As soon as the sky was bright, a black "Santana 2000" was running on the highway, and Chu Tianqi, member of the Standing Committee of the Chengkang Municipal Party Committee and deputy mayor, was sitting in the car, and the driver was still the driver Li Jian. Traveling early in the morning is not for business, but for personal business - to attend a wedding.

Today is the 5th day of February, the 27th day of the lunar month, and it is a big day for the son of Wenwu.

On the second day after returning from the provincial capital, that is, on January 26, Chu Tianqi received a call from Wenwu, inviting him to attend his son's wedding. Although the other party's notice was a little tight, and although this matter would disrupt some of the established plans, Chu Tianqi accepted the invitation very happily without saying a word. Of course, just in case, he also deliberately added that "if there are no special circumstances, you must participate on time".

Chu Tianqi originally planned to rush home on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, considering that he was running errands in Dingye City and eating halfway, he would definitely be able to go back before dark, but now he had to leave Chengkang two days earlier. So he stepped up his work at hand, inspecting safety production and holding some important meetings during the day, and working overtime to do some copywriting materials at night. And in the name of "to participate in the wedding, you need to return to Yuchi in advance", I first greeted Xue Tao and Wang Yongxin.

Yesterday morning, Chu Tianqi left Chengkang City and rushed to Dingye City after greeting the secretary of the municipal party committee and the mayor again, and after giving instructions to Li Ziteng and the second departments of urban construction and land. After arriving in Dingye City, Chu Tianqi went to visit Zhou Zikai and Cheng Aiguo as planned, and had dinner with Zhou Zikai; but when he went to Cheng Aiguo at the appointed time, Mrs. Cheng said that Cheng Aiguo had just called home and was now holding a meeting of the municipal party committee, and that he needed to rush to Yanyun City overnight after the meeting. Chu Tianqi was a little regretful, handed over Chengkang's native products to Mrs. Cheng, and after sitting for a while, he left Cheng's house and returned to the hotel.

This morning, Chu Tianqi set off from Dingye City, and since the wedding was held in Yuchi County, and he had to drive more than 400 kilometers, he walked at five o'clock in the morning.

As time passed, the whole sky brightened, and the roadside scenery came into view. This year is relatively dry, and there have not been a few snowfalls, let alone heavy snowfall, and everything is a withered yellow color. Although the scenery is very desolate, the road is in very good condition, and there is not a single bit of water on the whole road, so you should be able to reach it around 10 o'clock.

The landmarks on the side of the road change from time to time, and the car drives out of the Dingye boundary and into the city of Woyuan. Looking at the place names on the signs, Chu Tianqi felt familiar, but he also inevitably felt unfamiliar, and his mood was very complicated. In fact, every time he returned home from Dingye in the past few years, Chu Tianqi was not in a calm mood, but his mood was slightly different each time.

Since the day of the exchange to Xuyuan County, Dingye City, it has been three years now, which is somewhat beyond Chu Tianqi's expectations. In his understanding, it was time to transfer himself back to Woyuan City in two to three years, but now he has not received any notice of this, and there is no hint of anything about it, I don't know whether he has not considered it or has forgotten about it selectively. I originally thought that when I visited Cheng Aiguo yesterday, I used to talk about it, but by chance, I didn't get to see it.

The reason why Chu Tianqi wanted to know when to return to Woyuan was mainly to judge that it was time based on the communication conventions, but in fact, he was more conflicted now, and he was not sure whether he wanted to stay in Dingye or return to Woyuan. Woyuan has his own parents, has his own hometown, is the place where his career started, but there are also a lot of sad things there that he does not want to look back; Dingye has frequently shown his skills in the past three years, and Chengkang also has a place in the municipal arena, but Dingye is only a place of communication after all, and his roots are not there.

With a light sigh, Chu Tianqi closed his eyes, and his body swayed gently with the car.

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At half past eleven, "Santana 2000" entered Yuchi County. The reason for the delay was in response to the saying "the plan can't catch up with the change", there was a car accident on the highway and was stuck in traffic for more than an hour.

After walking for about 20 minutes, the car arrived at the Eco Park Hotel and arrived at the wedding venue.

When there was still a short distance from the ecological park, Chu Tianqi saw a person standing at the gate, that person was not tall, with a red flower pinned to his chest, it was the newcomer's father who wanted to be civil and military. Yao Wenwu was already beckoning, and obviously saw the Dingye license plate hanging on the opposite car.

According to Chu Tianqi's instructions, the "Santana 2000" slowed down and slowly leaned towards the gate.

Outside the car, Wenwu ran two steps quickly, came to the side of the front of the car, and kept gesticulating, obviously to let the car in.

As soon as the car stopped, Chu Tianqi pushed the car door, got out of the car, and ran to Wenwu.

found that Chu Tianqi got out of the car ahead of schedule, and asked Wenwu to run quickly immediately, and said loudly: "Mayor Chu, it's too cold outside, you hurry back to the car and take the car in." ”

"You're not afraid of the cold, can you still be afraid at my age?" As he spoke, Chu Tianqi stretched out his right hand, "Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations on making the director a father-in-law." ”

To be full of joy on Wenwu's face, he held Chu Tianqi's right hand with both hands: "Thank you, Mayor Chu, for rushing back thousands of miles away, I always have to be grateful." ”

Chu Tianqi found that the other party's nose was red, and his voice trembled, I don't know if he was excited or cold, maybe both. Looking at the other party's expression, Chu Tianqi couldn't help but be very emotional: "I want the director, the son's big day, I want to come back no matter what." There was a situation on the highway, it was blocked for more than an hour, and I arrived late. ”

"It's not late, it's not late, it's just right, it's just right. "To be civil and martial as he spoke, shaking his hands.

