When he got home, he found a small suitcase and packed it with the clothes, notes, USB sticks and other things he needed to bring with him for the trip. Lu Qingman helped him sort out his clothes next to him, acting very virtuous, and he was not sad because he was going to be separated from him for two days.

Li Rui didn't take this small difference to heart, it was just two days apart, and there are not many cases like this when he usually goes to the countryside on a business trip, and it is estimated that Qingman will not take it seriously. But when he came back from taking a shower and stood at the door of the bedroom to enter or not, he overheard Qingman speaking his heart.

Qingman is calling someone: "...... He left for two days this time, I thought that he was not at home for the past two days, and he had to sleep by himself at night, and his heart was not in decline, alas, this is also my Qingyang, if I am in the provincial capital, I must call you to accompany me......"

Li Rui happened to hear this sentence through the crack in the door, and could hear that she was calling Gao Zixuan, but the focus of this call was not Gao Zixuan, but her inner confession in a frustrated tone. After he heard that sentence, his heart was sour, and his pity increased, and after pushing open the door, he walked quickly to the house and came to the bed, hugged Qingman, who was sitting on the edge of the bed and was on the phone, and said to her: "Wife, I won't go to Dongzhou for training, I want to stay with you." ”

The reason why he spoke to Lu Qingman was because he didn't want to be listened to by Gao Zixuan on the other end of the phone, so as not to cause this little wife to be jealous, although he was currently in a state of emotional breakup with her, he didn't want her to hear such affectionate and considerate words.

Lu Qingman was talking to Gao Zixuan on the phone, and was suddenly hugged by Li Rui, and was startled, and after listening to his words, he realized that he heard what he said to Zixuan, and he was very self-reproachful and regretful, and hurriedly said: "How can you do that? You have promised the mayor of the house, and you have bought a good gift for Secretary Song, and now you suddenly regret not going, you are sorry for people on both sides." Go ahead, don't worry about me, I was joking with Zixuan just now, but I was actually deliberately stimulating her, a bachelor, but it's not true...... If that's true, don't take it to heart. Speaking of this, his eyes turned a little red, and he looked at this man who loved him with relief and emotion, as for the mobile phone in his hand, and Gao Zixuan, who was talking, he had already thrown it out of the clouds.

She forgot about Gao Zixuan, but Li Rui didn't forget, and said in a low voice: "Be quiet, don't let Zixuan listen to the joke, you finish talking to her first." ”

Lu Qingman sighed stupidly, hurriedly picked up the mobile phone and talked about it again, only said two words, his face turned red, and after saying two more words, he hung up the phone.

Li Rui asked with concern, "What did Zixuan say?" Lu Qingman said with a red face: "She...... If she can say anything good, ignore her. You just go to your Dongzhou, don't worry about me, I'm fine. Li Rui shook his head and said, "No, I can't let my wife stay alone in the empty room." Lu Qingman said angrily: "Oh, I didn't have anything to say to Zixuan just now, but I really can't stand that you are not at home, but it is only two days, and it will pass quickly, you can't delay my business because of me." Li Rui kissed her ruddy little mouth and said, "My wife is really considerate, then I'll go." Don't worry, I'll call you in the evening. Lu Qingman nodded, looking at him with some reluctance. Li Rui said: "You also kiss me." Lu Qingman laughed, plucked up his courage, and kissed him too. Li Rui smiled evilly and said, "Let's have another goodbye love?" Lu Qingman immediately became angry and said, "No, don't even think about it, unless you don't want children......"

Nothing was said all night.

The next morning, Li Rui got up at half past four, crept to get dressed and get up, went to the bathroom to wash up briefly, kissed and said goodbye to Qingman who was woken up, and then went downstairs with his suitcase, drove the car that drove last night, and went to the municipal party committee.

At 4:55, Li Rui saw the car sent by Wu Nan at the gate of the municipal party committee, a black Passat, he shook hands with the driver and said a few words, and then put the gifts and suitcases into the trunk of the car, and when he got into the car, the trip to Dongzhou officially began.

The car was fast and soon entered the highway. At this time, the driver suddenly said: "Li, it's still early to Dongzhou, you can rest for a while, your seat can be put down, how comfortable are you here, don't worry about me, I'll call you when it's almost there, hehe." ”

Li Rui estimated that the car driver was not related to him, and he should not care about whether he was resting well, what he said should have been instructed to him by Wu Nan before he came, thinking that Wu Nan had even taken this detail into account, his heart was warm, and he was polite to the driver, then adjusted the seat to a comfortable angle, leaned on it and rested for a while.

