On 6 February, Chu Tianqi embarked on his return journey back to his unit.

Before leaving, her mother You Chunmei repeatedly advised: "You must hurry up and do that." ”

Chu Tianqi understood that when his mother said "that thing", he was referring to his "promotion". That's a nonsense made up by myself in a hurry, and it's just a matter of nothing. But apparently the mother has taken it seriously and has set a new hope, hoping that her son will find a girlfriend as soon as he is promoted.

With guilt, Chu Tianqi continued to panic: "Mom, it's not entirely up to me to do that, I'll do my best." ”

"Huh. You Chunmei nodded understandingly, and looked at her eldest son lovingly.

Chu Tianqi smiled at his mother, then his gaze swept over the faces of his younger brother and sister, and finally fell on his father.

Chu Yuliang squeezed out a smile on his face and waved his hand: "Let's go, slow down on the road." ”

"Eh, Dad, Mom, Sister, Brother-in-law, Niuniu, Xiangrui, I'm gone. After greeting his family, Chu Tianqi got into the car.

"Santana 2000" sounded and started slowly.

The relatives next to the car also moved with the car, and even though the car was about to turn a corner, they still refused to disperse.

Poking his head out of the car window, Chu Tianqi waved to his relatives frequently, and the relatives next to the car also waved in response. He found that in the direction of the door of the house, the man in the tunic was also waving his arms, still smiling, but his eyes were full of reluctance.

After saying "I'm leaving" again, Chu Tianqi moved all his body back into the car and said to the sharp sword: "Let's go." ”

Li Jian honked the horn a few times in a row, and after the people around the car dispersed, the foot was fueled, and the speed of the car was raised, and it drove forward.

After walking out of a section, Chu Tianqi looked back and found that his relatives were all standing in the distance, still waving in the direction of the car. He turned his head, leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and the man in his tunic, waving his arms, appeared in his mind.

Chu Tianqi found that his father was a little strange this time.

In the past, when he left home, his father basically didn't go out of the house, and he often said that "men are ambitious in all directions". But today, my father actually sent it out in person, and his eyes were full of tenderness and reluctance, as if he had to go far, or whether he wanted to return to this home.

In fact, last night, Chu Tianqi discovered his father's abnormality. At that time, Lirui drove a tricycle to pick up his sister's family, and he hadn't come back yet, and his mother had just gone to the village entrance to see it. At that time, the father asked Chu Tianqi to take out the longevity lock, touched it again and again, and asked his son, "Have you seen the same lock outside?" At that time, Chu Tianqi didn't quite understand the true meaning of his father's question, so he said "no", and asked his father, "How can there be such a lock, what is the difference between this lock?" Chu Tianqi was about to continue asking, but his mother, younger brother, and sister's family all returned, and the two ended the conversation, and they didn't find a chance to talk alone until this morning.

My father has always attached great importance to this long-life lock, but today's question is the first time I have heard it. Since his father was seriously injured that year, and since the blood type of the father and son did not match, Chu Tianqi has always doubted his identity and suspected that this lock was related to his life experience.

"The same lock, the same lock?" Chu Tianqi thought silently in his heart, and couldn't help but secretly wonder: Does this mean that I really have another identity, and that identity has other brothers and sisters?

Suddenly, Chu Tianqi thought of his father's and mother's outfits on the day his younger brother's engagement. He realized at that time that the two parents were definitely not the same identity as they are now, there must be a story, and they may not be ordinary people. In fact, he had this idea before, but since that day, he has more firmly approved of this idea.

Today, my father's eyes were even more special, and his eyes were clearly full of reluctance, as if he was going to leave him. Did my father hear something, or did he encounter something? And it happened to be related to his own background?

……

"Ding Woo", the mobile phone rang, interrupting Chu Tianqi's thoughts.

The call was made by Li Ziteng, asking if Chu Tianqi had gone up, and vaguely mentioned that the people from the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection did not go to the unit.

Hanging up the phone, Chu Tianqi changed the matter of the unit in his mind.

At the enlarged meeting of the municipal party committee before the Spring Festival, the secretary of the municipal party committee clearly asked to give himself a few more days off to take care of himself, a member of the standing committee of the municipal party committee who was thousands of miles away from home. And the reason given by Xue Tao is very sufficient, he often works on Saturdays and Sundays, which is to make up for his time off and let him combine work and rest. In the minutes of the meeting sent the next day, Chu Tianqi unexpectedly discovered this content, and specially approved him to go to work again on February 8, and approved him to spend the Lantern Festival at home.

Chu Tianqi fully understood that when Xue Tao did this, including praising himself at the meeting, he was actually using his support for himself to show that he had drawn a line with his predecessor You Jianhui. Regarding the ten days of leave that was specially granted, Chu Tianqi didn't take it seriously at that time, he was neither prepared nor prepared to have to take a vacation, he just wanted to look at the situation. The "depending on the situation" he wanted was actually the time to avoid the investigation of Zhang and You.

After the Spring Festival, in several phone calls with Li Ziteng, he did not hear any news about Zhang Yang or You Jianhui, so he prepared to go to the unit on the eighth or ninth day of the first lunar month. Later, the family proposed to get engaged to his younger brother on the ninth day of the first lunar month, but he postponed the time to the eleventh and second day of the first lunar month. It wasn't until the tenth day of the first lunar month that he received a call from Li Ziteng and heard about the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection going to the unit, so he decided to postpone it for a few more days before leaving.

