Shen Huai walked back to his sister-in-law's house.

Sun Yalin and Song Tong had already gotten up, wearing thin velvet jackets, sitting on the sofa in the living room, chewing dried sweet potatoes while watching TV.

When Sun Yalin saw Shen Huai walk in, her expression was depressed, and she asked puzzledly: "What's the matter, you have been caught playing hooligans on the street?"

Shen Huai picked up a magazine, smashed Sun Yalin, and said, "I look like a loved person and go out, do I need to be a hooligan?"

"Shen Huai has been so shameless since he was a child. Song Tong laughed.

Shen Huai sat down next to Sun Yalin, he walked back, his hands and feet were cold, the tips of his nose were frozen red, and the heating was turned on in the house, which made people feel comfortable, no wonder Sun Yalin and Song Tong were reluctant to go out in the living room.

Shen Huai grabbed a handful of dried sweet potatoes from Song Tong and chewed them, and told Sun Yalin and Song Tong about the incident he had just met in the bookstore at the end of the alley......

Sun Yalin said disdainfully: "What's the difference between that and being caught on the spot by a hooligan? If you do too many things that hurt nature and reason, you will always have to suffer some retribution." ”

Song Tong enthusiastically came over to help come up with ideas: "Brother Gongzi in the circle, there are many people who like Cheng Yi, if you can marry Cheng Yi home, it's a very long-faced thing." Cheng Yi wanted to apply for Professor Tan's graduate school before, but unfortunately Professor Tan retired early and no longer took graduate students, but if Professor Tan could help you say a few kind words, I think it would still be useful. ”

Shen Huai and Song Tong were both born on the farm, and they played together as children; after he returned to Beijing, he was sent to the No. 87 Middle School on the outskirts of Beijing to board and study, and he had closer contacts with his sister-in-law's family.

Among the juniors of the Song family, there are six or seven people younger than Shen Huai, and only Song Tong regards him as his elder brother.

After Shen Huai took Shen Shan and his wife to France, they had a very twisted temperament, and they did not take the initiative to contact Song Tong and his sister-in-law's family for seven or eight years. However, that family affection is still there, and Song Tong will treat him again and there is nothing unfamiliar with him.

However, Song Tong didn't see the problem as straight as Sun Yalin, Sun Yalin yawned and suggested to Shen Huai: "It's thankless to ask Cheng Yi what he likes to do, as long as Cheng Wenguang is willing to be his son-in-law, it will work better than anything." Do you think, Cheng Yi can find out that you have a bad record in the past, and Cheng Wenguang will not know your situation at all? Now that the Song family needs you to marry Cheng Wenguang's daughter, doesn't Cheng Wenguang need his daughter to marry the children of the Song family? Song Hongyi has already denied Cheng Yi, and he is talking with the girls of other families, and the Song family does not have other suitable candidates for the time being, so you can pick up shit and eat. Don't be bitter, this deal, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like you're going to suffer......"

Shen Huai smiled, threw the dried sweet potatoes in Sun Yalin's face, and said: "No matter how you scold me, I can't beat you;

"She has to beat me too?" Sun Yalin posed as a female hooligan, with a tone that was not afraid of heaven and earth.

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At five o'clock in the afternoon, the sister-in-law rushed back from outside.

She was afraid that Shen Huai would not pay attention to the blind date, so she supervised him to shave his beard, wash his hair, and take out a hair dryer to help him blow his hair.

Shen Huai was originally going to be a delicate child, but as soon as he dressed up his sister-in-law, he went straight to the age of thirty; if he hadn't adhered to his principles and refused to change into that navy blue tweed tunic, how many years older would he have been-Song Tong and Sun Yalin laughed without conscience, and they didn't say anything about Shen Huai's encounter with Cheng Yi in the Xiangkou bookstore.

Song Qiaosheng still lives in the earliest ministry compound of the Organization Department, which is also an old-fashioned courtyard house.

As a high-ranking official at the level of a member of the party, Song Qiaosheng enjoys political and living treatment that is not much worse than that of the old man. Although it was a snowy winter, the wood and stone planted in the courtyard were a bit of a strange thing - there was no special luxury, but there was still a hint of low-key luxury in the carved stone windows and some old-fashioned furniture.

Shen Huai and his sister-in-law rushed to the house of the second uncle Song Qiaosheng, and it happened that Xie Zhi and Song Hongqi also drove back.

Song Hongqi has another place to live in Yanjing, and he has not lived with his parents for the past two years, and after he and Xie Zhi confirm their marriage, the Xie family will naturally pay for a mansion in Yanjing for them to live in peace - only Song Hongyi has just joined the work, and he is still living in a courtyard for the time being.

Listening to the sound of the car, the little uncle Tang Jianmin walked to the courtyard and told Shen Huai that the old man and Cheng Wenguang had already come over, and they were chatting with his second uncle in the study, and asked Shen Huai and Song Hongqi to go in and chat.

Shen Huai didn't see the figures of Cheng Wenguang's wife Liu Xuemei and daughter Cheng Yi, and bowed his head and said to his sister-in-law: "If people retreat from the battle and don't even want to see each other, this board shouldn't hit me, right?"

Song Wenhui pinched him and said, "Anyway, you give me a good performance, your mother died early, I don't care who cares about your marriage?"

Shen Huai listened to his sister-in-law's words, his heart was hot, and he and Song Hongqi followed his uncle into the study together.

