Li Rui was not surprised to hear this question, he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have asked himself once, and when he asked again, he naturally meant to be close to show goodwill, thought about it, and decided not to tell him the truth, lest he have too many things, so he said vaguely: "This has not yet been decided, and the main thing at present is to fall in love." ”

Sun Yaozu put on the appearance of a kind elder, and solemnly instructed: "It's almost enough to talk, there's no need to talk about it for two or three years or even longer, you can continue to talk after marriage, hehe, isn't it popular to get married first and then fall in love." You have to hurry, you can't let Xiao Lu run away, this is the political task assigned to you by the leaders of our Qingyang City, you must complete it, hehe. Li Rui said with a smile: "Okay, I will try to complete the task as soon as possible." In fact, let alone being close to Lu Zhouxing, even if he is close to Huang Xinnian, secretary of the provincial party committee, or even close to the president of the state, it is impossible for him to further become the secretary of the municipal party committee, after all, he is already a little old, and no one can save him. Alas, I really don't know what he thinks in his heart.

Sun Yaozu said: "Okay, on the day you get married, you must send me an invitation, and I will go to ask for two cups of wedding wine to drink." Li Rui thought to himself, Qingman had already told me that the wedding would be held in the provincial capital, and no outsiders would be invited except for relatives, so you should save your worries, and said with a smile: "That's certain." Sun Yaozu looked at him with satisfaction and praised: "Do a good job, the future is immeasurable, and the achievements must not be under me." As he spoke, he nodded again and again, as if he was very emotional, and said, "You are busy, I'll go back." ”

Li Rui hurriedly sent him out respectfully.

After eating at noon, Li Rui took the time to call Zhang Zixiao, but after getting through, he suddenly didn't know what to say, and he suddenly got stuck.

Zhang Zixiao on the other end of the phone saw that he didn't speak, and sneered: "You don't want to ask me to continue tonight, and you're embarrassed to say it to your face, right?" Li Rui smiled bitterly: "Do you think I'm that kind of person?" Although we haven't known each other for a long time, you should also know me a little better, how can I be that kind of insatiable man?" Zhang Zixiao said: "Then what are you calling me for, if you have something to say, just say it, hang up if you don't have anything, don't waste my phone bill." Li Rui couldn't cry or laugh, as far as her net worth was concerned, not to mention anything else, just saying that she could afford to drive a Land Rover Aurora, she would care about the phone bill of one or two yuan, and said: "I'm fine, just give you a call and say, I'm in a hurry to go to work in the morning, get up early, I'm afraid of waking you up, so I left directly without saying hello to you, don't mind." Zhang Zixiao said coldly: "You don't need to tell me this. Is there anything else, I don't hang up without me. Li Rui was stunned for a moment and said, "No." ”

Zhang Zixiao didn't say a word, and hung up the phone. Li Rui listened to the blind voice from the other end, his heart was sour and bitter, and he was very depressed.

That night, on the way back to Qingyang Hotel, Li Rui sent Song Chaoyang back to the Qingyang Hotel, and asked casually: "Boss, the mayor seems to be still thinking about getting close to Governor Lu Zhouxing through me, but isn't he going to retire, what's the use of him getting close to Governor Lu? Do you want to go one step further to become the secretary of the municipal party committee? It's impossible, he's already a little old, isn't he?" Song Chaoyang smiled slightly and explained: " When local party and government leaders at the level of the main hall reach a certain age, they generally have two places to go: one is to stay in the local area and serve as the principal leader of the municipal people's congress or the CPPCC, and the other is to go to the province and be promoted to the deputy leader of the provincial people's congress or the provincial CPPCC. The former is a horizontal transfer, and the latter is a disguised promotion. Think about it, who doesn't want to choose the latter? But the latter is not something that can be chosen if you want to, it depends on the intention of the main leaders of the province. ”

Li Rui only came to his senses at this point and said, "I see. He wanted to hug Governor Lu's thigh, so as to seek a further step and be promoted to the province as a deputy provincial leader. Song Chaoyang nodded and said: "Once promoted to a deputy provincial leader, not only can I continue the political, economic, and living high-level treatment I enjoyed before, but I will also be promoted to a higher level." The most important thing is that when a provincial or ministerial-level official retires at the age of 65, he can serve another term, and even if he officially retires after serving one term, he will also retire from a vice-provincial post, and he will still enjoy the vice-provincial treatment after retirement. This kind of treatment is unimaginable for ordinary officials. Li Rui nodded again and again when he heard this, and said, "No wonder." ”

A few days passed, and it was December, and it was also the weekend.

Song Chaoyang was going home this weekend, considering that the secretary had an autumn outing, he didn't let Li Rui accompany him, only took the driver Lao Zhou, and took the No. 1 car back to the provincial capital on Friday night.

