The car stopped in the yard, Qi Jinxin just pushed the car door, and in addition to the cold air that made her so cold that her neck was straight, there was also the aroma of food wafting out of the house, she smiled and said to her sister: "Sister, it's really strange, how did my parents know that we would be back today?"

Xiao Zhou, the nanny who came in to help them open the courtyard door, said: "Principal Qi invited Vice Governor Ma to come over for dinner, and Aunt Gu and I prepared a ...... for an afternoon."

"Wrong feelings, right?" Qi Jingyao took the car keys and got out of the car, and said with a smile.

The sun had not completely set, the temperature had already reached below freezing, and the yard was cold, so the two sisters took something from the car and pushed the door into the house.

Seeing her mother still wearing an apron and busy in the kitchen, Qi Jinxin couldn't help but ask her sister suspiciously: "When did Ma Zhenyuan have such a close relationship with our family?"

Of course, Qi Jingyao knew all the entanglements surrounding the construction of the Nanwan Lake New Area during this period of time, but she didn't want to explain it too much to Jinxin, shrugged her shoulders, and said, "How did I know? ”

The relationship was not bad before, but Ma Zhenyuan moved from the compound and became the vice governor, although he was also in charge of education, although he also had contacts, it was rare to invite him to the house for dinner so hot, seeing that Jing Yao didn't say anything, he didn't ask any questions, so he took his things upstairs and went back to his room to clean up.

Although she works in Xiapu at the same time, Qi Jinxin and her sister do not have a close relationship, but she temporarily returned to Xucheng today, and she didn't want to let the school driver drive her because of personal matters, so she thought about taking her sister's car and returning home, and she didn't want to say too much.

As soon as she entered the room and put down her things, she heard a car stop in the alleyway outside the yard, Qi Jinxin thought that it should be Ma Zhenyuan coming by car, she had no intention of rushing downstairs to say hello, thinking that her sister was downstairs, or she would be quite eager for Ma Zhenyuan's arrival, but after a while, she heard her sister's surprised voice: "Why did Secretary Shen come to my house with Governor Ma today?"

Qi Jinxin was still thinking about which "Secretary Shen" would make her sister so surprised, and after rubbing in the room for a while, she pushed the door and went downstairs, and saw Shen Huai, who had entered the house with Ma Zhenyuan, untying the scarf around her neck.

Shen Huai had long been able to clean up the emotions in his heart, and when he looked up and saw Jinxin standing at the top of the stairs looking at him in a daze, even though his fair and clear face and deep eyes stirred up the deepest waves in his heart, he just smiled lightly and asked, "Teacher Qi, is not welcome for me to come over for dinner?"

Qi Guangwei, who came out of the secretary, smiled enthusiastically: "Jing Yao and Jinxin just returned to Xucheng, and they don't know that Secretary Shen is coming over for ......dinner."

"......" Qi Jinxin didn't know why Shen Huai appeared at her house at the same time as Ma Zhenyuan, remembering that after Shen Huai was transferred out of Xiapu, he hadn't seen him for nearly two years, and he had been a neighbor in Xiapu for two years, so he thought about it and said with a generous smile, "I really didn't expect Secretary Shen to appear today." ”

When Qi Jingyao saw Shen Huai appearing, she knew that her father's appointment as the chairman of the University Town Holding Company was settled, and she wondered in her heart that the total investment in Nanwan Lake University Town in the future would reach four or five billion yuan, and Shen Huai really gave up the control of the holding company so easily?

Seeing Qi Jingyao's eyes full of suspicion, Shen Huai guessed that she probably didn't understand why he didn't insist on giving in, and came over with Ma Zhenyuan to eat with a shy face.

The formation of a holding company to build a university town is mainly for the construction of new campuses for various colleges and universities, and the main contractor must be the provincial construction engineering group, and the new campus will also be received by the colleges and universities after completion, so the formation of the holding company, even if it will lead the investment and construction of four or five billion yuan in the future, but it mainly plays the role of transition and organization.

The start of the construction of the university town has rapidly weakened the role of the construction of the International Expo Park east of Nam Van Lake on the construction of Nam Van Lake New Area.

The original plan of Rongxin and Baohe to fight for the leading right in the construction of Nanwan Lake New Area was for Baohe to inject capital into Rongxin Real Estate, but Rongxin Real Estate exchanged the development rights of the surrounding 8,000 acres of construction land with Xucheng City on the condition that it would undertake the construction of the International Expo Park free of charge.

As the university town, which covers an area of more than 40 square kilometers and has a total investment of more than 450 billion yuan, is about to be launched on the east bank of Nam Van Lake, the construction of the International Expo Park will not be started, and the promotion of the construction of the new area will be limited.