But when he has already woken up, how can he fall asleep so easily? Even if he closed his eyes, he could not fall asleep no matter what, and sometimes his mind appeared with Wu Nan's beautiful and elegant face, sometimes with the training content he had prepared, and for a while he imagined himself facing the scene of training 100 cadres for poverty alleviation.

This state lasted for more than an hour, and it was not until he arrived at the provincial capital Jingnan that he fell asleep groggy.

"Li, Li, wake up, it's here, let's go have breakfast first, and then I'll take you to the city government after eating." ”

Li Rui was sleeping well, suddenly heard a continuous call in his ears, when he opened his eyes to look, only to find that the speed of the car had dropped, and the scenery outside the car had changed from a vast field to a prosperous street scene, and said to himself: "Arrived in Dongzhou?"

The driver next to him nodded and said, "Here, let's go to the guest house for dinner first, arrange accommodation for you by the way, and then I'll take you to the city government." ”

Li Rui said hello, straightened up, adjusted the seat, looked left and right, and looked at the urban environment of Dongzhou.

Dongzhou is also an ancient city, which can be seen from the "state" in its name, the history is far-reaching and long, the city's administrative area covers an area of more than 12,000 square kilometers, nearly half smaller than Qingyang City, the city has jurisdiction over four districts, two cities and five counties, the total population is only 4 million, but the urbanization rate is extremely high, 70 percent of the permanent population live in the city. The terrain of the territory is dominated by plains, and a small part is covered by the branch mountains of the Taihang Mountains in the north, and the mineral deposits are abundant, and the proven coal and iron ore resources are in the forefront of the country. In terms of economy, the total GDP ranks third among the prefecture-level cities in the province, which is much better than Qingyang City, and the per capita GDP is nearly twice that of Qingyang, and it is shortlisted as one of the top 50 cities in China in terms of comprehensive strength every year.

Although it is far inferior to the super cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and also to those developed coastal cities, it is still stronger than the sister cities in the province such as Jingnan and Qingyang.

Li Rui sat in the car, along the way to look at the scenery of Dongzhou City, but saw the high-rise buildings overlapping, clusters, clusters, like mushrooms after the rain, can not be counted at all, the extreme eye can not see the edge, as if covering all the urban area; The shadow of the shopping mall, with many imposing landmarks, at first glance, looks like a certain neighborhood in the capital Beijing.

After seeing this scene, he couldn't help but sigh: "Dongzhou is really prosperous, not inferior to the provincial capital!"

The driver said proudly: "How can the provincial city compare with our Dongzhou? The province has scavenged the resources of the whole province to build the provincial city into a bit of a city, but our Dongzhou relies on our own Dongzhou resources, and the city built is called 'Little Hong Kong in Central China', and even the national leaders who came to our Dongzhou praised us for doing a good job in urban construction." ”

Li Rui nodded, knowing that he shouldn't be bragging, but then again, even in a city as developed and wealthy as Dongzhou, there are actually poor counties, which is really hard to believe.

Before Li Rui came, he had already done a preliminary understanding and research on the poverty-stricken counties in Dongzhou City: a county in the northern part of Dongzhou located in the branch of the Taihang Mountains is a state-level poverty-stricken county, and the causes of poverty are exactly the same as those in several counties in the Taihang Mountains in the north of Qingyang City, which are typical environmental poverty (poor environment caused by bad environment, lack of resources, traffic blockage, frequent occurrence of disaster weather, etc.); It is understandable to say that a county located in a mountainous area is poor and weak because of the natural environment, but why is a county covered by plains so poor? Even if the secondary and tertiary industries cannot be developed, if the primary industries such as agriculture, forestry, and breeding are made bigger and stronger, they will not always be in a state of poverty?

There are only these two poverty-stricken counties in Dongzhou City, and these two poverty-stricken counties at the national and provincial levels have dragged down the social and economic development of Dongzhou City and affected the comprehensive index of several urban development in Dongzhou City. Wu Nan, the mayor of Dongzhou, wants to solve these two poor counties. It is conceivable that once these two impoverished counties take off their poor hats, with the economic development speed of Dongzhou City itself, it will definitely be able to reach a new level in the short term, and the economic ranking of the province will definitely be able to go further. The economic strength has gone up, the province is ranked high, and Wu Nan's achievements as mayor have come out, and she can't make progress if she doesn't want to.

In reality, with the comprehensive strength of Dongzhou, it is still very easy to alleviate poverty in two poor counties, which is much stronger than Qingyang. Qingyang's economy is not good, but there are as many as five or six poor counties, and it will be very difficult to alleviate poverty.