On Saturday, all the cadres and workers of the secretary's place, including Li Rui, whether they were working overtime, on duty, or on vacation, gathered in the office, finished their official duties in the morning, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, took a Toyota Coaster official car found from the small convoy of the municipal party committee to drive to the Baiwangshan National Forest Park, 70 miles away in the eastern suburbs of the city.

Prior to this, Yuan Xiaodi, the deputy director who usually presides over the work of the department, had borrowed two colleagues from the second secretary to help them on duty to deal with emergencies.

In this autumn outing, all seven people in the secretary's place participated, not many of them, but also many of them. Someone once proposed to bring their family along, but Zhang Hui rejected it. Zhang Hui also has a good reason, "You brought your wife and children to play together, it's lively, but who still plays with me? Are you embarrassed to see me alone?" Of course, she also has other messy reasons, such as "If you all bring your family, you will alienate your colleagues, so you won't be able to play together." Her reasons are very reasonable, so those who want to bring their families are persuaded by her. Six big men and a little beauty embarked on the journey of the autumn outing.

Qingyang city is located in the plain, but due to the relationship between the Taihang Mountains in the north, there are still more or less hills in the suburbs of the city, the least is only a lonely mountain, which stands abruptly on the endless plain, and the most is a few or even a series of mountains. Baiwangshan National Forest Park is a series of mountains full of vegetation, located 70 miles east of the city. What started as a large area of barren mountains and wilderness was later contracted by developers from the provincial capital and commercially developed, eventually forming a national forest park that now integrates vacation, tourism, leisure and sports. However, no one knows whether it is really a national forest park, but everyone called it that, and the name spread.

The seventy-mile journey is not long, but it is not short, and with the influence of red lights, traffic jams, mountain roads, etc., it takes an hour to drive over. The road was really boring, and the secretary and these people started entertainment programs under the advocacy of Zhang Hui, a member of the activity committee and art committee of the department. The format of the program is also simple, everyone gives full play to their artistic expertise, those who can sing can sing, those who can tell jokes will tell jokes to everyone, and they can tell ghost stories, in short, everyone has to present a show, and they must stand at the front of the carriage, that is, in the middle of the aisle of the first row of seats, facing the big guy to perform.

In order to encourage everyone and set an example, Zhang Hui was the first to stand at the designated performance position and sang a song to everyone. In fact, her seat was on the left side of the aisle of the first row of seats, and she sat with Li Rui. She sat with the director, no one had an opinion, and she didn't dare to have an opinion, the beauty was originally to serve the leader, that was a matter of course.

Li Rui has long heard Zhang Hui's singing voice, but it was in KTV, and now for the first time I have appreciated her cappella, I heard that it was still very tasteful in my ears, I looked at her sideways, and saw that she was wearing a white baseball cap on her head, and her hair was left in a ponytail, which was worn out from the buttonhole behind the hat, which seemed to be hanging down, which was not only full of youthful atmosphere, but also looked clean and neat, her pretty face was clean and flawless, bright and moving, wearing a burgundy sports suit, wrapping her slender body exquisitely, and wearing a pair of snow-white sneakers on her delicate feet, standing beside herself and singing, that delicate appearance is really exciting。

After Zhang Hui finished singing, Li Rui took the lead in applauding, and everyone else applauded.

Zhang Hui smiled and pointed at Li Rui and said, "Director, it's your turn." Li Rui was stunned and said with a wry smile: "I don't know how to sing." Zhang Hui shouted: "You lie to people, you ...... with me." When she said this, she realized that she had slipped her mouth, how could she say that he had sung with her in front of all her colleagues? That didn't expose her warm relationship with him? Li Rui smiled: "I'll tell you a joke." Zhang Hui said: "It's okay, but if one person doesn't laugh, you have to talk about it again." Li Rui said: "If you deliberately don't laugh, what should I do?" Zhang Hui laughed: "No, I'm not that bad." ”

Li Rui got up and told everyone a joke, and after speaking, basically everyone laughed, but Zhang Hui didn't smile with a tense face, and it looked like she was deliberately not smiling.

Li Rui pointed at her and said, "Zhang Hui, you are going back on your word." Zhang Hui said: "It's not funny for you to talk about it, let's talk about another one." Li Rui said: "Okay, I'll talk about one more thing, saying that there was a flood in the forest, and a group of animals fled in a small boat, but there were too many animals, and the boat was about to sink." After some discussion, it was decided that each animal would tell a joke, and if anyone's joke could not make all the animals laugh, then throw the animal that told the joke into the water to reduce the weight of the boat. The first joke was told by the little rabbit, and everyone laughed at his joke, but the pig did not, so the animals threw the little rabbit into the water together. The second joker was the fawn, whose joke was laughed at by no one but the pig. Everyone asked the pig why he was laughing, and he said that he had just thought the joke the rabbit told was funny. After speaking, he smiled and looked at Zhang Hui.