Li Yuhua said: "Your old uncle is in good health, don't worry about it." The family is all good, all good, hehe, yes, Xiaopo's marriage makes me worried. Li Rui glanced at Shi Dongpo with a smile and said, "Oh, do you want me to introduce him to someone?" Li Yuhua sighed: "Alas, don't mention this matter, I will be annoyed when I mention it." Li Rui laughed and said: "What's the matter? Why is it worth worrying? Xiaopo is tall and big, not bad-looking, and his family is not poor, it is impossible to find a girlfriend, right?" Li Yuhua said: "If you can't find a girlfriend, you won't be so worried." Alas, listen to me......"

Li Rui listened to Li Yuhua explain the ins and outs of the matter, and then she understood what she was worried about.

It turned out that Shi Dongpo had already reached the age of marriage, and over the years, whether he talked about it himself, or his relatives and friends introduced him to him, he had several girlfriends, but none of them succeeded. These girls don't dislike his low education, nor do they break up with him because of other contradictions, they all think that he doesn't have a serious job, feel insecure, and dare not rely on him.

Li Yuhua especially felt that it was a pity that she liked a few of these girls very much, and she really wanted to marry her as a daughter-in-law at home, but people just disliked her son for not having a serious job, and no one wanted to marry him, so she couldn't stop it, so she could only regret it in her heart.

Li Rui was so angry after hearing this, he said: "Those girls are too picky, right? Who said that Xiaopo has no job? Didn't Xiaopo drive and deliver goods to my cousin's home appliance mall? It's not that he has no salary!" Li Yuhua sighed and said: "We think this is a job, but other girls don't think so, people think this job is unreliable and a bit cheap." Who do you say wants to marry a man who drives a delivery car? Alas, these days, there are two types of people, one is a girl who works as a hotel waiter, and the other is a boy who drives a delivery car, and these are the most difficult to find a partner. ”

Li Rui thought about it carefully, although Shi Dongpo did a job, it was not a serious job in the end, and he was always under the wing of his brother Shi Haining, no matter who he said to him, he would inevitably be underestimated. What's more, the girls nowadays are so materialistic, everything looks at money, no matter if Shi Dongpo has any other advantages, just see that he doesn't have a serious job and kicks it directly. Alas, everyone really has a scripture that is difficult to read. said: "Then aunt, what do you mean, is it for me to help Xiaopo find a serious job?" Li Yuhua sighed: "Xiao Rui, if this was changed in the past, my aunt would never ask you to help with this." At that time, your ability was limited, and even if you wanted to, you couldn't help Po. But now it's different, I heard that you have been the secretary of the municipal party committee, and what kind of director is the municipal party committee, that is a big official, you should also have the ability to pull Xiaopo, right? Xiaorui, your aunt has nothing I can't let go of now, that is, Xiaopo's marriage has not been done yet. As long as he has a formal job, there will definitely be no problem finding a partner, and the marriage will be done as soon as possible, and I will be completely down-to-earth. Today, my aunt is cheeky to beg you, you have to help us. ”

Li Rui stood up in fright, and said with a smile: "Auntie, where did you say this? Why do you talk more and more? Whoever doesn't help, I have to help Auntie yours." Besides, Xiao Po and I are brothers, who will pull him if I don't pull him? Don't worry, this matter is on me, I will definitely help Xiao Po arrange a good job, and if the arrangement is bad, I, who is a cousin, am sorry for him. When Li Yuhua heard this, she was happy and grateful, and said: "It's still Xiao Rui, just like when I was a child, I am obedient and sensible, and I know that I feel sorry for people......"

Li Rui heard her mention when she was a child, and thought of the scene where she ate and played with Shi Haining and Shi Dongpo brothers in her home, she was also deeply touched, and sighed secretly, and said in her heart, time flies so fast, in the blink of an eye, she is not only an adult, but also nearly thirty. Standing at thirty, you will be old when you speak. I am going to be old, can my father and aunt not be old? I have to be filial and filial to them while they are still there, and I will never be able to repay them for their love for themselves.

Li Rui didn't discuss it with his father, and took it upon himself to leave Li Yuhua's mother and son to eat at home. Li Yuhua begged him to do something, and took the opportunity to invite him to a meal. The two sides coincide.

In the evening, the family went to a restaurant outside the community for dinner. Li Rui guessed that his aunt would settle the bill, so he settled the bill first during the meal. After the meal was finished, Li Yuhua really called the waiter to pay. The waiter said that Li Rui had already taken it, and Li Yuhua had to complain to him.

