 when he first came to the United States. The water-retaining house is not big, the structure is quite simple, and the garden is not small.

In particular, the garden is close to the banks of the Potomac River, and there is an elegant waterfront slope without courtyard walls, planted with many shallow water ornamental plants.

When he left, he threw the house and car keys to Ye Kun, and asked Ye Kun to help him find a reliable person to reinstall it.

When I came back a year later, the whole house had changed dramatically. On both sides of the river, a tall, sharp stainless steel fence has been erected. The whole villa house is a lot bigger and the garden is much smaller.

even built a basement under the pretext of digging a wine cellar for him - in fact, the ghost knows that how can a wine cellar be built in a place where the groundwater is so abundant and so humid like the riverside building?

The sense of elegance and atmosphere is gone, but Ye Kun has a hearty voice: This is all for your confidentiality and security, the original structure is too transparent and easy to be monitored.

Then he unceremoniously spent Gu Biao's $500,000 construction and decoration fee.

Gu Biao didn't feel sorry for the 500,000, the little money didn't matter to him.

It's just that his lifestyle in the United States was unconsciously affected by Ye Kun. For a moment, a thought flashed through his mind: Sister Ye won't become the antivirus software in my life, right?

If you think about it, it's a bit like.

There's often a fine line between antivirus security and rogue software. If you don't cross the boundary, you can completely be controlled and manipulated by the owner, and that is security software; if you cross the boundary and bring private interests, it is rogue software.

Gu Biao parked the car in the garage, then went back to the house to open the refrigerator, and stuffed the frozen pizza into the microwave to heat it.

This garage was also newly built by Ye Kun, who originally only had an open-air parking space in the garden last year - when making a decision, Ye Kun told Gu Wei on the phone that the open-air parking space was easy for people to spy on his car, so as to infer whether there was anyone at home, and it was not safe for secret workers.

After the garage was converted, as long as the lights and music were on in the house, even if the people were not there, they would not be aware of it.

In good conscience, this is right, and Gu Biao also agrees that this kind of treatment is indeed for his good.

The aroma of cheese quickly spread, Gu Biao felt that it was almost over, took out the softened pizza, sat at the dining table and chewed it slowly, picked up the phone on the table with one hand, and dialed a number.

Gu Biao doesn't like pizza very much, but he loves cheese, so the quick-frozen pizza he bought is a heavy cheese recipe, and even a few extra pieces of Swiss Cheese-Fondue Grille cheese.

At the beginning of this semester, he returned to Watsangton for the first time, and on the way home from the airport, he passed by the supermarket and remembered to buy some stock.

When I got home, I opened the refrigerator and saw that there were three large pieces of Grille cheese that had been bought in the refrigerator.

The production date is still this year, less than three months.

Obviously, these can't be bought and piled up there by Gu Biao before he took a break from school last year (although the Grille cheese can be shelf-stable for a year), but Ye Kun knew that he was going back to the United States, and secretly helped him buy them sullenly.

Gu Wei knew that Ye Kun didn't like to eat Grille cheese.

The phone was dialed quickly, and Ye Su on the other end didn't sound like he was resting. Because there was no caller ID, she didn't know who called, and her tone was slightly cold and polite.

"Hello. ”

Gu: "Sister Ye, it's me, Gu Biao." Are you free tomorrow? ”

Ye: "I'm busy, whatever. ”

Gu: "Well, I'll go to the embassy to look for you before I get off work tomorrow." I have an academic planning outline, you can help me go through the formal diplomatic channels, send it to someone for review, and see if I can participate in this thing. ”

Ye: "What do you mean? I didn't understand much. ”

Gu: "Specifically, Kissinger wants to write a book "On China", but in fact, it is not to give advice to the US government on how to deal with China, but to study how to seek common ground while reserving differences and take what each side needs. Don't worry, I won't take part in the project of betraying the country. However, it is up to the leaders of the diplomatic department to decide which content is sensitive and which is not. ”

Ye Kun thought about it for a while, and seemed to hesitate for a long time in the ideological struggle: "If you really want to do it, in fact, you might as well directly let Kissinger go to the top and ask for instructions." I can pretend I didn't get this call from you. ”

"The problem is that I don't really think about it, and it's not in my interest, so don't report it to the next level. Gu Biao said calmly.

