It's just that it's too late to discuss work. Gu Changshun, the deputy county magistrate in charge of poverty alleviation in the county, pulled Li Rui and others to eat first.

The dinner was set up in the courtyard of the village committee, and the village spent money to invite the mobile restaurant in the township to bury the pot and make rice and stir-fry on the spot. It's not that they don't want to invite Li Rui, a leading cadre from the city, to eat in a big hotel, but the nearest hotel is also in Longwangmiao Township, more than 20 miles away from Xiaolongwang Village, all of which are bumpy stone roads, and it takes more than half an hour to drive there, so they can only settle for it.

Li Rui looked at the "kitchen" of this mobile hotel, in fact, where is there a kitchen, that is, a tent is set up in the small courtyard near the west wall, inside is a place for stir-frying, outside there are several simple stoves connected to liquefied gas tanks, stewing pork ribs and pig's trotters, and the earthen stove is boiling water, the stove is crackling, burning red firewood, and there are several wires scattered on the ground, and the other end of the wire is connected to the rice cooker, electric fan for extracting fumes, electric kettles, and so on.

Some working women, with their tanned faces and dirty aprons in front of them, are running in and out of the kitchen, either holding stir-fried vegetables or dirty rags in their hands, which is breathtaking. There are also a few earthy yellow Shiba dogs, spinning around on the ground, mainly surrounding the cauldron of stewed meat, hoping to drop fat from the sky. The yard was filled with the smell of meat, mixed with the smell of firewood burning and smoke, and from time to time charcoal ash flew up and fell all over the yard.

Although Li Rui was born in poverty, he lived in the city as a child, from childhood to adulthood, all the weddings, funerals and weddings he encountered, the banquets were set up in the hotel, where did he see this kind of mobile hotel scene, I felt very interesting to see it, and I could also feel a strong sense of the countryside.

Gu Changshun, the deputy county magistrate, noticed Li Rui's sight target, and knew that although his level was not as high as Ling Shuyao, he represented Song Chaoyang, the secretary of the municipal party committee, how dare he snub him, and said with a smile, "Li, the conditions in the village are a little simpler, please don't mind." Li Rui shook his head heavily and said, "It's okay, it's good." If you want me to say, you can also break the bank, you don't need it at all, you just have an ordinary peasant meal to eat. Gu Changshun looked at it carefully, and saw that his face showed a solemn meaning, and there was no sarcasm in his face and eyes, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "Please come to the table, you must have been hungry for a long time when you came from afar."

And they all took their seats.

This time, there were six people from the city. Among these six people, Li Rui, Ling Shuyao, and Ai Guowei have the highest status. So Gu Changshun invited the three of them to sit alone, and then called Liu Zhijun, director of the county poverty alleviation office, and the secretary and township chief of Longwangmiao Township to accompany him. Cadres from the other three municipal transportation bureaus were accompanied by the deputy director of the county poverty alleviation office, the head of the project unit of the poverty alleviation office, and the deputy secretary and deputy head of the township, and also sat at the table. Other staff members sat at the third table with the village cadres.

If an outsider comes over and sees this scene, and sees more than 20 people sitting at the three tables, you may think that these people are all sitting around, at most, they are simply arranged according to whether they drink or not. In fact, the order in which these people are ranked is very particular.

For example, Gu Changshun's seat, Gu Changshun originally wanted to invite Li Rui to sit in the first place, but Li Rui insisted on not sitting and invited Ling Shuyao to sit in the first place. Ling Shuyao, a woman, doesn't have so much officialdom, she does her own thing, Li Rui invites her to sit and she sits, which is not polite at all. Of course, her rank of deputy director is also there, and as a guest, she should sit in the first place as a highest-ranking cadre.

Gu Changshun saw that she was sitting first, so he invited Li Rui to sit on her left hand, and he accompanied her on her right, and asked Liu Zhijun, director of the county poverty alleviation office, a department-level cadre, to accompany Li Rui, Liu Zhijun to Ai Guowei, and Gu Changshun himself sat on the secretary of the township party committee and the township head.

Therefore, a simple single-table banquet shows the level of everyone and the identity of both the host and the guest from the side. If someone from another place comes to toast during a meal, and you can easily know who to greet first and then who to greet when you see the order in which everyone is seated. It can be said that the culture of officialdom is formed by the accumulation of similar bits and pieces.

From the moment the chopsticks were moved, Gu Changshun and other local leading cadres began to frequently toast Li Rui and others. If the meals are all made in mobile restaurants, and the grade is a little too low, then the drinks are quite high-end, and they are a Moutai Feitian. Li Rui didn't have to think about it, he knew that this wine was brought by Gu Changshun from the county, because even the Longwangmiao Township Party Committee and Government definitely did not have the economic strength to enjoy Moutai.

Of course, it doesn't matter where this Moutai comes from, it's none of Li Rui's business. All he needs to do is toast him, and he will drink until the glass is dry. It's okay if you don't do it, but it's inevitable that people look down on him, thinking that he is "not happy, not refreshing, and not good at drinking". Now everyone knows that wine is character, and being considered to be bad is not good, that is, bad character, so there is no way to carry out work, and you have to drink it.

