After Chen Qingdong and Chen Zhongning finished chatting about this, it was already around five o'clock. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The winter in Chenqiao is very dark, and it is already dark outside at five o'clock, and this will be the fastest time to get dark, it is estimated that it will take more than ten minutes, and it will be twilight.

When it's dark, it's time to eat.

Chen Qingdong originally said that he wanted to invite Chen Zhongning to eat in a restaurant outside, but Chen Zhongning was very frugal and repeatedly said that he would not go to a restaurant outside to eat, and it was better to invest the rest of the money in the construction of the school.

At this time, Chen Cunjing, the village party secretary of Chenjiawan Village and Chen Zhongning's nephew, came to the town government compound and invited Chen Zhongning and Chen Qingdong to his house for a light meal. In addition, Chen Cunjing also invited Wu Zhenshan, Zhang Zhongde, Lu Shijing, as well as Zhang Qitai, Lu Min, Zhao Longyuan and a large group of leaders at home.

Except for Wu Zhenshan, who couldn't come today due to family matters, the other big people who were invited by Chen Cunjing all came to Chen Cunjing's house for dinner.

Of course, Chen Cunjing didn't dare to cook by himself, nor did he dare to use the village cook, but sent someone to ask for more than a dozen dishes from the Beiyuan Hotel.

As a result, although they didn't go to the restaurant, they crowded into Chen Cunjing's house to eat a restaurant meal, which made Chen Zhongning both helpless and embarrassed.

Chen Zhongning pays more attention to health preservation, and only dares to drink two taels of liquor at most every day.

Chen Zhongning is today's honored guest, since he didn't dare to drink more, and he was in Chen Cunjing's house, so the others didn't drink more, a total of eleven big men, and in the end only drank four catties of wine. And in normal times, almost each of them is a pound.

And when eating in the countryside, no matter how well the food is eaten, as long as the wine is not drunk well, it seems that the people who are the owners have not taken good care of everyone. Therefore, when they left after eating, Chen Cunjing felt very embarrassed, and repeatedly told Chen Qingdong that the hospitality was not good, and he had to take them to the only KTV in the town to sing.

Although Chen Qingdong didn't drink much, he had a headache about raising funds to build Chenqiao Middle School, so he politely refused Chen Cunjing's hospitality and went back to the town government dormitory to rest.

Since Chen Qingdong didn't go to entertainment, the others were naturally embarrassed to go again, so they dispersed.

But after they dispersed, Lu Shijing called Zhang Zhongde, Zhang Qitai, Shi Tao, Wei Hongjun and other people on his front to his new home that served as a meeting point, Zhang Luo made a hot pot, cut mutton, tofu, cabbage, etc., opened a few bottles of liquor produced by Baihu Distillery, and started drinking again.

When they were having dinner at Chen Cunjing's house today, because Chen Qingdong was present throughout the whole process, Lu Shijing and the others didn't have any opportunity to chat and whisper, and now that they were sitting here, they could talk freely!

After Lu Shijing drank the more than one or two liquors in the cup in one gulp, he put the glass on the table vigorously, and said with a cold snort: "Chen Qingdong and Yang Yuqin went to Guniu Mountain together, and he probably knows all the situation on the mountain, and I don't know if he will open the mine in the next step!"

Shi Tao said while adding wine to Lu Shijing: "Director Lu, let's not worry about this! In the past, Zhou Ming didn't also want to operate on Guniu Mountain, but as a result, he didn't open a knife, but he became a ghost under the knife! Chen Qingdong is much more tender than Zhou Ming, and he has no foundation in Chenqiao, if he just comes, he dares to use a knife against Guniu Mountain, hum, tell me to say, let's not care about anything, Liu Yue and Feng Si are not vegetarians!"

Lu Shijing said with a little disdain: "Shi Tao, I know that you have a good relationship with Liu Yue and Feng Si, but I think the two of them are also very powerful, don't look at their usual big formation, shouting five and drinking six, bullying and bullying ordinary people, if you really do it with someone of Chen Qingdong's level, I don't think they have the courage." ”

Although Shi Tao is the armed minister of Chenqiao Town, it is not a war year, and there is almost no danger of war, so the people's life company at the township level is almost in name only, and now with the rapid development of the economy, and the good times of arranging work after the recovery of the army have also passed, so once the children in the countryside can't study, the vast majority of them choose to go out to work, and few are willing to become soldiers!

In the past, being a soldier was a sweet spot that everyone fought for, and the Minister of Armed Forces was in charge of this matter, so he naturally held real power. But now, because the enthusiasm of the people to be soldiers is not high, conscription has become a head-scratching thing, and it is difficult to complete the annual conscription task.

Because of these reasons, Shi Tao, the minister of armed forces, has almost no real power, and the main reason why he can occupy a place in Lu Shijing's private circle, and his position is still very important, is that he has a good relationship with Liu Yue and Feng Si, the two big hooligans who opened gold mines on Guniu Mountain.

And although Lu Shijing and Zhang Zhongde did not take any benefits from Liu Yue and Feng Si, they were also quite clean and self-conscious, and they were unwilling to come into contact with these hooligans, so Shi Tao also became a bridge and lubricant between these two types of people.

