It is said that it is the best hotel, but in comparison, if you go to the city, not to mention those big cities, even in the small place where they are located, this hotel is really low-end enough.

However, what can be done, this is in a foreign country, and in a roadside town in the wilderness, it is already a great luxury to be able to eat so comfortably.

In the past few days, because of the problem of money and the uncertainty of walking and stopping, they have never had a meal like this...... The two men were even more delighted, not only did they have a table full of food, but also opened a bottle of the best wine in the store, and they had already shouted for five and six to drink.

There is also a group of people eating next to them, all of them are five big and three thick, and they seem to be from Xiangshi City with an accent, and they keep glancing at them and glancing at them, which is really annoying.

couldn't stand the two of them trying to persuade them, Xu Lei also drank a few cups, and it felt really good. Pick up the bottle and look at it, the logo is gone, and there is a layer of soil on the bottle.

When the proprietress saw her like this, she immediately took a dirty black rag and wiped the wine bottle again, and even said sorry, sorry, sorry, this bottle of wine is too old, probably produced in the eighties, and a relative of the common people sent a bottle of good wine, and she was reluctant to drink it, so she asked her to sell it, but she didn't expect to meet a buyer after 20 years...... On the other hand, she sighed again and again, such a good wine, only sold for twenty, it is really a loss, and it has been put in vain for so many years, even if it is sold for two hundred, she will lose her old capital...... As she spoke, the driver and poet suddenly pushed her and pointed quietly outside.

It's not good, Niu Er didn't know where to leave the tricycle and the woman, but he also came here, still holding an old-fashioned aluminum alloy lunch box in his hand.

There has been no such head-on contact along the way. In that small restaurant in Jinshan, Xu Lei and Niu Er have met once, what if they recognize her...... However, the place was so small that it was too late for her to dodge, so she had to sit there stupidly, looking straight at her stalker.

However, they were completely overdone. Niu Er didn't even look at this side, and as soon as he crossed the threshold, the proprietress had already stopped him with a loud shout: "Go out, this is not where you came from, you better go somewhere else, watch carefully!" ”

Niu Er didn't say anything, just handed over the aluminum lunch box.

The proprietress saw that it was even more popular, and shouted while pushing out: "Go, go!" Get out of the way, you're looking for death, if you don't leave, I'll call someone......" As he spoke, he turned around and shouted inside at the top of his voice.

There was no movement in the house, but the men next to him, who were five big and three thick, stood up and walked towards Niu Er together.

"Not good!" Xu Lei couldn't care about anything, so she immediately pushed the two of them and hurriedly walked over.

After some talking, they pulled Niu Er to sit down at their table, but the people turned around and disappeared.

They asked Niu Er to eat, but Niu Er said that he didn't move his chopsticks at anything, just stared at the table of food in a daze.

In the past few days, he has obviously become thinner, and his face is darker, but those eyes are very special, a little sluggish, a little cold, and at the same time there seems to be a daunting fortitude and confidence...... Xu Lei couldn't say it all at once, but she really felt unforgettable and difficult to look at directly. It seemed that he didn't recognize her at all, and he didn't care what they were doing. There was only one thing he cared about, and that was the aluminum lunch box that was still empty.

Xu Lei couldn't say anything more, and at this moment she realized that everything she said was superfluous. The amateur poet was still chattering there, Xu Lei glared at him, and quickly took the lunch box and filled it as much as possible...... After taking the lunch box, Niu Er still didn't say anything, only bowed deeply to them, turned around and left. With a click, the shutter flickered, and the photographer she was with was already quick to record the bow. For his action, Xu Lei today suddenly felt a little unhappy inexplicably...... When he stepped out of the threshold, Niu Er suddenly came back. Xu Lei didn't know what he was going to do, did he also take pictures of him, or he already recognized me? However, it was nothing, he just saw two cans on the ground, bent down to pick them up and went out.

Following Niu Er's back, they saw the figures of the men just now. Strange, who are these people, and why are they so interested in Niu Er? asked the female boss, and she said that she didn't know these people. Fortunately, the group only followed Niu Er for a short distance, and then turned around and went in the other direction...... Xu Lei let out a sigh of relief and secretly laughed that she was really a little nervous.

As soon as Niu Er left, the amateur poet couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and the photographer echoed it, only Xu Lei was still sullen, so they seemed to feel bored, and drank the wine again.

Xu Lei suddenly became energetic, drinking one cup after another like them, and the bottle of old wine was quickly drunk. No, another bottle. Yes, one bottle per person...... All three screamed inarticulately. Because of the scene just now, the proprietress probably took the three of them as reporters, and she didn't say a word for a long time, just watched carefully.

It wasn't until they asked for wine that they came over and whispered a few words of persuasion, but they didn't expect to immediately provoke the poet to scold, so frightened that he hurriedly took a new bottle of wine and hid aside to never come again.

After a while, the three of them all had a strong sense of wine, helped each other to leave the hotel, and walked around the narrow streets of the town, and did not know what time it was, before returning to the small shop on the side of the road and falling asleep.