"Look at you frozen, hurry up and get inside. As he spoke, Chu Tianqi pulled the other party and walked towards the hotel.

"Yes, into the house, into the house. To Wenwu said, beckoning to the distance again and again, "Dongliang, Xiaojuan, your uncle is here." ”

A pair of men and women with red flowers on their chests immediately approached, the boy wearing a dark gray suit and the girl wearing red pants.

When he came closer, the boy smiled a little shyly and greeted: "Hello Uncle Chu!"

The girl also spoke immediately: "Thank you very much Uncle Chu for coming to our wedding." ”

"Congratulations to the pillars, congratulations to the family for marrying a good daughter-in-law, I wish you a happy marriage and grow old together. As he spoke, Chu Tianqi took out a red envelope and handed it over.

"Uncle, this ......" the boy hesitated to look at his father.

"This is Uncle Chu's intention, hurry up and take it. "Civil, military, and ordered.

"Thank you, Uncle Chu. The girl took the red envelope and gave it to the boy.

Through the girl's simple move, Chu Tianqi felt that he wanted to be blessed with civil and military affairs, and he wanted his family to marry a sensible daughter-in-law. While he was talking, his wife also greeted him, and people greeted him again.

Chu Tianqi deliberately put the congratulatory gift money into a red envelope today, which was going to be given directly to the civil and military forces. The relationship between him and Yao Wenwu is not ordinary, this red envelope contains a thousand yuan, which is definitely much bigger than the red envelopes of other colleagues, if it is directly handed over to the gift account, it will not be beneficial to Chu Tianqi and Yao Wenwu.

Accompanied by the four important people, Chu Tianqi entered the banquet hall of the hotel, and many acquaintances greeted him. Chu Tianqi asked his family to be busy first, and he sat down on the seat with these acquaintances and chatted.

"Isn't this Mayor Chu?" a loud voice shouted.

Chu Tianqi looked back, Lei Peng was walking into the hall, and he was greeted by Lei Peng, followed by the "two dogs" and the sharp sword.

"Director Lei, you're big enough, and you still have guards. Chu Tianqi stood up and pointed at the other party.

"Really?" Lei Peng smiled, "Today is a private event, so I'll keep a little low profile and don't bring the sixteen guards with me." ”

"you, say you're fat and panting. Chu Tianqi gave the other party a punch.

"Can city leaders beat people?" Lei Peng was not polite, and directly replied.

After the "mutual fight", everyone sat down and continued to chat.

Not long after, the wedding manager came over, saying that the wedding banquet was about to start, and everyone was invited to take a seat in the private room, and Chu Tianqi was led to the "Qingniuyu private room". This private room is not called this name, but because all the old people from the former Qingniuyu Township are sitting at noon today, and the private room is also located in the banquet hall space, but it is not specially separated from the closed room.

Pushing open the door of the house, Chu Tianqi found that it was indeed all the old men of Qingniuyu.

When everyone in the house saw Chu Tianqi, they immediately got up to say hello, and everyone had a good greeting. Although everyone tried their best to let Chu Tianqi sit on the main seat in the front, he chose to sit down close to the door.

There are a total of ten seats in this private room, and now there are eight seats, namely Chu Tianqi, Liu Wentao, Hao Xiaoyan, Wen Bin, Lu Yong, You Laizhu, Jiang Ye, and Du Zhigang.

When Chu Tianqi went to Qingniuyu to be the assistant to the township head, Wen Bin was the executive deputy head of the township, Liu Wentao, Hao Xiaoyan and Jiang Ye were all deputy township heads, You Laizhu was the minister of the township people's armed forces, and Du Zhigang was the secretary of the discipline inspection and propaganda committee. Lu Yong went late, when Chu Tianqi was transferred out of Qingniuyu, and Lu Yong took over the executive deputy head of Chu Tianqi who had just stepped down, and many people thought that Lu Yong had squeezed Chu Tianqi away.

Chu Tianqi knew that most of the seven people present now had left Qingniuyu, and only Lu Yong was still there. Moreover, most of these people's positions have changed many times, some of them have become real positions, and some people have also enjoyed the treatment of the deputy department, only Lu Yong is only the head of Qingniuyu Township.

When the greetings were just over, it may be because they haven't seen each other for many years, or it may be because Chu Tianqi has the highest position, people have no topic for a while, and some people are even more restrained and don't know what to say. Chu Tianqi mentioned the incident in Qingniuyu in a timely manner, and of course did not mention the case of embarrassing others. Everyone had a common topic, and gradually spoke enthusiastically, and the atmosphere became warm. However, there is one person who is a little dull, I don't know if he is not familiar with those things, or he is restrained, even if he is asked, he responds with a few simple words, this person is Lu Yong. In the whole private room, the atmosphere was not affected because Lu Yong said little, and people talked very warmly.

"Everybody's here. The door creaked, and a person walked into the house.

As this person entered the house, Chu Tianqi suddenly realized.