Chapter 25: Old Acquaintances and Networks
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Shen Huai didn't know that he had a cheap "brother-in-law" for some reason, and this cheap "brother-in-law" was still one of the legendary four sons of Donghua.
The morning's plan was disrupted, and he didn't want to return to the pool, so Shen Huai went to Xinhua Bookstore, but he didn't see a Chinese-French dictionary, but he was lucky to find an English-French dictionary. Although it would be more difficult to read the dozen or so French monographs, it is better than nothing.
Back in the tube building, Shen Huai knocked on Xiong Wenbin's door, Xiong Wenbin's lover Bai Sumei opened the door, Shen Huai bought a "wild white strip" on the street and handed it over, and said: "Teacher Bai, but coincidentally, it is rare to see such a big wild white strip in Donghua City over the years, right?"
Xiong Wenbin was reading a book in the house, holding his glasses and coming over, looking at the wild white scales handed over by Shen Huai were slightly yellow, although he was out of the water for a while, the fish's tail was still shaking vigorously, and the fish's body felt beautiful when he looked at it.
Wild white strips, these years in the Zhu River has long been extinct, fishing boats have to meet the luck to catch some, to the market is very sought-after. Such a fish weighs a pound, and I am afraid that it will cost two or three hundred yuan to buy it.
"I saw someone selling this fish in a pot on Xiaowei Street, and it would be a pity not to buy it, but after paying for it, I found out where I could cook fish, just how about my food today?" Shen Huai said with a smile.
"I'm afraid I'm going to do something bad if I let it go. Bai Sumei was afraid that Shen Huai would target Dai Ling, so she wanted to refuse immediately.
Shen Huai couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, he couldn't explain to Bai Sumei that he was just eyeing her husband, and such an explanation would be even more alarming. Shen Huai just blocked Bai Sumei from the door, and he didn't leave, if such a small obstacle couldn't be broken, he still wanted to do something, just stood there quietly, salivating and smiling: "Teacher Bai, look at it, if I hadn't tasted your craft yesterday, I wouldn't have spent this unjust money, otherwise, you can try, you can't put the fish back in the Zhujiang River, right?"
Although Bai Sumei is in her forties, are half-old, and there is still a rich charm between her eyebrows and eyes, Xiong Dailing and her sister's appearance is because of Bai Sumei's inheritance, so they are so smart.
"I can try," Xiong Wenbin took the initiative to reach out from inside the door at this time to take the fish, and said, "But you have to deal with it well, I'm afraid I can't wait for ...... at noon."
"That night, when the time comes, call Section Chief Zhao again," Shen Huai said, "At noon, Teacher Bai can just reward me with a bowl of rice to eat." ”
Watching her husband take the fish down, although Bai Sumei didn't want to, she couldn't say anything, so she closed the door and complained: "You're not afraid of thieves worrying about things at home?"
"What is valuable at home," Xiong Wenbin said, "you put this fish in clear water and raise it first......
"What's wrong with you, you went out for a walk in the morning, and your heart was blinded by something, this kid is staring at your daughter? Are you willing to let Dailing deceive this kid......" Bai Sumei said angrily.
"Where do you want to go," Xiong Wenbin's old face was a little unbearable, and said, "Shen Huai's mind is not on Dai Ling, he has other thoughts, you don't understand these." ”
"What does he have in mind, can he still keep an eye on you, can he still hope that you will be an official for him?" Bai Sumei said, "His two bottles of Moutai yesterday and today's fish, whoever he sends to his mouth, it is better than sending it to your mouth." You have been unable to protect yourself for the past few years, what can you do for him?"
When Xiong Wenbin served as the director of the city steel mill in his early years, although he was quite upright, there was still an endless stream of gift-givers at home. Xiong Wenbin also knew that he couldn't be unkind in doing things in these years, as long as he didn't violate the principles of human relations, he didn't refuse much, and the family at that time was also very lively.
In the past two years, he was kicked to the Political Research Office as a deputy director, although he is still a deputy department-level cadre, but the court has completely snubbed. Although Donghua's economy is not good, although the department-level officials cannot be compared with the city leaders who live in villas, there are a few who are not in the fourth or third rooms? Only Xiong Wenbin, a disadvantaged official, cannot even live under the same roof with his daughter and son-in-law.
Although Bai Sumei understands her husband and is tolerant, she will inevitably have some resentment, and at this time, this resentment is mixed with her vigilance against Shen Huai and her protective thoughts towards Dai Ling, and she vents to Xiong Wenbin.
"You women comrades, there are advantages, but sometimes they are just unreasonable. Xiong Wenbin didn't treat his anger with his wife, and deliberately taught her a serious tone.
Bai Sumei glanced at her husband angrily: "What about the women comrades? I went out to buy vegetables in the morning, and I heard that the personnel adjustment in the city was going to readjust you to the Women's Federation, so you can deal with the women comrades all day long, as you wish." You remember for me, I've been with you for half a lifetime, and I didn't want to enjoy any happiness with you, and I pulled the three of you with a handful of and pee, and I tightened your trouser belt......"
"Well said, where are you going?" Xiong Wenbin lowered his face, "Do you really want me to be transferred to the Women's Federation?" and pulled his wife's shoulders over again, comforting, "I heard some news in the morning, this Shen Huai is far more simple than what I see on the surface, if I don't want to kick the Women's Federation and the Disabled Persons' Federation, hope may be pinned on him......"