This night, Xu Lei had a lot of dreams. For a while, I dreamed that I was studying at school, with beautiful and outstanding clothes, clever speech and noble background, and my classmates and teachers all showed a complex gaze of envy and jealousy...... After a while, I went to the countryside in a certain place, and the people in the village were poor, and the dirty faces were dangling in front of her, but she couldn't find the one she was familiar with.

What about Niu Er, isn't he from this village, why is he the only one who doesn't come to see me? And then ...... Then it seemed to fly, inexplicably flew and flew, and all of a sudden flew to a particularly luxurious and noble place, in reality she had never seen such a beautiful place, she stood alone on a high stage like a noble princess, and she had won the national news award. No, maybe it's all over the world, it's called the Pulitzer Prize or something, she can't figure it out. The spotlight on the stage was so dazzling that her eyes were full of tears, and she always couldn't bear to raise her hand to wipe it...... It was around this time that a pair of dirty hands reached over and dragged her off while wiping her tears...... Ah, isn't this Niu Er! She immediately woke up with a scream.

It's all the alcohol to blame, and it's the first time she's drunk so much in years. It was not yet dawn, and his head was heavy as if he had a cold. She rolled over and was about to go back to sleep, when there was a violent knock on the door, and two companions suddenly broke in and told her that Niu Er and they were gone.

How could it be, didn't we leave yesterday as he found a place to rest?

Although, the so-called resting place is nothing more than an empty house with no doors and windows.

If you can't find him, won't all these hard work be in vain?

Could it really be as Qiu Xiangyang hinted on the phone, someone would murder that woman?

Xu Lei's eyes widened, her body softened for a while, she just stood up and sat on the bed again.

"If Li Jiatao is by my side, how can this kind of thing happen?" At this time, Li Jiatao's figure flickered in Xu Lei's mind and lingered.

Xu Lei's beautiful big eyes were already foggy......—————— dividing line—————— and when she got down from the backstage of the conference, Qiu Xiangyang, secretary of the Xiaoxiang Municipal Law, hurried to the office. As soon as he entered the door, he asked the secretary to kick everyone out, and he fell into a long contemplation alone.

For Gou Tian, Qiu Xiangyang is confident that no one knows and understands him better than him. Whether it is right or wrong, as long as it is something that Gou Tian has decided, there will never be any refutation. If anyone dares to stand up and challenge this authority of his, he will definitely tear this guy to shreds at all costs.

I remember that when he first took office, Gou Tian proposed to demolish and rebuild a first-class ten-mile street in the country.

At that time, the director of the urban construction bureau did not understand the idea and put forward some different opinions at the meeting.

Gou Tian didn't say anything, and kept his face calm until the end of the meeting, when he suddenly announced that the Standing Committee members would stay and the others would disperse. It's time to eat, what's the urgency of staying? For this very abrupt decision, all the members of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee looked at each other and silently watched the big secretary's every move...... I saw Gou Tian leisurely smoking two cigarettes in a row, twisting the cigarette butts, and suddenly slamming the table and standing up: This is like words! A director of the urban construction bureau who does not obey the unified leadership of the municipal party committee, and talks nonsense there, can such a cadre still be used? Now that the decision of the municipal party committee has just been introduced, if such a supervisor implements it from the beginning, can our decision still become a reality? Therefore, I suggest that we make a decision today to immediately remove this person from his post as director of the Urban Construction Bureau. If there is a different opinion, it can be retained. If not, this will be considered passed, and the next step is to ask the people's congress and the political axe to carry out the specific procedures as soon as possible...... Although there has never been such a precedent in the local area for many years, looking at the angry face of this number one, all the Standing Committee members bowed their heads, and no one dared to say a word. After being silent for a long time, the elderly director of the National People's Congress said in a low voice: It will take at least seven or eight days to carry out the legal procedures...... No, that's not going to work, I'll only give you two days at most!

Let's say it, Gou Tiantou walked straight out of the conference room without looking back.

Sure enough, two days later, the old director, who had been in office for ten years, went home with tears in his eyes and hugged his grandson. Later, he soon got a serious illness, tossed and turned in the hospital bed for less than half a year, and died.

Of course, since then, Gou Tian's prestige has also reached the highest point all of a sudden, and all the cadres in the city, as long as they mention the door secretary, there is no one who is not in awe.

In the past, the decisions made by the higher authorities were often discounted as soon as they arrived at the grassroots level, and it was difficult to accomplish anything. Now, all the major decisions made by the municipal party committee have reached every corner of the city almost overnight, and as for those strange phenomena such as playing poker and chess during working hours, they have all disappeared all at once...... Now, now that Gou Tian has made up his mind and handed over such an important task to him, it is almost certain that the old man is already iron-hearted, and a big net has been spread, just waiting for him to close the net...... And it can be said with more certainty that from this moment on, the success or failure of life and death in this is already immediately clear, and there is nothing to wait for and hesitate about.

