Zhao Tiangang was most afraid of having a meeting to listen to the report, and as soon as he heard that he was going to have a meeting to listen to the report in the morning, he sighed and buried his head in eating.

When he began to use chopsticks to place a plate of pickled eggs in the middle of the dining table again, he found that Xue Kemei seemed to be preoccupied.

"What's the matter, you seem to have something on your mind?"

Xue Kemei just smiled slightly and didn't answer.

Zhao Tiangang is very good at observing the inner activities of others. When she saw that Xue Kemei refused to speak, she pondered in her heart, and suddenly, he suddenly realized:

"yes, it must be that. ”

It turned out that when Zhao Tiangang told Xue Kemei the news that he would go to the provincial capital with him for a meeting, he originally thought that with Xue Kemei's character, he would not readily agree, after all, she was a college student, her family was different from ordinary people, and her parents were diplomats stationed in foreign countries, so she had never seen anything? Therefore, he was still thinking about how to persuade Xue Kemei and let her come to the meeting with him.

Who knew that it didn't take much trouble, Xue Kemei agreed to him very obediently. This made him feel a little strange in his heart. I can't figure it out.

Now, he's finally figured it out.

So, after he finished eating, when everyone returned to the guest house, he knocked on the door and came to Xue Kemei's room.

Coincidentally, Jia Hongying went out to buy something and was not there.

Xue Kemei sat on the bed, thinking in his heart, not knowing what Zhao Tiangang was going to do.

Zhao Tiangang looked at Xue Kemei, and with a sympathetic tone, he whispered to her:

"The meeting will be over the day after tomorrow. I heard that your parents are in the provincial capital, why don't you take this opportunity to visit your parents, you haven't seen them for a few years?"

Xue Kemei actually had this matter in mind, one of the purposes for which she agreed to come to the provincial capital this time was to see her parents who were still on Wuqi Farm.

Now, Zhao Tiangang actually took the initiative to bring it up, which made her feel a little surprised. She didn't know how to answer, she just looked at Zhao Tiangang with grateful eyes.

When Zhao Tiangang saw it, he thought to himself, and sure enough, I guessed it. So, he looked at his watch and said very decisively:

"Go ahead, you don't have to hold today's meeting, anyway, those speeches are all on the materials sent to us. You don't have to worry about Director Zhang, I'll just go and say hello to him. With that, he got up and walked out.

After just a few steps, he turned around and came back, took out twenty yuan from his clothes, and stuffed it into Xue Kemei's hand:

"When you're away from home, you might have to use money. These thirty dollars, you pretend first. ”

Xue Kemei originally wanted to refuse the money he gave him, but before she could speak, he left.

Xue Kemei has always been very disgusted with this Zhao Tiangang in her heart, and his actions just now made her feel very warm.

She stood there dumbfounded, a mixed emotion welling up in her heart.

After a while, Zhao Tiangang walked in again and said to her:

"I have already told Director Zhang, and he agreed. Let's go. ”

Xue Kemei looked at him and whispered, "Thank you." Then ...... I'm leaving. ”

Zhao Tiangang felt a burst of joy in his heart. He had never seen Xue Kemei say such things to him in such a sincere tone. He hurriedly said:

"Look at what you are talking about? You are an employee of our vertical kiln workshop, I don't think about you, who is waiting for you to think about it? ”

Xue Kemei hurriedly and simply prepared some things and hurriedly walked out of the guest house.

Xue Kemei's parents are now being sent to work in a suburb of the Wuqi cadre school nearly 70 miles away from the provincial capital.

Xue Kemei sat in a long-distance bus, and after a bumpy ride, he finally came inside. Got out of the car.

Xue Kemei looked around, she didn't know where Wuqi Farm was, so she asked a pedestrian on the road. The man gestured with his hand and walked away.

Xue Kemei followed the direction pointed by the man and walked for a long time, and then came to a place in the wilderness, surrounded by farmland.

Xue Kemei came to the gate of Wuqi Farm with a complex and contradictory psychology of longing to see his parents and being afraid of seeing them.

This Wuqi cadre school, looking inside from the gate, is a row of bungalows. I saw a cadre who was in charge of managing the family meeting, a man with a full beard, walking over. He looked at Xue Kemei and asked with a cold face:

"Which unit are you from? Take out the letter of introduction and read it. ”

"Letter of introduction?" Xue Kemei's eyes widened, because she was in a hurry and only cared about catching a long-distance bus, she had long forgotten about it.

"Comrade, I am an employee of Liaoyuan Cement Factory, and I ............ forgot about this matter because I was in a hurry when I came and left in a hurry. ”

The bearded cadre glanced at her and said:

"If you don't have a letter of introduction, you can show me your work card. ”

"This ......" Xue Kemei was stunned. Her tears were about to fall.

