Zhou Yihong nodded and said: "Xiao Wei is right, Xiao Lu, you must cherish Pei Pei's affection for you, and don't let her down." In my opinion, you and Pei Pei are a match made in heaven, and I hope you will consider my suggestion and that of your Uncle Wei. ”

Lu Tao smiled and said, "Uncle Zhou, Uncle Wei, thank you for your concern for me. I know Pei Pei is very good to me, but it's not clear what it means to be emotional, so let's let it be!"

At this time, the waiter began to serve the food. After Wei Gangqiang asked Zhou Yihong and Lu Tao for their opinions, he instructed the waiter to open a few bottles of beer, and the three of them continued to chat while drinking.

Zhou Yihong knew that Wei Gangqiang must be embarrassed to ask Lu Tao to go to Chen Pei for help, so he took the initiative to tell Lu Tao about the current predicament he was facing, and asked him if he could ask Chen Pei out to meet Wei Gangqiang again?

Lu Tao is actually a little reluctant in his heart, feeling that he has repeatedly brought officials to know Chen Pei, and asked her to help solve all kinds of difficulties and problems, first, he owes her too much favor, and he is afraid that he will not be able to repay it in the future, and secondly, he feels very awkward in the past few days, and he always feels that he has become an "officialdom broker" in the past few days, and he is pulling relationships with all kinds of officials and going through the back door, which makes him feel extremely uncomfortable.

However, the two people in front of him are their father's old comrades-in-arms more than 20 years ago, and they both treat themselves as nephews, especially Wei Gangqiang, tears came out when he first saw him, showing that he has a true affection for his father, and now he is in a predicament, if he doesn't help him, he can't be reasonable......

So, he had no choice but to agree: "Uncle Wei, I'll call you tomorrow to ask you about Peipei, if she is free, we will invite her to dinner at noon or evening, okay?"

Wei Gangqiang hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I'll wait for your news tomorrow." ”

The next morning, Chen Pei took the initiative to call Lu Tao and told him that the budget department had decided to give Taolin County 10 million yuan in subsidies for the construction of new rural areas, of which 1 million yuan was for Huaguang Village. However, because 7.15 million yuan of funds are temporarily increased budget, they must be submitted to the department leaders for approval, and it will take a few days to be approved......

Lu Tao thanked her happily, and then asked, "Pei Pei, are you free at noon or evening today?" My father has an old comrade-in-arms, who is now the deputy director of the Provincial Public Security Department, named Wei Gangqiang, and he has something he wants to ask you for help. If you have time, can you come out and have a meal together?"

Chen Pei asked a little surprised: "In addition to Secretary Zhou, your father's comrades-in-arms also have a deputy director of the Public Security Department?

Lu Tao knew that Chen Pei looked down on corrupt officials the most, if she told her the truth at this time, maybe she would mistakenly think that Wei Gangqiang was also a corrupt official, so don't think about inviting her again, so he said vaguely: "I don't know exactly what to help, in short, I won't embarrass you." When the time comes, you listen to what he has to say, and if you can help, you can help him, and if you feel that you can't help, that's okay. ”

Chen Pei thought for a moment and said, "I'm going to Jinjiang County on a business trip later, and it is estimated that I won't be back until noon tomorrow." Why don't you ask Deputy Director Wei to have dinner at noon tomorrow, tomorrow night my father will come back from the capital, and I have to eat at home, and I can't get out. ”

Lu Tao hurriedly answered "yes", hung up her phone, and immediately dialed Wei Gangqiang's mobile phone number.

When Wei Gangqiang learned that Chen Pei had promised to come out for dinner at noon tomorrow, he laughed happily on his mobile phone and thanked Lu Tao repeatedly......

Later, Lu Tao walked into the room where Cai Changming lived, and saw that Xia Bingbing, Zhang Yaling, Su Yaoguang and others were all gathered in this room, and when he saw him coming, Cai Changming hurriedly asked: "Xiao Lu, did you call Team Leader Chen Pei? Last night, Director Fang and Director Li promised to give us the county's 9.85 million subsidy funds, did they study it?"

Lu Tao saw that he looked anxious, obviously because he was afraid that Fang Xin and the others would regret it after they woke up, and would not give so many subsidy funds to the county, so he was a little funny, so he deliberately said with a sad face: "Pei Pei said, Director Fang, they have studied it, and they are willing to allocate funds to us, but the amount has changed, not 9.85 million yuan~~"

Xia Bingbing's face changed suddenly, and he said angrily: "How can they be like this? Last night, we drank so much wine according to their rules, and I drank it directly, showing all the foreign appearance, Lu Tao, you also helped us drink the last nine groups of wine, and said that it was 9.85 million yuan, why did they change their hexagram again? Isn't this a trick on us? No, I have to reason with them!"

As she spoke, she rushed to the door in a huff.

Lu Tao hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop her, and said with a smile: "Chief Xia, why are you so anxious? Can you listen to me? Director Fang, the subsidy they decided to give us is indeed not 9.85 million yuan, but 10 million yuan, and gave us an extra 150,000 yuan in the county!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they all turned their eyes to Xia Bingbing, who was full of anger, and suddenly they all laughed wildly!

Zhang Yaling smiled while holding her stomach, and pointed her finger at Lu Tao and said: "Xiao Lu, you are so funny, you just made that sad face, we all thought that it was a reduction in the county's funds, no wonder Bingbing is going to find someone desperately." Haha afraid!"

Xia Bingbing glared at Lu Tao with wide eyes, and scolded "dead liar" in his mouth, and he also felt that the scene that happened just now was a bit funny, so he couldn't help but bow his head and smile, turned around and sat back in his original position......

Su Yaoguang was not interested in how much subsidy money the county had received, he was only concerned about whether Lu Tao had won funds for Huaguang Village, but it was not good to ask in front of the people of the Finance Bureau, so he used the excuse of wanting to tell Lu Tao something, pulled him outside the guest room, and asked anxiously: "Xiao Lu, you have such a good relationship and have won 10 million funds for the county, what about our village?

Lu Tao smiled and said: "I forgot to say: of the 10 million subsidy funds in the county, one million of them is clearly given to Huaguang Village for the new rural construction assistance funds, and the leaders of the Provincial Department of Finance will explain it clearly to Director Cai when the time comes." This million yuan is the hat fund allocated by the provincial department to Huaguang Village!"

Su Yaoguang had always thought that Lu Tao was bragging, and didn't believe that he could get "hat funds" from the Provincial Department of Finance, until last night he knew that Lu Tao really had this ability, but he still thought that Lu Tao's funds for the village should only be four or five hundred thousand, but he didn't expect that he would now clearly tell him that he was one million, which made him ecstatic all of a sudden, and almost shouted long live......

Next, Cai Changming arranged for Xia Bingbing and Zhang Yaling to stay and wait for the appropriation in the hall, and for the sake of insurance, he asked Lu Tao to stay in the provincial capital to guard the appropriation, and all expenses were reimbursed by the Finance Bureau. Lu Tao also happened to want to stay here for a few days, so he agreed.