However, I don't know how to do it, Qiu Xiangyang today is not as calm and comfortable as after accepting the task, an indescribable heaviness is so heavy that he can't breathe, he has been sitting in the office for a long time, still a little trance, uncertain, is there any other variables in this?

If you want to talk about variables, the biggest variable in this is Gou Tian himself. After all, today's Gou Tian is not the person who was in his prime, an old man in the twilight of his life, and an old man in the political arena who is about to fall from the peak of power, this situation is clear in the minds of the city's cadres.

Although he repeatedly said that he wanted to step down, deep down he was naturally very nostalgic for the big throne of officialdom, otherwise how could the provincial party committee let him preside over this re-election?

People, no matter how beautiful they say on their lips, they are actually the same in their bones, and no one will be pure in heart and willing to automatically withdraw from the stage of history. At this point, even if Qiu Xiangyang was killed, he didn't believe it. However, having said that, no matter whether Gou Tian is willing or not, as long as the change is completed, it will not take long for the provincial party committee to let him retire and go home, and maybe get him a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress or something, but that is just an ornament, and it is not much different from a complete retirement...... Seeing that the trunk of the tree is about to fall, can you still tie it to the branches and even climb it up?

Of course, Gou Tian's eyes were fixed on the throne of the vice governor, which Qiu Xiangyang did not know...... A post-Goutian era is about to come, and in such a delicate period, it is wisest to keep an appropriate distance from the original political allies...... This is really a big thing that politicians must pay close attention to!

However, at this time, Gou Tian handed over such a tricky matter to me, isn't this asking for my Qiu Xiangyang's life?

I really regretted saying too much at that time, Qiu Xiangyang felt a tingling on his scalp, and a layer of cold sweat broke out all over his body.

He opened the locker, took out the materials that the door secretary had returned for him to keep secretly, read them again and again, and drew a lot of lines on them, and a heavy heart slowly calmed down...... For Gou Tian, the secretary of the municipal party committee, Qiu Xiangyang admires more and more. Some of these materials were sorted out by him, some were sent by others on their own initiative, and one was written by Chen Jianqiu himself...... Cao Fei's kid was indeed too bad, he took it to Gou Tian at the time, and repeatedly hoped that the old man would quickly make up his mind and immediately remove this kid. Who knew that Gou Tian only drew a circle at that time, so he returned it to him. Looking at the big circle with its tail dragging, I was really angry. I thought that the old man had changed after all, and the sharp spirit of the year was long gone, or he was old and confused, and even wondered if there were other transactions here...... However, it was only now that he knew that the old man had not changed at all, and he was still the same awe-inspiring man as he was back then, but he had been waiting for the most appropriate time...... In order to welcome the arrival of the post-Goutian era, Qiu Xiangyang actually made a lot of preparations. There is no one in this land who is more familiar and more widely accepted than him.

Politics is sometimes not about what you do, it's about what you don't do. In this life, he really knows this too clearly. When he was serving in the county, there were many new young people who didn't sit down steadily, and their heads were hot, and it was planning and strategy, only in the place where he was, everything was in order, and there was nothing out of the ordinary.

At that time, some leaders of the municipal party committee were not accustomed to him, and he was criticized for almost every meeting. But what happened later, those so-called tide makers of the times, they looked vigorous, but in fact they couldn't withstand a little beating, and now they have long since disappeared, some have been punished, some have been excluded, anyway, they have become a passing cloud of smoke and clouds, or a short-lived political meteor, he is the only one who has achieved fruitful results, not only has not suffered any impact and rejection, but also step by step, and now he is the oldest and most powerful local cadre in the entire city.

If it weren't for this, how could Gou Tian report him and let him be in charge of the preparations for this re-election? This is called the time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people. In the whole organ, one of the most common words of Qiu Xiangyang is: Engaging in politics, no one is absolutely impossible, and it is not a simple matter to have someone, even if you don't do your job, you must not offend anyone, some people may seem to be useless, but once the critical time comes, maybe this person will play a much greater role than anyone else, the kind of role that can make you live or die...... Now he feels that he should also change his set. In the face of the real major issues of right and wrong, there is no third way to go, and there is no ambiguity. Today, since Gou Tian, secretary of the municipal party committee, has asked him to handle this matter himself, he can no longer be a peacemaker as he did in the past, and he must immediately take resolute measures and iron means...... Thinking of this, Qiu Xiangyang finally became energetic, and immediately called the secretary in, asked him to make a quick phone call, and call all the leaders of relevant units such as discipline inspection, political and legal affairs, and procuratorates to the office as quickly as possible, especially Yang Bo must be called.

After a while, these people came one after another, but they didn't know what was going on, and they all stared at Qiu Xiangyang in shock.

Qiu Xiangyang opened the notebook, with a solemn look that he had never seen before, quietly conveyed Secretary Gou Tian's words word by word, and then looked at everyone expressionlessly and said: "Is there anything else you don't understand, if not, everyone will prepare separately and start acting immediately." ”

(To be continued)

(Zilang Literature)