After school in the afternoon, Ding Hongxing was the first to rush out of the classroom, got on a bicycle and went to the Municipal Agricultural Bank. The Municipal Agricultural Bank is also in the center of the city, not far from Guicheng Middle School, and it only took him four or five minutes to get there.

He Wei's brother-in-law's name is Zhang Xianghua, who is the deputy head of the credit unit of the Agricultural Bank of China, and Ding Hongxing reported his name to the old man who was guarding the door, and the old man told him: "Their credit stock is on the second floor, you can go up." ”

Ding Hongxing thanked him, locked the bicycle, and ran up to the second floor in a few steps, and saw an office with a sign saying "Credit Stock" nailed to the door, the door was open, and a young man about thirty years old was reading a newspaper with Erlang's legs crossed, and a cup of tea was brewing on the desk in front of him, which was the standard configuration of these units at that time.

Ding Hongxing knocked on the door, and the young man looked up and saw that it was a young man who looked like a middle school student, so he asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

Ding Hongxing said politely: "I'm looking for Zhang Xianghua and Chief Zhang." ”

The young man put down the newspaper and stood up from his chair: "I am Zhang Xianghua, are you?" ”

Ding Hongxing said: "My name is Ding Hongxing, and it was Teacher He who asked me to come to you." ”

Zhang Xianghua suddenly became enthusiastic, he stepped forward to hold Ding Hongxing's hand, shook it up and down, and said, "Come in, come in!" ”

Zhang Xianghua let Ding Hongxing in, let him sit down on a bench, took a white porcelain teacup, and asked, "Do you want tea?" ”

Ding Hongxing hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Just boiled water." ”

Zhang Xianghua poured a glass of boiled water, handed it to Ding Hongxing, took out a pack of Ashima, took out one and handed it to Ding Hongxing, Ding Hongxing hurriedly said no.

Zhang Xianghua put down the cigarette case and said: "There are a lot of students who smoke now, and you are a good student." ”

Ding Hongxing said: "It's just that I'm a little allergic to cigarettes and don't like to smell it." ”

As soon as he heard Ding Hongxing's words, Zhang Xianghua stopped lighting a cigarette for himself, put the cigarette in his hand into the cigarette case, and said with a smile: "Don't be so restrained, just call me Brother Zhang." ”

Zhang Xianghua's action of stopping to light a cigarette suddenly won Ding Hongxing's favor, this is a person who knows how to respect others, he called Brother Zhang according to Zhang Xianghua's meaning, Zhang Xianghua smiled, and asked Ding Hongxing to drink water.

Ding Hongxing was indeed thirsty, he rode fast on the road, and at this time his forehead was a little sweaty, so he picked up the teacup and drank water, and looked at the furnishings in the office.

Zhang Xianghua also saw the sweat on Ding Hongxing's forehead at this time, so he opened the ceiling fan in the house a little bigger: "The ghost weather in Guicheng is still so hot in September. ”

Ding Hongxing echoed, and Zhang Xianghua said again: "Are you strange, why are we alone here?" Our kind of unit is like this, except for the business room, there is no one in other departments at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, they all go to play cards, if it weren't for my brother-in-law saying that you would come in the afternoon, I would have left early. ”

Saying that, Zhang Xianghua laughed, Ding Hongxing also had a good impression of his honesty, and he said to Zhang Xianghua: "This is also a common phenomenon in the whole country, I can understand it." ”

Zhang Xianghua laughed and said: "Thank you for understanding, long live understanding!" ”

Ding Hongxing drank the water in the teacup in one gulp, Zhang Xianghua went to pour him water again, Ding Hongxing asked, "Brother Zhang, what's going on with your competition?" ”

Zhang Xianghua put the poured water in front of Ding Hongxing and replied: "It's not that Secretary Xu in the city likes football, but there are people in the city who like it, saying that it is to celebrate the 43rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, enliven the city's cultural and sports activities, and do a good job in the construction of spiritual civilization. ”

Ding Hongxing laughed when he heard it, of course he knew what was wrong with it, he had seen too many things that were good for the leader, of course, there was always a high-sounding statement on his face. In addition, Xu Dongcheng, secretary of the municipal party committee, likes football, and he still just knows that football is hot all over the country now, which is not unusual.

Zhang Xianghua continued: "Secretary Xu likes football, so he attaches great importance to this football game, and instructs to play the style and level of the game. Secretary Xu only came to Guicheng this year, and he is not very familiar with the leaders of many units, if the team of which unit is good in this competition, Secretary Xu certainly has a good impression of this unit, and of course has a deeper impression of the leaders of this unit. However, relying on the staff of each unit alone, the level of the game will certainly not be very high, and many leaders do not have the confidence to let their unit teams rush out of the group stage, enter the knockout stage, and show their faces in front of Secretary Xu, so many leaders proposed to the organizing committee of this competition, they want to invite foreign aid, and the organizing committee agrees to this construction in order to make the level of the competition higher and more intense, and this competition stipulates that each team can invite three foreign aids. ”

Ding Hongxing nodded, he roughly knew that there were some tricks behind this ball game.