Cui Weiping could not directly instruct the city government to directly accept the conditions offered by Rongxin and Baohe, and the city government was responsible for the specific negotiation work; after Li Gu took the initiative, he only agreed to allocate 4,000 mu of construction land as a compensation condition for Rongxin Real Estate to undertake the construction of the International Expo Park.

In addition to directly doubling the actual land acquisition cost of Rongxin Real Estate, the most important thing is to retain most of the essence of the construction land planned to be built on the west bank of Nanwan Lake New Area in the future planning area of Nanwan Lake and the financial and commercial gathering area, so that Rongxin and Baohe can swallow it cheaply this time.

All the terms of exchange are mutually pros and cons, and the future does not depend on the gains and losses of one city or one place.

And seeing Qi Guangwei's red face, Shen Huai knew that he was nearly sixty years old, and he had no hope of being the number one in Huai Gong University, and the position of chairman of the University Town Holding Company was extremely tempting for him, and he really didn't struggle out of Vanity Fair all these years, thinking that he should still stand firmly with Hu in the future, and there was no opportunity to fight for it here.

Ma Zhenyuan lived relatively close, and did not inform the driver to drive to pick him up, and after dinner, he had to stay and play a game of chess with Qi Guangwei to continue to contact his feelings; Shen Huai first said goodbye and left, and when he left the family area, he planned to pass through the campus of Huai Gong University and take a taxi on the street outside the gate of the South School.

"Secretary Shen......"

The campus of Huai University of Technology has not changed much for more than ten years, Shen Huai is looking at the old buildings on the campus that he is familiar with the green walls of Dai Wa through the street lights, and he hears Qi Jingyao calling him behind him.

Shen Huai stood still, and saw Qi Jingyao walking from behind with high heels and an orange coat, probably surprised to see him wandering around the campus at night, and raised his hand to greet him with surprise.

Shen Huai didn't know why Qi Jingyao left the house behind him and came to the campus?

Shen Huai asked suspiciously: "Why didn't Secretary Qi drive home and run to the campus to hang out?"

Qi Jingyao is nominally married, but her "husband" has never appeared in public, and Shen Huai does not know her, only heard that he is an editor of Huaihai Daily; like the Qi family's family banquet today, Qi Jingyao's "husband" is not qualified to participate, and presumably the Qi family does not recognize this "son-in-law" who is just used for decoration and disguise.

Shen Huai saw that Qi Jingyao came out without driving, and guessed that Hu Lin might have driven to the south school gate to wait for her, and Hu Lin drove to the south school gate to pick up Qi Jingyao, probably to avoid meeting him.

"......" and "Qi Jingyao" heard Shen Huai say this, but she smiled and said, "Secretary Shen, you really think a lot, I'm not my sister, I just went out and wore my sister's coat casually, so let Secretary Shen recognize the wrong person." ”

Shen Huai made a big red face, he didn't expect that he didn't recognize Qi Jingyao who was wearing his sister's clothes back then, and he didn't recognize Jinxin who was wearing her sister's clothes today, he touched his nose embarrassedly, and said, "You are wearing the same clothes as your sister, you really can't recognize it......"

In fact, if you look closely under the light, Jinxin's face and eyes are softer than her sister's, if Qi Jingyao saw him wandering around the campus just now, most of them would not have been so surprised and innocent......

Shen Huai thought so in his heart, and subconsciously peeked at Jinxin's eyes again, and saw that although she was in her thirties, her deep and bright eyes were still so charming, with an innocent temperament, which made him feel that his heart couldn't help but tighten.

Qi Jinxin also noticed that Shen Huai was peeking at her, turned her face a little embarrassed, and asked quietly, "Why did Secretary Shen hang out in the school?"

"Oh, isn't it easier to get a taxi through the school and on Nanmen Street?" Shen Huai said with a smile.

"Secretary Shen is quite familiar with Huai Gong University. ”

"I've been transferred to the province for more than a year, and I've worked in Xucheng for a few years before," Shen Huai smiled and asked again, "What about you, why did you just go to the school to hang out after eating, and the wind was so strong outside?"

Listening to the earnest tone in Shen Huai's words, Qi Jinxin couldn't help but smile playfully, and said, "On such a cold night, I ran out to carry out Secretary Shen's instructions." ”

"......" Shen Huai touched his head, not knowing what had anything to do with him.

Qi Jinxin didn't play dumb riddles with Shen Huai either, and said, "My college classmate Li Xiaochen doesn't know if you've heard of Secretary Shen?"

"Oh, I've heard that Li Xiaochen is also a young scholar at Huai University of Technology, right?" Shen Huai said.