Since the tenth day of the new year, Li Ziteng has called once or twice a day to report on his work. Although the other party did not mention the "Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection", nor did he mention "Zhang Yang" or "You Jianhui", Chu Tianqi understood that the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection did not go again, otherwise the other party would definitely have hints. Judging from this situation, the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection may not go for the time being.

Since the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection did not go, the time for special approval was approaching, so Chu Tianqi chose to rush to Dingye City today. He did not go directly to the unit today, but wanted to visit Cheng Aiguo first, bring the dried mushrooms and other local specialties he had brought, and ask the other party for some things. Then, depending on the time, decide whether to stay overnight in Dingye.

……

At half past eight in the evening, Chu Tianqi appeared at Cheng Aiguo's house.

In fact, at about three o'clock in the afternoon, Chu Tianqi arrived at Dingye and contacted Cheng Aiguo, who asked him to go at this point in time.

When I entered the house, it was Cheng Aiguo's wife who opened the door. Seeing Chu Tianqi with a bunch of things, Cheng's wife was very embarrassed and called out to Cheng Aiguo, who was in the study upstairs.

Cheng Aiguo came down from upstairs, glanced at the large and small boxes in Chu Tianqi's hand, and said solemnly: "Comrade Chu Tianqi, what are you doing here?"

Looking at the other party's posture, Chu Tianqi hurriedly explained: "Minister, this is a little mushroom, and there are some herbs, and the herbs occupy the space." I remember you said that my aunt didn't sleep well, and it just so happened that my father had been a barefoot doctor for many years and was very good at herbal medicine, so he specially made these herbs to dry, and I just brought them this time. ”

"Really?" Cheng Aiguo still looked questioning, but his tone softened a lot.

Chu Tianqi hurriedly opened the lids of a few gift boxes and explained: "The main thing is that it is easy to carry, but in fact, if you put these in a woven bag, there are not many of them. ”

Cheng Aiguo's face immediately turned "cloudy": "I've bothered you, thank your father for me." ”

Cheng's wife also immediately said: "Thank you, thank you, it would be great if it could improve my sleep quality." As he spoke, he took the boxes.

Chu Tianqi took out the recipe for torment and how to take it printed in advance, gave a detailed explanation to Cheng's wife, and then went to the upstairs study with Cheng Aiguo.

The two sat down, and Cheng Aiguo said: "Xiao Chu, today is the sixteenth day of the first month, and you are nearly ten days later than others to work." ”

"A year ago, the municipal party committee specially approved me to take ten more days off, and it was also written into a document to let me take overtime on Saturdays and Sundays. Chu Tianqi said, "I didn't plan to go so late, but I was in time to get my brother engaged at home, so I delayed it for a few more days." ”

"Oh, that's a great event. I grew up in the countryside, and then I stayed in the countryside for many years, and I know about the engagement, and my wife and I were also engaged at the time. Cheng Aiguo smiled, "Although engagement has no legal effect, people in the countryside attach great importance to this form, and in the eyes of the older generation, this is marriage, and it is almost heaven and earth." No, there is another custom in the countryside, which is called that the eldest does not marry, and the second does not marry, you seem to be single, right?"

Chu Tianqi's face turned red all of a sudden, he didn't know if the other party knew about him and Ning Junqi, there was another reason for him to blush, he thought of a lie about "promotion". So he had a simple smile on his face and said, "My brother has been making orchards in the village, and he is an older unmarried young man in the village, and he will be too conspicuous if he doesn't start a family." I work outside, and many of my peers don't have families, so I don't seem special. ”

"Looks like your parents are very open. Speaking of this, Cheng Aiguo changed the topic, "During the Chinese New Year, I saw Minister Li, and we had dinner together." The minister said that he was very happy to see you, and you brought my New Year's greetings with you, and said that you were a little fatter and whiter than before. I wonder how thin you must have been, and I'm afraid it was too dark. ”

The other party's last sentence was completely ridiculous, and it was obvious that he didn't treat himself as an outsider. But Chu Tianqi was very strange: How did Li Weimin know that I was fat and white? In fact, I was not fat.

Immediately, Chu Tianqi understood that Li Weimin was using this to prove that he had met him, and he was showing Cheng Aiguo the close relationship between the two, which was exactly the same as Secretary Li's instructions at that time. Now he is really strange to Li Weimin, he didn't see himself at that time, but he wanted to help himself, why?

didn't have time to think about it, Chu Tianqi hurriedly said: "The last time I saw Secretary Li, it was the time when I often went to the countryside, and the sun was naturally darker and thinner. He said this in a very general way, as if he gave the time, but did not go into a specific paragraph.

Cheng Aiguo nodded, "oh", and then changed the topic: "This time you have a few more days of rest, okay." ”

Chu Tianqi paused slightly, and immediately understood that the other party was vaguely pointing out that he was correct in avoiding that matter.

Next, the conversation between the two focused on work, and they talked for more than an hour. But the word "Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection" was not mentioned from beginning to end, nor did it mention "Zhang Yang" and "You Jianhui", but many topics seemed to be related to certain things.