Fang Qiang waved his hand and said with a smile: "Hey, my own people, why are you so polite." I just said this, Xiao Li, you are really amazing, you have already driven a BMW at a young age, or a fifth series, tsk...... Is...... Really, hehe, how to say it, what a young man!"

Li Rui said with a smile on his face: "Secretary General Fang, don't laugh at me, this is my BMW, this is my wife's best friend's car, temporarily lent to our husband and wife for transportation." ”

Fang Qiang smiled in disbelief and said, "Is it, there is such a good thing? Anyway, I don't have such a friend to lend me a BMW." ”

Li Rui was a little depressed when he heard that he didn't seem to believe his words, and said in his heart Are you not good at sight, is it my own car, can't you see the license plate? The license plate is a provincial license plate! If it is really my car, it will definitely be a Qingyang license plate, but he also understands in his heart that if he believes in himself, then he will believe it no matter what he says; but if he doesn't believe himself, then no matter how he explains it, he will not believe it, in this case, he will not explain nonsense, the more he explains, the more it seems to be a cover-up, and he changed the topic: "Secretary-General Fang, are you also coming over for dinner?"

Fang Qiang withdrew his gaze from the BMW, looked sideways at the main entrance of the Shengjing Hotel, nodded perfunctorily, and said, "Let's go together." ”

Li Rui thought that he was going to invite himself to his banquet, knowing that he was just a kind word, he smiled and said: "No, thank you Secretary General for your kindness, I won't make trouble for you, I'll invite you alone another day." ”

Fang Qiang looked at him with a smile and said, "What do you mean to make trouble for me? Aren't you with me?"

Li Rui was stunned for a moment, and only then did he realize that he seemed to have misunderstood just now, the reason why this Secretary General Fang appeared downstairs at the Shengjing Hotel was not to go to another banquet, but to go to Ji Gang's table with him, after thinking of this, not to mention how embarrassing it was, fortunately, it was not a big joke, and the embarrassment was over, but he also wondered in his heart, how could Ji Gang call this deputy secretary general? No matter how bad this Secretary General Fang is, he is also a prominent leader at the department level, so he came over and sat with himself and other small cadres at the department level, isn't it a bargain?

Seeing that he looked awake, Fang Qiang smiled and said, "Let's go, let's go up." After saying that, he walked towards the door first.

Li Rui hurriedly followed, thinking, theoretically, Fang Qiang is Ji Gang's original boss, and it is natural for Ji Gang to invite him as a guest, as long as one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, this matter is not excessive.

The two walked into the hotel lobby one after another, took the elevator up to the restaurant, and when they found the private room, they found that they had almost all the people there. Ji Gang himself personally received the visitors at the door of the private room, needless to say, in the private room, there were two large tables, almost full of people, including all the people of the second secretary department, the director and deputy director of the second comprehensive department and several backbones, as well as the secretaries of the leaders of the municipal party committee, and several heads of the general office of the municipal party committee, there were sixteen or seventeen roughly.

Among these people, the highest-ranking person is the person in charge of the department, bureau and office like Li Rui, who is at the department level, so Fang Qiang, a department-level cadre and the deputy leader of the General Office of the Municipal Party Committee, immediately became a star in the crowd. People stood up and approached him to say hello. Fang Qiang Lima enjoyed the treatment that the top leader of the field could enjoy, surrounded by the stars and the moon, passively accepting people's greetings and courtesies. He himself enjoyed the scene, his face was full of smiles, and his eyelashes bloomed with laughter.

At this time, Ji Gang walked into the private room, seeing that Fang Qiang had stolen all the limelight, even Li Rui, the first secretary of the municipal party committee who had been in the limelight for a while, was standing behind him and disappearing in his shadow, with an imperceptible sneer crossing the corner of his mouth.

Fang Qiang was specially invited by Ji Gang to press the scene, Ji Gang had already considered that Li Rui was the most noble figure among the colleagues he invited, even if he had higher qualifications in the municipal party committee, but he could not suppress his brilliance on the scene, and he felt a little uncomfortable when he thought that Li Rui would become the most dazzling and dazzling one at the banquet where he was the protagonist, so he specially invited Fang Qiang, the deputy secretary general, to come over, just to let the deputy secretary general firmly suppress Li Rui, so that Li Rui could not take away the limelight from the scene. However, Fang Qiang refused to participate in this banquet at the beginning, and the old man also felt that this was not good, and he was a little too much to lower his price, but Ji Gang invited him many times, and Fang Qiang really couldn't resist him, so he had to come.

Now, Fang Qiang's side has stolen all the limelight in the private room, enjoying everyone's courtesy, and Ji Gang's side has also achieved its goal, suppressing Li Rui and making him a marginal person, which can be described as a great joy for everyone.