Li Xiaochen is also his classmate, but he has changed the face of others to survive in the world, except for coincidences, many former classmates and old friends have had no chance to contact and contact again. He only knew that after Li Xiaochen married Zhao Zhenjiang, he went abroad to study, and he has been teaching at his alma mater since returning to China, as for what will happen to her and Zhao Zhenjiang in the future, he doesn't know.

In addition to Li Xiaochen and Zhao Zhenjiang, Shen Huai also has several classmates in the same department who stay in school to work.

However, there are more than 2,000 faculty members of Huai Gong University, and because of his work, he has a lot of contacts with the metallurgical and chemical departments of Huai University, and Yang Lin and others have also been excavated from Huai Gong University, but except for Jinxin, who happened to be in charge of joint work at that time, Shen Huai did not have the opportunity to have direct contact with other students.

"Li Xiaochen is the youngest female professor at Huai University, and President Sun intends to hire her to teach and do research work in Donghua, so I will come over to do her work. President Sun has always said that it is Secretary Shen's instructions to strengthen the scientific research and teaching strength of Zhu University, Secretary Shen, do you think I am carrying out your instructions?" Qi Jinxin said with a smile.

Shen Huai remembered that Li Xiaochen was one year younger than him, but two years older than the Jinxin sisters, although there are many young and middle-aged scholars at this age in China, but for female scientists, it is indeed quite difficult to serve as a full professor at this age - the full professor of Huai University of Technology is still very golden.

Because he has not been in touch for many years, he doesn't know how many of his former classmates are still engaged in teaching and research, how many have become backbones in enterprises and institutions, or have taken leadership positions?

Although it was a little abrupt, but if he didn't take this opportunity to bring it up today, Shen Huai thought that he probably wouldn't have the opportunity to have any contact with his old classmates Li Xiaochen and Zhao Zhenjiang in the future, thinking of this, Shen Huai smiled and said: "Teacher Qi, you take care of the thatched house for the cold night of Zhu, and I can't stand idly by." Where does Li Xiaochen live, I will visit with you, I can be regarded as concerned about the development of Zhuda......"

Qi Jinxin has always been very familiar with Li Xiaochen and Zhao Zhenjiang, and she didn't want to be bored at home after dinner, so she wanted to chat with Li Xiaochen, but when she heard that Shen Huai was going to visit Li Xiaochen's house with her, her scalp was numb, and she didn't think about making it so formal.

It's just that Shen Huai opened his mouth, and Qi Jinxin couldn't refuse, so she took Shen Huai from the east gate of Huaida to the youth apartment community outside the east gate and found Li Xiaochen's house.

"It's Jinxin, you're coming over quite fast!" The people in the house heard a knock on the door outside, and a crisp voice came from the inside, and after a while, they heard the sound of "click" in the house, and the door opened from the inside.

At this time, Li Xiaochen, who is gradually entering middle age, has a fair face with more fine lines, wears glasses with thin metal frames, and cuts short hair, looking more mature and intellectual, and has the appearance of the quiet girl back then - Shen Huai recognized it at a glance.

Li Xiaochen saw that it was really Qi Jinxin standing outside the door, and happily wanted to pull her into the house, and after a while, she saw clearly that there was another person standing behind Jinxin, she looked at Shen Huai in surprise, and she didn't know Shen Huai's identity for a while, but it didn't prevent her from glancing at Qi Jinxin warmly, and asked:

"Jinxin, you called just now, but you didn't say that you wanted to bring such a person over for us to see, who is this?"

Qi Jinxin was familiar with Li Xiaochen, and knew that her words had a joking meaning, and explained with a slight blush: "Shen Huai is the former secretary of the county party committee of Xiapu County, and Zhujiang University of Science and Technology is also promoted to set it up. ”

It's okay that Qi Jinxin didn't explain, but as soon as she explained, Li Xiaochen wanted to drill into the horns:

Shen Huai, as the former secretary of the county party committee who was transferred from Xiapu, Li Xiaochen does not understand what the future development of Zhujiang University of Science and Technology and the selection and recruitment of teaching and scientific research personnel in actual work can have to do with him?

She thought in her heart that this Shen Huai was a guest at Qi's house today, and after dinner, she asked Jinxin to come to her house, isn't Jinxin's relationship with him obvious?

"It turns out that you are Secretary Shen who Jinxin has always been obsessed with," Li Xiaochen looked at Shen Huai warmly, but with a relieved look, he said to Qi Jinxin, "I thought you really made up your mind not to marry in your life, it turns out that there are still people who can open your heart?"

Qi Jinxin made a big red face, it was really more and more chaotic, Shen Huai listened to Li Xiaochen's words, but his heart was slightly tingling......