Zhang Xianghua said such a big call, his mouth was also a little thirsty, he picked up his teacup, drank a big sip of tea and said: "In fact, the promotion of the leaders of our bank has nothing to do with the city, so our president didn't pay much attention to it at first, but he was afraid of comparison, recently he heard that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the Construction Bank, and the Bank of China have invited foreign aid, and the level is very high, this time he is in a hurry, so let me also invite a few high-level foreign aid, but at this time, where can I find it?" Only when I asked my brother-in-law, he recommended you, and he said that you are very powerful, absolutely no worse than the foreign aid invited by any unit. Red Star, you must help you Brother Zhang this time, our president can give me a death order this time, this football game, the results of the Agricultural Bank must not be worse than the rest. ”

Ding Hongxing understood the original story, he thought about it and asked, "Brother Zhang, what is the schedule and system of this competition?" Where is the venue? What is the general time of the competition? ”

Zhang Xianghua understood Ding Hongxing's worries, so he introduced Ding Hongxing to the schedule, competition system, competition venue and competition time.

A total of 43 units in the city participated in the competition, divided into eight groups in total, the same group round-robin, the top two in each group qualified, and the single-elimination tournament was drawn after qualifying.

The competition venue is the football field of the city's primary and secondary schools, and the games of each group are basically arranged in the same place, this time the Agricultural Bank of China and the Municipal Finance Bureau, the Municipal Materials Bureau, the Municipal Electric Power Bureau and the Municipal Insurance Company are divided into the third group, and their playing venue is in Guicheng Normal University.

Since Xu Dongcheng instructed that the game should not be delayed, all the weekday games were scheduled to be held at 5 p.m., and each team played two to three games a day.

Ding Hongxing listened to Zhang Xianghua's introduction, and thought in his heart that if it was a game at five o'clock in the afternoon, it would not delay his class, because their main class in the afternoon ended at 4:40, and after the main class, there was an extracurricular activity for the students to exercise, and he didn't need to participate in this extracurricular activity, because he had a morning school team training.

The Normal College is only about a kilometer away from Guicheng Middle School, if he rides there immediately after school, he can still be in time to do warm-up activities, and it is only about six o'clock after the game, he can ride home again, and after eating, he can rush to the school before half past seven o'clock for evening self-study.

He still really wants to be able to participate in this competition, the money is secondary, and the most important thing is that playing the tournament can allow him to get attribute point rewards.

So Ding Hongxing nodded and said, "Okay, Brother Zhang, I'll participate!" ”

Zhang Xianghua was overjoyed: "Red Star, you have done your brother Zhang a great favor, otherwise where would I find foreign aid in the past few days?" I can listen to my brother-in-law say, you are the most powerful student he has led, the last time you were in the class competition, you scored 23 goals in five games, this is really amazing, you join our team, our results must be bad. ”

Ding Hongxing said: "You can't say that, it still depends on your teammates and opponents." Brother Zhang, can you tell me about our ABC team and opponents? ”

Zhang Xianghua said: "Let's not mention the Agricultural Bank, the average age of the Agricultural Bank is the largest among the four major banks, and many employees are still rural. Let me tell you this, there are more than 400 employees of the Agricultural Bank of the city, at most 50 under the age of 30, half of them are women, and many of the men have never played football. ”

Zhang Xianghua shook his head while saying, Ding Hongxing smiled and complimented: "Brother Zhang is the head of the credit stock at such a young age, of course he can be regarded as young and promising!" ”

Ding Hongxing's compliment obviously made Zhang Xianghua very useful, and he looked at Ding Hongxing more and more pleasing to the eye, he smiled: "That's right, counting the deputy stock-level cadres of the entire Agricultural Bank, I have to be considered young." ”

Ding Hongxing asked again: "Then how many people can play in your Agricultural Bank?" What about the level? ”

Zhang Xianghua folded his fingers and calculated: "There are only thirteen or fourteen people when it is full, the level is the level of amateurs, and the level of my brother-in-law is good in our industry." In fact, everything else is okay, but after working for a long time, the body is not good, and I can't run much after playing most of the half. So this time it's mainly up to you foreign aid! ”

"What about the opponent?" Ding Hongxing asked again.

Zhang Xianghua said: "The situation of the opponent is similar to ours, the power bureau is a little difficult to deal with, they are a lot of young people, and they often carry out physical labor, and the body is better than us; The same is true of the Materials Bureau, they have many subordinate companies, and the workers in the company are also good. Of course, they also mainly look at foreign aid. ”