Seeing that she couldn't take it out, the bearded cadre said:

"Then there is no way, we have a rule here, anyone who is undocumented and of unknown origin cannot meet. ”

Xue Kemei almost cried and begged the bearded cadres to open up for her, "Comrade, I am indeed an employee of Liaoyuan Cement Factory, and it is far away from here, I finally came here, you can't let me run for nothing." ”

At last, the man was moved by her plea, and said:

"In this case, I'll go and report your situation with the leader of our military propaganda team, and see if he agrees to meet with you. If I don't agree, then I can't do anything. ”

"Then ...... you're in trouble. Xue Kemei pleaded with the man in a pleading voice.

After a long time, the bearded cadre walked back, spread his hands, and said:

"Girl, it's not that I don't sympathize with you, people don't agree, there's no way. You'd better go back. ”

Xue Kemei dragged his tired steps, with deep regret, and had to leave here exhausted.

There are two round-trip buses from here to the provincial capital, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

When Xue Kemei returned to the door of the guest house, it was almost dark.

She was just about to enter the door and walk back, when Zhao Tiangang happened to walk out from the inside. As soon as I saw him, I immediately asked:

"How's it going, do you see it?"

Xue Kemei shook his head in disappointment.

Zhao Tiangang looked at it and didn't ask any more questions, he said:

"You must not have eaten, it just so happens that I have something to do and didn't catch up, so let's eat some food together first, and then find a way slowly." ”

Xue Kemei bumped all the way, and he was already hungry in his stomach. She hesitated, not knowing whether to go with him, Zhao Tiangang saw her thoughts, and continued:

"Let's go, now that the canteen of the guest house is closed, don't you want to eat at night? ”

Xue Kemei thought about it, and finally had to follow him out.

At night in the provincial capital, the lights look significantly more lively than in Liaoyuan at night. Zhao Tiangang led Xue Kemei to a state-run hotel.

There are not too many customers in the restaurant. Xue Kemei was about to buy food, but Zhao Tiangang stopped her and said:

"No, no, I have food stamps here. With that, he asked Xue Kemei to find a seat first, and he went to issue the ticket.

After a while, Zhao Tiangang walked back, he put the ticket on the table, and then poured a glass of water for Xue Kemei, and then asked:

"What the hell is going on? Why don't you let me see it?"

So, Xue Kemei told him about the situation she encountered.

"Letter of introduction?" Zhao Tiangang also didn't think of this question. When they came out this time, they were all arranged by the factory, led by Zhang Yongqiang. Because Xue Kemei did not raise this issue in advance, it is obvious that the letter of introduction cannot be solved.

"Work permits will do. However, I unfortunately didn't have my work card with me. Xue Kemei frowned and sat there with a bitter face.

"Well, I'll take a run with you tomorrow and give it a try with my work permit to see if it works. Zhao Tiangang said thoughtfully.

The dish is coming. Zhao Tiangang asked for two hot dishes, shredded pork with fish flavor and oily pork, and two cold dishes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and sliced beef.

"Oops, I bought so many dishes, I can't eat them. Xue Kemei looked at the dishes on the table and called softly.

"Let's eat," Zhao Tiangang pushed the plate towards Xue Kemei, and when he saw that she didn't move, he used chopsticks to put some vegetables in her bowl.

Xue Kemei looked at the dishes in the bowl and had to pick up the chopsticks.

After eating, the two of them walked back to the guest house.

The meeting is over. Tomorrow is Saturday, and everyone who came here for the meeting is going back. Zhao Tiangang asked Zhang Yongqiang for a leave, saying that he would return a day late and take Xue Kemei to Wuqi Cadre School.

Zhang Yongqiang thought about it, nodded, and said:

"Well, see for yourself. ”

The next morning, Zhao Tiangang took Xue Kemei to the long-distance bus station, he bought some milk powder, pastries, sugar, eggs, and cigarettes, etc., and came to Wuqi Farm.

Zhao Tiangang took out his work card and begged the staff there to let them meet.

"Who are you?" asked a management cadre in military uniform, looking at Zhao Tiangang's work card with suspicious eyes.

"Are you asking me?" Zhao Tiangang was a little puzzled.

"Yes, what's the relationship between the two of you?" said the man's voice, with a sense of majesty.

Zhao Tiangang looked at Xue Kemei, and didn't know how to answer for a while. Xue Kemei immediately said:

"He's my brother. ”

"What brother?" the manager's gaze swept back and forth over the faces of the two of them, as if to see if they had the same features on their faces.

"Brother, what other brother can there be, it's my own brother. Xue Kemei didn't know what he was asking for.