After eating, Li Yuhua's mother and son returned home, sat down to drink some tea, chatted for a while, and saw that the time was not early, and then said goodbye and left.

Li Rui had carefully selected a few gifts from the garage and asked the two to bring them when the mother and son left. Li Yuhua originally begged him to do something, but he didn't know that he had invited him to the meal, and he took away a lot of gifts before leaving, which was a little embarrassed and a little moved.

After sending Li Yuhua's mother and son away, back in the bedroom, Li Ruike was worried, and promised to help Shi Dongpo solve the work problem very simply, just touch the upper lip and the lower lip, but it is a little difficult to do it. Now, although he is the director of the secretary of the General Office of the Municipal Party Committee, he can't arrange for Shi Dongpo to work in a place, unless Shi Dongpo passes the exam and enters the ranks of civil servants, he can be transferred through the back door, but this kid dropped out of high school after graduating from high school, and his education is too low to pass the civil service examination, and he is not even qualified to take the exam. In other words, the only way he can help him has been blocked by himself. Since you can't help him yourself, you can only ask others for help, which involves the difficulty of asking for help.

You must know that whether it is in officialdom or ordinary life, at any time, favors are the most difficult to repay. This is not like borrowing money, you borrowed tens of thousands of yuan from someone, and then repaid it, and you don't owe him anymore, and this matter is forgotten, and there is nothing else to do with it after that. However, favors do not have the exact value of money, and you can't accurately judge the value of a favor. Take the matter of helping Shi Dongpo arrange a job as an example, if you find someone to help him find a job, how can this favor be counted? How should you repay it? If you have more, you will suffer a loss, and if you have less, it will be very difficult to offend people. Therefore, for many smart people, it is easy not to owe favors.

Li Rui didn't want to owe favors, but things were forced to do this, and the problem could not be solved without owing favors, so he could only beg for help.

But who should I ask?

"Since you have to ask for someone, just ask for someone who doesn't have to worry too much about how to pay it back even if you owe favors. Li Rui set the tone for himself to ask for someone, to put it simply, to ask for a friend with the deepest friendship. When the friendship is deep, it is easy to say how much the favor comes and goes, and you don't have to worry about who will take advantage of each other, and you are not afraid of offending people.

The first thing he thought of was Li Ming, now Li Ming has become the acting head of Shinan District, that is the number two person in Shinan District, arranging a person is as easy as picking up things, not to mention, Shi Dongpo does not occupy the establishment of civil servants, it should be easier to solve. But when I think about it, I can't ask this godbrother for everything, and if I ask him to solve everything, it will inevitably affect my social circle and limit the development of my network.

Let's talk about connections. Connections, in the final analysis, are actually generated by mutual debt between people. If a pair of friends really just have a relationship as light as water, and there has never been any human contact, then they will not be friends. Sun Wukong was so desperate to give Tang Seng his life, and he went to the west to learn scriptures, wasn't it because he was rescued from the bottom of Wuzhi Mountain, so he owed him an adult favor?

Since connections are generated by favors, if you want to expand your network, you must pay attention to giving more favors. Many well-connected celebrities recorded in Chinese historical classics and novels, whether it is "timely rain" Song Jiang or Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, are usually heroic and benevolent, so they can fight unevenly, and they can spend money for their friends, to put it bluntly, they are actually throwing favors outside. People owe him a lot of favors, can they not admire him, can they not listen to him, can they not work for him? There is even a famous saying, "A man dies for his confidant." This is to a certain extent incorrect, so why should he die for his confidant? Is it just because he and the other party are iron buddies? Zhang Fei and Guan Yu have become brothers, and Guan Yu has not seen him and Guan Yu "die on the same year, month, and day" when he dies? How can a brother who refuses to die for a confidant? In fact, the real meaning of this sentence is that whoever is good to me, who values me, is my confidant, and I can die for him. But don't forget that the premise of dying for him is that he has to be good to himself and give himself enough benefits, that is to say, he owes him a great favor, so he is willing to die for him. After all, no one is a stupid boy, how can he lightly say that he will die for others?

However, connections don't need to be given favors to get them. Sometimes, owing favors can also create connections. This may sound like the opposite of the above reasoning, but it is actually easy to understand. If you owe someone a favor, you have to pay it back, and once you pay it back, you will also have a friendship, and at the same time, you can also get closer to each other.

Now, Li Rui wants to maintain and expand his network by owing favors, so as to avoid being limited to Li Ming, the real power district head. If you only focus on interacting with him, but ignore the network between Yingweaving and other people, if he falls down one day, who can he ask for if he encounters something again, won't he be blind at that time?