"What is he capable of? You actually expect him to be your official ......" Bai Sumei was very surprised, seeing that her husband was unhappy to explain, she said, "Yes, yes, I don't care about your business, I will cooperate with you." But anyway, if you think about how I deceived you poor boy in the first place, you can't sell Dailing......"
"Well said, you're talking nonsense," Xiong Wenbin was angry and funny, "In this family, in addition to spoiling you, I will spoil the small one;
"......" Bai Sumei's old face turned red and scolded, "It's not serious." ”
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Shen Huai had lunch at Xiong Wenbin's house, read twenty or thirty pages of books in the afternoon, and felt that his French foundation was too poor to continue, so he borrowed a bicycle and walked around the streets and alleys of Donghua for more than an hour, and then turned back to play chess with Xiong Wenbin.
Shen Huai used to be in the city's steel mill, and he couldn't turn over at the bottom, and he knew very little about the relationship network of the upper echelons of Donghua City, and he knew some popular news about the four sons of Donghua and Zhou, Gu, Gao, Chen, Zhao, and Yu, but the more specific and complex nepotism between the upper elites, especially how they used the relationship between officials and businessmen to make a fortune, is not very well understood.
And Shen Huai had no one in his eyes before, and regarded the local magnates in Donghua City, who didn't poop, as dirt buns, and disdained to understand and touch them.
As a result, Shen Huai had a very shallow understanding of the local network in Donghua at this time.
Tan Qiping is about to take up a post in Donghua, and if he does not sort out this kind of nepotism, even if he holds the authority of the secretary of the municipal party committee, he will have to make any big moves, and Chen Mingde's experience in Donghua is a lesson.
Tan Qiping entrusted this important task to him, and Shen Huai wanted to have a deeper understanding of the intricate network of local magnates in Donghua, and it was most suitable to find Xiong Wenbin.
If Xiong Wenbin hadn't been too principled, he would have been a heavyweight in this circle at this time.
If Donghua's officialdom is normal, not pathological, with Xiong Wenbin's ability and achievements in running the city's steel mill, it is normal to become a county party secretary or a direct deputy mayor at this time.
Principles, principles...... Shen Huai thought of this word, and he was also bitter in his heart, if he wasn't too principled and unwilling to go along with Gu Tong, how could he have stepped on it for so many years and failed to come out?
Get out of the fuck and go on principle!
Shen Huai scolded in his heart, but he had to admit that even if he changed his identity now, he still couldn't do some things that were too inferior-I don't know if Lao Xiong had changed his mind after sitting on the cold bench for two or three years, but he also thought that everyone has their own limitations, and it is not so easy to break through.
Shen Huai returned to the tube building and saw that Zhao Dong and his fiancée had already come over.
A pound of heavy "wild white strips" is not enough for everyone to stuff their teeth.
Xiong Wenbin, who has always disliked the excitement, unexpectedly asked his wife to hold a banquet this time and invited more people to join in the fun.
Zhao Dong didn't have to go to work today, he received a phone call, and brought his fiancée Xiao Mingxia over early in the afternoon. But after the others arrived, they just sat and chatted with Xiong Wenbin and sent his girlfriend into the kitchen to help.
Xiao Mingxia is a flower of the city's steel mill, Shen Huai is naturally no stranger, Zhao Dong, who has a high spirit, dragged his little thirty unmarried, and when he saw Xiao Mingxia enter the factory, he tried to catch up. Although the two are not married yet, seeing Xiao Mingxia's chest and round buttocks, she also knows that the two have already rolled out of bed.
After Shen Huai came over, Xiong Wenbin took out the chessboard and said that his eldest daughter Xiong Dani, son-in-law Zhou Ming, and Yang Haipeng, another old department he had in the city's steel mill, were all coming over for dinner.
Xiong Wenbin's son-in-law, Zhou Ming, also went out of the city steel mill, but Shen Huai had a closer relationship with Yang Haipeng and Zhao Dong when he was at the city steel mill.
With Xiong Wenbin's transfer and subsequent loss of power, Shen Huai and Zhao Dong continued to stay in the city steel mill, Yang Haipeng was a hot temper, couldn't stand the idleness, took the initiative to lay off two years ago, and now opened a building materials store.
Zhou Ming fell in love with Xiong Wenbin's eldest daughter, and Xiong Wenbin used the remaining ability in his hand to transfer him from the Municipal Steel Mill to the Municipal Planning Commission. However, Zhou Ming was only an ordinary clerk in the Municipal Planning Commission, and Xiong Wenbin was not able to help anymore, he married Xiong Wenbin's eldest daughter Xiong Dani, and he couldn't even get a house.
Yang Haipeng and Zhou Ming will come over after a while, and Shen Huai and Xiong Wenbin will play chess and talk about the customs and worldliness of Donghua.
Xiong Wenbin is also very familiar with the various stories of Donghua's upper-level relationship network, and Zhao Dong, who is standing next to him, is strange: How did Lao Xiong change a person, these tongue-chewing topics, I have never seen him talk so fond before?
Shen Huai is also very familiar with Xiong Wenwu, so he naturally knows that his reaction is different from usual, and he deliberately talks about many topics in depth, knowing in his heart: Old Xiong has seen something.
But thinking about it, the news that Tan Qiping will take up a post in Donghua will not spread so early, and although there will be some rumors about the cause of Chen Mingde's death, there will not be too many people who can really figure out the key to it, and the tone is not loose.
Xiong Wenbin's intelligence and keenness, there is no doubt about this, but Xiong Wenbin's posture made Shen Huai sigh in his heart: Old Xiong will inevitably bow to reality.