And for this, Li Rui, one of the parties involved, did not know. He didn't think that Fang Qiang had taken away the limelight that belonged to him, he didn't even think about it at all, he just wanted to finish the meal as soon as possible and go home early to go out for a walk with his wife Qingman.

After everyone finished greeting and sat down again, Fang Qiang sat at the first table as a matter of course, Li Rui sat on his lower left hand, and Ji Gang, as the host, did not sit with the original boss, but sat at another table, which was called "take care of friends at the other table". This excuse is understandable, and Fang Qiang can't accuse him of being disrespectful.

At this time, everyone had arrived, and Ji Gang instructed the waiter to serve the food. The table has been booked a long time ago, and the dishes are according to the standard of 1,080 per table (Qingyang is only a small city in the third or fourth tier, and the price of the table in a five-star hotel is not too high, and the price ordered by Ji Gang is not the most high-end), this standard is not only the number auspicious, the level of the dishes is also higher-end, and the taste is more delicious. As for the wine, it was brought by Ji Gang from home, and they are the most popular Moutai national liquor. The waiters in the private room have been invited out, and the work of serving tea and pouring water has been contracted by the people in the second secretary's office.

While waiting for the dishes to be served, the people at the two tables chatted over tea.

Ji Xiaojia and Li Rui sat at the same table, but they were not next to each other, and she was also the only lesbian at this table or even in the all-private room. She is the only woman, and she is beautiful and lovely, so it naturally attracts the attention of many men.

After Fang Qiang drank two sips of tea, he began to shoot at her, and said with a smile: "Our table is a little boring, look at how lively that table is, so let's make a suggestion, let our Comrade Xiao Ji tell a joke and liven up the atmosphere, do you think it's okay?"

What he said was to let Ji Xiaojia tell a joke, but now ordinary jokes can't arouse people's interest at all, especially the interest of people in officialdom.

Li Rui regarded Ji Xiaojia as his sister, so when he heard Fang Qiang's words, he was very unhappy, and said in his heart You like to listen to jokes and tell them yourself, why do you let us Xiaojia talk about it? Is it a girl to bully her? But this idea can only be passed in my heart, but it is definitely not easy to say, otherwise it will anger Fang Qiang on the spot.

He raised his eyes to look at Ji Xiaojia to see how she would deal with this provocation.

Ji Xiaojia was very generous, smiled when she heard this, and said, "Okay, let me find it, I'll read one to you." As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone, opened the text message, flipped through it a few times at random, and read with a smile: "A village chief drank too much and went home into the pigsty by mistake, lying next to the sow and saying: My wife poured me a glass of water, the sow snorted, and the village chief said that if it doesn't fall, it won't fall, what kind of coquettishness." I touched it casually and said: Buy a leather coat, and double-breasted. ”

When the crowd heard this, they burst into laughter.

Fang Qiang also smiled, but the smile was very faint, he glanced at Ji Xiaojia's delicate peaks, and said: "Oh, this paragraph is too old, the last time I listened to it, there was no Olympic Games, Xiao Ji, you talk about another one, talk about a new one." ”

Ji Xiaojia said: "Okay, I'll look for it again." ”

Li Rui didn't agree this time, and interjected with a smile: "Xiaojia is a lesbian, and the jokes collected in the mobile phone are not interesting, so let me say one to help Secretary General Fang." ”

Fang Qiang was unhappy when he heard this, and said, "Xiao Li, you really can't speak, how can you call me to help me? I don't want everyone to be happy." The smile on his face disappeared as he spoke, and his face was a little unsightly.

As soon as these words came out, everyone smelled the smell of gunpowder, most of them stopped laughing, the atmosphere in the private room quickly cooled, and the air was filled with a faint smell of gunsmoke.

Ji Gang's eyes looked at Li Rui for a moment, and he said in his heart It's okay now, you can watch his jokes, hum, sure enough, he was young and frivolous, and he inadvertently offended the leader, now it's up to you how it ends.

Li Rui was not afraid of Fang Qiang's refutation, and said with a smile: "It turns out that Secretary General Fang wants everyone to be happy, but I see that everyone has already laughed after listening to Xiao Jia's jokes, and the atmosphere has risen, so there is no need to say it again." ”

When everyone heard this, those who liked Li Rui pinched a cold sweat in their palms for him, and those who didn't like him all wanted to see his jokes. The atmosphere in the private room was even more cold, and even a little like the north wind was howling.

In fact, Li Rui himself didn't know why he was provoking Fang Qiang, after saying this, he calmed down and thought about it, it may have something to do with the way he suspected the BMW just now downstairs, although there was no conflict at the time, but he had already made him unhappy, and now he met him to tease and bully Ji Xiaojia, so he had a seizure together, but if he had a seizure, he had a seizure, and there was nothing to regret, for this Deputy Secretary-General Fang, he was still not afraid.