"Eh, you person, what do you want me to say about you, what a good opportunity to be motivated, and you can show your face directly at the top. Ye Kun obviously substituted his own official-oriented thinking, and his hatred for Gu Biao was not made of steel.

She should be one of the few close friends of Gu Biao, who still don't know Gu Biao's plans to go to the sea.

In officialdom, it is a bit taboo to report to a higher level. If Gu Biao's purpose as an official is not to be an official in the end, but just to maintain a relatively good high-level relationship, then he should not report to the higher level in this matter.

However, if you plan to mix in officialdom for the rest of your life, as long as the benefits of a certain over-reporting are great enough, then it is sometimes the right and efficient choice to make a desperate move. Because those who will hate you for this may be trampled under your feet quickly, you don't care if you have offended them or not.

The most willing to seize the officialdom is the opportunity to report to the third level. There are also many cases of such rapid and successful climbs in state-owned enterprises and institutions.

If you are a section member, hug the director's thigh directly. At the unit level, the more bureau chiefs are involved, and the more ...... are at the section level. The premise is that you have so many opportunities to meet leaders who are three levels older than you in your work.

Therefore, this trick is mainly used by beautiful women, because beautiful women are easy to stand out and be seen when the big leaders inspect the work. A bureau receives leaders to inspect the work, and those who can go to the main table to accompany the wine have to be the deputy bureau, but if you are the most beautiful female section chief in the bureau, you may also be called to this table. This desperate performance is good, and you don't have to look at the face of the deputy director who usually serves when you look back.

But if you're just a public face, it's best not to take the risk. Because you only report one level later, no matter how amazing your performance is, people can't promote you to a high position where you don't have to look at the face of the original direct leader, so wait to be excluded.

Therefore, skipping the level is not that you can't skip it, but don't skip it a little bit. The more you have to look at the bigger it is, and if you don't have a chance, you can't stop the waves.

Although Ye Kun is not so flyy, after all, she has officially worked in the embassy in the United States for more than a year and a half, and her sensitivity is still very strong.

Therefore, as soon as she heard Gu Biao's attitude, she guessed that Gu Biao probably didn't want to go back to be an official after finishing her studies.

The master's moves are all half-sentence meanings, and you can understand them.

"Forget it, since this is your life plan, I won't talk about you. After all, you have made so many achievements, others may not be able to reach it for a lifetime. Retreating from the rapids is also a kind of protection. Ye Kun said in a somewhat decadent tone.

She sighed for a moment and added, "Tomorrow I'm on the night shift, and if you're free, come back to the embassy on the evening shift — I'll have to deal with the time difference at home." ”

After hearing this, Gu Biao remembered that Ye Kun had been in the company for a year and a half, and now he has been promoted from third secretary to second secretary, and he is still working in the press liaison office of the embassy.

The third secretary and the second secretary in the United States are both at the department level, so it is normal for employees with good performance and back-office iron to be promoted after one or two years of work.

In contrast, the second secretary to the first secretary is a little slower, because the first secretary in the United States is already a deputy department level and can be appointed as the head of the press liaison office. (The third secretary is the ordinary deputy department, and the second secretary is the executive deputy department.) Ye Kun is now just promoted to executive deputy director. ）

"Okay, then I'll come to you tomorrow night, I'm sorry, I haven't celebrated your promotion yet. ”

"Something to talk about!Who wants you to celebrate!Saying it like I'm an official fan!" Ye Su said lightly and angrily.

Then the two hung up the phone.

The next day, Gu Biao continued to sort out the scope outline of the monograph, and first showed the professor the table of contents he had sorted out to confirm that it was correct.

Then in the afternoon, I went back to sleep and got up at almost ten o'clock to go to the embassy.

The doorman checked his ID and let him go.

At this moment, the domestic time is only before lunch, which is the time when the contact is busy. After Gu Biao's things are handed over, they can also be sent back as soon as possible.

The press liaison office of the embassy is not only responsible for the writing and transmission of press statements, but also for some people-to-people exchange letters. Therefore, Gu Biao's search for Ye Su is not considered for personal gain, it is a serious work handover.