"Bang!" Downstairs there was a heavy slam on the door, followed by the sound of fast footsteps in high heels, and the faint sound of a woman crying.

"It's really enough for our Director Du to have a headache when he came here today." This kind of old-fashioned building upstairs and downstairs can be heard clearly, Xie Caigen shook his head and sighed, but his expression was not without schadenfreude.

Yes, it must be Fang Lanlan who went to Du Jinsong's office to make trouble.

"This Du Jinsong is too bold, he and Fang Lanlan are so clear, he is not afraid that Fang Lanlan's husband will come to the door?" Li Rui was a little surprised.

"Hey, hey! What is there to be afraid of, you may not be clear, Fang Lanlan was originally from the countryside, and his man is also a farmer. As early as seven or eight years ago, when Du Jinsong was the mayor of Qingshanquan Town, he had hooked up with Fang Lanlan, who was a temporary worker at the coal pipe station. Du Jinsong did not work this woman, first helping her become a regular, and the rural household registration became an urban household registration, and then he was transferred to the Coal Management Bureau, and in a blink of an eye, he became a cadre at the stock level. The woman's man was originally a lazy master, and the woman became a cadre to earn a lot of money outside, and even the child's household registration was transferred, and he was also happy to see it. If Du Jinsong didn't want him to be a woman now, maybe he would be in a hurry. Xie Caigen said with a smile.

Then he asked with a smile: "Although you are also from Nanqiao, have you heard of what was most famous before we Nanqiao discovered the coal mine?" ”

"What is it?" Li Rui asked.

"It's a woman, a pretty woman!" Xie Caigen deliberately lowered his voice and said with an ambiguous smile.

"Pretty woman? Hey! I haven't heard of that. Li Rui said with a smile.

"From the beginning of the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, we have no less than dozens of concubines here, as long as they come to Suhuai Province to serve as magistrates, almost all of them will buy a few of our Nanqiao women to go home to warm their beds. Yangzhou Skinny Horse knows no, many of them are also from our Nanqiao. Especially Qingshanquan Town and Shagou Township, which are places where beautiful women are produced. There are coal mines in Qingshanquan Township, which is slightly better now, and Shagou Township is the poorest place in the county, and men are either digging coal in the mine or going to work in other places, and those township cadres who are dogs don't have a few mothers-in-law, including many people in our county, don't look at a person who looks like a dog, there are not too many of this in the open and in the dark, it is commonplace. Xie Caigen's words are still sour.

Li Rui couldn't help but nodded, although the women I saw on Nanqiao Street in the past few days were not as fashionable as the women in Pengcheng City, they could be regarded as the past, and they rarely saw crooked melons and cracked dates. is like Aunt Fang next door, although she is over forty years old, she still has charm.

Seeing that it was not too early, Xie Caigen picked up the tea leaves and said with a smile: "If you have time in the evening, go home for dinner?" ”

"Okay!" Now Xie Caigen can be regarded as a comrade-in-arms who has fought side by side with him, of course Li Rui agreed.

The work of the Coal Regulatory Bureau has finally ushered in a good start, and Li Rui is in a good mood. In the afternoon, he first talked to Gao Jie in the office, and then chatted with Zhao Wenlong and Zhang Guohui, a classmate from the party school, and drank some tea and read the newspaper.

After getting off work, I talked and laughed with Xie Caigen, got into the same car and went to Xie Caigen's house for dinner. Colleagues in the bureau had long heard about what had happened at the party committee, and when they saw this scene again when they got off work, many people raised the status of the new party secretary in their hearts again.

Xie Caigen's home is not in the civil servant community jointly built by the Coal Management Bureau and several other departments in the county, but in a single-family courtyard in the south of the city, a newly built two-story building, although the outside is not very conspicuous, but the interior decoration is quite good, it seems that this old guy is still very good.

However, what made Li Rui feel strange was that Xie Caigen's wife, a very stocky middle-aged woman with a long black and sturdy voice, actually spoke a very stiff Mandarin, and she didn't look like a Han Chinese. At the same time, Xie Caigen, who is fifty-three years old, actually has a grandson who is already in elementary school, and I don't know if he got married early or his son gave birth early.

Later, after Xie Caigen's introduction, I learned that his wife was a Tibetan named Gesang Lhamo, and he met and married when he was a soldier in Tibet.

"Hehe, I didn't expect your Lao Xie to get married early enough, no wonder your grandchildren are so old." Li Rui said with a smile.

Xie Caigen was not embarrassed, and laughed: "Oops! Back then, I just listened to her sing and sing beautifully, and she was also beautiful, so I got along with her despite violating the discipline of the army, and I was about to do it at that time. ”

"You've been talking about this for decades, don't you still regret it!" Gesang Ram walked out with a teapot and two bowls, glared at Xie Caigen, and said to Li Rui: "Secretary Li, don't listen to him, if my brother hadn't broken his legs, how would he dare!" ”

Li Rui laughed. Xie Caigen scratched his head a little embarrassed, and he didn't dare to defend himself. However, it can be seen that the relationship between their husband and wife is still quite good.