Now, Lu Shijing's words revealed the meaning of looking down on Liu Yue and Feng Si, Shi Tao felt like he had also been slapped in the face, and immediately explained: "Director Lu, I think Liu Yue and Feng Si are still okay. If Chen Qingdong really dared to go too far, they would definitely not shrink their heads and pretend to be their grandson. ”

Lu Shijing was very unimpressed, but he also knew what Shi Tao was thinking, and taking Shi Tao's face into consideration, Lu Shijing didn't say anything.

Wei Hongjun asked at this time: "Director Lu, Secretary Zhang, do you say we are going to do something?"

Zhang Zhongde glanced at Wei Hongjun and asked, "What moves? What do you want to do?"

Wei Hongjun just said casually to make his position clear, but he didn't have any ideas, so he couldn't say anything, so he had to laugh and say, "I'm just afraid that Chen Qingdong will strike first." ”

Zhang Zhongde snorted softly, sometimes, he was very tired of these people's brainlessness, and he also regretted how he was dizzy in the first place, mixed with these idiots!

In fact, except for Lu Shijing and Lu Changsong, Zhang Zhongde didn't look down on all of the other people, and he didn't have a good impression of them.

Wei Hongjun was blushed by Zhang Zhongde, so he laughed and stopped talking.

Wei Hongjun usually follows Lu Shijing very closely, and often slaps Lu Shijing on the back, and Lu Shijing thinks that Wei Hongjun, this young man, is very energetic, his head is also very active, and the most important thing is that he is very loyal to himself, so he also admires him very much, and now he sees that Wei Hongjun was made ugly by Zhang Zhongde, so he relieved him and said: "What Hong Jun said is not unreasonable, Chen Qingdong will definitely have a lot of ideas after going to Guniu Mountain today to see this situation." A young man like him is only thinking about making meritorious deeds, maybe, when his brain is hot, he will really do something out of the ordinary, let's get an idea earlier, even if we don't use it, we can be prepared! Zhongde, what do you think?"

Lu Shijing opened his mouth, Zhang Zhongde couldn't still have this cold attitude, so he shook the thick cotton jacket on his shoulders, stretched out his hands and roasted it next to the fire boiler, and said: "My idea is very simple, I think that although Chen Qingdong is young, he is a very brainy person, and he will never do anything that has a hot brain." So we don't have to make any ideas in advance, but wait to see what Chen Qingdong's attitude is. If he doesn't let the mine go unnoticed, or just uses a knife, then we'll cooperate with him. ”

"Cooperate with him?" asked Lu Shijing.

"Yes!" Zhang Zhongde said categorically, he glanced at Lu Shijing, and then continued, "Shijing, there is one thing I have to reiterate, we want interests, not against Chen Qingdong. Therefore, as long as Chen Qingdong does not make a big move to get along with our interests, we will also get along with him. Think about it, as long as we can protect our interests, why should we go against Chen Qingdong? Do we really want to drive him away? Even if we drive him away, what's the point? When the time comes, the county will definitely send a new secretary over, so do we still have to continue to oppose him?"

"Alas!" Zhang Zhongde sighed lightly, and continued, "Shijing, in fact, since Zhou Ming's accident, the county did not choose a secretary from our town, but it took several months before sending a little-known Chen Qingdong over, I think this is very strange, maybe Xu Minglei has paid attention to our affairs here." ”

"You said that Chen Qingdong was specially sent by Xu Minglei to deal with us?" asked Lu Shijing.

"No, Xu Minglei, as the secretary of the county party committee, has a wide field of vision, he will not look at the problem from one point, but from the whole picture. If Xu Minglei really wants to deal with us, he doesn't need to go around so many circles, he is now covering the sky in Liulin with one hand, and it is so easy to destroy us!" Zhang Zhongde said with a solemn face.

Lu Shijing was a little puzzled, and asked again: "Zhongde, then what do you mean by Xu Minglei?"

Zhang Zhongde did not answer Lu Shijing's question, but asked: "Shijing, what do you think is the highest level of politics?"

"What did you say?" Lu Shijing seemed to be a little puzzled.

Zhang Zhongde himself replied: "The highest level of politics is definitely not struggle, but compromise. Our Chen Qiao has been in chaos for several years, and there are one or twenty people who have had an accident, so I guess that Xu Minglei thinks about it holistically, and his strategy for Chen Qiao should be stability first, so he sent Chen Qingdong over, maybe not to let Chen Qingdong deal with us, but to let Chen Qingdong and us or other forces in Chenqiao Town take a step back, compromise with each other, and finally reach a balanced situation, so that Chen Qiao Town can be stabilized. In this case, as long as Chen Qingdong doesn't take the initiative to provoke us, why should we take the initiative to provoke Chen Qingdong and ask for hardship?"

Zhang Zhongde's words were more mysterious, and the angle of standing was very high, after Lu Shijing and the others listened, they all felt that Zhang Zhongde's words were very reasonable, and they all nodded yes, Lu Shijing also said in an admiring tone: "Zhongde, I think what you said makes sense!"

Zhang Zhongde lowered his head to drink water, and in a place where no one could see his expression clearly, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but have a sneer!