After the leading cadres at all levels in the county and township paid respects, Li Rui estimated that he would have to have a small half catty after drinking, but he didn't eat a few bites of food, and the rice was not stained at all, and he was so dizzy that he was going to get drunk.

Ling Shuyao is a female cadre, and when she came up, she explained that she couldn't drink, and her rank was high, so no one was cheeky enough to embarrass her. Someone made her a big kettle of ginger cola, she seemed to like it very much, she kept drinking and drinking, and the chopsticks in her hand did not stop, and launched a crazy encirclement and suppression of the delicacies on the table. Speaking of which, the craftsmanship of this mobile hotel is really good, and the taste of the dishes is not inferior to that of the big hotels in the city. Because of this, she ate to her heart's content, and the more she ate, the more fragrant it became, and the table in front of her was full of bones, shrimp heads, fish bones and other food scraps.

When Li Rui saw this scene, the corners of his mouth curled, and he scolded in his heart, "What a heartless woman"

At this time, the village cadres came up to toast in turn, including the village party secretary, the village director, the village accountant, and the women's director. These people came even more ferociously, and as soon as they came up, they clamored for Li Rui and Ai Guowei to toast three times in a row.

When Li Rui heard this, his liver was frightened, and he said that if he was full, he could still fight with them, but after eating the dinner until now, there was not much food in his stomach, and he was almost full of wine, and if he drank it again, he would hurt his stomach and intestines, and maybe he would be drunk and vomit, so he would be embarrassed, so he smiled and said, "Wang Zhishu, spare the little brother first, okay, I really drank a little too much today, I will invite you another day, let's drink alone." Anyway, I'm not in the village for a day or two, let's take our time, okay?"

The village party secretary's surname is Wang, called Wang Tiekui, in his thirties and less than forty years old, not tall, but very shrewd, seeing Li Rui's refusal, he laughed and said, "City leader, city leader, listen to me, drinking in the future is a matter of the future, but today, you have to reward me for this face, let's have three toasts in a row." This is also the rule of our Xiaolongwang Village to entertain distinguished guests, as soon as you come up, you will have three glasses of wine, not a drop less. Li Rui smiled bitterly, "There are still such rules in the village."

Wang Tiekui said, "City leader, you still don't know the rules of our village, so I'll take this opportunity to tell you." At the earliest, our village was not called Xiaolongwang Village at all, it was called Stone Village. Why is it called Stone Village, because there are many stones in our village, why did it change its name to Xiaolongwang Village later, because in the Ming Dynasty, there was a flood in the mountains, which washed away the Longwang Temple in our Longwangmiao Township. There are three statues of dragon kings in the Dragon King Temple, one big one is the black dragon king, and the two small ones are the white dragon kings, all of which are carved out of wood. The flood washed away the Dragon King Temple, and the three Dragon King statues were all washed away. Later, in a cave by the river in our stone village, someone found a statue of the White Dragon King, which was one of the three statues that were washed away by the flood in the Dragon King Temple Township.

The most amazing thing is that there was a white python in the cave at that time, coiled on top of the head of the dragon king. At that time, the whole village knew about it, so they all went to see it. Some people said that the statue of the dragon king was invited to the village to be offered, but the white snake did not move. Everyone said that it was the reincarnation of the White Dragon King. Someone came up with an idea to toast it and burn incense and let it leave quickly. As a result, after burning three pillars of incense and toasting three glasses of wine in a row, the white snake crawled away. Since then, everyone said that there was an aura in the village, otherwise the statue of the White Dragon King and the little white dragon would not appear in the village, so the village was renamed and called the Little Dragon King Village. Since then, there has been a rule in the village, three glasses of wine are drunk, and one drop less is not authentic. ”

Li Rui listened to it with a great deal of fascination, and he didn't know whether it was true or not, but the three glasses of wine in front of him were real, and he was a little big when he smelled the cold smell of wine, and turned his face to Gu Changshun for help.

Gu Changshun heard the string song and knew the elegant meaning, and said to Wang Tiekui, "I said forget it, ah, Li Chu came from the city for a long time, and there was no food in his stomach, if you want to toast, it's no problem, let him eat a few bites of food first." Wang Tiekui smiled and said, "I'm not an unreasonable person, then the city leader, you can eat two bites first, I'll stand here, and we'll have a toast when you're ready." ”

Li Rui saw that Gu Changshun persuaded him as if he didn't persuade him, he was distressed, looking at Wang Tiekui's persistent dark face, he couldn't help but be angry, knowing that if he really sat down to eat vegetables and eat, he would inevitably fall behind, so that Wang Tiekui would be looked down upon while having no face, and he would also be looked down upon by him, thinking about it, he was the first person in this poverty alleviation designated village at the moment, and he still needed the support of this person if he wanted to carry out poverty alleviation work in the future, so he had to have a good relationship with him, that is to say, these three glasses of water and wine had to be drunk, and if he didn't drink it, he sighed secretly, picked up the wine glass, and said with a wry smile"Okay, since Wang Zhishu is so enthusiastic, I won't be hypocritical, let's do it. ”

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