Gesang Ram poured a bowl of butter tea and personally brought it to Li Rui.

Li Rui had been to Bianzang in his previous life, and knew that this was the etiquette of the Bianzang people to distinguished guests, so he hurriedly got up, took the butter tea with both hands and took a big sip. Seeing Li Rui's polite look, Gesang Ram's face suddenly showed a look of surprise.

"Secretary Li, please take a seat! Our family and my brother brought me barley wine, and I will have a good drink with Lao Xie later. ”

"I didn't expect you to understand the etiquette of the Tibetan people." Xie Caigen was also surprised.

"I've heard my grandfather talk about it before." Li Rui smiled.

"Dean Li is very knowledgeable!" Referring to Li Rui's grandfather, Xie Caigen couldn't help but sigh and sighed, "In the past, there were many people in the house, everyone didn't know much about this, and some people still thought that butter tea was not delicious, which often made the old woman unhappy." In fact, this is not to blame, after all, everyone's national customs are different. ”

The dinner was very rich, although Kelsang Lhamo is a Tibetan from the border, but he has been coming to Nanqiao for decades, and he has long been accustomed to the life here, and his cooking skills are quite good. There is also a plate of marinated and air-dried yak meat specially launched by Gesang Ram, and Li Rui is full of praise for eating. Gesang Ram was very happy, toasted Li Rui with two glasses of wine, and pulled him to chat about family life.

She and Xie Caigen have two children, her son and daughter-in-law both work in the tax bureau, and they live in the civil servant community where Xie Caigen was originally divided. The youngest daughter is still attending university in the provincial capital of Jiangning.

Xie Caigen thought she was verbose, and he was also worried that Li Rui was impatient, so he saw that she was almost finished, so he hurriedly rushed her: "Okay, you will almost go outside to watch TV, I still have something to talk about with Secretary Li." ”

Although it was rare for Gesang Ram to be so happy, he also knew the general situation, glanced at Lao Xie, and gave Li Rui a glass of wine before getting up to say goodbye.

"Lao Xie, I really didn't see it, you were quite romantic when you were young. How old were you then, were you twenty? Li Rui touched a glass with Lao Xie and said with a smile.

"It's not small, twenty-one. At that time, I had just fought with Ah San, and I met her when I was injured and recuperating in the hospital. This is also fate, at that time she was also determined to follow me. Talking about the past, Xie Caigen was also quite emotional,

"But if it hadn't been for this, maybe I might still be working in the army right now. Maybe I can mix up with a general, it's really not bragging, the old chief of the army still valued me a lot at that time, and he scolded me angrily for not controlling my crotch. At that time, there was still a war, and if it was placed in ancient times, it would be a big crime to kill my head, and if I was demobilized, it would be considered to let me go. Otherwise, I'm afraid we wouldn't be sitting here drinking together today. ”

"It's all fate, I didn't expect the two of us to have such a relationship today, come, let's have a toast to fate."

Lao Xie's amount of wine is good, half a catty of 45 degrees of barley wine, still like no one is fine, and said with a smile: "I heard that you talked to Lao Xu yesterday, and your words about taking care of the old cadres hit his vital point, and I think his impression of you is quite good." ”

"How is Lao Xu? I think he's a little timid. Li Rui buried his head in eliminating the yak meat on the plate and asked.

"He's not timid but cautious, or sometimes a little too cautious. You don't know it, Lao Xu has been the deputy director of the county supervision bureau for more than ten years, and at that time he dared to check the secretary of the county party committee, and you still said that he was timid. Xie Caigen said.

It turned out that Xu Chunsheng also had a story, Li Rui was very interested, and hurriedly said: "Didn't you knock down the secretary of the county party committee later, but was by the other party, so you are still at the deputy section level?" ”

Xie Caigen shook his head and said: "The secretary of the county party committee does have a problem, but the problem is not big, and there are leaders above to help speak, and the secretary of the county party committee was transferred to the city as the deputy director of the Agricultural Bureau." ”

"Then how can he still ...... Could it be that the secretary of the county party committee developed later? ”

"That's right, it's developed. At that time, Lao Xu was also quite popular, and the county originally planned to promote him to be the deputy secretary of the county Commission for Discipline Inspection, but the Standing Committee passed it and reported to the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee, but he was beaten back, and the next year he was transferred to the Coal Management Bureau as the secretary of discipline inspection. And the secretary of the county party committee did not stay long in the Agricultural Bureau and became the deputy director of the Mining Bureau, and he was promoted, and suddenly jumped from the main department to the deputy department. Within a few years, he became the director of the bureau again, and his official fortune was prosperous all the way, and then he was ......"

"Vice Governor, now he is a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor." Li Rui didn't wait for Xie Caigen to finish speaking, and then continued.

Xie Caigen nodded and said, "That's right, it's the current Executive Vice Governor Qi Yingwei." You say it's good if someone still lets you stay in a position, but who would dare to promote him. Therefore, Lao Xu is now shrinking his neck and holding his tail, and there is no way to do it. ”

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