At the old man's 80th birthday banquet, Shen Huai toasted Cheng Wenguang, but he was not impressed at the time, only remembering that he was wearing a azure short-sleeved shirt at the time, sitting with Dai He and others, and he was a person with few words.

Shen Huai walked into the study and saw the old man sitting on the single sofa near the wooden door of the terrace, Cheng Wenguang, the second uncle Song Qiaosheng and the eldest uncle Song Jiansan sitting around the old man talking.

When he and Song Hongqi followed his little uncle into the door, they stopped talking and turned their eyes to his face. Shen Huai smiled slightly and greeted, "Grandpa, Uncle Cheng, second uncle, eldest uncle, what are you talking about?"

"What do you say we can talk about?" The old man patted the vacant seat next to him, asked Shen Huai and Song Hongqi to sit next to him, patted Shen Huai's shoulder, and said to Cheng Wenguang, "Shen Huai has rarely returned to Yanjing over the years, so you are not familiar with Wenguang." But ah, don't look at other people's talents, to be honest, this kid is more worry-free than Hongjun, Hongqi, and Hongyi......"

Cheng Wenguang laughed and said: "Among the young people, in addition to Hongqi being more stable, how many people can be worry-free? Like when I was young, there were times when there were few things to do." My dad had a big temper and taught me that he tied me to a tree and took me with an armed belt, and the more this happened, the more I fought with him. I still remember Uncle Song, you helped me ask for love twice. I have experienced a lot of things, and I slowly realized that I used to make my dad too uncomfortable. My dad has been gone for ten years, and I always think about my relationship with my dad, and I think that now we should be more tolerant of young people, we as elders. Again, Shen Huai has made some achievements in Donghua in the past two years......"

Cheng Wenguang is like an open-minded elder, tolerant of the mistakes his children have made, and also encourages his children to let go of their previous burdens and move forward easily.

Maybe it's because he has experienced too many things, although Shen Huai's face is sincere and moved, but his heart is also hard, where can Cheng Wenguang's words easily touch anything?

Sun Yalin's analysis is very accurate, the Song family needs to marry the Cheng family in order to enhance the cohesion within the Song family, but as Cheng Wenguang personally, he also has his requests.

Cheng Wenguang was already an alternate member of the zhongyāng committee at this time, and there may not be much doubt that he would be elected as a member of the zhongyāng committee when the term of office was changed three years later, but if he wanted to go one step further and take a more central position as a member of the Politburo, then he would need to have at least the same level of support within the Song family as Song Qiaosheng.

Shen Huai could see that his second uncle, Song Qiaosheng, was also a pragmatic person, and if he did not lose his bid with Tian Jiageng for secretary of the Huaihai Provincial Party Committee, he could certainly ask the support forces of the Song family to mainly concentrate on him, so as to win a place for him in the leadership collective of the next generation, which was also in the best interest of the Song family as a whole.

The defeat of the bid for the secretary of the Huaihai Provincial Party Committee, and the time for the second uncle, Song Qiaosheng, to be released to the local area will be delayed for three or four years, and the serious consequence of this is to directly weaken the possibility of him entering the next generation of leadership collective team.

At this time, if the second uncle Song Qiaosheng continued to force the support of the Song family, all of them would be concentrated on him, which would undoubtedly cause dissatisfaction among others.

As the soul of the Song family, the old man needs to balance the interests within the faction, and he can't be so selfish that he must have his own children on top.

As far as the Song system is concerned, the most pragmatic way at present is to give up the competition for the next generation of core leadership groups, and instead strive for one more Politburo membership, so as to ensure that the political status of the Song system in China will not decline in the next 20 years.

Whether it is in terms of age, seniority, connections, or political history, Cheng Wenguang is a suitable person - this is the need to give more trust to each other: although the method of marriage is ancient, it has to be said that it is very effective.

Shen Huai had already thought through these details, and he also had the idea of peace when he came, and he sat next to him and listened to the teachings of his elders with a posture of changing his mind.

It was only when the encouraging eyes of the elders turned that Shen Huai interjected a sentence or two at the right time, expressing his views on current affairs without hurrying or being anxious, and not robbing the rhythm of the elders' conversations, but not so that they would not notice their existence.

Since Cheng Wenguang didn't need a son-in-law who could be trusted in morality and character, Shen Huai naturally behaved gently, steadily and politely, thinking that if this marriage could not be negotiated, as long as the board did not fall on his head, he could also take the opportunity to change the old man and his second uncle's opinion of him.

Everyone hopes that this marriage can be successful, Song Hongqi also warned Song Qiaosheng not to rob Shen Huai's scenery today, he watched Shen Huai's performance at this time, and then thought about Shen Huai's means of controlling and dominating the situation in August, and I have to say that it is really difficult for others to rob Shen Huai's scenery-

Time flies, and before you know it, it has completely darkened outside, but Cheng Yi never showed up, and Cheng Wenguang was not in a hurry, and said: "The old man often says a sentence, and I agree with it, 'Wen is like his person, and the words are at the root' - Cheng Xing has been decorating a new house recently, and he wants me to help him write a pair of words, and there is still some time before eating, should I hand over this task to Shen Huai to complete?"

At this time, Song Hongjun also rushed over, he pressed Shen Huai's shoulder quite excitedly, and signaled to tell him that Cheng Wenguang was very satisfied with him.